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on june eighteenth nineteen ninety

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five a club called the by

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you pretty busy for a sunday

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twenty one year old jennifer evans was there

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with her friends andrea and must they

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were vacationing in virginia beach and

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had decided to go out dancing that night

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after jennifer and her friends got to the bar

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she struck up a conversation with a navy

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seal named dusty turner who

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was with says close friend billy brown

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also a seal jennifer

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spent the rest of the night talking to dusty

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and singing out was her friends

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when andrea and michelle

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wanted to leave at around one am jennifer

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says you wanted to keep talking to dusty so

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injury and michelle went for coffee and the late

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snacks while jennifer hung out with

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does the until closing time they

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were supposed to meet her and the parking lot

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to pick her up as you am that

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when injury and michelle got back to the by

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there with a sign of jennifer and

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they knew this wasn't like her jennifer

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was jennifer was girl who would never

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leave without telling her friends the

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girl spent two hours searching

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for jennifer that , had no luck

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finding her her went back

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to the beach house so been she was there

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that she wasn't when

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she still had returned by the next morning

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andrea and michelle reported her missing

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they knew something terrible had happened

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to jennifer that nothing

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could prepare them for the trees

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welcome to episode one sixty nine

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the murder or jennifer athens

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jennifer lee evans who was

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described by many who knew her as

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beautiful and personable on

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on may six nineteen seven for

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in atlanta georgia he

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was the only child of al and dolores

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the called her every parent stream

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he had a knack for bringing people together

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then she was always there is you needed

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a friend

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jennifer attended tucker high school where

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she was a cheerleader he had also

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been on the gymnastics team the

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after having back surgery to treat scoliosis

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jennifer spend months and a body then

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she recovered she could no longer

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compete so she started coaching

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gymnastics two young children after

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graduating high school and nineteen ninety two

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jennifer study pre med at emory university

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in atlanta on an academic scholarship

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her dream was to be a pediatrician

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there's career path mates huddle sense

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for jennifer who was a natural with

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children the virginian

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pilot later reported that

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at emory jennifer was on the dean's

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list with near perfect grades

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and was one of the universities most promising

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students when

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he was are studying she volunteered

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and a children's hospital the

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also love to placed force and go dancing

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club her favorite musical

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groups for lord of acid it and cnc

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in june nineteen ninety five twenty

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one year old jennifer was staying with her

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parents

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while she went on summer break from school

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the first part of the month jennifer

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took care of both of her set grandmother's

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she believed sad lot

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the nursed dolores his mother to

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live with dolores and out then

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a few times a month jennifer travel

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to visit our mother who is in the hospital

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in

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june seventeenth jennifer food

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virginia beach for a week long vacation

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with her two friends andrea and michelle

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they were going to stage the side of town

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in a cottage on stand bridge beach

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you may now virginia beach is

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a coastal city in southeastern virginia

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it marks the area where the chesapeake

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bay meets the atlantic ocean stream

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our board walk along the beach land

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as and france it is the perfect

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tourist destination jennifer

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was really looking forward to the trap because

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she was supposed to start hurting gymnastic

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the children at the rec center which

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it was supposed to be a fun getaway

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trip the last hurrah

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before she got back to work the

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center was really excited to have jennifer

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back the director told the atlanta

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constitution the children were

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blessed to be coached by her he

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turkey the you immediately just

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by her warmth the director said

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after arriving in virginia beach on june

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seventeenth jennifer and her friends

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and the evening watching one of jennifer's favorite

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movies

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the little mermaid

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she loved disney movies her

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absolute favorite was the lion

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king the

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next day, june 18th jennifer

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called her father to wish him a happy father's

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day before she went out for the night

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with her friends in

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virginia beach in the nineteen nineties you

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traveled a mile west of the beach you

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run into the nineteenth street radisson hotel

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inside with the by you one

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of the city's most popular nightclubs there

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were two bars the large stage

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a dj this and the dance floor

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there were also pool and seized all tables to

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hang out at that

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around here and thirty pm on june eighteenth

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jennifer andrea and muscle left

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their beach house and drove about thirty minutes

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to get to the by you they

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make out there the killer is for planes

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and the dance floor was packed wow

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inside a nightclub the premier

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a tall blond man who introduced

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himself as dusty he

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said he would a navy seal stationed

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one hundred and fifty north west virginia

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beach at for a piece hill

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there's be explained that he and his swim

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buddy philly brown like to

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go to the by you to hang out on the weekends

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he didn't mention that he wasn't an official

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cel yet his graduation

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was coming up soon

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jennifer and dusty spent the next hour

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getting to know each other i'm

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that an animal and turner was born in

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february nineteen seventy five the parents

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linda and ours the as

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an older brother named matt when

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dustin always called desk was

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ten months old linda and arts

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divorced he

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stayed with her mother while arts did remain

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in his young line two

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years later linda remarried

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to a man named larry they would go

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on to have two sons together

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the child does he was in boy

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scouts the campaign hunting

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fishing and other scout activities

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the eventually became an eagle scout he

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was also a really good student and

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the job appearing in almost

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every team sport as his school when

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does he was a sophomore a navy

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recruiter went to the high school and heart to

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students about joining a junior

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military organization

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pretty much all the men and the turner family

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including dusty his older brother matt

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were in the military

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her joining made sense to him

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he was too young to enlist yeah so

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he did join the junior military organization

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and winter meetings once a week until he graduated

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high school when

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he was old enough he enlisted in

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the navy two weeks

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after he graduated he was in boot

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camp in orlando florida then

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he went to a school which is for

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specialized training and pensacola

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there's the picked photography as a specialty

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there are eighteen and a half years old

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dusty apply for the sale program

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and was accepted there

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were one hundred and fifteen other recruits

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including billie joe brown

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jr the born in june

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nineteen seventy two every

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senior and patricia we

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don't know much about his childhood we

10:23

do know that bellies dad left when he was you

10:26

we also now that in october

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of night

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eighty nine barely the was

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seventeen years old got married

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here's why don't fourteen

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years old the a turned forty

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the week before

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variant on had a son that

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the marriage didn't last and they were separated

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by nineteen ninety

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wow married to dawn billie didn't graduate

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high school

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that he did get his ged and ninety ninety

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one before joining the military

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he worked in a factory and in i

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school

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he

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was in college for around a year and a half before

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one of these professor started talking about being

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in the military

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billie

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told him he was interested in joining the military

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various professor suggestions

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the drop out of school and and list

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he enlisted in the coastguard

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the reason we're in for a few weeks before

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he was kicked out for assaulting a

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superior officer

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it was later revealed that this wasn't

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the first time assaulting someone

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on april twelfth night he ninety

11:35

there we brown was charged with assaulting his

11:37

then

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eighteen year old why stone

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in front of police officer

11:42

there's at their apartment

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the virginian pilot newspaper reported

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that the couple had been

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arguing because brown accused on

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a sleeping with four people

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the on accused him of sleeping with her

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sister and other women

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the

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you know it became physical

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after billie hit on

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he ran for another apartment he

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ran after her

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we're neighbors started watching there

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we started yelling he would shoot them all though

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he was unarmed at the time police

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showed up while billie was trying to get into the the

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harm it went on had fled

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the officer told billie to leave down alone

12:23

that he didn't listen

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see open the door he grabbed her by the

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here

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and arm and dragged her on the

12:30

sidewalk toward their apartment well

12:32

officers tried to stop him

12:35

it hurt at least three officers to sit

12:37

the the six that to billie brown

12:41

he was charged with domestic violence

12:43

resisting arrest and other charges

12:46

because he was a juvenile this record

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was sealed the incident

12:51

which is two months from his eighteenth birthday

12:55

after getting out of the coastguard

12:57

brown enlisted in the navy and february

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nineteen ninety

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he was later accepted

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into the navy seal program i

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am assuming the kids is juvenile record were

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sealed he had

13:09

trouble enlisting

13:11

do you think it's crazy that he was accepted

13:14

into the navy after being kicked

13:16

out of the coast guard and then he was

13:18

accepted into the elite still program

13:22

even if his background of domestic violence

13:24

didn't follow him you would think

13:26

assaulting a superior officer would

13:29

have kept billie brown out of the armed forces

13:31

for good the

13:33

documentary navy seal

13:35

murderer framed target of opportunity

13:38

also questions how brown made it into

13:40

the seal training program with his

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violent

13:43

history

13:46

one retired seal member said

13:48

maybe tries to weed out of the bad people

13:51

before they even start training

13:53

i'm hands someone does saw through

13:55

the cracks

13:57

the hill program is how does he turner

13:59

and billie

13:59

around matt

14:02

they were in birds training together

14:05

not in the colloquial sense that

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is an acronym for basic underwater

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demolition seal

14:12

during training dusty was injured

14:14

the had a collapsed lung and stress

14:16

fractures in both legs

14:21

few weeks later billie was injured as

14:23

well

14:23

the had of immoral stress fracture

14:26

they were in rehab together for a few months

14:28

before they were able to

14:30

the join another sister

14:32

class had already moved on part

14:36

of birds

14:37

it's recruit had a swim buddy billion

14:39

dusty where each other's slim buddy

14:43

forbes article

14:44

he'll just passed reddit

14:47

no matter where you dylan birds you must

14:49

always have a swim buddy within three feet

14:51

the restoring and one is

14:53

known as the rule which applies

14:55

for everything he

14:58

can imagine when bodies grow

15:00

very close to each other

15:03

the virginian pilot reported that quote

15:05

the bond between swim buddies is

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by design the tightest among

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military warriors

15:11

in more than three decades as the warfare

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no one has left a slim buddy behind

15:17

dead or alive every still has

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returned from every mission

15:21

every single one

15:23

not work has or seal been captured

15:25

work has a casualty gone and cleaned

15:28

the statistic is the core of the

15:30

outfits pride

15:33

december sixteenth nineteen ninety four

15:36

harder and brown graduated

15:38

from birds training after

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they completed

15:41

born school

15:42

the main got to choose which seal team they

15:44

wanted to join the bird parrot

15:46

team for and for a p hill virginia

15:51

kathy turner arrived in virginia on february

15:53

fourth night

15:54

the ninety five

15:55

it was three days until his twentieth birthday

15:58

supposedly

15:59

that times he was the youngest seal team

16:02

member in the us navy this

16:05

should be noted the just because turner

16:07

and brown were on a team did not

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mean they were official navy seals

16:11

they were navy's kill recruits

16:14

they still had to go through seal tactical

16:16

training six my probationary

16:18

period which ran concurrently

16:22

turner in brown were assigned to echo platoon

16:24

which was part of still team for

16:27

they started training for a deployment to panama

16:29

and august nineteen ninety

16:32

in order to prepare for their deployment

16:35

horner brown in there as t t class

16:37

were sent to porto rico for advanced

16:40

i've training after

16:42

months of training the class went back

16:44

to for a peaceful

16:46

they learned advanced small arms

16:48

demolition and field training

16:51

that is training did not stop in the classroom

16:53

either the spare time getting extra

16:55

qualifications to be a better asset

16:58

to his platoon

17:01

the barely on the other hand

17:04

the right to spend his time drinking

17:07

people you know billie brown spoke with target

17:09

of opportunity documentary filmmakers

17:12

about how you had a tendency to fight

17:14

injury

17:15

the often served with a called moto

17:17

behavior when

17:19

navy seal described brown as being

17:21

a disaster when he drank another

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said that whenever they went out drinking with brown

17:27

i always try to get into some sort of fight it

17:29

could be something as small as that person

17:32

is looking at me

17:34

brown did not try to hide his aggression

17:37

the what killed a room mate that after he caught

17:39

a guy who was interested in his wife he

17:41

started using most

17:42

the arthurian he kicked the gonna

17:44

repeatedly

17:46

billy bragg that the guy was

17:48

begging for him to stop and

17:50

eventually stopped begging him

17:53

and started begging god the

17:56

room mates or that brown was being completely

17:58

serious when he the story wow

18:02

infiltrating sometimes the

18:04

recruits which than twenty hours a day training

18:06

it's not longer so the only time

18:09

they have for drinking less on the weekends

18:11

which meant they were set a week's worth of

18:13

drinking into two days

18:17

there we had a goal to drink as much as he possibly

18:20

could the peak was when he

18:22

could drink a pack of beer and a fifth of

18:24

one fifty one that

18:27

brown didn't just drink on the weekends

18:29

he returned to forty of malt liquor

18:31

bottles before bad even if

18:33

he had to work the next morning brown

18:36

later said he was also smoking pot

18:38

and taking steroids

18:40

which was illegal of course

18:43

on june eighteenth nineteen ninety five

18:45

billie brown spent all day drinking

18:47

in his room and the barracks

18:49

the had six beers and eight to turn

18:51

sites and jim beam

18:54

that night billion dusty decided

18:57

to go to the by

18:59

the dramas and on the way there

19:01

really drink six more beers

19:03

they arrived at around ten thirty pm

19:08

after by his belly had eight

19:10

to ten beers it returns

19:12

size and twelve mixed

19:14

drinks that's not help of

19:16

what he during during the day

19:19

how he not even dead from alcohol

19:21

poisoning

19:22

how would he even on his feet

19:25

what had a bartender over serves

19:27

like that

19:29

the former bartender this really

19:31

pisses me off

19:33

they can i just irresponsible it's

19:35

dangerous

19:38

in jennifer evans and her friends

19:41

andrea michelle arrived at the bar

19:43

and jennifer struck up a conversation with dusty

19:47

the rest of the night talking to him and her friends

19:51

there for was full

19:53

music loud and jennifer dusty

19:55

and her friends were having a good time jennifer

19:58

my billie and passing

19:59

but she didn't have to him

20:03

injury and the cell wanted to leave at around

20:05

midnight

20:06

jennifer wanted to keep talking to dusty

20:10

an hour or so later jennifer

20:12

reluctantly said she would go home with

20:14

her friends

20:16

he wrote the phone number to the beach house for

20:18

the staying on an afghan and gave

20:20

it to dusty

20:21

the universe friends walked out to their car

20:23

loan jennifer and dusty followed behind

20:27

after the women gotten the car dusty

20:29

leaned against the car and kept talking to jennifer

20:31

through her open window

20:33

he said he to gear jennifer a ride home

20:35

but answer yeah and michelle said no

20:39

they eventually compromised and

20:41

said that they would leave jennifer at the by you

20:43

until closing time as you am they

20:45

may would be back to take her home she

20:48

would meet them in the parking lot

20:51

jennifer were happy to spend another hour with

20:53

dusty

20:54

they went back into the by you while injury

20:56

and michelle headed to a diner

20:58

the get coffee and a snack

21:01

when fifteen am dusty went

21:04

up to belize ex girlfriend kristin who

21:06

worked at the bar but she wasn't on

21:08

duty that night

21:09

he was just there hanging out with her friends

21:11

he asked christian

21:14

as she would give billie arrived home as

21:16

he wasn't bad my clothes the to get him

21:19

christian very reluctantly

21:21

said she would

21:24

one thirty five am christian

21:26

some dusty incentive for leave the by you

21:28

holding hands

21:30

this time there we were still in

21:32

the by years he was with christian

21:34

and one of her friends

21:36

when forty five am really

21:39

he wanted to leave the christian said

21:41

she needed to find her other friend first

21:43

there

21:45

we didn't wanna wait so he

21:47

left the by this

21:49

point he was said to be noticeably

21:52

intoxicated and on the verge of losing

21:54

consciousness christian

21:57

when after billie and told him she

21:59

would wait around

21:59

a few minutes to give him a ride home

22:02

he couldn't find dusty

22:04

not only after crystal found her

22:06

friend and went her car

22:09

christian and her friends or of around the parking

22:11

lot looking for billie

22:12

they didn't see him for the last

22:16

just before julian the andrea

22:18

and michelle arrived back at the by you to pick

22:20

jennifer up you are going in the

22:22

parking lot

22:25

they new jennifer always kept her word

22:28

so they were immediately alarmed

22:31

the injury and the cells the two hours

22:33

searching for jennifer that she just

22:35

wasn't there they went back

22:37

to the beach house hoping she would be there

22:39

but she wasn't when

22:42

she was still gone by the morning andrea

22:44

and michelle

22:45

the police report her missing but

22:47

they were told to wait

22:51

andrea told the atlanta constitution

22:53

because it jennifer's age they were kind

22:56

of under the us since she had taken off

22:58

the just forgot to call us

23:01

the virginian pilot reported that at this

23:03

time more than two thousand

23:05

the runaway and four hundred people a year

23:07

were reported missing from virginia beach

23:10

with ninety eight percent of them returning

23:13

so it's likely the police thought jennifer

23:15

had just run off maybe with a guy

23:18

but she would turn up

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the injury or and michelle since the day searching

25:48

for jennifer with no luck

25:50

they were that's

25:51

the police

25:52

after they explained again

25:54

the jennifer was not the type of person to disappear

25:57

officers started taking them seriously

26:01

the injury and michelle then had a

26:03

jennifer's parents to tell them

26:05

the horrible news

26:08

how endorse evans drove

26:10

all night to virginia beach

26:12

that's fair

26:13

they met with police to recently reports

26:16

for missing

26:19

police lieutenant so the atlanta

26:21

corrected he said that he then assigned

26:23

six officers to the case because jennifer

26:26

this is not fit the profile of a runaway

26:30

later he brought in the espionage

26:33

the evans hired a

26:35

former as the i age and to help them navigate

26:37

the unthinkable situation they

26:39

were end they printed flyers

26:42

and started calling local tv radio

26:45

and newspaper reporters how

26:47

old the atlanta constitution obviously

26:51

we are hoping to get our daughter back that

26:54

he knew something was terribly wrong

26:56

the he was never out

26:59

of touch even more than a couple of hours

27:01

without letting us know what was going on

27:05

the other people who knew jennifer had

27:07

similar things to say to the media they

27:09

knew something was wrong

27:12

many people were worried that jennifer's disappearance

27:15

for go on for months

27:16

like the disappearance of another emery

27:18

students

27:19

shannon monday

27:23

i've ever seen in this case in episode

27:25

one thirty seven

27:27

this time

27:28

then we're still missing

27:30

then have been for fifteen months

27:32

her friends and family were desperate to find

27:34

her

27:36

their relatives and friends of jennifer's

27:39

so

27:39

to hand out flyers about her disappearance

27:42

bullet already reached out to the media and public

27:44

for help

27:46

community members came together quickly

27:48

would even call the virginia beach police

27:50

department daily to see if the detectives

27:53

were okay did they need their laundry

27:55

done did they need food

27:57

they wanted to do anything they could to help

28:01

few days after jennifer was last seen

28:03

her friends injury and michelle met with

28:06

a sketch artist to describe the navy

28:08

seal they had last seen jennifer with

28:12

they did to remember his name silly

28:14

sketch was the best they could do

28:18

the virginian pilot reported that the skin is depicted

28:20

square jawed young man with blonde

28:23

hair trimmed close to the side

28:24

that like it on top

28:26

get with enough to the media for release

28:29

the next day

28:31

meanwhile investigators or

28:33

following their only solid lead so

28:35

far jennifer had last

28:37

been seen with a navy seal investigators

28:40

went to for a p hill on june twenty

28:42

first to interview navy seals

28:45

including

28:45

dirty turner and billie brown

28:48

he told investigators that he had

28:50

been at the by you with billie on eighteen

28:53

after the bar close the

28:55

team and drove back to the barracks alone

28:57

they didn't have any women with them

29:00

investigators

29:01

turner for more information

29:03

does he said he had met to a minute tobias

29:06

the could remember their names one

29:08

woman was tall and the other

29:10

woman was short

29:11

he had been there with two friends

29:15

investigators as turner about a woman

29:17

who was there with her two friends under

29:19

sticker that they had hot for a while until

29:21

her friends decided to leave and come

29:24

back a closing time to get her the

29:27

characterized talking to the shore girl

29:29

briefly he was still hanging

29:31

out what is that are friends at the bar

29:34

the last time he talked to her was the last

29:36

call

29:37

she told him she was in the area for the week

29:39

and read her name and number on a napkin

29:43

that he said he couldn't remember the girl's name

29:45

but he might still have the napkins she wrote her name and

29:47

number on

29:48

investigators followed him to his room in the

29:50

barracks were he found the napkin and

29:53

handed it over

29:55

the name on a napkin was jennifer

29:58

now that a new dusty turner

29:59

had met jennifer

30:01

investigators again ask him

30:03

what happened that night

30:05

horner said that after he met jennifer at the bar

30:08

he thought she might want to leave with him so

30:10

he asked billie browns ex girlfriend

30:12

kristin to give billie a ride

30:14

home there he didn't

30:16

want to ride home with kristen

30:18

the does he couldn't hang out more with sooner for

30:21

parents daddy got her phone number and went

30:23

back to the barracks with billy

30:26

when investigators asked if turner and brown

30:29

had been drinking is the by you

30:30

that he had now neither one of them

30:32

during which with are stupid

30:35

lie considering how many witnesses were

30:37

there that night

30:40

the ended her disaster see what he did on

30:42

monday june nineteenth he

30:44

said that he and billie got up around nine am

30:47

find am new lease on an off base apartment

30:50

and then drove back to base to start their week

30:54

hi the end of the interview investigators

30:57

believed

30:57

in turn or story

30:59

he was very calm and collected

31:01

and his answer seems

31:02

very forthright removed

31:05

two hundred sale when

31:07

asian spoke with billie brown he told

31:09

a similar story which also seemed

31:12

believable

31:13

for now they were back where

31:15

they started

31:16

they are only lead had been jennifer

31:18

was seen with a navy seal

31:20

that same day the composite

31:22

of the mansion or for was last seen with was

31:25

released

31:26

one thousand dollar reward for information

31:28

was announced and the evidence added

31:30

an additional thoughts thousand

31:34

later the company jennifer's mother

31:36

worked for offered a twenty five thousand

31:38

dollar reward

31:41

on june twenty second the rebels

31:43

ex girlfriend christian bread about

31:45

universe disappearance for the newspaper

31:47

he thought police

31:48

the new authorities for trying to find

31:51

the not the mayor looked a lot like dusty turner

31:54

the she contacted the police and told them

31:56

what she knew

31:57

turner and brown had been at the bar that night

32:00

and they were both treating

32:01

the window dusty was under age

32:05

the as usual billie dot way

32:07

to track this

32:09

an author said she saw dusty turner leave

32:11

with jennifer not billie brown at

32:14

around one thirty five am

32:17

investigators went back to talk to turner

32:19

and brown again

32:20

the man offered to take lie detector test

32:23

hackett said they didn't have to

32:25

they believe their stories

32:27

again they were

32:28

good where world

32:31

three days later on june twenty fifth there

32:33

were still know there leave for detectors

32:36

met to discuss what they need

32:38

brown a turner stories for similar

32:40

there were a few lines that the invest

32:42

the gators were able to pick out

32:44

the new sure they didn't drink the christians

32:47

since the guys did drink and that billie

32:49

was very obviously drunk

32:53

he said he and billie left together

32:55

once in a for state inside the christian

32:57

said she thought dusty leave with jennifer

33:00

not billie at one thirty five am

33:04

no other leads to go on the investigators

33:06

decided they needed to speak to turn brown

33:08

again on june twenty seven

33:11

turner brown were taken to as be i headquarters

33:14

in richmond virginia

33:15

or more interviews

33:17

the chief warrant officer went with them

33:20

the virginian pilot reported that on the draw

33:23

really brown was jovial he

33:25

cracked jokes

33:27

modesty turner was fallen he

33:29

stared out the window

33:32

three quarters the man were both

33:34

given polygraph exams

33:36

billie waited for the exam to be said

33:39

he acted like he wasn't worried at all he

33:41

crossed his legs and font in the chair

33:45

the woman giving the exam later described

33:47

him as mr cool

33:49

which was immediately a red flag to

33:51

her

33:52

when she asked questions about as he was

33:55

involved in jennifer's disappearance he

33:57

said no

33:58

all of his answers so

33:59

kinds of deception so the examiner

34:02

asked if she could ask him questions

34:04

about a murder

34:08

he said now

34:09

then investigators went back and talk to

34:11

him

34:12

no matter what tactic they try he

34:15

would not

34:15

the answer their questions

34:17

they left the room

34:18

jerry brown fell asleep

34:21

dirty turner also said signs of

34:23

deception when he was asked about

34:26

jennifer's disappearance

34:27

investigators went to speak with him

34:30

my brown turner was willing

34:32

to talk

34:34

according to court documents this time

34:36

dusty turner said that he and brown let

34:38

to the by you and stem must have the night

34:40

talking to other navy seals

34:44

he said he didn't

34:45

the talking to jennifer until around twelve

34:47

or twelve thirty am he introduced

34:49

himself to jennifer while she was still talking

34:51

to her friends

34:52

the they only talk for a few minutes

34:54

then he went back to talking to billie and the other

34:57

seals that around one am

34:59

he started talking to jennifer again while

35:02

her friends for still there

35:03

it wasn't long before jennifer's friends

35:05

the go home so does he said he

35:07

walked all three of the women to the car

35:10

jennifer gotten the back seat

35:12

it didn't close the door

35:13

the does he told them that they should stay for

35:15

another hour and to the by closed

35:18

the university she would stay

35:20

their friends are they would pick her up at closing

35:23

the friends laughed does the engine

35:25

for went back inside the by

35:28

when it came time for last call

35:30

he said he asked for for her number

35:33

then it hard to her for a few minutes before he

35:35

went define billie so they can leave

35:38

he said that he and billie laughed at around one

35:40

free thought am or two am

35:42

that year for was not with them

35:45

the fiddler honey saw her

35:47

she was talking to to men he didn't know

35:51

after the interview is ever

35:53

the different investigators came to interview

35:55

dusty turner later

35:57

said as the interview went on turner's

35:59

to

35:59

it was changing and his denials

36:02

became weaker and weaker

36:05

they saw that he was close to breaking

36:07

so they told him about how they wanted to help

36:09

jennifer's family they wanted

36:11

to bring home their only child

36:15

they say tears welled and dusty turner's

36:17

us

36:18

he put his head down

36:20

then he said he would tell them what they wanted to now

36:22

but he wanted to taught as chief warrant officer

36:25

jeffrey else

36:25

learning

36:27

the he confessed to a clinic everything

36:29

that really happened when he was finished

36:32

a cone it told him he should the

36:34

the questions to detect is hard for him

36:36

honestly he

36:40

said if he does things

36:42

will be alright

36:44

according to the virginian pilot a

36:46

conic has spoken to a navy lawyer the

36:49

lawyer told him that since the case did

36:51

not happen on a base he couldn't help

36:53

turner

36:55

i just hope that disbelief

36:57

a massive blender they thought of

36:59

course the lawyer can help him any

37:01

lawyer could

37:02

they started questioning him again after

37:06

speaking with or cavanagh justin turner

37:08

said he would take investing there's to were jennifer's

37:11

body they

37:13

asked him if he kill jennifer and

37:15

he said he did

37:17

the were here when it happened

37:20

according to court documents

37:21

this is were destined turner told investigators

37:24

really happened on june eighteen

37:27

the underlying were celebrating their upcoming

37:29

navy so graduation at the by

37:32

the union format

37:34

that it off and spent a few hours

37:36

the gather at the club

37:38

he thought you know for was attractive nice

37:40

and had a bubbly attitude

37:43

he wanted to spend more time with her

37:46

he asked billie browns acts kristen

37:48

to give him a ride home

37:50

that barely didn't want to get a ride with his ex

37:52

he insisted on waiting for dusty

37:55

the around one forty five am now monday

37:57

june nineteen

37:58

thirteen jennifer went to

37:59

car

38:00

which was a small to door to a storm

38:03

to wait for jennifer's friends to pick her

38:05

after they are going to the diner

38:09

he had wanted to do jennifer to the beach to

38:11

keep talking but he realized they couldn't

38:13

go to the beach and get back to the by about two

38:15

am

38:16

the meat universe friends

38:18

there instead they went to the car

38:20

to just talk until the friends arrived

38:23

they were in his car he

38:25

watched as billie approached he

38:27

said he told jennifer to pay no attention

38:30

to this guy he's drunk don't

38:32

believe a word he says

38:35

the went billie brown get in the backseat of the

38:37

car on the passenger side the

38:39

billie immediately started cursing and

38:41

making

38:42

the litter or marks about dusty

38:44

the and his ex girlfriend kristen

38:47

he told investigators he thought billie was mad

38:50

at him that night we're hanging out with jennifer

38:52

instead of him the out about

38:54

billy was mad that he tried to find

38:57

him another ride home he

39:00

said he couldn't remember everything from that

39:02

night since he had been drinking that

39:04

he did remember billie started cursing at jennifer

39:06

while they were in the car there

39:09

a brown then asked jennifer as she

39:11

was a virgin there she had ever had

39:14

sex with a frog man

39:17

he could tell the jennifer was uncomfortable

39:20

so he told billie to chill out

39:23

and hundred then said he watched as

39:25

philly brown touched jennifer as

39:27

she slapped his hand away then

39:30

he saw billie close reach around

39:32

and make a jerking this with both arms

39:35

there we had his arms walked around and first neck

39:37

and was squeezing he

39:40

said he tried to get billie office jennifer

39:42

but he couldn't he

39:45

said jennifer's arms for street her her size

39:48

she never move

39:48

her hands up

39:50

you're around a minute billie relaxed

39:53

his arms

39:54

the check to see is jennifer was breathing

39:57

that she was dead

39:59

he said

39:59

believe in yelled at him to draw

40:02

and he did what he was told the

40:05

side note i had a really hard

40:07

time with his part of the story hey

40:10

we even sent me a video of her boyfriend

40:12

demonstrating

40:13

and i also asked my husband

40:16

because i just could not understand how

40:19

a navy seal was unable that's

40:21

not an extremely drunk man from killing

40:23

jennifer the even if they're drunk

40:25

man was still too i

40:28

googled an image for edgy a storm

40:30

the small car dusty drove

40:32

it is really small

40:34

there were only two doors

40:37

the dirty and jennifer had to willingly

40:39

let early in the backseat because he was

40:41

riding home with dusty

40:43

then he grabbed her behind in

40:45

a basic so cold

40:47

it was an extremely tight space

40:50

the research since the two sticks about

40:52

how cold and jennifer would have been

40:54

incapacitated and seconds usually

40:59

authentic minutes of manual strangulation

41:02

for as a sensitive

41:03

that every person is different

41:06

see her to talk about him

41:07

for jennifer

41:10

he said he couldn't pull believe

41:12

the arms of jennifer

41:14

the market picture it it made

41:16

sense

41:17

he didn't have the force as his weight like

41:19

you would have if he was facing jennifer

41:21

and billie

41:22

he was pulling from the side i could

41:24

not pull billie off without the force

41:27

okay

41:28

i'm going back to our timeline but i wanted

41:31

to stop listening to you in case you

41:33

had a hard time picturing what happened like

41:35

i did

41:38

there c drive away

41:40

barely recline the past

41:41

these are see where jennifer's body still way

41:43

then reached under her source until

41:45

dusty yelled at him to stop

41:48

then barely passed out in the back of

41:50

the car

41:52

he drove until he found a place to dump

41:54

center for spotty

41:55

billie work up to her

41:56

get out of the car

41:59

he can human back

41:59

the car determine found several and

42:02

when when back he found billie on

42:04

top of tuna first the money he

42:07

said he pulled billie authors june

42:08

emily sinclair it

42:10

doesn't matter because i couldn't get a hard on

42:12

anyway

42:15

that hundred universe

42:16

the with sticks and leaves and

42:19

then got back in a car billie

42:21

passed out again on the drive but

42:23

then woke up and said he was hungry so

42:25

dusty stopped

42:27

after billie eight lima back

42:29

to the base

42:32

the holidays crazy to me but

42:34

i think one thing is for sure daily

42:37

was was drunk and he was

42:39

a bully dusty

42:41

release to hit and thought he could handle

42:43

him he probably never dreamed

42:46

said billie would do something like that after

42:49

jennifer was dead dusty turner

42:51

seem to just skill into a frozen sais

42:54

he did everything billie told him to

42:58

in the morning they either

42:59

find a been together for an off base apartment

43:02

when they return

43:04

billie told him club i

43:06

know what i did was stupid and i'm sorry

43:09

i know it was stupid but we've got to

43:11

sit together now we're both and this

43:13

now we've got to stick together

43:17

that's in turn are told investigators that he

43:19

lied because he felt like you've gone

43:21

too far and couldn't turn back for

43:25

the interview is over heater on that

43:27

to were investigators could find jennifer

43:30

she was a newport news park

43:32

which is around fifty miles north of the by you

43:35

on the way to for a p hill after

43:38

speaking with justin turner investigators

43:41

went to billie brown and told him that

43:43

turner confessed and you're a map

43:45

leading them jennifer's body

43:49

really asked investigators what dusty

43:51

had told them

43:52

they refused to tell him anything

43:55

the billie then said he would tell

43:57

them what happened

43:59

he

43:59

he walked out of the by you he found

44:02

estes

44:02

our and inside jennifer was passed out

44:04

in the backseat

44:06

he said a dirty turner has helped

44:08

her out

44:10

he said together they drove down the

44:12

street part and then started

44:14

undressing and touching jennifer

44:17

really creamed at that moment she welcome

44:20

screaming so dusty started

44:22

choking

44:24

quote she stops moving

44:26

and we let go of her

44:28

he started spitting up some blood and he started

44:30

shouting her again

44:31

i grabbed her arms and legs

44:34

when they realized jennifer was dead they

44:37

panicked and drove away

44:39

we admitted to investigators that while dusty

44:42

drove the final jennifer

44:44

he added

44:45

i guess that's pretty sick

44:48

really also told how he sells sleep

44:50

and when he woke up

44:51

the kitchen everybody into the woods and covered

44:54

her with leaves and twigs

44:56

it later went to get breakfast because

44:58

he was hungry

44:59

he noted to investigators that dusty

45:01

didn't eat

45:03

an hour after this consumption

45:06

billie brown told investigators he lied

45:08

and would now like to tell them the truth the

45:10

nutrition this

45:13

time billie added more detail he

45:15

said that he spent the whole night talking to jennifer

45:18

one point

45:19

he told him he was going to hook up

45:21

with jennifer and had ass kristen to

45:24

give him a ride home

45:26

there we said he didn't are more kristin to drive him

45:28

home but as he was afraid he would have sex

45:30

with her and that would ruin the current

45:32

relationship he wasn't he

45:35

said later

45:36

when he left the by you he went up to dust

45:38

his car and saw two heads in the back

45:40

before dusty jumped out and demanded

45:43

that billie get the car

45:45

he is now making it sound like dusty

45:47

was the bully

45:50

the only creamed that when he got in the car

45:52

he thoughts and a for lying in the backseat with

45:54

blood coming out of her nose and foam

45:56

coming out of her mouth

45:58

her clothes were open and shut

45:59

i [unk] were showing

46:02

then claimed that as he told him

46:04

close

46:05

i think i fucking killed her

46:08

very city dot in the car and dusty pull

46:10

jennifer's body down to the floorboards

46:14

after they started driving he claimed

46:16

dusty said i know what we'll do

46:18

what take her to the beach

46:19

no raper thrower in the water

46:22

the car for think she drowned

46:25

the retired he was in and out of consciousness during

46:27

the trinidad that he does remember dusty

46:30

driving on the sixty four freeway

46:32

then cooling off into a wooded area to

46:34

dump jennifer's body

46:37

we had a two days later he

46:39

told him that he have been trying to have sex with

46:41

jennifer and the parking lot but when she

46:43

tried to stop him dusty quote

46:45

the forearm on her throat and pushed

46:47

back

46:48

the next thing he needed as she started spitting up

46:50

blood and phone

46:53

it should be noted here that the investigators

46:56

never tried to corroborate let billie

46:58

brown said happened

46:59

read

47:02

it elder a season homicide detective

47:04

who had worked on the john wayne gacy case

47:07

later watched videos of investigators

47:09

interrogating billie burn the

47:11

gallagher said he kept waiting for them to try

47:13

to get billie to tell them the truth

47:16

that instead they said okay

47:18

except at the last story billie gave them

47:21

the documentary

47:23

navy seal murderer framed target

47:26

of opportunity

47:27

pointed out that villager a picture

47:29

of what jennifer looked like and the car

47:32

there was a stick figure trying investigators

47:36

never tried to recreate that drawing and and it

47:38

shows year storm

47:39

if they did they would see that were billie

47:42

said happened andrew list

47:44

the ugly impossible

47:46

for one thing there was no way jennifer

47:48

could have been pulled down to the floorboard of a deal

47:50

storm

47:53

according to court documents dustin

47:55

turner's car was later source for semen

47:57

fingerprints etc

47:59

the

47:59

nothing a forensic value

48:02

there was no sign of any sexual

48:04

activity in the car or evidence

48:06

and jennifer even being in the back

48:08

seat of the car

48:11

perhaps most importantly jennifer's

48:13

blood was not in the car

48:15

that was a big point and billie story

48:18

after the interviews investigators

48:20

to and turner to go find jennifer's busy

48:24

the right into a spot around fifty feet

48:26

off the bike

48:27

they're under leases decks

48:30

was twenty one year old jennifer athens

48:38

i'm going to pass now for a short commercial

48:40

break

48:49

core

48:50

the argument stated that when her body was

48:52

recovered jennifer wasn't in advance

48:54

state of decaf

48:55

there's an infidel it's innovations

48:57

such that many of her bones were exposed

49:01

this was june twenty seventh nine

49:03

days after jennifer was murdered

49:05

punishing virginia he has sped

49:08

up decomposition

49:10

the that jennifer had been wearing that night she

49:12

was killed was pulled back and

49:14

er bra was pissed at exposing her

49:16

breasts

49:18

her shorts and underwear were pull down

49:21

and were only around one leg

49:25

the coroner who conducted jennifer's autopsy

49:27

found that it was not possible to determine

49:30

an exact cause of death due to

49:32

the decomposition

49:34

jennifer's necklace not broken manual

49:37

strangulation was still a possibility

49:41

following the graham discovery the

49:43

first parents spoke with a media telling

49:45

them clue

49:47

you can't imagine how empty our lives

49:49

are how hard it is to be without her

49:51

so much of our lives were tied

49:53

up in and time together by

49:55

her life

49:57

i would hope that she will be remembered for her compassion

50:00

the her love life

50:03

twenty three year old billie brown and twenty

50:05

year old dustin turner were arrested

50:07

and charged with murder adapt

50:09

than and intent to the file with

50:11

inanimate object

50:13

meaning billie hand

50:15

larry brown was also charged

50:17

with attempted rape

50:20

when news of dusty turner's arrest was made

50:22

public

50:23

many people were absolutely shocked

50:25

the hills you are on the team with brown and turner

50:28

all thought that believe was the one

50:30

who killed jennifer

50:31

dusty were somehow caught up in it

50:33

the virginian pilot

50:35

reported that a few days

50:36

the turn his arrest

50:38

prosecutors from the commonwealth's attorney's

50:40

office began revealing the case

50:43

the car gonna lack of evidence against

50:45

doesn't turn her they wanted to downgrade

50:48

his charges to a misdemeanor as accessory

50:50

after the sad the

50:53

investigators on the case said no

50:55

they believed he was equally responsible

50:57

for what happened

50:59

the jury acquitted him that would

51:01

be okay they did not want to lower

51:04

his charges

51:07

i'm not sure why investigators would get

51:09

the final say in this

51:10

the should have been a commonwealth's decision

51:14

that know what happened

51:15

he went on trial for everything billie did

51:18

except the attempted rape church

51:21

brown and herders trials were separated

51:24

opening statements for billie browns trial

51:26

began on may twenty four nineteen

51:28

ninety six the

51:31

prosecution's case was that billie browns are

51:33

ending killing jennifer

51:34

mattress ex girlfriend christian

51:37

had rejected him at the by

51:40

their theory was the jennifer passed

51:42

out and thus and turner's car then

51:44

woke up to both brown and in turner and dressing

51:46

her he screamed and fall back

51:49

on dusty strangles her and billie held

51:51

her down

51:54

the defensive cases the death and turner

51:56

was the one who killed jennifer

51:58

very rare to death she's kind

51:59

the parking lot and fountain for dead

52:02

the defense insisted the only thing

52:04

billie did was

52:05

jennifer's body

52:08

there we testified as

52:10

on his own behalf

52:12

he told the jury what he had told investigators

52:14

in his final version of events

52:17

the jury did not believe him

52:20

on june fifth ninety ninety six almost

52:22

a year to the day of jennifer's murder

52:25

larry brown was found guilty animals horses

52:28

the weekend it's to forty two years for murder

52:30

twenty five years production with

52:32

intent to defile five years

52:34

for attempted rape

52:38

the center for to be served consecutively

52:40

sixty seven years

52:43

brown's later appeals for all denied

52:46

it is interesting to note that and a nineteen

52:48

ninety eight appeal document

52:50

it is stated that brown killed

52:51

jennifer then he and turner got

52:53

rid of her body

52:57

in turner's trial began on august

52:59

twenty six ninety ninety six

53:02

the prosecution's case was that turner and

53:04

brown plan to have a threesome with jennifer

53:08

when she didn't want to participate she

53:10

was abducted and

53:11

there's car and then killed somewhere else

53:13

she was not killed in the parking lot

53:17

the curse jennifer was killed in the act

53:19

as an abduction that mitt or

53:21

embryo committed first degree murder

53:24

the properties in hit hard on the ducks

53:26

in part because if they could not prove

53:28

abduction and they didn't have the underlying

53:30

sector needed for first degree murder

53:34

the help bolster the threesome theory

53:36

the prosecution had a few people

53:38

the guy that turner and brown were known

53:40

for engaging and group sexual encounters

53:44

one navy seal

53:45

the guy named fired testified that on

53:47

june sixteenth nineteen ninety five he'd

53:50

sell turner and brown talking to two women

53:53

how could a dirty turner what alternate

53:55

talking to one as the young women and then talking

53:57

to billie to give him

53:58

a progress report

54:01

he went and did not go home with brown and turner

54:04

that also said that while he was stationed

54:06

with turner and brown and california

54:09

how brown and turner engage and group sexual

54:11

intercourse with a woman

54:14

the another sale

54:16

earlier

54:17

justify the he had been at the by you on

54:19

june eighteen

54:20

there's after last call he asked

54:23

turner and brown what their plans were for the night

54:27

he testified that don't see turner told houllier

54:30

that

54:30

brown we're going to have a threesome with jennifer

54:33

and

54:33

for walked up and introduced herself the

54:36

helio to then gave brown and turner

54:38

a thumbs

54:40

he claimed dust in turner smiled at

54:42

him

54:45

the defensive case was the dusty

54:47

it did not commit murder or abductions

54:50

the most he was an accessory after

54:52

the fact

54:53

their main difference was dusty his own testimony

54:57

when asked about engaging angry sexual

55:00

encounters

55:01

turner said that hundred testimony

55:02

based on one time in california

55:05

there was not something turner and brown that often

55:08

the also said that he never told houllier

55:10

that he wanted to have a threesome with jennifer turner

55:14

testified that he had no intention

55:17

of sleeping with jennifer he

55:19

said that he did not actively try to sleep

55:21

with her because she was that type of

55:23

girl at all

55:26

the understand dusty recited the same

55:28

story he told investigators and his last

55:30

interview

55:31

he added that he can't leave billie

55:33

after he killed jennifer as a sale

55:36

he was trying to protect his swim buddy and

55:38

never loses

55:41

these are here can add were swimming at

55:43

a time and he wasn't thinking rationally

55:45

it didn't see my she had time to

55:47

think so the started driving

55:50

jerry brown did not testify at trial

55:55

the jury did not believe dusty story

55:57

september first nineteen ninety

55:59

six

56:00

certain turner was found guilty of abduction

56:02

with intent to the file and the murder

56:05

as jennifer evans

56:07

the jury foreman later said that most

56:09

of the jury members did not think dusty

56:12

had anything to do with jennifer's murder

56:14

but he helps cover it up so they didn't

56:16

want him to walk out a free man

56:19

dr turner was sentenced

56:21

to thirty seven years for abduction with intent

56:23

to defile and forty five years for

56:25

murder the sentences would

56:27

run consecutively so eighty

56:30

two years

56:31

he not fifteen more years than billie brown

56:34

who was also convicted of attempted rape

56:39

there's appeals to the core of the pills into

56:41

the supreme court as virginia were both

56:43

denied i'm

56:46

going to pass down for a final commercial

56:48

break

56:56

in june nineteen ninety seven

56:58

jennifer parents our dolores

57:00

the on a wrongful death lawsuit against turner

57:03

brown and the united states government

57:06

they thought five million in compensatory

57:08

damages and ten million in punitive

57:10

damages

57:11

i'm turner brown

57:13

jennifer spirit see the united states

57:15

government because turner and brown were part

57:18

of the navy seal team

57:20

their attorneys argued

57:21

and without their still training turner

57:23

and brown would not have raped and killed jennifer

57:26

they said the

57:28

feel program turns trainees and

57:30

to lethal weapons and instead

57:32

of a sense of invincibility

57:35

as well as euphoria implying

57:37

that he can do no wrong

57:39

down

57:40

the government should never have let brown join the

57:43

navy based on his violent history

57:45

they were negligent at when they allowed him to enlist

57:49

the training billie brown a man

57:51

with a violent history to be a seal

57:54

the government created not merely

57:56

a lethal weapon but a highly volatile

57:58

lethal weapon it should not have been

58:01

released and public

58:04

the most it also said that the consensual

58:06

team member

58:07

near about turner and browse group

58:09

sex tendencies the government

58:11

knew

58:11

or should have known about them as well

58:14

they should have known that brown and turner were

58:17

and senate for sale training

58:20

the most fearless later dismissed

58:23

you already know that i completely agree

58:25

that billie brown was not set to serve

58:28

then i don't think dustin brown consensual

58:31

sex life should have kept him out of service

58:33

that's totally different

58:35

there are definitely understand

58:37

why jennifer family since this

58:40

me

58:41

he did not have a violent history

58:44

the universe parents consider him just as

58:46

bad as billy

58:47

then i cannot say that i blame them

58:50

why would they believe him

58:52

in march nineteen ninety nine

58:54

jerry brown like so many other contexts

58:57

on the inside

58:58

became a christian

59:00

he then told his attorney and his mom the truth

59:03

of what happened to jennifer the

59:06

night of june eighteenth nineteen ninety five

59:08

there he said he didn't want to have sex so

59:11

he purposefully drank a lot

59:15

christian we're supposed to give him a ride home

59:17

so dusty could spend more time with jennifer

59:20

kristen was also willing to take her friend

59:22

home and billie didn't want to wait

59:25

he said he read about to pass out so

59:27

he found us these car and dot in

59:29

the backseat

59:30

jennifer and dusty were already in the car

59:33

barely remember saying vulgar things to jennifer

59:36

that couldn't remember the specifics

59:40

really a quote one moment

59:42

i was normal and the next minute i

59:44

snapped and i started choking her

59:46

he said he choked jennifer

59:49

are putting his left arm against her neck

59:51

holding it with his right arm

59:54

in one story felicity killed jennifer

59:56

instantly with one sec

59:58

and another

59:59

that he thought he killed jennifer with one child

1:00:02

that she regained consciousness so

1:00:04

we had to choke her again until blood came

1:00:06

out of her nose

1:00:09

very sad he was pretty sure he remembered

1:00:11

dusty turner trying to pry his arms off

1:00:13

as jennifer

1:00:15

his dad when he realized jennifer was

1:00:17

dead he told dusty to drive

1:00:20

very admitted removing jennifer's that

1:00:23

in your pants down and attempting

1:00:25

to have sex with her corpse before

1:00:27

dusty came back to help

1:00:28

ever up sooner first

1:00:31

according to court documents and may two

1:00:33

thousand two and turner was

1:00:35

transferred to a new president a

1:00:38

few days after his arrival another

1:00:40

inmate how dusty

1:00:42

that billie brown had confessed

1:00:45

he called his mom linda

1:00:47

they talked about what today

1:00:48

linda called an attorney who is familiar

1:00:51

with turner and browns case

1:00:54

the attorney went to this

1:00:55

the really impressed and and brought an audio recorder

1:00:57

harry brown made a full confession

1:01:00

as to what happened that night on tape

1:01:05

there we admitted to lying to investigators

1:01:07

about dusty involvement and jennifer's

1:01:10

the answer said he lied on the stand at

1:01:12

his own

1:01:13

he was the one he said jennifer

1:01:16

then blamed thirsty because dusty betrayed

1:01:18

him confessing to investigators

1:01:21

and leading them jennifer's by

1:01:24

there we said his mind

1:01:25

that way he snatched screw

1:01:28

him the later

1:01:30

signed an affidavit saying what he said

1:01:32

in the record

1:01:32

the interview was true

1:01:36

after brown signed affidavit justin

1:01:39

turner filed a petition for a red of

1:01:41

as editor's based on

1:01:43

newly discovered a non biological

1:01:45

evidence virginia

1:01:47

filed a motion to dismiss turner's petition

1:01:50

saying that browns consent the was incredible

1:01:53

and even if it was there was other

1:01:55

evidence

1:01:55

chris carter was guilty the

1:01:58

court of appeals denied region

1:01:59

the nation to dismiss and remanded

1:02:02

turner's rid of actual innocence to

1:02:04

the circuit court inmate

1:02:07

he doesn't eat the circuit court

1:02:09

had an evidentiary hearing for billie

1:02:11

brown officially testify to what

1:02:14

he wrote an affidavit

1:02:15

a month later the circuit court

1:02:18

ruled that brown cloud

1:02:19

there's credible and his assertion that

1:02:21

he acted and depends

1:02:22

that we and murdering the victim and

1:02:24

that turner had no role in the murder or

1:02:27

in the restraining as the victim

1:02:30

it was also ruled that the evidence

1:02:32

presented in the trials of both turner

1:02:34

and brown was largely as completely

1:02:37

circumstantial

1:02:39

what out their testimony there

1:02:41

were no other witnesses to the incident

1:02:43

there was no scientific or forensic

1:02:45

evidence

1:02:49

basically without billie browns testimony

1:02:52

there was nothing kind of the turner to jennifer's

1:02:54

murder the court of appeals

1:02:57

went over the circuit courts findings

1:02:59

and granted turner's request for

1:03:01

read an actual innocence

1:03:05

there's convictions

1:03:06

forever turn

1:03:07

and it was ruled that the most he can

1:03:09

be found guilty of

1:03:10

the being an accessory after the fact

1:03:14

in virginia accessory after the

1:03:16

fact is amiss

1:03:17

meaner and is punishable by a maximum

1:03:19

of twelve months in jail

1:03:21

the case with been sent back to the

1:03:23

circuit court to modify

1:03:25

turner's convictions

1:03:27

after finding out

1:03:29

the turner convictions for ever turned

1:03:31

jennifer's parents allen dolores

1:03:33

were very upset they were

1:03:35

convinced that doesn't turn or was guilty

1:03:37

of the charges he was convicted as the

1:03:41

more is probably media

1:03:42

jennifer is the real victim here

1:03:45

it's been almost fourteen years since i last

1:03:47

heard her voice

1:03:48

the cheered by her laughter or got

1:03:50

a warm hug from her

1:03:53

virginia petition the court of appeals for

1:03:56

a rehearing and front of the judges

1:03:58

on june twenty ninth the doesn't

1:04:00

turn after the rehearing

1:04:02

the court of appeals dismissed distance

1:04:04

foreigners petition for a writ of

1:04:06

actual innocence

1:04:09

the court ruled that quote

1:04:11

while it was bound by the circuit courts

1:04:13

the ability determination a

1:04:15

rational fact finder could

1:04:17

have found that turner abducted jennifer by

1:04:19

deception

1:04:20

meaning now finding a force

1:04:22

or restraint would have them are player

1:04:24

and that the abduction ended with

1:04:27

chance

1:04:27

the murder

1:04:29

the evidence supporting deception included

1:04:32

turner asking christian to get brown arrive

1:04:34

home

1:04:34

turner telling helio he was going

1:04:36

to have a threesome with jennifer

1:04:39

it if you think about that

1:04:41

he thinks contradict each other

1:04:45

the court of appeals argued that of

1:04:47

brown hadn't killed jennifer and the car turner

1:04:49

still what have abducted her and raped her

1:04:53

turner appealed the court of appeals willing

1:04:55

to the supreme court of virginia

1:04:57

who ruled

1:04:58

according to pills did not air and

1:05:00

dismissing dust and turner's petition

1:05:03

for writ of actual innocence

1:05:05

the court's judgment was affirmed

1:05:07

turner's

1:05:10

rent of actual innocence less his last

1:05:12

chance to be released on appeal

1:05:14

it was denied he no longer

1:05:16

had any other options

1:05:18

the only way turner can be release

1:05:21

the governor grants and clemency

1:05:24

in february seat

1:05:25

the fourteen

1:05:26

bailey from don't see a letter

1:05:30

according to dusty the letter was

1:05:32

about billy's cloud perspective

1:05:34

on how he took jennifer slice and why

1:05:36

felt it nurses very to blame me for

1:05:39

the crime

1:05:39

there we read

1:05:41

i figured the state would want to accuse to instead

1:05:43

of one and i figured if i was going

1:05:45

down a would take you with me

1:05:48

very also ask dusty to forget

1:05:50

him not for his sake never

1:05:52

dusty sake

1:05:55

the dusty certainly was not looking to forgive

1:05:58

believe he said that quote

1:05:59

because of the effects and continuing

1:06:02

impact of his deeds on so many innocent

1:06:04

people

1:06:05

especially upon my family i

1:06:07

dunno when or if i shall ever forgive

1:06:09

him

1:06:11

today billie brown as incarcerated

1:06:13

and buckingham correctional center until

1:06:16

one virginia

1:06:17

his release date set for july third

1:06:19

two thousand and sixty eight when

1:06:21

he will be eighty five years old

1:06:25

according to free dusty dot org

1:06:27

dustin turner has accomplished many things

1:06:30

in the various presents he's been incarcerated

1:06:32

in

1:06:33

the implemented a dog training program and

1:06:35

green rock

1:06:36

the proven worked with bandit adoption and

1:06:38

you have canines

1:06:41

her also started an offender rehabilitation

1:06:43

program

1:06:44

on mending fences

1:06:47

he does and sixteen he finished a victim

1:06:49

advocacy certificate course

1:06:52

virginia polytechnic institute and

1:06:54

state university

1:06:57

the also completed a former phone victim

1:06:59

impact listen

1:07:00

learn program turner's education

1:07:03

transcription

1:07:04

he reiterated excellent

1:07:07

these things does he turn or spend

1:07:10

time reading short on knuckles what your

1:07:12

shared on social media as well as reading

1:07:14

and working out he have played

1:07:16

on present ask about as well as served

1:07:18

as a referee for prison volleyball

1:07:20

league the

1:07:22

is now incarcerated in green so correctional

1:07:25

center and jarrett virginia

1:07:27

his release date set for january

1:07:29

seventeenth two thousand sixty

1:07:31

seven

1:07:32

the almost ninety two years old

1:07:35

i am already certain novel getting emails

1:07:38

energies saying i am too sympathetic

1:07:40

to the

1:07:40

the her elsewhere i'm not complaining

1:07:43

i'm just stating a fact

1:07:45

that before you jump on me i have

1:07:47

to tell you i had a lot of trouble

1:07:49

with this case myself i

1:07:51

went back and forth with highly trying

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to understand how the murder happened

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about questions off my has

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the for hours

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it's been a long time since i have

1:08:02

felt this conflict is about how

1:08:04

someone was killed

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the in the end i do believe dusty

1:08:09

her story

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the was the only one to confess and forensics

1:08:12

backed up his confession

1:08:15

larry brown lied until he found god

1:08:18

killer with too late to help the man

1:08:21

who was once his friend

1:08:24

workers d did was wrong that

1:08:27

is indisputable that he did

1:08:29

not kill jennifer he did not

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rape jennifer

1:08:32

he did not kidnapped

1:08:34

he liked

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the like talking to her

1:08:37

he got her phone number the napkins

1:08:39

and forgave him

1:08:41

also helps preserve story

1:08:43

she liked him too

1:08:46

i think he witnessed his brutal trunk

1:08:48

friend kill jennifer very

1:08:50

quickly and a chokehold and

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then he panicked

1:08:55

he was there when it happened

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the have been talking to her all night

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he knew how it would look

1:09:02

it didn't take him nine days to do the right

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thing that he did do it he

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did confess

1:09:08

then he did it without the protection of an

1:09:10

attorney the

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penalty for what he actually did

1:09:14

twelve months when year

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and here going to serve basically for the

1:09:19

rest of his life

1:09:21

maybe that's okay with you may be

1:09:23

you are one of these lock them up at throw

1:09:25

away the key types i get that

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of really do

1:09:29

if you have listened to my so long enough

1:09:31

you have heard it and my voice

1:09:34

you have heard me call killers monsters

1:09:36

i believe the monster

1:09:39

here is billie brown

1:09:40

the disgusts me

1:09:42

just kill jennifer he let his

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friend rot in prison for the rest of his life

1:09:47

for something he did

1:09:49

he was there when billy brown took

1:09:52

jennifer evans out of this world away

1:09:54

from her last ones

1:09:56

really know her future

1:09:59

yeah

1:09:59

no their teeth

1:10:02

maybe work at it this way

1:10:04

i am not a legislator and i certainly

1:10:06

don't determine the statutes for how

1:10:08

much time in prison certain crimes

1:10:10

said merit

1:10:11

i think about it

1:10:14

what is someone who is an accessory

1:10:16

after the summit knows

1:10:18

they would get the same punishment as

1:10:20

the actual killer

1:10:22

what is the motivation for them coming

1:10:24

forward and doing the right thing

1:10:27

the say because it's the right thing to do

1:10:29

is not enough

1:10:30

when you are talking about the rest of someone's

1:10:32

life

1:10:35

he clearly felt remorse for his part

1:10:37

in probably wished he had never met billie

1:10:39

brown

1:10:41

the wasn't even sure yet what the penalty

1:10:43

would be when he did is the right

1:10:45

things

1:10:47

if he hadn't told the truth

1:10:50

how long were jennifer family has had to

1:10:52

wait

1:10:53

what is she had never been found

1:10:56

the are guinea

1:10:57

the not laying your child to rest is

1:10:59

unfathomable

1:11:03

my missing persons cases are

1:11:05

so terribly haunted

1:11:07

after awhile

1:11:08

the country news they were murdered

1:11:11

their family struggle to find peace

1:11:14

when they don't get this final act

1:11:16

of love

1:11:17

the funeral it

1:11:19

doesn't matter if you are religious or not

1:11:22

funerals are a way of saying

1:11:24

the are comforting to family and friends

1:11:27

their families

1:11:29

who choose to bury their children

1:11:32

there's a sacred place to visit

1:11:35

imagine not ever having that

1:11:37

chance that someone new

1:11:39

he to get life in prison instead

1:11:41

of

1:11:41

the year in prison for telling the truth

1:11:45

jennifer evans and shannon melinda he

1:11:47

went missing within fifteen months of

1:11:49

each other kim

1:11:52

years christian family

1:11:54

to get the truth

1:11:56

they never got their daughters remains

1:11:59

they could never give

1:11:59

a proper burial

1:12:02

still struggle with dusty part and all

1:12:05

of this

1:12:08

in my mind i would have jumped out of

1:12:10

the car screaming called the police

1:12:12

done anything to try and

1:12:14

her murder

1:12:15

asked my my husband as

1:12:17

a man what he would have done

1:12:20

first instinct was that he would

1:12:22

have started punching billie as he couldn't

1:12:24

break

1:12:24

the inside of the chokehold and probably

1:12:26

jumped out of the car like i said to

1:12:30

i think differences if we believe

1:12:32

dusty jennifer died very

1:12:34

quickly

1:12:35

one minute he said

1:12:38

told the truth about everything else the

1:12:41

forensic evidence

1:12:42

or lack thereof meaning no

1:12:44

blood semen or anything else to sound

1:12:46

in his car supports his story

1:12:50

then we decided

1:12:51

read already a part of her murder

1:12:53

it was too late personally

1:12:56

i would have driven to the police station once nellie

1:12:58

passed out or to the nearest phone

1:13:00

to call the police are think

1:13:02

that would have kept dusty

1:13:04

hundred out of prison for the rest of his life

1:13:07

but my husband and i

1:13:09

are not navy seal

1:13:10

nor have we ever served

1:13:13

the i realized that i'll never understand

1:13:15

the bond between two navy seals

1:13:18

between any service men or women

1:13:21

i thought about giving me some quotes showing

1:13:23

how does his mind went back to his train to

1:13:25

stick with billy

1:13:28

that i don't think that matters to us lay people

1:13:31

we can't understand it what

1:13:34

we do understand

1:13:35

the dusty was there when a girl died

1:13:39

he couldn't stop it but he didn't do the

1:13:42

right thing after that either

1:13:44

kurt nine days to tell the truth

1:13:47

to be clear i am glad that he did

1:13:49

i am very glad jennifer saintly

1:13:51

was a

1:13:52

the dairy their daughter

1:13:53

the new the truth about that night

1:13:56

i think the lesson here

1:13:58

despite the typical punishment

1:13:59

the for an accessory after the fact

1:14:02

the truth as your life isn't

1:14:04

the hands of the to hurry and then different judges

1:14:08

some judges a dusty should have been released

1:14:10

there is get it

1:14:12

and i'm willing to bet many of you so conflicted

1:14:14

about it too

1:14:17

if only dusty had gone straight to the

1:14:19

police he would not be in prison right

1:14:21

now i really

1:14:23

don't think he believed that

1:14:25

the he thought he was going to prison along

1:14:27

with billy

1:14:30

them personally

1:14:32

i think we should follow the law

1:14:34

i don't believe dusty deserve a life

1:14:36

sentence

1:14:37

the is already heard

1:14:39

twenty seven years

1:14:41

the next clinic see petition can

1:14:43

be submitted in two thousand twenty four

1:14:46

the fact parole hearing isn't

1:14:48

see thousand twenty three the

1:14:50

only time will tell what the wheels of justice

1:14:53

will do to dusty turner

1:14:56

no matter how you feel about dusty

1:14:58

part in this for how long he

1:15:00

has served

1:15:01

the final thought i want to leave you with

1:15:04

as jennifer leah athens

1:15:09

she will be forty eight years old

1:15:12

he would be a pediatrician

1:15:15

maybe she would have been a mother

1:15:17

he was an only child so her

1:15:19

parents lost everything

1:15:21

they're beautiful daughter

1:15:23

the children

1:15:26

emory university cast away and annual

1:15:28

jennifer lee evans award

1:15:31

to rising seniors who has exhibited passion

1:15:34

for caring for sick injured or disabled

1:15:36

children

1:15:37

then he was demonstrated throughout

1:15:39

there's or her high school and college years

1:15:41

a love and capacity

1:15:43

are working with children

1:15:47

the world lost a really special person

1:15:49

that off for tonight

1:15:51

jennifer hi for snuffed out and about

1:15:53

a minute

1:15:55

the drunken shark

1:15:57

who was actually a trained killer

1:15:59

squeeze the life of jennifer

1:16:02

so quickly and so easily

1:16:05

we can only hope and pray that

1:16:08

she blacked out within seconds and enough

1:16:11

that she didn't realize she was going

1:16:13

to die

1:16:16

sickening feeling

1:16:17

it can happen that quickly

1:16:20

that a lovely vibrant young woman

1:16:22

can be just snatched from our world

1:16:25

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