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The Hardball Interview – Part 1 │ Diane Downs vs Detectives Wuest & Welch — Transcript

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  1. 0:01this is Kurt West I'm a detective of
  2. 0:03Wayne County Sheriff's Office
  3. 0:05at the present time we're conducting an
  4. 0:07interview with Elizabeth Diane Downs
  5. 0:10president is
  6. 0:12Douglas Welch
  7. 0:15also a detective William County
  8. 0:17Sheriff's Office
  9. 0:19Diane you know this conversation is
  10. 0:21being reported yeah
  11. 0:24and I asked you to come down here to
  12. 0:26look at some photographs
  13. 0:28of some individuals
  14. 0:30uh
  15. 0:32we are in the criminal investigation
  16. 0:35section and you have been called the
  17. 0:39suspect in this case and we are talking
  18. 0:41to you about uh facts in this particular
  19. 0:43case
  20. 0:44so under those circumstances I'm just
  21. 0:46going to redo the rights maybe the right
  22. 0:49to remain silent anything you say can it
  23. 0:51will be against you in a quarter while
  24. 0:54do you understand that yeah you have the
  25. 0:57right to talk to a lawyer and having a
  26. 0:58present with you while you're being
  27. 0:59questioned and when you are required to
  28. 1:01face Witnesses do you understand that
  29. 1:03yes
  30. 1:03cannot afford to hire a lawyer one will
  31. 1:05be appointed to represent you if you
  32. 1:07request of them do you understand that
  33. 1:08yeah
  34. 1:11do you understand each of these rights
  35. 1:12I've explained to you yeah having these
  36. 1:15rights in mind you wish to see without a
  37. 1:17lot of yeah okay and as I said you're
  38. 1:20free to go with any time but however we
  39. 1:24are we are going to be discussing
  40. 1:26today's today's date is July 22nd 1983
  41. 1:30and the time now is 15 43 hours
  42. 1:36I'm about to show Diana photo lineup
  43. 1:39showing six individuals
  44. 1:43on the outside of the lineup
  45. 1:45of a disclaimer it says the suspect may
  46. 1:48or may not be displayed in this series
  47. 1:50of photographs
  48. 1:52feel compelled to select any photograph
  49. 1:55okay
  50. 1:57just look at them carefully
  51. 2:24bunch
  52. 2:26yeah
  53. 2:48and eliminate three of them real fast
  54. 2:54[Music]
  55. 3:15I'm not gonna pick anymore
  56. 3:17because I'm not absolutely positive and
  57. 3:19maybe it's just that pictures look
  58. 3:21different from moving bases
  59. 3:24do you think that uh if you saw this guy
  60. 3:27in the street today you could recognize
  61. 3:29it you want the truth I don't know
  62. 3:33everybody says I would he said as soon
  63. 3:35as he walked up to me I'd Flash
  64. 3:38[Music]
  65. 3:48but anyway
  66. 3:50people have asked me if I would remember
  67. 3:52the person and I said I don't know if I
  68. 3:53would and they said oh sure you would
  69. 3:55that's something you wouldn't forget if
  70. 3:57you saw him again you would know him
  71. 3:59well I don't know that I've never been
  72. 4:01faced with something like this before so
  73. 4:03I don't know that I would know him again
  74. 4:06and I'm not going to
  75. 4:08say that for sure somebody is the person
  76. 4:11if I'm not for sure
  77. 4:13because after what I've just been
  78. 4:15through and I know I'm not the person I
  79. 4:16wouldn't put somebody else through that
  80. 4:17unless I was sure you feel fairly
  81. 4:20comfortable with none of the people
  82. 4:23no you don't feel comfortable no I
  83. 4:27in other words five looks real close
  84. 4:29okay
  85. 4:33but not not enough that I'm going to say
  86. 4:35hey that's him
  87. 4:37because
  88. 4:41then you go to start doing to him what
  89. 4:43you've done to me and if he isn't him I
  90. 4:46would I would put pity on him I mean
  91. 4:51not that you guys you guys really
  92. 4:52haven't been that bad she said she took
  93. 4:54my kids from you okay okay
  94. 5:00my kids are playing
  95. 5:02but anyway fireworks
  96. 5:11well why aren't you
  97. 5:13step back down there
  98. 5:15the classical goes periodically
  99. 5:20we have been talking about
  100. 5:23some people you consider to be enemies
  101. 5:25yeah this type is still working good
  102. 5:30and you have given me three names
  103. 5:33of people who
  104. 5:35be the most likely candidate
  105. 5:38to do something like this to you and
  106. 5:40your kids
  107. 5:42from the beginning again
  108. 5:45why don't you go ahead and run that bias
  109. 5:48and tell us what what if any of you
  110. 5:51think those people have okay
  111. 5:54this is our fourth trial now so I may
  112. 5:57forget things to remind me and I will be
  113. 5:59phrase okay
  114. 6:01stays down my ex-husband
  115. 6:05I divorced him two years ago and he
  116. 6:09hated me for that even before that I got
  117. 6:12pregnant
  118. 6:13with Daniel by somebody else not him
  119. 6:17and he's not the biological father he
  120. 6:19hated me for that
  121. 6:22um
  122. 6:25it it destroyed his
  123. 6:28character disgrace them to his friend
  124. 6:31that I would do these things he tried
  125. 6:34for the whole two years to try and get
  126. 6:35me back together
  127. 6:37[Music]
  128. 6:38um
  129. 6:39I never did go back with him so he hated
  130. 6:43me for it I don't know
  131. 6:46okay
  132. 6:47that's that's a big motive as far as his
  133. 6:49relationship with the kids goes
  134. 6:53excuse me
  135. 6:54as far as his relationship with the kids
  136. 6:57goes
  137. 6:58he Christie is a very obedient
  138. 7:00well-mannered child
  139. 7:03she would do anything you'd ask without
  140. 7:05asking price it makes it easy to ignore
  141. 7:07her
  142. 7:09in some cases because you don't have to
  143. 7:12yell at her and it's the reason she got
  144. 7:15ignored by Stephen because Steve it just
  145. 7:18proves again that Steve didn't have any
  146. 7:20real love or feeling for the kids
  147. 7:22because the only time he spent time with
  148. 7:24the kids when Cher was being reprimanded
  149. 7:27because she was so hyper and breaking
  150. 7:29things and getting into stuff and
  151. 7:30climbing on chairs and hanging on people
  152. 7:32and and he used to yell at her and just
  153. 7:34give her hair emotionally for it
  154. 7:37and there were times when he was
  155. 7:39physical with her too
  156. 7:41and so sure got lots of attention Chris
  157. 7:44he got none of attention but all the
  158. 7:45attention Charlotte was being was bad
  159. 7:46but that's not good
  160. 7:48Danny
  161. 7:49is a completely different case
  162. 7:51altogether
  163. 7:53he wasn't biologically students and the
  164. 7:55whole time that I was pregnant Steve was
  165. 7:57vicious with me
  166. 7:59and when I finished being pregnant
  167. 8:04he hated Daniel and after that's when I
  168. 8:07was pregnant he said as long as you have
  169. 8:09a girl baby you will see what happened
  170. 8:11but if you have a boy you're both out on
  171. 8:14your ass
  172. 8:15and I said fine well Danny turned it up
  173. 8:18to be a boy and Steve hated him at first
  174. 8:22with a passion
  175. 8:24whenever Dan would cry he'd scream for
  176. 8:27him to shut up and stuff like that so
  177. 8:29he even told me to leave
  178. 8:32and then when I said fine he said no you
  179. 8:34can't leave because he didn't look like
  180. 8:36he had failed and this person that got
  181. 8:38me pregnant had one or something it was
  182. 8:40just another murder was ego and so he
  183. 8:42was torn between wanting to get rid of
  184. 8:44us and destroy the evidence of what I
  185. 8:47had done and at the same time
  186. 8:50he didn't want to look like he'd lost
  187. 8:52and it was it was a drug
  188. 8:54turmoil inside of him like I said he's a
  189. 8:57complex person it's not any one thing
  190. 8:59that would make him hate me it's just
  191. 9:00everything all together makes him hate
  192. 9:02me more and more okay let's go on to
  193. 9:04number two so much
  194. 9:08is Steve's Death Throne has been friends
  195. 9:11for about
  196. 9:12five or six years I guess he'll do more
  197. 9:15I don't really know
  198. 9:22does it if one can commit a crime and
  199. 9:25get away with it the other one will do
  200. 9:27it and I don't know why it is dude I
  201. 9:30like a step ladder and they keep filling
  202. 9:32each other up and drugs hated me while I
  203. 9:35was pregnant because he hated me
  204. 9:38most of the time the name is D it was
  205. 9:41almost like a jealousy because Steve
  206. 9:43would rather spend more time with me
  207. 9:44than he would with Greg because we were
  208. 9:47an obligation we were a family he had to
  209. 9:49come home and spend time with us and so
  210. 9:52Greg didn't like that because he was
  211. 9:54younger at the same girl and he wanted
  212. 9:56to be with him
  213. 9:57and so he wanted to split us up while I
  214. 10:00was pregnant with Danny Steve told Brad
  215. 10:02that Daniel was biologically somebody
  216. 10:04offers
  217. 10:05and
  218. 10:06Greg hated me even more for that during
  219. 10:09the last part of my pregnancy drug used
  220. 10:11to cry and hang up
  221. 10:13whenever I answered the phone trying to
  222. 10:15make it sound like the girl was calling
  223. 10:16and hanging up and Steve found out that
  224. 10:18it was great doing it and told him to
  225. 10:20knock it off and Greg told him and the
  226. 10:22best thing that could ever happen to you
  227. 10:23to get rid of her and those kids and
  228. 10:25that stupid thing she's pregnant with
  229. 10:27and so that was Greg's attitude about me
  230. 10:30and the kids he didn't have any use for
  231. 10:32us at all
  232. 10:34then when we got our divorce Greg was
  233. 10:37very pleased
  234. 10:38turned around with Steve a lot
  235. 10:40he traveled over the girls being around
  236. 10:43sometimes but that was basically a
  237. 10:46toleration didn't really like them
  238. 10:49and Daniel he put up with Danny because
  239. 10:52Steve likes to take Danny places because
  240. 10:54Danny's a jewel he's an angel
  241. 10:56he's smart he's bright he's fun see
  242. 10:59we're taking places it was a showpiece
  243. 11:01for him and so Greg put up with that
  244. 11:03because it made Steve happy
  245. 11:05and
  246. 11:07when I brought the kids up here
  247. 11:11the kids weren't ever going to come back
  248. 11:12to Arizona the kids and I probably would
  249. 11:14have stayed here for the rest of our
  250. 11:15lives and we didn't need Steve he was
  251. 11:18not part of our life there was no use
  252. 11:20for him
  253. 11:21and Steve knew that he knew I thought
  254. 11:24that way about it and Greg knew that I
  255. 11:26felt that way about it
  256. 11:28when I came up here with Charlene which
  257. 11:30is Nick's wife will talk about her mix
  258. 11:32called steva and
  259. 11:35Nick was supposed to be joining me up
  260. 11:37here
  261. 11:38and so she called Steve and tried to do
  262. 11:41something to make Steve angry enough to
  263. 11:44force his hand to do something to bring
  264. 11:47the kids back there by bringing me back
  265. 11:49there by Nick would still be his wife
  266. 11:51his Nick would still be her husband and
  267. 11:54I would still be his mistress that at
  268. 11:55least she would have him
  269. 11:57so she started railing on Steve about
  270. 12:00how could he let his kids leave the
  271. 12:02state why doesn't he turn me in well the
  272. 12:03kids were in my custody they were my
  273. 12:06kids so he didn't have the right to keep
  274. 12:08the kids but she did that to him she
  275. 12:10just really
  276. 12:11tormented I might guess with it and he
  277. 12:13says well there's nothing I can do about
  278. 12:15it the kids are gone and perhaps that
  279. 12:17aided him but Greg on the other hand was
  280. 12:21probably elated that they were gone
  281. 12:22except for the fact that Steve was
  282. 12:25probably upset about it so Greg was
  283. 12:27upset about it and if he and Stephen
  284. 12:29lost three girlfriends because he has
  285. 12:31kids and now that Greg has a girlfriend
  286. 12:33or a wife I don't think people get
  287. 12:35married anymore not a dog has a
  288. 12:36girlfriend and a baby
  289. 12:38and he's settling down to I guess being
  290. 12:41sort of a family man to an extent he
  291. 12:43still has his girlfriends and stuff but
  292. 12:45you know he has somebody to sleep with
  293. 12:47every night type attitude he wanted
  294. 12:49Steve to have the same thing well he's
  295. 12:52lost three girls he's lost three
  296. 12:53girlfriends because of the kids so if
  297. 12:55Greg could eliminate the kids
  298. 12:59it would release Steve of his
  299. 13:00responsibility then he could get a
  300. 13:02girlfriend or a wife or whatever and it
  301. 13:04would also punish me at the same time
  302. 13:06because I would hurt because I love the
  303. 13:09kids and Greg knows I love the kids more
  304. 13:10than anybody so he would be getting even
  305. 13:12with me after all these years he would
  306. 13:14finally be doing me in
  307. 13:16okay
  308. 13:17let's talk about Charlene Charlene
  309. 13:20Charlene Knickerbocker she's an ex-wife
  310. 13:24um
  311. 13:25hurricane motive is still going it's not
  312. 13:28quite half over her main motive is the
  313. 13:31fact that Nick loves me I can't say love
  314. 13:33Mick loved me
  315. 13:36um
  316. 13:37we have been together for a year
  317. 13:40and it was an affair I was his mistress
  318. 13:42and that I'm not ashamed of that it's
  319. 13:45just the way life is sometimes
  320. 13:48he made me happy and I made him happy he
  321. 13:50left Charlene
  322. 13:52several times
  323. 13:54and he physically moved out on her twice
  324. 13:57in almost three times
  325. 14:00but every time he went back because of
  326. 14:02an obligation to her
  327. 14:04or for whatever other reason
  328. 14:06and
  329. 14:08he would go back to her but within two
  330. 14:10or three months
  331. 14:12he was always coming back and saying I'm
  332. 14:14sorry I'd rather be with you
  333. 14:17and it was
  334. 14:19just back and forth like that and it
  335. 14:21probably always would have been that way
  336. 14:23except that the next time Nick decided
  337. 14:26that he'd rather be with me I'm here
  338. 14:28and therefore Nick would have to either
  339. 14:31move up here or bring me back there but
  340. 14:34if Nick moved up here Charlene and her
  341. 14:36family all lived down there and she
  342. 14:40would have no reason to move up here
  343. 14:41except to follow Nick I think that that
  344. 14:43would hurt her Pride it would hurt mine
  345. 14:45I think
  346. 14:46but uh
  347. 14:48promoting would be that if she destroyed
  348. 14:50my kids
  349. 14:52she would destroy Nick's desire for me
  350. 14:55because Nick is a person that doesn't
  351. 14:57like complications he doesn't like
  352. 15:00hassles and there's nothing more
  353. 15:02complicating than a murder
  354. 15:04and no matter who gets murdered no
  355. 15:07matter who does the murdering if it was
  356. 15:09my kids but that killed Nick would never
  357. 15:12want to talk to me again let alone
  358. 15:14be a companion with me again and at the
  359. 15:19same time she would destroy me
  360. 15:21so those are the three people that you
  361. 15:24feel would be
  362. 15:25most likely most likely to commit a
  363. 15:28crime like this
  364. 15:32you mentioned earlier to us that uh
  365. 15:36this individual
  366. 15:39talk to you referred to you by name and
  367. 15:42also refer to your tattoo right
  368. 15:46can we get into a little bit
  369. 15:49more about
  370. 15:53the conversation he had what as as close
  371. 15:56as you can remember what did he tell you
  372. 15:59I don't remember all I know is that he
  373. 16:02used my name
  374. 16:03I don't remember most of the
  375. 16:05conversation
  376. 16:07I don't remember most of the action I
  377. 16:09remember seeing Christy get shot and
  378. 16:11that's about Alan I remember getting
  379. 16:13back in the car and driving to the
  380. 16:14hospital he threatened you though right
  381. 16:16yeah okay and the threat was words to
  382. 16:20the effect of what
  383. 16:24I don't remember but to the effect was
  384. 16:26that if I said anything to anybody that
  385. 16:28I know that you're waiting for me to say
  386. 16:30they because that's what and I almost
  387. 16:32did it again
  388. 16:33but every time I start rambling and I
  389. 16:36start talking about it and thinking fast
  390. 16:38I say they so I don't know if there was
  391. 16:41a day I remember a he
  392. 16:43but what I said was you only saw one
  393. 16:47person I only recall seeing one person
  394. 16:49one person okay
  395. 16:52anyway maybe there was another person
  396. 16:54there and that's what I'm blanking at I
  397. 16:56don't know I'm not a psychologist and I
  398. 16:58don't pretend to try to understand it
  399. 16:59I'm totally confusing I'll cut you off
  400. 17:03just a second ago you were going to say
  401. 17:04something about words to the effect that
  402. 17:07if you say anything about what happened
  403. 17:10here that they'd come back and kill me
  404. 17:13and I don't know why I said they it was
  405. 17:17just something that popped out maybe
  406. 17:20maybe he said that maybe he was alone
  407. 17:23and he was referring to the person that
  408. 17:24sent him maybe there were two people
  409. 17:27there maybe there were five people there
  410. 17:29I don't know was there other
  411. 17:31conversation besides this and you just
  412. 17:34don't remember it I'm sure that there
  413. 17:35was
  414. 17:37because
  415. 17:39he said that I was supposed to keep my
  416. 17:41mouth shut
  417. 17:42and not say anything and there must have
  418. 17:44been something for me to say if he was
  419. 17:46still just threatening me not to throw
  420. 17:48anything
  421. 17:49I mean I don't know that there was other
  422. 17:50conversation but it makes sense because
  423. 17:52there'd be no reason to say that if
  424. 17:54there wasn't
  425. 17:55see
  426. 17:56ing so this this person Knew You
  427. 17:59referred to you by name and referred to
  428. 18:01your tattoo
  429. 18:02do you feel that it's logical to assume
  430. 18:05that
  431. 18:08this individual was sent up here from
  432. 18:11Arizona I would think so because
  433. 18:15there are only a couple of people up
  434. 18:17here that know about my actually my
  435. 18:18parents didn't even know about my tattoo
  436. 18:20Steve told him when he came out here but
  437. 18:24only a couple people up here know him
  438. 18:26and they were my best friends and they
  439. 18:28would have no they weren't my enemies
  440. 18:30they I've only been here for six weeks
  441. 18:31and like I said I have a way of getting
  442. 18:34on people so that they hate my guts or
  443. 18:36they really like me and I haven't been
  444. 18:38here long enough to get any enemies and
  445. 18:40so the people that knew about my tattoo
  446. 18:42up here would have no reason to do this
  447. 18:45so if they refer to my tattoo that means
  448. 18:48they must have come from Arizona or were
  449. 18:51sent from Arizona
  450. 18:54I know I know we're just going over this
  451. 18:57when you came into the room earlier how
  452. 19:00would they know that I was going to be
  453. 19:01on that road I don't know
  454. 19:04I have no idea Nick and I discussed that
  455. 19:07and you're right it makes absolutely no
  456. 19:09logic it's always set up how would
  457. 19:11somebody know I would be on that
  458. 19:12obsolete Road
  459. 19:13I haven't got the founders except like I
  460. 19:16was saying
  461. 19:17when I went to the hospital
  462. 19:19doesn't work yet I went to the hospital
  463. 19:24I told the Springfield police or whoever
  464. 19:27what happened they wanted me to go back
  465. 19:29out to the scene I said fine I went
  466. 19:32then as we were driving up old Mohawk
  467. 19:35Road it flashed that there was a yellow
  468. 19:38car there and that it wasn't there now
  469. 19:41and I said wait there was a yellow car
  470. 19:44and he said
  471. 19:46was this person driving the car and I
  472. 19:48said I don't know I don't think so I
  473. 19:50didn't see him in the car
  474. 19:52the car was just parked here I said are
  475. 19:54you sure it was parked here I said yeah
  476. 19:56I think so I passed it
  477. 19:59so I don't know I don't know if Burks
  478. 20:03asked me the other day was I followed
  479. 20:06no I don't know that I was following
  480. 20:09but who looks to see if you're followed
  481. 20:11do you remember being followed
  482. 20:14after it happened could he run back to
  483. 20:16that yellow car and follow you
  484. 20:20I don't know after I got in the car I
  485. 20:23don't remember anything but Christy wait
  486. 20:25a second if you were followed
  487. 20:27how could they get somebody in front to
  488. 20:30weighs me down I don't know
  489. 20:32I don't know I don't understand it
  490. 20:35is I mean the whole case yes it is
  491. 20:40all I know is I can tell you you still
  492. 20:42have the anything that I can remember to
  493. 20:44tell you to tell you okay yeah if it
  494. 20:46doesn't fit in we'll get them at you
  495. 20:48siphon it out just telling you what I
  496. 20:51remember I remember a yellow car and it
  497. 20:54seems important for some reason it was
  498. 20:57important enough that when I told the
  499. 20:59story the way it happened
  500. 21:01and I didn't say anything about it it
  501. 21:03was important enough that my mind said
  502. 21:04wait there's a yellow car when we went
  503. 21:07back out there and I could and I just
  504. 21:08knew I was going to go back to that
  505. 21:09thing and I could see the trees and I
  506. 21:11could see the bends in the road and I
  507. 21:12would be seeing again my kids getting
  508. 21:14shot
  509. 21:16and it was something my mind was just
  510. 21:18fighting with that and the yellow car
  511. 21:20was there and my mind just looked pink a
  512. 21:23yellow car whether it meant anything or
  513. 21:25not
  514. 21:26and like I was saying at the time
  515. 21:29it's so weird
  516. 21:35at the time that the person threatened
  517. 21:38me and said that I wasn't supposed to
  518. 21:40say anything because I would be too old
  519. 21:44I didn't say anything
  520. 21:46and for some reason it didn't seem that
  521. 21:48it was somebody that knew me and I don't
  522. 21:50know why because that's insane too
  523. 21:53it was I mean it's like you're both ways
  524. 21:56you know that the person knew you
  525. 21:59but you're confused because you've never
  526. 22:00seen that specific person before
  527. 22:03and you're so concerned about the kids
  528. 22:05living or dying and one of them did die
  529. 22:10and you've got so many things on your
  530. 22:12mind just since the cottage your son
  531. 22:14looked out about everything that you've
  532. 22:16seen everything that you've felt
  533. 22:18and maybe your mind just doesn't let you
  534. 22:21feel that it was your fault even though
  535. 22:23it was somebody that hated me that much
  536. 22:25that did that and so you block out the
  537. 22:27fact what it was somebody
  538. 22:30but knew you even though you know that
  539. 22:32it was something this isn't making sense
  540. 22:34you're making faces but it does make
  541. 22:35sense even though I don't understand you
  542. 22:37mentioned something about being your
  543. 22:39fault
  544. 22:40somebody hated me enough that they would
  545. 22:42do this
  546. 22:45yeah and because of the way you are that
  547. 22:51they began to hate you that that's the
  548. 22:54reason this happens
  549. 22:56in other words you said earlier people
  550. 22:58either like you or they hate you and the
  551. 23:00reasons
  552. 23:02and the reason people hate you is
  553. 23:04because you tell them what you what they
  554. 23:06think and because this happened
  555. 23:10I
  556. 23:12okay I really don't need to hear that
  557. 23:15you guys
  558. 23:16Steve does that on the phone too
  559. 23:18oh you don't like the word no therefore
  560. 23:22it makes it my fault I I hate that I
  561. 23:24can't stand it because
  562. 23:28um okay
  563. 23:31um
  564. 23:34while you were there
  565. 23:37is there anything else that's clicked or
  566. 23:39flashed with you about
  567. 23:41[Music]
  568. 23:45no but what happened at the scene that's
  569. 23:48what I'm saying at the time that it
  570. 23:50happened
  571. 23:51even though I knew that it was somebody
  572. 23:53that knew me
  573. 23:54it didn't
  574. 23:56click or whatever it didn't register
  575. 23:58that it was somebody that you need
  576. 23:59because I didn't talk about it
  577. 24:01and on the way to the hospital
  578. 24:03began thinking about
  579. 24:05I remember what's the highlights the
  580. 24:07things that I could remember
  581. 24:09but you obviously were afraid to tell us
  582. 24:13that the person needs my name because
  583. 24:15that was the last thing that
  584. 24:17he said that was the last thing you said
  585. 24:19yeah it was don't say
  586. 24:24I don't know what he said something
  587. 24:26about don't say that
  588. 24:29don't say it he just said no I don't
  589. 24:31know what it was I don't remember what
  590. 24:33it was were you still standing outside
  591. 24:35the car when you said that yeah you
  592. 24:37hadn't gotten back in the car where you
  593. 24:39had been shot yes
  594. 24:41okay
  595. 24:43and so on the way to the hospital you
  596. 24:45began to think well I can't I don't want
  597. 24:47to tell the police
  598. 24:49about what he said right because you
  599. 24:52were afraid
  600. 24:53of retaliation right
  601. 24:55okay but I told you what happened yeah
  602. 24:57but I didn't tell you that the person
  603. 24:59knew me
  604. 25:02[Music]
  605. 25:11I didn't know that she would do that
  606. 25:14Kurt
  607. 25:15we had the arms of ours on you and the
  608. 25:17children before we ever interviewed you
  609. 25:19in the hospital I mean we interviewed
  610. 25:21you that night at the hospital
  611. 25:23from the hospital
  612. 25:26I didn't know that
  613. 25:42that that's just not right something's
  614. 25:45wrong there I mean if you had fear for
  615. 25:48your safety and your children's safety
  616. 25:50it would seem to me that that would have
  617. 25:52been
  618. 25:53the best time when you have all the
  619. 25:56policemen around armed guards on both
  620. 25:58kids and you saw that for several days
  621. 26:00armed guards on yourself
  622. 26:01for several days it would seem to me
  623. 26:04that would be the safest time not now
  624. 26:09yeah
  625. 26:13correct but the person has no reason to
  626. 26:15come get me mad because you guys are
  627. 26:17chasing me
  628. 26:19he couldn't be closer they don't know
  629. 26:21that we're still showing pictures he
  630. 26:23doesn't know that the newspaper
  631. 26:25so it doesn't mean anything do you guys
  632. 26:27are still calling me a suspect
  633. 26:30with the alleged attack
  634. 26:34ER than the person that did this it's
  635. 26:36not an alleged attack
  636. 26:39I know there's no question it outlines
  637. 26:41if somebody shot those kids I know
  638. 26:47okay
  639. 26:49the keys yes no
  640. 26:53go ahead no no
  641. 26:56I feel very uncomfortable right now
  642. 26:59and I think probably because you guys
  643. 27:02are becoming so unreceptive you're
  644. 27:04getting tired I'm getting tired and I
  645. 27:05really think that a later time would be
  646. 27:07better
  647. 27:08you're you're being impatient and a lot
  648. 27:11of person like I said earlier I'm not a
  649. 27:13person that says I'm sorry very often
  650. 27:15I'm also not a person that has a lot of
  651. 27:17patience with
  652. 27:19men
  653. 27:20at important locations of men we're
  654. 27:23getting more information we're getting
  655. 27:25anxious I know okay it's that kind of
  656. 27:28exciting you know yes it is and it's
  657. 27:30scary I think that
  658. 27:33how's that basement
  659. 27:34[Music]
  660. 27:40but what I was going to ask about was
  661. 27:42the keys they hit
  662. 27:46the
  663. 27:47barrel of the black
  664. 27:49Tuesday
  665. 27:52oh okay I misunderstood them I thought
  666. 27:55you heard it clink she is jingled over
  667. 27:58on my finger
  668. 27:59when I take the keys out of our own
  669. 28:01there's only two keys on my fingering
  670. 28:02costume prices when I take the key out
  671. 28:05of the card put them on my finger so
  672. 28:06that I don't Thrive them yeah so don't
  673. 28:10ask me what I do what I do before I
  674. 28:12don't know
  675. 28:13you guys question everything that I do
  676. 28:15why are you breathing today Diane I
  677. 28:17don't know
  678. 28:18okay
  679. 28:20did you get lost
  680. 28:21you got lost that's why you turned right
  681. 28:24off Sunderman road is that right
  682. 28:27no okay you're gonna have to straighten
  683. 28:30me out on that too
  684. 28:33I turned right off some of them because
  685. 28:34we were gonna go
  686. 28:36when I first got here about a week after
  687. 28:38I got here so my dad took me up
  688. 28:40Sunderman I mean uh Marco Road hold on
  689. 28:45yeah we're gonna go up to for 16-10
  690. 28:49hours

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