The Murder of Troy DeWayne Smith

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I went to pry it open, and when
I kicked the door in.

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Next thing you know was all you
seen was my brother, and he was

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slumped over on a couch.

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And I mean blood just coming
from everywhere, from his mouth,

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nose, ears, eyes.

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And he had throw up on his shirt

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as his feet and regurgitation or

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something.

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So I’m like, I’m panicking and
I’m shaking him.

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And I mean, I could have picked
him up with one hand.

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He was stiff like a mummy.

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You’re listening to River City

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Matt Deig.

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Welcome to episode thirteen.

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We’re going to be talking about
the murder of fifty year old

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Troy Dwayne Smith, who was shot
in the back of his head while he

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sat in his own couch in his own
apartment on the five hundred

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block of South New York Avenue
in Evansville, Indiana, on May

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twenty fourth, twenty twenty.

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His brother, Taran, found his
body.

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By all accounts, Troy was a
nice, quiet guy.

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He had studied mechanical
engineering at ITT Technical

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Institute and was working at
Tri-State Resource Recovery.

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Initially, this case was
classified as an overdose, so

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there was really no
investigation into, you know, a

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murder for several weeks.

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Once a coroner and the
detectives figure out that he

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was actually shot in the head.

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Several weeks had passed.

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A reporter noticed that there

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was a discrepancy in the police

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reportings of homicides and

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questioned the police about the

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discrepancy.

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And that’s when it came forward
that Troy was actually a

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homicide victim versus natural
causes or overdose.

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And the case just kind of
slipped through the cracks as

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far as the media went.

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And it’s just it’s not been very
public.

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And there are just a few

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articles about the murder to be

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found.

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And of course, this was during
the beginning of Covid.

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So that story was probably on
everyone’s mind.

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And it’s just an unfortunate
situation where this particular

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murder did not have a lot of
attention on it.

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And I’ve been talking to Troy’s

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siblings, Tamara and Tehran, and

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Tehran agreed to talk about his

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perspective in the story, since

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he definitely has a

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unfortunately unique perspective

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since he’s the one who found his

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brother’s body.

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And so this is Tehran’s story.

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It was a holiday, and I was at a

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little get together, and next

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thing you know, I I get a phone

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call from two people that used

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to be around my brother all the

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time, and they’re with my

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brother, like at least, you

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know, three or four times out of

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the week.

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So I get a call from him saying,

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have you heard from your

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brother?

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And I was like, I just talked to
him another night.

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But that was the last time I
talked to him.

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But I called him a couple of

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days on his phone that day and,

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uh, he wasn’t answering and he

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was going straight to voicemail

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and everything.

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So I said, that’s not it’s not
like him.

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So when these two people would
call me, I rushed over there.

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They, they said they were over
at my brother’s apartment, which

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used to be my old apartment.

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I let my brother stay there and
take it over.

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So this, uh, female friend of

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his acquaintance that called me

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and said that, uh, she was

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knocking on the door and, uh,

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she heard his TV on heard, uh,

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you know, music playing and

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everything, but, uh, the screen

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door was locked, which is not

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normal.

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So I get over there and, um,

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we’re both there and, um, a

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friend, another friend of my

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brother’s, this guy was there,

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so they’re there and I get there

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and I told him, I said, well,

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the door is locked, so we’re

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banging and banging and no

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answer.

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So I asked him.

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I said, well, does anyone have
like a screwdriver?

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Because it’s my old apartment

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and I know how to kind of pry it

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open.

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So I went to pry it open and
when I kicked the door in.

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Next thing you know was all you
seen was my brother, and he was

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slumped over on the couch.

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And I mean, blood just coming
from everywhere, from his mouth,

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nose, ears, eyes.

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And he had throw up on his shirt

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as his feet had Gerd or

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something.

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So I’m like, I’m panicking and
I’m shaking him.

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And I mean, I could have picked
him up with one hand.

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He was stiff like a mummy.

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So I said he had had to been
sitting there for a minute.

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So call nine hundred eleven
right away and they get there.

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Police get there and they have
us all get out of the the house

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and, uh, corner paramedics come.

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So they rule it as if, uh, he
had took something or, uh, I had

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a bad reaction or something.

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I’m like, no, there’s no way.

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There’s too much blood and
everything.

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And, you know, so so I called
family members, my sister, my

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mom, everybody gets there.

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and corners rule it as that.

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So after that, you know, me and

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my mom and sister and everybody,

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we kind of get ourselves

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together and we just get some of

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the stuff out of the apartment

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that was in there and

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everything.

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At this point, you know, we’re
contaminating everything.

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We’re touching as many people in
and out of the apartment, right?

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So a week or two goes by and my
sister calls me like, get over

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to your apartment.

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Um, the police and sheriff and
everyone’s around and we get

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over there and they have it
taped off and everything and

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like, as if it’s a crime scene.

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So I’m like, this is weird.

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So, uh, and then, you know, the
detectives pulled me and my

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sister in the car and they’re
like, we did the autopsy and we

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found gunshot wounds to the back
of his head.

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So I was like, okay, you know,

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with so much blood on him, I

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would have never known at the

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time, which was weird to me, but

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I knew it had to be like foul

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play involved.

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That was the whole topic.

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But the thing to me was that the

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two people that were there, they

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called me at the time, um, we’re

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always around my brother and I

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know I thought it was mighty

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fishy that they call me and come

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to find out, this female

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companion, a friend of his so

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called, was with him the day

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before.

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Which is word to me.

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And all of a sudden, you know,
you call me.

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It was it to me.

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It was if they wanted me to come
and find him.

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You know what I mean?

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And what I hear on this, you
know, the streets talk.

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And from people that I know that
were in circles with my brother

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and stuff, come to tell me to
find out that they believe that,

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um, the two people were in that
house earlier, something went

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wrong and then they had the
nerve to call me as if they

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weren’t ever in there.

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You knocked the door and someone

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had locked that door on the way

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out to make it seem like my

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brother had locked it and he was

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in there.

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You know what I mean?

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And it had to be someone my

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brother knew, because the

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bullets were back to the back of

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the head, and no one’s going to

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let anybody come over and stand

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over him, shoot him in the back

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of the head, you know what I

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mean?

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And he hadn’t been off the grid
for very long when they called

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you to say, hey, I’m worried
because you said the day before,

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you know, you guys were.

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So it’s not like he was gone for
weeks or something.

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And I’m like, hey, you better go
over and check on him.

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That’s definitely very strange.

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Yeah, it was just an overnight
thing.

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Yeah.

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Have the investigator.

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Have you been in touch with the
detective?

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Have they been keeping you in
the loop?

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No. What’s weird about the
detective is my mom.

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She works downtown.

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She was working downtown in the
prosecutor’s office in different

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areas down there.

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But she retired now, so she’s
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And there was two detectives on
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The first detective he was
keeping in good contact with us

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and everything, but he had got
promoted and took over another

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woman who was missing in
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Wilkinson or something.

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It was all over Evansville.

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So he went to that case.

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So my brother, my brother’s

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case, got put to this other new

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detective.

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His last name is McCormick.

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when he first took over the case

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was called.

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This came in contact with he
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and he was still investigating.

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And yet on top of this, you
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thousand dollars reward to
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So after that, after a week or
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No. No contact from the
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Nothing.

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You know, we hear nothing.

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So we’re thinking, man, maybe
it’s a cold case.

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Not just last Friday when I got
off work, did this detective

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call me and say that the case
was not closed?

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He’s still looking into it, and

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he’s trying to figure out some

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more information.

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And he’s got a new, uh, type of,
uh, Google, uh, research where

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he can go and look to see what
my brother’s phone was last

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recorded with cell towers and
this and that.

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But the only reason he called me
is because me and my sister had

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contacted, uh, a cousin of ours
that is in, um, has a lot to do

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with like, uh, the downtown.

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Uh, she’s, she’s like real known
in politics and stuff.

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So she got Ahold of the Billy

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Baldwin, the police, um, captain

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in Evansville, and told him,

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well, this detective is not

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getting Ahold of, uh, a family

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member.

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And they’re, they’re not knowing
what’s going on.

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And, uh, it’s, it’s, we, I don’t
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what’s going on.

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So not just this Friday, he
called me and contacted me and

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said that, uh, he’s going to be
on vacation for a whole month

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this month, and when he does get
back from vacation, he wants to

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set up a meeting with me, my
sister, and my mom.

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I thought that was mighty odd

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for you just now to get back to

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us.

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Yeah, the timing is definitely
strange, but at least I guess

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it’s a good thing that he’s at
least, you know, putting more

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attention on it.

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Um. All right.

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Have has he looked into the two.

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I mean obviously I think they’ve
looked into the suspects, the

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two people who you know, you
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they’ve all been kind of vetted
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I’m assuming at the beginning of

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it, he was looking at the the

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lady and the other guy more and

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more.

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So the lady, because the lady
was around him a lot.

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And what’s what’s bad about this
whole situation?

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My mom not knowing what’s going
on.

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The lady, uh, was actually at
the funeral and everything.

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And we thinking that she, we

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don’t think she did it, but we

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believe that she knows more to

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the, to the story, you know what

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I mean?

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And from what I’m hearing on the
streets, uh, you know, I, I

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can’t prove anything, but from
what I’m hearing on the streets

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is and whoever did this, I’m
pretty sure I know him too,

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because, you know, my brother
felt and trusted this person,

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these people that come in his
house for that to happen.

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So from what I heard was three
people in this home, you know,

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and it was an argument that
pursued, from what I’m hearing

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on the streets and this other
fella who I heard, who I know

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and I see still to this day,
I’ve approached him a couple of

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times, but he claims he has
nothing to do with it.

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But three or four people told me
that he he was the shooter and

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he was the one in there.

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So, you know, I can’t prove
anything.

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Say anything in.

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The detective has talked to this

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guy too, because at the time,

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right after this happened, the

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guy was locked up and the

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detective said he went to his

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one of his cells and talked to

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him.

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And the guy was just like, you
know, fuck you.

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I don’t want to talk about it,
this and that and made it try to

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blow it off.

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So he didn’t say he had nothing
to do with it.

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He just blew it off as if he
wasn’t saying anything.

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You know what I mean?

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So I’m like, you know, it’s it’s
just this is an ugly situation.

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But you know, no one I guess
people are scared.

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No one wants to come, come and
say anything with that reward,

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which I understand because the
person, two or three of the

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people, one of the main, um,
resources I had that told me all

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this information, uh, is kin to,
to the girl that was there.

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And she came and told me what
she had heard the girl over sin

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in her house one time.

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So you know, that right there

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kind of had me like, well, she,

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she might, she might be on to

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something.

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And, and I’ve already and then

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this guy and this guy who we

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believe has something to do with

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it a month prior to this, had

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got into a physical altercation

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with brother two and there was a

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police report on this and

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everything.

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And I asked the detective, what
did you know this?

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And this happened previous.

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And he said, yeah.

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And that nothing was ever
charged.

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He was, you know, no one that,
uh, he aggravated assaulted my

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brother, but there was no
charges brought up or anything.

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My brother didn’t press charges.

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And there was another woman and
guy in the house that he

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assaulted, too, and no one
pressed charges on him.

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So, you know, with that being

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said, nothing was ever done

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about it.

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So that was that too.

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Yeah.

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It’s been it’s been a long you

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know, I just wanted to have some

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kind of justice served or

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something.

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But, you know, with everything
going on, you know, we just it’s

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just been a long battle.

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But I mean, not only my brother,
I know there’s a lot of cases

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going on around here right now
with, with all kind of, you

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know, murders going on and no
one coming forward.

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So it’s, there’s definitely a
lot of that.

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And I mean, you know, you just
got to focus on one at a time

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and your brother’s case, you
know, there’s just there’s so

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little out there about this.

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And I thought, yeah, maybe I
could put some attention on it.

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Maybe maybe somebody will hear

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this and be like, you know,

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maybe I’ll come forward and say

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this one little, this one little

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piece, maybe that’ll break open

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the case because maybe that

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detective kind of agrees with

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you, but needs that one little

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tip or something to put him over

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that edge.

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And another thing to what you

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just said, like, I know a lot of

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these cases in Evansville, a lot

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of was brought forward and

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broadcasted.

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But when my brother’s situation

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with them first pronouncing him,

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you know, just dying of like,

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you know, a natural cause and

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this and that, and being like

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two or three weeks later saying

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that it was a, you know, a

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homicide.

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It was never put in the paper.

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It was never, you know,

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mentioned until like weeks

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later.

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And it was already too late by
then.

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So, you know, it was kind of
swept, swept under the rug.

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And the only the only way people
knew that my brother was

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murdered by word of mouth or by
me mentioning it or, you know,

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something like that.

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But they did put it on the news.

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But when they put it on the
news, it was already like, I

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want to say like weeks later.

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Yeah.

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Because I saw I was reading one

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of the articles said, you know,

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they didn’t even report it for

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weeks.

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I guess that makes sense because

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they didn’t report it for weeks,

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but because it was reported as,

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I guess, like an OD or something

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like that.

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So then when they flipped it
over to a murder, then it was

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just kind of like updating
paperwork, kind of a situation

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that probably didn’t help.

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Was your brother involved in any
sort of groups that might.

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Does he did he have any enemies?

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I know he had this altercation

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with this guy a month earlier,

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but I mean, he seemed, from what

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I’ve read, like he was a pretty

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nice guy.

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And no, he he was a pretty.

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Well, I’ll put it like this.

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Here’s the whole deal.

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My brother, he was a pretty nice
guy.

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He was quiet.

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He. He was the type of dude that
wouldn’t even harm a fly.

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A fly on him, you know what I
mean?

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But what it was, was he was
involved with the wrong people,

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the wrong crowd.

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And my brother had let a lot of
people take advantage of him.

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And I think he had a little drug
problem going on too.

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So at the same time, I thank

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these people that he was around,

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were involved with drugs and

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whoever this person was that

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shot him and might have been

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involved over, you know, drugs

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or something.

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Right.

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But yet still, even though
that’s all involved, it doesn’t

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give you the right to, you know,
take someone’s life like that.

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You know what I mean?

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No. Absolutely not.

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It doesn’t make the person less
any less valuable and meaningful

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to everyone else.

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So yeah, so, and I think a lot
of times those, those cases get

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kind of brushed under the rug
because they just, oh, it’s a

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drug situation and they, and
they just kind of stop and it’s,

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it’s not right.

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Exactly, exactly.

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That’s, that’s exactly what I
said.

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I, I don’t know, but yeah, my

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sister told me that you were,

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were doing these cases and had

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the podcast and different things

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going on.

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I think it’s a pretty good, good
idea, man.

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At least someone out there, you

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know, is spreading the word and,

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you know, willing to, you know,

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put stuff out so people, you

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know, are informed about what’s

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going on.

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Well, I’m going to do my best to
get the word out there.

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And you know, you never know
where it might lead.

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So I appreciate you taking the

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time out to talk about your

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brother’s case.

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And like I said, hopefully this

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helps make a difference and, you

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know, bring some closure to your

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family.

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I got you, I got you.

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I truly appreciate you, man.

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If you have information that you
think may be useful to this

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case, call the Evansville Police
Department at eight one two four

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three six four zero two five.

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Or you can leave an anonymous

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tip at eight hundred seventy

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eight.

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Crime and Troy’s family has put

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up that five thousand dollars

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reward for information leading

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to a successful prosecution in

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this case.

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So keep that in mind.

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I do have all these links and
information on my show notes at

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RiverCityMystery.com, so
check that out.

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And thank you for joining me.

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Until next time, take care.