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[cheering]
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[Tricia Corder] Our family'
very important
part of our lives.
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We grew up together.
We grew up in church together.
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We had every single thing
that we wanted.
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They just always seemed
like a perfect-looking
little family.
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[Keith]
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I never thought
in a million years this would
turn out the way it did.
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[Rachel] I immediately
kinda shut down.
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And I just started screaming.
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[Tricia] And I don't want
to know that kind of rage.
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It almost feels evil.
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[narrator] It's the Summer
of 1993 in Tool, Texas.
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Gerald Boykin walks
his 25-year-old daughter
Dorenda down the aisle.
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[Dorenda Gentry] I got marri
on the, June the 12th of 199
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My whole family, my parents,
were in church there,
my sister and her husband.
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My maid of honor
was my cousin Judy.
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Then, of course, I had
my sister Belinda
was a bridesmaid,
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and Doris.
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Doris was my sister-in-law.
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She married
my twin brother, Keith.
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We all embraced her
as part of her family.
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She fit really well
into our family.
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And we always had a,
a great time
when she was around.
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[Dorenda] She was excited
for me, of course,
getting married,
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and wanted the day
to be special.
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[officiant
continues indistinctly]
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[Dorenda] Doris
was a very beautiful lady,
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especially when she would
take the time to dress up.
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So on my wedding day,
when she walked
down the aisle,
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she knew everyone
was looking at her,
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and I'll bet you
that she enjoyed
every minute of it. [laughing]
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She liked to cut up.
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She was just as loud
and obnoxious as the rest
of us sometimes. [laughing]
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Don't do anything
I wouldn't do. [laughing]
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[Dorenda] We all had
a good time
when we were together.
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We all just
loved her very much.
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[Tricia] Doris was adopted
by Georgie and Paul Hoskins
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They were sort of pillars
of the community.
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Doris adored
her mother Georgie.
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Her brothers and sisters
were probably old enough
to be her parents.
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The siblings were gone.
They had their own families
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and they were
living their own lives.
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She wanted
that close family, too.
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[Dorenda] My sister Belinda
worked at a bank in town.
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Doris was a teller there
at the drive-through window,
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and would often
see my brother come
through the drive-through.
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And I suppose
she must have asked
questions about him,
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because Belinda set them up
on their first date.
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When Doris and Keith
started dating, I remember
a change in Doris.
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Uh, she was just so happy.
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And she really thought
that Keith
was the one for her.
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My sister Belinda
introduced Keith and Doris
in the Summer of 1989.
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And they were married
that following
January 13 of 1990,
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before Doris
even completed high school.
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[Tricia] Well, after Doris
and Keith got married, I fel
like Doris was very happy.
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She kind of had
that closeness that she
had been yearning for.
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She was gonna
start her own family.
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I felt like that was
one of the things
that she wanted.
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[Dorenda] Hope was born
on August the 15th of 1995.
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Doris was very excited
to be a mom.
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Hope was the only
little girl in the family,
so she loved that.
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[Dorenda] Keith was
a very affectionate dad.
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Hope was his baby girl.
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And he would go
to the ends of the earth
for her.
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[Hope Scott] On
Sunday mornings, when
we would go to church,
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my mom would put me
in cute little outfits
and dresses with bows.
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My dad would make sure
that everything
was videotaped,
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whether it be birthdays,
Christmases, Easter.
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He wanted to make sure he ha
documents of all of it.
[laughing]
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[Keith]
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[Dorenda] Shortly
after Hope was born,
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they just always seemed
like a perfect looking littl
family and did a lot togethe
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So I believe they were
really happy at that time.
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[Hope] Christmas
was a big deal
in my household.
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My mom holding me, showing m
the Christmas tree
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and showing me
my first ornament.
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She tries to get me
to touch the ornament.
[laughing]
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I'm not having it, though.
[laughing]
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You can see
the love in her eyes.
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You can see the happiness
in her face and in her smile.
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She was a, a beautiful soul.
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[narrator] Doris gives birt
to her second child,
Rachel, in 1998.
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[Hope] I felt very excited
about having
a new baby sister.
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I wanted to always
help take care of her.
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[Keith]
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[Keith]
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[Hope] I always wanted to tr
to read her a book
when she was little.
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But I was too young
to be able to read just yet.
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My mom and dad would help us
bake cookies,
like sugar cookies,
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where you put
the designs on 'em.
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[Keith]
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Every year, no matter
what the circumstances
were, um,
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we had every gift that we
had asked for, um, plus some.
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[Keith]
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[Keith]
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[Hope] I remember this now.
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It had all the little food
that came like as if
you went to McDonald's
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so that I could play
in my kitchen.
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-[Hope]
-[Keith]
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-[Hope]
-[Keith]
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[Hope] And there was years
that we would think
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that we weren't
getting anything, because
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it just hadn't been
a good year for our family
money-wise.
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But they always made sure
that we had every single thi
that we wanted.
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We were always
their top priority
with everything.
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[narrator] Fast forward
to Good Friday, 1999.
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Rachel takes her first step
with the help of Mom Doris
and big sister Hope.
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[Keith] Yay!
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[Hope] I was
always helping her.
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[Hope] Because I was older,
so I already knew
how to do those things,
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so I wanted her
to know how as well.
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[Rachel Dewberry] Hope
wanted to walk with me,
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and be right there by my side
as I grew up through life.
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[Hope] She's still
my little handful, but
I love her so much.
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The girls were fun,
and they kept Doris busy.
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And that made Doris so happy,
because she yearned for that.
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That's what she wanted
so much, was that family.
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[Keith]
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[Tricia] Keith was
a very dedicated husband.
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He worked multiple jobs
to provide for his family,
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and give
his children and Doris
whatever they wanted.
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I think that life...
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...became very difficult
and stressful with having
two small children,
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a house, and just the stres
of working multiple jobs.
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And it wasn't very long
after that that I knew
that things
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were not very good
between Doris and Keith
at that time.
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[Keith]
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[Dorenda] Doris loved
doing anything
with the family,
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and of course,
doing things for the kids.
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Birthday parties,
Easter egg hunts.
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Was always a big deal.
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Every Easter,
after going
to church services,
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my family would meet
at my parents' house,
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and we would
have our Easter dinner,
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and then we would always
hide Easter eggs
for all the kids in the yard.
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There were so many eggs,
I don't even know if we ever
found them all. [laughing]
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But they had,
they had a great time.
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[Doris Andrews]
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[Keith]
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[Doris]
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[Keith]
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[Hope] My poor sister did ge
the short end of the stick
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most of the Easters,
'cause she was
younger than all of us.
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But my mom did help,
um, make sure
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that she had all the eggs
that she could find,
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and we were extremely happy
and excited.
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[narrator] In 2000,
Doris takes a job
as a teacher's aide
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at her daughter's
elementary school.
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She hopes that the extra
income will help
the family finances.
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[Tricia] When Doris started
working for the school,
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and she got the aide positio
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she was working
for a kindergarten teacher
at one point in time.
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And she loved her job.
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[Rachel] Teaching was
absolutely her passion.
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It was the highlight
of her life.
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Um, being able to watch
kids grow up and be successful
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was something she was
extremely passionate about.
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And I think that she was
very successful with that.
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[narrator] Doris thrives
in her new job.
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But she and Keith
are struggling at home.
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[Keith]
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[Tricia] During that time,
Doris would confide in me,
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and she would talk to me
about her relationship
with Keith.
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And she would tell me
some of the struggles
that they were having at home.
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He worked a lot.
He was gone a lot.
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And there was just a lot
of stress and pressure
on both of them
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to try to make the home happy.
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And it was just not happening.
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[Keith]
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[Dorenda] I don't recall
even noticing that there wer
any problems between them.
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They always seemed happy and,
and getting along.
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You know,
in front of the family.
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[Keith]
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[Doris]
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[Keith]
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[Doris]
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[Keith]
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There was never any tension
or arguments
that we would ever see.
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We were
sitting in our living room,
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and my dad was like,
we have something to tell yo
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And of course, you know,
me and my sister
are both young, so we're,
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we're jumping to conclusion
on what it could be.
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We were like, are we
going to Disney, or are we
going to Six Flags,
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or where are we going,
are we going somewhere?
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Are we moving?
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And then they kinda just
came out with, no, you know
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Dad's gonna go, um,
live somewhere else.
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He's gonna be moving out.
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It was very devastating.
I was in the third grade,
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and I remember that day
very vividly.
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It broke my heart.
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[Rachel] I think it was
just a mutual agreement
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that they grew apart
from each other.
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[Dorenda] I really thought
for a long time
that, you know,
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things would be okay, they'd
they'd work it out,
whatever had happened.
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But, uh, ended
not being the case.
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We started to realize,
you know,
Dad's in his own home,
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Mom's in her own home.
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And you know, they're
not gonna come back together.
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[Rachel] Shortly
after the divorce,
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Mom enrolled
in Texas A&M University
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to get her teaching degree
in early childhood education.
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Um, so she could go
from a paraprofessional
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into the teaching world,
where she actually got to do
everything on her own,
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versus having to work
through someone else.
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[Tricia] She needed to have
something that was stable.
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She needed to have a good jo
where she could
not only have a job
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and receive a good paycheck,
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but she would be
with her own children,
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and she would have
the same times off
as her children.
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I felt like that
was a great choice for her.
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[Rachel] Mom was
a very independent person,
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but I also think that she
was scared to be alone.
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I think that she was
looking for somebody
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to be there for her
and to love her, and she
wanted that so bad,
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that she jumped
into a relationship,
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you know, it seemed like
almost instantaneously.
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[narrator] Doris meets
37-year-old David Schaeffer
in early 2004.
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And after a whirlwind romanc
the pair marry
just a few months later.
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[Rachel] Me and Hope
both got along with him
really well.
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You know, in the beginning,
things were awesome.
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He was a new person
in our life.
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Um, we were constantly
getting to go, like,
ride horses,
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and do fun things
when we were with him.
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I feel like the relationshi
was very energetic
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and he was involved in,
like, a lot of parties.
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I think that wasn't
my mom's cup of tea.
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We were at our dad's
for the weekend,
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when we found out
the relationship had ended
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and she was
getting a divorce from David
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I noticed she had
a turtleneck on, and I
couldn't figure out why.
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'Cause it's, it wasn't
that cold outside.
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And then I saw the bruise,
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and he had done
some not-so-nice things
to her,
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and she left.
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[narrator] The marriage
lasts less than a year.
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Doris finalizes her divorce
in late 2005.
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I just felt like she wanted
something so bad
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and she wanted
to have that family,
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and she wanted that so much
for her and her girls,
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that she was willing
to put herself
in any situation
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to try to make it work.
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And she just
was not choosing well.
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[narrator] Doris meets
32-year-old Roy Ivey
in early 2006.
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She didn't like being alone.
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She needed a companion.
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So, you know, she found one
that made her happy.
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You know, she had
moved on quickly.
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[narrator] Doris and Roy
marry in the summer.
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I did like Roy. Um, Roy
was definitely
a lot better than David.
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He seemed
to have his life together.
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[Rachel] He was
an outdoorsy person.
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He would take us
to the local state park
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and we'd go fishing
or go swimming
out in the lake.
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And that was probably
the happiest I had seen my mom
in a long time.
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She was constantly smiling,
and happy.
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And her being happy
made the house
more warm and welcoming.
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But she just wanted
somebody to care for her
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as much as she cared
for somebody else.
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And then they split up.
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I'm not sure if I'll
ever know the real reason.
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And, um, that just, you know
broke her as a person.
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I was very sad
to see him leave.
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[Tricia] She was looking har
for something,
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and I felt like she was
going to make it happen,
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which you can't do.
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And we all know
that you cannot make
something out of nothing.
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She just didn't have
e a good choice in men,
and, uh,
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I wish that was
different for her.
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[Tricia] I felt like she wa
still on the hunt.
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She was still on that searc
to find that person.
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And unfortunately,
I think that she ran into
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a couple of more
stumbling blocks.
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[Dorenda] Doris
got her third divorce.
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She was
a very independent person.
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Not sure why she felt
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that she needed to rush
into marriages, or, you know,
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why she constantly needed
someone there.
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But, uh, she may have had
an insecurity, you know,
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that none of us knew about.
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It's probably what led
to all of those marriages.
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She was scared, you know,
she was gonna be alone
the rest of her life,
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and she wasn't ever gonna find
the perfect person,
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'cause, you know,
three failed marriages
makes you nervous.
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But she was looking for love.
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[narrator] In September, 200
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Doris meets 38-year-old
truck driver Mark Andrews
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at a football game
in Eustace, Texas.
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Mark is recently divorced
from his fourth wife.
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It was a more, reunification.
They had gone, um,
to high school together.
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He was a little, little bit
older than her,
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so he graduated
before she did,
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but they knew each other
from being, um, acquaintance
in high school.
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I think once they reconnected,
it was love at first re-sight
for them. [laughing]
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Mark Andrews
was a very funny guy.
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You knew Mark was in the roo
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You could hear him laughing
you could hear him joking.
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I was so excited, because
the Mark that I knew
was a wonderful person.
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And I thought, this is gonna
be great for her, it's gonna
be great for her girls.
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[narrator] Doris and Mark
marry in March, 2010.
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[Hope] Their wedding
was at the church
that we used to attend.
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It wasn't a big fancy wedding,
but my mom did wear a dress.
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We wore dresses.
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I definitely think that she
thought this was gonna be
her last, you know, wedding.
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She seemed happy.
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[Hope] I do believe my mom,
um, felt that this
was the one,
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this is the one
she was meant to be with.
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This is the one
God wanted her to be with.
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[indistinct chatter]
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Hope had her 20th birthday
at our local Chili's.
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[Hope] Either Mark or my mo
told the waitress
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without me realizing
that it was my birthday,
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so they made me
stand in a chair and, uh,
flap my little wings.
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And they sing
happy birthday to me.
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I did move out, um,
when I was 20.
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My mom was definitely gratef
that I was becoming
very independent.
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I would see them, um,
quite a lot,
even after I moved out.
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Every Sunday after church,
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we would go have lunch
as a family.
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When we were all there,
she seemed very happy
to have us all together.
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[narrator] By the time
Hope celebrates
her 20th birthday,
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the Andrews family
has a new member.
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Mark and Doris adopted
eight-year-old Katie Jo
three years earlier.
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[Rachel] My mom was a teache
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where she taught three-,
four- and five-year-old
special education.
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It was my mom's
first year teaching there.
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Katie Jo was autistic.
She was in her class.
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My mom just knew
that it was meant to be,
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that she was supposed
to take in that child
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and provide her
with everything
she didn't have in her life.
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I was extremely excited
to have a little sister,
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and to be able
to play with her
and help take care of her.
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It was an exciting time
for all of us.
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[narrator] But away
from his new family,
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Mark develops
an obsession with gambling.
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Mark and my mom would go
to concerts at the casinos,
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play a couple of rounds
of cards, then come back home.
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But over time, Mark went
from playing a couple hours
at the casino
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to playing all day
at the casino.
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You know, he would have
bad days where he made nothing
and he was in debt.
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And there were some days where
he would make a lotta money
and be able to provide.
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[narrator] In June, 2015,
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four years into the marriage
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lighting strikes.
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Mark wins over $200,000
in one night.
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[Hope] He won big, and he
was very excited about it.
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They did splurge a little.
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They bought a RZR
and a new trailer
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for our vacation
that we were going on in Jul
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I think it definitely helped
a lot and it made them
a lot happier to know
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that they were back on track,
and they didn't have
any financial worries anymore.
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[narrator] Mark spends
a portion of his winnings
on a new camera drone.
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He did get it stuck
in a tree one time. [laughing]
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My mom's kinda, you can
hear her yelling
in the background, like,
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oh, my gosh, what did you do.
[laughing]
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[narrator] Friend Amy Skagg
captures his climb on camera
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[Doris] Whoo hoo!
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[narrator] Mark is friends
with Amy's husband, Don.
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Amy and Don
are searching for a new home
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so Mark and Doris
invite the couple
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to live with them rent-free
while they look.
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Don and Amy
would in return be what would,
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you would call a nanny
towards Katie Jo,
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and just help out with,
you know, bath time,
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00:25:29,729 --> 00:25:32,062
getting her ready for schoo
in the morning,
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after school care, when my m
had to work late.
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[narrator] Away
from the camera,
Mark's gambling escalates.
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By Fall, 2015, he is spendin
most of his time
at a casino in Oklahoma.
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[Hope] He quit
the trucking job.
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He definitely
did start gambling more.
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[Rachel] Eventually,
Mark became
a professional gambler.
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There was times
where money wasn't coming in
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And he started borrowing money
from people
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in order to be able
to continue the gambling.
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00:26:17,310 --> 00:26:21,512
The more he did it,
the more he realized
how much he liked gambling,
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00:26:21,514 --> 00:26:25,416
and it became an addiction
that he wasn't able
to get away from.
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I think it, it definitely
caused a lot of tension
between them.
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[Tricia] I didn't know
that he gambled.
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I was very stunned.
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00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:44,101
I mean, that, that makes you
think, what's going on
financially with them?
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00:26:45,738 --> 00:26:47,638
He was a good guy.
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00:26:47,740 --> 00:26:50,808
Uh, I never thought
in a million years
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00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:53,210
that this would turn out
the way it did.
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00:27:00,553 --> 00:27:02,219
[phone ringing]
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00:27:04,523 --> 00:27:05,656
[Dan]
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00:27:13,633 --> 00:27:14,865
[dispatch]
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00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:16,233
[Dan]
388
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:17,101
[dispatch]
389
00:27:17,103 --> 00:27:18,902
[Dan]
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00:27:18,904 --> 00:27:20,437
[dispatch]
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00:27:22,208 --> 00:27:25,609
[Jim Rizy] Don Skaggs
was the one
that placed the call.
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Don was talking
to the operator, telling them
that he needed an ambulance.
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00:27:30,950 --> 00:27:32,716
[Dan]
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00:27:41,727 --> 00:27:42,926
[dispatch]
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00:27:43,329 --> 00:27:44,762
[Dan]
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00:27:44,863 --> 00:27:47,297
[dispatch]
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00:27:47,299 --> 00:27:48,832
[Dan]
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00:27:58,944 --> 00:28:01,712
When the officers
first got on scene,
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00:28:01,714 --> 00:28:04,014
uh, they had a tough time
getting past the dogs.
400
00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:07,951
In fact, one of 'em
grabbed one of the officers
trouser legs.
401
00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:10,621
[Assistant District Attorney
Kevin Boneberg] The animal
control had to be called out
402
00:28:10,623 --> 00:28:12,322
and a catch pole was used.
403
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:18,362
Katie Jo, Don and Amy and Ma
404
00:28:18,464 --> 00:28:19,463
were there on scene.
405
00:28:20,499 --> 00:28:23,200
Doris was in bed.
406
00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:27,404
The injuries that they
observed on Doris, she
had been killed with a hammer.
407
00:28:31,143 --> 00:28:35,145
Another injury to her neck.
408
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:39,316
And so it was obvious
that she was
taken by surprise.
409
00:28:39,318 --> 00:28:42,619
[Rizy] The murder weapon
was covered in blood,
laying there on the floor.
410
00:28:44,423 --> 00:28:47,958
In 30 years, I think
I've heard that once or twice,
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00:28:47,993 --> 00:28:51,929
where somebody's actually
observed the murder weapon,
and usually, it's not there
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[ADA Boneberg] There was
an old antique safe
that was, uh,
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00:28:57,103 --> 00:29:00,571
obviously used as a table
between two big easy chairs
414
00:29:00,573 --> 00:29:02,306
When the police arrived,
415
00:29:02,308 --> 00:29:06,210
it was slightly ajar
with no signs
of forced entry to it.
416
00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:10,414
On scene, Mark went
through the house,
417
00:29:10,416 --> 00:29:12,516
checking the rooms
for a stranger.
418
00:29:12,518 --> 00:29:16,053
Mark seemed very distraught
at that moment.
419
00:29:16,055 --> 00:29:19,523
Mark's theory
that the stranger would
had to have come in,
420
00:29:19,525 --> 00:29:22,059
waken up Doris,
421
00:29:22,161 --> 00:29:24,728
somehow gotten her
to open the safe,
422
00:29:24,730 --> 00:29:28,799
and then, um,
get her back into bed.
423
00:29:28,801 --> 00:29:31,401
She resumes
a sleeping position.
424
00:29:31,403 --> 00:29:35,205
Meanwhile, that person
goes to the shed
at some point.
425
00:29:36,242 --> 00:29:38,709
Gets the hammer.
Knows where it's located.
426
00:29:39,912 --> 00:29:41,445
Comes back and kills Doris
427
00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:45,249
as she lies sleeping
in her bed, not touching
Don and Amy at all.
428
00:29:46,819 --> 00:29:50,921
Those dogs would have barke
and awoken
at a stranger's entrance,
429
00:29:50,923 --> 00:29:54,158
uh, into the house.
And they did not.
430
00:29:55,961 --> 00:29:57,261
That seemed suspicious
to them.
431
00:29:59,331 --> 00:30:01,765
Uh, given Don's demeanor
on the phone,
432
00:30:01,801 --> 00:30:05,402
uh, the 911 call, the eviden
did not point to him.
433
00:30:06,772 --> 00:30:11,208
Everybody reacts
differently to trauma
when they see it or have it.
434
00:30:11,210 --> 00:30:16,213
Mark Andrews is indicating
that he was tearful
and sobbing,
435
00:30:16,215 --> 00:30:17,815
but there were,
there were no tears.
436
00:30:21,353 --> 00:30:24,555
That the safe was opened
without any force
being utilized
437
00:30:24,623 --> 00:30:28,325
is a pretty good clue
that somebody that opened it
had the combination.
438
00:30:29,628 --> 00:30:31,962
There's only two people
that had
that safe combination.
439
00:30:31,964 --> 00:30:33,630
That was Doris
and Mark Andrews.
440
00:30:35,768 --> 00:30:39,203
Mark indicated to the officers
that he hadn't
gone to the safe,
441
00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:42,639
but his wallet was sitting
on top of the safe,
442
00:30:42,741 --> 00:30:46,443
which would make you believ
that he probably was the on
that opened the safe,
443
00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:48,111
leaving his wallet.
444
00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,549
This wasn't about the safe.
445
00:30:54,553 --> 00:30:59,323
This was clearly obvious
that Doris was the target of,
of the offense, here.
446
00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:09,199
I was teaching second grade,
447
00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:11,201
and was in the classroom,
448
00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:16,039
and I just happened
to get a text
from one of my cousins
449
00:31:16,108 --> 00:31:17,741
saying,
what happened to Doris?
450
00:31:19,945 --> 00:31:25,449
It wasn't long after that
that my mother called,
and, uh...
451
00:31:26,619 --> 00:31:27,651
...it was shocking.
452
00:31:30,022 --> 00:31:31,421
I'd always loved Doris.
453
00:31:33,959 --> 00:31:34,925
Hadn't...
454
00:31:34,927 --> 00:31:36,126
I'm sorry.
455
00:31:36,128 --> 00:31:38,629
Hadn't seen her
in a very long time,
456
00:31:38,631 --> 00:31:41,832
but she was always
a part of my heart.
457
00:31:46,639 --> 00:31:50,841
So it was difficult,
and of course, my first
thoughts went to the girls.
458
00:31:50,943 --> 00:31:54,211
What about the girls?
Are they okay?
Where are they?
459
00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:00,951
[Hope] I got a knock
on the door,
460
00:32:00,953 --> 00:32:03,854
and there was...
461
00:32:03,923 --> 00:32:09,426
...a cop, a chaplain, and Am
standing at my front door.
462
00:32:11,063 --> 00:32:12,429
Amy was in tears.
463
00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:15,332
And the cop looked at me
and said,
464
00:32:15,401 --> 00:32:18,035
"Your mother has passed away."
465
00:32:18,037 --> 00:32:21,204
And I said,
"In a car accident?"
Like, what?
466
00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:28,812
I didn't know
how to react to it.
467
00:32:28,814 --> 00:32:32,749
I ran to my grandma's,
and I just started screaming
468
00:32:32,851 --> 00:32:35,852
and I laid my head
on her, uh, shoulder.
469
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:38,088
And then she's like,
what's wrong, what's wrong?
470
00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:39,989
And I'm like, Mom's gone.
471
00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:47,764
[narrator] Investigators
interview Mark Andrews
at Azle Police Station.
472
00:32:49,201 --> 00:32:52,035
Mark indicated
that when this offense
occurred,
473
00:32:52,037 --> 00:32:56,506
he got up in the morning,
he headed to work at a casin
where he normally gambles,
474
00:32:56,508 --> 00:32:59,142
which is up in Oklahoma.
475
00:32:59,211 --> 00:33:04,214
His story was that he had
left the house in the mornin
at around 2:15, 2:30.
476
00:33:04,216 --> 00:33:09,619
He got a little bit North
of Boyd and realized
he'd left his gambling money,
477
00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:13,023
which he routinely
takes with him every day,
at the house.
478
00:33:15,027 --> 00:33:21,131
He texted Doris at 3:54, tha
I gotta turn around, I forgo
to grab my money.
479
00:33:22,701 --> 00:33:26,503
And then he stops
at race track,
local gas station over here,
480
00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:27,704
about five minutes
from their home.
481
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,108
About 4:15 or so...
482
00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:37,447
...the officers retrieved
surveillance footage from
the race track gas station
483
00:33:37,516 --> 00:33:40,117
just up the road from
their home there in Azle.
484
00:33:41,453 --> 00:33:44,521
And in that video,
Mark pumps gas,
485
00:33:44,523 --> 00:33:47,024
comes into the store,
486
00:33:47,026 --> 00:33:53,930
and it's extremely suspiciou
because it's not just a wal
in, pay for cigarettes and g
487
00:33:53,932 --> 00:33:58,301
He walks in, stops
and basically turns
to every corner of the stor
488
00:33:58,303 --> 00:34:03,573
as if, get my profile,
this is gonna be my alibi,
that I'm here at the store.
489
00:34:03,575 --> 00:34:07,110
[ADA Boneberg] The officers
believe that Mark
did this on purpose,
490
00:34:07,112 --> 00:34:11,648
put himself on video,
sent that text message
to Doris...
491
00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:16,820
...all in constructing this,
uh, scene
in creating his alibi.
492
00:34:16,822 --> 00:34:21,525
[narrator] Mark leaves
the gas station
shortly after 4:15 AM.
493
00:34:21,527 --> 00:34:24,161
The 911 call goes out
at 4:37 in the morning.
494
00:34:25,531 --> 00:34:29,332
It was less than
a five minute drive
to his house.
495
00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:32,035
[Rizy] So there's
a large amount of time
unaccounted for.
496
00:34:32,604 --> 00:34:34,070
He never addressed that.
497
00:34:35,941 --> 00:34:39,142
Very quickly,
the investigating detective
surmised
498
00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:42,012
that, uh, Mark Andrews
was the offender in this cas
499
00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:50,954
[narrator] Investigators
charge Mark Andrews with
the murder of his wife, Dori
500
00:34:51,023 --> 00:34:55,525
Mark's reaction to his arrest
for the, uh,
offensive killing of Doris
501
00:34:55,527 --> 00:34:57,327
was pretty much a flat affect.
502
00:34:58,163 --> 00:35:00,163
Except that he indicated
he wasn't there.
503
00:35:01,934 --> 00:35:05,202
[narrator] Detectives
search the couple's past
for a possible motive.
504
00:35:07,406 --> 00:35:10,407
[Rizy] I know
that in May of 2015,
505
00:35:10,409 --> 00:35:13,310
Doris had talked
with some friends
506
00:35:13,312 --> 00:35:15,112
that she was concerned
about Mark.
507
00:35:15,114 --> 00:35:16,513
He wasn't working.
508
00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:18,748
She was the sole provider
of the family.
509
00:35:19,818 --> 00:35:23,120
He was very controlling of h
and the girls.
510
00:35:23,122 --> 00:35:28,625
And Doris had voiced
to a couple people that she
was considering divorce.
511
00:35:29,895 --> 00:35:33,230
Following the, the big win
in June of 2015,
512
00:35:33,232 --> 00:35:36,399
the family basically
went on a spending spree.
513
00:35:36,401 --> 00:35:38,702
They bought
a trailer for the ATV,
514
00:35:38,704 --> 00:35:42,205
the family took a vacation
to Colorado for several days
515
00:35:43,609 --> 00:35:46,243
When we looked at his
financial records,
we could see
516
00:35:46,278 --> 00:35:49,813
that come November, he was
getting to a point where he
was pretty strapped for cash
517
00:35:51,950 --> 00:35:55,952
He considered himself
a gambler, thought he was
pretty, pretty good at it.
518
00:35:55,954 --> 00:35:58,555
Thought he could read number
on, on cards.
519
00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:03,426
Unfortunately, uh, he wasn'
all that good at it.
520
00:36:03,428 --> 00:36:08,732
By December, 2015,
their bank accounts were
back down to almost zero.
521
00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:11,635
[ADA Boneberg]
That seemed suspicious.
522
00:36:13,405 --> 00:36:16,106
Mark was obviously
on rocky ground.
523
00:36:24,049 --> 00:36:28,084
Law enforcement
was able to obtain
a number of days' footage,
524
00:36:28,086 --> 00:36:31,054
uh, of Mark in the months
preceding Doris' murder.
525
00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:35,525
[Rizy] He had
several different casinos
he went to,
526
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:37,961
but primarily
to the WinStar in Oklahoma.
527
00:36:39,131 --> 00:36:41,531
He did quite a bit
of gambling.
528
00:36:41,533 --> 00:36:46,303
He was making
these large cash withdrawal
to sustain his habit.
529
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,408
And he was losing it,
most of the time.
530
00:36:53,946 --> 00:37:00,116
[ADA Boneberg] He had losse
over, uh, $60,000
from WinStar.
531
00:37:02,221 --> 00:37:05,121
All of Doris and Mark's
accounts were in the red.
532
00:37:07,226 --> 00:37:09,292
[Rizy] He refinanced the ca
533
00:37:09,294 --> 00:37:12,629
so that he could get
some ready cash
to be able to use to gamble
534
00:37:12,631 --> 00:37:16,700
He had also taken two guns
to a pawn shop
up in Springtown,
535
00:37:16,702 --> 00:37:18,735
so he could get
additional $500.
536
00:37:20,405 --> 00:37:23,139
This is all indication
that he was looking for,
for money,
537
00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:25,942
looking for income to be abl
to use in his,
his gambling habit.
538
00:37:27,913 --> 00:37:31,114
And Mark needed a lot of mon
to sustain his habit.
539
00:37:35,654 --> 00:37:37,020
Well,
we looked at the records.
540
00:37:37,022 --> 00:37:40,657
We found that Doris
had a, uh, insurance policy
541
00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:43,560
She changed the,
the beneficiary to Mark.
542
00:37:43,629 --> 00:37:47,530
So that paid him
about $365,000
in insurance money.
543
00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:53,203
The discovery
of this $365,000 insurance
544
00:37:53,205 --> 00:37:56,940
is a pretty good motive
for him to take Doris' life.
545
00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:04,914
[narrator] And investigator
discover that Mark was capab
of extreme violence.
546
00:38:06,451 --> 00:38:11,955
We located four of Mark's
previous wives.
And, and a girlfriend.
547
00:38:12,858 --> 00:38:14,257
There were a couple
that indicated
548
00:38:14,326 --> 00:38:17,160
that he was psychologically
abusive to them.
549
00:38:17,229 --> 00:38:19,596
The girlfriend had actually
been assaulted to the point
550
00:38:19,598 --> 00:38:23,300
where he was getting ready t
to choke her out
when her daughter came home
551
00:38:23,302 --> 00:38:26,903
And she's convinced that he
woulda killed her had
the daughter not come home.
552
00:38:29,041 --> 00:38:34,044
He was progressively gettin
more violent and abusive
to the women he was with.
553
00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:41,117
[narrator] Investigators
piece together the events
that led to Doris' murder.
554
00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:48,124
By the time of her murder,
they were in the red on
almost all of their accounts.
555
00:38:50,329 --> 00:38:52,562
And, uh, Mark
kept on gambling.
556
00:38:57,235 --> 00:38:59,803
[narrator] The payout
from Doris' life insurance
557
00:38:59,805 --> 00:39:01,271
would give Mark
558
00:39:01,273 --> 00:39:04,040
hundreds of thousands
of dollars
to spend at the casino.
559
00:39:07,713 --> 00:39:12,549
[ADA Boneberg] Mark Andrews
takes a hammer into the roo
where he sees Doris.
560
00:39:12,617 --> 00:39:17,821
The hit to the trachea
would immediately
have made her voiceless.
561
00:39:17,823 --> 00:39:21,224
She couldn't have
screamed out, whether that b
for help or in pain.
562
00:39:22,661 --> 00:39:26,429
And then she would have
gone unconscious
shortly after that.
563
00:39:26,431 --> 00:39:30,600
Uh, not feeling the number
of blows that followed,
564
00:39:30,602 --> 00:39:32,702
but still, the scene
was very violent.
565
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:39,809
Um, there was a lot of bloo
in that bedroom
surrounding her.
566
00:39:39,811 --> 00:39:43,513
Other than the wounds,
she seemed to have been layi
as she was sleeping.
567
00:39:46,351 --> 00:39:48,051
She didn't have a chance.
568
00:39:49,688 --> 00:39:53,223
[narrator] Mark opens
and empties the safe
to stage a robbery.
569
00:39:54,526 --> 00:39:56,726
Then, he leaves the house.
570
00:39:58,029 --> 00:40:00,997
[Rizy] Based on
the timeframes...
571
00:40:00,999 --> 00:40:05,001
...uh, it would be
most consistent with him
having committed the offense,
572
00:40:05,003 --> 00:40:09,139
driven the short ways North
to be able to come up
with an alibi,
573
00:40:09,207 --> 00:40:12,609
sent the text to Doris...
574
00:40:12,611 --> 00:40:17,647
...then gone
to the gas station, then com
home to rouse Amy and Don.
575
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:23,720
He had researched
funeral cost,
576
00:40:23,722 --> 00:40:25,922
uh, just shortly
before her murder.
577
00:40:27,726 --> 00:40:29,659
The placement of the hammer
on the area rug...
578
00:40:31,163 --> 00:40:33,062
...there was no sign
of forced entry...
579
00:40:33,064 --> 00:40:35,532
...the safe, slightly ajar...
580
00:40:36,802 --> 00:40:39,068
...uh, getting on video
at the race track...
581
00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:42,906
...showed through the evidence
that it was in fact
premeditated.
582
00:40:46,812 --> 00:40:49,546
Trial started
on February 16 of 2018
583
00:40:49,647 --> 00:40:52,949
and lasted
for five days of testimony
in the guilt-innocence phase
584
00:40:54,319 --> 00:40:57,754
The jury
found Mark Andrews guilty
of Doris Andrews' murder
585
00:40:57,823 --> 00:40:59,522
in approximately
three hours...
586
00:41:02,294 --> 00:41:04,327
...and having
found him guilty,
587
00:41:04,329 --> 00:41:06,629
sentenced him
to life in prison
in a matter of minutes.
588
00:41:10,001 --> 00:41:14,037
It was heartbreaking
to, to know
589
00:41:14,105 --> 00:41:16,639
that who I saw
as a father is...
590
00:41:17,843 --> 00:41:20,143
...not actually the person
I thought he was.
591
00:41:22,147 --> 00:41:24,314
I didn't think that he was
that type of person
592
00:41:24,316 --> 00:41:27,417
that could commit
such a horrible crime,
593
00:41:27,419 --> 00:41:29,953
but obviously, I was wrong.
594
00:41:29,955 --> 00:41:33,456
Uh, I don't know how he
could do it
to such a wonderful woman,
595
00:41:33,558 --> 00:41:35,124
and a loving mother.
596
00:41:35,126 --> 00:41:37,060
But he did.
597
00:41:39,164 --> 00:41:41,464
Who'd ever thought
I'd look this good.
598
00:41:41,566 --> 00:41:42,699
[Keith] Yeah.
599
00:41:42,701 --> 00:41:44,801
[laughing] That's good.
Thank you. Thank you.
600
00:41:44,803 --> 00:41:47,036
I have pictures
throughout my house,
601
00:41:47,138 --> 00:41:48,538
um, of my mom,
602
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,109
um, of her smiling face
with us at Christmas togethe
603
00:41:54,613 --> 00:41:58,414
Katie Jo is definitely
a reminder every day
604
00:41:58,416 --> 00:42:00,350
of, uh, of my mom.
605
00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:01,951
Baba.
606
00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:03,152
Baba.
607
00:42:03,221 --> 00:42:04,954
Daddy, look at my shoes.
608
00:42:05,023 --> 00:42:06,523
Look at that.
609
00:42:06,525 --> 00:42:09,192
[Rachel] I wouldn't
be this person I am today
without her,
610
00:42:09,194 --> 00:42:11,528
if I had never met her.
611
00:42:11,530 --> 00:42:15,164
You know, just the different
impact that he has made
on people's lives.
612
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,802
Not because of
the relationships that she had
in her life,
613
00:42:19,804 --> 00:42:26,209
but because she was, uh,
a passionate, impactful,
kindhearted, caring woman.