Chapter 69: Move On, It's Over-The Murder of Rowena Irani

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Hi guys. I'm Courtney and I'm
Lisa, and welcome to the next chapter

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in the Book of the Dead,
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Podcasts with a Twist. Hello,
Hello, welcome to another chapter. Before

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we begin, real quick, we're
gonna take like a couple of weeks off

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because I am very burnt out,
very burnt out, very tired, and

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I need some time to get my
brain together, so I'm thinking like only

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two weeks or so. So with
that being said, this will be our

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last episode for a couple of weeks, but we'll announce when we're coming back

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on Instagram and stuff, so don't
worry, it won't be a long thing.

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Did you have anything else to add, Well, I just want you

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all to I don't know if you
all know this, but when you hear

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this story that she's going to tell
us, this is the first time I'm

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hearing it, so all of my
reactions are just a raw reaction, so

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I have no idea what she's going
to say. I don't know the outcome

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of the case that she's covering,
so I just you know, I think

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it makes a difference in how you
listen to it. Knowing that yeah,

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And just to add on to that, it's the reason she doesn't know about

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the cases beforehand is because I think
it's well, it is disingenuine to script

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a reaction to something like this,
like, I just don't think it's appropriate

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to do so I'd rather have her
not know and her reactions be genuine.

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We're gonna jump right in. The
story I have for you today is along

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the similar topic of cases we've covered
before. It does involve domestic violence.

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So with that being said, we
are going to jump into the case of

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the murder of Rowena Irani. Rowena
Irani was born in Karachi, Pakistan,

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on February eighteenth, nineteen ninety four, to her mother Taranj and her father

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Bahram. She was the youngest of
two children. She had a brother named

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Rushad, who was four years older
than her, and in two thousand and

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four, when Rowena was ten,
her family immigrated to the US, settling

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in Wichita, Kansas. Taranj and
Behram made the decision to come to America

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to provide a better life for their
children, you know, like the American

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dream. So the Irani settled into
their new home, although it wasn't without

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its hardships. Rawana and Rushad had
a really hard time making friends, and

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they were bullied due to the discrimination
and the prejudice that they and other Pakistani

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people were facing in the years after
the attack on nine to eleven. Rushad

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said, quote, we came here
three years after nine to eleven, so

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you can imagine the kind of mentality
that most people had. Instead of letting

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that get to us, the both
of us, her more than me,

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we turned that into a positive and
used those experiences to help not only others,

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but to educate those who are bullying, which I think is just a

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really great outlook to have on something
like that, Like you're being discriminated against,

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and you're probably having like these terrible
racist things thrown at you because you

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know, America has just gone through
this trauma and they were taking it out

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on anyone that looked even remotely similar
to those that committed this attack. So

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for them to take it and turn
it into something positive to try and help

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and educate others is just a really
it's a really great thing to see,

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especially because they were both so young. You know, they were ten and

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fourteen, you know when this happened, right, you know, they could

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have grown up to be incredibly better
due to all of the things that they

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had to deal with because of other
people's prejudice. But it's really great to

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see that they turned it into something
positive. Eventually, though, Rushad and

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Rowena began to thrive and, according
to medium dot com, Romana as she

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grew older, ended up joining her
school's ROTC program as well as the drill

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team. Though she had no aspirations
to join the military when she got older,

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she loved being part of the team
and really dedicated a lot of time

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to it. Who shot said quote
ROTC was pretty much her life in high

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school. It kind of surprised us
because she was so small, Like she

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was just this tiny little thing.
He also said how the family would joke

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that the flag weight more than she
did, like so that can kind of

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give you, like a visual of
just how tiny she was. You know

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what those drill team flags look like, Yes, and they are. They're

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heavier than they look because of the
you know, when the wind takes those

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flags, it adds weight to it. It sounds weird, but it adds

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weight because it's pulling you, you
know, in one direction or another.

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So you're fighting against that The pole
and the flag. Yeah, so you

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know her family teaser a little bit
like that flag is bigger than you.

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How are you doing this? But
she loved it, like she would get

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up at six am to go to
practice and all that. As she grew

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up, Rowena became a kind and
loving woman, her mother said quote her

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energy was so vibrant. Everyone who
knew her just absolutely loved her. And

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Rowena and Rushad were also incredibly close
and would spend a lot of time together.

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One of the things Rushad recalled doing
with Rowena was running to a quick

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trip for mango tea and then going
for a drive. In twenty twelve,

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Rowena graduated from Wichita Heights High School
and went on to enroll at Wichita State

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University. She did this to pursue
a degree in psychology as she wanted to

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be a counselor for teenagers. During
this time, Rowena decided that she wanted

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to do more for her community and
the children in it, so she started

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work working at the Wichita Children's Home, which is a shelter for children who

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have suffered emotional or physical abuse and
neglects. The CEO, Debbie Kennedy,

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said of Rowena's time at the home. Quote, she greeted them like they

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were the most important guests she was
waiting for. They instantly knew that they

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were someplace that cared about them.
She also spoke of how when the children

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couldn't wait to tell Rowena all about
their day at school because quote she listened,

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attentively listened, letting them know that
they were worthy of someone's attention and

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kindness. Rowena in the mornings would
gently wake up the children, and her

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gentleness was described as very tender and
motherly. When it was time for the

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children to focus on their school work, Rowena would study right along with them

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to demonstrate how important education was,
and she taught them how to set goals

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and work towards achieving them. Debbie
said, quote she was amazing, upbeat

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and cool. They wanted to be
just like her, to never be afraid,

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be adventurous, and always be courageous. So she's clearly just this amazing

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role model for these children. Like
they're coming into this home, you know,

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experiencing all sorts of abuse and neglect
and feeling that no one loves them

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or they're unworthy of love, and
Rowana taught them that that's not true.

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She does sound like she's amazing,
but not just for the children, but

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for anyone that came in contact with
her, exactly, like she just seemed

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overall to just care so much about
everything. In addition to working at the

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children's home, Rowena was also a
student Involvement ambassador and worked at Disability Services

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at Wichita State where she escorted students
with disabilities around campus and a golf cart.

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So that just race solidifies the idea
that she's just this genuinely good person

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because as far as I know,
she wasn't hold to work in this center,

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like this is something that she decided
to do, and she decided to

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escort these other students around campus that
had trouble getting around, like she was

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helping wherever she possibly could. I
don't know where she found the time between

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school and work and studying and all
of these extra things that she does.

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A she's amazing, I exactly,
like, how did she find the time,

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because she dedicated so much of her
time to her studies. Her mom

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said that she was so proud of
how dedicated she was to her studies and

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how well she was doing in school. Like I'm sure Taranja Bairam really felt

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that them moving to America like really
was achieving their dream for their children to

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like succeed and be these amazing members
of society. Like they were just so

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proud. I can't understand it as
a parent, you know, your children's

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successes are your you know, some
of your proudest moments. So obviously things

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are going really well for Rowina.
She's helping the children thrive to the children's

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home, and she's doing amazingly well
in her studies as I said, And

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her brother, Rushad became a police
officer, so he's doing just as much

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amazing things, you know, keeping
his community safe. And of course they

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were just as close as ever,
texted all the time, hung out all

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the time. They were two p's. Now there's no information on how exactly

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she means the man that she would
start dating. His name is Dane Owens,

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but it seems as if he may
have been a family friend or a

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friend of Rushad's. He was a
few years older than Rowina, from an

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affluent family and an army veteran,
and who was given a medical discharge after

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suffering a traumatic brain injury due to
an explosion while he was deployed in Afghanistan.

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So he's, you know, seemingly
like this really great guy. You

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know, he fought for our country. You know, he was in Afghanistan.

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You know, he was medically discharged. It wasn't like a dishonorable discharge.

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So, you know, seems like
a good guy. And according to

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The Wichita Eagle, he was a
student worker at the Kansas State University Manhattan

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campus, and he was also working
towards a degree in psychiatry. So clearly

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they have, you know, something
in common. She's going for a degree

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to be a counselor he's going for
psychiatry. So they've got some things in

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common now. According to Medium,
Dane and Rowana reconnected in May of twenty

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sixteen at Rushad's wedding, and they
hit it off pretty much immediately. However,

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there were problems in their relationship almost
from the start. Again. According

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to Medium, Dane started displaying some
red flags very early on in their relationship.

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He was allegedly controlling, possessive,
and had some pretty serious anger issues.

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Additionally, from the get go,
he started talking about wanting to marry

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and start a family with Rowena,
which she was not ready for. You

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know, at this time, she
was twenty two and very focused on school,

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and Rowena had expressed to Dane that
she felt he was moving way too

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fast and she asked him for some
space. In response, allegedly, Dane

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begged her not to leave him,
and in a letter supposedly said that he

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couldn't live without her, alluding to
the fact that he would hurt himself if

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he did, which, for those
of you who don't know, that is

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emotional blackmail. And if you want
a definition on emotional blackmail, according to

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Medical News Today, emotional blackmail involves
using another party's fear, guilt, or

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sense of obligation to pressure them to
comply with the demand. Signs may include

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withholding affection or threatening retaliation to get
compliance. For example, the blackmailer may

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become silent or threaten to end a
relationship if the other party does not bend

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to their wishes. Dane implying that
he was going to hurt himself kill himself,

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that's emotional blackmail. So we're already
on a really bad foot. In

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addition to the possessiveness and the controlling
issues and the anger issues, we're just

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not set up for success. Doesn't
sound like it, You know, you

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do that to somebody that you love. Now, Rowana told Dane again that

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she was not ready for such a
major commitment and to basically stop pushing the

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marriage thing on to her. That
she was not ready for something like that

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in this point of her life.
She was setting a boundary for herself,

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and Dane seemed to respect that vitally
for about a week, and then he

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went right back to constantly talking about
marrying her, talks of weddings, trying

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to plan a family. So at
this point, you have a couple that

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want two very different things in their
relationships. At this moment, you have

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Rowana who wants to finish school get
started on her career, and you have

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Dane who is adamant that he wants
to get married and start a family basically

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as soon as possible, but not
even just in general with Rowena specifically.

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Now, there's nothing wrong with them
wanting different things in their relationship, and

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there's nothing wrong with being in different
stages in life. The issue lies in

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the fact that Dane was not respecting
the fact that Rowena has made it clear

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that she is not ready for the
things that Dane is wanting out of their

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relationship. Rowena was not hiding this
fact from him or leading him on.

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She told him very clearly that she
did not want marriage or a family at

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this point in their relationship. Dane
should have respected that and he should have

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done or what he should have done
was either except that she wanted to wait

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and give her the opportunity to focus
on the things she wanted to focus on

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as a supportive partner, or what
he could have done is said that he

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respects her choices for herself, but
that he was ready for a family and

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marriage and he would rather not wait
a long time for that and broken things

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off. Those things would have been
a valid response, but we already know

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that that's not what happened in this
case. But that's what should have happened.

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Well, that's the should have,
could have, would have. But

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some people want what they want and
they will do whatever they can to achieve

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what they want, irregardless of someone
else. Now, by September of twenty

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sixteen, things are continuing to go
even more downhill in their relationship and Dane

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is allegedly getting more aggressive. So
by September twenty third, Rowena had enough

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and broke things off of Dane,
which Dane was not handling very well.

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According to text messages between Rowena and
Rashad, Rowenna said that Dane wanted her

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to give him a chance, and
that he kept trying to justify his actions.

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Rowena also said that taranj had told
raw that she feared if Rowena went

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back to Dane, he would physically
abuse her. So Mama is already saying

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stay away from him. He's going
to hurt you. I understand why she's

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saying that this is her child.
She can see the writing on the wall.

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Yeah, and she's hoping that her
daughter will heed the warning that she's

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giving her. And she does because
tarant isn't the only one saying stay away

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from Dane. Now, Shad had
asked Rowena if she wanted him to intervene.

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You know, he's a police officer, besides the fact that he's her

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older brother. You know, he
wants to protect his sister. And she

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tells him no, and quote,
what's the worst that'll happen. He'll take

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a rifle and shoot me, which
she was joking and Rushad did not find

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that funny. Now, on the
twenty seventh and the twenty eighth, so

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just a couple of days later,
Dane texted Rashad and asked about Rowana,

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and Rashad responded on the thirtieth saying, quote, you and my sister are

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done. Stop bothering her via text, Facebook and phone calls or she will

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file harassment charges. It is over, move on, thank you. So

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now Rushad is involved saying you need
to stay away from my sister, stop

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bothering her because you're bordering on harassment
and no one wants to deal with this,

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like basically grow up. Well,
he's you know, as you said,

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he's the big brother. He's looking
out for his sister, besides the

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fact that he's a police officer and
knows that this is the pushing the boundary

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of harassment and i'll say stalking and
all of these things trying to get her

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back, but it's only going to
lead down a road where you know,

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there could be an order of protection
and there could be you know, a

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charge is filed for all of these
things. So he's warning him off,

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stay away. She's made her decision, stay away, or you're going to

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go down this road that there may
not be you know, backtracking on exactly.

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Like basically he's giving him the courtesy
of saying if you don't stop,

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this is the legal action that is
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stop right absolutely. On October third, twenty sixteen, so three days after

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Rushad tells Dane to leave his sister
alone, Rowena is supposed to pick up

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her mother from work, but she
never shows. Now, mind you,

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Rowana lives in the family home.
You know, she doesn't dorm. She

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lives at home. So the fact
that she didn't pick up her mom is

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already kind of a red flag.
Because Tarange knows my daughter's at home.

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She's gonna pick me up, you
know, she's she's not commuting from or

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she's not coming from like her dorm, you know where there's traffic or whatever.

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She's coming from home. So Tarant's
trying to get a hold of Rowena,

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can't get a hold of her.
Rashad then tries to get a hold

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of his sister, can't reach her. So Tarange is very, very worried

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about her daughter. You know,
this is not like her. She sees

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her daughter every day, talks to
her daughter every day, She talks to

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her brother every day. So this
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So Tarange gets a ride home from
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she walked into what could only be
described as her work nightmare. According to

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an affidavit, at around four ten
pm, Wichita Police and Sedgwick County Emergency

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Medical Services are dispatched to a home
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Court in Wichita, Kansas for an
urgent call for an ambulance. Upon their

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arrival, they discovered Rowena Rani with
severe trauma to the head. She's immediately

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transported to Wesley Medical Center, where
doctors discovered she had sustained a gunshot wound

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to the head. Now, she
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and she is placed on life support, but due to the gravity of her

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injury, she was pronounced dead the
following day. So back at the Irani

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household, the police are conducting their
investigation, during which they discovered a forty

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five caliber shell casing on the floor
near where Rowano was found, as well

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as a partial bullet. They also
found a bullet hole in the window of

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the dining room just south east of
where she was found. Rowena's brother,

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Rushad was interviewed by detectives Joshua Hudgens
and Stephen Mold. During the interview,

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Rushad told the detectives how Rowena had
previously been dating a man by the name

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of Dane Owens and how she ended
things with ten days prior. According to

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Rushad, after the breakup, Rowena
confided in her brother that Dane told her

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about his time with the army and
how he had killed multiple people, including

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women and young children, as like
a threat to her. He had also

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been told how after a bad breakup
with a prior girlfriend, Dane told Rowena

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he had seriously considered killing this girlfriend. According to an article for KSNT dot

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com, Dane told Rowena that he
had dug the hole and was on the

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way to kill the previous girlfriend when
he changed his mind. I can feel

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the rage. Okay, this young
girl twenty two years old, just urting

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out her adult life, deals with
what I would term as a psychopath.

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If you're telling your girlfriend that a
prior girlfriend you wanted to murder, that

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you dug her grave, that's somebody
you want to run very far away from,

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you know, don't It's not a
joke that he's telling her this.

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It's not a haha, this is
funny, you know, I'm teasing you

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no, this is serious exactly,
and then using the fact like, yes,

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you know soldiers and Afghanistan. There
are civilian casualties, oh, soldiers

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in any war, in any war, but you know, specifically Afghanistan because

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that's where he was deployed. You
know, there are civilian casualties. You

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know, there's no denying that.
But for him to from what I read,

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basically relish in the fact that he
brothered by men and children and was

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bragging about it exactly. That's not
normal behavior. That is not indicative of

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someone who is of sound mind and
morals. No bot Okay, I have

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not met every military veteran or current
military personnel. That is not something that

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they brag about. That is not
something that they even talk about. They

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just don't. There's trauma associated with
that. That's why they call it PTSD.

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Okay. So a lot of times
these military you know, current military

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and military veterans will not speak about
it because it brings up these horrible images

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that they can't get it out of
their head. And PTSD is a very

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real thing. It's they suffer with
this tremendously. And I'm not just talking

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about military, you know, your
average everyday person, depending on you know,

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God forbid, they go through a
horrific trauma, they end up with

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PTSD. It's not something that,
oh, let me brag about what I've

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done. I've never heard anybody say
that. So, based on this clearly

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disturbing information, police go to Dane
Owen's parents' residence in Antobra, Kansas,

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and they tell Dane that his ex
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They didn't say what happened to her, and I'm sure that was a strategic

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move on the police officer's part.
So during this conversation, Danetel's officer,

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Jared Henry quote, I was involved
in the accident. Stuff happened. What

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do you mean stuff? What stuff
are you talking about? That would have

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been my question, what do you
mean? Well, during this conversation,

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a detective Tennyson calls Melanie Owens,
Dane's mother, and asked her if Dane

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owns a gun, to which she
said he did. He owned a forty

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five caliber handgun and a rifle,
both of which he kept at his house

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in Manhattan, Kansas. Police also
spoke to one of Dane's friends, Michael

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Higgins, and Michael told police how
the week before he had picked up Dane

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and that Dane seemed really angry.
He also said that allegedly Dane had said

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he wanted, quote the stress relief
of shooting someone, and nobody thought to

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question him on what do you mean
who you're talking about? What I'm gonna

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get? You need help? I
like, come on, now, I

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rationally, I fully get what you're
saying. I'm going to give Michael the

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benefit of the doubt and assume that
he kind of figured that Dane was kind

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of talking out of his ass,
like when you're really really mad, like

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oh my god, I could kill
you kind of thing, like an like

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not an expression, but just exaggerating
like, oh I could kill someone right

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now. Okay, I can.
I can understand that. However, you

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know you're saying, gee, I
could you know I'm so angry, I

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could you know, punch somebody in
the face. You're not saying I could

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you know? I need the release
of shooting somebody. Fully get what you're

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saying. I'm just thinking that's probably
what Michael was thinking, Like it was

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I'm so mad I could kill someone
right now kind of thing. Oh I

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get what you're saying, you know, I get it, I understand it,

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and again, this is all you
know, I want to say,

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second or third hand information exactly.
And again it's alleged that he said this

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because Michael, you know, didn't
you know he was He wasn't quoted directly

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in the affidavit. It was coming
second hand from what I could gather.

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So you know, maybe that's not
what happened or exactly how it was phrased,

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but that's what is written in the
affidavit. Okay, So again,

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you know we're all we're on the
outside looking in to this story, so

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maybe you know my reaction would be
different. But hearing it now, going,

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what are you talking about? Like, what do you mean? You

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want to shoot somebody? That that's
my reaction at this moment. Yeah,

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no, I get that for someone
to basically say that shooting someone would be

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cathartic for them, Like that's what
do you mean? Now, Allegedly,

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Michael said that Dane was not specific
about who exactly it was that he wanted

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to shoot. So again, maybe
that's why he thought he was just kind

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of talking out of his ass because
he wasn't like, oh I want like

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I want to shoot browen up.
I'm so mad at her. She broke

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up with me, you know what
I mean. So, according to the

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affidavit, Dane told police that that
morning he had taken a bunch of hydrocodone

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pills and when driving around in his
truck with the smith and wesson in the

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center console. Based on this,
Dane was subsequently arrested and charged with intentional

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first degree murder as well as burglary. So, according to court records,

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during his interrogation, Dane told detective
Chisholm how he had driven to row in

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his neighborhood, parked his car where
she couldn't see it, and headed towards

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the house. Now, this was
verified by surveillance footage where Dane could be

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seen arriving at eleven thirty eight am
and leaving at one oh five pm.

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Dane said that when he approached the
house, he saw one of the Irani's

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dog outside, so he opened the
door to let the dog in and followed

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it into the house. Once he
was inside, he said that quote Rowena

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came around the corner, he was
startled, she was startled, and the

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gun just went off. Now,
he says he wasn't trying to hurt anyone.

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He confessed to being angry, but
he was usually good at controlling his

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emotions. But he claimed to be
blindsided by the breakup. End quote,

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tired of being fucked over because he's
a nice guy, So he took the

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gun to Rowana's house so that he
would be taken seriously. And that is

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what he told police. I watched
his interrogation video. He tells police,

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I took the gun to her house
so she would take me seriously. I'm

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not buying that he took that weapon
to her home to do her bodily harm.

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Period. Now, he also told
police that when Rowena fell to the

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ground, she had dropped her phone, so he took it with him.

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He said he considered using it to
call for help, but decided against it

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and instead took the phone, the
gun, and the magazine and dropped them

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into two different ponds on the way
to his mother's house. Now, mind

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you, he didn't volunteer this information
about her phone. He only told police

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about it after he was specifically asked
if he knew where it was when crime

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State investigators failed to find it.
Now, again, he had he has

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his own phone. Obviously, he
took her phone. She did not die

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when he shot her in the head. She was alive, bleeding for three

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hours before her mom came home and
found her and called an ambulance. So

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who knows if he would have If
this was an accident and the gun just

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went off, she might have lived. I mean, I don't know,

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but it's possible she could have lived
if he had just called nine one one.

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If it was an accident. Yeah, this terrible accident. I shot

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her. I got spooked. I
didn't expect her to come around the corner,

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you know, and she's bleeding.
I shot her, and she needs

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an ambulance something something. If it
was an accident, that's what you do,

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because she was alive and he left
her there to die. So,

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according to an article for The Sunflower, Dane, around the time of the

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shooting had done a factory reset of
his phone, meaning that he wiped it

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completely clean of everything. Pictures,
text messages, browsing history, everything was

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gone. It was also stated that
when he was asked about allegedly wanting to

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kill his ex girlfriend, Dane said, quote, I didn't intend to kill

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the ex girlfriend. I convinced my
brother we were going to dig a grave.

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But it was nothing like this.
It was one of those joking instances.

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I convinced my h my brother to
dig a whole grave. But it's

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just a joke. Who does that? This is not you know, a

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couple of shovelful's worth of dirt.
This is a lot of work. You

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dug six feet deep. This is
a lot of work. And you're doing

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this as a joke. Who's buying
this nonsense? No one's buying I wouldn't

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expect anybody to buy it. I
don't buy it because, again, in

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case it's not clear, no one
that is a quote nice guy like Dane

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says he is makes jokes about killing
an ex girlfriend and digging a grave for

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her. Nor do they relish the
memory of killing women and children while in

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combat. Nice guys don't do that. They don't do that. Well,

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no nice guys that I know of
do that. I can't think of one

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person that does that. One of
the things that was interesting to police when

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they picked up Dane was that Dane
had a sling on his arm, his

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right arm, because a couple of
days prior yet shoulder surgery. So police

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asked, how did you pulled the
gun? Like, how'd you do this

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if your dominant hand is in a
sling, and he said that he concealed

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the gun in the sling and the
gun just went off when he was startled.

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So police asking to demonstrate how he
did this, and again I watched

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the interrogation footage of him doing this
demonstration for police. They gave him an

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onloaded gun and said, show is
how you he did it. Now,

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he's making it scene like he just
kind of popped it in there like it

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was no big deal. No,
no, no, no. When he's

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actually trying to do it, he's
struggling because his arm is a mobile because

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he just had surgery in it.
It's like trying to work it in there,

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and he physically or verbally says,
this really hurts. And then he

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tells a detective his home that while
he is right handed, he shoots left

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handed. So he's ambidexious. Yes, and that's corroborated, not like that

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he shoots with his left hand.
He does. So, you said,

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you put it in the sling with
your right arm, so but it's useless

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and you have to reach across and
pull it out of the sling. But

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it just went off. Am I
the only one that finds that just a

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little hard to swallow there. Yeah, no, it makes zero sense.

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So two days after row and his
death, Dane appeared in Sedgra County District

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Court on intentional murder and aggravated burglary
charges for arrangement. And he's held on

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five hundred that bail. As far
as I know, no one posted that

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bail, so he was held in
jail. And Dane goes to trial in

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November of twenty eighteen, and the
defense is trying to argue that the shooting

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was an accident and he suffers from
post traumatic stress due to his time in

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the military. Now, Detective Chisholm
testifies at trial that Dane's gun had a

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seven pound trigger pull and a trigger
safety that prevented it from firing unless a

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finger was on the lower part of
the trigger, basically saying, this gun

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wasn't just going off accidentally unless your
finger was on the trigger, the only

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way that was gonna happen. He
also demonstrated on the stand how Dane claimed

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to have held the gun in his
sling and determined that the gun slide would

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have been obstructed. Based on this, Detective Chisholm said that the shellcasing wouldn't

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had been found where it was in
the Irani home, it would have been

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in the sling. It was also
said that there was a bullet in the

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gun's chamber, leading Chisholm to further
belief that the slide was not obstructed like

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it would have been if it was
in the sling. Additionally, there were

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zero burns or other marks on the
sling to indicate that a gun had been

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fired inside of it. Besides the
fact that if the gun did go off

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while in the sling, Rawana would
not have sustained the gunshot wound to the

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head, she would have most likely
been shot someplace lower, like her stomach,

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since he was unable to raise his
right arm. For anyone that's ever

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worn a sling, I broke my
arm when I was six. Your arm's

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stuck to your like it's They try
and keep it chest level. Now,

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sometimes depending on the surgery you have, your arm may be elevated. You

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know, Yeah, it could be
a little bit higher. But again saw

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the interrogation footage. His arm was
not elevated. It was approximately chest high,

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maybe just below his chest. So
if he couldn't really move his arm,

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how'd he shoot her in the head
if it accidentally went off in the

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sling. In cross examination, Detective
Chisel does acknowledge that Dane suffers from back

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and shoulder injuries as well as PTSD
depression and the traumatic brain injury that he

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had sustained, and he had been
prescribed medication for these issues. You know,

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they got his medical records, and
he was also allegedly seeking treatment from

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the Veterans Administration in Wichita, and
he was seeing a therapist in Manhattan.

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So you know, he acknowledges,
yes, he's getting help for these issues,

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and we'll get to that in a
second now. Rushad also testified and

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spoke of the breakup and the things
that Rowana had confided in him. He

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said how when Rowena told Dane that
he freaked her out with the constant talk

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of marriage, Dane responded with,
well, quote, if that freaks you

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out, then you should know what
I have done when I was at war.

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I have shot and killed men,
women and children. He also said

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that he and Rowena took the statements
made about wanting to kill his ex girlfriend

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very seriously, because the defense was
trying to say, well, that was

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just like a joke, figure of
speech, like he didn't mean it,

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because they used the text about Rowena
saying, what's he going to do to

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take a gun and shoot me?
Like she knew that he just joked about

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00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:46.360
things like that. No, it
sounds like they're grasping its straws. According

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to court records, Dane's army squad
leader first Class Stephen Fry, testified that

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at only nineteen years old, Dane
had seen active combat and encountered multiple IEDs.

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He also said how he was high
trained with firearms and had been taught

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to always treat them as loaded and
never point them at anyone you did not

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intend to kill. He has been
trained. You're pointing a gun to someone,

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you're killing them. That's how that
works. He also admitted that while

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Dane was right handed, he did
indeed shoot with his left Now. Dane's

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orthopedic surgeon also testified that the surgery
he had on his shoulder did not hinder

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the function of his right hand or
his left. And finally, Dane's mother

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gets on the stand and spoke of
how her son had changed since he got

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back from his deployment and how he
was easily startled and jumpy, as well

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as agitated and even appeared to be
paranoid. Now She clarified that Dane was

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on medication for these issues and they
helped, but only when Dane was consistently

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00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.719
taking them, which he was not. So he has all these issues,

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00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:05.800
he has a treatment plan for them
to help manage them, but he's not

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00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.239
following treatment plan. He does it
when he feels like it. Now,

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Dane himself did not deny shooting Rowena, but insisted it was a terrible accident.

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He also asked for a voluntary manslaughter
conviction, using his PTSD to support

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his argument that the shooting was unintentional. Now, the state argued for an

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intentional first degree murder conviction, citing
Dane's own medical records showing that Dane essentially

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00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.559
could and uses mental health as an
argument because he had not been actively and

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consistently seeking medical treatment for his problems. After a five day trial and three

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00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:49.800
hours of deliberation, Dane Owens was
found guilty of first degree murder and aggravated

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burglary on December twentieth, twenty eighteen. He was sentenced to twenty five years

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00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.400
to life in prison, with the
possibility of parole after twenty five years plus

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00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:06.880
forty three months For the burglary charge. He was also ordered to pay seven

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00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.920
four hundred and seventy dollars and sixty
four cents in restitution. He did end

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00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.920
up appealing all of this in twenty
twenty one, but his appeal was denied.

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He was saying that the phone call
that police made to his mother shouldn't

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00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:30.079
have been admitted because she's asked if
she needed a lawyer, and the judge

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00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:36.639
was essentially like, your mom wasn't
arrested, Your mom wasn't being interrogated.

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00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:43.159
She was being asked very simple,
basic questions to establish information about you.

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So that's not inadmissible. We're going
to use that. And then they tried

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to say that Detective Chisholm's re enactment
of hiding the gun in the slang shouldn't

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00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:59.880
have been allowed, and the judge
was like him, doing that did not

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hinder your defense in any way,
So no, that's not inadmissible. Jeve

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was denied the appeal. In the
aftermath of browan His murder and Owen's conviction,

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the Irani family set up the Rowena
Irani Psychology Scholarship in an effort to

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keep her legacy alive. In twenty
nineteen. In the first three weeks they

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00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.320
hit their ten thousand dollars goal and
even extended it to thirty five thousand dollars

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in the hopes that it would be
endowed, which essentially means that it would

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be renewed annually as opposed to being
like a one and done kind of thing.

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It's also worth mentioning that Rowena continued
to do so much good even after

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her death. Unbeknownst to her family, she had registered to be an organ

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00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.679
donor, and upon her death,
her organs went on to save six people's

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life. Rowena's life was horrifically cut
short by a man who could not handle

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her rejection, and like in every
episode, be done regarding domestic violence.

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The links and phone numbers to resources
will be in the source notes below.

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I urge you to use them if
you need them, and to pass them

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on to anyone you think could benefit
from them, man or woman. I

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00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:17.480
know domestic violence cases have all been
about female victims that we've covered, but

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men suffer from domestic violence as well, so please, if you need the

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00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.480
resources, use them. That was
the murder of Rowena Irani. Well,

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she was a from what you've told
me, a wonderful young lady who touched

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so many lives and so many lives
that she could have touched in her lifetime,

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00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.079
and I feel sorry for well,
not only the family and the loss

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00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:50.840
that they have suffered, but again
for all of those people that she did

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touch in such a beautiful way.
Debbie Kennedy, the CEO of the Wichita

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00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.119
Children's House, said that basically,
there will never be another one like Rowana,

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00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:07.320
but to do right by Rowana she
is She said, she is so

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00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:14.039
conscious of the people that she hires
now because she wants them to be just

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00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:20.360
like Rowana, Like she wants that
compassion, that kindness. Well, she's

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00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:28.519
this young lady has said a standard
for anyone that comes after her. And

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00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:34.039
the children, some of the children
spoke at her memorial and basically said,

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00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:37.920
like one of them said, like
I'm going to finish high school for Rowana.

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00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:42.559
I'm gonna do this, like go
to college, I'm gonna go to

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00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.800
cosmetology school. I'm gonna do these
things that Rowena believes that I could do

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00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:53.920
like for her. So she just
she impacted them so much, so she

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00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:58.880
will live on in them, you
know, not only her family, but

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00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.679
again the life that she has touched, those young lives that she has touched

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00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:07.079
for the better. They will never
forget her, and they will continue that

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00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:14.000
and hopefully pass that along to others, you know, that they see that

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00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:17.199
may need help or may need,
you know, just a helping hand.

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00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:25.400
So she left a very big hole
in this world. That's it, guys.

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00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.280
Again. We'll be back in a
couple of weeks. I'm just so

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00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:37.519
burned out. Work was really rough
for thank you, for anyone that works

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00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:42.079
in retail, you know that struggle
retail sales, you know, and the

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00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.760
holidays and everything like that. So
it's been a bit of a tough time.

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00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.480
So Courtney needs a little bit of
a little bit of R and R.

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00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.039
Yeah, I need a mental health
break in the worst way. For

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00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:57.599
those of you that are in your
Pagreon, I'm gonna put up a message

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00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:01.159
you did not get your bonus episode
this month, and I apologize for that.

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00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.199
I just I was like in tears
bad it the other day. But

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00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.280
we will make it up to you. Yes, you're gonna get two episodes

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00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:12.199
in January. You're gonna get two
episodes in February. I just again,

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00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:17.440
I'm I'm so tired. I'm so
tired. Yeah, I hope you had

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00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.599
a wonderful Christmas. I hope you
had a wonderful Honikkah. We wish you

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00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:28.760
nothing but the best in the new
year, Happy, healthy and safe for

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all of you. And by the
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put it out there and you know, share it with your friends, people

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drink and drive, call an uber, take a bus, subway something.

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Don't do that. I have a
dest needy driver exactly. So with that,

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we'll see you in like two weeks. Bye, guys, Bye,

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Thank you so much for listening to
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