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Hey listeners, Tracy Patton here. Today

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we're sharing something special with you. It's

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a preview of My Life of Crime, an

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original true crime podcast from CBS

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News, hosted by 48 Hours correspondent

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Erin Moriarty. Erin takes you inside

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true crime investigations like no one

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else, taking on killers and those accused

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of crimes. In the new season of My

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Life of Crime, she delves into the labyrinth

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of crime within families and the secrets

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that kept them together or tore them apart.

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I'm about to play you a clip from My Life of

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Crime. While you're listening, follow 48 Hours

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All right, here's the clip. Erin

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examines the case of two identical

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twin brothers, David and Daniel

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DeWilde, who thought they could get away

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with murder and almost

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did.

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There's

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no such thing as a perfect

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family, no matter what you see on

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social media or in that annual

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holiday card you receive in the mail. Even

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the closest families have problems.

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We fight, make up, then fight

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and make up. There's always the

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hope of reconciliation, a happy

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ending, because we're family. So

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what could cause a person to destroy

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the people he seemingly loves

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the most? I'm Erin

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Moriarty,

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and this is season four

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of My Life of Crime.

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I've spent the last three decades

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studying crimes and the people who commit

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them and nothing is more personal

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than when one family member kills another.

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You're about to hear one of the more interesting

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cases I've come across. Twisted

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twins.

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Who killed Heather DeWilde? It's

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the case of two Colorado brothers,

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two identical twins. twin brothers

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David and Daniel DeWilde who

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thought they could get away with murder and

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you know what they almost did.

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Everyone is fascinated

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by twins but I have a personal

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interest. You might not know this

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about me but I'm a fraternal

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twin. Fraternal twins

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are two separate eggs that happen to form

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at the same time so their DNA

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profiles are no more alike than other

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siblings but identical

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twins come from one egg and

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share the same DNA. Still

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as you're about to hear when it comes

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to something as serious as murder

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even the bond of identical twins

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will be put to the test.

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Daniel and David DeWilde were identical

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twin brothers

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who grew up did basically

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everything together. They

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worked at the same location

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and they basically ate the same food.

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They did everything together. Daniel

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and David were as close

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as two brothers could be born

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just a minute and a half apart. They

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were almost one person so when

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Daniel's marriage to his wife Heather fell

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apart David felt his pain

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and when Heather Daniel's wife moved out

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of the house with their two small kids

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David moved in. The house

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was in the small town of Edgewater,

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Colorado just 10 minutes

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from the city of Denver. Heather

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would still occasionally come by with the

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kids even though her own dad

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Dave Springer who happened to be

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a retired Denver cop worried

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every time she did. I told

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her not to go there and I didn't think she would

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but she did. The date was

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July 24th, 2003. Heather 30 years old dropped by the

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house around noon to sign

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a check and pick up insurance cards

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for their children. His

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mother, Carol Springer, estimates her visit

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to Daniel's house should have taken

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about two hours. But by 3

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p.m., Heather still hadn't

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returned. Carol called Daniel

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and asked him where Heather had gone.

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He told me that she went shopping. I says, well, that's

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not true. That's what

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I told him. He says, no, that's

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not true. We knew immediately

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that was a lie. Why?

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Because she, before she left the house, she

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didn't take any money with her or a credit

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card. And he

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said she went shopping? Right. How

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much sense does that make to you? Well, it didn't make

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any sense.

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Carol, with a sinking feeling,

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went to Daniel's house to pick up her

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grandchildren.

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And what was going through your mind at

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that point? Let me get the kids and be

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gone. I wanted to get out of there.

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The children, just 3 and 5

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years old, couldn't say where their mother

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had gone. Heather's dad, Dave

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Springer, didn't want to waste time

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and called the local police to do a preliminary

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search of Daniel's house.

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But

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they did their search, didn't find

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anything.

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And by this time, it's 9.30 at night.

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So now I know we've got a

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problem. And

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I'm thinking to myself, they killed her at

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this point. When you say they killed

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her? Well, whoever was

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there, he

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and if

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anyone else was there, they'd have been involved. I

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didn't know who was in the house.

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Heather had simply vanished

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along with her car. Heather's

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dad believed that Daniel was behind

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her disappearance. Wouldn't the children

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have seen something? And

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where was Heather's car? Dave

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Springer didn't know for sure that anyone

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else was in the house, but he did

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know how close Daniel was to

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his twin brother David. And

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the timing was very suspicious.

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Heather's supports would have become final in

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just two days. At

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the time she was living with her parents

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and had been given custody of their two

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children, Hannah and Jacob. On

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top of that, Daniel had to pay

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her child support.

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He was very angry over that because

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he thought he was going to lose his home. He couldn't

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pay all his bills. Daniel's

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twin David and his girlfriend

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Roseanne had moved into Daniel's house

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to help him with the mortgage and house payments.

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But it wasn't enough. Meanwhile,

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Daniel kept hoping to win Heather back.

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Two days before Heather's

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disappearance, Daniel had shown

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up at her parents' house to try one

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last time. And according to

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Heather's dad,

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it didn't go well. He

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brought a card and flowers and tried to get

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her to reconsider the divorce.

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And when

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she didn't, he left

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there in a state of anger and burned

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his rubber tires leaving the

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parking place out in front of the house and

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screamed away down the street. So, you

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know, he was definitely

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angry again.

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So did something happen to Heather during

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her visit to Daniel's house? Because

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his story that Heather went shopping

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didn't make any sense to Carol and Dave

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Springer. The next day,

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July 25, 2003, a couple of Denver cops went

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to the house. When Daniel opened

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the door, Detective Mark Reiter

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asked Daniel if he could ask him some questions

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about his still missing wife.