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is rattled by
a horrible tragedy.
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[Jimmy] It was four shots.
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[gunshots firing]
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Three in the head,
one in the body.
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This was an execution,
just an ambush.
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[Narrator] With no clear leads,
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investigators must examine
the lives
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of several individuals on
the fringe of society.
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A lot of people just like,
thought,
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"Oh, this guy is just
a drug addict."
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But it wasn't like that.
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[Trenna] He didn't like people
to judge him.
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He couldn't stand it.
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He was an outsider.
Nobody really gave him a chance.
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[Narrator] The search for
the truth will unravel
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a twisted romance,
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and expose the lengths
two desperate people would go
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to fulfill
their darkest desires.
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She wanted to find somebody that
would do anything for her.
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[Adam] They're romanticizing
what they've done
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and that
they're outlaws together.
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She didn't care which one of
them died,
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she just wanted someone to
kill for her.
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That's pure evil, I think.
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[Narrator] In the shadows
of the Appalachian Mountains,
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Murray County, Georgia is
an idyllic place
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to get away from it all.
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[Adam] There's just a lot
of places
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that you can just get by
yourself and enjoy nature.
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[Narrator] But on
March 16th, 2020,
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a disturbing 911 call
sends ripples across the county
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[Narrator] Investigators with
both Murray County
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and the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation
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race to the scene.
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[Jimmy] Some of our
investigators
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had already arrived,
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and there is a walkway down
the shoulder of the road
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to just a common fishing area
near the bridge.
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And that's where
we'd seen the dead body.
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[Adam] I received a phone call
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from the Murray County
Sheriff's Office.
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Said, "Adam, we need you.
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We've got a white male,
unidentified, deceased.
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He was found by fisherman."
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I made my way down the trail,
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and I come across
this male layin' on the ground.
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All black, black boots,
black pants, black shirt...
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Black hair, fingernail polish.
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Not to be stereotypical, but
maybe like a goth-type person.
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Which in Murray County,
is not normal.
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Murray County's more, you know,
country boys.
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There's gonna be a lotta denim,
outdoor wear,
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that type of thing, especially
if you're at the river.
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He did have some
distinguishing tattoos.
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[Adam] I believe on
the right arm,
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it was a skull tattoo with
an emblem in the skull.
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We notice that there's
blood pooling around the head.
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It was apparent that there was
some type of injury to the head.
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And there was a, a wound
on the torso.
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It was apparent that the body
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hadn't been thrown off
the bridge.
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It was too far away.
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There were no drag marks,
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anything like that
around the body.
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So, it was kinda like,
"How did you get here?"
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There's no wallet.
There's no identification.
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There's no cell phone.
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There's nothing else around him
that would suggest
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who this person is.
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So, I'm at a disadvantage at
this point.
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[Narrator] Investigators
immediately shift their focus
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to the men who discovered
the victim.
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[Jimmy] We don't know
who done it.
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And whoever was on
scene was a suspect.
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[Adam] You know, it's not
uncommon for people
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who have killed people
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to call the police and say,
"Oh, look what I found."
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My mind was thinking,
"Who were they?
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What are they?
Why are they here?"
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[Adam] They were in
their late teens, early 20s.
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Three of 'em had went down
this trail beside the bridge.
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One had separated to go to
a better fishing area.
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And this is where he finds
this body.
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And his friends hear him scream
for help,
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and they run to him
and call 911.
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Their story was adding up for
where they were at,
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what they were doing,
and why they were there.
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So, they were pretty quickly
removed from suspicion
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for having anything to do with
this death.
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So that question of,
"Who is my victim?"
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That's just ringin' in
our heads at this point,
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like, "We gotta figure out
who you are
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to see what happened to you."
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We're checking local counties
for missing person.
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Even Tennessee like,
"Hey, do you have anybody
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meeting this description
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that's been missin' for
a couple of days?"
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We're just strikin' out
everywhere,
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every turn with tryin' to
identify who this individual is.
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We've just ran everything that
we can,
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and we all go home.
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About five to six hours later,
you know, I'm tryin' to rest.
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Get settled in for the evening,
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and I get an interesting
phone call.
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It was forwarded from
Whitfield County 911.
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Pat Colvard's callin', advisin'
that her 27-year-old grandson,
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Kenny Bunn, hasn't been seen,
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and she had heard that
their body had been found
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on Carlton Petty Road,
which is not far from where
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Kenny's mother,
Trenna Wilson, lives.
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So, we immediately follow this
lead down.
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We go to Ms. Pat's house.
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[Trenna] They sent detectives up
there to talk to us.
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They just introduced their self
and everything,
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and I mean, I was in shock.
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[Adam] That was kind of a...
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Huge ah-ha when, when we got to
talk to Pat,
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because she describes Kenny to
pretty much a tee.
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[Pat] He had a pair of
black pants on.
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He had a black shirt on.
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He had black rimmed glasses on.
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He had a little tattoo
on his shoulder.
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[Trenna] I showed a picture of
him,
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his most recent picture
that he had taken of his self.
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I could tell it was him
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by the look on
the detective's face.
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[Adam] We were able to establish
that Kenny lived with Pat.
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And you could tell a great deal
of concern was there, and love.
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After speaking with
Pat and Trenna,
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I'm very confident that
our John Doe at the bridge
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is gonna be Kenny Bunn.
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It was like a nightmare.
It just didn't seem right.
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It still don't seem right,
you know?
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[Narrator] Born in 1992 in
Dalton, Georgia,
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Kenneth Bunn was a shining ligh
to his large and loving family.
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[Jeff] He was a handful when
he was little.
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You know what I mean?
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He was always curious, and he'd
do anything I done.
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I mean, he just...
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He'd run on my heel
all the time.
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Follow me everywheres I went.
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[Trenna] You couldn't ever get
him to settle down.
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He'd always wanna do somethin'.
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And he was just like
a little ray of light.
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He was always there
to protect me.
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No matter what,
you didn't talk about his momma.
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And I always stuck up for him
no matter what.
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Kenny spent a lot of time at
my mom's,
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you know, when he was workin'.
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[Pat] I felt like he was my son.
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You know?
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'Cause he stayed there so much.
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We always called him
Little Kenny.
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He was a sweetheart.
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[Narrator] As close as Kenny was
with his family,
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he didn't always feel like
he fit in with his peers.
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[Trenna] He started doing
the piercings and stuff
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and everything,
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I think about seventh and
eighth grade.
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They say that a lot of gothic,
that's how they feel like,
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they're loners or isolators or
whatever,
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they're just different.
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I think he was tryin' just to
express how he's feelin'
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in the inside.
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[Rachael] To people around here,
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somebody who looks like Kenny
looked would be very scary.
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But they would have no idea that
on the inside,
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he is the sweetest person that
you could ever meet.
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[Narrator] After struggling to
find himself,
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Kenny had gotten his life
on track by his mid 20s.
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[Rachael] He's doing so well,
he has a car.
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You know, he's got
his blue Mustang
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that he was obsessed with.
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He loved his Mustang.
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He got a really good job in
construction,
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he was makin' a ton of money.
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He really liked his job.
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[Narrator] But something was
missing.
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[Rachael] Kenny was obsessed
with love.
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He wanted to find somebody that
could love him
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as much as he could love them.
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[Trenna] He was strugglin' with
a broken heart,
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'cause his two girlfriends
cheated on him.
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He was lookin' for a soulmate.
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He wanted him
a little family and stuff.
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He had a life ahead of him
that he wanted,
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and he was out to seek it.
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[Narrator] But Kenny's life
is tragically cut short...
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When investigators find his boy
near the banks of
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the Conasauga River.
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I didn't wanna believe it,
you know?
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I couldn't believe
anybody'd do that.
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[Trenna] You're numb.
You don't know what to do.
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You're just sittin'
here thinkin',
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"It's not, it's not him."
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[Narrator] Detectives request
an autopsy immediately.
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The medical examiner confirms
that Kenny has been dead
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for nearly 12 hours,
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and died from multiple
gunshot wounds.
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[Jimmy] It was four shots.
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Three in the head,
one in the chest,
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I believe torso area.
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They were able to confirm that
it was a small caliber.
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[Adam] He didn't have any
defensive marks on him.
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You can just kinda tell he
just crumpled up and fell.
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I don't think he ever really
knew what was happening.
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I'm not a medical examiner,
but I would say yeah, execution.
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[Erin] Since Kenny's
personal belongings were missing
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from the crime scene,
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investigators couldn't rule out
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if he had been ambushed for
robbery,
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or it was something
more personal.
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[Narrator] Coming up.
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A witness exposes skeletons
in Kenny's closet.
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[Eric] He was gonna go buy weed
from a drug dealer.
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It caused a big fight
between them.
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[Narrator] And a
suspicious couple
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elicits concern from
investigators.
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[Narrator] Investigators in
Murray County, Georgia
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have identified the body found
on the banks of
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the Conasauga River as
27-year-old Kenny Bunn.
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Now, authorities need to
determine
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how Kenny ended up there.
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As an investigator,
my next thing is,
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"Who did this person
hang out with?
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Who was an integral part of
their life?
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Who did they spend
a lot of time with?
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Was there anyone that
didn't like them?"
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[Eric] Kenny's family had no
idea who would wanna hurt him.
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Kenny's grandmother had last
seen Kenny leaving her house
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about 7:45 the previous evening.
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[Adam] Pat gives us
information that
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apparently,
Kenny had left to walk to
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a store
that's not far from Pat's house.
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He said, "Mama."
He said, "I'll be back."
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He didn't come back.
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[Narrator] Kenny's family
informs detectives
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that shortly after he left,
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Kenny's ex-girlfriend,
20-year-old Nadya Swartz,
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had shown up at the house
looking for Kenny.
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[Trenna] Kenny and Nadya got
together around October of 2019.
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He met her on social media.
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Browsing after he had split up
from his last girlfriend.
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[Narrator] According to
Kenny's family,
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the couple got serious...
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Fast.
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He felt strongly about Nadya.
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I think Kenny just really,
really wanted to be
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in a loving,
committed relationship.
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[Pat] They lived with me three
to four months,
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and she broke up with him.
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They was split up three or
four months,
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and she kept comin' up.
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I reckon givin' him hope.
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He'd tell me anything, I say.
"I love her."
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[Adam] So, asking Pat where she
believed Kenny had went
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when he had left the house,
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Kenny liked to go to
Harry's Convenience Store,
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It's about three-quarters of
a mile away from Pat's house.
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Harry's has
surveillance cameras,
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and we go and the clerk allows
us to review the video.
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And sure enough, we see Kenny
wearin' the clothes
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that he had on at the bridge,
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on foot, by himself,
walk into the store.
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And a couple minutes later,
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you see a blue Honda CRV
pull up,
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and you see Nadya Swartz.
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She parked at the gas pump
and she walked in,
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and there's no audio recording,
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but you can see that
they're talking.
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And at the end of
the transaction,
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Kenny goes and gets in
Nadya's car,
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and you see them
drive out of the parking lot.
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Nadya, bein' the last person
with Kenny,
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I know that I need to find
Nadya Swartz.
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We need to have a talk.
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So, I re-approach Trenna,
Kenny's mom.
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She gives us a brief description
of where Nadya's mother lives
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in Murray County.
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[Narrator] When investigators
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arrive at Nadya's mother's
house,
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they learn Nadya lives nearby
with her new boyfriend,
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20-year-old Justin Hooker.
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We're able to establish that
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Nadya and Justin have
their own apartment.
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We just tell Nadya's mother
"Hey, you know,
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we really need to talk to them
about something serious.
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The murder of Kenny Bunn."
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[Erin] Nadya's mother called
Nadya,
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and she and Justin came over to
speak to investigators.
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[Jimmy] They appeared to be
almost like a gothic type.
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Just black clothing,
hair in the eyes,
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kind of maybe, maybe
one eye showing so to speak.
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So, we just go in and interview
Nadya and Justin.
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[Adam] I kinda ease into the
whole relationship with Kenny,
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and eventually what I end up
asking Nadya
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is if she had had contact with
Kenny.
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Nadya does say that she went
and she met up with Kenny.
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Well, when I asked that,
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you see Justin, like,
that tension.
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You can see the veins
in his arm.
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So, at this point, I'm thinkin',
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"Okay, is he upset that Nadya
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has went and visited
an ex-boyfriend,
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and he's just
now findin' out about it?"
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[Narrator] But Nadya explains
that her visit with Kenny
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was anything but romantic.
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She tells investigators that
he had asked for a ride
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to a friend's place on the nigt
of March 15th.
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She met up with Kenny because
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she still considered
him a friend.
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And when he told
her he was going to go buy weed
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from a drug dealer,
it caused a fight between them.
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[Narrator] Nadya claims she has
no idea where Kenny went,
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because she returned to the hoe
she shared with Justin.
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[Erin] According to Justin,
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he had stayed home most of
the day and went to visit
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his brother and his girlfriend
around 7 or 8 that evening.
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Justin claimed he stayed at
his brother's house
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most of the evening,
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and then returned home around
midnight.
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[Adam] Justin and Nadya,
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they maintained that they were
together,
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just hanging out at
their apartment that night.
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[Narrator] Still, Nadya insists
that Kenny's death
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could be connected to
a drug deal gone bad.
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[Narrator] Without evidence to
connect Nadya or Justin
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to Kenny's death,
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investigators reach out to
Kenny's closest friends.
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They confirm that Kenny had
dealt with conflict in
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the small community because of
his lifestyle.
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When me and Kenny met it was
kind of like...
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We were just goin'
into middle school.
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So, what people thought of us is
that we were just really weird.
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We dress different.
We acted different.
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I think Kenny acted like
he didn't care,
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but I'm sure deep down...
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A lot of the bullying and stuff
got to him.
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[Trenna] He didn't like people
to judge him.
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He couldn't stand it.
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I think he tried to show people
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that you don't judge people
by their looks,
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you need to get
to know them first.
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[Rachael] Kenny gets outta
high school,
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and immediately gets in
a long-term relationship
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with the girl he was dating
before Nadya.
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And they are like, not good for
each other.
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They were doin' drugs together.
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Kenny was like, really big
into weed.
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I think a lot of people just
like thought,
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"Oh, well this guy
is just a drug addict."
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But it wasn't like that.
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[Narrator] Kenny's friends
explain that
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he struggled with depression.
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So in 2019, he decided to
make a change.
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[Rachael] Kenny finally gets out
of this relationship,
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finally gets off of these drugs,
and he's doing so well.
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He was finally like a little
less depressed,
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he was sendin' me videos and,
you know,
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pictures of him smiling and
dancing and having a good time.
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[Narrator] Kenny's friends and
family tell police
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there's no way Kenny had
relapsed...
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Ostensibly ruling out the theoy
that Kenny may have been
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involved in a drug deal gone
wrong.
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I wouldn't believe that,
because my son, he was sober.
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He was gettin' his life back
together.
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[Narrator] So, why would Nadya
make that allegation?
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She knew that he had a problem
with drugs in the past.
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[Erin] Given Kenny's
prior history,
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investigators couldn't
rule out the theory.
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But there wasn't
any drug dealer,
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and there wasn't any connection
to the drug world
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that investigators could find at
that time.
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[Narrator] With few leads
to go on,
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investigators head back to
the crime scene the next day.
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[Jimmy] We did just a quick
neighborhood canvass.
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Stoppin' cars that,
that were traveling the road.
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"Hey, did you, have you seen
anything between
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this time and that time?"
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Tryin' to get anything and
everything.
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[Adam] We actually talked to the
farmer who owned the property,
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and he was like,
"Hey, at one point,
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there was a guy with
a shopping buggy
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with an orange chainsaw in it.
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There was a white female
with him.
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I'd been seeing them
in the bridge area a lot."
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[Erin] This guy had been acting
erratic,
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and he carried what could be
considered
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an extremely dangerous weapon.
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This area of Georgia is just off
US-411,
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which is a highway that runs
from Tennessee
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through Georgia
and into Alabama.
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More than 300 miles of often
rural highway,
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where vagrants and drifters
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can almost go undetected
by law enforcement.
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Sometimes these drifters turn
out to be dangerous fugitives
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and seek these rural
mountain communities
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to escape capture.
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And I'm thinking,
"Maybe we got a witness
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or maybe the person that killed
Kenny."
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[Narrator] Investigators
immediately begin
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the task of searching for
the man.
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The following day,
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they make a crucial discovery
when they drive past
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a small gas station.
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[Adam] We see a shopping cart
with an orange chainsaw in it.
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We go inside and ask the clerk,
"Who does that cart belong to?"
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The clerk directs us
to an individual
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that's outside attempting to
wash a vehicle for money.
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What are the odds of findin'
this guy in this rural area
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at this gas station, when we
just happen to be drivin' by?
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We approach this individual,
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and right off the bat,
he's nervous.
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Was very elusive in his
answering our questions.
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As an officer,
it's automatically like,
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"This guy's
hiding somethin' from me."
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[music]
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[Narrator] Less than
48 hours after
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27-year-old Kenny Bunn was foud
shot to death,
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investigators are speaking with
a suspicious person
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who was seen near
the crime scene
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in the days leading up to
the murder.
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Jesse was, in fact,
wanted out of Tennessee,
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and that's why he did not want
to give us his full name,
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date of birth, things of
that nature.
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[Narrator] As investigators
continue questioning Jesse,
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his girlfriend arrives.
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[Narrator] The woman is quick to
offer an alibi
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for the Sunday night
Kenny was killed.
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[Adam] His girlfriend had
explained to us that
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they had been
stayin' under the bridge,
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but on this Saturday and Sunday,
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they had been in Tennessee,
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conducting some
illegal activities.
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They were stealing copper from
an abandoned house.
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Which did give them
a good alibi.
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That allowed us to eliminate who
he was,
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why he would have been out there
at the bridge.
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We did let local law enforcement
for Tennessee know
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who we were dealin' with,
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and they were glad to have,
Jesse come stay
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at their facility in Tennessee.
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[Jimmy] We're probably three
days into it at this point.
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We had already done like,
the best you could do.
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A neighborhood canvas on
a stretch of highway,
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you know, with a handful of
houses
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and just talkin' to people.
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I remember goin' back to
the office,
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where we're trying to figure out
what to do at this point,
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what direction.
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I remember Adam,
on a white board, you know,
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we kind of, we'd jot down
everything.
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And I remember receivin'
a phone call.
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From one of our local attorneys.
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And the local attorney said,
"Hey, I have a client
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that I've just been talking to,
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and he knows somethin' about the
case that you're working on."
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That's when things really
started movin'.
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We hightail it straight to
this law office
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and speak to this client.
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He wanted to provide information
on the possible murder weapon
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for Kenny's death.
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00:26:20,713 --> 00:26:25,050
We know that Kenny was shot with
a small caliber weapon.
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Which is what the .22 was.
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And so this was huge, this was
paramount to our investigation.
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This person tells us Justin said
it was for home defense,
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where him and Nadya were stayin'
at their apartment.
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They been having some issues and
he just wanted to have this gun
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for self protection.
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[Narrator] But as news spread
about Kenny Bunn's murder,
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the informant tells
investigators
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that he became suspicious about
Justin's motives.
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He didn't know that's
what he was gonna do,
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but he is terrified that he's
gonna get drug into this.
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He thought he was gonna be in
trouble for
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providin' a murder weapon to
Justin.
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[Narrator] Investigators
theorize that Justin
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may have acted out of jealousy
due to the fact that
485
00:27:36,622 --> 00:27:38,924
Nadya and Kenny kept in touch.
486
00:27:40,059 --> 00:27:44,863
It appeared to be maybe a,
a lover's triangle.
487
00:27:44,897 --> 00:27:46,065
So to speak.
488
00:27:46,065 --> 00:27:48,067
[Narrator] Detectives are
beginning to believe
489
00:27:48,067 --> 00:27:50,602
that Nadya may have initially
lied to them...
490
00:27:50,636 --> 00:27:53,605
So, they press the informant
for more details.
491
00:28:12,057 --> 00:28:15,027
[Jimmy] After the interview was
over, I said, "Hey, it's...
492
00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:19,665
The, the, the sun ain't gonna to
set today before we catch them."
493
00:28:20,566 --> 00:28:22,901
It really took off at
that point.
494
00:28:23,469 --> 00:28:25,170
[Narrator] Coming up.
495
00:28:25,204 --> 00:28:28,707
The hunt for Justin Hooker and
Nadya Swartz intensifies,
496
00:28:28,741 --> 00:28:32,811
leading investigators to face
conflicting stories.
497
00:28:39,585 --> 00:28:45,124
[music]
498
00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:55,435
[Narrator] Three days into
the murder investigation
499
00:28:55,468 --> 00:28:57,070
of Kenny Bunn,
500
00:28:57,070 --> 00:28:59,372
authorities have zeroed in on
Justin Hooker
501
00:28:59,406 --> 00:29:01,341
as their primary suspect.
502
00:29:02,308 --> 00:29:04,911
We're able to determine that
Justin works for
503
00:29:05,011 --> 00:29:07,414
Whitco Produce in Dalton,
Georgia.
504
00:29:07,447 --> 00:29:11,384
And this company is actually
owned by Justin's family.
505
00:29:12,652 --> 00:29:16,156
We went there to try
to find him.
506
00:29:16,189 --> 00:29:17,490
He wasn't there.
507
00:29:18,024 --> 00:29:20,694
[Adam] We start accelerating
at this point.
508
00:29:21,261 --> 00:29:25,198
I've got all these agents and
detectives and investigators
509
00:29:25,231 --> 00:29:28,201
from Dalton Police Department,
Murray County Sheriff's Office,
510
00:29:28,234 --> 00:29:31,071
special agents with the GBI,
we're all out working.
511
00:29:31,905 --> 00:29:35,475
Units went to where Justin lives
and then kind of
512
00:29:35,508 --> 00:29:37,711
set up surveillance on
the house.
513
00:29:38,211 --> 00:29:42,148
We had other units
looking for Ms. Nadya.
514
00:29:42,515 --> 00:29:43,883
[Narrator] When investigators
515
00:29:43,917 --> 00:29:46,052
reach out to Justin's friends
and family,
516
00:29:46,086 --> 00:29:48,455
they say they haven't seen him.
517
00:29:48,488 --> 00:29:52,292
But authorities do learn more
about the troubled young man.
518
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,264
Like Kenny Bunn, Justin had
always been an outsider.
519
00:29:59,833 --> 00:30:01,901
Justin, when he was
in high school,
520
00:30:01,935 --> 00:30:04,371
he would get picked on a lot.
521
00:30:05,271 --> 00:30:07,741
Just because of how
he was dressed,
522
00:30:08,041 --> 00:30:09,809
just because of how he talked.
523
00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:14,514
Justin loved wearing black and
growing his hair out long.
524
00:30:14,547 --> 00:30:15,515
You know?
525
00:30:15,548 --> 00:30:18,651
And he enjoyed chains and stuff.
526
00:30:18,685 --> 00:30:22,322
Justin really wanted to shock
people with how he was dressed.
527
00:30:22,355 --> 00:30:26,760
He wanted people to look at him,
but not look at him.
528
00:30:27,460 --> 00:30:29,896
[Adam] At one point, Justin was
homeless.
529
00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:33,033
In his late teens
he was livin' out of a vehicle.
530
00:30:33,066 --> 00:30:36,536
He'd gotten in a few run-ins
with law enforcement for theft.
531
00:30:37,203 --> 00:30:39,973
And he was just kinda
generally having a hard time
532
00:30:40,006 --> 00:30:41,274
makin' good decisions.
533
00:30:42,242 --> 00:30:44,077
[Narrator] Despite the
hardships,
534
00:30:44,110 --> 00:30:47,213
Justin never had a problem
with romance.
535
00:30:48,114 --> 00:30:50,917
[Whitney] I found Justin to be
just like very empathetic.
536
00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:53,453
You know?
He's very sweet with it.
537
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:58,091
I had very, very deep emotions
for Justin.
538
00:30:58,425 --> 00:30:59,626
And...
539
00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:01,361
When we broke up,
540
00:31:01,394 --> 00:31:06,066
and I found out he was dating
Nadya within a month and a half
541
00:31:06,099 --> 00:31:08,368
of us breaking up...
542
00:31:09,169 --> 00:31:10,170
It hurt.
543
00:31:11,171 --> 00:31:12,372
[Narrator] Friends tell
detectives that
544
00:31:12,405 --> 00:31:16,443
Justin's infatuation with Nadya
had developed quickly...
545
00:31:16,476 --> 00:31:18,111
And intensely.
546
00:31:19,546 --> 00:31:21,581
[Adam] At this point you're
getting leads about
547
00:31:21,614 --> 00:31:25,418
this relationship with Nadya and
Justin and Kenny.
548
00:31:25,952 --> 00:31:27,954
We're able to learn there was
549
00:31:27,987 --> 00:31:30,490
an altercation
between Justin and Kenny.
550
00:31:31,624 --> 00:31:34,160
The altercation had taken place
a few months earlier,
551
00:31:34,194 --> 00:31:37,130
not long after Kenny and Nadya
had broken up.
552
00:31:37,163 --> 00:31:39,199
Words were exchanged,
and allegedly,
553
00:31:39,232 --> 00:31:41,835
Justin had threatened to blow
Kenny's head off
554
00:31:41,868 --> 00:31:43,470
if he didn't leave Nadya alone.
555
00:31:44,604 --> 00:31:49,109
[Whitney] I really don't know
exactly why Kenny and Justin
556
00:31:49,109 --> 00:31:51,144
didn't get along,
other than Nadya.
557
00:31:51,177 --> 00:31:56,349
So, that was the common factor
the two had together
558
00:31:56,383 --> 00:31:59,319
is in between Nadya.
559
00:32:00,787 --> 00:32:02,155
[Narrator] Despite the threats,
560
00:32:02,188 --> 00:32:05,158
Kenny wasn't willing to give up
on Nadya.
561
00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:07,927
I remember him telling me
about her,
562
00:32:07,961 --> 00:32:11,664
and I think that Kenny knew that
she's a toxic person
563
00:32:11,698 --> 00:32:14,367
and that it was a toxic
environment and relationship,
564
00:32:14,401 --> 00:32:18,471
but he was also just in love
with the idea of bein' in love.
565
00:32:18,505 --> 00:32:22,175
So you know, he would do
anything to try to keep
566
00:32:22,208 --> 00:32:24,344
that connection and that
relationship together.
567
00:32:27,514 --> 00:32:30,550
[Narrator] As investigators
widen their search for Justin,
568
00:32:30,583 --> 00:32:33,887
they uncover one more
important detail...
569
00:32:34,587 --> 00:32:36,389
[Erin] Investigators spoke to
Justin's brother
570
00:32:36,423 --> 00:32:38,324
and his brother's
live-in girlfriend.
571
00:32:38,358 --> 00:32:40,460
They told authorities that
Justin did not come by
572
00:32:40,493 --> 00:32:42,195
their home the night of
the murder.
573
00:32:42,228 --> 00:32:44,431
In fact, they hadn't
seen Justin in weeks,
574
00:32:44,464 --> 00:32:47,400
which totally undermined
his alibi.
575
00:32:47,434 --> 00:32:51,705
[Narrator] On March 19th,
three days after Kenny's murde,
576
00:32:52,205 --> 00:32:54,941
the GBI's surveillance pays off
577
00:32:54,974 --> 00:32:58,144
when agents finally
apprehend Justin Hooker
578
00:32:58,178 --> 00:33:01,815
as he tries to sneak back
into is apartment.
579
00:33:02,582 --> 00:33:04,951
[Adam] Law enforcement goes and
takes Justin in custody,
580
00:33:05,552 --> 00:33:08,254
transports him to Murray County
Sheriff's Office for us.
581
00:33:08,955 --> 00:33:11,691
[Narrator] When Nadya learns
that Justin has been arrested,
582
00:33:11,725 --> 00:33:13,760
she turns herself in.
583
00:33:14,461 --> 00:33:18,098
[Adam] I wanted to interview
them apart from each other.
584
00:33:18,131 --> 00:33:20,200
'Cause you could kinda tell
that together,
585
00:33:20,233 --> 00:33:21,368
they were stronger.
586
00:33:21,401 --> 00:33:23,636
So, I wanted
to divide and conquer.
587
00:33:36,416 --> 00:33:40,086
[Jimmy] Justin, he looked
apprehensive, scared.
588
00:33:40,754 --> 00:33:43,556
Like, "I wonder what
he's gonna say."
589
00:34:19,192 --> 00:34:21,327
He starts to say .22,
590
00:34:21,361 --> 00:34:24,330
but he catches himself
and says twenty and stops.
591
00:34:41,481 --> 00:34:43,283
[Adam] I confront him with that.
592
00:34:43,316 --> 00:34:45,185
And I kinda see
Justin's posture.
593
00:34:45,218 --> 00:34:46,519
His shoulders sink in,
594
00:34:46,553 --> 00:34:48,788
and it's kinda like
a defeat posture.
595
00:34:49,356 --> 00:34:51,391
And I'm kinda
at the edge of my chair
596
00:34:51,424 --> 00:34:52,926
waiting for him to say
the next thing.
597
00:34:52,959 --> 00:34:55,428
And he's like,
"I want an attorney."
598
00:34:55,762 --> 00:34:57,297
And it's like...
599
00:34:59,132 --> 00:35:00,400
I'm deflated.
600
00:35:03,503 --> 00:35:05,705
[Narrator] In another
interrogation room,
601
00:35:05,739 --> 00:35:09,776
investigators hope Nadya Swartz
is more willing to speak.
602
00:35:42,876 --> 00:35:46,513
I like to just let people tell
their version of facts,
603
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,215
but then, while we were
interviewing Nadya,
604
00:35:49,249 --> 00:35:52,252
some of the things were not
adding up.
605
00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:57,457
Kenny wasn't an abuser,
that's not who he was.
606
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,329
[Narrator] Nadya claims that on
the night of Kenny's murder,
607
00:36:03,363 --> 00:36:07,300
she and Justin decided to
confront Kenny together.
608
00:36:22,115 --> 00:36:23,850
Nadya claimed that when she
picked up Kenny
609
00:36:23,883 --> 00:36:26,720
from the gas station,
Justin was in the car.
610
00:37:41,227 --> 00:37:45,065
[Narrator] But investigators
aren't buying Nadya's claims.
611
00:37:45,732 --> 00:37:47,600
[Adam] We were able
to disprove that
612
00:37:47,634 --> 00:37:49,869
Kenny got physically violent
with Nadya
613
00:37:49,903 --> 00:37:52,939
by doin' a search warrant to
photograph Nadya's body.
614
00:37:52,972 --> 00:37:55,675
She had no injuries on her that
would suggest she was being
615
00:37:55,709 --> 00:38:00,013
strangled or had been gripped,
violently in any way.
616
00:38:00,013 --> 00:38:02,816
So, I knew Nadya was
lying to me.
617
00:38:02,849 --> 00:38:07,253
[music]
618
00:38:14,561 --> 00:38:16,529
[Narrator] Nadya Swartz and
Justin Hooker
619
00:38:16,563 --> 00:38:18,798
have been arrested for
the shooting of
620
00:38:18,832 --> 00:38:23,036
Nadya's ex-boyfriend,
27-year-old Kenny Bunn.
621
00:38:25,038 --> 00:38:28,375
While Nadya has implicated
her new boyfriend Justin
622
00:38:28,408 --> 00:38:29,943
as the killer,
623
00:38:30,043 --> 00:38:33,780
she claims that the murder
was committed in self defense.
624
00:38:34,914 --> 00:38:37,484
Well, there's a lot of force
that comes with strangulation.
625
00:38:37,517 --> 00:38:39,352
There should be some marks on
her body.
626
00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:41,221
She didn't have any injuries.
627
00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:45,125
[Narrator] Kenny's friends and
family are also adamant
628
00:38:45,158 --> 00:38:48,895
that Nadya's allegations of
abuse are fabricated.
629
00:38:49,262 --> 00:38:51,331
I think it's important for
everybody to know
630
00:38:51,364 --> 00:38:52,632
who Kenny really was.
631
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,936
Kenny was not violent to her
or anyone.
632
00:38:57,637 --> 00:38:59,639
[Trenna] She is a manipulator.
633
00:39:00,907 --> 00:39:05,612
She was, I think she
controlled the relationships.
634
00:39:06,012 --> 00:39:10,850
I think she actually was the,
the abuser in the relationships.
635
00:39:12,185 --> 00:39:15,221
[Erin] Justin Hooker had very
strong feelings for Nadya
636
00:39:15,522 --> 00:39:17,390
and seemed devoted to her.
637
00:39:18,158 --> 00:39:19,793
If he believed her accusations,
638
00:39:19,826 --> 00:39:22,028
he would have had a very
strong motive
639
00:39:22,028 --> 00:39:23,430
to commit this crime.
640
00:39:26,666 --> 00:39:29,269
[Narrator] Investigators charge
Nadya Swartz
641
00:39:29,302 --> 00:39:31,638
and Justin Hooker with murder.
642
00:39:32,472 --> 00:39:34,441
Facing a mountain of evidence,
643
00:39:34,474 --> 00:39:37,544
they both decide to take
plea deals.
644
00:39:38,244 --> 00:39:39,946
[Adam] If they were gonna accept
this plea,
645
00:39:40,046 --> 00:39:42,382
they were gonna have to provide
the court with information
646
00:39:42,415 --> 00:39:44,250
that the investigators needed,
647
00:39:44,284 --> 00:39:45,952
mainly where was this firearm.
648
00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:47,587
And they also have to tell
649
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:51,791
what they did that caused Kenny
to be murdered.
650
00:39:52,592 --> 00:39:55,395
[Narrator] Nadya and Justin
agree to the terms.
651
00:39:56,763 --> 00:39:58,965
Based on their
subsequent statements,
652
00:39:59,065 --> 00:40:02,502
authorities believe
Kenny's murder was premeditate.
653
00:40:03,036 --> 00:40:06,473
[Adam] My opinion with Nadya is
that she plays on
654
00:40:06,506 --> 00:40:10,043
the jealousy of Justin to hype
him up, to say,
655
00:40:10,076 --> 00:40:11,678
"Hey, if we're gonna have
a good relationship
656
00:40:12,245 --> 00:40:15,982
and love each other forever,
Kenny can't be in the picture."
657
00:40:16,016 --> 00:40:18,184
And I think she came up with
658
00:40:18,218 --> 00:40:21,788
this plan to ambush
and execute Kenny.
659
00:40:22,455 --> 00:40:25,225
[Rachael] I think Nadya had
a very weird
660
00:40:25,692 --> 00:40:29,496
dark romantic fantasy
about murder,
661
00:40:29,529 --> 00:40:32,098
and it seemed to me like she was
just playing a game of,
662
00:40:32,132 --> 00:40:33,700
"Who would kill for me".
663
00:40:37,070 --> 00:40:41,074
What we believed is Nadya took
Justin to the bridge
664
00:40:41,107 --> 00:40:43,543
with his gun and left him there.
665
00:40:44,744 --> 00:40:47,414
Nadya then goes and picks
Kenny up.
666
00:40:48,448 --> 00:40:50,617
She was able to lure
Kenny back to the bridge
667
00:40:50,650 --> 00:40:52,485
with the understanding that
668
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:54,521
they were gonna try
and get back together.
669
00:40:56,122 --> 00:41:00,960
Using this ruse, gets Kenny down
the path to the bridge,
670
00:41:01,061 --> 00:41:04,064
and then that's where Justin
comes out.
671
00:41:05,165 --> 00:41:07,667
[Narrator] Due to the lack
of defensive wounds,
672
00:41:07,701 --> 00:41:10,837
investigators do not believe
there was any sort of
673
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:14,074
confrontation between Kenny
and his killers.
674
00:41:14,574 --> 00:41:17,243
[Adam] This was an execution,
just an ambush.
675
00:41:17,610 --> 00:41:20,480
Kenny didn't know that it was
coming.
676
00:41:25,118 --> 00:41:29,723
We're able to learn later that
Justin sold the gun.
677
00:41:30,390 --> 00:41:32,325
But we were never able
to establish
678
00:41:32,592 --> 00:41:34,427
where that firearm went.
679
00:41:37,564 --> 00:41:39,766
[Narrator] In March 2021,
680
00:41:39,799 --> 00:41:43,436
Nadya Swartz and Justin Hooker
receive their fates.
681
00:41:44,337 --> 00:41:48,408
The 21 year olds are each
sentenced to life in prison,
682
00:41:48,441 --> 00:41:50,944
with the possibility of parole.
683
00:41:52,479 --> 00:41:55,515
I hope to God they don't never
get out.
684
00:41:56,783 --> 00:41:58,118
[Whitney] In less than a year,
685
00:41:59,185 --> 00:42:04,557
the Justin that I knew went from
being a loving and sweet guy...
686
00:42:05,358 --> 00:42:08,094
To a killer.
687
00:42:08,128 --> 00:42:10,463
Within six months.
688
00:42:10,497 --> 00:42:11,431
It's shocking.
689
00:42:12,565 --> 00:42:14,567
I believe we all have the
potential to kill somebody,
690
00:42:14,601 --> 00:42:16,736
but I believe that Nadya is
691
00:42:16,770 --> 00:42:19,139
the one that brought it
out of him.
692
00:42:20,607 --> 00:42:24,411
Gave him that whole,
"I can do this," you know?
693
00:42:24,978 --> 00:42:27,747
"I can go and shoot a guy."
And so, he did.
694
00:42:28,982 --> 00:42:32,085
[Rachael] Nadya was very
insecure.
695
00:42:33,186 --> 00:42:36,189
And so, she wanted to
find somebody that would do
696
00:42:36,222 --> 00:42:37,657
anything for her,
697
00:42:37,691 --> 00:42:39,659
including killing someone.
698
00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:42,328
She didn't care which
one of them died,
699
00:42:42,362 --> 00:42:43,997
she just wanted someone to kill
for her.
700
00:42:45,131 --> 00:42:48,835
She was a puppet master with
the strings, so to speak.
701
00:42:49,669 --> 00:42:52,839
I don't think Nadya's remorseful
for Kenny's death at all.
702
00:42:53,573 --> 00:42:56,576
I just...
I think she's evil.
703
00:42:59,112 --> 00:43:01,514
They left him in that...
704
00:43:01,548 --> 00:43:05,585
Like he was garbage,
and my son wasn't garbage.
705
00:43:07,721 --> 00:43:10,223
[Pat] Lord mercy, I wish
Kenny hadn't went off
706
00:43:10,256 --> 00:43:11,591
with 'em that night.
707
00:43:12,792 --> 00:43:14,861
I lost my everything.
708
00:43:16,196 --> 00:43:20,467
[Trenna] I want him to be
remembered by his good heart
709
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,535
and his helpfulness,
710
00:43:22,569 --> 00:43:24,504
the way he made people smile.
711
00:43:25,205 --> 00:43:29,242
He was more than a murder.
He was, he was a person.
712
00:43:29,275 --> 00:43:35,248
[music]