Novela Chapter 4: Murder and Mimosas-Murder for Christmas

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With that, grab your mimosis and
let's dive in. Welcome back,

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how I'm Stannon and I'm Dana.
Today we're going to tell you the story

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of the gold Mark murders. So
grab your mimosas you sip while we share.

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It's Christmas Eve in nineteen eighty five
and the gold Mark family are expecting

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guests to arrive for a holiday dinner. The ham is in the oven,

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other pots are simmerating on the stove, and forty three year old Annie is

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upstairs taking a shower. Annie has
her Swedish gown laid out that she wears

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every Christmas Eve for the past several
years, and forty one year old Charles

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is eagerly awaiting their guests. The
table is set, appetizers are on the

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counter, and the stockings are hanging
from the fireplace. Around seven o'clock,

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they hear someone at the door.
Ten year old Colin answers the door to

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find a man standing there with a
white box. He asks Colin for his

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father, and Colin calls for him
to come to the door. Once he's

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at the door, the intruder pulls
a gun, which we will later find

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out was just a toy gun,
and he pushes his way into the house.

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He asks who else is in the
house, and he says his other

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son, twelve year old Derek,
and his wife is in the shower upstairs.

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The intruder has them all head upstairs
to the master bedroom to get Annie

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out of the shower. She dresses
in her robe and the intruder has them

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all lie down on the floor facing
away from him so they won't notice his

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toy gun. Charles asks if he
wants money, and he says, well,

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I mean it wouldn't hurt, Charles
gives him the fourteen dollars out of

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his wallet. He then handcuffs both
Annie and Charles and uses rags covered in

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chloro formed and knocks the family out. Before he knocks them out, though

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Charles informs him that they are expecting
dinner guest at seven point thirty. The

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intruder had so much plan that since
he's not sure if Charles is bluffing or

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not, he has to make this
quick. He grabs an iron and bludgeons

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all four of the gold marks in
the head. He feels for a pulse

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when he's done, and they aren't
yet. He had stood the kitchen to

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get an off and he notices the
gash in Charles's head When he returns,

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he takes the kN off and he
stabs him in the open wound in his

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head, and while he has been
off there will later learn that he says

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he swished it around. Although Annie
too had been beaten in the head,

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she didn't have a gaping wound like
her husband, and the intruder straps stabbed

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her in the ear and in the
chest, which killed her immediately. He

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did find head wounds on both of
the boys and did the same thing to

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them as he did to Charles.
Knowing Tom was running out, he grabbed

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the debit card, took the phone
off the hook, and shut off all

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the lots and left out the basement
door. Okay, this sounds like a

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robbery gone bad, But you said
he a lot planned. Does this mean

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the family was a target or like
a lot of murders, he wanted to

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get his jolly's off on the torch
here? I mean, what did he

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have planned exactly? There is actually
a lot to unpack in that question,

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So let me start with the intruder. He happens to be twenty seven year

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old David LUs Ross. David had
grown up mostly in Colorado, but his

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dad was a construction worker and they
did move around a lot. His brothers

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described him as very quiet, a
loner, and he never really had any

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friends. When he was four years
old, he fell through a sliding last

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door and sustained a head injury.
Not only that, but his right eye

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was cut and he was legally blind
in his right eye due to this fall.

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I mean, I would think that
that would kind of make most of

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us insecure, and honestly could explain
maybe the lack of friends for him.

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Growing up, it could have.
His brothers do also say that they picked

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on him, which of course,
I mean, that's what all siblings do.

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Of course. So when he was
around ten or eleven, he got

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in an argument with one of his
brothers, and his brother Randy later found

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him hanging from a noose in the
bedroom room. He had already turned blue,

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and they did get him down and
revived him. That seems really extreme

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for just an argument, but we
also don't know what else was going on,

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and what you know, demons he
may have been fighting internally. I

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realized this was the eighties, mental
health wasn't like a thing really, especially

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compared to now. But I mean, did they get him any type of

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help. They actually did get him
a therapist that he went to just a

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few times, but not long after
beginning his treatments there, the doctor got

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vested from lesstation of his clients.
That's the lowest of low stuff. They're

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coming to you for help, they're
already in a bad mental state, and

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you just take advantage of him.
I hope that you got justice for that

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was David, one of his victims. He never said, and his brothers

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later said that they don't think he
would have ever admitted it if it had

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happened to him. So he ends
up dropping out of school fifteen and at

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some point he enlisted in the Navy, but he gets discharged during basic training,

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and I wish I could find out
why he was discharged, but I

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never could find anything out about that. He gets married at twenty one.

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He has a son. Also,
I couldn't really find any information on his

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wife and son, which I can't
blame them, and I don't think he's

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stayed in their lives from what I
could tell. His wife ended up divorcing

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them though, because he was charged
with indecent exposure. So he ends up

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having all these odd random jobs.
He doesn't keep them long, and then

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in nineteen eighty two, both of
his brothers encourage him to move to Seattle,

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where they are, so maybe they
can help him. He has more

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jobs that don't pan out. He's
couch sheriffing at times, living in this

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car, and then he decides he's
going to go to school to be a

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welder. Finally, things are looking
up for him until he's laid off,

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not to mention that he also burned
his left eye while welding, and of

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course, when people describe him.
They talk about he's these really creepy eyes

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he has because now both of them
are messed up. I don't know about

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the eighties in Seattle, but here, at least in Arkansas, welding job

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doing pretty high demand. Was he
able to find a job pretty quickly so

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that he's not almost and living in
his car again? No, and he

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is not happy about it either.
His unemployment compensation ends up running out before

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he finds another job. And sometimes
people just need someone or something to blame

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for things going on in their life. And he blamed the community, the

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communist taking over America and Jews,
Okay, Hitler. So, in nineteen

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eighty two, David met forty year
old and Davis, a natural path doctor

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that invited him to come live with
her in her apartment, among well other

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things. So you got a self
a sugar Mama's what she's saying. Or

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she could have got herself a boy's
boy. Either way, that's pretty much

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what I'm saying. So Anne also
introduced him to a club. She was

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a member of the Duck Club.
And no, it's not for duck hunting.

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This was a club founded in nineteen
eighty by Robert Watt and this was

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an extremist anti communist, anti Jewish
group that had a chapter in Seattle.

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He is all in on this because, like I said, he's looking for

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someone to blame. While at the
meetings he hears the mention of gold Marks

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being Communist in Jews. Okay,
starting to get the connection now it sounds

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like it, but also not really. I have to tell you about Charles's

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parents for you to fully get the
whole picture. His mother, Sally,

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joined a Communist Party in nineteen thirty
five, thinking she agreed with them and

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that this could really helped boost the
economic crosses. And then she meets her

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soon to be husband, John in
nineteen forty two and the two begin their

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love affair. John was not fond
of the Communist Party and Sally mentioned to

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him that she joined a Communist party. He told her, even though he

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didn't like her views on politics,
he loved her and he just didn't care.

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Wow, if only we could all
be this understanding of other people's views,

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right, Imagine how much better things
would be. So Sally ended up

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dropping out of the Communist Party in
nineteen forty three, which is when the

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two of them got married. Life
happened. And then in nineteen fifty six,

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John ran for the House of Representatives
in one and he held this for

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two terms, but was running for
his third term when word got out to

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the press that Sally had been a
member of the Communist Party. It was

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definitely a smear campaign. John lost
the election, but he didn't take it

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lined down. He filed a lawsuit
for two hundred and twenty five thousand for

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defamation of their names. They were
awarded forty thousand, but after they won,

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of course, it was appealed.
The Supreme Court ended up ruling public

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officials could not collect damages for criticism
of their official actions and absence of proof

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of actual malice. So all right, back to David. This lawsuit was

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talked about in the Duck Club and
David looks up the gold Marks and he

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finds an article about the gold Marks
moving to an influent neighborhood and they even

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give the address in the paper.
This must have been a slow news day

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if this was newsworthy, maybe this
stuff is still the papers. I don't

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know. I obviously don't read them, but they were seriously reporting on who

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moved into the rich neighborhood and was
like, here's their address. Yeah,

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it could have been a slow day. I don't know, but yes that

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is what they did. And like
you, I don't read the papers,

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so it may still be a thing. I have no idea. So what

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David doesn't realize at this that is
this address is for Charles and Annie,

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not John and Sally. In fact, John and Sally have both passed away

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by this time. So this guy
didn't even do enough research to kill his

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intended victims. He sure didn't.
And to top it all off, none

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of them were Communists are Jews?
Not that that even gives him a right

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to kill them if they were.
So back to Christmas Eve, Charles and

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Annie were expecting dinner guests at seven
point thirty. Once they arrived, they

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noticed there were no lights on in
the house. They knocked on the door

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and no one answered. For a
moment, they thought maybe they're playing a

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prank on us, So they waited
on the porch a little bit, playing

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along, and they knew the Goldbergers
hadn't forgot or the gold marks. I'm

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sorry he hadn't forgotten, because I
mean this had been an annual tradition for

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years to have dinner with them.
On Christmas Eve and exchange gifts. So

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they tried again to at the door, still no answer. They were worried

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and they went to the neighbor's house
that they knew how to key, so

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Jeff Hayley. Jeff came over and
he opened the door. They could hear

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noises coming from the second floor.
Jeff ran upstairs and found a blood bath

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in the master bedroom. There was
blood splatter all over the place, as

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well as brain matter. The scene
was horrible. Oddly enough, Charles wasn't

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dead. He was covered in blood
and moaning her while lifting up his handcuffs.

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He was talking about how much they
hurt. So while someone called nine

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to one one others found something to
cut the handcuffs off Charles. He,

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however, was dead when the first
responders arrived. But Charles and the boys

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were still alive, somehow in very
critical condition and not expected to make it.

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Police began to canvass the neighborhood and
there was a neighbor that tells them

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that a man had come by with
a white box asking for Charles Goldmark.

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She showed him where he lived and
thought nothing of it. But the police

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assume this has to be their man. And they get a sketch. Once

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David left the gold marks, he
goes to the bank and tries the ATM

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card and realizes that they gave him
the wrong pen number. Comes it is,

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which I wasn't expecting since he actually
told him that they had guests coming.

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But okay, so he throws this
card in the bushes and walks the

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two miles back to Ann's. He
had come there by bus, but he's

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now covered in blood, and that
he can't get on a bus covered in

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blood because of course that would raise
suspicion. Okay, obviously I don't know

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how much blood was on him,
but just from the sounds of the crime

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scene and the way he killed them, he's gotta look suspicious regardless walking around

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because he's got to be covered in
blood too, at least it's the only

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way I can imagine. Yeah,
and I would be so nervous walking around

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anywhere. I mean, you just
look like in that case. But by

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whatever means, he still gets there
without being caught or anything, and he

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gets to ANNs. He hides his
bloody clothes after he cleans up and changes.

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On the way to ants, he
realizes that he left the handcuffs and

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they actually have his fingerprints on him. So he decides he's just gonna change

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and he's gonna head back over there
before anybody notices and grab those handcuffs.

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Okay, is Ann hom I mean, what does she say or have to

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think about this when he just walks
in covered in blood. Anne was actually

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gone for the holidays, and she
had told him that she left some money

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for food, but told him by
the time she got back on the twenty

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eighth, he needed to be gone. She had said that he had been

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acting really strange. He was talking
about voices from outer space. These voices

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weren't audible. He was just getting
these messages telepathically, which okay either way,

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it's crazy, okay for warning him
about Jews and communists. And they

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also told him he was a soldier. Yeah, and if your boy toy

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is talking like that, it's time
for a new one. Suppose to Christmas,

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just write a letter to Santa because
that one's got to go. So

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he heads back to the house.
He sees the police surrounding the house and

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he assumes he's going to be busted. Once the fingerprint analysis come back on

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the handcuffs. He spends the night
roaming the streets and riding the bus since

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he's now officially homeless again. The
next day, he heads to Homer Brand's

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house. This was the president of
the Duck Club. It's now Christmas Day

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and Homer and his family were actually
heading out. David tells him how the

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police are after him because he had
just and I quote, I'd just stump

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the top communists. There were four
of them and quote. Homer ignored David

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since he was used to him rambling, and he didn't really take anything he

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said serious. He excused himself and
said he had to go for a family

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event. He then goes to the
house of Robert Brown. This is another

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member of the Duck Club. He
tells Robert he needs a place to crash,

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and only God knows why he let
this man crash on his couch when

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he barely knows him. Maybe he
was overtaken by the Christmas spirit. People

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are a little more generous during that
time of the year. I don't know

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I would be that generous anytime of
the year, but some people are.

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Well. The next morning, Robert
notices a tablet on the coffee table and

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he reads it all David's still asleep, and it reads to whom it may

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concern. I am the person you're
looking for in the gold market case.

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I know that what I did was
a very terrible thing. This is why

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I am as you see me now. I want it perfectly understood that no

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one else had anything whatsoever to do
with what I did. I went the

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great links to make sure that the
person I live with doesn't even know that

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I'm wanted on a different charge.
She received a couple of messages on her

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machine, but I rased him before
she got to me. I did not

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use that rifle that purchase a few
weeks ago. Instead, I fooled them

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with a toy pistol. But you
will find in the storagelocker I threw the

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rifle away a couple of weeks ago. Again, I want it understood that

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no one knew anything about this,
so please do not cause any unnecessary suffering,

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A said people, I think that
I've already done that. I guess

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I should tell you why I did
what I did. That way you won't

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have to ask other people about it. My life is a mess. It

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has been ever since my wife left
me and was trying to help me straighten

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now, but I'm afraid Robert isn't
sure if this is a story he's just

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getting cocked it in his head,
or is this actually a confession. He

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hasn't read the papers in a few
days, or even watched the news for

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that matter. He's trying to decide
what to do, if anything, and

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then David wakes up. He tells
David he's going to go get a pack

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of cigarettes, and while heading to
a club he belonged to, he did

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ask a few people along the way
had they heard of the Goldmark murders,

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which most people had. One even
held up a newspaper that had the gold

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Marks on the front page talk about
unwanted house guests. At this point,

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this dude's like mine has to be
racing, like why did I let this

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stranger in? If I go back
to my own place, like, am

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I going to be the next to
die? Would not want to be in

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his shoes. He definitely does not
want to go back, so he calls

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the police from a pay phone.
The police arrive and they're speaking to Robert

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across the street when they see David
leaving the building. The police take off

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for him on foot. Eventually he
stops running and pull, and he pulls

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a valve from his pocket and drinks
it down and tosses the vowel. Okay,

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I know you're like deep in this
story. Uh, but what in

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the vial and why? And who
just walks around carrying one in their pocket?

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So they do analyze the bottle and
it was liquid nicotine. Okay,

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liquid nicotine. I don't really get
that. Is this like a lethal dose

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or is that a thing? From
what I can gether, I think it

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was a suicide attempt, So I
did look this up. So sixty milligrams

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is enough to kill you, and
I don't know how much was in the

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vowel, but I think that that
was his plan, must try to kill

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himself with this vowel of liquid nicotine, which I've never heard of till this

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case. So he's taken to the
station. They find the key for the

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handcuffs in his pocket, and they
ask if he wants to finish the letter

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he started at Robbers, and he
agrees to do that. Okay, I

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mean, his letter did kind of
end abruptly, clearly wasn't finished, But

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you never know, I'm afraid that
she isn't able to do much for it.

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I'm too far gone. When I
left high school, I could go

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out and get a job in any
town any time I needed. When I

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got married, jobs were starting to
get skips. I do more walking and

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searching to find work, found myself
more and more on the employment line.

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This is where the letter stops,
and he tells them he'd rather just tell

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them what happened, but after he
speaks to an attorney. Even after speaking

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to his attorney, he tells them
everything. He said. He had been

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staking them out for about six months, although he had yet to see them

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at all, so I can't say
how good he really is at staking someone

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out. I'd say, you show
me the wrong house. Yes, even

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shaking out the right people. He
says he bought the floral form and had

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tried it out on himself, apparently
a drug store. I did also look

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that up, because that kind of
threw me for a loop. And apparently

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you could buy in a drug store
until around nineteen seventy nine, which I

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was thinking. This was past nineteen
seventy nine, So maybe he was trying

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it on himself just to see if
it was still good. Out of date

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with his liquid nicotine, I know, Okay, Yes, So I don't

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know what was happening with that.
So he also tells Belice he had planned

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on getting information out of Charles about
other Communist members, but he didn't have

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time since guess may have been coming. He also tells them that he didn't

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plan on kids being there, because
of course he thought this was a really

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old couple. Maybe if he had
done his research. Yeah, he says,

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he didn't want to have to kill
kids, but that's just what a

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soldier does a soldier. He isn't
a soldier on a mission in his mind

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though he is. So let's listen
to this clip that he's talking to a

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reporter about all this for a minute. Thank what I said, you can

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just wlip around. The thing that
really got to me and brought me into

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this was the fact that I had
trained for a willing job, and I

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trained very hard for about a year, and I got one job out of

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that, and I was doing okay
until until a shop shut down, And

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I went on for just over a
year before I finally came to the conclusion

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that something is definitely wrong. You
know, something is wrong. This country

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does not get in this kind of
shape without somebody actually putting it in that

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shape and if you look around,
what you have to do is open your

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eyes and see it again. It's
being done purposely, and I believe it

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has been in at I think it
was sixty seven, said cruisive said said

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they would destroy our country and it
wouldn't fire a shot doing it in order

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to do that. Still take the
United States, and they'll cause the Civil

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War to do it. Looney dudes. Now this guy blows my mind.

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I will say. He said one
thing that I believe, and it said

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that you look around this country can't
get me shape this in without someone putting

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it there. Like, I do
agree with that someone did it, but

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I don't know that. I well, I know for a fact I don't

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believe it was Communist and you but
that's where our thinking no longer. Well,

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he is a real piece of work. He was originally charged with one

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murder and three attempted murder, but
unfortunately the rest of the gold Mark family

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passed at various times, with Derek
being the last to pass on January thirtieth

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of nineteen eighty six. Okay,
with all this that he gave police,

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I am assuming like he blood guilty. Well, hang on, I say

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that, and then I remember who
was there a trial. Well, his

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attorney uses the good old insanity defense. To be fair, if I was

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his attorney, I also would use
that. Okay. But we talked before

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about the fact that you may have
a mental illness, but that does not

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negate even being confident to stay trial, and how a mental illness doesn't necessarily

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mean the incentive defense gets you out
of a murder charge, so we won't

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go into that now. We've talked
about that before. But for this case,

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what happened to him? So the
jury finds him guilty of all four

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council murder and he is given the
penalty. Okay, during this phase,

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did they evaluated him to see these
company to stand trial if he diagnosed with

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a mental order? Because I'm not
a doctor, but in my humble opinion,

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he seems to have one, So
they do diagnose him with paranoid delusion

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disorder. He does. I agree
with them on that, so I wish

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it had ended there. But twenty
minutes before the verdict was read, he

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drank down more tobacco, this liquid
tobacco, and he's rushed to the hospital

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to have his stomach pumps. How
did he get more? I don't know.

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Maybe this was just rampant back in
the eighties. I've never heard of

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it, so this is just flow
in my mind. So due to another

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suicide attempt, he wasn't present when
the jury read the verdict, so he

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appeals on the grounds and of course
the ineffective counsel they all use, and

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the decision was affirmed. They appeal
this to the district Court and Judge Tanner

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throws out the whole death penalty since
David was not in the court room when

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it was imposed. So Assistant Attorney
General Jack Jones was appalled at this and

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he actually appelled this decision. Eventually
he eventually David is granted a whole new

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trial that before they go to trial, he decides he will plead guilty if

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they just take the death penalty off
the table, which is what happens.

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Okay. I am also appalled up
there with Jack Jones, because that's no

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bearing on the rest of the case. He wasn't there, but that doesn't

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change the decisions. But all of
these appeals just to take the death penalcy

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off the table when he has tried, as far as we know, to

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kill himself a few times now,
it seems a little odd and like a

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waste of taxpayer's money, but what
else does he have to do in his

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spare He's still in prison to this
day and never expected to get out.

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Can not only roamed what could have
been a magical Christmas for a family,

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but he took their lives in the
process. So would the gold Marks have

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spent the previous Christmas differently had they
known it would be their last? We

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never know when it's going to be
our last time together together with loved ones,

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so take advantage of every minute that
you have with your loved ones this

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year. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays. Happy Holidays.

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