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So sometime after this is when that

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front that family friend of Prestopino's

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Tricia Ott, she came forward and told

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police that during those two days that Christopher

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had that you haul rented, he

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called her to come over because he

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needed help with something is what he said to her.

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And according to Tricia. When

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she arrived at his house, he began

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to tell her a story about an unnamed female

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that came over to hang out. And

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they got high amethamphetamines. And

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this female started freaking out and

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apparently talking in quote,

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the devil's tongue. And threatening

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to call the cops on Christopher. So

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he didn't want the cops calling him. He obviously

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has several felony drug charges already.

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So he tied her up to a

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chair according to Tricia to calm

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her down. And when she he went to untie

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her, she

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punched him in the face, things

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escalated,

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and he strangled her. To

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the point where she passed out, he thought she was

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dead. Oh, and I should have mentioned this earlier. She's

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tiny. She's I showed

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you her Instagram. We didn't even describe her. It's hard

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to tell though. Like, I mean, she's not a big

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human, but -- Right. -- I couldn't

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tell her she tall. Like, she's five foot tall.

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Five foot tall. About a hundred and ten pounds. Okay.

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Very tiny human. So

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he went to untie her. I can only assume

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which is not a good thing to do, but I'll just

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do it anyways. Mhmm. Assume

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that he had thought, okay, it's been

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an hour or however long. Mhmm. Maybe

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fifty hours? Hopefully not. She's

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calmed down. Right? Let me untie her.

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Right? He and then she punched him

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in the face. And he was like, oh, she's

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not calm. Right? So I'm gonna

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wrestle her back down. And at this point, she is

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fighting back. And they physically

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fought to the point where then he started

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to strangle her. Now again, this is

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allegedly according to Tricia. She

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then told police that Chris had a UHOL

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truck And in the back of the truck, there was a

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cement mixer and a freezer that

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was apparently taped and strapped

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shut. Joseph claimed that inside

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his garage, he saw a large concrete

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block sitting on some type of

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wooden pallet. Then

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Chitra believes that Chris asked her for help

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moving the concrete structure, this

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concrete block, who was on the pallet

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inside the back of the UHOL truck, but it was

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too heavy to move. So instead,

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Tricia just got in the UHOL truck because Chris

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said, let's go for a ride. So Tricia

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said that they stopped two times

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on this little U Hall joyride they

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were taking, but they didn't have the concrete

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pallet. They did not. They could The freezer wasn't

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there. The freezer was in there. So they

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won with the first stop, they stopped behind

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him. Some random business where she said that

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Prestopino disposed of the freezer.

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In

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a dumpster and then they stopped

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behind the Paris hotel

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and casino where he tried

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to take a forklift but

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was

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unable to take it for

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one reason without their aunt said

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to him, you're supposed to have clearance

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to be in this area. But somehow,

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CRISPR was able to enter that area,

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tried to get the forklift, couldn't get it,

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and then drove away. OTTA

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that at this point, Prestopino was scaring her

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which, like, really, at this point, are you kidding?

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But fine. And she said that

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Chris was acting strange and kept

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turning the radio up so loud because

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he kept saying he thought the FBI was listening.

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So once they got back to his house, apparently

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she left. Who

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has paranoia now? I'll tell

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you who doesn't, Trish.

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Like, what are you doing? Did did

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you show up at his house, Trish?

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And he told you this story about this woman

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that came over. He fed her methamphetamine.

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She freaked out. He

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tied her up. That he beat her and strangled

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her. And then he says, oh, hey, by the

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way, Can help me move this concrete

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block into the back of my u haul with the

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freezer I have back there? Like, what the

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fuck? Maybe Trish had a

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thing for cristipino. I

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don't care if you are the

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most I get a spectacular man

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in the world. If you tell me that you

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strangled a woman, and then you don't

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finish the story and you're like, anyways, I'm

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hoping you family move this concrete

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into my rented you haul and we

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could go for a little ride. Like,

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I'm out

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of there. Fucking run away so

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fast. I wouldn't. Guess what I'd ask

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before I run away. What? What's the

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end of the story man. Like,

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you're gonna end there. I tied

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her up. I hit her. I

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shut we ate methamphetamine. However,

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people take meth and then Okay.

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Hey, can I

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Well, they're you for a lifting

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muscle. You know, like, no,

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that's a regu point. So

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Earlier you pointed out murderers. I

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said murderers. And

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you were so right. CRISPR was not the

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only person involved in this crime. Painter

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Cassandra Garrett, or

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Cassandra Pascones, or

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Cassandra Tran, or Nikki Hart.

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This woman went by many aliases.

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Cassandra was pressed to Peyno's thirty nine

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year old roommate at the time of the incident with

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Esmeralda. And I

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don't know much about her, except for that

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Cassandra apparently had a really

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big mouth.

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