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It is farm country, horse country, bucolic, upwardly mobile, wealthy
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type of community, a fluent It's a quiet place.
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Tiny, unassuming house, just a simple farmhouse.
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Cold Snack has a lot of these.
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Yes, this beautiful little farmhouse with this beautiful farm star
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you know, in the middle of it.
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In July of twenty thirteen, I was an assistant prosecutor
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in Mammoth County, New Jersey. Donna in Shacko was alone.
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She had just gone to bed for the evening.
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An intruder came into her house and attacked her, stabbing
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her repeatedly.
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I'm on one word's emergency.
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Oh my name is Dona on shack I get that stabbed?
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Or are you really bad? Kid? Just came in and stabbing?
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Okay, out of my heart.
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I'm poor in cushion.
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Gloved, some losing consciousness.
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Keep your eyes open with Donna. Donna.
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I was driving home. There was maybe like three'clock in
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the morning, three thirty. As I pulled up closer, I
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saw big SUVs, cop cars, lights flashing everywhere. I was like,
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where is my mom? And they were like, well, she
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has been attacked and she's on her way to the hospital.
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They couldn't tell me whether she was alive or she wasn't.
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That I was new into major crimes. I didn't have
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the experience at some of the older detectives, so I
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had never seen that much blood before.
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Why would somebody do this?
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Who did this? What did she ever do to anybody?
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You know?
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On that night, in the early morning hours, we got
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a nine to one one call from a worker from
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this restaurant.
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About how far from Donna's house are we standing right here?
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This is about an eight minute drive.
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They called because they saw a subject walking through their
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drive through.
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Already touch police.
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One of my.
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Customers were in drive through, were approached by a man
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with no shirt but had a.
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Knife in his hands, knocking on windows carrying a knife.
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One of the witnesses who saw the young man, she
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agreed to come in and give us a sketch.
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Everybody was asking about the police question. It was in
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every store. People were frighted.
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Can you tell me about the tip?
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I get a call.
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The woman on the other end says that she's calling
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about the stabbing in Coltsnack.
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She said, I think my cousin may have something to.
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Do with that.
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Tiny Coltsneck New Jersey sits just fifty miles from New
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York City, but it might as well be a world away.
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So in July twenty thirteen, this quiet community was rocked
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by news of a violent home invasion with a victim
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was stabbed repeatedly. The only thing more shocking.
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My name is Donna. I'm Chako.
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The victim survived.
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I lost in total, close to three quarters of the
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blood in my body. There's no earthly reason why I'm alive.
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None.
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If I had asked you at the time to give
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me a list of one hundred things you're worried about,
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where would have home invasion been?
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Oh no, never.
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Donna worked for a company that broke fuel for ships
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on the nearby Jersey Shore. She and her daughter Kirsten
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lived in this farmhouse on the edge of flower fields.
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She was twenty when she had me, so we're only
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twenty years and one day apart.
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Friend Sharon Sharp hired Donna decades ago.
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Kirston had just been born.
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Yeah, Kirsten was a baby. I thought she was really bad,
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being a single mom, very young.
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I was by her side all the time.
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Kirsten, who now works as a welder, recalls what life
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was like just prior to her mother's attack.
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We were going to the gym multiple times a week.
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Not only was she like mentally strong, but she was
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physically strong.
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She was so fit.
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She did tough mutters with Kirsten.
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I liked that competition. I like to show strength, physical strength.
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Things couldn't have been any better at that time.
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That's when Saturday of July, fourth weekend rolled around. Mammouth
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County Detective Andrea Tazzi says they were having a heat wave.
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It was humid, but we had no rain or anything
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like that. I mean, it was a dry night. So
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Donna had our windows open. Yes, the windows open, just
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to circ obviously, to circulate air.
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Kirsten was out at a party, so I was home
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doing laundry. I'd say about eleven eleven thirty, I decide
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I'm gonna get ready for bed.
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I let the cat out. I went and brushed my.
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Teeth, But just as she was drifting off to.
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Sleep, I heard what I thought was the cat.
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I heard something, and I remembered, oh, I forgot to
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let the cat.
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In without turning on any lights. Donna headed downstairs to
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open the front door for her cat.
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But instead, when I opened the door. I saw someone
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standing there. In the split second after seeing this person
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on my porch, I saw the knife he was trying
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to cut into the screen of the window that was
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right next to the front door.
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She says she didn't recognize the young white male standing
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right in front of her holding a large knife.
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I tried to slam and shut the door. My fingers
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were protruding out. He stuck the knife through the opening
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and hut my finger so that I immediately let go of
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the door, and then he pushed his way in, backing
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into my kitchen.
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We're face to face.
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It didn't register to me that he was actually going
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to stab me.
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But without a word, that's exactly what the stranger did.
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He slashed my cheek and you can see that here,
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and actually it starts back here.
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There was no way to process that that happened.
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Donna's attacker came at her with the knife again.
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He then slashed three times on this side of my neck.
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She tried grabbing the knife, but only cut her own
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hand in the process.
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Did you feel like you were dealing with somebody who's
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really strong.
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No, But I felt like he was very sure, like
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he was very in control of himself.
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Donna was starting to weaken from the injuries, so.
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I felt like my legs were going to give out,
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so I braced myself against the corner of my bathroom,
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right next to the front door.
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Sure enough, she slid down to the floor.
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I was in fetal position and I'm bleeding, and he
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came over and it was kind of like he was playing,
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you know, with the knife and just started jabbing at me.
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So that's when he caught me here and he got
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me in the back of my neck.
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Here.
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Finally, Donna's attacker spoke to her.
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This was when he decided to ask me for my
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car keys and if I had a lighter, a lighter.
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I just answered him, there's a lighter in my purse,
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and my purse was on the table back in the kitchen.
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So he went over and was rummaging through my purse
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and got the keys, got the lighter.
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Donna's assailant ended up taking her entire purse with him,
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but not before returning one last time to Donna, still
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bleeding on the floor.
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He said, you dead bitch, and plunge the knife into
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my chest.
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Once he plunges the knife in and then removes it.
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What does he do?
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Then he just walked out the door, with.
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No neighbors in earshot. Donna knew she must get help somehow.
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Your phone is in reach.
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No, my phone was upstairs in my bedroom charging.
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Donna had no landline in the house. But even as
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the blood was draining rapidly from her body, she had
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one pressing concern above her own survival.
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Pearston could come home and find me. I just didn't
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want her to have to experience any level of the
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horror that I had just gone through, or any other
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levels in finding me there dead.
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So this is a mother's instinct as pure as it gets.
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Yes, absolutely, yeah.
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You know you have to get upstairs if you're going
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to be able to make a call for help, Right,
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how do you get up those stairs?
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So that I don't know, there was divine intervention that
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helped me up those stairs, no doubt, no doubt in
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my mind.
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She's a tiny little woman.
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You have to imagine that many stairborn, and she just
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willed it. She was not going to die there.
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Former Mammoth County Assistant prosecutor Lorie Gerhardt says Donna Angshaka
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was determined her daughter Kirsten would not come home to
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find her death. She knew she had to get to
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her cell phone upstairs.
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I don't remember my feet or my hands actually touching
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the stairs. The energy that it took for me to
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get up off the ground and up those stairs, I
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was definitely guided.
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The amount of strength that goes into that is just unimaginable.
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But the motivation was you.
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Yeah, yep, maybe I was there guiding her in spirit.
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Once Donna made it upstairs, she faced a new challenge.
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After peering out her bedroom window, she had a car.
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Sitting right here, and she had a car sitting right
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in this area.
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I could still see the car was there, and I
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could see the car was on and he was in it.
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If I take my phone off the charger, it's going
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to light up. He's going to see the light.
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Afraid or attacker would come back for her, Donna did
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her best to hide the light of the phone. Then
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just getting it to work became the next hurdle.
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My hands are covered in blood my touchscreen. I was
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trying to swipe and swipe, so I ended up having
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to wipe my hands off, wipe the phone off, wipe
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it down on the bed, and then I was able
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to do the touch screen and get through to nine
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to one one.
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Oh, my name is Dona Jack I get that stabbed.
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It's really bad. Kid just came in and stabbed me
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and he saw my car.
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Okay, okay, okay, just stand up on me. Okay, where'd
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he gets stabbed.
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In the next blood it's cushing out.
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And in the chest. Detective Andrea Tazzi says Donna's ability
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to place that call despite her injuries was amazing, but
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then Donna did something even more extraordinary. She gave a
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detailed description of her attacker.
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Oh you know what he looked like. Yeah, he was
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probably about seventeen, white, real skinny, curly hair, blonde, jerdy
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blonde hair. About that.
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It was pretty chilling to listen to Donna and be
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able to hear her accurately talk about this is what happened,
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this is what he looks like. I'm losing consciousness, and
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then hear her fade out.
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Donna, Donna, Hello, Donna, Donna us, ma'am all right, I
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just sat down for a minutes.
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Police in paramedics arrived less than eight minutes after Donna
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dialed nine one one, but her attacker had already fled
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Donna was rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and
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didn't trauma surgery. It would be a few more hours
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before Kirsten arrived home from her party to a house
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surrounded by flashing lights.
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I saw the caution tape and that her car was gone.
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Police told Kirsten what happened to her mother?
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You were deeply shaken.
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Oh yeah, I remember at one point my knees buckled.
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They had the SUV, the undercover cop car. The trunk
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was open, So like, can I sit here because I
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feel like I'm going to pass out.
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As Kirsten was processing the news, an all out manhunt
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had already begun for Donna's A Salad Detective Tazzi says
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another nine to one one call had come in shortly
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before Donna's attack.
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I was going to pick up my daughter and there
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was a hitch hiking.
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From a driver who saw someone walking along the road
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near Donna's house.
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They saw a young man with a backpack and khaki pants.
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He was walking close to the fog line and kind
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of stepping into traffic, and she felt that he was
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kind of a hitchhiker.
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He was on the north down side, walking south down
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and I'm afraid you're gonna hit by a car.
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How old about I'm going to say like.
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Eighteen nineteen twenty from something like that.
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She was concerned because she just thought that maybe he
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needed help in some way.
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And was a car dispatched.
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Yes, yes, they didn't find.
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Him, though still the Good Samaritan driver had inadvertently given
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the investigation its first leave.
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I felt that the hitchhiker was my person. It was
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too coincidental for that time of the night in that
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area for somebody to be walking. And then fifteen minutes later,
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Donna's calling said that she was stabbed and there.
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Was about to be another tim Not long after Donna's
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nine won one call from a fast food restaurant five
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miles from her house.
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They saw a subject walking through their drive through, knocking
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on windows, carrying a knife and it looked like it
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had blood on it.
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Employees from the Taco Bell quickly called police.
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I having a description of him.
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He was wearing, you know, like still army pants and
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he had no shirt.
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He's white, but like really like bushy hair, but it
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was like long, like the.
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Skater type hair.
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How old was he?
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I don't know.
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He looked like he was the eighteen.
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Police rushed to the Taco Belt and started canvassing the
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nearby shopping center. They didn't find their suspect, but they
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did find something else.
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So there had been a bolo put out on Donna's
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vehicle being able to look at right and in the
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process of looking for this person here they found the.
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Car Donna's stolen car. This BMW had been ditched behind
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a movie theater.
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It was lights on and it was running, so it
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clearly was an abandoned vehicle.
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Tazzi says the car would become crucial.
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There was blood all over it, and so we were
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hoping that we would get some kind of DNA evidence
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of our suspect.
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Did you we did.
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Sharon Sharp will never forget the dread she felt when
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she arrived at the hospital to see her friend Donna
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on Shako, only to be told she wasn't there.
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I'm picturing the color draining from your face and the
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air leaving your lungs late.
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Totally, No, this cannot be. There's no way she has
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to be here.
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Did you think maybe she hit? Yes?
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Yes, it turned out with her attacker still on the loose.
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The hospital had admitted Donna under an alias to protect her.
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Sharon was allowed to see Donna the next day.
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An intensive care room I've never seen before.
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It looked like an enlarged, massively enlarged cockpit wall because
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there were tons of machines behind her, and she looked
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almost like a puppet.
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Surgery was seven hours, I.
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Believe, despite losing three quarters of the blood in her body.
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Trauma surgeons had saved Donna's life, but at a tremendous cost.
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You may find the pictures you're about to see disturbing.
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I pretty much looked like a living cadaver. I had
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thirty seven stitches on my face and neck, thirty eight
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staples in my chest, seven stitches in my hand, and
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now internally my sternum is wired shut.
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And as for that final stamp to Donna's chest just
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before her assailant left.
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It missed my heart by the edge of a dime,
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is what I remember them telling me.
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The edge of a dime.
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When she talks about the margin that the knife missed
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her heart, buy.
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Yeah, if she was any slouched over anymore, that would
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have been.
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At Kirsten says, as soon as her mother was able
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to talk, she had one simple request.
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I remember her saying all I smell is is blood
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in my hair. Can somebody please wash my hair?
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Sharon says they got permission, and then she and two
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of Donna's family members did their best to wash Donna's
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hair as she lay in her hospital bed.
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We were determined to see if we can make her smile,
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so we turned it into an ridiculous idiot session with
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three of us like.
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A factory light.
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We laughed through our tears, and anytime anybody would get
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too serious, we would make it funny.
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But her hair was far from Donna's biggest concern. She
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was sure her attacker would find her and finish the job.
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She was convinced that he was in the hospital, and
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we kept telling her, know you're.
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Here under an alias.
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I survived. I stood face to face with him.
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I could one hundred percent positively identify him.
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He's coming back for me.
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Detective Tazzi says they were pretty sure the young man
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knocking on windows at the Taco Bell drive through shortly
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after Donna's attack was their suspect. Within two days, a
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customer who saw him met with a police sketch.
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Artist and was able to provide pretty great details on
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the person she saw that night.
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Investigators then took the sketch to the hospital.
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What did Donna say when she saw that sketch?
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She said, Yeah, that's was incredibly accurate. She tweaked it
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a little bit.
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She said that, yes, that looks like the person who
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stabbed me.
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His curly blonde hair. He was like a surfer kid
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or a skateboarder or something like that.
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Former Assistant Prosecutor Lori Gerhardt says the sketch of the
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suspect was soon plastered all over Mammouth County and on
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law enforcement social media.
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So people are obviously talking and trying to figure out,
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do we know where is he from?
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Who is this kid? And it's scary.
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Because you like to have a sense of security in
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your community.
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Investigators reviewed the cameras of stores in the shopping center
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near the Taco Bell to see if they'd get lucky
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and spot their suspect, hoping the more images they had,
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the more likely the chance of identifying him.
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We were trying to go back and look at video
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from various businesses to see the description and really to
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put out the bolo like this is who we're looking for.
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Security cameras had captured the suspect. Once again.
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The surveillance we got from the store over there was
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from the inside the store, but it was pointing outwards.
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I see, and it definitely caught him.
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Oh yeah, you could seeking.
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Wow.
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As police kept looking for the suspect, Donna was turning
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a corner, at least physically. Amazingly, after just four days,
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Donna Anghako was released from the hospital. Sharon says that
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was all due to the training Donna had done prior
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to the attack.
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Clearly, she's very physically fit. She wouldn't have survived this
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if she wasn't.
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What's an amazing thing. You were out in four days, But.
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As you leave the hospital, you are also walking back
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into a world where whoever did this to you is
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still out there.
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Right.
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But also, I wasn't going back to the farm. I
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wasn't going back to my house. No, there was no way.
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In fact, Donna would never step foot in her house again.
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She and Kirsten moved in with family living in New Jersey.
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Then just eight days after the attack, not long after
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the police sketch began circulating, Detective Tazzi's phone.
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Rang I take the call and the woman on the
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other end says that she's calling about the stabbing in.
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Coltsnack I said, okay, I said, how can I help you?
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And she said, I think my cousin, Brennan Doyle may
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have something to do with that.
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It was the first time Tozzi had heard the name
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Brennan Doyle. He was just sixteen years old. His cousin
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told Tazzi word was going around her family that Brennan
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was involved in the Colts Next stabbing. The cousin had
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seen Brennan just days prior to Donna's attack.
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Between July third and sixth, because he was up in
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Connecticut for her wedding with his family.
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He had attended her wedding.
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He attended her wedding, and she was able to provide
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us a picture of what he looked like during the
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time he was up there for the wedding.
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The photo sh he sends is Brennan with long curly hair,
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wearing camouflage shorts, looking very much like the kid in
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the sketch and more importantly, on the videotapes.
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Brennan's resemblance to the sketch. All around Town was about
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to become even more important because of what the cousin
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told detective Tazzi happened a few days later.
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She was staying at Brennan's family's lake house in New
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Hampshire as a wedding gift, and Brennan, his brother, and
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the mother showed up there unexpected.
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Hang on, this woman is in Lake Winnipeesake. She's on
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her honeymoon.
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Yes, and all of a sudden there's Brennan, Brennan's mother,
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Brennan's brother crashing her honeymoon.
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Yes, and the dog.
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But what was even more surprising was Brennan's appearance.
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Brennan's hair was cut and next time she sees him,
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he's cut his hair.
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Yes, so that's a big red flag.
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Yes, Brennan. Doyle's cousin told investigators that Brennan showed up
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just days after Donna's attack, hundreds of miles from home,
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with his hair suddenly cut short.
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Similar to this.
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Like Donna, the Doyle family resided in colts Neck. Former
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Assistant prosecutor Lorie Gerhard.
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We lived in a very nice house, two sons, a
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mom and a dad. The life of a typical colts
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Next teenager. It's a life of wealth, It's a life
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of privilege.
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Doyle was a student athlete on wrestling and hockey teams.
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Detective Tozzi started digging into his background.
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He had never been arrested.
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There was never any charges filed against him prior to
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our investigation.
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According to the prosecutors records, police had been called to
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the Doyle house for what they referred to as family conflicts.
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The location of the home would turn out to be
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very important.
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Where did Brennan live?
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So if you make a right up here and you
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go up maybe a quarter of a mile on the left.
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So that's close. Yeah, the tea and his family lived
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within walking distance of Donna's house, up the very road
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that driver had reported seeing.
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Someone she described as a.
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Young hitchhiker just prior to Donna's attack.
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I'm afraid you can get you by a car.
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When does the Doyle family return to Coltsnack? Later in July,
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with Brennan and his family back in town, Tazzi reached
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out to the family, saying investigators were canvassing the neighborhood.
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What happened when you went to the house.
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We spoke with missus Doyle. She was nervous, her boys
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was cracking.
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And did this raise an eyebrow for you?
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It did.
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We asked if Brennan and his brother could come and
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look look at the composite sketch and if they had.
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Any idea who that person might be on the sketch.
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Did Brennan come out?
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He did.
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Tazzi says she wanted to see Brennan's hair to confirm
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what his cousin had told her that it had been
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cut much shorter. It seemed the team tried to stay
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a step ahead. When he came out to greet the detective, he.
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Was wearing a hat. He was wearing a baseball hat.
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I think wearing a baseball cat was a calculated move.
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It might have been, but it didn't work.
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You could tell his hair was cut short.
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Next, Tazzi showed Brennan the police sketch of the suspect,
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the same one Donna helped tweak to look just like
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her attacker.
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How did he react?
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He looked away, He looked at it, looked away and
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I don't know, I don't know. He was nervous and
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he was scared, and he got very quiet.
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There is a reaction. Eyes are down, no eye contact,
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people are nervous. Mom starts redirecting the conversation.
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Doyle's family, and his attorney denied our request for an interview.
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We as CBS News consultant defense attorney Matt Troyano to
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study the case file.
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And I think that that probably confirms what they believed
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going in.
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Brennan's odd behavior and resemblance to the sketch and video
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evidence may have been striking, but with nothing else to
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go on yet, Tazzi thanked the Doyles for their time
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and left.
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Did you know that was your guy?
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I was pretty confident that we were on the right
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track with him, but we also have a duty. We
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had other leads that were coming in, so we were
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doing a lot of follow ups.
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As investigators worked the case. Donna was struggling. Weeks after
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the attack. The reality of what had happened to her
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had taken hold.
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I lost everything that night. I lost my home, had
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nowhere to go. I lost my car. They took it
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into evidence.
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Donna, you lost more than half your.
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Blood, I exactly, I lost I lost a lot.
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Donna says. That's when, in addition to her physical recovery,
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she faced a new challenge.
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00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.920
Symptoms of PTSD started to show up. I'm not eating,
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I'm not sleeping, I don't care about anything. I'm angry,
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I'm saying I'm happy, I'm you know, every emotion under
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the sun. At any minute, I felt like I was
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going crazy. I was always thinking, I don't know who
520
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:29.920
this kid is. But he climbed through the window in
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that second that I fell asleep, and now he's hiding
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in the closet. You know, kind of crazy thoughts.
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Sharon Sharp says Donna's fear meant even friendly visits required
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a new protocol, including announcing her arrival every step of
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the way so as not to trigger Donna.
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I'm going to come around the hedges now and I'm
527
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going to enter the backyard.
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I'm going to be touching the.
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Gate in three to one. I would shake my keys first,
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which had been on them. Say it's me, Sharon, I'm coming.
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The investigation lasted through the summer of twenty thirteen. Brennan
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Doyle remained the only likely suspect. Detective Tazzi says investigators
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took the next step in September.
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We got a warrant to obtain his DNA, his fingerprints,
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photographs of him, just things that are personal to him.
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When the results came back, there's a fingerprint match then
537
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ultimately there's a DNA match.
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Brennan Doyle's DNA was a spot on match to unknown
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DNA found in Donna's car in a number of.
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Places, Eleven different DNA samples and pieces of evidence found
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in that vehicle. And really, there's no reason why Brennan
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Doyle's DNA should be in this woman's vehicle. He's a
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stranger to her.
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One more crucial piece of evidence was found in early
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October in the most unexpected spot.
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Repairmen were servicing an air conditioning unit that was on
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the top of the Strip mall. They found the knife
548
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on the roof right near the air conditioning unit.
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A knife looking weathered as though it had been there
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for months. Found on a bowling alley roof in the
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very same shopping center where the Taco bell was located
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and where Donna's car had been abandoned.
553
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How important was the knife?
554
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It ended up being very important because the knife was
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from a set. We determined that that knife matched another
556
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knife that we knew came from the Doyle household that
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had been taken months earlier.
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Through a twist of timing and fate, the Colts Neck
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Police already had another knife from the Doyle home taken
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after police were called to the house a few weeks
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prior to Donna's attack following an altercation between Brennan and
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his brother.
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There's a knife that's apparently used by the younger brother
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in a threatening manner. Police are called. Police take the
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knife and the situation ends.
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There was no charges or anything that came of it,
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but they secured the knife in their evidence vault. It
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was the same brand name, the same look. It was
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a silver knife.
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It was from the same collection, correct.
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That was kind of the icing on the cake. To
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get a search worm. They had moved during the course
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of this investigation, so we got a search worm for
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their new home.
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The search of the new Doyle residents, also in Coltsneck,
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turned up the rest of the knife set, matching the
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one found atop the shopping center. In late October twenty thirteen,
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Brennan Doyle was arrested.
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What kinds of charges was he facing?
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Serious ones? Attempted murder, carjacking, weapons possession. These are the
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most serious of crimes that we have.
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What do you make of the evidence against Brennan Doyle.
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Take a look at the complete investigation at forty eight
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hours dot.
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Com months after Donna's brush with death, her alleged attacker,
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Brennan Doyle, was in custody facing six counts, including a
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tempted murder and carjacket. He pleaded not guilty, and you.
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Have to look at the seriousness of the offense.
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The prosecution felt the crime warranted trying Doyle as an adult,
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even though he was sixteen at the time, and.
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In juvenile court, Brennan is looking at four years maximum
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in a youth detention facility. In adult court, he's looking
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it up to thirty years.
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A judge would rule an assistant prosecutor Gerhardt's favor, but
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there was a catch. Doyle would now be entitled to
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post bail, said at seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars,
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which he did.
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When you heard he was out, did all of the
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fear come rushing back.
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It wasn't so much fear as it was anger that
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he was even allowed to be bailed out.
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The thought of running into Doyle terrified Kirsten. She says
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he even haunted her dreams.
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I didn't realize how much it was affecting me. I
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had no idea until it was like falling asleep and
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all I say.
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Is his face.
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As prosecutors developed their case, the details of what happened
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that horrific night began to emerge.
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What does Brennan Doyle say happened the night of July
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sixth heading into the morning of July seventh, twenty thirteen mushrooms?
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He says he was under the influence of a hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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According to investigative reports he examined. Matt Troiano says that
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on the night of Donna's attack, Doyle claimed he was
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losing touch with reality and had gotten into a fight
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with his father.
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He has a knife in his hand, Dad kicks him out,
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and he kind of loses his mind, makes bad decisions.
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Police thought it was likely that Doyle, who lived a
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short distance away, approached Donna's home looking to steal her car.
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I don't know if his intent was to kill Donna.
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Certainly when he started stating her, that became his intent.
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To me, what he's doing is he's getting ready of
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the witness.
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Gerhart believes Doyle did not act like someone incapacitated by drugs.
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Doyle drove five miles to that shopping center after leaving
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Donna's house.
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This kid manages to ditch a knife, he abandons the car,
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and that's not a kid who's so high on mushrooms
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he doesn't know what he's doing.
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Treiano says, while a lot of the evidence against Brendan
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Doyle was strong, the knife, the security camera videos, one
633
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.360
thing put this case over the top.
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What is going to seal the fate of this boy,
635
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this kid, is that there's DNA in her vehicle that
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links to him.
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It's indefensible, but as it.
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Turned out, there would be no need for a defense.
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In August of twenty fifteen, Brennan Doyle agreed to a
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plea deal. In return, the prosecution dropped all but the
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two most serious charges, car jacket and attempted murder.
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It was very important for me that he admit his guilt.
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If he took the plea, he would have to confess
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his guilt to the court.
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In October twenty fifteen, Brennan Doyle, now eighteen years old,
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appeared in Mommouth County Superior Court for sentence. Sing Donna,
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who'd attended every court appearance, was there to face him
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one last time.
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Even though I felt overpowered by fear, I wanted him
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to see me as strong.
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And as a survivor.
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It was an emotional day for Kirsten there to support
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her mother.
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When you would look at him in court, what do
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you remember feeling anger?
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He's very angry.
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Sorry, the drugs turned me into the monster.
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That night, Doyle was permitted to address the court.
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I pray and hope her wounds will lessen as she
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will recover eventually. I am asking you to forgive me.
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Going to prison will be the hardest thing I will
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ever have to face my life. I'm afraid.
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Brennan Doyle was sentenced to fifteen years in state prison.
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The law requires him to serve at least eighty five
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percent of that time.
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Justice has to be done on both sides, and we
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have to be sensitive to that. We have a sixteen
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year old kid who, for the most part, had absolutely
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no prior history.
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The court has a balancing act to do it.
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Did it feel like justice?
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It did not.
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What would have felt like justice to you?
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More like thirty years, forty years, fifty years, if not longer.
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Even with Doyle off the streets, Donna was still struggling.
676
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She had found PTSD and domestic violence support groups, but
677
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:33.199
says there were none for victims of random attacks, So
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in twenty fifteen, she decided to create her own Survivors
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of Violent Crimes.
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The reason we took to the support group was to
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help each other cope.
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Donna connected with fellow survivors Tiffanyot and Dana Richards. Together,
683
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they held meetings and felt gratified they could help. When
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more survivors joined.
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Their finding relief and knowing that they're not alone.
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But Donna says her work isn't done. Her future plans
687
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include helping victims connect with trauma therapists and offering self
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defense classes. As she grows her support group, she's also
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educating others. She travels to prisons, meeting with inmates and
690
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addresses police cadets so they can understand the victim's point
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of view. I got up, I.
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Made it up the stairs with my bedroom or my
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cell phone, whiles I after the nine oh one.
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She survives and she's building a life. How could anyone
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not applaud that?
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Donna says, the physical scars that remain are a reminder
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of the surgeons who saved her life.
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This is artwork. They're beautiful artwork.
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You could either get sucked into the darkness or you
700
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just keep going.
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I did what I had to do to.
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Be here today and go another day.
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It is farm country, horse country, bucolic, upwardly mobile, wealthy
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type of community, a fluent It's a quiet place.
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Tiny, unassuming house, just a simple farmhouse.
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Cold Snack has a lot of these.
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Yes, this beautiful little farmhouse with this beautiful farm star
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you know, in the middle of it.
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In July of twenty thirteen, I was an assistant prosecutor
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in Mammoth County, New Jersey. Donna in Shacko was alone.
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She had just gone to bed for the evening.
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An intruder came into her house and attacked her, stabbing
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her repeatedly.
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I'm on one word's emergency.
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Oh my name is Dona on shack I get that stabbed?
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Or are you really bad? Kid? Just came in and stabbing?
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Okay, out of my heart.
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I'm poor in cushion.
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Gloved, some losing consciousness.
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Keep your eyes open with Donna. Donna.
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I was driving home. There was maybe like three'clock in
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the morning, three thirty. As I pulled up closer, I
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saw big SUVs, cop cars, lights flashing everywhere. I was like,
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where is my mom? And they were like, well, she
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has been attacked and she's on her way to the hospital.
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They couldn't tell me whether she was alive or she wasn't.
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That I was new into major crimes. I didn't have
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the experience at some of the older detectives, so I
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had never seen that much blood before.
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Why would somebody do this?
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Who did this? What did she ever do to anybody?
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You know?
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On that night, in the early morning hours, we got
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a nine to one one call from a worker from
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this restaurant.
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About how far from Donna's house are we standing right here?
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This is about an eight minute drive.
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They called because they saw a subject walking through their
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drive through.
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Already touch police.
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One of my.
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Customers were in drive through, were approached by a man
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with no shirt but had a.
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Knife in his hands, knocking on windows carrying a knife.
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One of the witnesses who saw the young man, she
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agreed to come in and give us a sketch.
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Everybody was asking about the police question. It was in
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every store. People were frighted.
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Can you tell me about the tip?
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I get a call.
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The woman on the other end says that she's calling
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about the stabbing in Coltsnack.
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She said, I think my cousin may have something to.
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Do with that.
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Tiny Coltsneck New Jersey sits just fifty miles from New
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York City, but it might as well be a world away.
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So in July twenty thirteen, this quiet community was rocked
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by news of a violent home invasion with a victim
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was stabbed repeatedly. The only thing more shocking.
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My name is Donna. I'm Chako.
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The victim survived.
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I lost in total, close to three quarters of the
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blood in my body. There's no earthly reason why I'm alive.
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None.
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If I had asked you at the time to give
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me a list of one hundred things you're worried about,
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where would have home invasion been?
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Oh no, never.
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Donna worked for a company that broke fuel for ships
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on the nearby Jersey Shore. She and her daughter Kirsten
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lived in this farmhouse on the edge of flower fields.
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She was twenty when she had me, so we're only
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twenty years and one day apart.
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Friend Sharon Sharp hired Donna decades ago.
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Kirston had just been born.
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Yeah, Kirsten was a baby. I thought she was really bad,
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being a single mom, very young.
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I was by her side all the time.
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Kirsten, who now works as a welder, recalls what life
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was like just prior to her mother's attack.
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We were going to the gym multiple times a week.
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Not only was she like mentally strong, but she was
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physically strong.
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She was so fit.
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She did tough mutters with Kirsten.
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I liked that competition. I like to show strength, physical strength.
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Things couldn't have been any better at that time.
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That's when Saturday of July, fourth weekend rolled around. Mammouth
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County Detective Andrea Tazzi says they were having a heat wave.
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It was humid, but we had no rain or anything
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like that. I mean, it was a dry night. So
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Donna had our windows open. Yes, the windows open, just
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to circ obviously, to circulate air.
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Kirsten was out at a party, so I was home
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doing laundry. I'd say about eleven eleven thirty, I decide
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I'm gonna get ready for bed.
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I let the cat out. I went and brushed my.
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Teeth, But just as she was drifting off to.
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Sleep, I heard what I thought was the cat.
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I heard something, and I remembered, oh, I forgot to
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let the cat.
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In without turning on any lights. Donna headed downstairs to
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open the front door for her cat.
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But instead, when I opened the door. I saw someone
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standing there. In the split second after seeing this person
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on my porch, I saw the knife he was trying
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to cut into the screen of the window that was
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right next to the front door.
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She says she didn't recognize the young white male standing
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right in front of her holding a large knife.
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I tried to slam and shut the door. My fingers
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were protruding out. He stuck the knife through the opening
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and hut my finger so that I immediately let go of
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the door, and then he pushed his way in, backing
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into my kitchen.
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We're face to face.
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It didn't register to me that he was actually going
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to stab me.
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But without a word, that's exactly what the stranger did.
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He slashed my cheek and you can see that here,
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and actually it starts back here.
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There was no way to process that that happened.
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Donna's attacker came at her with the knife again.
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He then slashed three times on this side of my neck.
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She tried grabbing the knife, but only cut her own
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hand in the process.
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Did you feel like you were dealing with somebody who's
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really strong.
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No, But I felt like he was very sure, like
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he was very in control of himself.
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Donna was starting to weaken from the injuries, so.
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I felt like my legs were going to give out,
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so I braced myself against the corner of my bathroom,
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right next to the front door.
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Sure enough, she slid down to the floor.
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I was in fetal position and I'm bleeding, and he
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came over and it was kind of like he was playing,
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you know, with the knife and just started jabbing at me.
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So that's when he caught me here and he got
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me in the back of my neck.
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Here.
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Finally, Donna's attacker spoke to her.
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This was when he decided to ask me for my
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car keys and if I had a lighter, a lighter.
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I just answered him, there's a lighter in my purse,
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and my purse was on the table back in the kitchen.
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So he went over and was rummaging through my purse
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and got the keys, got the lighter.
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Donna's assailant ended up taking her entire purse with him,
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but not before returning one last time to Donna, still
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bleeding on the floor.
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He said, you dead bitch, and plunge the knife into
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my chest.
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Once he plunges the knife in and then removes it.
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What does he do?
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Then he just walked out the door, with.
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No neighbors in earshot. Donna knew she must get help somehow.
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Your phone is in reach.
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No, my phone was upstairs in my bedroom charging.
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Donna had no landline in the house. But even as
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the blood was draining rapidly from her body, she had
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one pressing concern above her own survival.
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Pearston could come home and find me. I just didn't
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want her to have to experience any level of the
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horror that I had just gone through, or any other
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levels in finding me there dead.
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So this is a mother's instinct as pure as it gets.
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Yes, absolutely, yeah.
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You know you have to get upstairs if you're going
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to be able to make a call for help, Right,
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how do you get up those stairs?
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So that I don't know, there was divine intervention that
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helped me up those stairs, no doubt, no doubt in
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my mind.
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She's a tiny little woman.
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You have to imagine that many stairborn, and she just
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willed it. She was not going to die there.
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Former Mammoth County Assistant prosecutor Lorie Gerhardt says Donna Angshaka
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was determined her daughter Kirsten would not come home to
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find her death. She knew she had to get to
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her cell phone upstairs.
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I don't remember my feet or my hands actually touching
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the stairs. The energy that it took for me to
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get up off the ground and up those stairs, I
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was definitely guided.
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The amount of strength that goes into that is just unimaginable.
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But the motivation was you.
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Yeah, yep, maybe I was there guiding her in spirit.
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Once Donna made it upstairs, she faced a new challenge.
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After peering out her bedroom window, she had a car.
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Sitting right here, and she had a car sitting right
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in this area.
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I could still see the car was there, and I
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could see the car was on and he was in it.
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If I take my phone off the charger, it's going
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to light up. He's going to see the light.
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Afraid or attacker would come back for her, Donna did
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her best to hide the light of the phone. Then
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just getting it to work became the next hurdle.
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My hands are covered in blood my touchscreen. I was
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trying to swipe and swipe, so I ended up having
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to wipe my hands off, wipe the phone off, wipe
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it down on the bed, and then I was able
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to do the touch screen and get through to nine
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to one one.
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Oh, my name is Dona Jack I get that stabbed.
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It's really bad. Kid just came in and stabbed me
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and he saw my car.
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Okay, okay, okay, just stand up on me. Okay, where'd
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he gets stabbed.
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In the next blood it's cushing out.
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And in the chest. Detective Andrea Tazzi says Donna's ability
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to place that call despite her injuries was amazing, but
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then Donna did something even more extraordinary. She gave a
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detailed description of her attacker.
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Oh you know what he looked like. Yeah, he was
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probably about seventeen, white, real skinny, curly hair, blonde, jerdy
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blonde hair. About that.
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It was pretty chilling to listen to Donna and be
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able to hear her accurately talk about this is what happened,
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this is what he looks like. I'm losing consciousness, and
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then hear her fade out.
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Donna, Donna, Hello, Donna, Donna us, ma'am all right, I
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just sat down for a minutes.
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Police in paramedics arrived less than eight minutes after Donna
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dialed nine one one, but her attacker had already fled
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Donna was rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and
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didn't trauma surgery. It would be a few more hours
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before Kirsten arrived home from her party to a house
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surrounded by flashing lights.
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I saw the caution tape and that her car was gone.
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Police told Kirsten what happened to her mother?
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You were deeply shaken.
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Oh yeah, I remember at one point my knees buckled.
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They had the SUV, the undercover cop car. The trunk
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was open, So like, can I sit here because I
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feel like I'm going to pass out.
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As Kirsten was processing the news, an all out manhunt
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had already begun for Donna's A Salad Detective Tazzi says
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another nine to one one call had come in shortly
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before Donna's attack.
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I was going to pick up my daughter and there
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was a hitch hiking.
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From a driver who saw someone walking along the road
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near Donna's house.
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They saw a young man with a backpack and khaki pants.
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He was walking close to the fog line and kind
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of stepping into traffic, and she felt that he was
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kind of a hitchhiker.
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He was on the north down side, walking south down
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and I'm afraid you're gonna hit by a car.
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How old about I'm going to say like.
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Eighteen nineteen twenty from something like that.
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She was concerned because she just thought that maybe he
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needed help in some way.
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And was a car dispatched.
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Yes, yes, they didn't find.
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Him, though still the Good Samaritan driver had inadvertently given
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the investigation its first leave.
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I felt that the hitchhiker was my person. It was
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too coincidental for that time of the night in that
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area for somebody to be walking. And then fifteen minutes later,
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Donna's calling said that she was stabbed and there.
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Was about to be another tim Not long after Donna's
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nine won one call from a fast food restaurant five
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miles from her house.
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They saw a subject walking through their drive through, knocking
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on windows, carrying a knife and it looked like it
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had blood on it.
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Employees from the Taco Bell quickly called police.
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I having a description of him.
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He was wearing, you know, like still army pants and
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he had no shirt.
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He's white, but like really like bushy hair, but it
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was like long, like the.
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Skater type hair.
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How old was he?
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I don't know.
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He looked like he was the eighteen.
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Police rushed to the Taco Belt and started canvassing the
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nearby shopping center. They didn't find their suspect, but they
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did find something else.
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So there had been a bolo put out on Donna's
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vehicle being able to look at right and in the
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process of looking for this person here they found the.
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Car Donna's stolen car. This BMW had been ditched behind
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a movie theater.
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It was lights on and it was running, so it
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clearly was an abandoned vehicle.
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Tazzi says the car would become crucial.
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There was blood all over it, and so we were
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hoping that we would get some kind of DNA evidence
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of our suspect.
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Did you we did.
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Sharon Sharp will never forget the dread she felt when
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she arrived at the hospital to see her friend Donna
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on Shako, only to be told she wasn't there.
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I'm picturing the color draining from your face and the
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air leaving your lungs late.
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Totally, No, this cannot be. There's no way she has
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to be here.
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Did you think maybe she hit? Yes?
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Yes, it turned out with her attacker still on the loose.
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The hospital had admitted Donna under an alias to protect her.
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Sharon was allowed to see Donna the next day.
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An intensive care room I've never seen before.
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It looked like an enlarged, massively enlarged cockpit wall because
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there were tons of machines behind her, and she looked
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almost like a puppet.
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Surgery was seven hours, I.
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Believe, despite losing three quarters of the blood in her body.
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Trauma surgeons had saved Donna's life, but at a tremendous cost.
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You may find the pictures you're about to see disturbing.
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I pretty much looked like a living cadaver. I had
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thirty seven stitches on my face and neck, thirty eight
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staples in my chest, seven stitches in my hand, and
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now internally my sternum is wired shut.
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And as for that final stamp to Donna's chest just
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before her assailant left.
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It missed my heart by the edge of a dime,
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is what I remember them telling me.
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The edge of a dime.
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When she talks about the margin that the knife missed
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her heart, buy.
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Yeah, if she was any slouched over anymore, that would
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have been.
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At Kirsten says, as soon as her mother was able
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to talk, she had one simple request.
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I remember her saying all I smell is is blood
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in my hair. Can somebody please wash my hair?
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Sharon says they got permission, and then she and two
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of Donna's family members did their best to wash Donna's
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hair as she lay in her hospital bed.
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We were determined to see if we can make her smile,
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so we turned it into an ridiculous idiot session with
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three of us like.
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A factory light.
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We laughed through our tears, and anytime anybody would get
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too serious, we would make it funny.
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But her hair was far from Donna's biggest concern. She
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was sure her attacker would find her and finish the job.
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She was convinced that he was in the hospital, and
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we kept telling her, know you're.
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Here under an alias.
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I survived. I stood face to face with him.
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I could one hundred percent positively identify him.
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He's coming back for me.
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Detective Tazzi says they were pretty sure the young man
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knocking on windows at the Taco Bell drive through shortly
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after Donna's attack was their suspect. Within two days, a
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customer who saw him met with a police sketch.
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Artist and was able to provide pretty great details on
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the person she saw that night.
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Investigators then took the sketch to the hospital.
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What did Donna say when she saw that sketch?
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She said, Yeah, that's was incredibly accurate. She tweaked it
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a little bit.
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She said that, yes, that looks like the person who
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stabbed me.
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His curly blonde hair. He was like a surfer kid
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or a skateboarder or something like that.
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Former Assistant Prosecutor Lori Gerhardt says the sketch of the
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suspect was soon plastered all over Mammouth County and on
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law enforcement social media.
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So people are obviously talking and trying to figure out,
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do we know where is he from?
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Who is this kid? And it's scary.
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Because you like to have a sense of security in
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your community.
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Investigators reviewed the cameras of stores in the shopping center
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near the Taco Bell to see if they'd get lucky
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and spot their suspect, hoping the more images they had,
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the more likely the chance of identifying him.
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We were trying to go back and look at video
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from various businesses to see the description and really to
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put out the bolo like this is who we're looking for.
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Security cameras had captured the suspect. Once again.
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The surveillance we got from the store over there was
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from the inside the store, but it was pointing outwards.
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I see, and it definitely caught him.
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Oh yeah, you could seeking.
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Wow.
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As police kept looking for the suspect, Donna was turning
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a corner, at least physically. Amazingly, after just four days,
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Donna Anghako was released from the hospital. Sharon says that
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was all due to the training Donna had done prior
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to the attack.
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Clearly, she's very physically fit. She wouldn't have survived this
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if she wasn't.
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What's an amazing thing. You were out in four days, But.
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As you leave the hospital, you are also walking back
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into a world where whoever did this to you is
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still out there.
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Right.
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But also, I wasn't going back to the farm. I
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wasn't going back to my house. No, there was no way.
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In fact, Donna would never step foot in her house again.
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She and Kirsten moved in with family living in New Jersey.
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Then just eight days after the attack, not long after
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the police sketch began circulating, Detective Tazzi's phone.
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Rang I take the call and the woman on the
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other end says that she's calling about the stabbing in.
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Coltsnack I said, okay, I said, how can I help you?
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And she said, I think my cousin, Brennan Doyle may
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have something to do with that.
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It was the first time Tozzi had heard the name
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Brennan Doyle. He was just sixteen years old. His cousin
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told Tazzi word was going around her family that Brennan
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was involved in the Colts Next stabbing. The cousin had
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seen Brennan just days prior to Donna's attack.
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Between July third and sixth, because he was up in
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Connecticut for her wedding with his family.
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He had attended her wedding.
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He attended her wedding, and she was able to provide
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us a picture of what he looked like during the
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time he was up there for the wedding.
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The photo sh he sends is Brennan with long curly hair,
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wearing camouflage shorts, looking very much like the kid in
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the sketch and more importantly, on the videotapes.
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Brennan's resemblance to the sketch. All around Town was about
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to become even more important because of what the cousin
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told detective Tazzi happened a few days later.
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She was staying at Brennan's family's lake house in New
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Hampshire as a wedding gift, and Brennan, his brother, and
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the mother showed up there unexpected.
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Hang on, this woman is in Lake Winnipeesake. She's on
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her honeymoon.
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Yes, and all of a sudden there's Brennan, Brennan's mother,
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Brennan's brother crashing her honeymoon.
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Yes, and the dog.
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But what was even more surprising was Brennan's appearance.
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Brennan's hair was cut and next time she sees him,
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he's cut his hair.
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Yes, so that's a big red flag.
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Yes, Brennan. Doyle's cousin told investigators that Brennan showed up
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just days after Donna's attack, hundreds of miles from home,
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with his hair suddenly cut short.
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Similar to this.
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Like Donna, the Doyle family resided in colts Neck. Former
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Assistant prosecutor Lorie Gerhard.
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We lived in a very nice house, two sons, a
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mom and a dad. The life of a typical colts
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Next teenager. It's a life of wealth, It's a life
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of privilege.
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Doyle was a student athlete on wrestling and hockey teams.
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Detective Tozzi started digging into his background.
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He had never been arrested.
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There was never any charges filed against him prior to
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our investigation.
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According to the prosecutors records, police had been called to
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the Doyle house for what they referred to as family conflicts.
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The location of the home would turn out to be
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very important.
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Where did Brennan live?
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So if you make a right up here and you
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go up maybe a quarter of a mile on the left.
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So that's close. Yeah, the tea and his family lived
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within walking distance of Donna's house, up the very road
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that driver had reported seeing.
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Someone she described as a.
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Young hitchhiker just prior to Donna's attack.
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I'm afraid you can get you by a car.
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When does the Doyle family return to Coltsnack? Later in July,
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with Brennan and his family back in town, Tazzi reached
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out to the family, saying investigators were canvassing the neighborhood.
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What happened when you went to the house.
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We spoke with missus Doyle. She was nervous, her boys
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was cracking.
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And did this raise an eyebrow for you?
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It did.
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We asked if Brennan and his brother could come and
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look look at the composite sketch and if they had.
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Any idea who that person might be on the sketch.
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Did Brennan come out?
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He did.
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Tazzi says she wanted to see Brennan's hair to confirm
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what his cousin had told her that it had been
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cut much shorter. It seemed the team tried to stay
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a step ahead. When he came out to greet the detective, he.
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Was wearing a hat. He was wearing a baseball hat.
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I think wearing a baseball cat was a calculated move.
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It might have been, but it didn't work.
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You could tell his hair was cut short.
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Next, Tazzi showed Brennan the police sketch of the suspect,
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the same one Donna helped tweak to look just like
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her attacker.
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How did he react?
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He looked away, He looked at it, looked away and
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I don't know, I don't know. He was nervous and
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he was scared, and he got very quiet.
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There is a reaction. Eyes are down, no eye contact,
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people are nervous. Mom starts redirecting the conversation.
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Doyle's family, and his attorney denied our request for an interview.
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We as CBS News consultant defense attorney Matt Troyano to
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study the case file.
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And I think that that probably confirms what they believed
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going in.
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Brennan's odd behavior and resemblance to the sketch and video
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evidence may have been striking, but with nothing else to
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go on yet, Tazzi thanked the Doyles for their time
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and left.
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Did you know that was your guy?
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I was pretty confident that we were on the right
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track with him, but we also have a duty. We
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had other leads that were coming in, so we were
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doing a lot of follow ups.
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As investigators worked the case. Donna was struggling. Weeks after
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the attack. The reality of what had happened to her
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had taken hold.
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I lost everything that night. I lost my home, had
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nowhere to go. I lost my car. They took it
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into evidence.
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Donna, you lost more than half your.
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Blood, I exactly, I lost I lost a lot.
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Donna says. That's when, in addition to her physical recovery,
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she faced a new challenge.
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Symptoms of PTSD started to show up. I'm not eating,
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I'm not sleeping, I don't care about anything. I'm angry,
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I'm saying I'm happy, I'm you know, every emotion under
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the sun. At any minute, I felt like I was
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going crazy. I was always thinking, I don't know who
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this kid is. But he climbed through the window in
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that second that I fell asleep, and now he's hiding
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in the closet. You know, kind of crazy thoughts.
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Sharon Sharp says Donna's fear meant even friendly visits required
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a new protocol, including announcing her arrival every step of
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the way so as not to trigger Donna.
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I'm going to come around the hedges now and I'm
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going to enter the backyard.
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I'm going to be touching the.
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Gate in three to one. I would shake my keys first,
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which had been on them. Say it's me, Sharon, I'm coming.
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The investigation lasted through the summer of twenty thirteen. Brennan
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Doyle remained the only likely suspect. Detective Tazzi says investigators
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took the next step in September.
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We got a warrant to obtain his DNA, his fingerprints,
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photographs of him, just things that are personal to him.
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When the results came back, there's a fingerprint match then
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ultimately there's a DNA match.
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Brennan Doyle's DNA was a spot on match to unknown
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DNA found in Donna's car in a number of.
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Places, Eleven different DNA samples and pieces of evidence found
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in that vehicle. And really, there's no reason why Brennan
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Doyle's DNA should be in this woman's vehicle. He's a
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stranger to her.
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One more crucial piece of evidence was found in early
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October in the most unexpected spot.
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Repairmen were servicing an air conditioning unit that was on
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the top of the Strip mall. They found the knife
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on the roof right near the air conditioning unit.
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A knife looking weathered as though it had been there
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for months. Found on a bowling alley roof in the
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very same shopping center where the Taco bell was located
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and where Donna's car had been abandoned.
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How important was the knife?
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It ended up being very important because the knife was
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from a set. We determined that that knife matched another
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knife that we knew came from the Doyle household that
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had been taken months earlier.
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Through a twist of timing and fate, the Colts Neck
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Police already had another knife from the Doyle home taken
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after police were called to the house a few weeks
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prior to Donna's attack following an altercation between Brennan and
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his brother.
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There's a knife that's apparently used by the younger brother
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in a threatening manner. Police are called. Police take the
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knife and the situation ends.
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There was no charges or anything that came of it,
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but they secured the knife in their evidence vault. It
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was the same brand name, the same look. It was
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a silver knife.
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It was from the same collection, correct.
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That was kind of the icing on the cake. To
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get a search worm. They had moved during the course
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of this investigation, so we got a search worm for
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their new home.
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The search of the new Doyle residents, also in Coltsneck,
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turned up the rest of the knife set, matching the
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one found atop the shopping center. In late October twenty thirteen,
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Brennan Doyle was arrested.
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What kinds of charges was he facing?
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Serious ones? Attempted murder, carjacking, weapons possession. These are the
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most serious of crimes that we have.
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What do you make of the evidence against Brennan Doyle.
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Take a look at the complete investigation at forty eight
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hours dot.
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Com months after Donna's brush with death, her alleged attacker,
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Brennan Doyle, was in custody facing six counts, including a
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tempted murder and carjacket. He pleaded not guilty, and you.
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Have to look at the seriousness of the offense.
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The prosecution felt the crime warranted trying Doyle as an adult,
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even though he was sixteen at the time, and.
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In juvenile court, Brennan is looking at four years maximum
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in a youth detention facility. In adult court, he's looking
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it up to thirty years.
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A judge would rule an assistant prosecutor Gerhardt's favor, but
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there was a catch. Doyle would now be entitled to
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post bail, said at seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars,
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which he did.
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When you heard he was out, did all of the
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fear come rushing back.
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It wasn't so much fear as it was anger that
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he was even allowed to be bailed out.
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The thought of running into Doyle terrified Kirsten. She says
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he even haunted her dreams.
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I didn't realize how much it was affecting me. I
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had no idea until it was like falling asleep and
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all I say.
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Is his face.
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As prosecutors developed their case, the details of what happened
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that horrific night began to emerge.
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What does Brennan Doyle say happened the night of July
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sixth heading into the morning of July seventh, twenty thirteen mushrooms?
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He says he was under the influence of a hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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According to investigative reports he examined. Matt Troiano says that
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on the night of Donna's attack, Doyle claimed he was
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losing touch with reality and had gotten into a fight
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with his father.
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He has a knife in his hand, Dad kicks him out,
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and he kind of loses his mind, makes bad decisions.
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Police thought it was likely that Doyle, who lived a
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short distance away, approached Donna's home looking to steal her car.
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I don't know if his intent was to kill Donna.
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Certainly when he started stating her, that became his intent.
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To me, what he's doing is he's getting ready of
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the witness.
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Gerhart believes Doyle did not act like someone incapacitated by drugs.
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Doyle drove five miles to that shopping center after leaving
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Donna's house.
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This kid manages to ditch a knife, he abandons the car,
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and that's not a kid who's so high on mushrooms
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he doesn't know what he's doing.
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Treiano says, while a lot of the evidence against Brendan
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Doyle was strong, the knife, the security camera videos, one
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thing put this case over the top.
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What is going to seal the fate of this boy,
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this kid, is that there's DNA in her vehicle that
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links to him.
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It's indefensible, but as it.
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Turned out, there would be no need for a defense.
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In August of twenty fifteen, Brennan Doyle agreed to a
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plea deal. In return, the prosecution dropped all but the
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two most serious charges, car jacket and attempted murder.
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It was very important for me that he admit his guilt.
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If he took the plea, he would have to confess
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his guilt to the court.
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In October twenty fifteen, Brennan Doyle, now eighteen years old,
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appeared in Mommouth County Superior Court for sentence. Sing Donna,
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who'd attended every court appearance, was there to face him
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one last time.
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Even though I felt overpowered by fear, I wanted him
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to see me as strong.
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And as a survivor.
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It was an emotional day for Kirsten there to support
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her mother.
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When you would look at him in court, what do
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you remember feeling anger?
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He's very angry.
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Sorry, the drugs turned me into the monster.
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That night, Doyle was permitted to address the court.
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I pray and hope her wounds will lessen as she
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will recover eventually. I am asking you to forgive me.
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Going to prison will be the hardest thing I will
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ever have to face my life. I'm afraid.
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Brennan Doyle was sentenced to fifteen years in state prison.
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The law requires him to serve at least eighty five
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percent of that time.
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Justice has to be done on both sides, and we
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have to be sensitive to that. We have a sixteen
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year old kid who, for the most part, had absolutely
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no prior history.
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The court has a balancing act to do it.
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Did it feel like justice?
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It did not.
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What would have felt like justice to you?
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More like thirty years, forty years, fifty years, if not longer.
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Even with Doyle off the streets, Donna was still struggling.
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She had found PTSD and domestic violence support groups, but
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says there were none for victims of random attacks, So
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in twenty fifteen, she decided to create her own Survivors
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of Violent Crimes.
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The reason we took to the support group was to
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help each other cope.
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Donna connected with fellow survivors Tiffanyot and Dana Richards. Together,
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they held meetings and felt gratified they could help. When
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more survivors joined.
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Their finding relief and knowing that they're not alone.
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But Donna says her work isn't done. Her future plans
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include helping victims connect with trauma therapists and offering self
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defense classes. As she grows her support group, she's also
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educating others. She travels to prisons, meeting with inmates and
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addresses police cadets so they can understand the victim's point
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of view. I got up, I.
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Made it up the stairs with my bedroom or my
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cell phone, whiles I after the nine oh one.
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She survives and she's building a life. How could anyone
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not applaud that?
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Donna says, the physical scars that remain are a reminder
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of the surgeons who saved her life.
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This is artwork. They're beautiful artwork.
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You could either get sucked into the darkness or you
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just keep going.
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I did what I had to do to.
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Be here today and go another day.
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