Jan. 8, 2025

The Tragic Murder of Laken Riley

The Tragic Murder of Laken Riley

In this episode of 'Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings”,  Kelly delves into the tragic murder of Laken Riley, a vibrant 22-year-old nursing student whose life and dreams were cut short. KJ details her close-knit relationships and the...

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Season 7

In this episode of 'Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings”, Kelly delves into the tragic murder of Laken Riley, a vibrant 22-year-old nursing student whose life and dreams were cut short. KJ details her close-knit relationships and the nurturing environment that defined her and explores a chilling encounter with her assailant, Jose Ibarra, and the lengths to which Laken fought for her life as well as the manhunt and aftermath of the case.

#lakenriley #crime #truecrime #podcast #unspeakable

Timestamps
07:31 The Morning of the Incident
11:06 A Predator on the Loose
16:41 Laken's Last Run
23:17 Concern Grows Among Friends
27:59 The Search for Laken
31:52 Discovery of a Crime Scene
33:38 The Investigation Begins
1:08:09 Forensic Evidence Points to a Suspect
1:16:37 The Arrest of Jose Ibarra
1:31:32 The Trial and Sentencing

Sources:
Father of Laken Riley addresses slain daughter's legacy amid heated immigration debate
Laken Hope Riley Obituary 2024 - Poole Funeral Home & Cremation Services
Information for Fans & Friends - Visit the University of Georgia
LIVE: Laken Riley Murder Trial — GA v. Jose Ibarra — Day 1
Laken Riley's mother speaks out about 'avoidable tragedy' after daughter's funeral | Fox News
Who are Laken Riley's parents? | The US Sun

Video, Sound and Editing for this podcast by the podcast experts at Envision Podcast Studios in Denham Springs, LA.
Executive Producer: Jim Chapman

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's

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kJ You're back for another episode of Unspeakable. It's the first, well,

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I guess technically it's the second, but it's the first

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full episode of a case for twenty twenty five. And

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I promise y'all at my Ask Me Anything episode that

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I was going to give you a bang up one

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this go round. And I'm telling you, I don't think

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that I disappoint this week. I'm very proud of this episode.

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I worked really, really hard on it, as I do

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all of them, but this one meant a lot to me,

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and so I hope that you will enjoy it. So

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I want you to come with me if you will

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to a place that I've been a time or two,

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but most notably, when it comes to mind, I'm thinking

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the good old SEC. Okay, that's right. It's football, and

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those Bulldogs always seem to make for a good game.

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I love watching football. If it's not for you, that's okay.

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But I just love football, and I like watching Georgia play.

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But there's more to Georgia than just football, obviously, And

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in recent months there's been a girl from there that

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I have done a lot of thinking about. I mean

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a lot. I have never met her, and I even

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though I haven't never met her, I know a whole

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lot about her. And you're gonna know about her soon,

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because I'm about to lay it all out there for you.

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But does the name Laken Hope Riley Does that ring

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a bell for you? If it does, awesome. If it doesn't,

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I want you to know who she is, all right,

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I'm gonna fill you in lake and Riley was born

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on January tenth, two thousand and two, to the beaming

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parents Alison Phillips and William Riley in Marietta, Georgia, and

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she was raised in Woodstock, and she was adored by

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her parents from the time she took her her first breath,

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all right, Her parents were just just enthralled with her,

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as her other siblings as well, but just enthralled with her.

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And they knew that this girl was gonna be somebody someday.

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She was a good kid, and she grew up to

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be a very successful teenager. She loved to run. That

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was one of her favorite things to do. And by running,

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I mean like getting to the wide open and just

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getting you know, feet on the pavement and getting some

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distance in. She loved to run so much that she

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was part of the River Ridge High School cross country team,

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where she would eventually graduate from in twenty twenty. So

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this is a very recent case, recent history that I'm

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telling you about. Laken was smart and kind, compassionate, which

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is just a skill that I don't think can be taught.

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Compassion is something that people have, and I think experience

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gives you that, and Lacn was a very compassionate and

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thoughtful person. But those words alone don't even begin to

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scratch the surface of this young lady. Laken was considered

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by her parents to be just a very caring daughter.

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She cared about them. She was a loving sister to

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her three siblings and good company to so many people,

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but especially the two children that she nannied for. These

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parents trusted her to take care of their children, and

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she did it with love. She loved her job, and

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her proudest accomplishment to date, though, was her unwavering faith

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in Jesus, which led her to participate in mission trips

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with her church. And she was a very devoted follower

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of Jesus. So Lacan had this gift.

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Though.

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Lacan had a gift that she made everyone she came

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in contact with across the board. She made people feel

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seen and she made them feel comfortable, and that, again

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is something that not everybody has to make somebody feel seen.

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And I know what people mean by this when they

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describe her because I have a friend like that. Her

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name's Korsha, so Chrisha, you're probably not listening, I know,

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true crime in your thing, but if you know my

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friend Korsha, you know that she's one of those people.

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She makes you feel seen, you're heard, and even if

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she doesn't agree with you, she's listening, and she's taking

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in the things that you have, and she feels things

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that you feel. And this is why Lacan was ultimately

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working towards becoming a nurse, and it seemed to be

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a perfect fit for her personality. Lacn was twenty two

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years old when this case began, and she was old

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enough to live alone, obviously, but she still was young

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enough that she needed her mama, and she talked to

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her mama daily and sometimes multiple times a day. She

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was old enough to handle her business, but she still

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loved her mama, and she still needed her mama's guidance

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as she mitigated life at this young but old enough age.

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And I can only imagine that her mama was a

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driving force in her life, providing her comfort and support

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for a young girl spreading her wings and trying to

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establish her place in this earth. But Lacn wasn't alone

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when she went to college. She wasn't alone on campus.

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She was a proud member of the Alpha cay Omega sorority,

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which tells you a whole lot about her in my opinion.

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I know that you're not supposed to judge a book

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by its cover, but any girl that's part of a sorority,

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it kind of gives you a feeling about that girl,

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or does me. Sorority girls tend to be high achieving

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and outgoing people, and as a general rule of thumb,

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I would say that that would be Laken to a

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tea when you're looking at her and you're reading about her.

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So originally, she was studying as an undergrad student at

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the University of Georgia through the conclusion of the twenty

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twenty three spring semester, but she decided to transfer to

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Augustin University's College of Nursing before she graduated from Georgia.

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Wherever Laken attended, though it didn't matter as she was

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doing really well before the transfer. She didn't transfer because

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of grades or anything like that. She was even she

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made the dean's list. I remember that she made the

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dean's list for her good grades. So this wasn't a

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transfer because of problems. It was just a transfer because

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she really wanted to focus on that nursing path that

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she wanted to take. And the transfer was a good

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thing for her too because it didn't affect her housing situation.

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The Augustin University's medical campus was located in Athens and

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it was just two and a half miles from the

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Universe City of Georgia's campus, so it didn't matter geographically

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that she made the transfer either. And it was perfect

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because she could continue living with her girlfriends while they

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all finished out their final year of college. And her

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roommates are some really just just great kids. Their names

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were Lily, Connolly, and Sophia. So they all had different

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degree paths, which I'll get into in a little bit,

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but Laken was on track to graduate with a Bachelors

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of Nursing degree in twenty twenty five. Where we are now,

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So on the morning of February twenty second, twenty twenty four,

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Laken got up early because she needed to do some homework.

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She had some stuff that she needed to wrap up

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on her computer and she wanted to get all of

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that done before she went to class that day. So

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she had lived with these roommates that I mentioned for

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the past two years and they were like sisters to her.

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They were extremely close. They didn't just pass in the wind.

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Not these girls. They were devoted to each other as

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a sisterhood in this house. And they did not only

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did they live together, but they did everything together too,

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outside of their schooling and just where they lived. And

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I think it's cute because one thing I read was

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that they would do this thing where they'd have dinner

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together at night and they called it their family dinner,

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which I thought was just absolutely precious. They would have

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movie nights together and just really depended on one another

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for that love and support while they were at college

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and just a great group of girls enjoying being young

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and free. These girls, by the way, are all absolutely

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precious if you are inclined to look them up. But

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I will post pictures of everybody on patreons so you

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can get to know them. But I want you to

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know this isn't me being kind or generous either. All

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of these girls are beautiful, young ladies, well put together, classy,

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and I don't know why, but they look like they

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smell good. Y'all know what I'm talking about when I

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say that they look like they just smell good, and

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that they just have this beauty about them. Pretty makeup,

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curled hair, pearl earrings, type fashionabbull girls, and they just

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are well put together. Sofia was studying to be a teacher,

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Lily was in college. I don't actually remember what she

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was studying, and shame on me for that, and Connelly

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was studying psychology. So they did have career paths that

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were admirable. If you ask me, Lily actually was in

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a medical pathway now that it jumps to my mind.

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She was in some type of medical pathway. So Laken

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was up early and Connolly was two. They were both

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in the living room around seven forty five that morning

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because all of the girls had classes that day. Lacan

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was in the living room. She had her iPad and

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she was taking some notes, she was doing some homework,

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and she was watching Netflix at the same time, which

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for the life of me, I can't understand. But the

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young people do it. They watched Netflix and they work.

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I guess I'm a single track minded person because I

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can't do it, but kudos to the younguns who can.

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But Connolly had two classes that day, and Sophia had

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a very important test that she was getting ready for.

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She was scheduled to take what was called her gase

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Exam gacee GASE, and that was a requirement that anyone

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who wanted to be a teacher in Georgia had to take.

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So they were all very scheduled and regiment on what

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they had to do that day. So about forty five

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minutes that morning, Connolly and Laken discussed their plans what

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they were going to do that night, and also they

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talked about what they were going to be doing this

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coming up weekend because they just loved to hang out

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and have plans and spend a lot of time together.

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But first they all had to get their classes out

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of the way. So Laken had gotten up early and

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it was early enough because she wanted to go get

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a run in. Remember she was a runner, and she

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was going to do this before she went to class,

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but Connolly wouldn't be able to go with her that morning.

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Both of the girls usually enjoyed running together and they

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did this often from anywhere from three to six times

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a week if their schedules allowed, But this morning it

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just didn't align and Connolly would not be able to

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go with Laken for the run. So after they talked

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for a little while, they went about their separate ways.

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Laken got ready for her morning run, Connolly and Sophia

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left her classes, and Lily had some errands that she

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needed to complete that morning. What the girls didn't know

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was while they lived in a very decent part of town,

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it was really close to campus. What they didn't know

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was that there was a predator on the loose that morning.

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How could they have possibly known this? They had no clue.

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He lived near the campus too, and he had started

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his day really early, much earlier than the girls did,

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about an hour or so before any of the girls

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I've just mentioned to you had even woken up that morning.

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It was about six fifty two am when a male

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in dark slides like the shoes dark slides, black pants,

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and a black jacket began walking near campus and eventually

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he found himself walking around some campus apartments. These were

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not apartments or anything that Laken lived in. This is

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a completely separate living area. And when he was walking

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around these campus apartments, he specifically found himself around apartment

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one pin fourteen of building s. The buildings were labeled

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by letter, and this was a lower level apartment that

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a graduate student lived in. She was an Indian national

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and her name was Tasha. She was up early that

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morning as well because she needed to get her day started.

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All of these people that are successful are early risers,

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and unfortunately, evil can be an early riser too. So

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she was sleepy eyed when she decided to get move in,

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and she decided to take a shower, and so she

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shuffled into her bathroom and she started running her water

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for her morning shower. Her apartment, though, was kind of

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in an area where it didn't get really good lighting

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as well as the inside seemed really dim and yellow

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lighting lit, if you know what I'm talking about, And

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so she preferred to open her blinds and her curtains

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to let in that bright morning sun. As she was

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getting ready, she pulled the strings to the blinds and

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she raised them up all the way. The light was

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just so happy to her and it was just too

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beautiful to not let it shine in. As she was

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getting started. And from the outside of the apartment, there

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were two large windows. Each window went to a separate

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room of her apartment. The right side window was her

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living room and the left side window was her bedroom.

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So everything was kind of right there in close proximity

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and right there on that bottom level. So she got

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undressed and she jumped in her shower and she started

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to bathe when she thought that she heard something. She listened,

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and she knew that she had heard something, but she

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wasn't sure what it was. So she leaned out of

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her shower and she kind of looked and listened, but

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nothing she didn't hear anything, so she continued to shower,

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and then all of a sudden, she heard that sound again,

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and she knew that she had heard something this time.

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So confused mixed with a slight bit of alarm, she

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got out of the shower and she went to her

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front door because that's where the sound was coming from.

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And as she approached her front door, she heard the

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doorknob and she saw it start jiggling. She was not

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expecting any visitors at six something in the morning, I

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can assure you, so she wasn't. She was more confused

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than alarmed, but certainly something was amiss here. So she

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leaned forward and she looked through her peephole, were to

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her shock, there was a man dressed in all black

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leaning into her door and twisting the knob, trying to

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get inside of her apartment. And just surprised by what

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she was seeing, she said, really loudly, excuse me. You

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know that voice that women we take whenever we're we

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feel a fence. Why are you touching my doorknob? Excuse you?

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And when she said it out loud, the man immediately

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ducked down, so she knew this is not a mistake.

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He knows exactly what he's doing trying to get into

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my apartment. So she tore off running. She grabbed her

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phone and she dialed nine one one, I have the call.

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And in all transparency, it's really hard to understand because

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she has a really, really thick accent, and then if

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you combine that with the really poor quality of the

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nine to one to one call, it's just really hard

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to hear. So there's really no point in me playing

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it for you. But what she does say is that

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she explains to the operator exactly what's happening, and then

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she moved while she's talking to that operator, she moved

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into her living room, and sure enough, when she moved

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into her living room, she's talking to the operator, she's

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horrified to see that the man has now moved to

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her window and he's dressed in all black. He's got

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a hat, a black hat, he's got a hoodie pulled

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up over that, and he's like leaning and peeping into

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her window. So he had tried to come through the door.

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She says, excuse me. He runs around to the side

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of the building and how he's blatantly looking in her

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window trying to see what's inside. And so the police

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immediately respond. They get there, but by the time they

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get there, the guy's gone. He's long gone. They don't

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see him anywhere. And this attempt to break in, y'all,

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was brazen, absolutely brazen. Let me tell you why I'm

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telling you this. Her apartment faces the parking lot, and

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the parking lot is just ten feet away from her

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front door. So anybody that was outside getting in their car,

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or anybody walking about would have seen him breaking in.

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It wasn't like in the dark corner in the back

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of the dark room or anything. It was right there,

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completely and utterly brazen. So this is being handled by

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police and they're trying to figure out who was this

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guy and why was he trying to break in? Thank

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God that woman was safe and that she had her

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doors locked. But meanwhile, Laken back at her house, Lican's

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getting dressed and she pulls on her typical running wear

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that she wears every time she goes running. She wears

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tight clothing while she's running for both compression and comfort.

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Anyone who runs or is athletic knows that tight clothing

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is best for running. You don't want the chafage and

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you don't want your clothes just you know, blowing around

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and everything. So today she had on black running tights

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and they come above her belly button. She wears them

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really high above her belly button. She had on a

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running brawl a T shirt, and then she had on

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a black Lululemon fitted jacket and she paired that with

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her bright white Hoka tennis shoes. So not only was

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she fit a fit girl, but she looked cute and

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I like that. She looked well put together while she

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was on her run. So she pulled up her long,

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thick black hair into a ponytail, and she put on

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her new Garmin running watch that she had gotten for

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Christmas because her family knew how much she loved to run.

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She grabbed her AirPods, she grabbed her cell phone, and

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then she was out the door. Now Lake, And I

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want to tell y'all, she's my height and roughly my weight.

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She's five foot four and she was like one hundred

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and forty pounds, so she's not a big tall girl.

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She's shorter than the average woman, which is five seven.

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And she just is a cute thing. She's cute. She's

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got these bright eyes, she's got darker eyebrows, pretty straight,

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white teeth, long black hair. She looks like to me

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and don't come at me if this doesn't describe you,

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But she looks to me like every nursing student. Cute

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as a button, ready to go, you know, go work

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the hospital. And lacoln was a good runner, y'all. She

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wasn't just out there barely doing her thing. No, she

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could run, and she could run long distances, and she

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was pretty fast. She was a fit girl. She and Connelly,

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by the way, had recently trained together for what was

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called the ASF Half Marathon that was in twenty twenty three,

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and they had a blast running it. I've got pictures

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of her holding her medal and just loved getting out

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there and getting that exercise. Lacan was a multitasker too,

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and she would often call her mom while she was running.

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And I will say now that she's better than me,

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because if I'm running, y'all being chased, I want you

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to know that something's wrong. If I'm running, I don't

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like to run for the fun of it. It didn't

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fun for me to run. And number two, I can't

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talk and run at the same time. I have an option.

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I either have to focus on survival or coordination, but

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Laken had both. Okay, she could run and she could talk,

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which I think is awesome can she has the breath

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and the training to be able to do that. And

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it was a beautiful day that she was out for

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her run. It was windy, it was in the low seventies,

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just an absolutely beautiful day. So it was nine oh

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three that morning when Lake and walked out her front door,

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and she walked towards these intramural sports fields that were

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very popular in that area for runners and bikers to

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go and hang out. It's a well traveled area. It

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has paths that lead to and from and through and

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they had these paths that led into the woods, which,

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like I said, were frequented by a lot of places daily.

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She was in a very, very open and well traveled area.

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So she walked to what was called the Millage Avenue

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Extension before she would pick up her pace and start

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really working on that jog exercise. The breeze through her hair,

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her endorphins flowing with every pomp of her heart. It

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was the perfect start to what was going to be

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a beautiful day. The sun was shining and I can

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just see her running and mulling over the things that

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she had to do, the tasks that she had to accomplish,

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working through her head everything because she was very organized

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and a very thoughtful person about the things that she

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was doing. All of this she's working out in her

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head as her feet or hitting the pavement. So by

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nine oh five, just two minutes later, that's from when

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she left the apartment, she was running southbound on that

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millage extension, just like she always did. She had her

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cell phone in her left hand, and she made her

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way down the road that long black ponytail, swinging side

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to side and just really enjoying herself. But within six minutes,

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six minutes of her beginning her run, her cell phone

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dialed nine to one one at exactly nine one one,

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nine to eleven in the morning. So the dispatcher answers

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her call, but no matter what the dispatcher says, Laken

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is not responding to anything that she's asking or saying.

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And then, moments later, even though the dispatcher continues to

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try to get someone to answer, there's a disconnect that

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Lacan hangs up. One line is heard during the call,

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and you would not know that this was words being

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spoken unless you listen to it probably one hundred times,

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and you really were able to focus and hone in

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on this section, and the one line that's heard right

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before it hangs up are the words yo tango, yo

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tango Spanish for I have or I have it. So,

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as is protocol, the dispatcher called back multiple times, but

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Laken never answered the calls. So meanwhile, while all of

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this is happening, roommate Lily returned from running her errands

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and she was surprised to see Lacan's car was still

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at the house. Lily had originally left around nine thirty

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and Laken was already gone for her run when Lily left.

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The plan here was that Lily wanted to go have

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coffee with Laken whenever she got back, so she checked

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her location on her cell phone and saw, oh, she's

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still out for her run, and it showed her location

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in those woods, in the running path of the woods

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at nine point thirty. So Lily said, all right, well cool,

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she's running. I'll get back with her. I'm gonna go

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run one more errand, so Lily left out again and

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she went and ran her other errand she's just thinking

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to herself I'll call her back whenever I get home. Now,

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that's important. Why I'm telling you that, The reason she

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says to herself, I'll call her back whenever I get

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home later on is because there happened to be an

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AT and T cellular outage that day, and so Lily

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had AT and T. She was only able to make

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calls whenever she was connected to the Wi Fi, which

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would have been when she was back at the house,

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not while she was out driving around and running her errands.

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So when Lily returned from her second round of running errands,

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the car was still at the house, and this kind

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of made Lily question, you know, why is it still here?

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So she again checked Lacan's location on her phone, and

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she found that she was still in the exact same

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spot in the woods. And this bothered Lily. It bothered

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her a lot. Actually, she knew that Laken didn't actually

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have AT and T. She knew that Lacan's phone should

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have been updating her location, and she also knew that

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Lacan had classed that day, and Lacan would never be

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late for class. She would have never extended her run

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to miss her class, and certainly not this long. So

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Lacan's Mom had also started calling Lakean around nine oh

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six that morning, but there was no answer, and after

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a while, because she normally spoke to her during her run,

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Mom became a long armed as well, and so Mom

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called the roommates. Lily was a little alarmed by this

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as well, and so they were kind of discussing where

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was Laken's whereabouts and where could she possibly be. So

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Lily started to look further into whether anyone had actually

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spoken to Laken after she went out for the run,

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and so this meant she called their roommates to check

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with them, but again that AT and T WiFi outage

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posed difficulties in doing so because both Lily and Connolly

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as well as Sophia actually all three of them had

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AT and T even though Laken did not. So Lily

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sent a text to Connolly and said, hey, is Laken

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okay Lauren which I haven't mentioned Lauren yet. Lauren is

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Lake's sister. She also had called, but no one was

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able to get in touch with Laken, and they're all

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trying to call each other. So really alarmed by this.

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Once she had service, Connolly stepped out of class and

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she tried to call Lakean herself, but it rang and rang,

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there was no answer. But then the worry really became

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real because all the girls knew that Lakean would never

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miss class and that she was always on schedule, always,

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so in the meantime, Sophia had just completed that exam

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that she was scheduled to take and she was required

462
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.559
to put her cell phone into a locker while she

463
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.160
took her exams, So she pulled her cell phone out

464
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:25.960
of the locker, and, unaware of the unfolding situation at hand,

465
00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:29.279
she just drove home where when she finally regained phone

466
00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:32.400
service on the house WiFi, that's whenever her phone did

467
00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.799
ding di ding starts giving her all of these updates.

468
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:37.559
And it was then that she realized both Connolly and

469
00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:39.880
Laken's sister had tried to get in touch with her

470
00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:43.680
because they couldn't find Laken. Well, she decided to go

471
00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.359
walk around the house and look for she couldn't find

472
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:50.519
her anywhere. She then went outside, she looked around the property.

473
00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:54.880
Laken wasn't there, so then she too checked for Lacan's

474
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:58.279
location on her cell phone, and her cell phone showed

475
00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.400
that Laken was in the woods. So real fast, I'm

476
00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:05.640
around teenagers a lot and young adults, and I thought

477
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.759
it was absolutely, positively the most creepiest thing ever. Whenever

478
00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:12.640
my daughter would open her phone and she would go, oh,

479
00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:14.720
you know, so and so's at the mall, and I'm like,

480
00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:15.440
how do you know that?

481
00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:15.720
Oh?

482
00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:17.880
I follow her? Like what do you mean? You follow her?

483
00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:21.079
Your stalker? You know, that's weird. But in today's time,

484
00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:24.200
it's just so normal. It's normalized that everyone shares their

485
00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.359
location and everybody knows where everybody is. Well, these roommates

486
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:29.519
did it because they spent so much time together. They

487
00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:32.319
wanted to see where everybody where they were and wouldn't interrupt.

488
00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.240
Maybe if they're at the doctor's office or getting a

489
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:36.720
massage or something, they would know where their friends were.

490
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.200
So they all shared their locations with one another, the roommates.

491
00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:46.039
So by now Lily and Sophia were together and they

492
00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:47.880
decided they were just going to take matters into their

493
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:49.799
own hands. She's been in the woods for hours. That

494
00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:52.160
doesn't make sense. We're going to just go physically go

495
00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:54.920
look for our friend. So Sophia grabbed her pup. Her

496
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:57.599
pup's name was Champ. He looks like a black lab

497
00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:01.480
and they all go walking to the woods to the

498
00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.160
trail where they go to look for Laken. So as

499
00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:08.799
they're walking through these woods, Champ is sniffing really really hard.

500
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.079
When they get to a certain area, and he is

501
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.720
sniffing like with intention, and he's kind of pulling, and

502
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.480
he's staying in that area. He was absolutely fixated on

503
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.880
something that was on the ground. Lots of leaves and

504
00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:22.400
things were in the area. So Sofia goes AND's like,

505
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:23.960
what are you doing, dog, what are you looking at?

506
00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:27.920
And when she looks down, sure enough, guess what the

507
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:32.400
dog was sniffing. It was an AirPod. They believed it

508
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:37.000
to be Lacin's AirPod. So they thought it was Lacin's

509
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.559
so much that they immediately just jumped into police mode

510
00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.759
themselves and they started the roommate started documenting, taking pictures

511
00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.359
of the AirPod where they found it, where on the trail.

512
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:50.799
And I found that absolutely incredible that they had the

513
00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:53.039
forethought enough to not just pick it up, but to

514
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.200
photograph it and that would become important. And then they

515
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.000
went straight back after they found that and couldn't find

516
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:01.920
Laken anywhere. They went straight back to the house and

517
00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:04.000
they called the police from the house again because there

518
00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.400
was no service on their phones, so Lily called nine

519
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:12.519
one one and Connolly, who was still in class if

520
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.079
you remember, she had stepped out and tried to call Laken,

521
00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.160
but Connolly was still in class. Sophia jumped in her

522
00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:20.359
car and ran and picked up Connolly and brought her

523
00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:22.519
back to the house and at that point all three

524
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:25.759
roommates agreed to meet with the police at the woods

525
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.880
to show them where they last see Lacn's location and

526
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.359
to say she should be back by now. There's something

527
00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:35.599
wrong here. So Kenneth Maxwell, he's a University of Georgia

528
00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:38.319
police sergeant, he responded to the roommates and he was

529
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.079
there within minutes. And when he got there, he took

530
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.400
these young girl's fears very seriously. He could tell that

531
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.200
they were very upset and very nervous and that this

532
00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.119
was not just a run of the mill, Hey, I

533
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.160
can't find my friend situation. So he asked to see

534
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.319
Lily's phone, and he looked at the location to see

535
00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:59.960
exactly where he thought her phone was showing where lake

536
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.039
his phone was showing location. He was very familiar with

537
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:06.599
the area and he could tell pretty quickly the actual vicinity,

538
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.640
even though it was just woods. He could tell because

539
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.200
he was so familiar with the area where exactly, you know,

540
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.640
he thought that the phone was locating from. So I

541
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.359
want to tell you about Kenneth Maxwell real quick. You

542
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:24.240
look at him, and he has got a very kind face.

543
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.759
I don't know how to explain it to you. Something

544
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.359
about him looks very kind. He's a handsome man. He's

545
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.039
got a brown beard, he's got a mustache, he's got

546
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.839
a short kind of high and tight haircut. You see

547
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.720
some grays starting to kind of peek through. And when

548
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:45.240
speaking with him, he comes across as professional, caring and

549
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.799
a very steady individual who will stay the course and

550
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.039
take people's concerns seriously. So he drove to the back

551
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.599
of the fields where the trails began, based on that

552
00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:59.440
screenshot that he got from Lily, and he directed some

553
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.839
other off that had arrived at that time to go

554
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:04.400
to the opposite side from where he would be starting,

555
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.400
and they would search together and eventually meet up in

556
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:10.599
the middle. So they searched for about twenty minutes for

557
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.039
anything that may clue them into if something had happened

558
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:17.160
to Laken or not, and they didn't find anything. Matter

559
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.640
of fact, he even asked dispatch over his police radio.

560
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:23.279
At one point, hey, go ahead and check some local hospitals.

561
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.680
See if there's you know, a Jane Doe or something

562
00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:28.079
at the hospital, or by name if she's at the hospitals.

563
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.720
But while he's searching, he's also wearing a body cam,

564
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.920
He asked dispatch. At some point he says, look, go

565
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:39.279
ahead and call her phone for me. Keep calling it

566
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:43.400
because if it's ringing, maybe it'll alert me to where

567
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:45.319
the phone is. So they call, and they call, but

568
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.240
they weren't hearing. He just wasn't hearing anything. He never

569
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.839
heard a ring of buzzer, nothing, So in his body cam,

570
00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:58.759
it's just quiet. The only thing for twenty minutes that

571
00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:01.839
you hear, other than the occasion radio traffic, is the

572
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:05.960
crunching of leaves as he's walking. You can just hear

573
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:09.359
him crunching through the leaves, looking through the woods, and

574
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:12.279
maybe every now and then you'll hear the occasional bird chirp.

575
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:17.720
It's quiet. But twenty one minutes after he started looking

576
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:21.960
for Lacan, his steps shift from a decent walking pace

577
00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:27.359
to running, and his breathing becomes really hard. And here

578
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.039
is some audio I have for you from his body

579
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.720
cam as he realizes he sees Lacan's bloody and battered

580
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.440
body laying on the ground.

581
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.240
Oh shit, is the university?

582
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:54.519
I found it, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am oh.

583
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:55.799
I mess immediately she just a look at you?

584
00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:13.359
What the thout paying for? Ma'am, ma'am she doubted not breathing.

585
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.079
Potentially better back.

586
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:32.839
Ye ten eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifty, sixteen, seventy eight.

587
00:32:33.519 --> 00:33:02.000
Twenty twenty one, twenty two, thirty four bucks nine twenty five,

588
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:04.880
twenty nine thirty.

589
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:06.839
I'm like GKT Naples.

590
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:11.839
She stepped one, two, three, four, five.

591
00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:19.759
Six, seven, eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteenth.

592
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.640
Nineteen, twenty thirty one thirty two, twenty three, twenty four,

593
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:26.240
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty nine thirty that's

594
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.240
what you exactly.

595
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:40.640
Looked like, Bloomboards Romena the head.

596
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.519
Her shirt has been removed above her.

597
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:54.519
Breast eleventh, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteenth, nineteen pointy

598
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:56.359
three two, twenty three, twenty four.

599
00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:59.119
I thought, if you look at the painty, we're exactly

600
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.880
where that was thinking at when.

601
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:05.759
He said out loud, I'm not getting any pulse. She's stiff.

602
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:09.679
I don't know about you, but my heart sank when

603
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:14.039
you said that. The professionalism and the calm that this

604
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:18.800
officer displayed for me and mine is just commendable. He

605
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:22.559
jumped immediately into action for this young girl that he

606
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.400
had never met a day in his life. That second

607
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:29.719
officer that would eventually arrive, his name is Mason Bridges,

608
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:34.400
and he would take over and continue CPR on LACN

609
00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:38.159
as the sirens of an ambulance and fire trucks come

610
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:44.599
into earshot, and they both work intensely on LACN, not

611
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:50.679
giving up, breathing, doing CPR and staying with it, taking turns,

612
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.360
and even at one point Mason Bridges like whispers you'll

613
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.400
hear him go come on, as he seemingly tried to

614
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:00.840
summon some warmth and life back into her b come

615
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.760
on right, And he didn't want to let her go.

616
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:05.239
He wanted her to work, He wanted her to breathe,

617
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:08.119
he wanted her body to start working because it wasn't.

618
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:13.679
And as Officer Bridges continues CPR, something you'll hear, or

619
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:17.199
may have already heard, is a whistle that blows multiple times.

620
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.480
That's Officer Maxwell blowing into this whistle. It's an alert whistle.

621
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.920
So because they were so far off the beaten path,

622
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:27.480
they were trying to alert the other helpers that were

623
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.679
coming in first responders where they were, and so he

624
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.599
continues to blow that whistle to try to alert them

625
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.639
to their location. And so, using shears that the officers

626
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.800
have on them, they ended up cutting off Laken's top

627
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.760
so that they could better do CPR on her lifeless body.

628
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.519
The problem with her clothing was that it was very

629
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:51.719
tightly bound and twisted whenever they came upon her. Her

630
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:57.639
sports bra was actually now basically her outer laying of clothing.

631
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.960
The way that she struggled with whatever had happened, all

632
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.519
of her what should have been underlayers were now rolled

633
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:08.239
up and had become her outer layers, and they had

634
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:12.280
basically tightened around her upper arms where they were rolled up,

635
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.159
where it almost like would have made it hard for

636
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.519
her to move and fight. It was tight and strangling

637
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:20.280
up at the top, and her arms at this point

638
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.840
had become stiff, and so they decided to cut off

639
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.760
her clothing in the hopes that maybe they could they

640
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:28.559
could help her. They could put life back into her.

641
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.239
But honestly, once the body starts turning stiff, they probably

642
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.800
already knew, but they didn't stop and they didn't give up,

643
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.159
and once the firefighters arrived, they actually beat the ambulance. There.

644
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:42.199
The men worked together. They followed that whistle. They found

645
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:44.880
the officers, and they moved Lacan's body out of this

646
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.239
divot that she was actually laying in so that they

647
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.119
could more effectively administer CPR to her. So when they

648
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.440
found her, she was laying slightly on her side. She

649
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:58.320
had leaves all over her, and the leaves were just

650
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:01.920
matted up. She had tangled hair, there was blood, it

651
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:06.079
was all twisted up in there. And something that probably

652
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.960
doesn't matter to a lot of people, but it matters

653
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.679
to me, is that none of these officers, none of

654
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:16.119
them took the time to put on gloves. They just

655
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.360
dove in. They said, we're gonna help this girl. We're

656
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:21.320
not gonna go back to the car to get gloves.

657
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:23.800
They just dropped down to their knees and they did

658
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:25.719
what they had to do, and they did it with

659
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.840
everything that they had. Another officer that arrived I told

660
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.679
you about when you're listening to this body cam. It's

661
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:36.320
nothing but heavy breathing as they all worked together. It's

662
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.519
like they knew her personally, they fought so hard to

663
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:44.320
save her. And then while they work on her, all

664
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:48.320
of a sudden, this robotic voice starts breaking through all

665
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:51.840
that breathing that you're hearing, and it begins to give commands,

666
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.159
and you realize that it's an AED machine that they

667
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:57.840
brought with them, and it's telling them to place the

668
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.559
pads on her body, and it's helping to guide them

669
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:03.360
on what to do to hopefully shock her heart back

670
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:05.960
into a rhythm. Go ahead and listen for yourself. I

671
00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:09.719
thought this was very compelling audio.

672
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.519
Haven't been back of us A five pad the patients

673
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:40.719
fair chest and show a five pad to patience. Have

674
00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:49.079
the patients fair chests as doll analyzing interrupted, Do not

675
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:54.159
touch the patience analyzing but rhythm, do not touch the patience.

676
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:17.039
Yeah, are you listening to the effort?

677
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.119
Guys? Are you listening to this? And they keep working

678
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:24.920
and working and working. Eventually that AED says no shock

679
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.760
begin CPR. AED advises keep working and working and working,

680
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.519
and eventually the ambulance gets there, but it's of no

681
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:38.559
use because Lacan was gone, And the truth of the

682
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:41.320
matter is that lacan had been gone. She had been

683
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.559
dead for hours. These men just refuse to give up

684
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:46.760
on her until there was nothing more that they could

685
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.599
possibly do. The officers had valiantly continued to work on her.

686
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:54.920
It was like they were just trying everything to just

687
00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:57.519
give her a chance. But when all of their efforts

688
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:01.559
were exhausted and the officers backed away from the scene,

689
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:05.159
there was one thing that really stood out in all

690
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.000
of their minds as they stood there, just breathing hard,

691
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.679
looking at this young woman lost. What they could tell

692
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:15.960
is that whatever had happened to her had been intentional,

693
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:20.840
and this young girl had fought ferociously for her life.

694
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:26.000
She was just no match for whatever monster she had encountered,

695
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:29.320
and now this was going to be a murder investigation.

696
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:33.360
So when the homicide investigators arrived on the scene, they

697
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:36.639
found that the scene was actually more spread out than

698
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:40.800
what they originally thought, and they could paint a pretty

699
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.239
good picture in their minds of likely what had happened.

700
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.239
Within reason, based on the scene that Lacoln was on

701
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:51.639
the running trail, she encountered someone at some point a

702
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.280
struggle ensued. That's why the AirPod that was found on

703
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.400
the trail by her roommates must have been knocked from

704
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.400
her ear or pulled from her ear when she first

705
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:02.199
encountered with whatever it was she encountered. She dialed nine

706
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.159
to one one, as the records already showed at the

707
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.440
nine one one center, but she again was unable to

708
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:11.760
speak for whatever reason, and then she was drug. She

709
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.559
was either struck or drug or drug and then struck

710
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:18.079
whatever order as she fought, I mean, she fought them

711
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:22.639
whoever they were, and she was pulled sixty four feet

712
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:27.360
eleven inches from the trail where she stopped running sixty

713
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:31.880
four feet. There was a significant disturbance in the area

714
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:34.599
where her body was. You could see the ground, and

715
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.679
that was really important to investigators because there were absolutely

716
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:41.480
no leaves in that one area compared to everywhere else

717
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:43.840
there was leaves everywhere thick. I mean even heard when

718
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:46.360
the officer was walking through in the crunching of the leaves.

719
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:49.559
Every area had leaves except this one spot, all the

720
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:53.760
way down to the dirt. And as they looked around nearby,

721
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.480
they found two bloody rocks. And I don't think people

722
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.360
give justice to the size of these rocks. So I

723
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.280
wanted to kind of give you a visual here. The

724
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.480
rocks were about palm sized. Okay, it's not like a

725
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:09.400
little bitty rock. They're palm sized. If I held my

726
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.719
hand up, you know, it would be like a you know,

727
00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:16.599
a bigger than like a small gravel or bigger than

728
00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:19.079
a even an egg rock. It's a substantial rock that

729
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:23.760
you would need your full palm to hold. And the

730
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:26.400
rocks that they found, they found two of them, and

731
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.760
they were jagged, but they were both covered in blood

732
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:33.599
as well as there was a tree nearby, and that

733
00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:36.039
tree had blood on it, And so they came to

734
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:39.039
the conclusion that these rocks must have been used to

735
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.639
bash her head in with while she fought for her life.

736
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:45.360
Her hair, like I told you, it was tangled with

737
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:48.719
leaves and blood, and there was dirt everywhere. It was

738
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:51.320
so matted and bloody that it was hard to see

739
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.599
while on seen exactly how many injuries are really what

740
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.559
all types of injuries she had. And like I told you,

741
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:03.360
they noted that her clothing was pulled up. Now, it

742
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.400
was pulled up so far it completely exposed her breasts.

743
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:08.920
When those officers first arrived on scene and tried to

744
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:12.119
save her, her chest was out. It was that high

745
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:16.679
up about where her shoulders were. But interestingly, her leggings

746
00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:21.280
were pulled down. They were pulled down below her belly

747
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:23.920
button where she always wore them above her belly button,

748
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.239
and her underwear, which was like this peach color, was

749
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:31.519
protruding out on the right side. When they rolled her

750
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:35.719
body over to do their investigation, the pants were down

751
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.480
far enough that the upper area of her buttocks was

752
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:41.639
showing when they flipped her over. Okay, so this wasn't

753
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:45.280
just a slight roll down. They were pulled down farther

754
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:49.920
than where they started above the belly button. They did

755
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:53.159
find her cell phone and it lay about fifty feet

756
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.880
from where her body lay. When they found that cell phone,

757
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.320
the frame of the cell phone had blood on it,

758
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:04.800
and on that blood was a very clear thumbprint in

759
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:09.840
the blood. So while what happened seemed to be figured out,

760
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:14.320
the who did it and why really start taking center stage.

761
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:18.079
Police became very interested in Lacan's watch that she was

762
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:21.880
wearing because this Garmin watch held way more data than

763
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:26.719
the average watch, including heart rate and pulse data. So

764
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.000
their thinking was maybe the watch could possibly give us

765
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.760
a time frame surrounding her death, the watch and all

766
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.400
the other evidence that I've mentioned so far were sent

767
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.920
to the crime lab while Lacan's body was sent for

768
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:43.159
an autopsy. And so Lacan's autopsy was done by a

769
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:49.559
doctor DeMarco. As DeMarco went through her body, it was

770
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.920
washed and assessed. This is what was found in her autopsy.

771
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.280
She had complex depressed skull fractures. This wasn't like she

772
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:05.400
was punched in the head. Complex skull fractures. She had

773
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.719
eight lacerations to her skull on the left side of

774
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:14.280
her head. And these lacerations really looked like holes. You know,

775
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:17.159
like a rock slamming into your head. It's such force

776
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:21.440
that it cracks your skull. She had some small hemorrhaging

777
00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:25.000
to the right side of her head. Below her skin.

778
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.119
She had abrasions on her face, her neck, her torso

779
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:32.000
and I don't mean like a little scuff, I mean

780
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:36.480
she was tore up. Okay, she was scratched and cut

781
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.320
basically all about her face, her neck, and her upper

782
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.440
chest area. When they opened her eyes, she had petikia

783
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.400
in both of her eyes. And petikia. I'm sure we

784
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:49.320
all know this, but just in case you don't, those

785
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:53.000
are those small dots that you get whenever pressure is

786
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:58.440
applied at such force that like during strangulation, that the vessels,

787
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.159
the blood vessel's burns in your eyes, and you can

788
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:03.760
get petiki other places too, by the way, you can

789
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:05.880
get it in your mouth, you can get it around

790
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:07.960
the eyes. You can get a lot of places. So

791
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:11.320
she had PETIITII in both eyes, which was believed to

792
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:15.079
be from strangulation. They did a sexual assault kit on her,

793
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.199
which interestingly came back negative. It was negative for DNA.

794
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:23.960
No semen was found anywhere on her clothing. What they

795
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.960
did document, though, was that her underwear had been forcibly

796
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:33.000
torn off. It wasn't an accidental movement of this underwear.

797
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:37.719
Her cause of death was blunt force trauma with asphyxia,

798
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:41.119
and then they put OS after it, and I was

799
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.039
curious as to what that meant, so I looked it up,

800
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:48.320
and that means asphyxia without specification, meaning they weren't sure

801
00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:52.239
if she was asphyxiated because she had like tons of

802
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:56.039
pressure on her chest, or if she was strangled, but

803
00:46:56.199 --> 00:46:58.280
it was one or the other or a combination of both.

804
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.599
That she could not expand her chest and she could

805
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:04.440
not get any oxygen. Either way, she was deprived of

806
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:08.039
oxygen to her brain so long that it killed her.

807
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:14.280
A person acting like an absolute freaking animal had bashed

808
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:18.599
her head in and strangled the life out of Lacan Riley.

809
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:23.599
But honey, make no question that Lacan didn't make it easy.

810
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:28.360
She fought, she fought with everything she had. She just

811
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.599
didn't win. And when you start getting smashed in the

812
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:37.159
head with rocks, I guess i'd no wonder, no wonder.

813
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:41.000
So from this point forward, I'm going to be telling

814
00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:44.719
you the story in chronological order, but in a way

815
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:46.239
that will make sense to you, because I want to

816
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.960
be clear that some things didn't quite happen like in

817
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.320
this order. But it would be confusing for me to

818
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.679
jump all over the place to explain this, so I'm

819
00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:56.840
going to put it into a chronicological order just for

820
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:00.480
storytelling purposes. But a few things may have happened simontaneously

821
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.079
or at different times. So immediately after Lacan was determined

822
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.719
to be dead and the crime scene tape was put up,

823
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:11.480
officers went to go see could they drum up some

824
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:15.039
leads in the local vicinity or area. Maybe someone saw something,

825
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.199
maybe there was cameras They didn't know, but they wanted

826
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:19.360
to go see what they could. Drum up and near

827
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:23.039
the crime scene, officers found that there were cameras on

828
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.039
many of the apartments that were nearby that could possibly

829
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:29.920
show suspect movement in and out of the area where

830
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:33.400
Lacan was found. And true to their suspicions, cameras were

831
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:37.360
located and the police were able to go review that footage.

832
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.800
In the meantime, while that was being done, data from

833
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:44.440
the garm and watch that Lakean wore would hold a

834
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:49.679
gold mine of information about her final moments. So in brief,

835
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:53.960
she basically had a heart rate that was indicative of

836
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:58.199
a normal run. When she started at nine oh eight am,

837
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:00.800
her heart rate was one hundred and fiftyifty six beats

838
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:05.719
per minute, and then at nine ten she literally stops

839
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:09.320
dead in her tracks. They can tell this through the

840
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:14.679
heart rate data. Within the next minute, which would have

841
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:17.079
been at that nine to eleven am, that's when she

842
00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:20.199
called nine to one one. That call where where they

843
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:24.840
heard nothing but yo tango. Obviously, based on the garment data,

844
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:28.760
a struggle was taking place for her life. She couldn't speak,

845
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.519
but she was fighting for her life. And I want

846
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:34.280
you to understand this I don't want to gloss over

847
00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:35.840
and say she fought for her life. I want to

848
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:43.760
be very specific for the next seventeen minutes. Seventeen minutes,

849
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:48.519
her heart is still beating, and it's beating rapidly. She

850
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:52.280
is in a fight for her life for seventeen minutes

851
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:59.960
before it stops and it never beats again. Seventeen minutes. Y'all,

852
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.000
this fight was long and it was fierce. What could

853
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:06.599
you do in seventeen minutes. I really sat back on that,

854
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:08.599
and I even googled tell me things I could do

855
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:11.360
in seventeen minutes to really put this into perspective. You

856
00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:13.400
could get a quick workout in. You could do some

857
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:16.960
high interval training sessions. You could do a short yoga flow.

858
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:19.519
You could go get a brisk run put in. But

859
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:23.159
one thing that stood out to me, Well, there was

860
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:25.239
a couple of things. You could do a light meal prep,

861
00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:27.599
you could clean a small area, you could read a

862
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:31.320
chapter in a book. But one thing that really stood

863
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:35.760
out to me said, listen to a podcast episode. You

864
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:40.360
could tune into a short podcast episode while doing other tasks.

865
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:42.920
So I know my podcast is usually about an hour long,

866
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.119
but I want you to really think about that to

867
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.360
this point, think about those first seventeen minutes because she

868
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:54.760
was fighting for her life the entire time. That's incredible.

869
00:50:56.119 --> 00:50:59.119
So using this timeline, police were able to look through

870
00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:02.079
that camera footage that was out and about with that

871
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:06.440
relative time stamp, and what they found was fifteen minutes

872
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:11.400
after Laken's heart stopped beating, you see a Hispanic male

873
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:14.920
in black pants and what appears to be at first glance,

874
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:19.280
a black sleeveless tank top with a black hat walk

875
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:23.280
to the dumpster at this apartment complex and he's holding

876
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:26.760
a black jacket. He walks up to the dumpster, he

877
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:29.960
opens the front of it, and he tosses the jacket

878
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:33.760
into the dumpster. Then he walks off to his left

879
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.119
and there's an apartment there and there's some bushes that

880
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:41.280
are planted right underneath a window right there of the

881
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:45.199
lower story apartment, and he throws something into those bushes.

882
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:51.719
So when they enhanced a video still a picture basically

883
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.079
of this suspect, it shows when they zoom in and

884
00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:57.719
enhance it's actually a black T shirt with white or

885
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:03.920
gray sleeves that have a black symbol on it or

886
00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:06.440
these it was like these white stripes on the sleeves,

887
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.840
and then there was a hat that this person had,

888
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:14.320
and when they zoomed in, it was a hat that

889
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:17.159
had the Adidas symbol on it and it had the

890
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:21.000
wording in white of Adidas right below the symbol. So

891
00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:23.480
they felt pretty confident that this guy must have had

892
00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:28.440
something to do with Laken's demise. So a photo was

893
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:31.239
released immediately and a bolo be on the lookout for

894
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:34.159
was sent out. Pictures were sent around campus. If anyone

895
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:37.119
sees or recognizes this man or this clothing, we need

896
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.599
to know. So police then went to that dumpster and

897
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:42.400
they went and they looked in those bushes to see

898
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:44.360
what did that man dump in the dumpster, and then

899
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.320
the bushes and in the dumpster, an officer looked in

900
00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:50.880
and there really wasn't much in the dumpster, just some

901
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.760
random trash that was in there. But what they could

902
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:57.280
see on top of that random trash was that black jacket.

903
00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.000
So he jumped in and I watched the body cam

904
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.039
video of this because I was just kind of, I

905
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:03.679
don't know, I'm nosy and I'm curious. I wanted to

906
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:06.440
know exactly what went down, and it's almost like just

907
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:12.440
this this just gut like he just kind of says it.

908
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.239
It's not prompted. Nobody asks him any questions, but he

909
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:18.039
bends down and he grabs the jacket and he goes.

910
00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:21.000
And by the way, this officer didn't know anything about Lake,

911
00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:23.000
and really he just knew that a girl had been murdered.

912
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:26.960
And he looks down and he says, ooh, does our

913
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:30.639
victim have long brown hair? I hope she doesn't. And

914
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:32.760
it's because when he looked at the jacket, there were

915
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.920
long strands of brown hair that were tangled and wrapped

916
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.159
around one of the buttons of the jacket. And everyone

917
00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:42.440
who knew what Lake looked like was like, ooh, yeah,

918
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.639
she does. So then they walk over to the bushes

919
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:47.800
and when they look in and I have photographs of

920
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:50.880
all of this and some video on Patreon for you,

921
00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:56.119
they find three black disposable kitchen gloves in the in

922
00:53:56.159 --> 00:53:59.360
the bushes. So obviously they pull that out and they

923
00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:00.960
take it into EVA and they send it up to

924
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.159
the crime lab. Well about this same time, which mind you,

925
00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:11.119
it's now Friday, that Friday, around eight thirty am. Okay,

926
00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:13.760
so Laken went for her run on a Thursday. Then

927
00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:15.719
everything went through the night and now it's the next

928
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:18.000
morning that Friday, it's about eight thirty in the morning

929
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:21.360
when the police are out and they're looking for anyone

930
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:24.039
that might match the relative description of who they believe

931
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.840
was this attacker, and they encounter a man who identified

932
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.840
himself as Diego Ibarra, and he was walking near campus

933
00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:36.280
and he was wearing, amazingly what appeared to be the

934
00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:40.480
exact same hat of the murder suspect that was released

935
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.239
in the bolow. Surely, someone's not that dumb, you know,

936
00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:46.639
go wear this hat to commit a murder and then

937
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:50.440
wear it the next day. Surely you're not that stupid. Well,

938
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.400
when the officers encounter him and they're looking at him,

939
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:56.239
the hat also had what the officer at the time

940
00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:59.280
thought was dirt on the brim, and it seemed like

941
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:04.079
to him a person that had fought and struggled with

942
00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:07.519
Lakean in that fight where all the dirt and stuff was,

943
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:09.880
it would make sense that the wear the hat was

944
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:13.280
grabbed on the brim, that the dirt would have transferred there.

945
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:14.920
It just seemed to make sense as to what was

946
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:19.199
going on. Coincidence maybe, but very interesting when it was happening.

947
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.320
So they stop him and they wanted to speak with

948
00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:24.800
him and question him, but immediately there was a problem

949
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.079
of a language barrier, because he really only spoke Spanish.

950
00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:30.920
He was not fluent in English by any stretch of

951
00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:34.840
the imagination. Another issue that they had is whenever they

952
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.639
asked him, let me see your ID, he hands them

953
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.559
a green card. But very quickly they pick up on

954
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:42.760
the fact that this thing's got to be fake. The

955
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:45.199
reason they thought it was fake was because it had

956
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:48.320
two different dates of birth on it in different locations. Well,

957
00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:50.559
a green card's not going to get that wrong. So

958
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:53.360
they just felt like, we need to check this out

959
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:55.599
a little bit further. So they go back to his

960
00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:58.719
residence with him for some more questioning. But that communication,

961
00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:03.840
that language issue just is not letting this happen. He

962
00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:06.719
speaks Spanish, the officers do not, So they called in

963
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:10.480
other officers that do speak Spanish, and they come to translate.

964
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:13.400
These officers' names were Officer Bridges and officers say in.

965
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.559
Both of them were native Spanish speakers too, and I

966
00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:18.320
want to be very clear about that. These were not

967
00:56:18.360 --> 00:56:21.639
people who took a class. They're native Spanish speakers. And

968
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:24.920
so when they start talking to this Diego guy, he says,

969
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.800
I have some other brothers and family sleeping inside the house.

970
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.079
There was a total of five people that lived in

971
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:35.760
this apartment. So while speaking to him, they're trying to

972
00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:41.639
get a search warrant cut for this apartment. When while

973
00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:46.800
they're waiting, the suspect's brother, his name is Arhinis, he

974
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:50.119
comes out and he's holding a garbage bag in his hand.

975
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:53.239
So the officers start talking to him and have a

976
00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:55.519
few questions for him, and at some point he gives

977
00:56:55.559 --> 00:56:58.159
them consent to enter the home. He's like, sure, you

978
00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:01.280
can go in. And so for people who would jump

979
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.599
all over this, once someone gives you consent, you don't

980
00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:06.119
quite need the warrant. They let you walk in. So

981
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.280
his whole argument was that there were beans on the

982
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.639
stove and he was really worried about these beans and

983
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:12.719
they're gonna burn down the apartment. I've got a stove,

984
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.119
you know, We've got to go check on this food.

985
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:17.320
We got to check on this food. So the officers

986
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:19.800
kind of pushed the door open, and you can tell

987
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.599
they don't. These are not your native Spanish speakers, and

988
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:27.480
they're going ola ala ala, And when you watch the

989
00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.599
body cam, no one responds and it's it's a very

990
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:33.639
small apartment. You'd think you could see what was going

991
00:57:33.679 --> 00:57:38.480
on here, Ola Olla. And then suddenly, where it looks

992
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:41.639
like this is an empty apartment, two people pop up

993
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:47.440
from under these sheets on this bed, and I don't know, y'all.

994
00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:49.559
It was alarming to me that people could be that

995
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:53.079
hidden in this bed, because if they had a gun,

996
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:56.440
you would have been dead, all right. But either way,

997
00:57:56.599 --> 00:57:58.400
they come, they wake them up and they're like, come on,

998
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.760
we need you to come outside. So every the apartment

999
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:03.320
ends up going outside. These are the people in the house.

1000
00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:06.880
There was a guy named Jose Ibarra, and they called

1001
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:09.679
him Victor. He was the guy that was asleep in

1002
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:12.800
the bed. There was Diego Ibarro which he went by

1003
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:17.679
El Gocho. He was the brother of Jose. And I

1004
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:19.960
was curious about what el Gocho meant, so I of

1005
00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.119
course went to someone that I love and trust who's

1006
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.880
from there, from Venezuela, and he told me that there's

1007
00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:29.440
a region of Venezuela where people are born. It's like

1008
00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:33.840
this mountainous area of southwest Venezuela. And he said that

1009
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:37.679
those people in that area are considered to be like

1010
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:41.360
of the more naive side or the nicer side, and

1011
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:47.480
so el Gocho is the term used for those people,

1012
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:50.119
if you want to know. I was just curious, and

1013
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:53.159
so Diego. By the way, ol Gocho that's the one

1014
00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:55.599
that was originally detained for the hat. And he also

1015
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:57.840
had a tear drop tattoo under his eye, which I

1016
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.320
find to be so classy. And of course every one

1017
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:02.840
knows what the meaning behind that is supposed to be

1018
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:05.079
that you've killed someone or attempted to kill someone. La

1019
00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:09.159
ti Da the other person rosa belly flores Bello. They

1020
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:12.559
called her La gorda, and I thought this was kind

1021
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:16.119
of funny. But that means like fatty or chubby, but

1022
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:20.039
it's a term of endearment, type of chubby. Like it's

1023
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:23.800
not calling her fat, it's like chubby or whatever. So

1024
00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:27.199
my buddy, again, that's from Venezuela. He told me that

1025
00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:32.119
culturally speaking, people from their culture say that like kindly,

1026
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:34.639
so like they might cost somebody baldy or chubby, but

1027
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:36.360
it's not being ugly, it's just the way that they

1028
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:40.159
do it. Arhanaz Ibarra went by Manny. That was the

1029
00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:42.199
kid that came out, the younger brother with the trash

1030
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:45.599
bag and then there was another one named Juan Carlos

1031
00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:49.239
Diaz Hernandez. They called him Carlito, which is basically Carlos

1032
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.719
in Spanish. So all of these people are in that

1033
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:54.960
one apartment. So they look over the police look over

1034
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:59.760
Diego's body and nothing is really seen whenever they're looking him,

1035
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:03.639
o they look over all the other people in the house.

1036
01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:06.440
There's no scratches, there's no nothing on any of these

1037
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:11.039
people until they get to Jose. Now, Jose, I want

1038
01:00:11.039 --> 01:00:13.719
to let you know. I think is a nice looking guy,

1039
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:16.920
nothing amazing, nothing to call home about. But he's not ugly.

1040
01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:20.280
He's a nice looking guy. He's got a black beard,

1041
01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:23.159
he kept it, kind of shorter, brown eyes, he's got

1042
01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:27.159
the average man's haircut, with his bangs a little bit fuller,

1043
01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:30.960
and they're styled up almost into like a little faux

1044
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:33.559
hawk in the front, but more muted. It's not like

1045
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:36.400
he's going for the mohawk look. And what they found

1046
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:38.719
was that he had a bunch of little, tiny scratches

1047
01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:40.760
on him that were interesting to them. So they wanted

1048
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:43.559
to photograph him. And the more they looked and the

1049
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:47.320
closer they checked, the more they noticed on Jose. So

1050
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:51.719
the officer looking him over played football back in his

1051
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:55.280
high school days, and he said that the cuts on

1052
01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:59.719
Jose reminded him of what happens whenever opponent's fingernails kind

1053
01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:03.920
of dig again during football play. The wounds were obviously

1054
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.000
new because they were still wet kind of in nature,

1055
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:10.639
and they were sporadic kind of all over his body,

1056
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:14.440
but this included his arms, his wrists, and his neck,

1057
01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:19.239
so this upper area. And so the officers were taking

1058
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:21.800
pictures of him, and they're looking through the home, and

1059
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:26.199
wouldn't you know that they located some black gloves in

1060
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.960
the kitchen in a drawer that seemed to match the

1061
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:33.360
ones that were found in the bushes that were dumped

1062
01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:38.320
by this believed assailant of Lake and Riley. Well trail

1063
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:41.519
cameras were also found to have been put out by

1064
01:01:41.559 --> 01:01:45.119
Georgia PD for security reasons, and they were being reviewed

1065
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:49.239
when the connection was made that the peeping tom call

1066
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:52.679
from early in the morning the same day of Lacan's

1067
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:56.599
death was the same man believed to be linked to

1068
01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:01.320
Lacan Riley. The clothing matched when they were comparing videos

1069
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:03.559
of the guy at the apartment complex and the guy

1070
01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:08.599
at the apartment complex where the Indian woman lived, including

1071
01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:11.480
the hat. I mean it was a match. This is

1072
01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:16.960
the same guy terrorizing women. So when looking around during

1073
01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:21.880
questioning of Jose, the officers found that the two apartments

1074
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:25.760
next to Jose's apartment both had security cameras. One of

1075
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:28.400
them was a still camera and one of them shot video.

1076
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:32.480
So they now believed Jose to be their murder suspect,

1077
01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:35.880
and they decided to review the footage from those apartments

1078
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.920
that were next door to where Jose was. So in

1079
01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:42.079
that footage when they finally pull it, what they find

1080
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.440
is Jose comes out of his apartment later the day

1081
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:49.199
of the murder. Laken would have already been dead, and

1082
01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:54.679
he's wearing different clothing than the previous forty minutes when

1083
01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.280
he was seen on that same camera coming in. So

1084
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.679
when he forty minutes prior, he was in the all

1085
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.440
black attire. Whenever he comes back out that afternoon, he's

1086
01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:08.159
wearing a red shirt and black shorts. And then he

1087
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:11.239
walks to a different dumpster, not the one I told

1088
01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:13.840
you about before where the black jacket was found. This

1089
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:16.840
is a different dumpster and he has a bag in

1090
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:20.800
his hand. So police run to that dumpster and they

1091
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.719
look in to go grab whatever was in that bag,

1092
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:24.840
but it had already been dumped, so they came back

1093
01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:29.119
empty handed. But when they searched the apartment of Jose,

1094
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:33.199
there was no bloody clothing found, and there was also

1095
01:03:33.639 --> 01:03:37.000
no clothing that they knew he was wearing earlier in

1096
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:39.760
the day, all of that black clothing. So what point

1097
01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:42.519
here in telling you this is that what wasn't there

1098
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.800
spoke volumes just as much as what should have been there.

1099
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:48.400
Why would your clothing be missing? And so you put

1100
01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:50.280
two and two together, and you know that he went

1101
01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:52.599
and he threw away clothing in that bag in that dumpster.

1102
01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:56.159
So during the apartment search, like I told you, they

1103
01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:59.079
found those black gloves that match the ones they found

1104
01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:02.639
in the bushes, and they took Jose's cell phone. He

1105
01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.280
actually had two. I'm not even gonna go into why

1106
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.159
I think that is right now, but he had two

1107
01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:12.360
and they took those to be analyzed. Diego, his brother

1108
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:15.480
who was wearing the hat who was originally stopped, also

1109
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:19.800
had a booksack on and so they took that book sack.

1110
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:23.000
During this warrant execution that they got through whenever they

1111
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:25.480
were able to go search the apartment and Inside that

1112
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:31.480
booksack they found a lighter, these leather and cloth gloves, cologne,

1113
01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:35.360
white sunglasses, amongst some other stuff. But the reason they

1114
01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:38.199
took the bag is because guess what in the video

1115
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:41.559
where the suspect is walking into the woods to kill

1116
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:47.159
Lake and Riley, the suspect had that exact bag on him.

1117
01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:49.360
By the way, I told you there was cologne in there.

1118
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:51.280
Are you curious as to what the scent of a

1119
01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:54.800
potential killer what they wear? Because I was curious, so

1120
01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:58.760
I zoomed in and it's Le Grande Forever. So if

1121
01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:02.960
you're wearing that, look out. So back at the lab,

1122
01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:08.639
some light was being shed forensically on the evidence that

1123
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:12.519
had been collected. That bloody thumb print was lifted from

1124
01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:16.079
Lacan's foam. And wouldn't you know that the police had

1125
01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:21.480
fingerprinted everyone in the home of Jose Ibarra, and that

1126
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:25.039
fingerprint came back to be a match of Jose's left thumb,

1127
01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.480
And they checked, like I said, against everybody, but it

1128
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:31.239
came back fifteen points of comparison showed that that was

1129
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:33.800
his thumbprint, and another senior examiner looked it over to

1130
01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:36.840
and confirmed that that was in fact his thumbprint. They

1131
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:39.800
also found three types of DNA on all of the

1132
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:42.840
evidence that was submitted. So the three types of DNA,

1133
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:45.519
just so you know, they had traditional DNA, another one

1134
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:50.079
called ystr and true Allele. I'm telling you this because

1135
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:53.119
the traditional DNA which was found on the jacket, on

1136
01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:57.199
the rocks, and on the tree, all of those items

1137
01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:03.400
had both Lacan's DNA and and Jose's DNA. The tree

1138
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:10.320
and the rocks actually only had Lakens, but the jacket

1139
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:12.000
had both of theirs. Let me be clear on that

1140
01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.480
the hair that was found on the jacket was confirmed

1141
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:17.719
to be lacans and it was not cut. It was

1142
01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:22.719
forcibly removed from the head. The wyes TR fingernail. The

1143
01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:26.800
wyes TR DNA was found under Lakan's fingernails. She had

1144
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:30.360
none under her left hand, but her right hand she

1145
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:35.320
did have DNA. So the wiest TR was really good

1146
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:38.559
to do because whenever you have mixed DNA samples, this

1147
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:40.840
is the type that can separate it because we know

1148
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:43.159
males only have Y chromosomes and it's easier to separate

1149
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.360
if you have male and female, you can use this type.

1150
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:47.679
There was an issue though with this DNA and I

1151
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:49.280
wanted to tell you this. I know I'm not really

1152
01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:51.199
a forensic podcast, but I wanted to tell you this

1153
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:55.320
because it was interesting. The issue became that the DNA

1154
01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:58.679
samples they took they took from all of the brothers,

1155
01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:03.519
and since all of the brothers were related, meaning that

1156
01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:10.760
they would all share the same paternal line, that would

1157
01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:13.880
have been a problem because they would all share that

1158
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:19.880
same paternal DNA. However, there could have been a differentiation

1159
01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:22.639
if there happened to be some type of like gene mutation.

1160
01:07:23.119 --> 01:07:28.840
But it turns out science would actually help out Diego Ebarro,

1161
01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:31.760
the one that was wearing the hat. It actually helped

1162
01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:36.679
him because Diego had a gene mutation that the killer

1163
01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:42.159
could not have had, so it actually excluded him from

1164
01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:45.840
being the person that killed Blake and Riley. With that

1165
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:51.480
left Jose and Arhemis as the potential paternal DNA you know,

1166
01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:54.800
people that they could check against. And that is where

1167
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:58.239
they did the true Allele test, which is where they

1168
01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:02.320
checked the gloves, the jacket, the fingernails, some other items

1169
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:05.840
that haven't gotten to yet. And they did this genotyping

1170
01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:07.760
that is derived the true a little. It's done through

1171
01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:11.000
a computer software that can unmix DNA, and the hole

1172
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:14.960
in the gloves that they found in the bushes had

1173
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.279
blood and that blood came back to Lacan's. Lacin's blood

1174
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:23.880
was also on the hat. The true Allele DNA testing

1175
01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:29.399
excluded rhemis as a possible donor to the DNA that

1176
01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:33.119
was under Lacin's nails. And so who does that leave?

1177
01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.680
It leaves Jose. Jose was a match to the tune

1178
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:40.199
by the way of ten billion times more probable than

1179
01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:43.439
a coincidental match to an unrelated person in the population.

1180
01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:47.680
Just so you know, the DNA was pointing directly I

1181
01:08:47.720 --> 01:08:49.760
accidentally just threw my pencil while I'm talking to you,

1182
01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:56.439
was pointing directly at Jose. So the cell phone of

1183
01:08:56.520 --> 01:08:59.319
Jose became really interesting to me as well here, So

1184
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.800
let's talk for second. All of the data was extracted

1185
01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:05.680
and analyzed from his cell phone. And what if I

1186
01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:11.119
told you that vanity and a grandiose opinion of oneself

1187
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:15.800
really came in to play here. He actually did law

1188
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:19.640
enforcement a favor because of his narcissism and love of himself.

1189
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:24.039
The morning of the murder of Lake and Riley, Jose

1190
01:09:24.279 --> 01:09:29.840
was up taking selfies being hot, being a hot daddy.

1191
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:34.279
He posted these pictures to Snapchat and some other some

1192
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:38.560
other applications. At four thirty AM, he posts one of

1193
01:09:38.560 --> 01:09:41.720
the pictures and guess what he's wearing, That black Adidas

1194
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:44.760
hat that the suspect was wearing. And by the way,

1195
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:46.760
you know it's the same hat too, because the suspect

1196
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:49.399
had a blue sticker on the top of the black hat.

1197
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:53.720
So does Jose and his super fine mmm lips poutin picture,

1198
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:57.399
he's like looking down, he's got his air pods in

1199
01:09:57.439 --> 01:09:59.079
and you only see his nose in his mouth and

1200
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:03.760
his beard like this this amateur attempt at a cool photo.

1201
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:10.359
Totally cool guy. The second picture, because you know one

1202
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:13.680
just wasn't enough of yourself. The second selfie he took

1203
01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.640
was posted at five point thirty seven am. And now

1204
01:10:16.680 --> 01:10:20.600
in that photo he's added some clothing. He has on

1205
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:24.039
a black jacket with a black hoodie pulled up over

1206
01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.800
a black Adida's hat, and it amazingly is identical to

1207
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:31.880
the killer and the peeping tom right down to the

1208
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:38.119
facial hair. Wow, it's like comical if it wasn't tragic.

1209
01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:42.199
A third picture was posted too, because you know, guys,

1210
01:10:42.199 --> 01:10:44.000
you just can't have enough pictures of yourself if you

1211
01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:49.199
think you're that fine. And the third photo, he's got

1212
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:53.119
the same bag, the one that was confiscated from Diego

1213
01:10:53.560 --> 01:10:56.239
and was the one that the killer wore. He's got

1214
01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:59.279
that in the photo too. He was so into his

1215
01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:02.800
own looks, but he literally made a digital footprint in

1216
01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:06.479
the very clothing and then locked in time frames for police.

1217
01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:12.199
So I applaud you, sir, well done, Well done, Jesus.

1218
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:15.680
So if you look at an aerial view of the

1219
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:20.640
scene too, everything that happened from where Laken was attacked

1220
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:24.239
and killed to where Jose's apartment is to where the

1221
01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:27.720
dumpster is, all of that is within about five hundred

1222
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:33.800
yards circumference, I mean. And what's interesting is that Jose's

1223
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:38.279
cell phone was tracking his whereabouts that morning. So the

1224
01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:41.319
case came together really nicely. And here I'm going to

1225
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:42.439
wrap it up for you and put it in a

1226
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:45.800
pretty bow. On Thursday, February twenty second, at six fifty

1227
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:49.000
two am. That mail in those dark slides, that jacket.

1228
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:54.039
He's also carrying a white cup that police had found

1229
01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:56.319
at the crime scene, which I thought was pretty interesting.

1230
01:11:56.520 --> 01:11:59.399
He's carrying this white styrofoam cup and he's drinking out

1231
01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:02.319
of it. As he's walking towards the Millage Bridge extension,

1232
01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:05.720
he passes through a bus stop area, which was on

1233
01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:08.159
camera because a lot of students like to take you

1234
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:11.319
that bus stop to take a ride to school. He

1235
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:13.960
passes through there and then he keeps walking and you

1236
01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:16.079
can track him on camera going to that apartment one

1237
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:20.199
fourteen building s that lower level where he slowly and

1238
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:24.800
quietly creeps open the screen door and then starts wiggling

1239
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.279
the doorknob trying to open it. He can't get it open,

1240
01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:30.520
and he quietly closes it back and he walks off.

1241
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:33.880
But something they didn't know was that between seven oh

1242
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:37.000
one and seven fifty seven am, which was about seventy

1243
01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:41.520
minutes before Lakean is going to be murdered, jose Ibarra

1244
01:12:42.119 --> 01:12:45.600
went back to that apartment of that woman he was

1245
01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:51.399
trying to break into six different times. He was he

1246
01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:53.439
was going to get into that apartment, and he's on

1247
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.000
camera trying to open the door twice. She heard him

1248
01:12:57.039 --> 01:13:00.159
both times she was right. And they have this thing

1249
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:02.720
they collect called Reuben data that they can collect from

1250
01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:06.880
a Samsung phone, and the FBI analyzed that data and

1251
01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:10.199
at the time of the peeping tom incident. His cell phone,

1252
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:12.720
Jose's cell phone. You wouldn't believe this. It's right there

1253
01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:16.279
at that apartment. Just he should have taken a selfie

1254
01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:20.479
then while he was picking the damn lock. So, during

1255
01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:23.159
the initial investigation of the crime scene, like I told you,

1256
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:25.960
police did find a white styrofoam cup on the trail

1257
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:28.800
as they were responding to Laken's scene. And it caught

1258
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:32.119
police officers attention for no other reason other than the

1259
01:13:32.479 --> 01:13:35.920
trail was typically very clean and nice and neat, and

1260
01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:39.880
the cup was just discarded on that trail. And that

1261
01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:44.800
cup was found between the apartment of the Indian student

1262
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.920
and Lacan's body. So, and a student officer had collected

1263
01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:51.000
that and he opened it and he smelled it and

1264
01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:54.199
there was alcohol inside, and it just seemed so out

1265
01:13:54.199 --> 01:13:57.399
of place that on a gut instinct, he bagged it

1266
01:13:57.439 --> 01:13:59.520
and he sent it into evidence. And guess what they

1267
01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:03.439
tested straw for DNA And guess whose DNA was on

1268
01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:08.159
that straw? Jose, what are the chances he was out

1269
01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:10.960
drinking that morning as he attempted to break into an

1270
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.560
apartment and then he went on a running trail hunting

1271
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:18.159
for a woman to victimize. He tossed that cup as

1272
01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:20.479
he walked the path, and that's when he came up

1273
01:14:20.760 --> 01:14:22.960
on Lake and Riley, and he decided he was going

1274
01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:26.279
to take her for his own. And she knew she

1275
01:14:26.439 --> 01:14:29.359
was in danger from the get go. Her gut told

1276
01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:32.279
her that she enacted that SOS function on her phone.

1277
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:37.319
Both Jose and Laken's digital profiles show that their cell

1278
01:14:37.359 --> 01:14:42.159
phone data overlaps at the time of her murder. Jose

1279
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:46.279
grabbed her. He pulled her sixty four feet eleven inches

1280
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:48.960
off of the trail to isolate her from anyone else

1281
01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:53.119
seeing her, and she fought the entire time. While he's

1282
01:14:53.119 --> 01:14:56.720
pulling her, he snatches her phone, and you hear him say, yo, tango,

1283
01:14:57.000 --> 01:14:59.479
I have it. I have it, meaning you no longer

1284
01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:01.760
have it. I took it from you. He took that

1285
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.119
cell phone, and Lacan thought and she scratched, and she

1286
01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:08.079
ripped at his clothing, and she clawed, and she did

1287
01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:11.279
anything and everything she could to get away from him.

1288
01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:14.159
During that struggle, her hair was ripped from her head

1289
01:15:14.359 --> 01:15:17.640
and she swung her fists wildly. She dug her feet

1290
01:15:17.640 --> 01:15:20.279
into the soil as he dragged her, and she fought

1291
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:24.479
for seventeen minutes until he was realizing that he was

1292
01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:27.560
getting his ass handed to him, and he picked up

1293
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:30.880
a rock and he bashed her brains in. He then

1294
01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:34.840
strangled her in whatever fashion you choose to believe, busting

1295
01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:37.640
those blood vessels in her eyes. She even had busted

1296
01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:40.159
blood vessels in her mouth. He used all of that

1297
01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:43.039
pressure to take the air away from her and to

1298
01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:51.239
silence her forever. And then Lacan's heart stopped and he quit.

1299
01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:57.319
He was done trying two worked over by Lacan. He

1300
01:15:57.319 --> 01:16:00.159
didn't get what he wanted. It wasn't fun anymore when

1301
01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:03.840
you have to fight somebody, and he just dropped her

1302
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:09.840
there and walked away from her body, went home, dumped

1303
01:16:09.880 --> 01:16:13.720
his jacket and his gloves, then walked into his apartment,

1304
01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:16.920
changed his clothes, dumped the rest of his clothing into

1305
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:19.600
the dumpster that was emptied before the police knew who

1306
01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:23.319
he was, and then he returned back to his apartment,

1307
01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:26.039
where he took off that hat he had been wearing,

1308
01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:29.840
which by the way, was his brother Diego's, took some selfies,

1309
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:35.159
and then he went to sleep. Jose Ybara was arrested

1310
01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:38.439
and charged with Lacan Riley's murder, and I want to

1311
01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:42.039
tell y'all something. During Jose's interrogation, I shit you not,

1312
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.199
he was smiling and laughing, as if this was just

1313
01:16:45.239 --> 01:16:51.680
another day. He murdered Lake and Riley without a doubt

1314
01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:58.680
and couldn't have cared less. But why why is what

1315
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:01.079
most people want to know. And while there was no

1316
01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:04.000
seamen found, I want you to know in my heart,

1317
01:17:04.359 --> 01:17:08.039
I do believe that rape was the ultimate goal of

1318
01:17:08.079 --> 01:17:14.439
this attack. Why else would you be doing this? Her clothes,

1319
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:20.359
by the way, were removed in two different directions. Tight

1320
01:17:20.479 --> 01:17:25.560
running tights, tight clothing designed to not move during athletics.

1321
01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:31.079
Three layers were moved. Why would tights be down and

1322
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:35.159
her underwear torn, and then her brawl, her shirt and

1323
01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:40.199
her jacket be rolled up and twisted above her breasts.

1324
01:17:40.439 --> 01:17:44.279
This is not accidental. This isn't an accidental situation from dragging.

1325
01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:48.319
Clothing doesn't shift in two different directions when you're being

1326
01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:51.199
dragged sixty four feet in one direction, and certainly not

1327
01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:54.359
every single layer when you're fighting. It wasn't dead weight

1328
01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:59.359
rolling her clothing. Laken refused to be a rape victim.

1329
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:01.800
Fought but for her life, and she was fighting for

1330
01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:05.039
her dignity, and she would rather die than give into

1331
01:18:05.039 --> 01:18:08.359
his demands, and that's exactly what she did. She stood

1332
01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:11.079
on business and she was not giving in to him.

1333
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:14.079
She thought she gave it her all, but her five

1334
01:18:14.159 --> 01:18:17.159
foot four inch one hundred and forty pound body was

1335
01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:20.760
just no match for Jose Ibarra. He bashed her head

1336
01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:23.239
in with those rocks, and once he killed her, he

1337
01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:25.960
had no use for her any longer. It wasn't fun

1338
01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.000
anymore for him. He wanted her alive, and he wanted

1339
01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:32.000
her scared while he hopefully would be able to defile

1340
01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:35.840
her and it would all be against her will. But

1341
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:39.479
he never got that pleasure. Lake and Riley scrapped with

1342
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:42.960
Jose so fiercely that he had to use a primitive

1343
01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:49.600
tool to silence her. Now, this is probably where you

1344
01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:54.199
expect me to end this episode, but you're wrong, because

1345
01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:55.720
I want you to know a little bit more about

1346
01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:58.680
this killer, not to give him any attention at all,

1347
01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:01.079
but for the fact that at what I'm i about

1348
01:19:01.119 --> 01:19:05.199
to tell you affects us all. It doesn't matter your race,

1349
01:19:05.520 --> 01:19:09.880
your creed, your sexual orientation, your politics, or your religion,

1350
01:19:10.560 --> 01:19:12.319
None of that matters. And what I'm about to tell

1351
01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:17.600
you this is about us, Me and you. Jose at

1352
01:19:17.640 --> 01:19:24.680
Bara wasn't supposed to even be here. He was here illegally,

1353
01:19:25.279 --> 01:19:27.239
and do not get it twisted. I want you to

1354
01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:30.560
know right now, this is not political in any way.

1355
01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:32.960
What I'm telling you. I don't need to use my

1356
01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:35.680
platform in that manner, nor do you want to hear it.

1357
01:19:35.720 --> 01:19:38.600
No one cares about someone else's politics. Please understand me,

1358
01:19:38.800 --> 01:19:41.399
this is not political what I'm telling you. You're smart

1359
01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:43.760
enough to make your own decisions on what is acceptable

1360
01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:47.520
and what isn't. However, I do wish to educate and

1361
01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:52.319
inform you in a strictly factual way in hopes that

1362
01:19:52.520 --> 01:19:56.560
maybe you will understand why it matters so much that

1363
01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:01.640
he was here illegally. There are people who need to

1364
01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:05.479
escape the horrors of countries that are falling apart, no doubt,

1365
01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:10.239
and my heart is absolutely with those people, good people

1366
01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:12.600
who just want a fair shot at life. And my

1367
01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:19.680
heart lay with those people. However, there is a dark

1368
01:20:19.800 --> 01:20:26.279
side of that, in the fact that criminals love to

1369
01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:30.720
blend in with good people. It doesn't matter where they

1370
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:33.840
are or who they are. Criminals love to blend in

1371
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:38.199
with good people, and jose Abara is a text bookcase

1372
01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:40.199
of this. So let me give you a little history,

1373
01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:42.439
and I come with receipts if you want to question it.

1374
01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:47.680
In the last five years, there has been a loophole

1375
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:52.039
in our laws that was found and is being abused

1376
01:20:52.560 --> 01:20:59.479
at an exorbitant rate. A spokesperson for ICE confirmed that

1377
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:04.640
US Customs and Border Protection had previously arrested Jose in

1378
01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:08.159
September of twenty twenty two when he illegally crossed over

1379
01:21:08.279 --> 01:21:13.600
the Mexican border neur El Paso, and he entered the US.

1380
01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:20.600
After his arrest, he was quote paroled and released for

1381
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:24.119
further processing. Now listen this, I want to explain it.

1382
01:21:24.840 --> 01:21:28.000
This parole in this instance isn't what you think. It's

1383
01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:30.800
not because he was a criminal. In this regard. Paroled

1384
01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.359
here means that he was basically released early in our

1385
01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:39.319
country until the courts could process and deal with his

1386
01:21:39.479 --> 01:21:43.000
illegal entry. So the obvious next question people have is,

1387
01:21:43.039 --> 01:21:45.720
but why would they release him in our country rather

1388
01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:48.600
than send him back out of our country? If that's

1389
01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:52.079
the issue. And this is where education in terms of

1390
01:21:52.159 --> 01:21:55.560
crime matters. This is where the thinkers have got to

1391
01:21:55.600 --> 01:22:00.600
put on their thinking cap. Jose Yabara is a Venezuelan national,

1392
01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:04.760
not Mexican. The reason I am telling you this is

1393
01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:08.560
because Venezuela is considered to be in political unrest and

1394
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:14.399
they're currently sanctioned by the US, meaning that it's recognized

1395
01:22:14.680 --> 01:22:19.159
that that country is problematic to its citizens. And it's true,

1396
01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:23.119
there's good people trying to escape a horrible situation. Now,

1397
01:22:24.199 --> 01:22:28.199
if Jose and others like him were to knock on

1398
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:32.039
the port of entry without making entry yet, okay, if

1399
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:34.359
they went in and not so to speak, and said, hey,

1400
01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:37.000
please let us in. We are trying to escape a

1401
01:22:37.039 --> 01:22:41.800
bad situation, the police would then detain them and keep

1402
01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:45.640
them for processing, which would take a long time. But

1403
01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:53.359
if Venezuelan citizens enter the US illegally, all they have

1404
01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:57.439
to do is claim that they are seeking asylum because

1405
01:22:57.439 --> 01:23:00.680
they are being persecuted basically by the venezuel And government.

1406
01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:06.199
This would officially make them a siles that are seeking refuge,

1407
01:23:06.439 --> 01:23:11.840
which changes the process dramatically. So basically, if they cross

1408
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:17.560
illegally rather than come legal way, once they're inside of

1409
01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:20.600
the US, they're going to be considered assiles, and the

1410
01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:24.520
US then doesn't turn them away. We also don't detain

1411
01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:26.720
them like they would if they tried to come in

1412
01:23:26.760 --> 01:23:29.680
the other way because of their declared status. So what

1413
01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.439
typically happens is this, and if you want to come

1414
01:23:32.479 --> 01:23:36.000
at me, you can come at me. But people that

1415
01:23:36.119 --> 01:23:38.479
know what I'm talking about know what I'm talking about.

1416
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:41.000
And I have friends that are from Venezuela. I have

1417
01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:44.439
Mexican friends, and all of them, if they're worth their salt,

1418
01:23:44.520 --> 01:23:46.960
will validate and verify what I am telling you. So

1419
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:48.399
if you want to come at me, that's fine, but

1420
01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:50.119
I'm going to stand on business about what I'm going

1421
01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:54.439
to say. What typically happens is that Mexicans and Venezuelans

1422
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:59.199
will cross together in groups. Mexico currently is not sanctioned

1423
01:23:59.279 --> 01:24:02.279
by the US, so that means that Mexicans have to

1424
01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:04.680
run because they won't be able to get this status.

1425
01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:07.359
So what they do is they come across together, they

1426
01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:09.439
kind of like shake hands and say, you know, good

1427
01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:13.760
luck to you. The Mexicans get time to run so

1428
01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:18.880
that they can get away, and then the Venezuelans, okay,

1429
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:21.039
they're going to have a phone with them that doesn't

1430
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:23.000
have a SIM card, but it still can dial nine

1431
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:25.840
one to one, and once they cross the border, the

1432
01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:30.439
Venezuelans can then dial nine to one one and say help,

1433
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:36.119
I'm an assile from Venezuela. Border Patrol literally goes and

1434
01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:41.000
picks them up. They pick them up and then they

1435
01:24:41.159 --> 01:24:47.800
cut them loose into the US. Pending their application status.

1436
01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:51.720
They become a protected person. There is no background info,

1437
01:24:51.800 --> 01:24:56.520
there's no criminal check, there's no nothing knowing this, okay,

1438
01:24:56.520 --> 01:24:57.920
And it was important for me to tell you this

1439
01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:01.520
because of the next thing I'm about to tell you about.

1440
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:05.720
Jose came in illegally in twenty twenty two. He got

1441
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:08.720
a little bit comfortable once he was here. And in

1442
01:25:08.800 --> 01:25:12.800
August of twenty twenty three, jose Yabarrow was arrested by

1443
01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:16.920
New York police and he was charged with acting in

1444
01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:21.159
a manner to injure a child less than seventeen, as

1445
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:26.880
well as motor vehicle license violation. But he was released

1446
01:25:27.319 --> 01:25:31.479
by police before Border Patrol could issue a detainer to

1447
01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:34.039
hold him. And there's a reason I'm telling you this.

1448
01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:37.319
It's not by chance that jose Ybarro was in New

1449
01:25:37.399 --> 01:25:41.680
York City, y'all. Hear me out. New York constantly boasts

1450
01:25:41.840 --> 01:25:45.239
free housing, free food, et cetera. Until assiles can get

1451
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:50.159
on their feet. It's a common place in New York

1452
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:54.880
for illegals to get all of the help. Of course,

1453
01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:59.359
he went there. He's gonna get housing and food and

1454
01:25:59.399 --> 01:26:03.000
all sorts of assistance. There's also something else that's going

1455
01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:05.840
on in New York and where crime breeds more crime.

1456
01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:07.560
I'm gonna shine a light on it, and if you

1457
01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:10.520
want to hear it, here you go. There is a

1458
01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:13.159
breeding round of illegal activity in places like New York,

1459
01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:17.119
and they're called rent accounts. Basically, what happens is someone

1460
01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:21.960
is who's here legally gets an account at a business.

1461
01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:24.520
I'm gonna say Uber, but I would like to disclaimer.

1462
01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:26.520
I'm not saying Uber does this. I am not saying

1463
01:26:26.520 --> 01:26:28.560
that Uber is involved in this in any way, shape

1464
01:26:28.640 --> 01:26:33.199
or form. This is just an example allegedly for educational purposes,

1465
01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:39.039
but it is absolutely not true. How's that, Okay? Legal

1466
01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:42.760
people could get an account, for example, like an Uber account,

1467
01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:49.520
and people who are in the US can that are

1468
01:26:49.560 --> 01:26:52.880
awaiting their status okay, that are here or are here illegally,

1469
01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:56.720
can then rent those legal accounts with these with these

1470
01:26:56.760 --> 01:26:59.760
companies and so they can work basically under a legal

1471
01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:03.039
persons account to make money. The money then goes into

1472
01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:06.239
the illegal person's bank account. The legal person takes their

1473
01:27:06.279 --> 01:27:08.079
cut and then they give the rest of the money

1474
01:27:08.199 --> 01:27:10.960
to the illegal. That way, if you're here illegally, you

1475
01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:13.159
can keep all of the benefits that are being given

1476
01:27:13.159 --> 01:27:16.720
to you from your assili status, but you can still

1477
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:20.279
make extra money that's not reported to the government. Think

1478
01:27:20.279 --> 01:27:22.439
about it. Even people who are not here as assilis

1479
01:27:22.520 --> 01:27:25.920
can do this. The illegals can rent the accounts and

1480
01:27:25.960 --> 01:27:27.960
this is truth. If you don't like it, I can't

1481
01:27:27.960 --> 01:27:29.520
help you, but I want you to be aware of

1482
01:27:29.560 --> 01:27:33.119
why criminal activity must be stopped because it breeds more

1483
01:27:33.119 --> 01:27:36.479
criminal activity. So Jose was in New York, like I mentioned,

1484
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:39.880
and he left New York. Why because he doesn't want

1485
01:27:39.880 --> 01:27:45.439
to pay for his crime. There's no extradition from New York.

1486
01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:49.520
At other states do this too. There's no extradition except

1487
01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:54.000
sometimes with their with neighboring states. So it's very common

1488
01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:56.279
for illegal people if they get in trouble, then they

1489
01:27:56.279 --> 01:27:59.880
can jump over to states and then there's no extra

1490
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:02.039
So if they get in trouble there, they won't be

1491
01:28:02.079 --> 01:28:05.039
sent back to where they were and they can basically

1492
01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:08.399
start what I like to call the ID game. Okay,

1493
01:28:08.399 --> 01:28:11.720
they start this new ID game. They give fake names

1494
01:28:11.720 --> 01:28:13.840
to the police. Let's say they get pulled over, they

1495
01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:16.880
give a fake name to the police, They're probably gonna

1496
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:20.640
get summoned instead of arrested. Why because they're gonna say, oh,

1497
01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:23.720
I don't have an ID, or they're gonna give you know,

1498
01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:27.079
fake info. It could be a real name. But because

1499
01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:31.880
they're not documented citizens, whenever you go to run their ID,

1500
01:28:32.159 --> 01:28:34.600
you're not gonna find anything. Why because they're not in

1501
01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:37.079
the database. So they get let go with a ticket

1502
01:28:37.239 --> 01:28:40.600
written to a fake name. Because it's so frickin' normal now,

1503
01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:44.279
it's not being there's no accountability here. I can't get

1504
01:28:44.319 --> 01:28:47.239
away with that as an American citizen. Why can people

1505
01:28:47.319 --> 01:28:51.439
who are not? Why can they get away with it? Okay,

1506
01:28:52.000 --> 01:28:54.800
So Jose gets in trouble in New York, he leaves,

1507
01:28:54.840 --> 01:28:57.520
he goes to Georgia, where he and his brother were.

1508
01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:01.800
Then you know they're here illegally. They were issued citations

1509
01:29:01.800 --> 01:29:05.840
for shoplifting from a Walmart in Athens, Georgia. So they're

1510
01:29:05.840 --> 01:29:09.239
still committing crimes now in other states. Of course, Ibarra

1511
01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:11.479
never showed up in court for it. Why would he?

1512
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:14.520
I mean, what you're gonna do me? You wanna come

1513
01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:19.039
find me? No, they're not. And so, for example, my

1514
01:29:19.079 --> 01:29:23.880
Louisiana people, here's another little insight for you. We have

1515
01:29:24.119 --> 01:29:27.560
these insurance laws in Louisiana where you must have insurance

1516
01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:32.600
to drive a vehicle on the road. Well, illegals cannot

1517
01:29:32.680 --> 01:29:36.399
get a license plate in Louisiana. Why because we require

1518
01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:38.439
that they have a form of ID. So what do

1519
01:29:38.520 --> 01:29:41.039
they do. They go to Texas or they go to

1520
01:29:41.039 --> 01:29:44.359
Mississippi to get a license plate because those states don't

1521
01:29:44.399 --> 01:29:49.199
require an ID. Then they come back to Louisiana. We

1522
01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.520
can give a ticket in Louisiana, but we can't toe

1523
01:29:52.560 --> 01:29:57.399
the vehicle because Texas and Mississippi laws don't have that

1524
01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.439
requirement for the insurance. They're playing us again against our

1525
01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:03.840
own laws. You know what I'm saying. They're just playing

1526
01:30:03.880 --> 01:30:07.239
us against our own laws. So if you think that

1527
01:30:07.319 --> 01:30:09.600
this case doesn't affect you personally, let me give you

1528
01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:11.840
a brief little story here as well. A friend of

1529
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:16.000
mine pulled a guy over who claimed that he didn't

1530
01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:19.159
have an ID and blah blah blah blah blah. And

1531
01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:21.079
so my friend was just gonna give him a ticket.

1532
01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:23.720
But then, just on a hunch, just a mere hunch,

1533
01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:25.600
he said no, we're going to go to jail. He

1534
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:27.680
went above and beyond and he took this guy who

1535
01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:30.199
could not give an ID, and he brought him to jail.

1536
01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:33.720
And we have what's called a rapid aphist machine or

1537
01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:36.760
a rapid id fingerprinting machine. And do you know that

1538
01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:39.439
when they fingerprinted that son of a gun? He was

1539
01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:43.079
wanted for murder. But because people are so quick to

1540
01:30:43.159 --> 01:30:46.800
just issue citations, this doesn't usually happen. But he was

1541
01:30:46.840 --> 01:30:49.000
wanted for murder, and thank god he was found. Our

1542
01:30:49.119 --> 01:30:53.039
SR team went, SRT team went and took him back

1543
01:30:53.039 --> 01:30:55.520
into custody after his family had just bailed him out

1544
01:30:55.560 --> 01:31:01.800
a little while prior. I mean, it's insanity. My point

1545
01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:04.399
here is just to get your wheels turning and hope

1546
01:31:04.399 --> 01:31:09.119
that you'll understand that undocumented criminals are ghosts with no accountability,

1547
01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:12.640
and we the people better understand the risk if we're

1548
01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:17.840
gonna allow it to keep happening. So on Friday, February

1549
01:31:17.880 --> 01:31:22.039
twenty third, just one day after Laken's murder, Jose Ibarro

1550
01:31:22.239 --> 01:31:27.199
was arrested and charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated

1551
01:31:27.239 --> 01:31:32.039
assault with intent to rape, aggravated battery, kidnapping, and interfering

1552
01:31:32.079 --> 01:31:34.039
with a nine one one call, and you know, he

1553
01:31:34.119 --> 01:31:38.800
pled not guilty. He then decided to waive a jury trial.

1554
01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.239
And this is cute. The reason he waved his jury

1555
01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:43.560
trial and wanted to just have a judge listen to

1556
01:31:43.600 --> 01:31:49.920
his case is because, you know, to eliminate the biases

1557
01:31:50.039 --> 01:31:54.680
against him, the biases against you. You've been breaking laws

1558
01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:57.520
from the minute you'd cross the border. You broke a

1559
01:31:57.600 --> 01:31:59.640
law crossing the border, and then you want to come

1560
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:04.279
kill you US citizens. Absolutely not. So he pled not guilty.

1561
01:32:05.239 --> 01:32:07.319
But when it was all said and done, Jose Abarr

1562
01:32:07.359 --> 01:32:09.399
was found guilty of the murder of Lake and Riley,

1563
01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:12.600
and he was sentenced to life in prison without the

1564
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:16.520
possibility of parole. So now while Laken no longer lives,

1565
01:32:16.960 --> 01:32:19.359
we the taxpayers, are burdened with the cost of his

1566
01:32:19.439 --> 01:32:22.279
housing and his food and his medical care for the

1567
01:32:22.319 --> 01:32:24.800
rest of his life when he wasn't even supposed to

1568
01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:28.560
be here. The US did not win here. Lake and

1569
01:32:28.640 --> 01:32:33.119
Riley did not win here. What I'll say in closing

1570
01:32:33.199 --> 01:32:36.520
is this, I do believe that light attracts light, and

1571
01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:41.880
Laken with her roommates, proved this. They're good people, and

1572
01:32:41.960 --> 01:32:45.920
good people attract good people. Laken never got to see

1573
01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:50.399
graduation day and she never will, but her friends did

1574
01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:53.840
and they remembered her as she walked across the stage.

1575
01:32:54.520 --> 01:32:58.079
Connolly graduated with a degree in psychology and she's continuing

1576
01:32:58.079 --> 01:33:01.239
her education to obtain a mass in mental health counseling.

1577
01:33:02.239 --> 01:33:05.520
Sophia graduated and she now works as a special education

1578
01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:09.680
teacher in a high school language arts program. And Lily

1579
01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:13.079
graduated and is now working as a medical assistant in

1580
01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:18.920
the medical field. Laken is but a memory now, and

1581
01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:24.920
her fight to survive should be her legacy. She didn't

1582
01:33:24.920 --> 01:33:29.720
give in. She was brave, and she died protecting her dignity.

1583
01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:33.720
Lacan is a testament that dynamite comes in small packages,

1584
01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:38.439
and she blew up Jose's evil plan, wearing his ass

1585
01:33:38.479 --> 01:33:43.279
out and ruining his chances of any gratification. Laken, to me,

1586
01:33:43.640 --> 01:33:47.319
is the epitome of a female warrior. She wasn't immune

1587
01:33:47.359 --> 01:33:49.960
to fear, make no mistake, She felt it when she

1588
01:33:50.000 --> 01:33:52.600
looked into Jose's eyes. But then she made a decision

1589
01:33:52.600 --> 01:33:55.640
to dig in and to fight, not against the fear

1590
01:33:55.760 --> 01:34:04.039
that he instilled in her, but in spite of it.