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[Bill] Up next, two women
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in love with the same man.
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[James] These two women
wanna spend time
with the bad boy,
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I think he was a... kind of a
gigolo kind of guy.
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[Bill] One member of this
love triangle is murdered.
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They got to the point
where they completely
hated each other.
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[Kelly] If anyone shot
in the back of the head
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that's an execution.
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Somebody wanted
that person dead.
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[Bill]
But even after an arrest,
questions remain.
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[Bill]
But even after an arrest,
questions remain.
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Everything inside of me
had been sucked out.
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Hope is gone.
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Completely helpless.
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[opening theme music playing]
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[Bill] Amarillo,
the largest city in the
Texas Panhandle
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[Bill] Amarillo,
the largest city in the
Texas Panhandle
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was once known as
the helium capital
of the world.
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It used to be one of the most
helium rich places
on the planet.
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At one point helium
was much more important
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in the manufacture
of lots of things,
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including a lot of military
devices and weapons,
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it doesn't play as crucial
a role now as it once did.
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it doesn't play as crucial
a role now as it once did.
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[Bill] On an April
morning in 2014,
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local police were called
to the outskirts of town
to Helium Road.
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The name harkening
back to Amarillo's former
role in helium production.
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It's a dirt road, so a lot
of people would still use it
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uh, for a shortcut to get to
where they're going.
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[Bill] A sheriff's officer
found the body of a young
woman lying next to an SUV.
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The victim suffered
extensive trauma to the
back of her head.
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She had no ID, no phone,
no wallet.
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She had no ID, no phone,
no wallet.
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But investigators were
able to trace her vehicle.
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It belonged to 32 year old
Robin Spielbauer.
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[Steve] They informed us based
on a couple of pictures
that my wife had
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that it in fact was Robin.
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So we were going
through our mind of like okay,
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what, who, why?
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Um, all sorts of questions.
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[Bill] The crime scene
provided only a few answers.
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Blood evidence showed
Robin had been killed
where she was found.
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Blood evidence showed
Robin had been killed
where she was found.
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Despite the massive blows
to the back of her head
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that wasn't what killed her.
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[Kelly] It was during the
autopsy that they
discovered that,
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she'd actually been
shot as well with a
22 caliber weapon.
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[Bill] The oddest clue at
the scene was on one of the
windows of Robin's vehicle.
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Their appeared to be
a slight damage to the
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window itself, like a
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like your windshield when
a rock hits it creates
a little star break.
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like your windshield when
a rock hits it creates
a little star break.
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Uh, there were two or three
spots like that
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and a pink substance
of some kind,
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and it looked to be
associated with these, uh
small chips in the window.
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[Bill] Robin's murder
stunned her family
and friends.
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[Erin] Robin always had like
this here I am personality.
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You know, and you knew
she was in the room when
she was there and
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You know, and you knew
she was in the room when
she was there and
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friendly with everybody.
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[Bill] Maybe not
everybody. Robin the mother
of two young girls
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had divorced the girl's father
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JD Spielbauer just
18 months earlier.
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JD and Robin began their
romance nearly a decade
before Robin's murder.
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She was, I think
desperately in love with
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with Mr. Spielbauer and
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very desirous of spending
the rest of her life with him
and the two of them
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uh, raising their children.
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[Bill] But JD strayed
repeatedly from the marriage.
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After seven years together,
Robin finally called it quits
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and took the kids with her.
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JD denied any involvement
in her murder.
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But even he couldn't deny
his place as a prime suspect
in his ex-wife's death.
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[James] The sheriff's
department, they ask him,
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"Do you have any information
that will be of help to us?"
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His response was, No, I don't
know of anything, I'm of no
help to you.
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I just have no information.
I don't know anything.
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[Bill] When JD Spielbauer
and his future wife
Robin met in 2003
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the relationship turned
red hot almost immediately.
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They spend all their time
together and actually
got pregnant within
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the first like four to
five weeks of them
starting dating.
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So, it sped everything up
a lot faster.
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[Bill] Robin's parents
were both ex-military.
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She grew up at times overseas,
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as what some
call a military brat.
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as what some
call a military brat.
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JD told her he'd done
tours of duty in Iraq
and Afghanistan
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He seemed a solid bet
as a responsible husband
and father.
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She was more like,
wanted something stable.
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And you know, down home,
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she wanted
a family and just...
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the, uh, proverbial house
with a picket fence.
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[Bill] After the wedding
JD began carrying on
a couple of affairs
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while Robin raised their
two young children.
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while Robin raised their
two young children.
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[Erin] She wanted what her
parents had so bad,
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that she thought she could
find a way to make him happy
to what he would stay.
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[Bill] But JD finally
crossed a line that even Robin
couldn't tolerate.
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He had an affair with a woman
names Katie Phipps.
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Why was this worse than
the others?
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Because Katie was someone
Robin opened up to about
the troubles of her marriage.
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Robin knew Katie
before JD did and,
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Robin knew Katie
before JD did and,
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as is always the case with
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an affair and an unhappy
marriage, it eventually
resulted in divorce
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by 2014.
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And... And after that JD
had married Katie.
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[Bill] To make matters
even worse,
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JD and his new wife Katie
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moved into a house very near
where Robin was raising
the children
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she'd had with JD.
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And the weird thing about
it was that it was two houses
down from our house.
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[Bill] This has an
inherently volatile situation,
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[Bill] This has an
inherently volatile situation,
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especially with young children
being moved between
both houses day after day.
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Katie and Robin, there
were a lot of hostility
between the two women
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they both, cared about JD and
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and, uh JD had been involved
with both and it was
a classic triangle.
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[Bill] Over the 2013
Thanksgiving holidays
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The hostility between these
two romantic rivals
boiled over.
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[Erin] Robin walks into
the house to go upstairs
to get her girls
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[Erin] Robin walks into
the house to go upstairs
to get her girls
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and Katie follows her in the
house grabs her by the hair,
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pulls her down off the stairs
onto the floor,
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and on top of her where
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Robin in turn
kicked her off and kicked
her into the fire place.
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I honestly told her, I said,
"She's the kind of crazy
that'll kill you."
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[Bill] No charges were
filed but this did nothing
to relieve the tension.
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In fact both women were
convinced that JD was
sleeping which each of them
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In fact both women were
convinced that JD was
sleeping which each of them
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behind their backs.
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Katie was livid about it
and made no secret about it.
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She was just hammering on JD
everyday in text messages,
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"I believe you're having
and affair with Robin."
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JD would deny it,
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but Katie wasn't buying it,
she was convinced
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that he was seeing
Robin behind her back.
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[Bill] A search of Katie's
cellphone showed that
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in the four days before Robin
was killed,
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she sent more than 300
of these texts,
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she sent more than 300
of these texts,
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that's an of nearly average
of four texts every hour
on the hour
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twenty four hours a day.
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There were text messages
with Katie threatening
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Robin, either directly
or indirectly.
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[Kelly] When you read Katie's
text messages
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she says that, uh
she can't do it anymore
and she's gonna finish it.
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Does that mean murder someone
or simply divorce them?
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When you see a text message
like that, it kind of points
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When you see a text message
like that, it kind of points
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more toward her being guilty.
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[Bill] Now, five
months after the
Thanksgiving altercation
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Robin Spielbauer was
in a morgue with
a fatal bullet wound.
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Katie, her romantic rival,
clearly had a potential
motive to kill her.
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But when brought in for
questioning her top priority
wasn't the murder.
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[Bill]
Soon Katie had even more
things to be upset about.
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Detectives located
the murder weapon.
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They also found this
photograph of Katie
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holding what looked to be
that very same gun.
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When I first saw that picture
I was like, Oh my gosh she
did it.
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[Bill]
When Katie Phipps emerged
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as a possible suspect in the
murder of Robin Spielbauer
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police searched the home
Katie shared with Robin's
ex-husband, JD.
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During the search warrant
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a 22 SIG Sauer Mosquito
automatic pistol
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was recovered along with
several other firearms.
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[Bill] This 22 caliber
pistol was a
distinctive weapon
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it had pink polymer
plating apparently a
marketing device.
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With the pink casing
you'd automatically assume
it's a woman's gun,
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With the pink casing
you'd automatically assume
it's a woman's gun,
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misogynistic,
yes probably but,
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uh, that was one
of those things that
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immediately pops
into your head
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The fact that it's pink,
fantastic, mine is purple.
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It's nothing out of the normal
for you know, a lot of people
around here in Texas.
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[Bill] Investigators now
employed a rarely used
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but simple forensic technique
called a physical fit.
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but simple forensic technique
called a physical fit.
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Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
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a shard of metal that chipped
off the gun and was found
at the crime scene,
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fit perfectly with the gap
left on the gun itself.
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And a test fire of the weapon
confirmed what this evidence
already showed.
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It was Katie's gun, there were
pictures all over Facebook
of her shooting this strange
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pink gun.
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[Bill] So Katie owned the
murder weapon and she clearly
had a motive.
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[Bill] Katie actually
requested polygraph
examination.
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My lawyer told me,
"Do not do this. You are
going to fail it,
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they want you to fail it.
They're going to tell you
that you failed it,
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hoping that you're
going to confess."
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Of course I failed it,
just like he told me I would.
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[Bill]
Even worse, Katie did not have
a rock solid alibi
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[Bill]
Even worse, Katie did not have
a rock solid alibi
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for the night of the murder.
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She said, she was at
a friend's house
close to Helium Road
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and never saw
Robin that night.
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But she turned off
her cell phone,
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so it couldn't be
used to track her.
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[Bill]
And as an ex-husband,
JD had to be looked at
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[Bill]
And as an ex-husband,
JD had to be looked at
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as a possible suspect.
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A background check revealed
that JD's claims to be war
veteran were all lies.
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I'd rather pissed, 'cause
I mean that's uh,
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to me it's something
you don't lie about.
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It just, uh didn't sit well.
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[Bill] JD claimed that
he had no contact with his
ex-wife Robin
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on the night she was murdered.
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But cellphone records
expose this as another lie.
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In the text messages,
they discovered that
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In the text messages,
they discovered that
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Robin was communicating
with JD on the seventh,
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several times and
making reference to a meeting
that was to take place,
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with JD.
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[Bill] That meeting
was set for the night
Robin was killed.
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When confronted with
this evidence JD
changed the story.
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He admitted meeting Robin
at Helium Road
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and said someone unexpected
showed up in that meeting.
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[Bill] But according to JD
Katie didn't follow.
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He said the two women
continued yelling at
each other as he drove away.
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The next day Robin
was found dead.
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JD's story or stories were
changing by the hour.
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But detectives, convinced
Katie was the killer, thought
there was a good reason.
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[James]
We believe that JD Spielbauer,
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was telling false stories
and the stories were changing
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was telling false stories
and the stories were changing
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because he was trying
to protect his wife, Katie.
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[Bill] Three days after
Robin's body was found
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Katie was arrested and charged
with capital murder.
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[Katie] And I looked over
and there's my son
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getting out of my
sister in-laws car.
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And he watches them put
me on the ground at gun point,
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and handcuff me.
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And I remember just looking
at my son like,
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I'm not gonna see you
for a long time.
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[Bill] Katie Phipps
maintained from the
beginning that
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she had problems with
Robin Spielbauer
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but would never
resort to murder.
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Detectives weren't buying it
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and Katie remained
behind bars for more
than a year
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while they built their case.
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[Katie]
I spent my 29th
birthday in jail.
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I lost my kids to CPS.
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My ex-husband took all
of my stuff,
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except for the little bit
of clothes he allowed my
brother to come pick up.
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I lost everything.
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[Bill] JD Spielbauer's
cellphone put him at the
scene of the murder.
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Since Katie's phone was off
it could not be used
to track her.
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But then detectives
found out about a
relatively new way that
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they could pin point
her location at the time
of the murder.
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Mark Sedwick is a member
of the FBI's cellular analysis
survey team or CAST.
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What we do, our biggest thing
if there's a kidnapping,
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What we do, our biggest thing
if there's a kidnapping,
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uh, we will do,
exploit any phone
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social media type data
that gives us any location
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to try and locate
that missing child.
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[Bill] This method targets
the cellphone's wireless
capacity or Wi-Fi
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and can provide a nearly
exact location.
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It doesn't rely
on cell towers.
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It goes directly
to your phone.
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You get a lot more
accurate readings and the GPS
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is your GPS and it works
off the satellite
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is your GPS and it works
off the satellite
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uh, your satellite signals
that your phone's GPS
antenna saves.
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[Bill] Since Katie's phone
was off on the day
of Robin's murder
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this wasn't an option
with her phone.
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But she was seen at numerous
points at that day and night
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with her eleven year old
son Diego.
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And the Wi-Fi on his phone
was up and running
the whole time.
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The targeting of that
phone left no doubt,
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Katie was not at
Helium Road when
Robin Spielbauer was shot
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at about 9:50 that night.
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at about 9:50 that night.
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We had three adult
eye witnesses who all agreed
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Diego and Katie were
together all day.
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She never left
or left him there, she never
left without Diego.
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Katie could never
have killed Robin
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she was never there,
she was never at
Helium Road that night.
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[Katie] Mr ... said today
I am dismissing her case.
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And I fell out the chair,
and I hit the ground,
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and I cried and I cried
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and I cried and I cried
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and I don't know
how long I cried.
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[Bill]
Following Katie's release,
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JD Spielbauer found himself
a charge of facing
capital murder.
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Prosecutors are convinced
JD planned the murder.
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He lured Robin to
Helium Road and had
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Katie's pink plated 22 caliber
in his trunk.
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Robin had no idea
what awaited her.
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In fact she also
wanted the meeting.
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[James] She was gonna meet
with JD and tell him
no more bully calls
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[James] She was gonna meet
with JD and tell him
no more bully calls
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it's over she told several
other friends,
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"I'm ending this
affair with JD."
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From now on, I only
wanna see him if it
involves the girls
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and I want all
of my child support.
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[Bill] The couple
while in Robin's SUV
started fighting.
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JD apparently got out
of the SUV,
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went back to his truck and
came back brandishing
the pink plated pistol.
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Robin hit automatic lock
on all her car doors.
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JD pounded the gun
on the rear window.
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Strike marks from
the plastic handle,
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and the piece of metal
chipped of the gun
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related match back
to Katie's gun.
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Ultimately it appears
Robin exited her SUV.
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Apparently, thinking JD
would never
actually shoot her.
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-[Bill] She was wrong.
-[gunshot]
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He fired once hitting her
and intended to fire again.
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But the gun jammed.
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It appears he walked
back to his truck
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came back with
some type of tool,
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possibly a tire iron and
made sure Robin was dead.
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possibly a tire iron and
made sure Robin was dead.
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His attempt to frame Katie
for Robin's murder
almost worked,
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after all the ballistics tied
the shell casing
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back to Katie's pink pistol.
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But JD failed to realize,
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cellphone evidence put him
at the sight of the murder
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and showed Katie
was not there.
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To pull Arthur Conan Doyle
through the lips
of Sherlock Holmes
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when you have eliminated
every other possibility
whatever is left
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when you have eliminated
every other possibility
whatever is left
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is the truth.
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[Bill] In January of 2018,
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a jury found JD Spielbauer
guilty of first degree murder,
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and sentenced
him to life in prison.
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Katie, forever grateful for
the cellphone technology that
proved her innocence,
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is now using her experience
on both sides of the law
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as a criminal paralegal
near Dallas.
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[Katie] Cellphone records
are the new DNA.
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It doesn't matter,
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where you come from in life,
how much money you make
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where you come from in life,
how much money you make
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you have a cellphone,
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and that cellphone
is traceable.
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If it wasn't for
today's technology
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and all the advances
that we've made,
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I would surely be spending
the rest of my life in prison.