Solving the Barbara Carr - Cold Case Investigation

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So I want you to picture this. It is November seventh,
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nineteen eighty six. Okay, You're just sitting in your living
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room in Garland, Texas. It's a Friday night. It's quiet,
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right end of the week exactly. It's this very safe,
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deeply predictable suburb. You're probably watching TV, just winding down,
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and then suddenly there's this frantic, violent pounding on your
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front door. Oh wow, yeah, you open it, and standing
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right there on your porch is your neighbor. And he
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is absolutely covered in blood.
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That is horrifying.
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It is his arms are tied securely behind his back,
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and he's just breathless, visibly terrified, screaming that a violent
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home invasion just took place right next door.
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Right.
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He tells you that two men broke in, grabbed his wife,
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dragged her into one room, dragged him into another, tied
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him up, and sectually assaulted him. He says he only
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managed to escape when the house finally went dead silent.
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I mean, that is a genuinely cinematic level of chaos.
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It's the kind of opening scene that immediately triggers a assive,
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panicked police response, absolutely, because it hits on every single
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primal fear we have, you know, about the sanctity of
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our own homes. The idea that violence can just kick
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down your door in a quiet Friday night is terrifying.
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And that, right there is the mission of our deep dive. Today.
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We are unpacking a thirty seven year old cold case
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that defied logic from the very first minute police stepped
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onto that property.
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It really did.
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We're going to explore how the relentless, almost intimidating evolution
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of forensic science, I mean, moving from basic nineteen eighties
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blood typing all the way to modern familial DNA mapping
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eventually unraveled this staggering web of deceit. Right, So, if
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you think you know how a typical crime scene investigation
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plays out, or you know how evidence is collected and analyzed,
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you are going to want to hear.
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This because in this particular case, every assumption you might
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make based on that initial nine to one one call,
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and frankly every assumption the original detectives made, is about
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to be turned completely upside down.
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Yeah. I think in this case like a massive jigsaw puzzle.
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Like when the police arrived that night in nineteen eighty six,
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they actually had all the pieces right there in front of.
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Them, right on the floor literally.
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But the problem was the picture on the box they
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were using as a guide was completely faked. Somebody drew
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a totally different picture just to throw them off. So
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to understand how that happened, we really need to look
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at where this took place and who was involved. Let's
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start with Garland, Texas in the mid nineteen eighties.
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Yeah, context here is everything, especially when we talk about
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the psychological impact of a crime on a community. Garland
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in the mid eighties was a classic bedroom community, like
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a commuter town exactly. It's a suburb just northeast to Dallas.
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The people who lived there were hard working, family oriented
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folks who generally commuted into the city for work. He
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was known for being vibrant, and most importantly for our story,
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incredibly safe. Violent crime was an anomaly. People actually knew
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their neighbors.
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So a bloody home invasion completely shatters that suburban illusion
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of safety.
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It shatters it completely.
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And at the center of this shattered illusion is our victim.
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Her name was Barbara Carr. She was twenty seven years old,
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and the source material paints a very very vivid picture
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of who she was.
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It does. Barbara is remembered by her family and friends
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as profoundly sweet, quiet and kind. She was the youngest
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of four siblings, right, and she grew up in the country,
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living right across the road from her grandparents, so she
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was deeply, deeply rooted in her family.
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Yeah, there's this really touching detail from her niece that
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stood out to me. Her niece remembered Barbara making her
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a flower girl at her wedding.
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Oh that's sweet.
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Yeah, And the niece was ecstatic because she was always
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the youngest of the cousins, you know, always the one
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left out of the big games. But Barbara went out
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of her way to make sure she felt incredibly special
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on this big day.
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That says a lot about our character, it really does.
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And she was also highly intelligent. She was fluent in
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Spanish after taking years of courses, and she was the
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primary red winner of her household.
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And that financial dynamic that is a massive component when
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we look at her marriage. Right, Barbara was married to
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a man named Domingo vill leroal though everyone in their
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circle just called him by his nickname Jesse Jesse. Yeah,
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and his background was a stark contrast to Barbara's middle class,
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very secure suburban upbringing. How so well, he came from Mexico,
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specifically from a situation of extreme grinding poverty. He was
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one of fifteen siblings.
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Wow, fifteen Yeah.
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And they grew up in a tiny, dirt floor shack.
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Okay, So you have this intersection of two very different worlds,
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two totally different life experiences, and the dynamic inside their
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home was deeply troubled, very trouble because Barbara was the
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one going to work every day and making the money
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and paying all the bills. Meanwhile, Domingo and a brother
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of his who Domingo had just moved into the house,
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were basically sitting around all day.
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Right.
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The sources actually explicitly described it as Barbara funding their
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quote lifelong vacation, which is.
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It's just a recipue of disaster. We immediately start seeing
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the classic red flags of domestic volatility. Here. You have
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a severe financial imbalance, which very often breeds resentment on
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both sides. You have the added stress of an extended
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family member moving in seemingly without enthusiastic mutual consent.
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Right, just kind of forced on her exactly.
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And most alarming, neighbors and friends reported witnessing violent, volatile arguments.
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Barbara had actually confided in a former neighbor that she
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was terrified of Domingo.
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Terrified.
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Yes, she actually believed he might kill her.
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See wait, help me understand this part, because the sources
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note that she was so terrified of him that she
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actually took his gun and hid it. Right, she hid
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the gun, but then shortly before the murder she returned
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it to him.
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She did.
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And if you are genuinely scared for your life, handing
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the weapon back to the person you are terrified of
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makes absolutely zero sense to me, Like, why would she
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do that?
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It seems completely counterintuitive from the outside, I know, But
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if we look at the psychology of domestic abuse, it's
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actually a recognized, albeit tragic pattern.
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Really giving the gun back as a pattern.
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Yes, in highly volatile situations, the power dynamic is constantly
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shifting and the victim is in a state of hypervigilance.
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Sometimes returning a weapon or capitulating to a demand is
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purely a survival tactic. Oh, I see, It's a desperate
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attempt to de escalate immediate boiling tension. The victim might think,
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you know, if I keep his gun, he's going to
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stay furious.
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Right, he's going to obsess over it exactly.
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He's going to escalate, and he's hyper fixated on me.
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But if I give it back, maybe you will calm
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him down and buy me a few days of peace.
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It's crisis management in an environment where the victim feels
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totally trapped.
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So it's less about giving him a weapon and more
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about just trying to diffuse a ticking time bomb using
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literally whatever leverage you have left.
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Tragically, Yes, it's a deeply stressful environment that perfectly sets
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the stage for the explosive violence that would follow on
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the night of November seventh.
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Okay, so let's bring this back to that frantic neighbor
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dialing nine one one and the police rushing into the
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Villareal home. Right, Domingo has told the responding officers this
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incredibly detailed story. He says he and Barbara had actually
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met at a restaurant earlier that evening to try and
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reconcile their issues.
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Right, trying to work things out.
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Yeah, and they drove home in separate cars. Domingo claims
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he arrived home, heard the dogs barking aggressively, went to
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the back door, and was suddenly ambushed by a white
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male and a black mail. Okay, he says they tied
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him up, sexually assaulted him, took Barbara to another room,
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and he only fled to the neighbor's house after the
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intruders left.
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But here's the thing. When detectives stepped through that front door,
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the physical reality of the crime scene completely dismantles Domingo's narrative.
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Within minutes, I mean instantly, they find Barbara dead near
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the front door, not in another room where she was
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supposedly dragged. Right, she has severe defensive wounds on her
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hands and arms, showing she fought back incredibly hard against
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her attacker.
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She fought for her life.
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She did, and the trauma is devastating, multiple stab wounds
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to the head, the neck, the heart, and crucially, when
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the medical examiner takes over, they find absolutely zero evidence
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of sexual assault on Barbara or on Domingo.
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None at all. The physical evidence begins telling the true story.
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Blood is everywhere, pooling into the carpet where Barbara fell,
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but investigators also find a very distinct, separate trail of
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blood leading away from the body, away from the p yes,
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moving through the house and out onto a back patio.
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This is clearly the killer's exit point, and because the
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blood drops are active and continuous, it means the killer
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was bleeding heavily.
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And logically, with the stabbing that frenzied and brutal, the
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killer almost always slips on the blood right exactly, the
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handle gets slick, their hands slides down the blade and
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they cut themselves they do.
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In fact, investigators found the murder weapon left behind at
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the scene. It was a long kitchen knife, completely saturated
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in blood. But what really stood out to the crime
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scene technicians was that the blade of the knife was
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severely bent.
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Wow. If a thick kitchen knife bends on bone, the
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amount of physical force and adrenaline behind those thrusts must
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have been massive.
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That is, it indicates a crime of immense passion and rage.
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But this is where the scene gets incredibly strange. The
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killer left a bizarre collection of items behind. There is
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a pair of bloody jeens, there's a shoe box which
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has blood on it, containing a pair of bloody shoes,
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and most importantly, there's a bloody glove with a very
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severe distinct cut mark. It's like straight across the palm.
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I found this detail so strange because it feels entirely
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staged to me, like someone is trying way too hard
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to create a false narrative of a chaotic home invasion,
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but they are doing a terrible job of it. I mean,
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who brings a shoebox containing a change of shoes to
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a murder, changes clothes, and then just leaves the bloody
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evidence sitting right there in the house. It's like a
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badly written movie screen.
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It does seem like that, but it actually reveals a
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fascinating look into the cognitive overload that happens during a
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violent crime. Oh really, Yeah, bringing a change of clothes
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and shoes in a box implies premeditation, Right, the offender
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planned to commit the murder, change out of their bloody garments,
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and walk away looking completely normal. That makes sense, But
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a brutal close quarter's knife attack is exhausting and chaotic.
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The offender's brain becomes absolutely flooded with cortisol and adrenaline.
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Right, the fight or flight kicks in exactly.
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And once they severely injured their own hand, panic set in.
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The premeditated plant evaporated and their only thought was flight.
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They abandoned the clothes because their cognitive function shifted entirely
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to base survival.
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Wow. Okay, So the husband Domingo sitting right there, they
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were having marriage problems, she was terrified of him, and
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his story about the intruders is completely falling apart at
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the seams. It seems like the most obvious open and
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shut case. You arrest the husband and the.
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Girl, and police did exactly that. They arrested Domingo Villa Reale.
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Right.
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He was the prime and really the only logical suspect
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based on the behavioral evidence and his obvious lines. But
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physical evidence is entirely neutral. It doesn't just convict, it exonerates.
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Yeah, because they hold him, but they end up releasing
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him almost immediately. The very evidence the killer left behind
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to stage the scene ends up saving Domingo's life.
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It did. The physical realities of the evidence proved Domingo
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couldn't have been the one wearing those clothes. The bloody
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pants left by the killer were far too short for
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Domingo's legs okay, And the bloody shoes inside that shoe
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box were too small for his feet.
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And then there's the glove, right, the one with the
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huge slash across the palm. The killer's hand had to
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be deeply lacerated. So detectives examined Domingo's hands in custody,
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and there is no cut, not a scratch, not a scratch,
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not a bandage, nothing right.
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You cannot argue with basic human anatomy if the clothes
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don't fit and the physical injury does not exist on
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his he is not the one who physically wielded that knife.
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and the collapsing alibi, they have no choice but to
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let him walk free.
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But the police aren't done with him though, because something
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about this guy is just fundamentally off. Between nineteen eighty
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six and nineteen eighty eight, investigators start digging into who
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Domingo Villareal actually is. Yeah, they do, and they discover
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that the man they arrested, the man barber married, is
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basically a ghost.
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We really need to look at the severe limitations of
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nineteen eighties law enforcement to understand how this happens. Right,
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it was a different world, totally different today. If a
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police officer pulls you over, your identity is verified across
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dozens of interconnected digital databases in milliseconds. They see your photo,
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your social security number, your driving history. In nineteen eighty six,
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identity theft was remarkably easy, and catching it was incredibly
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labor intensive.
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Well, how did someone even pull off identity theft back
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then without the Internet? Like, how does that work?
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It's wild. It often involved going to a graveyard, finding
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the headstone of an infant who died around the same
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year you were born, and then requesting a birth certificate
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from the county clerk under that child's name.
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Just walk in and ask for it.
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that birth certificate to the Social Security office and get
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a card, then take that to the DMV get a
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driver's license. You effectively became that person.
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So Garland detectives start running the name Domingo Villia Rail
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and they realize there are two men living in Texas
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with the exact same name and the exact same date
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of birth. Right one is Barbara's husband in Garland and
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another is living hundreds of miles south in Brownsville, Texas.
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So state troopers get involved to figure out who the
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real Domingo is. They visit the man in Brownsville and
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he has all.
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The receipts right he's a real guy.
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He can introduce them to his mother and father. He
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has an original, authenticated birth certificate, he has a documented
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life history.
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And then they go back to the guy in Garland,
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Barbara's husband and helas he doesn't know where his parents are.
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He says he lost his birth certificate years ago. Right,
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it becomes glaringly obvious that he is a complete fraud.
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Domingo Villa Reale in Garland is a stolen identity.
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This completely reframes the investigation for the detectives. I mean,
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if he is capable of living under a stolen identity
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for years and lying to his wife about his fundamental existence,
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he's certainly capable of orchestrating a murder, even if he
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didn't hold the knife himself.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But to prove anything, they need to know his real name. Fortunately,
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when they arrested him briefly for the murder in nineteen
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eighty six, they adhered to standard procedure and rolled his fingerprints.
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And this is where the physical ink and paper police
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work of the eighties comes into play. They run those
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prints through the Automated Fingerprint Index System or AFIS.
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The FIS was relatively new technology at the time, I
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mean before AFIS Fingerprint and comparison involved a human being
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sitting with a magnifying.
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Glass, seriously a magnifying.
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Glass liter manually comparing a physical card to thousands of
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other physical cards and filing cabinets.
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That would take forever.
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It did, But AFIS digitized the minutia of the prince,
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you know, the ridges, the whorls, the bifurcations, and allowed
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computers to scan for matches.
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So they put the Garland suspects prints into the system
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and they get a massive hit. The prince matched an
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arrest record from the nineteen seventies all the way up
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in a town called Stirling, Illinois, right and the name
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on that arrest record was Shesus Canalis.
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So detectives request the nineteen seventies booking photo from the
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police department in Illinois. It gets mailed down to Texas.
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Snail mail, Yes, snail mail.
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They laid on the desk next to the nineteen eighty
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six mug shot of their Domingo and it's undeniable. It's
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the exact same man. Domingo Viial is actually his Zeus Canalis.
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They finally know who he is. They know he's a liar.
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They know he was in a volatile marriage with the victim.
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It feels like the walls are finally closing in on him.
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It does, but just as they make this critical breakthrough,
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the trail goes dead in the most permanent way possible,
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and shortly after being released from custody in nineteen eighty six,
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Jesu's canal has completely vanished from the Dallas area. Detectives
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been the next two years trying to track his movements
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across the country and the border, and.
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What do they find.
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Finally they uncover a death certificate from Guadalajara, Mexico, dated
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nineteen eighty eight. Jesus Canalis had been shot to death.
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Rumors suggested it was a cartel related incident, though details
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were sparse.
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Okay, wait, I have to pause on this.
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Yeah.
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The prime suspect, the manipulative identity stealing husband, who was
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the focal point of the entire investigation, the guy who
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likely orchestrated the whole thing, is literally dead and buried
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in Mexico just two years after the murder. The case
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just stops.
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It halts entirely. In nineteen eighty eight, there is nowhere
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else to go. You have a dead primary suspect and
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an unknown accomplice who left some blood and clothes. You
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can't interrogate a deceased man to find out whose accomplice
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was right. So without a living suspect to apply pressure to,
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and with the DNA technology of the late eighties being
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essentially non existent for this type of forensic application, the
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case goes completely cold.
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So the bloody jeens, the shoe box, this cut glove,
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the bent knife, all of it just goes into an
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evidence box, a.
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Cardboard box that sits on a shelf in a dark,
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climate controlled evidence room in Garland, Texas for over ten
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thousand days.
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Ten thousand days, the.
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Investigators retire, new ones come in, but the physical reality
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of the case remains frozen in time, just waiting for
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a technology that hadn't even been invented yet to finally
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read the story that blood was trying to tell.
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Ten thousand days of waiting, let's talk about what happens
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when the calendar finally flips to twenty eighteen. We enter
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the era of the DNA revolution.
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Yes, by twenty eighteen, you have a completely new generation
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of investigators looking at Garland's cold cases. They pull the
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barber car file, and they do the first most logical
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thing available to modern law enforcement, right They take the
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killer's blood extracted from that cut glove and the patio exitrail,
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and they run it through COTIS.
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Now. COTIS is a combined DNA index system. It's the
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national database maintained by the FBI for convicted felons. If
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you've committed a felony in the United States in the
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modern era, your DNA profile is in that system.
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The investigators run the blood expecting a ping, expecting to
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finally put an aim to the accomplice, and the system
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returns absolutely nothing, no match.
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Which tells us one of two things. Either the killer
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has miraculously never been caught for another felony in the
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past thirty years, or they committed crimes but were just
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never swabbed for the database exactly.
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Facing a dead end with CODIS, this new team of
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investigators decides to pivot. They bring in the FBI and
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turn to a tool that has completely revolutionized modern cold
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case investigations.
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The Golden State killer method, yes.
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Famously used to catch him. Investigative genetic genealogy or IgG.
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Let's really break down the science of IgG, because I
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think a lot of people here. You know DNA testing,
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and they assume it's all the exact same process, right,
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it's not. How is the DNA test used in hotus
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physically different from what they do in investigative genetic genealogy.
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It comes down to how much of the genetic code
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you're actually reading. COTIS uses what's called STR profiling. That's
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the answer, short tandem repeats. Think of STR like looking
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at a very specific barcode on a product. It doesn't
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tell you what the product looks like, what color it is,
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or where it came from. It just gives you a
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numerical sequence.
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Got it.
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CODIS compares the crime scene barcode to the barcodes of
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convicted felons. If they don't match exactly, the test tells
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you nothing else.
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So if COTIS only checks the barcode, IDG must be
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reading like the whole instruction manual.
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That is exactly the right way to think about it.
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IgG uses SMP profiling single nucleotide polymorphisms right. Instead of
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looking at twenty small locations like STR does, SMP profiling
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looks at hundreds of thousands of markers across the entire
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human genome. It reads the actual genetic letters.
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Wow.
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This gives geneticis a massive amount of data revealing physical traits,
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deep ancestral origins, and most importantly, it allows them to
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see shared blocks of DNA between distant relatives.
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It's like cotis is checking a small guest list at
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an exclusive VIP nightclub. If your exact name is on
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the least, you aren't getting in and the bouncer has
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no idea who you are.
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Right.
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But investigative genetic genealogy is taking that same unidentified person
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and looking them up in a global phone book to
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find out who they are related to, where their grandparents lived,
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and mapping their whole family tree.
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The FBI takes this highly detailed SNKE profile generated from
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the crime scene blood and uploads it to publicly available
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genealogical websites places like ged match, where regular people voluntarily
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opt in to trace their family heritage. They aren't looking
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for the killer directly, They're hoping to find the killer's
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third cousin or a great ant.
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Oh and the very first thing this SMP profile reveals
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is the killer's ethnic background. The blood left on the
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porch and the glove belongs to a male of Hispanic descent,
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which is.
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A monumental shift in the air of the case.
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Yeah, because it completely shatters the alibi from nineteen eighty six.
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Jesus Canalis, acting as Domingo, explicitly told the police he
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was ambushed by a white male and a blackmail. Science
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just proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that the
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husband's alibi was a complete fabrication. The killer was Hispanic.
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This reignites their suspicion of Jesus Canalis. He lied about
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the intruders, he lied about his identity. Again, they hit
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the same wall. Jes Canalis has been dead since nineteen
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eighty eight. Knowing the killer's broad ethnic heritage is a
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great scientific victory. But to find the exact branch of
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the family tree, investigators need a starting point. They need
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a name to anchor their search.
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And they find that anchor in the most obscure, seemingly
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irrelevant piece of paperwork imaginable.
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This is where meticulous, almost obsessive police work shines. Detectives
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are digging back through the original physical nineteen eighty six
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case files, going through hundreds of pages of interviews, notes
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and background checks.
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Just reading everything, everything.
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And they find a report for a minor motor vehicle
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accident from nineteen eighty five, a full year before the murder.
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Literally just a simple fender bender in a parking lot.
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A routine traffic collision. Barbara was in the car, which
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is why the report was in her background file, but
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the officer who wrote the report noted that she wasn't alone.
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There was a twelve year old girl in the passenger
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seat with her.
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Okay.
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The girl's last name was listed as Canalis and her
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home address was listed as Sterling, Illinois.
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Sterling, Illinois, the exact same, very specific town where Jesus
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Canalis was arrested back in the nineteen seventies. They go
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the detectives realized, wait a minute, is this twelve year
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old girl his biological daughter? Was Barbara driving her stepdaughter around?
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So they contact the city clerk in Sterling, Illinois and
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pull the historical birth records, and they discovered that Jesus
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Canalis actually had two biological daughters from a previous relationship.
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So even though Jesus is dead, they now have a
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biological bridge to him. They trek down these daughters, explain
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who they are, and ask for a voluntary DNA sample, right,
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and the pitches Essentially, look, we want to definitively rule
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out your deceased father as the killer in this cold case,
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and the daughters agree to provide a cheek swap.
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The samples are rushed to the lab, and this is
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where the science delivers an absolute shocker. The geneticists compare
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the daughter's DNA to the killer's blood from the crime scene.
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They are looking closely at the cente morgan count.
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Okay, let's pause and explain the mechanics here. What exactly
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is a cent to morgan and how does it prove
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a relationship?
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A centa morgan, often abbreviated as CM, is a unit
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of measurement for genetic linkage. It tells geneticis how closely
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related two people are based on the length of DNA
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segments they share. Okay, will humans reproduce DNAT recombines? A
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parent and child share exactly fifty percent of their DNA,
495
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which equates to roughly three thy four hundred cent of morgan.
496
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So three thy four hundred is a.
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Parent, yes, full siblings share around twenty five hundred to
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twenty six hundred cent of morgans. An uncle and a
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niece will share roughly twenty five percent of their DNA,
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which usually falls around the seventeen hundred cent a Morgan range.
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Got it. And when the lab results come back, the
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Cena Morgan match between the daughters and the crime scene
503
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blood is incredibly high. It's a massive statistical link, but
504
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it's not the thirty four hundred cent of Morgan's required
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for a parent child match.
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No, it wasn't. It definitively proved that the killer was
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not Jesus Canalies. The blood did not belong to their father. However,
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the genetic link was hovering right around that twenty five
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percent mark. He was so strong and specific that he
510
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could only mean one thing in this context. The killer
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was a biological brother of Jesus Canalies. The killer was
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the daughter's uncle.
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I just want to think about the psychological impact of
514
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that moment for those daughters.
515
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It's intense.
516
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You get approached by detectives about a thirty four year
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old murder. You willingly give a DNA sample, thinking it's
518
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going to clear your dad's name and close the book
519
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on a family tragedy, and instead the results come back saying, hey,
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your dad didn't hold the knife, but your uncle brutally
521
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murdered your stepmother. A stepmother by the way that the
522
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sources explicitly note these daughters actually really.
523
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Liked Yes, she was driving them around.
524
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She was the one taking them around in the car
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in nineteen eighty five. That is a profound, incredibly heavy
526
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family trauma to suddenly drop on someone's lap.
527
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It is deeply tragic for the family to process. But
528
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purely from an investigative standpoint, it is the breakthrough of
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the century. Oh absolutely, The suspect pool has just shrunk
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from the entire male Hispanic population of the United States
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in Mexico down to three specific men Chaso's kanals living brothers.
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So now the detectives just have to go hunting. They
533
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have the genetic target. They just need to find the
534
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right man.
535
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Start looking at the geographic locations the brothers. One brother,
536
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man named Juan, lives in New Mexico. But detectors find
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themselves in a very precarious legal and tactical position. Why
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is that They know it's one of the brothers, but
539
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they can't just knock on Wan's door and ask for
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a DNA swab.
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Wait, if they know it's one of the three brothers,
542
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why not just go to a judge and get search warns.
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For all of them because they only have a familial
544
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link to the family line, not specific probable cause for
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one as an individual.
546
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Ah I see.
547
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More importantly, it's a massive tactical risk. If they approach
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one directly and he gets spooked, he might flee the country.
549
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Even worse, if he isn't the killer, he might call
550
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his brothers in Mexico and tip them off that the
551
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Garland police are closing in using DNA.
552
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Oh Man.
553
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If that happens, the actual killer could vanish into the
554
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wind forever. They need one's DNA.
555
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Covertly, so they set up an undercover sting operation. FBI
556
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agents trail Wand for days in New Mexico, engaging in
557
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heavy surveillance. They are just waiting for him to discard
558
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something anything, yeah, a coffee cup, a cigarette, but a napkin,
559
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anything with his salivar skin cells on it, but he's
560
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not leaving anything behind. Finally, they tail him into a
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busy Walmart.
562
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And a Walmart is the absolute perfect location for law
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enforcement to execute a covert collection, primarily because there are
564
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high definition security cameras everywhere. O for the jury exactly
565
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if you are going to collect covert DNA and use
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it in a murder trial. You want a jury to
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see exactly how it happened on video, so a defense
568
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attorney can never claim the evidence was tampered with or planted.
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The play they run here is brilliant in its simplicity.
570
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An undercover officer casually walks up to win in the
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Walmart aisle, strikes up a completely mundane conversation and notices
572
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one is wearing this really old, sweaty, worn out baseball cap.
573
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The officer literally offers him a sum of cash on
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the spot to buy the hat right off his head,
575
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and one, probably thinking this guy is a total weirdo
576
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but not wanting to turn down free money for an
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old hat, agrees. He takes the cash and hands over
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the hat.
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It's incredibly clever. A hat worn for a long period
580
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of time will be heavily saturated with skin cells, SEBAM
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and sweat along the inner brem is an absolute gold
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mine for DNA extractions.
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So they take it.
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They immediately bag the hat and rush to the Swift's lab.
585
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That's the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas. They
586
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fast track the analysis.
587
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They run the profile against the crime scene blood and
588
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it's a swing and a miss. The DNA from the
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sweaty hat does not match the killer's blood. Juan is
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officially cleared he is not the.
591
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Murderer, which narrows the suspect pool even further. They pivot
592
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to the next brother, Liboreo Canalis. But the massive complication
593
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here is that Libreo lives deep in Mexico. Oh. US
594
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law enforcement cannot just cross the international border, start running
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undercover sting operations in Walmarts, or arrest Mexican citizens without
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causing a massive international incident and violating sovereignty laws.
597
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So they are stuck. He's in Mexico, completely out of
598
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US jurisdiction. You can't send Dallas PD across the border.
599
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.359
But they didn't just give up. They realized Liboreo had
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family in the US.
601
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Right, you use the family tree against him again. This
602
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is where Dallas County utilizes a technique called gunship analysis
603
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for the very first time in their jurisdic's history. Okay,
604
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they discovered that Liboreo actually has biological daughters who live
605
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in the United States, also in state of New Mexico.
606
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So if the Walmart hat sting was like trying to
607
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catch a suspect by casting a massive net in the
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dark and hoping you pull up the right fish. Kinship
609
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analysis is like finding the suspect by looking at his
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reflection in a mirror.
611
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I love that analogy.
612
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You aren't looking directly at Laboreo because you can't reach him.
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You are looking at his daughter, but her DNA perfectly
614
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.000
reflects his genetic makeup.
615
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That is a phenomenal way to visualize it. They track
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down Liboreo's daughters in New Mexico and perform what's known
617
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in law enforcement as a trash pole.
618
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We should explain the legal mechanics of a trash pole,
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because I know people often get nervous or confused hearing
620
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about police digging through someone's garbage without a warrant.
621
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It all comes down to the legal doctrine of abandonment
622
00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:53.839
under the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court has long rule
623
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that once you place your trash in a receptacle on
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the public CRB for collection, you have legally relinquished your
625
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expectation and privacy because it's public right. You are literally
626
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:06.519
throwing it away for the public Sanitation department to take. Yeah,
627
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.640
it is considered abandoned. Property. The same legal principle applies
628
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if you leave a water bottle on a table at
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a public restaurant and walk out the door. Law enforcement
630
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does not need a warrant to collect abandoned property.
631
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The detectives go through the daughter's trash on the curb
632
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and they find a discarded abandoned water bottle. They swab
633
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the mouthpiece, extract the DNA, and the lab performs the
634
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:33.200
kinship analysis against the nineteen eighty six crime scene.
635
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Blood, and this time it is a mathematical certainty. The
636
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:39.480
statistical match confirms that the DNA on the water bottle
637
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belongs to the biological child of the man who left
638
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his blood on Barbarkar's patio and inside the cut glove
639
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thirty seven years ago. Wow, Auboreo Canalis is unequivocally the killer.
640
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.160
They finally have the ironclad scientific proof. But having a
641
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piece of paper from a lab and having a murderer
642
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:58.640
and handcuffs are two very different things, very different. Liboreo
643
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is still living his life in Mexico, completely unaware that
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a water bottle in New Mexico just ended his three
645
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decades of freedom. How do you legally reach him?
646
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You don't go to him. You wait for him to
647
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come to you.
648
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:10.759
Oh, I see.
649
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Investigators discovered a crucial piece of administrative data. Liboreo held
650
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a resident alien status in the United States, and the
651
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primary stipulation with that specific immigration status is that you
652
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.000
must periodically cross the border into the US to maintain it,
653
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otherwise the status gets permanently revoked.
654
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So the detectives set up a digital trip wire with
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Customs and Border Protection. Anytime Liboreo's name or passport is
656
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scanned at any port of entry Garland PD will get
657
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an instant notification. They set the trap, and they wait.
658
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They wait through June nothing. The tension must have been
659
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:50.400
agonizing for these detectives who have lived and breathed this case.
660
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.240
But then on July seventeenth, twenty twenty three, the alarm
661
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bells go off.
662
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He crossed.
663
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Liboreo crosses the border from Mexico into the United States.
664
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Detectives and metately scramble their teams. They know his most
665
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.519
likely destination is heading toward his family in New Mexico.
666
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Working in heavy coordination with the FBI and local New
667
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.160
Mexico law enforcement, they track his movements, locate him at
668
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a restaurant in New Mexico and execute the arrest warrant.
669
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Thirty seven years after he fled that bloody scene in Garland,
670
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leaving his clothes and his blood behind, Liboreo Canalis is
671
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:25.039
finally sitting in an interrogation room.
672
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An officer from the Lovington Police Department sits in to
673
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translate the interrogation into Spanish, and this is where the
674
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emotional dam finally breaks. Liboreo doesn't fight it. He confesses
675
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.759
to the murder of Barberkarr, just like that, just like that,
676
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And he doesn't just give a blanket confession. He confirms
677
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incredibly specific details that only the killer would know. He
678
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states emphatically that he acted entirely alone. He physically mimics
679
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the brutal downward stabbing motion with his hand to the
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detectives wow, and most chillingly, he holds up his hand
681
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and points to a visible scar on his finger, the
682
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exact spot where the knife slipped and he cut himself
683
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:03.880
through the glove all those years ago.
684
00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:06.680
But the most shocking part of the interrogation, the part
685
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that truly leaves seasoned detectives speechless, is the motive. Why
686
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did he butcher his sister in law? Ligorio explained to
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the detectives that he had asked his brother Jesus and
688
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Barbara if he could live with them in their Garland
689
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home and they said no.
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I am still trying to wrap my head around this.
691
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He harbored this intense, murderous grudge, what the lead detective
692
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described as white hot rage, purely because he wasn't allowed
693
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to crash on their couch. Yeah, he sustained that level
694
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of visceral anger for an entire road trip, driving across
695
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state lines, walking up to the door and brutally stabbing
696
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a woman to death over a housing rejection.
697
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It completely defies rational logic, which is exactly why it
698
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.519
breaks traditional criminological expectations. What makes this crime even more
699
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anomalous in the study of violence is lie Boreo's age.
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He was forty nine years old at the time of the.
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Murder, which changes how you view the profile of.
702
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The killer entirely. In criminology, we look at the age
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00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:06.519
crime curve. A man nearing fifty years old is generally
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expected to have aged out of impulsive, visceral, physically exhausting violence.
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Right because of maturity maturity.
706
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The frontal lobe is fully developed, testosterone levels have naturally
707
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dropped off, and older offenders typically calculate their crimes differently.
708
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That makes sense.
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That level of explosive, disorganized rage bringing clothes but forgetting them,
710
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stabbing wildly and cutting yourself is statistically much more associated
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with offenders in their late teens or twenties, who are
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dealing with different hormonal and social stressors. Okay, the Garlic
713
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detectives even admitted they initially considered Luboreo the absolute least
714
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likely suspect among the three brothers, precisely because of his age.
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But the psychology of perceived disrespect overrode all of those
716
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statistical norms.
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00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:56.239
He perceived their refusal to house him as an ultimate
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unforgivable slight against his pride and his family standing, and
719
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he wanted absolute violent revenge.
720
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What about Jesus? Did the husband know this was going
721
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to happen? Liboreo told the police during the confession, I
722
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don't know what my brother told y'all. My brother wasn't there,
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and if he was there, I would have killed him too, right.
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And despite Loboreo's insistence that he acted entirely alone, Barbara's
725
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:22.400
surviving family remains firmly convinced to this day that Jesus
726
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Domingo was involved in some capacity.
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Why did they think that?
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Their theory is that Jesus couldn't divorce Barbara because he
729
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.559
would lose his financial free ride, so he orchestrated the
730
00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:34.320
murder with his brother to get rid of her.
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Oh wow.
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Because Jesus died in nineteen eighty eight, we may never
733
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:41.039
know for absolute certain if he was the architect of
734
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the crime, but thanks to the DNA, we know without
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a shadow or doubt that Liboreo was the executioner.
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With that confession on tape, the case moves rapidly to
737
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its conclusion. Liboreo officially provides a direct DNA swab to
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the police, which unequivocally locks in a direct one to
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one match with the blood from the and the cut glove.
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The science and the confession are perfectly aligned.
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The Garland police then begin the incredibly heavy emotional task
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of notifying the family. They start with Barber's sister Cathy.
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Yeah.
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Remarkably, Kathy had kept the exact same phone number for
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over thirty years, always hoping that one day the police
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would call with an update.
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That breaks my heart.
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Thirty years, she organizes a family call Barbara's youngest brother, Mark,
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who was deeply fundamentally traumatized by the sudden loss of
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his sister, finally gets the answers he's been waiting for
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almost four decades.
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On March twelve, twenty twenty four, le Boio Canalis stands
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in a courtroom and pleads guilty to the murder of
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Barbara Carr. He receives a twenty year sentence in a
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Texas State penitentiary. Okay, but what really sticks with me
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from the source material is his demeanor throughout the entire
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legal process, during the interrogation, during the confession, and during
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the victim impact statements in court. Lemio shows absolutely zero
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remorse for taking Barbara's life, nothing at all. No. A
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detective noted that leburi only real regrets seemed to be
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that he was going to die in a sterile prison
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cell instead of at home with his family.
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It brings up this incredibly complex concept of closure. You know,
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the media loves to use that word when a cold
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case is finally solved.
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Yeah, they do.
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But the lead detective in this case showed incredible humility
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when discussing it. He pointed out that closure is a
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very easy neat word for an investigator or journalist to say,
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but true peace for a family that lost a loved
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one in such a violent, senseless manner is much more complicated.
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They have answers. Yes, the right man is sitting behind bars,
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but it doesn't erase the last thirty seven years of grief,
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and it doesn't bring Barbara back.
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It doesn't, but it does prove that a perfect storm
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of foolish anger, chaotic violence and nineteen eighties identity deceit
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might hide a killer for thirty seven years, but it
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cannot hide them forever.
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No, it can't.
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The incredible stubborn dedication of the Garland Police Department, the FBI,
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and the scientists of the Swift's Lab, combined with the
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cutting edge power of genetic genealogy, systematically dismantled that web
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of lies. This case sat in a cardboard box, but
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it was never ever forgotten.
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It is a profound testament to the endurance of those
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investigators who refuse to let the files stay closed, and
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the emotional endurance of Barbara's family who waited thirty seven
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years for a phone call they probably thought would never
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actually come.
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I want you to really think about the sheer scale
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of that timeline, thirty seven years of living your life,
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going to work, crossing borders, celebrating holidays, fully believing you
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got away with murder right, And it brings me to
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a chilling thought that I just can't shake. After reading
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through all the forensic details in these sources, we are
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living in a fundamentally different era. Now, how do you mean, well,
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think about that water bottle sitting in the trash on
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a curb in New Mexico. In the past, if you
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lied well enough, if you washed your hands, if you
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physically moved to another country, you could take your darkest
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secrets to the grave.
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Yeah, you could just disappear exactly.
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She's can't. Jollies took whatever secrets he had to the grave.
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But today our physical bodies are constantly betraying our secrets.
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The microscopic and visible trail of DNA we abandon every
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single time we take a sip of water or sweat
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into the brim of a baseball cap has fundamentally changed
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the landscape of justice.
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It really is.
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Time and borders can no longer protect the guilty. The
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ghosts of the past are no longer just memories. They
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are literally written in our genes,