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Prince George's County, n I'm a one center. What is
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your emergency? Grandma's been shut, mother has been shut that.
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I was imagining how she had felt in that predicament.
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It's just heartbreaking to be a sixteen year old girl.
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A manster like that comes in and takes your life
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from you.
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Jason Scott was an extraordinarily dangerous criminal who masqueraded as
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an ordinary person.
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He's saying to you, criminal justice system, I am smarter
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than you.
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If you feel like somebody is watching you, they are.
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I'm successful at doing it.
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Why stop.
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It?
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Don't cross your mind and sick people like that exist.
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My life was perfect before before everything happened.
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For Marlboro, a suburb twenty miles east of Washington, d C.
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Is home to the Lofton family, Dad Kirk, mom Karen,
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two sons, Kirk Junior and Keon, and daughter Carissa.
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My daughter was a very inspiring, very beautiful, a gift.
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She was a gift. She went through some struggles. She
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had an open heart surgery because she had something going
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on with a valve in her heart and everything, and
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she bounced right back like it was nothing, and she
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was very strong.
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I am ke On Lofton. Karen Lofton was my mother.
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Carrissa was my younger sister. My mother was a really
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caring person. She was in the nursing field as long
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as I can remember. I remember I was being in
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a little child and going with her to work with her,
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and just all the love that she would get from
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her coworkers.
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She was probably one of the best nurses of her time.
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Chrissa's personality at that around that age was typical teenage girls.
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She was still trying to figure herself out, pleasant kind person.
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You can see her modeling after the characteristics and values
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and things that my mother instilled in all of us,
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and you can just see the trajectory of the type
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of woman that she was going to become.
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In two thousand and eight, Kirk moves away after his
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marriage to Karen breaks down, moved to Georgia.
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In two thousand and eight, I was remarried, still remaining
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to come take with my daughter. As matter of fact,
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that she was supposed to move down here and go
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to college.
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Prince George's County nine on one center, What is your emergency.
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Grandma's been shot. May my mother has been shut I
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haven't believing.
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Through that, will you slow down?
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What's he address?
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As you know, if we need any kind of testament
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to Carrissa's courage.
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This is a.
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Young teenager, a sixteen year old, who has been involved
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in a home invasion, which is one of the most
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terrifying things anybody can imagine. She's been shot and she
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has the kind of strength of mind to call nine
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one one while she's bleeding and to report to them
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that she has been shot, her mom has been shot,
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and she tells the operator, you know, I'm bleeding to death,
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please hurry. Unfortunately, the phone is hung up and by
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the time they get there, it's two way.
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So the night of the wear anything when everything happened,
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I was at my girlfriend's house. My mother in law
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now told me that two women have been found killed
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on our street, and she told me to call and
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check my mother and sister. So I called and nobody answered.
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So I kept calling. I kept calling and nobody answered.
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So I just I just got up and left and started,
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you know, got in my car and was driving. It
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had to be about two three o'clock in the morning,
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got there to the house, probably about a ten minute drive.
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Police kind of had like the street blocked off whatever
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and I got out. I was trying to set trying
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to see who it was, and police officer or detective
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asked who I was, and I was told of my
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name and he said, okay, we got the son right here.
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And I just broke down him because I knew it,
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kind of realization that, okay, if it was him.
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I was in the room sleep and my son, my
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oldest son, Kirk Jr. He called me at probably you know,
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three in the morning, four in the morning something like that.
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He was crying and I said, what's wrong? He said,
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have you talked to key On yet? Mine Carissa got killed.
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The first thing that I thought was they got into
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a car accident or something like that, but then he
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said they were shy. I immediately got off home with
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him and I called my other son, my younger son,
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and he told me that they somebody came into our
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house and out of the family house in Kibos of them.
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It's just just heartbreaking to be a sixteen year old
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girl and be in the comfort of your own babe
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and a manster like that comes in and takes your
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life from you. I was imagining how she had to
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felt in that in that predicament, somebody storming in, you know, shooting,
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shooting you and you have to, you know, call it
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nine one one, trying to get somebody to say you
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is you know is it's heartbreaking.
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With no signs of forced entry, the police suspect the
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murders have been committed by someone with access to the
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lofton's home.
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They kind of step back and go, Okay, what do
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we do. We start from the innermost circle and we
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work our way out. Most often, sadly, those are the perpetrators.
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One of the first persons to come on the radar
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is Chris's older brother Kean.
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Honestly, I didn't know why I was in a police car.
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I had no idea.
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It was.
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Everything was an immediate shot right there from there. I
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remember being in the interrogation room.
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Does your mom set you along for the house?
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Okay? All the time?
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Every time?
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Would you have heard your mom and sister?
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Now you have heard your mom?
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And I remember them letting me come out to like
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one of the one of their desks and letting me
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hear like a snippet of the nine.
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One one called Grandma's been shut.
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Anybody who's getting to accused of anything that they haven't done.
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They're gonna be upset when I'm in that interrogation room
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and I'm hearing them accusing me, and I'm just trying
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to process, like did this really happen? Like did my
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mother's just to really just get murdered? Are you guys
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really accusing me of doing this? Everything just felt like
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a like a nightmare or a dream, Like just felt
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really surreal. I knew a thousand percent it wasn't me.
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So they didn't know what to think. They didn't know
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anything about who this person was. I got no finger French,
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there was no forced intrigue, and all of.
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A sudden, here it is.
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The forty eight hours has passed, which of course is
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often the critical period for getting that first lead, and
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they're sitting there kind of going, we have no idea.
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And if you're going down the wrong road with that,
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you've allowed the individual to perhaps clean up the case,
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to perhaps even be further away from the case. So
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it's very important those first initial hours of any case
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that you hope the investigators are on the right path.
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Kirk and Keon begin to develop their own theories about
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what happened.
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I know how safe that Karen was, and Karen would
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not let anyone in that house at two thirty six
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in the morning without she would have the alarm on.
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They said the alarm was just engaged.
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She took that really seriously. You know, when I would
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leave out to make sure the back doors locked things,
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lest so to make sure the window was locked. She
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was always a stickler for those things. But I'm pretty
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sure I thought that, Okay, somebody forced her to put
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the alarm in. It's no other explanation.
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At the time of the Lofton's murders, a burglar is
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successfully evading capture in the neighborhood.
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Jason Scott came across his very mild mannered He held
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a part time job with a packaged delivery service. It
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wasn't dute as being dangerous by his friends and family,
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so he was somebody who masqueraded as an ordinary person.
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Jason Scott was somebody who seemed to have a lot
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of potential. He was somebody who had a college degree.
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He was somebody who worked at UPS. So he was
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somebody who, at least on the surface, seemed to be
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somebody who really had his act together.
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Twenty seven year old Jason Scott has two master's degrees,
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and until recently was unknown to authorities.
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He had started committing robberies in his at least as
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a teenager and perhaps early twenties, and had graduated from
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committing robberies of unoccupied houses to home invasion robberies and
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violent crime.
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So at the same time that.
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Jason Scott was living this kind of law abiding life
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on the surface, this is somebody who, in the privacy
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of his own home, seemed to be absolutely obsessed with crime,
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with forensics, with understanding how to get away with crime.
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One of the notable things about mister Scott is the
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clothing and tools that he used during his criminal activities.
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So he dressed like a criminal. He would dress all
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in black, he wore black gloves, he carried a black backpack,
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so he dressed like a thief.
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Jason Scott spent hours of his life thinking about crime,
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learning about crime, learning about forensic techniques. Almost considered himself
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like a doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde. I would imagine
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to some extent he feels kind of this sense of impunity,
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like or the sense that I'm untouchable, Nobody's going to
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catch me.
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Another thing that stands out about Jason Scott is. He
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was an incredibly diverse criminal.
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So not only was he interested in burglary in home invasions,
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he was interested in peeping.
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He was interested in cruising.
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The neighborhood and taking pictures of people in the privacy
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their own homes who had no idea what he was doing.
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It's not uncommon for that to progress to breaking it
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to a home, to some kind of sexual offense.
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So this progression is a natural part that we as
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criminologists are concerned about with any crime that someone does,
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does it then have an opportunity to develop to make
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that person a criminal, a criminal that is looking for
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a career. I'm doing it, I'm successful at doing it.
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Why stop?
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The murders of mother and daughter, Karen and Carissa Loften
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have shocked this respectable Washington suburb. There's a space of
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burglaries too, but the police are yet to track down
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the perpetrators. Two months later, another murderer is called in.
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My name is Courtney Hicks, my mother is Delora Stewitt,
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and my sister is Ebony.
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Do it.
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My life was perfect before before everything happened. My mom
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was the kindest person that I ever met. She was
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always there for me, even still after everything that's happened
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to me in my life, because of how my mom
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taught me to believe in myself. My sister was someone
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I could always depend on. I could always count on
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this as well. It's my mom.
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I missed him so much.
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So when I got home, I like, I don't remember
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if I had to disable our alarm or not, but
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I just go in the house and I see my
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sister's jacket on the back of the chair. Everything just
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looked normal. It just looked like they just weren't there.
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My mom's car was in the driveway. Everything looked normal.
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It just they just weren't there. I go upstairs and
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I go on my sister's room. It was no bleach
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spot on my sister's floor, So that kind of like
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struck me, like, Okay, maybe Ebony did come home.
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She probably dropped some bleach or something there.
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When I got into my bedroom, I just like sat
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down on my bed. That's when I got the feeling
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that you need to get out of this house. I
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run out of the house. I get in her car
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and I goes to my boyfriend at the Times house.
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And when I got to him, I'm just.
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Calling my mom and this is like now probably going on.
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It was late and still no response.
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The following day, Courtney hears that her mother and sister
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have been murdered. Their bodies are found in a stolen
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car that was then set on fire at a different address.
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Police identify Dolores and Ebony through dental records.
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Then they came to our house. I want to say,
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was it later on that day? I believe they came
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to our house and that's when they did tell us
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about the deadly workers matcha my mom and my sister.
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They were in the Bernie Carr when I was fifteen
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my dad died, So I honestly didn't think that. I never,
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in my life stop anybody like my mom and my
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sister would be murdered or anything like that. This never
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any I don't think anybody would think somebody they loved
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would be murdered. My family was everything to me, my mom,
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my dad, and my sister. I didn't have a worry
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in the world.
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Certainly in the murders of Dolores and Ebony Dewet. This
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is somebody who engages in incredibly risky behavior. He steals
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a car and the person that he steals the car
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from actually witnesses this.
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What's the nature of your emergency. I just left my
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house maybe an hour ago, and to comeback my car
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is missing out of the car board.
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That's my car.
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Okay, it just little past me. Wow.
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So this is somebody in the middle of the day
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steals a car, drives it to a house, puts two
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people in there who are no longer alive, and burns
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this car in a relatively short amount of time.
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Wait, how riskier can you be?
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It's a horrific, horrific crime scene of a burned body.
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Dental records are needed to identify the individuals to know
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whom they are. This does by time by moving them
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to another place, by putting them in a car that
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has nothing to do with them, and then burning the
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bodies allows for additional time for the individual to get away.
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I used to feel like people will be watching us
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outside of our house. My mom will always feel like
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people will be watching this. If you feel like somebody
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is watching you, they are. And if you really have
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that oversens and urge, I feel like somebody watching me,
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I feel like somebody watching me, they are.
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It don't cross your mind and sick people like that exist.
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I think most of the time, when people have a
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sense of being watched, they probably are. And I think
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it's very very important to trust your guid and investigate,
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call the police whatever you think it's going to make
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you feel safe.
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Too.
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Many of us in the past have had these gut feelings,
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had these kind of spidy senses, or the hair on
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the back of our neck stands up and we talk
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ourselves out of it, when really it's our body's way
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of telling us that something is wrong, even though we
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don't consciously know it.
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There have been two mother daughter murders less than two
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miles apart, in just eight weeks. Like Karen Lofton, Delores
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DeWitt was a nurse and at home alone with her
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teenage daughter.
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In many respects, there are a lot of similarities between
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the murders of Karen and Carissa Lofton and Dolores and Ebony.
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And you know the.
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Similarity to the course, they're both nurses, they're both single parents,
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they have teenage daughters. Yet there are some significant differences.
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So police know that Karen and Carissa are murdered in
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their home, that they are shot to death, and this
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is very, very different from Ebony and Dolores, who are
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removed from their home before they are eventually found in
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a burned out car. It would be really nice if
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Sarah killers always did everything exactly the same, because it
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would be much easier to catch them, And so it's
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important to kind of step back sometimes and kind of
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go Okay, Yes, there are some surface differences here, including
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the way these people were murdered, but we can't rule
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out the possibility, given these other similarities, that there's some
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connection between the two.
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At the time of the Loften and de whit murders,
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police are already investigating the death of forty six year
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old mother of three Vilma Butler in June two thousand
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and eight. She is shot dead and found in her
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burning home around fifteen miles from the Dewitts and Lofton's,
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but police still do not believe they're dealing with a
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serial killer.
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Serial Killers usually are not this meticulous in their acts.
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You know. We usually see that there's opportunity as the
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main factor there is that of a special type of
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person he or she is interested in committing these acts with.
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But to see intelligence put together, to see elements of
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information put together, this is a different ballgame. This is
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a different realm.
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It's unfortunate that he was able to get away with
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it for so long.
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And then he ended up game court.
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There have been five murders in this respectable suburb since
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June two thousand and eight. Police don't believe they're dealing
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with a serial killer and are yet to identify a suspect.
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But separately from the murders, authorities are getting closer to
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catching local burglar Jason Scott.
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The crimes that mister Scott committed were clustered around his
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own neighborhood in Prince George's County, Maryland, which is a
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suburb just east of Washington, d C. In May of
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two thousand and nine, Jason Scott and his accomplished Marcus
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Hunter travel up to Woodbine, Maryland to commit this robbery
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of the gun shop. They stole thirty nine firearms, including
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automatic weapons, machine gun silencers, and a large volume of ammunition.
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Someone who moves to being involved in gun deals has
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a lot of spheres of activity going on. You usually
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don't expect that in someone who's involved in criminal activity.
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One becomes good at one part of criminal activity, but
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does not drift as we say in criminology to perhaps
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having a life of regular conformity and then going to
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be an innovator of criminal activity. This is what makes
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this case so special. He's confident in what he does.
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After doing this, he decides to make some money by
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selling some of these illegal weapons. And yet I think
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his boldness really does propel him to take these ridiculous risks.
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And he's selling illegal weapons in the s parking lot.
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I mean, it seems like that's something that is not
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a criminals of the a criminal mastermind.
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Would do you work there?
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Jason Scott had let it be known among some of
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his criminal compatriots that he had guns to sell, and
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an undercover ATF agent arranged to meet Jason Scott in
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a parking lot and purchase four weapons from him.
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We have the big profumab whoever you call, would they're
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going to be a to I mean, anyone, I know
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why you doing another?
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Agents then were able to verify that for of those
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weapons were the weapons that had been stolen on May
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twenty sixth from the gun shop. Well, this was a
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moment that exposed Jason Scott to the subsequent search warrant.
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During the course of executing that search warrant, the agents
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recovered sixteen firearms that had been stolen from that gun
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shop in Woodbine back in May of two thousand. They
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also obtained from Jason Scott's bedroom many of the burglary
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tools that he had used to commit the crime, the
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clothing that he wore, the black clothing, the ski mask,
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and the backpack containing his burglary tools, which included things
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like bolt cutters and screwdrivers and fry bar and also
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included a police scanner.
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There is almost a black comedy here, if things weren't
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so horrific. That this is somebody who is intelligent, he's
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graduated from college, he's a personal person, and yet he
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almost lives in this fantasy world.
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It seems like.
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One of the items of evidence that we recovered from
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Jason Scott's home was a video recording that he had
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made of this teenage victim when he was recording the
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victim while she was naked during one of his home
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invasion robberies, and at one point mister Scott himself crossed
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in front of the camera. There actually was an image
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captured of mister Scott in his full regalia that he
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would wear to commit his crimes, and when the authorities
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found those recordings and photographs and the burglary tools, they
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realized they were dealing with a master criminal, not simply
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somebody who had committed a robbery at a gun shop,
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but somebody who posed a continuing threat of violence in
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the community. The agents were working with local police who
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knew about the spree of home invasion robberies in addition
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to the murders that have been committed in the area,
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and so once they found this evidence, they immediately settled
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on Jason Scott as a likely suspect in a whole
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spree of crimes.
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I think when you think about this kind of sexual
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aspect of sexual assault that is so consistent with somebody
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who has a history of peeping and voyeurism, then progressive.
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Those people who peep don't.
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Progress to worse things, but people who do progress to
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worse things often have a history of peeping and voyeurism.
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I think Jason Scott enjoyed the sense of power and
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control that he exercised when he committed these home invasion robberies,
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where he kept people under control, he kept people at gunpoint.
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In a couple of instances he detained people in their
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homes while his partner, Marcus Hunter took their ATM cards
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and went to withdraw cash. And I think Jason Scott
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enjoyed that sense of power that he obtained while he
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was detaining innocent victims.
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There was one home invasion that he carried out where
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the victims were, of course terrified. They had no idea,
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They felt completely helpless. The victim later on said, you know,
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when you have absolutely no control over situation, you don't
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know what to do. And she said, I started praying,
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and you know, Jason Scott said, shut up. I think
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that affirmed to him that I am powerful. I am
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a criminal mastermind. I am in charge of these situations.
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And I do think that was very important to him,
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and for whatever reason, he really did embrace this criminal identity.
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Jason Scott is now a suspect in the five murder investigations,
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but police don't have enough evidence to charge him, but
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the evidence from the firearms offenses, home invasions, and sexual
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assault makes police believe he's linked to a vast array
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of crimes. Rather than charge him for just the crimes
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they have evidence for. Scott is taken into custody and
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offered a profer interview.
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In a interview, the government promises a defendant that things
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that he says in the interview won't be used against
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him directly in court, and so the profit is an
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opportunity for the defendant to come in with the promise
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of immunity and revealed to the government the criminal activity
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in which he participated.
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They're thinking, this is somebody who's going to help us
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catch other almost arms dealers or people who you know
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who are selling illegal guns, and so Jason takes advantage
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of this.
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During the interview with federal authorities, mister Scott admitted that
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he had committed approximately twenty eight burglaries and nine home
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invasion robberies.
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Law enforcement is absolutely stunned my this.
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He's saying to you, criminal justice system, I am smarter
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than you that I was able to be successful with
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these crimes. I am good at what I do, and
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I'm better than you. At this time, the jig is up.
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So if it is up, let me just go ahead
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and tell you and show you how much smarter I
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was than you, how much intelligence and research goes into this.
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And of course Jason's sitting there smugg as can be,
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thinking I've got immunity from all these things. Nothing I
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said today can be used against me. He was a
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little misguided, I think, in thinking.
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That police cannot charge Scott with the burglaries and home
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invasions he's confessed to, but he can still be charged
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for other crimes because of new evidence or if implicated
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by an accomplice.
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Once authorities realized that Jason Scott had been involved in
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a crime spree in the area, they started to review
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all crimes that had been committed in the area over
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the past couple of years to identify which ones were
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likely to have been committed by Jason Scott. Marcus Hunter
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revealed that he was a friend of Jason Scott and
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that he had participated with mister Scott in many of
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the robberies and burglaries that mister Scott had committed in
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the community. Marcus Hunter used the term spooky House to
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refer to an abandoned property that he and Jason Scott
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would go to after the crimes to split up the proceeds.
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So on multiple occasions, Jason Scott and Marcus Hunter went
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to the so called spooky House with the proceeds of
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the robbery and then divided the property among them. The
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most compelling evidence I recovered from the Spooky House that
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was used in the state case is that they found
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charred It's a fabric of hair at the Spooky House
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that were connected to the murder because they matched evidence
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that was found on the bodies when they were recovered
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from the car that had been burned.
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This vital new piece of evidence links Scott to the
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crime scene of Dolores and Ebony de Witt. Jason Scott
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is charged with their murders while being investigated for the others.
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This is the beginning of the end for Jason Scott.
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It's one and a half years since Jason Scott was
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charged with the murders of Dolores and Ebony de Witt.
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As a case is building against him, He's first facing
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trial for the crimes that investigators have evidence of.
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In the federal system, we prosecute defendants for the most
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readily provable offenses, and so in this case, we identified
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four home invasion robberies in which the proof was the
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strongest and the witnesses were the most credible and compelling,
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and we charged mister Scott with those four home invasion robberies.
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In addition to the child pornography he had produced during
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one of those robberies, and then the possession of the
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stolen firearms that had been taken from that gun shop
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in Woodbind The most important piece of evidence in the
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case was the video recording that Jason Scott had made
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of this teenage victim. Mister Scott at one point actually
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crossed in front of the camera. So in this case,
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the federal sentence for this series of primes eleven violations
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in total, amounted to one hundred years in federal prison.
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I know the family members of the murder victims were
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present at the sentencing, and they were very relieved. They
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were confident that mister Scott had been held accountable and
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would no longer pose a threat to the community, regardless
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of whether or not he ultimately was convicted on the
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state charges for the murder.
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What we do see is someone who's become very good
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at being a criminal, someone who's intelligent, someone who looks
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at information that's publicly accessible, plus perhaps has a charm
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that allows for many people not to feel threatened. We
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hope that these elements don't come together, and thank goodness,
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that person is no longer on the Street causing these
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heinous acts.
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Jason Scott is in jail, respect him of the murders
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of Filma Butler, Dolores and Ebony DeWitt, and Karen and
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Carissa Lofton, but they only have strong evidence linking him
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to the de Witts murders. In order to prosecute him
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for the provable crimes, police strike a deal using an
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Alford plea.
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It's been around since about the nineteen seventies. Here you
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have an environment in which one please to say, I'm
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not saying I'm guilty of doing this act, but I
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am going to go ahead and move the process in
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order to perhaps receive a lesser sentence.
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As part of the Alford plea for the murders of
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Dolores and Ebony DeWitt, Jason Scott now won't face trial
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for the murders of Filma Butler or Karen and Carissa Lofton.
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We never had our day in court. He was going
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to spend the rest of his life in jail anyway,
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So I guess they assume wasman need to satisfy the family.
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Carissa often I always speak her name, and I always
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say she's such a strong girl, because she comes home
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only to find someone killing her mom, and then she
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gets shot in the head from what the story tells,
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to be able to pick her strip, to pick up
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the phone to call down on.
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One BRANDM, I've been shot. My mother has been shot.
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I'm believing through that sweet slow that what's you address.
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It's just heartbreaking when you hear her. It's heartbreaking. It's
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so heartbreaking because she didn't They didn't deserve it. None
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nobody deserves it.
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They're still a very empty void in myself with my
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family's hearts, because we don't know. We didn't get the
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satisfaction that the the witch got of a trial and
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in a killer that admitted and was found guilty of
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their crime. We didn't get that.
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I used to hate him for a while, but I
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had to get over that.
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At first, I used to want him dead. I pray
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to God that like why he's locked up.
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Every time he close his eyes, he sees him as
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he left them.
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Now I just feel like, no, what he got is
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the best.
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Thing for him. I don't even want to give him
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and he real estate in my mental space, so he's
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where he needs to be.
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I think that Jason Scott has all the hallmarks of
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a serial killer in terms of so many different things,
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his interest in forensics, the way he researched his crimes,
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and most importantly, the way he carried out so many
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different crimes and really exhibited no compassion, no empathy whatsoever
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for his victims.
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This was probably the most memorable case that I personally
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prosecuted in my thirty years with the United States Department
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of Justice because of the scale of the harm that
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Jason Scott had visited on the community, and obviously the
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particular harm on the victims of the murders, the home invasion, robbery,
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and the child abuse. You saved lives by taking somebody
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like Jason Scott off the street.
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My parents, my mom, my dad, and myster City always
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told us, if you believe in yourself, you could do anything.
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So with that, even do all the tragedy.
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In my life, I could pack myself on the back
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that I just never gave up. And that's only because
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of them. Life has never been the same, life will
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never be the same. I'm just been trying to adjust
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to it.
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It's just.
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Uh, I was shattered. I had nothing. Now I am
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parent everybody hear this world.
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To my family and It's like I said, I haven't
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met anyone.
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They just measure up to how great they were.
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You know, I have three kids now with my wife,
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and my mother or sister has met nine of them.
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So she was robbed from having three beautiful grandchildren that
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she could be interacting with.
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I still feel lost, like it's a loss. I've grown
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a lot. I had to learn how to turn a
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tragedy into something helpful, and that's the only way that
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you can get through something like that. Jason Scott feel
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like they did not responsible for two murders. They're responsible
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for three because in my family because my son Kirk
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Junior never recovered. He went through a very dark period.
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He was drinking, very depressed and everything for years. Six
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months ago, well a little more six months in a
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month after his birthday, exactly a month after his birthday.
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Then he died. They found him in a hotel and
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the cause of death is alcohol and poison him. You know,
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he had died from alcohol. Jason Scott definitely played the
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part in it. I used to call Charrissa my butterfly,
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and she loved the color green. That year after she passed,
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and it was an influx of green butterflies all through Georgia.
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The main thing that I had to remember is that
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God didn't make mistakes, and that my story had to
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help somebody else
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Much
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Prince George's County, n I'm a one center. What is
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your emergency? Grandma's been shut, mother has been shut that.
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I was imagining how she had felt in that predicament.
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It's just heartbreaking to be a sixteen year old girl.
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A manster like that comes in and takes your life
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from you.
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Jason Scott was an extraordinarily dangerous criminal who masqueraded as
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an ordinary person.
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He's saying to you, criminal justice system, I am smarter
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than you.
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If you feel like somebody is watching you, they are.
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I'm successful at doing it.
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Why stop.
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It?
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Don't cross your mind and sick people like that exist.
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My life was perfect before before everything happened.
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For Marlboro, a suburb twenty miles east of Washington, d C.
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Is home to the Lofton family, Dad Kirk, mom Karen,
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two sons, Kirk Junior and Keon, and daughter Carissa.
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My daughter was a very inspiring, very beautiful, a gift.
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She was a gift. She went through some struggles. She
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had an open heart surgery because she had something going
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on with a valve in her heart and everything, and
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she bounced right back like it was nothing, and she
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was very strong.
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I am ke On Lofton. Karen Lofton was my mother.
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Carrissa was my younger sister. My mother was a really
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caring person. She was in the nursing field as long
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as I can remember. I remember I was being in
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a little child and going with her to work with her,
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and just all the love that she would get from
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her coworkers.
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She was probably one of the best nurses of her time.
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Chrissa's personality at that around that age was typical teenage girls.
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She was still trying to figure herself out, pleasant kind person.
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You can see her modeling after the characteristics and values
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and things that my mother instilled in all of us,
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and you can just see the trajectory of the type
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of woman that she was going to become.
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In two thousand and eight, Kirk moves away after his
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marriage to Karen breaks down, moved to Georgia.
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In two thousand and eight, I was remarried, still remaining
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to come take with my daughter. As matter of fact,
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that she was supposed to move down here and go
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to college.
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Prince George's County nine on one center, What is your emergency.
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Grandma's been shot. May my mother has been shut I
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haven't believing.
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Through that, will you slow down?
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What's he address?
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As you know, if we need any kind of testament
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to Carrissa's courage.
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This is a.
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Young teenager, a sixteen year old, who has been involved
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in a home invasion, which is one of the most
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terrifying things anybody can imagine. She's been shot and she
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has the kind of strength of mind to call nine
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one one while she's bleeding and to report to them
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that she has been shot, her mom has been shot,
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and she tells the operator, you know, I'm bleeding to death,
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please hurry. Unfortunately, the phone is hung up and by
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the time they get there, it's two way.
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So the night of the wear anything when everything happened,
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I was at my girlfriend's house. My mother in law
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now told me that two women have been found killed
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on our street, and she told me to call and
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check my mother and sister. So I called and nobody answered.
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So I kept calling. I kept calling and nobody answered.
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So I just I just got up and left and started,
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you know, got in my car and was driving. It
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had to be about two three o'clock in the morning,
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got there to the house, probably about a ten minute drive.
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Police kind of had like the street blocked off whatever
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and I got out. I was trying to set trying
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to see who it was, and police officer or detective
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asked who I was, and I was told of my
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name and he said, okay, we got the son right here.
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And I just broke down him because I knew it,
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kind of realization that, okay, if it was him.
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I was in the room sleep and my son, my
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oldest son, Kirk Jr. He called me at probably you know,
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three in the morning, four in the morning something like that.
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He was crying and I said, what's wrong? He said,
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have you talked to key On yet? Mine Carissa got killed.
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The first thing that I thought was they got into
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a car accident or something like that, but then he
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said they were shy. I immediately got off home with
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him and I called my other son, my younger son,
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and he told me that they somebody came into our
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house and out of the family house in Kibos of them.
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It's just just heartbreaking to be a sixteen year old
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girl and be in the comfort of your own babe
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and a manster like that comes in and takes your
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life from you. I was imagining how she had to
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felt in that in that predicament, somebody storming in, you know, shooting,
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shooting you and you have to, you know, call it
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nine one one, trying to get somebody to say you
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is you know is it's heartbreaking.
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With no signs of forced entry, the police suspect the
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murders have been committed by someone with access to the
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lofton's home.
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They kind of step back and go, Okay, what do
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we do. We start from the innermost circle and we
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work our way out. Most often, sadly, those are the perpetrators.
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One of the first persons to come on the radar
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is Chris's older brother Kean.
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Honestly, I didn't know why I was in a police car.
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I had no idea.
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It was.
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Everything was an immediate shot right there from there. I
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remember being in the interrogation room.
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Does your mom set you along for the house?
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Okay? All the time?
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Every time?
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Would you have heard your mom and sister?
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Now you have heard your mom?
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And I remember them letting me come out to like
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one of the one of their desks and letting me
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hear like a snippet of the nine.
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One one called Grandma's been shut.
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Anybody who's getting to accused of anything that they haven't done.
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They're gonna be upset when I'm in that interrogation room
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and I'm hearing them accusing me, and I'm just trying
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to process, like did this really happen? Like did my
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mother's just to really just get murdered? Are you guys
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really accusing me of doing this? Everything just felt like
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a like a nightmare or a dream, Like just felt
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really surreal. I knew a thousand percent it wasn't me.
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So they didn't know what to think. They didn't know
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anything about who this person was. I got no finger French,
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there was no forced intrigue, and all of.
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A sudden, here it is.
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The forty eight hours has passed, which of course is
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often the critical period for getting that first lead, and
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they're sitting there kind of going, we have no idea.
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you've allowed the individual to perhaps clean up the case,
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to perhaps even be further away from the case. So
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it's very important those first initial hours of any case
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that you hope the investigators are on the right path.
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Kirk and Keon begin to develop their own theories about
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what happened.
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I know how safe that Karen was, and Karen would
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not let anyone in that house at two thirty six
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in the morning without she would have the alarm on.
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They said the alarm was just engaged.
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She took that really seriously. You know, when I would
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leave out to make sure the back doors locked things,
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lest so to make sure the window was locked. She
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was always a stickler for those things. But I'm pretty
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sure I thought that, Okay, somebody forced her to put
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the alarm in. It's no other explanation.
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At the time of the Lofton's murders, a burglar is
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successfully evading capture in the neighborhood.
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Jason Scott came across his very mild mannered He held
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a part time job with a packaged delivery service. It
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wasn't dute as being dangerous by his friends and family,
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so he was somebody who masqueraded as an ordinary person.
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Jason Scott was somebody who seemed to have a lot
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of potential. He was somebody who had a college degree.
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He was somebody who worked at UPS. So he was
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somebody who, at least on the surface, seemed to be
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somebody who really had his act together.
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Twenty seven year old Jason Scott has two master's degrees,
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and until recently was unknown to authorities.
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He had started committing robberies in his at least as
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a teenager and perhaps early twenties, and had graduated from
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committing robberies of unoccupied houses to home invasion robberies and
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violent crime.
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So at the same time that.
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Jason Scott was living this kind of law abiding life
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on the surface, this is somebody who, in the privacy
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of his own home, seemed to be absolutely obsessed with crime,
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with forensics, with understanding how to get away with crime.
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One of the notable things about mister Scott is the
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clothing and tools that he used during his criminal activities.
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So he dressed like a criminal. He would dress all
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in black, he wore black gloves, he carried a black backpack,
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so he dressed like a thief.
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Jason Scott spent hours of his life thinking about crime,
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learning about crime, learning about forensic techniques. Almost considered himself
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like a doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde. I would imagine
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to some extent he feels kind of this sense of impunity,
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like or the sense that I'm untouchable, Nobody's going to
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catch me.
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Another thing that stands out about Jason Scott is. He
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was an incredibly diverse criminal.
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So not only was he interested in burglary in home invasions,
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he was interested in peeping.
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He was interested in cruising.
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The neighborhood and taking pictures of people in the privacy
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their own homes who had no idea what he was doing.
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It's not uncommon for that to progress to breaking it
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to a home, to some kind of sexual offense.
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So this progression is a natural part that we as
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criminologists are concerned about with any crime that someone does,
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does it then have an opportunity to develop to make
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that person a criminal, a criminal that is looking for
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a career. I'm doing it, I'm successful at doing it.
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Why stop?
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The murders of mother and daughter, Karen and Carissa Loften
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have shocked this respectable Washington suburb. There's a space of
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burglaries too, but the police are yet to track down
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the perpetrators. Two months later, another murderer is called in.
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My name is Courtney Hicks, my mother is Delora Stewitt,
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and my sister is Ebony.
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Do it.
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My life was perfect before before everything happened. My mom
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was the kindest person that I ever met. She was
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always there for me, even still after everything that's happened
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to me in my life, because of how my mom
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taught me to believe in myself. My sister was someone
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I could always depend on. I could always count on
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this as well. It's my mom.
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I missed him so much.
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So when I got home, I like, I don't remember
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if I had to disable our alarm or not, but
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I just go in the house and I see my
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sister's jacket on the back of the chair. Everything just
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looked normal. It just looked like they just weren't there.
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My mom's car was in the driveway. Everything looked normal.
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It just they just weren't there. I go upstairs and
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I go on my sister's room. It was no bleach
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spot on my sister's floor, So that kind of like
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struck me, like, Okay, maybe Ebony did come home.
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She probably dropped some bleach or something there.
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When I got into my bedroom, I just like sat
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down on my bed. That's when I got the feeling
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that you need to get out of this house. I
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run out of the house. I get in her car
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and I goes to my boyfriend at the Times house.
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And when I got to him, I'm just.
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Calling my mom and this is like now probably going on.
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It was late and still no response.
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The following day, Courtney hears that her mother and sister
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have been murdered. Their bodies are found in a stolen
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car that was then set on fire at a different address.
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Police identify Dolores and Ebony through dental records.
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Then they came to our house. I want to say,
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was it later on that day? I believe they came
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to our house and that's when they did tell us
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about the deadly workers matcha my mom and my sister.
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They were in the Bernie Carr when I was fifteen
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my dad died, So I honestly didn't think that. I never,
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in my life stop anybody like my mom and my
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sister would be murdered or anything like that. This never
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any I don't think anybody would think somebody they loved
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would be murdered. My family was everything to me, my mom,
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my dad, and my sister. I didn't have a worry
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in the world.
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Certainly in the murders of Dolores and Ebony Dewet. This
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is somebody who engages in incredibly risky behavior. He steals
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a car and the person that he steals the car
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from actually witnesses this.
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What's the nature of your emergency. I just left my
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house maybe an hour ago, and to comeback my car
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is missing out of the car board.
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That's my car.
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Okay, it just little past me. Wow.
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So this is somebody in the middle of the day
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steals a car, drives it to a house, puts two
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people in there who are no longer alive, and burns
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this car in a relatively short amount of time.
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Wait, how riskier can you be?
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It's a horrific, horrific crime scene of a burned body.
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Dental records are needed to identify the individuals to know
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whom they are. This does by time by moving them
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to another place, by putting them in a car that
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has nothing to do with them, and then burning the
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bodies allows for additional time for the individual to get away.
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I used to feel like people will be watching us
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outside of our house. My mom will always feel like
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people will be watching this. If you feel like somebody
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is watching you, they are. And if you really have
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that oversens and urge, I feel like somebody watching me,
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I feel like somebody watching me, they are.
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It don't cross your mind and sick people like that exist.
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I think most of the time, when people have a
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sense of being watched, they probably are. And I think
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it's very very important to trust your guid and investigate,
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call the police whatever you think it's going to make
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you feel safe.
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Too.
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Many of us in the past have had these gut feelings,
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had these kind of spidy senses, or the hair on
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the back of our neck stands up and we talk
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ourselves out of it, when really it's our body's way
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of telling us that something is wrong, even though we
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don't consciously know it.
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There have been two mother daughter murders less than two
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miles apart, in just eight weeks. Like Karen Lofton, Delores
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DeWitt was a nurse and at home alone with her
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teenage daughter.
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In many respects, there are a lot of similarities between
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the murders of Karen and Carissa Lofton and Dolores and Ebony.
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And you know the.
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Similarity to the course, they're both nurses, they're both single parents,
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they have teenage daughters. Yet there are some significant differences.
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So police know that Karen and Carissa are murdered in
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their home, that they are shot to death, and this
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is very, very different from Ebony and Dolores, who are
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removed from their home before they are eventually found in
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a burned out car. It would be really nice if
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Sarah killers always did everything exactly the same, because it
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would be much easier to catch them, And so it's
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important to kind of step back sometimes and kind of
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go Okay, Yes, there are some surface differences here, including
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the way these people were murdered, but we can't rule
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out the possibility, given these other similarities, that there's some
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connection between the two.
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At the time of the Loften and de whit murders,
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police are already investigating the death of forty six year
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old mother of three Vilma Butler in June two thousand
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and eight. She is shot dead and found in her
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burning home around fifteen miles from the Dewitts and Lofton's,
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but police still do not believe they're dealing with a
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serial killer.
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Serial Killers usually are not this meticulous in their acts.
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You know. We usually see that there's opportunity as the
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main factor there is that of a special type of
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person he or she is interested in committing these acts with.
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But to see intelligence put together, to see elements of
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information put together, this is a different ballgame. This is
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a different realm.
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It's unfortunate that he was able to get away with
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it for so long.
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And then he ended up game court.
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There have been five murders in this respectable suburb since
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June two thousand and eight. Police don't believe they're dealing
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with a serial killer and are yet to identify a suspect.
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But separately from the murders, authorities are getting closer to
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catching local burglar Jason Scott.
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The crimes that mister Scott committed were clustered around his
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own neighborhood in Prince George's County, Maryland, which is a
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suburb just east of Washington, d C. In May of
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two thousand and nine, Jason Scott and his accomplished Marcus
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Hunter travel up to Woodbine, Maryland to commit this robbery
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of the gun shop. They stole thirty nine firearms, including
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automatic weapons, machine gun silencers, and a large volume of ammunition.
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Someone who moves to being involved in gun deals has
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a lot of spheres of activity going on. You usually
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don't expect that in someone who's involved in criminal activity.
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One becomes good at one part of criminal activity, but
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does not drift as we say in criminology to perhaps
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having a life of regular conformity and then going to
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be an innovator of criminal activity. This is what makes
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this case so special. He's confident in what he does.
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After doing this, he decides to make some money by
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selling some of these illegal weapons. And yet I think
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his boldness really does propel him to take these ridiculous risks.
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And he's selling illegal weapons in the s parking lot.
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I mean, it seems like that's something that is not
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a criminals of the a criminal mastermind.
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Would do you work there?
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Jason Scott had let it be known among some of
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his criminal compatriots that he had guns to sell, and
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an undercover ATF agent arranged to meet Jason Scott in
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a parking lot and purchase four weapons from him.
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We have the big profumab whoever you call, would they're
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going to be a to I mean, anyone, I know
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why you doing another?
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Agents then were able to verify that for of those
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weapons were the weapons that had been stolen on May
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twenty sixth from the gun shop. Well, this was a
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moment that exposed Jason Scott to the subsequent search warrant.
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During the course of executing that search warrant, the agents
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recovered sixteen firearms that had been stolen from that gun
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shop in Woodbine back in May of two thousand. They
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also obtained from Jason Scott's bedroom many of the burglary
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tools that he had used to commit the crime, the
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clothing that he wore, the black clothing, the ski mask,
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and the backpack containing his burglary tools, which included things
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like bolt cutters and screwdrivers and fry bar and also
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included a police scanner.
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There is almost a black comedy here, if things weren't
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so horrific. That this is somebody who is intelligent, he's
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graduated from college, he's a personal person, and yet he
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almost lives in this fantasy world.
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It seems like.
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One of the items of evidence that we recovered from
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Jason Scott's home was a video recording that he had
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made of this teenage victim when he was recording the
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victim while she was naked during one of his home
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invasion robberies, and at one point mister Scott himself crossed
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in front of the camera. There actually was an image
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captured of mister Scott in his full regalia that he
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would wear to commit his crimes, and when the authorities
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found those recordings and photographs and the burglary tools, they
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realized they were dealing with a master criminal, not simply
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somebody who had committed a robbery at a gun shop,
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but somebody who posed a continuing threat of violence in
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the community. The agents were working with local police who
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knew about the spree of home invasion robberies in addition
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to the murders that have been committed in the area,
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and so once they found this evidence, they immediately settled
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on Jason Scott as a likely suspect in a whole
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spree of crimes.
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I think when you think about this kind of sexual
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aspect of sexual assault that is so consistent with somebody
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who has a history of peeping and voyeurism, then progressive.
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Those people who peep don't.
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Progress to worse things, but people who do progress to
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worse things often have a history of peeping and voyeurism.
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I think Jason Scott enjoyed the sense of power and
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control that he exercised when he committed these home invasion robberies,
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where he kept people under control, he kept people at gunpoint.
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In a couple of instances he detained people in their
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homes while his partner, Marcus Hunter took their ATM cards
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and went to withdraw cash. And I think Jason Scott
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enjoyed that sense of power that he obtained while he
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was detaining innocent victims.
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There was one home invasion that he carried out where
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the victims were, of course terrified. They had no idea,
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They felt completely helpless. The victim later on said, you know,
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when you have absolutely no control over situation, you don't
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know what to do. And she said, I started praying,
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and you know, Jason Scott said, shut up. I think
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that affirmed to him that I am powerful. I am
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a criminal mastermind. I am in charge of these situations.
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And I do think that was very important to him,
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and for whatever reason, he really did embrace this criminal identity.
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Jason Scott is now a suspect in the five murder investigations,
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but police don't have enough evidence to charge him, but
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the evidence from the firearms offenses, home invasions, and sexual
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assault makes police believe he's linked to a vast array
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of crimes. Rather than charge him for just the crimes
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they have evidence for. Scott is taken into custody and
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offered a profer interview.
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In a interview, the government promises a defendant that things
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that he says in the interview won't be used against
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him directly in court, and so the profit is an
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opportunity for the defendant to come in with the promise
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of immunity and revealed to the government the criminal activity
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in which he participated.
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They're thinking, this is somebody who's going to help us
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catch other almost arms dealers or people who you know
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who are selling illegal guns, and so Jason takes advantage
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of this.
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During the interview with federal authorities, mister Scott admitted that
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he had committed approximately twenty eight burglaries and nine home
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invasion robberies.
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Law enforcement is absolutely stunned my this.
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He's saying to you, criminal justice system, I am smarter
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than you that I was able to be successful with
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these crimes. I am good at what I do, and
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I'm better than you. At this time, the jig is up.
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So if it is up, let me just go ahead
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and tell you and show you how much smarter I
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was than you, how much intelligence and research goes into this.
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And of course Jason's sitting there smugg as can be,
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thinking I've got immunity from all these things. Nothing I
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said today can be used against me. He was a
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little misguided, I think, in thinking.
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That police cannot charge Scott with the burglaries and home
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invasions he's confessed to, but he can still be charged
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for other crimes because of new evidence or if implicated
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by an accomplice.
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Once authorities realized that Jason Scott had been involved in
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a crime spree in the area, they started to review
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all crimes that had been committed in the area over
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the past couple of years to identify which ones were
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likely to have been committed by Jason Scott. Marcus Hunter
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revealed that he was a friend of Jason Scott and
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that he had participated with mister Scott in many of
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the robberies and burglaries that mister Scott had committed in
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the community. Marcus Hunter used the term spooky House to
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refer to an abandoned property that he and Jason Scott
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00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:38.039
would go to after the crimes to split up the proceeds.
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So on multiple occasions, Jason Scott and Marcus Hunter went
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to the so called spooky House with the proceeds of
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the robbery and then divided the property among them. The
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most compelling evidence I recovered from the Spooky House that
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was used in the state case is that they found
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charred It's a fabric of hair at the Spooky House
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that were connected to the murder because they matched evidence
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that was found on the bodies when they were recovered
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from the car that had been burned.
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This vital new piece of evidence links Scott to the
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crime scene of Dolores and Ebony de Witt. Jason Scott
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is charged with their murders while being investigated for the others.
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This is the beginning of the end for Jason Scott.
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It's one and a half years since Jason Scott was
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charged with the murders of Dolores and Ebony de Witt.
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As a case is building against him, He's first facing
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trial for the crimes that investigators have evidence of.
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In the federal system, we prosecute defendants for the most
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readily provable offenses, and so in this case, we identified
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four home invasion robberies in which the proof was the
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strongest and the witnesses were the most credible and compelling,
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and we charged mister Scott with those four home invasion robberies.
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In addition to the child pornography he had produced during
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one of those robberies, and then the possession of the
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stolen firearms that had been taken from that gun shop
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in Woodbind The most important piece of evidence in the
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case was the video recording that Jason Scott had made
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of this teenage victim. Mister Scott at one point actually
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crossed in front of the camera. So in this case,
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the federal sentence for this series of primes eleven violations
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in total, amounted to one hundred years in federal prison.
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I know the family members of the murder victims were
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present at the sentencing, and they were very relieved. They
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were confident that mister Scott had been held accountable and
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would no longer pose a threat to the community, regardless
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of whether or not he ultimately was convicted on the
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state charges for the murder.
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What we do see is someone who's become very good
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at being a criminal, someone who's intelligent, someone who looks
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at information that's publicly accessible, plus perhaps has a charm
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that allows for many people not to feel threatened. We
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hope that these elements don't come together, and thank goodness,
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that person is no longer on the Street causing these
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heinous acts.
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Jason Scott is in jail, respect him of the murders
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of Filma Butler, Dolores and Ebony DeWitt, and Karen and
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Carissa Lofton, but they only have strong evidence linking him
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to the de Witts murders. In order to prosecute him
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for the provable crimes, police strike a deal using an
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Alford plea.
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It's been around since about the nineteen seventies. Here you
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have an environment in which one please to say, I'm
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not saying I'm guilty of doing this act, but I
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am going to go ahead and move the process in
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order to perhaps receive a lesser sentence.
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As part of the Alford plea for the murders of
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Dolores and Ebony DeWitt, Jason Scott now won't face trial
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for the murders of Filma Butler or Karen and Carissa Lofton.
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We never had our day in court. He was going
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to spend the rest of his life in jail anyway,
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So I guess they assume wasman need to satisfy the family.
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Carissa often I always speak her name, and I always
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00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.079
say she's such a strong girl, because she comes home
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only to find someone killing her mom, and then she
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00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.599
gets shot in the head from what the story tells,
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00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:17.519
to be able to pick her strip, to pick up
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00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:18.559
the phone to call down on.
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One BRANDM, I've been shot. My mother has been shot.
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I'm believing through that sweet slow that what's you address.
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It's just heartbreaking when you hear her. It's heartbreaking. It's
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so heartbreaking because she didn't They didn't deserve it. None
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00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:39.559
nobody deserves it.
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They're still a very empty void in myself with my
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00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.800
family's hearts, because we don't know. We didn't get the
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satisfaction that the the witch got of a trial and
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in a killer that admitted and was found guilty of
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00:37:58.760 --> 00:37:59.920
their crime. We didn't get that.
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I used to hate him for a while, but I
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00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:13.920
had to get over that.
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At first, I used to want him dead. I pray
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to God that like why he's locked up.
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Every time he close his eyes, he sees him as
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he left them.
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Now I just feel like, no, what he got is
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the best.
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Thing for him. I don't even want to give him
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and he real estate in my mental space, so he's
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where he needs to be.
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00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.599
I think that Jason Scott has all the hallmarks of
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a serial killer in terms of so many different things,
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his interest in forensics, the way he researched his crimes,
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and most importantly, the way he carried out so many
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different crimes and really exhibited no compassion, no empathy whatsoever
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for his victims.
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This was probably the most memorable case that I personally
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prosecuted in my thirty years with the United States Department
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of Justice because of the scale of the harm that
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Jason Scott had visited on the community, and obviously the
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00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:37.360
particular harm on the victims of the murders, the home invasion, robbery,
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00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.519
and the child abuse. You saved lives by taking somebody
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like Jason Scott off the street.
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My parents, my mom, my dad, and myster City always
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told us, if you believe in yourself, you could do anything.
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So with that, even do all the tragedy.
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In my life, I could pack myself on the back
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that I just never gave up. And that's only because
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of them. Life has never been the same, life will
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never be the same. I'm just been trying to adjust
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to it.
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It's just.
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Uh, I was shattered. I had nothing. Now I am
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parent everybody hear this world.
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To my family and It's like I said, I haven't
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met anyone.
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They just measure up to how great they were.
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You know, I have three kids now with my wife,
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and my mother or sister has met nine of them.
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So she was robbed from having three beautiful grandchildren that
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she could be interacting with.
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I still feel lost, like it's a loss. I've grown
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a lot. I had to learn how to turn a
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tragedy into something helpful, and that's the only way that
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00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:19.079
you can get through something like that. Jason Scott feel
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like they did not responsible for two murders. They're responsible
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for three because in my family because my son Kirk
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Junior never recovered. He went through a very dark period.
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He was drinking, very depressed and everything for years. Six
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months ago, well a little more six months in a
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month after his birthday, exactly a month after his birthday.
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Then he died. They found him in a hotel and
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the cause of death is alcohol and poison him. You know,
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he had died from alcohol. Jason Scott definitely played the
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part in it. I used to call Charrissa my butterfly,
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and she loved the color green. That year after she passed,
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and it was an influx of green butterflies all through Georgia.
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The main thing that I had to remember is that
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God didn't make mistakes, and that my story had to
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help somebody else
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Much
