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<i>911, what's your emergency?</i>

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<i>These people, they're nuts.</i>

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<i>They're stalking us. They're harassing us.</i>

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<i>Your name?</i>

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<i>Michael Barisone.</i>

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<i>B-A-R-I-S-O-N-E.</i>

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<i>I've been shot in the heart!</i>

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{\an8}<i>411 Westmill Drive.</i>

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{\an8}<i>411...</i>

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{\an8}A former U.S. Olympian charged
with two counts of attempted murder.

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{\an8}<i>He shot and injured another rider</i>

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{\an8}<i>who lived and trained on his property.</i>

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{\an8}<i>This is a war.
It's gonna be dealt with right now.</i>

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{\an8}<i>We're under siege here.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Police say they found a woman
with multiple gunshot wounds</i>

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{\an8}<i>and former Olympian Michael Barisone.</i>

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{\an8}Michael Barisone is facing
60 years in prison.

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{\an8}His attorneys plan to argue
the insanity defense as well.

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{\an8}A rare strategy.

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{\an8}Claiming Lauren used social media
to push him to his breaking point.

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{\an8}<i>They are clients here at our stable.</i>

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{\an8}<i>The situation is getting worse
and worse and worse.</i>

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{\an8}<i>We are in fear for our lives.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Michael was driven over the edge
by Lauren Kanarek.</i>

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<i>Can social media be its own weapon?</i>

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{\an8}What Lauren Kanarek did to him
was horrible!

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He had no recollection
of what had happened in this instance.

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I find it hard to believe that you could
shoot somebody and not remember.

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He was painting a picture
in the courtroom.

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This is acting.
This is theater that you're watching.

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There's no memory disorder that happens
just when someone's committing a crime.

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He knew when he opened the safe
and took that gun

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exactly what he was going to do.

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<i>I'm taking my life back.</i>

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<i>I'm losing a lot of blood.</i>

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<i>Washington Township!</i>

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<i>Okay, you're at 411 Westmill,
Washington Township. Okay?</i>

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- <i>I'm...</i>
- <i>Okay. Ma'am, where...</i>

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Most people know
by the time they're four or five years old

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if they're a horse person or not.

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{\an8}I knew that when I was exactly that age.

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{\an8}I'm a horse person.

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Symphony!

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I have six horses.

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They each have their completely
entirely separate personalities.

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Evie. Come here.

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The minute you walk into a barn,
they're always waiting to see you.

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Who's my good boy?

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I think even a person
that's never been around a horse before,

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bring them to me,

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I will show them a miracle in the making.

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I will show them why horses are special.

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<i>When God created the horse,</i>

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<i>he said to the magnificent creature,</i>

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<i>"I have made thee as no other."</i>

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<i>They're something
out of a story book. Like a fairy tale.</i>

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<i>Horses are marvelous animals.</i>

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<i>They've been man's companion</i>

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<i>for we don't know
how many thousands of years.</i>

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Horse people are people that understand

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that horses are not
just things that you see

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on someone's property eating grass.

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<i>A horse girl is, like,
someone that likes horses?</i>

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{\an8}<i>Yeah, but it's an energy...</i>

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<i>Hello.</i>

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<i>There are over
eight million horses in America,</i>

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<i>and perhaps twice that many riders.</i>

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My father would ask me,

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"Don't you get bored getting on a horse
and riding it around?"

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I'm like, "What?"

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It's the most exciting thing
in the world, riding a horse.

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Walk on, walk on.

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Come on.

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Looks like she's walking.

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I'm the type of person that is, like,
people love you immediately,

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and they're like,
"You're my people, for sure."

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But for other people,

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I come off maybe a bit strong at times.

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"Why does she sound so, like, entitled?"

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They always use the word "entitled."

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There's nothing about me that is entitled.

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Like, I work very hard at what I do.

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I'll do this. Thank you.

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You wanna do it?

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Roll it up tighter than usual.

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Like, pre-roll it tighter than usual.

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I have to recheck your work on that.

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- Huh?
- I feel like I need to recheck your work.

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You put enough time into something,
you get better and better.

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And if you do have patience in this sport,

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the right people will come along
and help you.

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March of 2018,

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my trainer at the time mentioned the name,

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"Oh, I'm gonna go do a clinic
with Michael Barisone."

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<i>For the Grand Prix Special,
Safir and Michael Barisone.</i>

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I just Googled him

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and saw, like, that he was
on the 2008 Olympic team.

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And I'm not saying
I'm looking to go be an Olympian.

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My goal as a rider was the journey of it.

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I wanted to ride my horses
every single day

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and learn as much
as you can possibly learn

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from somebody who knows more than you do.

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I got involved with riding as a kid.

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Pretty epic failure at jumping.

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And, uh, dressage was what I gravitated to

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because I was good at it.

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{\an8}Dressage is a French word
that means training.

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{\an8}It's beauty in motion.

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Ladies on horses, men as well.

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And it's got a deep, deep history.

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Dressage is based on
horsemanship in the battlefield,

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where a horse had to learn
to move sideways, forward, and backward

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and obediently follow
the commands of its rider.

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{\an8}You're doing it
with this particular position of the head,

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{\an8}the position of the body.

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Everything has to be
harmonious and rhythmical.

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And we have to instill those things
in a horse first.

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Training a horse is about teaching
the horse to accept your aids,

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your legs, your hands,

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so the horse learns to be responsive,
acceptant of the rider.

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That is a very hard job.

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We are asking the horses to perform

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to the utmost
of their athletic gymnastic ability.

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Yet they must do it
as a dancer must perform leaps,

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making it look easy.

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The Olympics are
a very interesting competition,

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particularly when it comes to equestrian.

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Twenty-five Olympic Games in a century.

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Four people go on a dressage team.

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That means there's a maximum
of 100 people in a century

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who represent their country
at the Olympic Games in dressage.

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<i>Two, one, ignition.</i>

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It's about the size of the club
who have ridden a rocket into space.

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But I consider myself a decent competitor.

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I think I'm an excellent horse trainer.

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Is this fair and reasonable to the horse,

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and can he mentally understand
what I'm asking him to do?

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Most professional horse people,
myself included,

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we make our money in various ways.

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We take riders and horses
in training in our stables.

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Somebody brings their horse to you.

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I say, "I'll keep the horse in my stable."

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Some clients, I ride the horse myself.
They never ride.

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Other clients want me to teach them
every day, or one of my staff.

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That's what it is about contact and push.

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If they misbehave,
you feel what they're doing before.

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You know what I mean?

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I taught a seminar
to one of my top Grand Prix rider students

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in the beginning of 2018.

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And this woman says, "Oh, by the way,
I'm coming for the month of March."

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"I would like to bring my student with me
for one month to train."

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"Her name's Lauren Kanarek."

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Lauren Kanarek called me,

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and she gushed
about how she knew who I was

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and had researched my success.

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She wanted to come train,
and what an honor it was gonna be.

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He's like,
"You gotta train with the best."

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"You gotta be in the best places
with the best trainer available."

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"You have everything it takes
to go to the Olympics."

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"You have great horses."

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"You know, you have the ambition.
You're driven."

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He just talks such a good game.

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By the end, he had me saying to him,

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like, "Where do I sign up?"

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Hawthorne Hill was my sanctuary.

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It was my peaceful place.

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It was in this beautiful valley
an hour from New York City.

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And you would've thought
you were in Tennessee.

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It was idyllic.

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And I built a large portion of it
with my own two hands.

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It was my sweat and blood and heart.

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It was designed as kind of a campus.

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I was the overseer of training.

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{\an8}When you get me, you get my team.
You get Justin Hardin, my right-hand man.

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You get Mary Haskins Gray.

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{\an8}She was a dressage rider
and my girlfriend at that time.

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I lived on the property.

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Mary Haskins Gray lived with me
most of the time.

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{\an8}And Lauren stayed in the apartment
with her boyfriend, Rob.

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{\an8}Her father was heavily involved.

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{\an8}He said, "Send the bills to me.
I'll pay them."

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{\an8}Lauren had two horses at the time
that, uh, Michael was gonna train.

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{\an8}And, uh, Michael invited her up and said,
"You know, I happen to have a spot."

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"The place is beautifully furnished,
and Lauren can live there."

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And I said, "Great.
She's on the property."

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She's a seven-minute walk to the barn,
which is at the same address.

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And it was all settled.

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Lauren had a place to live.
She had two horses being trained.

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Everyone was happy.

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Okay, sit back.

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Don't let her pull the bit down.
Drive her uphill.

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Wonderful change. Do another one.

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There is a definite trust level
that has to exist

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between your trainer and your horse.

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And Michael and I did have that.

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Close your leg and lean back.
Push his nose up.

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Wow. Hallelujah!

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- Hallelujah!
- Look at Lauren smokin' around!

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I could see him fixing problems quickly.

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Good. Hands together. Keep your contact.

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Good. Keep riding forward into the...

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He really was doing
what he promised he would do.

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He was making me a better rider.

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But I soon learned
that pretty much everybody there

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was, like, almost cult-like,

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obsessed with this thing of,

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"This guy's gonna get me
into the Olympics."

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He said, "The Olympics isn't a goal.
The Olympics is like a dream."

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He's like, "And every one
of these people here, it is their dream."

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And I was like, "Yay for them."

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"They have a dream.
I have a dream. We all have a dream."

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This is a picture of, like, authority.

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Like, I look at you
and you're back in your seat

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and your conduct says to me
you're in control.

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That is authority.

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In dressage, three things are necessary
for a winning combination.

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You need a good trainer, a good rider,

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and a good horse.

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And on top of all the rest of this stuff,

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it takes a lot of money.

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There's a reason
it's called the sport of kings.

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Going to Europe to compete
is necessary for anybody

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in the international horse sport.

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Round-trip transport
is 25,000 dollars for one show,

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and that doesn't include your groom
and your stuff and the show fees.

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Then you get back here,
and if you have your own horse trailer,

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that's 125 grand for a decent rig.

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And horseshoes,
the horse needs every four weeks

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for 500 or 700 dollars.

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We say things like,

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"Oh, it's a cheap horse."
"How much?" "50,000."

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It's staggering, the cost.

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Jay-T is a horse that I purchased in 2006.

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And he was this incredible athlete.

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He was a horse my ex-wife and I owned.

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And we made an agreement.

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I would personally ride the horse
and compete the horse,

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and I would sell the horse.

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JJ!

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Hello, my good boy.

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It's very common for us as horse trainers

242
00:13:02,239 --> 00:13:06,618
to let a lesser-skilled rider
sit on a more-skilled horse

243
00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:08,745
periodically from time to time.

244
00:13:08,746 --> 00:13:11,039
You put 'em on the horse,
let 'em feel something,

245
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let 'em feel a little bit
of what the future's supposed to feel like

246
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and where they're headed.

247
00:13:16,045 --> 00:13:18,171
Justin Hardin did that with Jay-T.

248
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He put her on the horse
and let her ride it.

249
00:13:21,008 --> 00:13:24,969
Justin said, "We have this horse,
and we think you're gonna like him."

250
00:13:24,970 --> 00:13:26,471
"I just want you to try him."

251
00:13:26,472 --> 00:13:29,349
"We don't let everybody ride this horse
because, to be honest,

252
00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:31,811
he can be a little bit difficult."

253
00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,354
And the first minute I got on,

254
00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:36,981
they were like,
"Just be careful. It'll be fine."

255
00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:39,400
I get on him. He feels amazing.

256
00:13:39,401 --> 00:13:42,946
You could feel, like,
a ball of, like, energy

257
00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:45,241
underneath your body rise.

258
00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:49,161
And I was like, "Yeah,
this horse is gonna be mine one day."

259
00:13:49,954 --> 00:13:51,038
My good boy.

260
00:13:52,164 --> 00:13:53,665
Compared to her horses,

261
00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:57,294
her horses were Toyota Corollas.

262
00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:00,589
Jay-T was a Corvette.

263
00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:05,552
We let her drive a Corvette once.

264
00:14:05,553 --> 00:14:09,181
And unfortunately,
that sent the snowball down the mountain.

265
00:14:10,641 --> 00:14:13,352
<i>Sharp turn and straight across the ring!</i>

266
00:14:14,311 --> 00:14:15,937
Two days after riding the horse,

267
00:14:15,938 --> 00:14:20,442
Lauren posting things online,
videos of her riding my horse.

268
00:14:21,026 --> 00:14:22,945
<i>JJ! Jay-T!</i>

269
00:14:23,445 --> 00:14:25,446
<i>Rob, you look so tiny next to him.</i>

270
00:14:25,447 --> 00:14:28,659
And then, in July of 2018,

271
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Lauren Kanarek enters shows on my horse.

272
00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:35,707
She went and rented
the Corvette convertible from Hertz

273
00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:38,377
and then decided it was hers
to drive for the rest of her life.

274
00:14:39,336 --> 00:14:43,756
She, in effect, had commandeered my horse
for her own purposes,

275
00:14:43,757 --> 00:14:46,427
and it was disastrous.

276
00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:54,018
She's devaluing him,
and it just can't go on.

277
00:14:55,811 --> 00:14:58,564
And I told them,
"You can't show this horse."

278
00:14:59,064 --> 00:15:02,692
And they came after me in the stable,

279
00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:05,445
screaming at me and all these things.

280
00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:06,822
I was terrified of them.

281
00:15:07,323 --> 00:15:10,326
I'm a chicken. You know?
I've never been in a fight.

282
00:15:10,826 --> 00:15:13,036
And at the same time
they're threatening me,

283
00:15:13,037 --> 00:15:15,038
the father's sending me all these texts.

284
00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:17,624
"I'm gonna bankrupt you
and keep you in court."

285
00:15:17,625 --> 00:15:19,083
"I'll break you." All this.

286
00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,669
I'm like, I'm seeing another lawyer bill,

287
00:15:21,670 --> 00:15:24,923
and I've got a divorce
and lawyer bills there.

288
00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:28,886
I'm in a panic mode
to not get beat up, to not get sued.

289
00:15:29,386 --> 00:15:30,387
So I capitulate.

290
00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:33,641
I got threatened, pushed,

291
00:15:34,141 --> 00:15:37,977
essentially extorted into selling my horse
for 50 cents on the dollar.

292
00:15:37,978 --> 00:15:39,646
Getting bullied into buying a horse

293
00:15:39,647 --> 00:15:43,149
is the biggest piece of bullshit
I ever heard in my entire life.

294
00:15:43,150 --> 00:15:44,944
Okay? Period.

295
00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:50,198
I was on the way to a show
that Michael had been training me for,

296
00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:54,619
and Rob's telling me that Jay-T
had just been pulled off the trailer.

297
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,496
And Michael's saying he can't go.

298
00:15:56,497 --> 00:15:59,916
So I immediately run to the office.

299
00:15:59,917 --> 00:16:02,460
I'm asking Michael,
"What's going on with Jay-T?"

300
00:16:02,461 --> 00:16:04,379
"Why is he not in that trailer?"

301
00:16:04,380 --> 00:16:06,339
He is panicking, freaking out.

302
00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:08,174
I've never seen him like this.

303
00:16:08,175 --> 00:16:11,469
He's just saying to me,
"Jay-T can't go to this show."

304
00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:14,055
He had to sell this horse
as soon as possible.

305
00:16:14,056 --> 00:16:16,557
I'm like, "Why? What is going on?"

306
00:16:16,558 --> 00:16:18,394
And he goes, "It's the divorce."

307
00:16:19,269 --> 00:16:21,188
I'm like, "Why don't I just buy him?"

308
00:16:21,772 --> 00:16:23,272
"Will that help something?"

309
00:16:23,273 --> 00:16:25,442
And all of a sudden, he calmed down.

310
00:16:25,943 --> 00:16:28,319
He was very happy to accept his check.

311
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,488
The horse was mine.

312
00:16:30,322 --> 00:16:31,532
It's all settled.

313
00:16:32,324 --> 00:16:33,951
Or that's what I thought.

314
00:16:34,618 --> 00:16:35,536
Oh, hey.

315
00:16:38,789 --> 00:16:39,957
Good boy, Jay.

316
00:16:41,041 --> 00:16:42,959
- Walk him up. Is the girth on?
- Yep.

317
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:44,168
- Tight enough?
- Yep.

318
00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:47,213
- Stop, stop, stop. Oh my God, Rob.
- What?

319
00:16:47,214 --> 00:16:49,674
- Please stop. Look what's happened here.
- Hold on.

320
00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:51,300
- Stop. Easy!
- Let me pull you--

321
00:16:51,301 --> 00:16:54,805
Let go of him. What did I say?
Let go of the reins. Stop. Easy, boy.

322
00:16:57,850 --> 00:16:59,267
- Rob?
- Yeah?

323
00:16:59,268 --> 00:17:01,310
- I need a whip.
- Uh, check that table.

324
00:17:01,311 --> 00:17:04,064
I can't check anything.
I need a whip immediately.

325
00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:07,984
Whoa, easy! Whoa, he's spooking bad.

326
00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:10,696
- Just focus and do it again.
- Oh, this sucks.

327
00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:16,326
We haven't really addressed
her level as a rider.

328
00:17:16,827 --> 00:17:17,953
I compare it to baseball.

329
00:17:19,663 --> 00:17:22,833
I have played on a World Series team.

330
00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:27,336
{\an8}Mary Haskins Gray
and Justin Hardin were players

331
00:17:27,337 --> 00:17:30,631
on a triple-A minor league baseball team,

332
00:17:30,632 --> 00:17:36,304
just about ready to make the jump
into the major leagues as rookies.

333
00:17:36,305 --> 00:17:37,305
Follow me?

334
00:17:37,306 --> 00:17:40,017
Lauren Kanarek is...

335
00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,147
...Little League for nine-year-olds.

336
00:17:46,148 --> 00:17:49,401
Flying change.
That was late. I'll do it again.

337
00:17:50,277 --> 00:17:51,819
Rob, right now. Do you understand?

338
00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:54,280
- What? Slow down.
- It's 6:30. Easy, boy.

339
00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:56,616
Rob, are you listening to me?

340
00:17:56,617 --> 00:17:57,700
- Rob?
- Yes, go.

341
00:17:57,701 --> 00:17:59,994
- Are you listening to me?
- I'm in a conversation.

342
00:17:59,995 --> 00:18:02,538
So rude. I'm asking you.
You know what? Never mind.

343
00:18:02,539 --> 00:18:04,083
You don't get a choice now.

344
00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:07,795
I teach Olympians,
not second-level riders.

345
00:18:08,837 --> 00:18:12,298
Over that period of time, there were times
that Mary Haskins taught Lauren.

346
00:18:12,299 --> 00:18:16,094
Mary Haskins, in my mind,
was the biggest fool,

347
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:18,805
most unknowledgeable person about riding.

348
00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:22,517
At some point in time,
I started receiving texts from Lauren

349
00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:25,353
that the staff wasn't doing
their job properly,

350
00:18:25,354 --> 00:18:27,939
and they'd be encouraged
not to do their job properly

351
00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:30,192
by Michael's girlfriend, Mary Haskins.

352
00:18:32,277 --> 00:18:35,613
In April, I went to have a meeting
with Rob and Lauren

353
00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:37,949
and Michael's girlfriend, Mary Haskins.

354
00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:40,785
Lauren starts screaming
about what everyone's not doing for her,

355
00:18:40,786 --> 00:18:44,747
and Mary Haskins is saying to her,
"You don't even show up and ride,

356
00:18:44,748 --> 00:18:46,916
so don't talk about
what people aren't doing for you."

357
00:18:46,917 --> 00:18:47,959
"You have to work."

358
00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,294
That starts a screaming match
between these girls.

359
00:18:50,295 --> 00:18:52,797
Jonathan and Goodwin are trying
to get control of her,

360
00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:55,091
and I'm trying to get control
of Mary Haskins.

361
00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:58,219
And at that meeting, Mary Haskins,
you know, said the words,

362
00:18:58,220 --> 00:18:59,595
"Y'all have to leave."

363
00:18:59,596 --> 00:19:03,099
Michael said to Mary Haskins,
"Shut the fuck up, Mary Haskins."

364
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,517
"I have a deal with these people."

365
00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:08,771
"Shut the fuck up." I've never said that
to a woman in my life.

366
00:19:08,772 --> 00:19:13,401
{\an8}He was allowing his girlfriend
to get away with this,

367
00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:16,988
{\an8}instead of simply saying
to his girlfriend, "Listen, cut the crap."

368
00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:21,200
Michael, throughout the whole thing,
was trying to burn the candle at both ends

369
00:19:21,201 --> 00:19:24,329
until, eventually,
the candle burned to the middle.

370
00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:29,333
Rose, to your left,
is your back right hind puffy?

371
00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:31,837
Blink once for yes, two for no.

372
00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:36,175
All right, we go back now.

373
00:19:39,469 --> 00:19:42,973
I met Michael in 2018.

374
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,477
My daughter signed up
for a horsemastership clinic with him.

375
00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:53,941
Horse people are quirky.

376
00:19:53,942 --> 00:19:57,320
And it's not unusual
to have difficult clients.

377
00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:58,696
Yeah, it sticks to it.

378
00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:03,284
You know, we tend to kind of ignore it

379
00:20:03,285 --> 00:20:05,787
because it's just
the nature of the business.

380
00:20:07,831 --> 00:20:11,959
First time I met Lauren was at a show
at the New Jersey Horse Park.

381
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,253
Good girl. Yes, you're a good girl.

382
00:20:14,254 --> 00:20:16,048
As soon as I met her,

383
00:20:16,924 --> 00:20:18,800
I knew something wasn't right with her.

384
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,512
Rob, what the hell happened to this bag?

385
00:20:23,138 --> 00:20:26,599
Rob, I think we have not used
this bitless bridle.

386
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:27,851
Rob?

387
00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:29,852
Rob, can you hear me?

388
00:20:29,853 --> 00:20:33,982
Her energy was so frantic, manic,

389
00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:38,486
that I actually got a migraine,
and I had to walk away from her.

390
00:20:38,487 --> 00:20:44,200
It was so disruptive
and so... just nerve-wracking.

391
00:20:44,201 --> 00:20:45,369
It was horrible.

392
00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:10,142
At Hawthorne Hill,
there was a lot of tension

393
00:21:10,143 --> 00:21:12,895
between Lauren and Mary Haskins.

394
00:21:12,896 --> 00:21:17,733
Lauren would snap demands
and insist on certain things.

395
00:21:17,734 --> 00:21:20,279
It just was... turmoil.

396
00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:27,785
She had friended me on Facebook,

397
00:21:27,786 --> 00:21:32,207
so I was seeing her posts
as they were coming up.

398
00:21:41,383 --> 00:21:44,385
You can't turn away
every client that's difficult,

399
00:21:44,386 --> 00:21:47,180
but when things start to cross the line

400
00:21:48,056 --> 00:21:50,517
from being difficult to being dangerous...

401
00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:54,603
Many of them use chess images.

402
00:21:54,604 --> 00:21:56,939
"The king has been captured and killed."

403
00:21:56,940 --> 00:22:00,568
"The queen must be sacrificed
to protect the castle."

404
00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:02,988
"The castle comes crumbling down."

405
00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:08,076
Who has the time or the energy
to put things out like this?

406
00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:11,829
In the dressage community,

407
00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:16,250
people were seeing what was being said
and were horrified by it.

408
00:22:16,251 --> 00:22:18,127
With the things I was writing,

409
00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:21,005
it was for him to realize the problem here

410
00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:23,257
is you were being led around
by your girlfriend.

411
00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:26,218
She was making me
riding at the barn impossible.

412
00:22:26,219 --> 00:22:28,804
I'm the guy with his name
on the top of the letterhead.

413
00:22:28,805 --> 00:22:31,807
I have sweet ladies who ride with me

414
00:22:31,808 --> 00:22:34,643
and... and older people and kids.

415
00:22:34,644 --> 00:22:37,313
Lara's daughter was a 16-year-old girl
living with me.

416
00:22:37,314 --> 00:22:39,315
I was responsible for her.

417
00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:43,195
I was extremely worried
about the situation at Hawthorne Hill.

418
00:22:55,123 --> 00:22:58,125
There was a hostility
between the two women.

419
00:22:58,126 --> 00:23:00,836
It may not be easy
between having an important client

420
00:23:00,837 --> 00:23:02,797
and your... and your girlfriend,

421
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:06,635
but Michael had to do it
or come up with some kind of solution.

422
00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:11,014
This will not work.

423
00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:15,684
You cannot be going on the Internet
and saying bad things about us.

424
00:23:15,685 --> 00:23:20,731
He came down to literally scream at me.

425
00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:22,483
Who do you think you are?

426
00:23:22,484 --> 00:23:26,112
I will be a nobody in this sport.
He'll make one phone call.

427
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:28,448
My career will be ended.

428
00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:35,163
He was there to lay down the law
of who is in charge of the sport.

429
00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:38,291
Now, who's in charge of his barn?

430
00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:42,795
Who runs things?
Who are the powerful people?

431
00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:44,840
And what can they do?

432
00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:47,592
In the horse world,

433
00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:53,014
reputation is critical to your success.

434
00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:58,145
Reputation is earned. It's not just given.

435
00:24:00,021 --> 00:24:03,150
Your whole life
revolves around this one thing.

436
00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:08,989
If he says, "I will ruin your career
with one phone call,"

437
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,533
that's not something you take lightly.

438
00:24:12,617 --> 00:24:17,121
Because Michael's friends
do have the power to blackball,

439
00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:18,915
get me banned from the sport.

440
00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:23,377
My life, my livelihood,
and my riding career

441
00:24:23,378 --> 00:24:25,130
has been put in jeopardy.

442
00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:27,799
You're thinking, "Just kill me, then."

443
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,801
Maybe you're not really thinking,
"I wanna be dead,"

444
00:24:30,802 --> 00:24:33,972
but you're thinking,
"Get it over with now, and just kill me."

445
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:42,563
Lauren Kanarek got very weird
and very unstable.

446
00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:45,609
At 2:45, three o'clock in the morning,

447
00:24:46,276 --> 00:24:51,155
is up in the trees behind the stable

448
00:24:51,156 --> 00:24:53,741
putting out cryptic social media posts.

449
00:24:53,742 --> 00:24:55,659
Lauren did not go on the offensive.

450
00:24:55,660 --> 00:24:57,161
Lauren went on the defensive

451
00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:59,497
with Facebook posts,
"Here's what's happening."

452
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,874
Michael has all these friends
in high places,

453
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:03,542
all these former Olympiads,

454
00:25:03,543 --> 00:25:06,879
and Lauren only has, you know,
Facebook to say what's happening.

455
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,632
She's putting out public messages.

456
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:14,553
<i>911. What's the address?</i>

457
00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:17,431
I did what I'm supposed to do.

458
00:25:17,432 --> 00:25:19,892
What we've been taught
since we were children, right?

459
00:25:19,893 --> 00:25:20,936
Call the authorities.

460
00:25:21,645 --> 00:25:25,898
<i>I need an officer here to get these people
to get their shit together</i>

461
00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:27,733
<i>and not menace us.</i>

462
00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:29,610
<i>We are decent people.</i>

463
00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:31,820
- <i>Okay.
- This is turning out terribly.</i>

464
00:25:31,821 --> 00:25:33,656
<i>These are menaces to society.</i>

465
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:36,910
<i>If I need to get a restraining order
tonight, I will get it.</i>

466
00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:39,912
<i>This is a war,
and it's gonna be dealt with right now.</i>

467
00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:42,666
<i>I've had enough of these people.
I need them gone.</i>

468
00:25:43,959 --> 00:25:45,627
This is a civil dispute.

469
00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:50,756
He's using the police as a weapon
for something they can't even do.

470
00:25:50,757 --> 00:25:53,008
They even said to him, "Stop calling us."

471
00:25:53,009 --> 00:25:55,678
"We are not your remedy
for a civil dispute."

472
00:25:55,679 --> 00:25:58,514
Lauren was in the barn
and heard whisperings

473
00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:02,476
of getting someone to beat them up
or something of the like

474
00:26:02,477 --> 00:26:03,561
and was concerned.

475
00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:05,145
I spoke with Lauren and said,

476
00:26:05,146 --> 00:26:07,774
"I think we should get
some kind of audio device."

477
00:26:08,692 --> 00:26:12,653
<i>Mary Haskins. Here's the deal,
the cop wants to pass the buck.</i>

478
00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:15,406
<i>He says it's a civil matter.
It's a civil matter.</i>

479
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:18,909
<i>That's why I keep saying
that's why you need to keep calling</i>

480
00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:23,163
<i>because you need to push the burden
onto the police department.</i>

481
00:26:23,164 --> 00:26:25,917
<i>- She's playing old school.</i>
- <i>She needs a lesson.</i>

482
00:26:29,212 --> 00:26:32,548
We did this thinking
a crime was going to be committed.

483
00:26:32,549 --> 00:26:34,383
And if there is,

484
00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:35,968
we'd like to have evidence

485
00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:38,555
that they were planning
to commit that crime.

486
00:26:40,473 --> 00:26:42,224
<i>I'm gonna... I'm dealing with this.</i>

487
00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:44,393
<i>She needs to get banned from this county.</i>

488
00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:47,187
<i>Nobody can give a lifetime ban
in horse sports</i>

489
00:26:47,188 --> 00:26:48,564
<i>except SafeSport. That's it.</i>

490
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,650
<i>- Yeah.
- And they give the...</i>

491
00:27:03,913 --> 00:27:07,291
You can't call the police
and say, "Hi, I have a report to make."

492
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:10,502
"People are threatening
to get me kicked out of the sport I love."

493
00:27:10,503 --> 00:27:13,339
"Please arrest them."
That's not what they're there for.

494
00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:16,383
SafeSport's job is to make sure

495
00:27:16,384 --> 00:27:22,807
that people who have those kinds of powers
are never allowed to do such things.

496
00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:26,394
There is a big problem
in equestrian sports.

497
00:27:27,354 --> 00:27:30,690
Many trainers have been banned for life
by SafeSport.

498
00:27:31,691 --> 00:27:35,195
Michael's biggest fear
was being unable to compete in the sport.

499
00:27:36,946 --> 00:27:40,909
I called the hotline,
and I reported him to SafeSport.

500
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:46,247
The report was about bullying,
harassment, and abuse of power.

501
00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:51,835
But at the time,
the interviewer, she kept asking me,

502
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,796
"Are there minors in the property?"

503
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:55,924
"Where are they living?
What are they doing?"

504
00:27:57,592 --> 00:28:01,513
I hear the truck. It comes up,
and it pulls right in front of the stable.

505
00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:05,392
And Lauren Kanarek is on her phone,
and she's pacing.

506
00:28:06,976 --> 00:28:09,603
"I'm going to do everything in my power

507
00:28:09,604 --> 00:28:14,109
to destroy everything Mary Haskins loves
or is important to her!"

508
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:18,279
Mary Haskins, she had two young children,

509
00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:21,073
and I treated them like my own kids.

510
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:24,369
She said, "I don't feel good
about my children here with these people."

511
00:28:26,579 --> 00:28:30,124
- <i>If anything happens, I will...</i>
- <i>You know what? You--</i>

512
00:28:30,125 --> 00:28:31,792
<i>You're already talking--</i>

513
00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:34,921
<i>You've already talked
the last few days about leaving.</i>

514
00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:37,674
<i>I'm not leaving you, Michael.</i>

515
00:28:38,174 --> 00:28:39,341
<i>I'm not leaving you.</i>

516
00:28:39,342 --> 00:28:41,885
We would have these conversations.

517
00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:45,640
Then we would get taunting messages
like they know what I'm saying.

518
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:49,185
Lauren said to me,

519
00:28:50,270 --> 00:28:55,024
"Now you know
the lovely lady's not going to leave you."

520
00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:59,404
I told Mary,
"I'm pretty sure we're being bugged."

521
00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:01,990
"And I don't know how."

522
00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:05,075
"How are they hearing us?"

523
00:29:05,076 --> 00:29:08,412
"Has somebody infected a phone?
Justin's phone? Don't talk on your phone."

524
00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:10,372
"Are they trying to learn my movements?"

525
00:29:10,373 --> 00:29:12,000
Why do you need to do this?

526
00:29:13,668 --> 00:29:17,964
You start to think the walls have ears
and the darkness has eyes.

527
00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:21,176
I found this post,

528
00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:23,761
and I realized, at that time,

529
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:27,306
Lauren Kanarek will give you
the road map to what she's doing.

530
00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:31,477
She has to tell someone
what she's done bad

531
00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:33,646
or what she's going to do bad.

532
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:35,814
And she says...

533
00:29:35,815 --> 00:29:39,735
You read all these memes about being happy
and everything's a beautiful day.

534
00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:41,529
And then she says,

535
00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:45,365
"But contrary to what Mr. Rogers says,

536
00:29:45,366 --> 00:29:49,328
it's not always a beautiful day
in the neighborhood."

537
00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:52,290
"Sometimes the neighbors are dark,

538
00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:57,337
and they are using
secret recording devices,

539
00:29:57,879 --> 00:30:02,175
which one day they will use
to destroy your life."

540
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:10,224
<i>There were texts to me last night where...</i>

541
00:30:10,225 --> 00:30:12,684
<i>Apparently, they've been
bugging my conversations</i>

542
00:30:12,685 --> 00:30:15,813
<i>in my other building
where we're all sitting and holing up,</i>

543
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,147
<i>like we're hostages.</i>

544
00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:19,150
The police were called again.

545
00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:24,197
<i>This is not looking good.
We're under siege here.</i>

546
00:30:24,697 --> 00:30:28,700
We're stalking them. We're harassing them.
Have you met us?

547
00:30:28,701 --> 00:30:31,078
<i>If they come up, I don't know what to do.</i>

548
00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:33,498
- <i>Were weapons involved?
- No.</i>

549
00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,836
<i>Police have been called
for some kind of harassment,</i>

550
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:40,712
{\an8}<i>which I wasn't even in the barn for,</i>

551
00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:42,881
{\an8}<i>but I decided
that this needed to be recorded,</i>

552
00:30:42,882 --> 00:30:44,467
{\an8}<i>which I am now recording.</i>

553
00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:47,262
{\an8}<i>Stay right here. Don't you walk away.</i>

554
00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:51,140
{\an8}- <i>Don't engage them, okay?</i>
- <i>I'm talking to my friend.</i>

555
00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:55,310
{\an8}Ruth Cox was a client friend.

556
00:30:55,311 --> 00:30:58,565
{\an8}She was Mary Haskins' partner
on a couple of horses and...

557
00:31:00,483 --> 00:31:03,902
So Ruth Cox is on her way
from North Carolina

558
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:05,697
the night of August 2nd.

559
00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:10,826
I said to Ruth, "Did you bring that gun?"

560
00:31:10,827 --> 00:31:14,913
Because I know
she travels with a 9mm pistol.

561
00:31:14,914 --> 00:31:16,582
She said, "Why, yes."

562
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:19,793
I said, "Get it. It has to go in the safe.
It's not safe out there."

563
00:31:19,794 --> 00:31:22,297
"The cop told me,
'Don't leave anything in the cars.'"

564
00:31:24,048 --> 00:31:25,174
She brought it in,

565
00:31:26,467 --> 00:31:29,387
went right into my office,
and we put it in the safe.

566
00:31:31,389 --> 00:31:34,516
This thing is escalating,
and it's spiraling out of control,

567
00:31:34,517 --> 00:31:38,103
and I keep calling the federation,
calling the police, and calling lawyers,

568
00:31:38,104 --> 00:31:40,648
and just saying,
"Just get this under control."

569
00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:44,276
It was so far out of control.

570
00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:46,904
The night of August 2nd,
early morning of August 3rd,

571
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:50,157
she's out in the trees,
circling the stable in the night,

572
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:51,825
we now know, dressed like a ninja.

573
00:31:51,826 --> 00:31:54,244
I'm in just full-blown panic mode

574
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:56,413
about what in the world
is gonna happen there?

575
00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:58,999
Are they gonna kill somebody
or burn this barn down?

576
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,334
What is gonna happen?

577
00:32:00,335 --> 00:32:02,294
<i>They're nuts. They're stalking us.</i>

578
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:04,254
<i>They've... They're harassing us.</i>

579
00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:06,965
<i>- Last night, there was a Facebook post.</i>
- <i>Hold on.</i>

580
00:32:06,966 --> 00:32:09,968
<i>It's a harassing Facebook post
that's going on right now, correct?</i>

581
00:32:09,969 --> 00:32:13,513
<i>It was last night.
"Everyone should be worried."</i>

582
00:32:13,514 --> 00:32:16,767
<i>"I'm not responsible for anything
my other personalities do</i>

583
00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:18,018
<i>when they're threatened."</i>

584
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:19,353
<i>That's insane.</i>

585
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:20,771
<i>I have a family.</i>

586
00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:23,483
I'm trying to do everything right.

587
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:25,485
Everything.

588
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:27,653
I'm crying for help.

589
00:32:27,654 --> 00:32:29,656
<i>We are in fear for our lives.</i>

590
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:31,782
Get over here and fix this.

591
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:34,034
That's what a responsible citizen does.

592
00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:36,663
And they told me to go to hell.

593
00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:40,375
<i>This is the third time.
And I'm getting no relief.</i>

594
00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:45,588
I'm living my life in my community,
the one I created.

595
00:32:49,133 --> 00:32:52,052
People came, people went.
We made friends, had Christmas parties,

596
00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:53,261
Thanksgiving parties.

597
00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:57,349
I could put wood fire in the wood stove
and watch the Labrador sleep in front.

598
00:32:57,350 --> 00:32:59,643
I could go out
and cut my firewood logs myself.

599
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:00,895
It was idyllic.

600
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:03,522
And then these vagrants come in.

601
00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:06,108
And I've called them terrorists.
That's exactly what it was.

602
00:33:06,109 --> 00:33:07,777
They did a mini 9/11 to me.

603
00:33:10,697 --> 00:33:12,115
<i>I'm taking my life back.</i>

604
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:24,002
I stood there in the courtyard
and watched this gray van come up.

605
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:29,047
It pulled right into the courtyard,
right up next to me,

606
00:33:29,048 --> 00:33:30,925
and it was a dark-haired lady.

607
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:32,968
And she said,

608
00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:35,763
"I'm from Child Protective Services."

609
00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:41,309
She wants to talk.
We go in the office. I get two chairs.

610
00:33:41,310 --> 00:33:43,812
I go sit down in the chair.
She and Mary Haskins sit down.

611
00:33:43,813 --> 00:33:46,899
"Mr. Barisone, we don't need you.
I need to talk to Ms. Gray."

612
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,527
And I'm standing in the club room.

613
00:33:50,611 --> 00:33:54,782
I could swear I stood there
and I heard the word "sexual abuse."

614
00:33:55,658 --> 00:34:01,455
And I remember...
my body going a thousand degrees.

615
00:34:01,456 --> 00:34:04,332
It was like a blowtorch went...
...on top of me.

616
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:06,918
And every inch of my body
was sweating and burning.

617
00:34:06,919 --> 00:34:10,172
It was like someone put a rope
around my neck and pulled it tight.

618
00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:12,132
And I couldn't breathe. Like...

619
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:15,052
And I remember picking up my phone.
"Who am I gonna call?"

620
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:18,055
"I'll call the police.
No, they won't help. Nobody can help."

621
00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,891
I can remember spinning
and the lights like this,

622
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:23,101
and I just lost my balance, and bang.

623
00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:26,856
And I can remember being out of balance,
and black, and then it's over.

624
00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:40,244
I start to hear pebbles.

625
00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:42,955
Just, like, first it was faintly,

626
00:34:43,831 --> 00:34:45,833
and then it was, like, louder and louder.

627
00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:50,463
So I immediately run up the stairs
and get Rob.

628
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:53,341
Michael is here.

629
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:55,926
I don't know why he's here. I...

630
00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:59,639
We haven't had any words
or spoken in, like, a few days.

631
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:04,768
Rob walks off the two little,
like, steps of the porch.

632
00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:07,813
He's saying, "Michael, what do you want?"

633
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:11,484
And he's like, "How do we end this?
I don't want a war."

634
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,113
So I'm walking over to him.

635
00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:20,326
And he... is just staring at me.

636
00:35:22,036 --> 00:35:23,955
There was something not right.

637
00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:28,500
And immediately, Michael pulls out a gun,

638
00:35:28,501 --> 00:35:30,878
shoots it at me, bang, bang.

639
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:34,464
- <i>911. What's the address--</i>
- <i>I've been shot in the heart.</i>

640
00:35:34,465 --> 00:35:38,051
<i>- Okay--
- 411 Westmill Drive. 411 Westmill Drive.</i>

641
00:35:38,052 --> 00:35:40,470
<i>- Where are you?
- I'm losing a lot of blood.</i>

642
00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:42,306
<i>Michael Barisone shot me.</i>

643
00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:45,101
<i>Stop fucking moving!</i>

644
00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:47,436
<i>Stop fucking moving!</i>

645
00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:49,521
- <i>Hello?</i>
- <i>Sir?</i>

646
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:51,273
<i>Is an ambulance coming?</i>

647
00:35:51,274 --> 00:35:54,026
<i>Officers are being dispatched, okay?</i>

648
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:00,783
I was on a traffic detail.

649
00:36:01,576 --> 00:36:04,244
While on the detail, we received
a dispatch of an active shooter

650
00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:05,788
at 411 Westmill Road.

651
00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:08,373
It was stressful,

652
00:36:08,374 --> 00:36:11,877
and dispatch didn't have
much information to provide.

653
00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:15,088
As I started to go up the driveway,
I opened the driver's side door,

654
00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:16,966
unholstered my handgun.

655
00:36:18,718 --> 00:36:21,553
<i>You fucking move,
or I'm gonna fucking kill you!</i>

656
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:22,804
<i>Do you understand me?!</i>

657
00:36:22,805 --> 00:36:25,016
- <i>I'm shot!</i>
- <i>You understand me?!</i>

658
00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:29,186
I saw one male face down on the ground
with another male on top of his back,

659
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:30,145
also face down,

660
00:36:30,146 --> 00:36:32,397
{\an8}and a female a few feet to the left,

661
00:36:32,398 --> 00:36:34,025
{\an8}who appeared to have been shot.

662
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,277
I yelled out, "Where's the shooter?"

663
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:38,612
<i>He's the shooter right here!</i>

664
00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:39,779
<i>Right here!</i>

665
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:41,073
<i>Gun is underneath him.</i>

666
00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:44,618
I rolled Mr. Barisone over.
His hand was open underneath him.

667
00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:48,371
{\an8}And there was a 9mm handgun
with a slide lock back

668
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:49,665
{\an8}right next to his hand.

669
00:36:50,166 --> 00:36:51,458
{\an8}I secured the weapon.

670
00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:54,378
I then turned my attention
toward Miss Kanarek.

671
00:36:56,464 --> 00:36:58,925
<i>Chest seals! Get chest seals!</i>

672
00:36:59,425 --> 00:37:00,760
<i>Were you shot just once?</i>

673
00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:07,098
She was very gray,
not really speaking much.

674
00:37:07,099 --> 00:37:08,808
She said, "Help me," a few times.

675
00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:12,437
Based on her appearance,
there was, uh, a good chance

676
00:37:12,438 --> 00:37:14,649
that she was not gonna
survive her injuries.

677
00:37:18,277 --> 00:37:21,739
Once more officers got on scene,
we separated Mr. Barisone.

678
00:37:23,866 --> 00:37:26,702
We had him
seated against a landscaping trailer,

679
00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:28,788
waiting for medical attention.

680
00:37:29,705 --> 00:37:32,123
While sitting there
with his back against the trailer,

681
00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:34,542
he just was staring off in the distance

682
00:37:34,543 --> 00:37:38,172
and repeated,
"I had a good life," three times.

683
00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:47,098
I arrived at the hospital,
and I have no idea what happened.

684
00:37:48,015 --> 00:37:49,975
Some doctor comes in and said,

685
00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:52,686
"We can't keep her blood pressure up.
We're gonna have to..."

686
00:37:52,687 --> 00:37:54,521
I forget exactly what he said,

687
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:58,566
"but we have to get her to surgery
and get the trauma team working."

688
00:37:58,567 --> 00:38:00,527
And now we realize it's serious,

689
00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:02,988
and I guess this was on, uh, Wednesday,

690
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:06,033
and I guess we were able to see her,
and she had...

691
00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:14,125
so many, you know, tubes in her mouth
and her nose and bandages, and...

692
00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,629
And we just didn't know
whether she was gonna make it or not.

693
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:23,175
I opened my eyes.

694
00:38:25,386 --> 00:38:28,764
I don't know where I am... at all.

695
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:35,520
I see tubes coming out
of my left side abdomen,

696
00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:37,355
and I see machines.

697
00:38:37,356 --> 00:38:39,150
I see machines everywhere.

698
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:41,444
So that's when I started thinking,

699
00:38:42,028 --> 00:38:46,614
"Maybe I'm not, like, in limbo
or, like, some in-between place."

700
00:38:46,615 --> 00:38:50,745
"Maybe I'm in a hospital,
but why do I not remember anything?"

701
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:55,249
"Why don't I remember how I...
Why don't I remember how I got here?"

702
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:58,294
So my mom comes in smiling.

703
00:38:59,253 --> 00:39:01,630
She said, "You've been through surgery."

704
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:06,635
"You just woke up,
and you've been in a coma."

705
00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:08,636
"And the doctors are coming in."

706
00:39:08,637 --> 00:39:14,018
And you start to slowly remember
little bits of the things that happened.

707
00:39:15,394 --> 00:39:18,980
I can't wait to be there in court
to testify to what happened.

708
00:39:18,981 --> 00:39:20,899
This is an open-and-shut case.

709
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,735
What could possibly go wrong?

710
00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:28,406
<i>A US Olympian is accused
of attempted murder.</i>

711
00:39:28,407 --> 00:39:30,992
<i>He was a member
of the 2008 Beijing Olympic team</i>

712
00:39:30,993 --> 00:39:34,996
<i>and the 2009 Sportsman
International Horseman of the Year.</i>

713
00:39:34,997 --> 00:39:37,833
<i>Police say this incident
is still under investigation.</i>

714
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,253
I was awakened.

715
00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:45,173
And I remember, I looked at my arm,

716
00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:49,512
and it was wrapped in this stuff like this
from my shoulder down to my hand.

717
00:39:50,012 --> 00:39:52,807
And I couldn't bend it.
I looked, and I said, "What the fuck?"

718
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:55,768
"I want my lawyer."

719
00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:02,400
{\an8}I think I'm the best there is
at what I do.

720
00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:05,610
I don't advertise.

721
00:40:05,611 --> 00:40:07,571
I don't have a website.

722
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:14,412
All I have is 43 years of pouring
my heart and soul into each case.

723
00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:18,164
It takes over my mind, my soul,

724
00:40:18,165 --> 00:40:21,793
and I give everything that I have

725
00:40:21,794 --> 00:40:26,966
because every time I try a case,
I have someone's life in my hands.

726
00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:31,386
I travel to Morris County Jail,

727
00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:34,140
and I'm put into a room.

728
00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:38,269
And all of a sudden, the door opens,

729
00:40:38,853 --> 00:40:41,522
and Michael comes shuffling in.

730
00:40:42,898 --> 00:40:44,107
He tells me...

731
00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:46,068
I don't remember being at the scene.

732
00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:51,448
Someone ruined my life,
and they did it on purpose.

733
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:55,743
At first, I wasn't sure I believed,

734
00:40:55,744 --> 00:41:00,833
but he started to tell me
about this woman, Lauren Kanarek.

735
00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:04,002
She started to attack me on Facebook.

736
00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:06,629
And it is this unabating attack.

737
00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:08,423
She's talked about,
"The king needs to die,

738
00:41:08,424 --> 00:41:10,341
queen needs to die, weapons hot."

739
00:41:10,342 --> 00:41:12,135
What person bugs another person?

740
00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:14,138
What are you planning to do to us?

741
00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:18,641
I had called everyone from
the Equestrian Federation to the cops,

742
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:20,685
asking for the chief,
asking for detectives,

743
00:41:20,686 --> 00:41:21,728
emails, phone calls,

744
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:23,730
the Washington Township Police Department.

745
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:27,234
I know the number by heart.
It's 908-876-3232.

746
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:32,238
In deciding
how to approach Michael's case,

747
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:38,370
it was clear that a psychiatric defense
was something that I needed to look into.

748
00:41:39,246 --> 00:41:42,540
Only a very small percentage
of all felony defendants

749
00:41:42,541 --> 00:41:44,584
successfully use the insanity defense.

750
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:47,504
<i>Insanity defense,
a claim that at the time of the crime,</i>

751
00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:50,048
<i>the defendant did not know
the conduct was wrong</i>

752
00:41:50,049 --> 00:41:52,759
{\an8}<i>as a result of
a severe mental disease or defect.</i>

753
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,222
{\an8}<i>...raised in only one percent
of all felony cases in this country.</i>

754
00:41:57,223 --> 00:42:00,683
{\an8}<i>Jeffrey Dahmer tried to plead insanity,
and the jury rejected it.</i>

755
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:03,645
{\an8}<i>Even though he admitted
to cannibalizing his victims.</i>

756
00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:05,522
<i>John Wayne Gacy killed 33 children.</i>

757
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:08,483
<i>The jury refused to accept
Gacy's insanity defense.</i>

758
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:11,110
{\an8}Why is the insanity defense
so rarely successful?

759
00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:14,365
{\an8}Perhaps because it so rarely is credible.

760
00:42:15,282 --> 00:42:18,744
Chris Deininger
is the legal mind of the team.

761
00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:21,621
The basis of the insanity defense

762
00:42:21,622 --> 00:42:24,707
is that you have
a mental disease or defect

763
00:42:24,708 --> 00:42:26,417
at the time of the act

764
00:42:26,418 --> 00:42:29,254
that prohibits you
from knowing right or wrong

765
00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:31,130
or being able to control your behavior.

766
00:42:31,131 --> 00:42:37,554
It was our position that Lauren Kanarek
had driven Michael Barisone insane.

767
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,014
At the time of the shooting,

768
00:42:40,015 --> 00:42:42,684
Michael was in a delusional state

769
00:42:42,685 --> 00:42:46,896
and therefore would not be
responsible for his actions.

770
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:49,524
{\an8}A rare strategy, the insanity defense,

771
00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:53,528
{\an8}claiming Lauren used social media
to push him to his breaking point.

772
00:42:53,529 --> 00:42:56,489
{\an8}Some 50-year-old man all of a sudden
developing a mental illness

773
00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:59,242
{\an8}at this point in his life
seems highly unlikely.

774
00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:02,537
{\an8}<i>He faces up to a maximum
of 60 years in prison.</i>

775
00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:04,497
{\an8}Who takes a case like this?

776
00:43:04,498 --> 00:43:07,750
Who mounts a defense in a case like this?

777
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:10,546
I believed that I could pull it off.

778
00:43:13,966 --> 00:43:18,094
{\an8}Thank you, members of the jury.
We are ready to commence with the trial,

779
00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:20,097
{\an8}beginning with opening statements.

780
00:43:20,598 --> 00:43:22,558
Quiet on the set!

781
00:43:23,058 --> 00:43:27,729
{\an8}There's no way to describe the pressure,
the intensity that you feel.

782
00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:29,606
{\an8}You walk into that courtroom,

783
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:34,611
{\an8}and the judge tells me
it's time for me to give my opening.

784
00:43:34,612 --> 00:43:39,074
That moment is like
no other moment in my life.

785
00:43:39,783 --> 00:43:42,494
I stand up, I walk to the jury,

786
00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:46,248
and I say my first words.

787
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:50,960
"Help! I'm in..."

788
00:43:50,961 --> 00:43:52,879
"...fear of my life."

789
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,214
"Someone..."

790
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:58,093
"...anyone, please, help me!"

791
00:43:59,553 --> 00:44:03,515
{\an8}Those are the cries for help
from Michael Barisone.

792
00:44:05,392 --> 00:44:06,851
It's a tragedy,

793
00:44:06,852 --> 00:44:11,106
a tragedy that Lauren Kanarek
was shot on that day.

794
00:44:11,899 --> 00:44:13,150
That said,

795
00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:15,735
there is another tragedy.

796
00:44:15,736 --> 00:44:20,783
The tragic story of Michael Barisone.

797
00:44:21,408 --> 00:44:25,204
Every man has a breaking point.

798
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:29,708
What this case is really about,

799
00:44:30,417 --> 00:44:33,920
it's about Lauren Kanarek
and her boyfriend

800
00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:40,469
devising a plan to destroy this man
and drive him crazy.

801
00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:42,971
Thank you, Mr. Bilinkas.

802
00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:44,682
{\an8}Uh, Mr. Schellhorn?

803
00:44:45,974 --> 00:44:48,394
Do I need to, uh, project more?

804
00:44:49,019 --> 00:44:49,977
{\an8}I'm Chris Schellhorn.

805
00:44:49,978 --> 00:44:53,773
{\an8}I'm an assistant prosecutor
in the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

806
00:44:53,774 --> 00:44:59,570
Part of, um, a prosecutor's role
is to represent the crime victims

807
00:44:59,571 --> 00:45:02,908
and hopefully seek justice on their behalf
as we go to court.

808
00:45:03,867 --> 00:45:04,784
Good morning.

809
00:45:04,785 --> 00:45:08,621
Thank you again, all, for being here today
and for serving on the jury.

810
00:45:08,622 --> 00:45:12,291
It is definitely a lot of pressure
to give the opening statement

811
00:45:12,292 --> 00:45:15,211
in a way where you're gaining
that trust with the jury

812
00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:18,715
but also being persuasive
in what you're telling them.

813
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:22,301
We're here on this trial
because of the defendant's choice

814
00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:24,554
on August 7th, 2019.

815
00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:26,473
His choice to get a gun,

816
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,559
to point that gun at Lauren
and pull the trigger twice,

817
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,645
and then to turn it on Rob
and pull the trigger again.

818
00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:35,398
We knew that we had prepared

819
00:45:35,399 --> 00:45:39,193
and had a... a coherent theory
of... of what happened,

820
00:45:39,194 --> 00:45:41,237
why the shooting happened
when it happened,

821
00:45:41,238 --> 00:45:44,700
what was going on between these folks
leading up to the shooting.

822
00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,077
This man, the defendant,
is the one on trial.

823
00:45:48,078 --> 00:45:50,329
So you may hear things that you don't like

824
00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:54,334
about Lauren or Rob or Mary Haskins
or any of these other people.

825
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:58,546
But none of that
is a justification to get shot.

826
00:45:58,547 --> 00:46:00,006
Looking at the charges,

827
00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:03,509
make sure that we have
enough evidence to give to a jury

828
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:06,012
that would establish the crimes
beyond a reasonable doubt.

829
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:09,057
We felt that we had
sufficient evidence to prove that.

830
00:46:13,145 --> 00:46:15,646
To mount a defense of insanity,

831
00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:17,857
you need to have an expert,

832
00:46:17,858 --> 00:46:21,486
a psychiatrist
who's evaluated your client.

833
00:46:21,487 --> 00:46:25,783
His diagnosis is that
it meets the legal definition.

834
00:46:26,575 --> 00:46:27,658
Call your witness.

835
00:46:27,659 --> 00:46:31,204
Defense calls Dr. Steven Simring.

836
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:35,416
What I was trying to prove
is that Lauren Kanarek had a plan

837
00:46:35,417 --> 00:46:38,045
to destroy Michael Barisone.

838
00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:41,547
{\an8}Doctor, uh, what are your opinions

839
00:46:41,548 --> 00:46:45,384
{\an8}that you formed reviewing
everything in its entirety?

840
00:46:45,385 --> 00:46:49,055
Mr. Barisone,
in my opinion, has two diagnoses.

841
00:46:49,056 --> 00:46:52,558
So the first diagnosis
is delusional disorder.

842
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:57,231
And the second diagnosis
is persistent depressive disorder.

843
00:46:57,981 --> 00:46:59,774
Dr. Simring agreed,

844
00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:06,656
and he also felt that Michael Barisone
was driven over the edge by Lauren Kanarek

845
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:09,951
and that he was not responsible
for his actions.

846
00:47:09,952 --> 00:47:11,702
When you have a delusional disorder,

847
00:47:11,703 --> 00:47:14,413
you don't get talked out
of the false belief.

848
00:47:14,414 --> 00:47:16,958
The core false belief

849
00:47:16,959 --> 00:47:20,753
is that Lauren Kanarek
was going to annihilate him

850
00:47:20,754 --> 00:47:22,713
and did everything he could

851
00:47:22,714 --> 00:47:26,509
to try to protect himself
against this delusion.

852
00:47:26,510 --> 00:47:29,178
As far as the actual incident,

853
00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:32,682
he was never able to give you
any specific details--

854
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:36,395
That is correct. He gave me no details,
and he gave law enforcement no details.

855
00:47:37,062 --> 00:47:39,856
Did he know the difference
between right and wrong?

856
00:47:39,857 --> 00:47:42,150
Time of the incident, he did not. No.

857
00:47:43,569 --> 00:47:46,696
<i>Michael Barisone has
no personal knowledge of what happened.</i>

858
00:47:46,697 --> 00:47:48,323
<i>Pretty hard for a jury to swallow.</i>

859
00:47:48,991 --> 00:47:52,243
<i>You can snap that much
that you don't remember nothing?</i>

860
00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:55,037
We have a doctor's opinion
saying he was broken.

861
00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:56,497
We started to present evidence

862
00:47:56,498 --> 00:48:01,295
of people who saw physical manifestations
of Michael's breaking.

863
00:48:02,045 --> 00:48:04,797
{\an8}Did you ever see Michael break down

864
00:48:04,798 --> 00:48:08,593
in response to what he saw
on those social media posts?

865
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:13,848
Um, he continued to become
more and more fearful,

866
00:48:13,849 --> 00:48:17,852
um, to unravel,
to be in panic, sheer panic.

867
00:48:17,853 --> 00:48:20,855
Can you describe your observations,

868
00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:23,774
say, for the last two or three days

869
00:48:23,775 --> 00:48:25,193
{\an8}prior to the shooting?

870
00:48:25,819 --> 00:48:28,572
{\an8}I would say he was
in an almost catatonic state.

871
00:48:29,406 --> 00:48:31,366
{\an8}Hadn't been sleeping, eating...

872
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:33,201
Um...

873
00:48:33,702 --> 00:48:35,495
Glazed-over look in his eyes. Just...

874
00:48:37,956 --> 00:48:41,293
Every trial has its ups and downs.

875
00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,254
Each day is a separate battle.

876
00:48:45,255 --> 00:48:47,966
The only thing that matters at the end

877
00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:51,136
is winning the war.

878
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,307
The State calls Lauren Kanarek.

879
00:48:56,308 --> 00:48:58,100
All right, Lauren Kanarek.

880
00:48:58,101 --> 00:49:02,396
Do you swear in the presence of
almighty God that testimony you give...

881
00:49:02,397 --> 00:49:03,814
Discovery starts,

882
00:49:03,815 --> 00:49:06,776
and in a normal case,
it'd usually be a small file.

883
00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:12,491
But in this case,
it was a book of 30, 40 DVDs.

884
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,119
{\an8}There were mountains of text messages.

885
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:18,955
Lauren Kanarek's Facebook account,

886
00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:21,708
that was 19,800 pages.

887
00:49:22,542 --> 00:49:25,169
{\an8}All right, cross examination,
Mr. Bilinkas.

888
00:49:25,170 --> 00:49:27,589
{\an8}- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.

889
00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:31,134
With regards to your Facebook account, uh,

890
00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:34,513
you were posting things daily, correct?

891
00:49:35,263 --> 00:49:36,098
Correct.

892
00:49:36,598 --> 00:49:40,226
I had spent 100 hours-plus

893
00:49:40,227 --> 00:49:42,812
going through all her social media posts.

894
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:45,315
I felt that I could destroy her.

895
00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:48,818
"Once a homewrecker,
always a homewrecker."

896
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:52,780
"She is hardly more than pond scum.
Weapons hot."

897
00:49:52,781 --> 00:49:54,115
Did you say that?

898
00:49:54,116 --> 00:49:57,618
- Probably.
- "It's about time to possibly go to war."

899
00:49:57,619 --> 00:50:00,371
Go back to the post
from a minute ago about--

900
00:50:00,372 --> 00:50:02,332
- I'm moving on. I have a lot to go.
- Okay.

901
00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:08,713
What Ed and I were trying to do was
to bring out the truth from the witness

902
00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:10,173
that they were trying to mask.

903
00:50:10,757 --> 00:50:14,635
Do you recall saying things like,
"The king will be killed,

904
00:50:14,636 --> 00:50:16,804
the queen will be sacrificed"?

905
00:50:16,805 --> 00:50:19,849
I don't know, honestly.
I was talking about a chess game,

906
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:21,851
and it might have been an analogy, but--

907
00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:23,602
But the analogy was towards

908
00:50:23,603 --> 00:50:26,230
Michael Barisone
and Mary Haskins, correct?

909
00:50:26,231 --> 00:50:27,274
Most certainly.

910
00:50:27,774 --> 00:50:30,568
The things that
Lauren Kanarek had... had done

911
00:50:30,569 --> 00:50:35,573
were enough to drive anyone crazy.

912
00:50:35,574 --> 00:50:37,992
Did you say words to the effect,

913
00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:42,621
"This is me. Look out 'cause here I come"?

914
00:50:42,622 --> 00:50:44,331
I'm like, "Yes."

915
00:50:44,332 --> 00:50:45,666
<i>This is me</i>

916
00:50:45,667 --> 00:50:47,960
{\an8}<i>Look out 'cause here I come...</i>

917
00:50:47,961 --> 00:50:51,465
I think it was a post
from <i>The Greatest Showman</i>.

918
00:50:53,258 --> 00:50:56,093
He was so dirty to take something

919
00:50:56,094 --> 00:51:00,139
so obviously not about murder

920
00:51:00,140 --> 00:51:02,267
or fighting or hostility.

921
00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:05,812
I have no recollection of that.

922
00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:11,609
I only brought out the things
that I thought were helpful to the jury.

923
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:15,822
After I brought in numerous documents

924
00:51:16,406 --> 00:51:19,617
indicating that she said this
or she said that,

925
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:22,037
I asked her that pivotal question.

926
00:51:22,621 --> 00:51:26,792
Did you have a plan
to destroy Michael Barisone?

927
00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:29,711
At some point, yes.

928
00:51:31,296 --> 00:51:33,005
As soon as she said that,

929
00:51:33,006 --> 00:51:35,133
I thought the game was over.

930
00:51:36,259 --> 00:51:38,469
Ladies and gentlemen,
we'll break for today.

931
00:51:38,470 --> 00:51:40,305
Please don't discuss the case.

932
00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:43,141
You can step down, ma'am.
You just wait outside.

933
00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:47,311
With questions and answers
like that, you really get this sense

934
00:51:47,312 --> 00:51:50,397
that there was
a concerted effort to break him.

935
00:51:50,398 --> 00:51:54,819
Bilinkas is using a word
that I'm interpreting in a different way.

936
00:51:54,820 --> 00:51:56,905
In my mind, I'm thinking,

937
00:51:57,447 --> 00:52:02,785
he has done nothing but harass me,
bully me, and try to ruin my life.

938
00:52:02,786 --> 00:52:04,453
I don't want him destroyed.

939
00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,955
I wanted him stopped.

940
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:08,041
Michael Barisone

941
00:52:09,751 --> 00:52:13,255
was driven over the edge

942
00:52:13,839 --> 00:52:16,091
by Lauren Kanarek.

943
00:52:17,884 --> 00:52:20,637
Pure evil.

944
00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:26,183
Mr. Schellhorn, does the State
have any rebuttal witnesses?

945
00:52:26,184 --> 00:52:27,352
Yes, Judge.

946
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:31,064
Our theory at trial
was that you can't shoot somebody.

947
00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:35,568
And Michael Barisone
took a substantial step

948
00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:38,279
in a course of conduct
to kill Lauren Kanarek.

949
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,115
And that was his purpose.

950
00:52:41,908 --> 00:52:43,868
The State will call Dr. Louis Schlesinger.

951
00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:45,828
All right, Dr. Schlesinger.

952
00:52:45,829 --> 00:52:48,998
{\an8}In this case,
did you find any evidence of delusions

953
00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:51,167
{\an8}based on your examination
of Michael Barisone?

954
00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:54,712
{\an8}No. I found...
I found no evidence of this at all.

955
00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:58,966
Dr. Schlesinger did not diagnose
delusional disorder,

956
00:52:58,967 --> 00:53:01,385
didn't find any evidence
of delusion in the case.

957
00:53:01,386 --> 00:53:04,263
I think that this is malingered amnesia.

958
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:09,018
He claimed that he doesn't have memory
only for the criminal behavior.

959
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:12,063
His memory for everything else
is excellent. Are you kidding?

960
00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:16,025
If you have good memory like he does,

961
00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:19,862
and the only thing you forget
is criminal conduct,

962
00:53:19,863 --> 00:53:21,156
that's a red flag.

963
00:53:22,824 --> 00:53:26,995
They made him into this, like, you know,
big Olympian who became a broken man.

964
00:53:27,871 --> 00:53:29,079
"Why is this like this?"

965
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,207
"It had to have been those people."

966
00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:33,876
"Because when we knew him, he was this."

967
00:53:33,877 --> 00:53:35,837
"And now he's this."

968
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,591
He's this, like, shell of a man
looking for when the jury's there

969
00:53:40,592 --> 00:53:42,718
to make sure he looks extra crazy,

970
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,264
and then when the jury's not there,
he's taking notes.

971
00:53:46,848 --> 00:53:50,392
There's a certain point in the trial
where we're talking about a Twitter post.

972
00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:52,102
Michael posted,

973
00:53:52,103 --> 00:53:54,939
"Once you got into the Olympics,
you have all this power."

974
00:53:54,940 --> 00:53:57,775
"I'm gonna do whatever I want."
Encouraging this person--

975
00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:00,569
He said, "I'm gonna do whatever I want,"
in that Twitter?

976
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:04,365
Something like that.
I'm paraphrasing most of these things.

977
00:54:04,366 --> 00:54:06,158
Like you have a little bit.

978
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:08,577
But, um, yes.

979
00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:11,331
He gets this note
handed to him from Michael,

980
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:16,085
crazy Michael who's sitting there
banging his head on the table, you know...

981
00:54:16,086 --> 00:54:18,420
Making all these faces,

982
00:54:18,421 --> 00:54:21,423
but has enough common sense,

983
00:54:21,424 --> 00:54:24,803
and, like, obviously,
he's still in reality enough

984
00:54:25,303 --> 00:54:28,514
to make a note to give to his lawyer.

985
00:54:28,515 --> 00:54:29,807
"Make sure you add that in."

986
00:54:29,808 --> 00:54:31,850
Would it surprise you to know

987
00:54:31,851 --> 00:54:35,187
that Michael Barisone
doesn't have a Twitter account?

988
00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:37,899
He's not still insane.
That's not what the thing was.

989
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:40,944
He was pleading insanity for that time.

990
00:54:41,444 --> 00:54:43,363
Why's he still looking
like a crazy person?

991
00:54:44,322 --> 00:54:46,156
Do you see Mr. Barisone in court?

992
00:54:46,157 --> 00:54:49,868
Um, I think it's... I think that's Michael
sitting next to his attorney.

993
00:54:49,869 --> 00:54:52,663
Although I will say, he looks different
than when I saw him.

994
00:54:52,664 --> 00:54:55,958
When I saw him, he was well-groomed
and looked appropriate,

995
00:54:55,959 --> 00:54:58,377
and now he looks...
long, disheveled hair. I...

996
00:54:58,378 --> 00:55:00,296
That's not how he looked when I saw him.

997
00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:02,589
This is acting.
This is theater you're watching.

998
00:55:02,590 --> 00:55:04,758
If you're not smart enough to know that,

999
00:55:04,759 --> 00:55:07,512
you should not be on a jury, period.

1000
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:13,642
I think one of the challenges here
was that they were working together.

1001
00:55:13,643 --> 00:55:16,061
They were living at the same property.

1002
00:55:16,062 --> 00:55:19,107
They each had perhaps separate goals.

1003
00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:23,235
At some point, did Michael Barisone
send you a text message

1004
00:55:23,236 --> 00:55:27,365
telling you that he would make things
miserable for them to stay?

1005
00:55:35,957 --> 00:55:36,791
Yes.

1006
00:55:37,876 --> 00:55:40,919
Well, Lauren is driving Michael crazy

1007
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,881
because she's saying
all these bad things about him

1008
00:55:43,882 --> 00:55:45,966
and reporting him to SafeSport,

1009
00:55:45,967 --> 00:55:50,637
and meanwhile, that's exactly
what Michael Barisone and Mary Haskins

1010
00:55:50,638 --> 00:55:52,307
are doing to Lauren.

1011
00:56:03,443 --> 00:56:05,944
Did you or the defendant at some point

1012
00:56:05,945 --> 00:56:10,115
make a complaint directly to USEF
about Lauren Kanarek?

1013
00:56:10,116 --> 00:56:11,200
Yes.

1014
00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:14,495
Our argument to the jury
was that a lot of his behavior

1015
00:56:14,496 --> 00:56:17,206
was inconsistent
with someone who was scared.

1016
00:56:17,207 --> 00:56:22,044
He was having his lawyer send
fake eviction notices to scare her.

1017
00:56:22,045 --> 00:56:25,298
Michael did not want to start eviction.

1018
00:56:25,965 --> 00:56:29,635
He wanted to scare her into leaving. So...

1019
00:56:29,636 --> 00:56:33,597
The reason we didn't just leave
is because we couldn't,

1020
00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:37,309
because they were calling barns
and bad-mouthing us.

1021
00:56:37,310 --> 00:56:40,729
The barns that were going to take
my horses suddenly wouldn't.

1022
00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:45,025
Michael Barisone never wanted
to just use the words to Lauren,

1023
00:56:45,026 --> 00:56:47,528
"You're not welcome here.
You need to leave,"

1024
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:53,450
and instead tried all these sideways
and backhanded ways to get her to leave,

1025
00:56:53,451 --> 00:56:56,413
and when that didn't work,
resorted to violence.

1026
00:56:58,998 --> 00:57:01,709
There are different theories
on how you try a case.

1027
00:57:02,627 --> 00:57:05,380
Some cases call for the drama
at the beginning.

1028
00:57:07,590 --> 00:57:10,426
Sometimes you want to ramp up the drama
till the end.

1029
00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:13,345
State your name
and spell your last name for the record.

1030
00:57:13,346 --> 00:57:16,640
Ruth Pinnix Cox. My last name is C-O-X.

1031
00:57:16,641 --> 00:57:17,599
Thank you.

1032
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,643
- Ms. Cox. You may have a seat.
- Thank you.

1033
00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:22,229
All right. Please keep your voice up
so we hear...

1034
00:57:22,230 --> 00:57:25,858
{\an8}Dr. Cox owned a horse
with Mary Haskins Gray

1035
00:57:25,859 --> 00:57:27,985
{\an8}that was being trained with Mary Haskins

1036
00:57:27,986 --> 00:57:31,321
and being trained at the property
by Michael Barisone.

1037
00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:34,199
On August 4th,
were you having a conversation

1038
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,952
with the defendant
in the stables on that property?

1039
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:39,413
- Yes, sir. I was.
- Did he ask for something?

1040
00:57:39,414 --> 00:57:41,415
- Yes, sir.
- What did he ask you for?

1041
00:57:41,416 --> 00:57:44,710
He wanted to see a gun
that I had in my car.

1042
00:57:44,711 --> 00:57:46,879
Do you recall what kind of gun that was?

1043
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,674
It is a 9mm Ruger.

1044
00:57:50,341 --> 00:57:53,218
You have any concerns
with giving it to him at that time?

1045
00:57:53,219 --> 00:57:56,054
Absolutely, sir, I did not at that time.

1046
00:57:56,055 --> 00:57:58,140
Dr. Cox gave him the gun.

1047
00:57:58,141 --> 00:58:00,185
It was unloaded. It was in the case.

1048
00:58:01,686 --> 00:58:04,606
Michael Barisone put that gun
into his gun safe.

1049
00:58:06,149 --> 00:58:08,860
And that was three days
before the shooting,

1050
00:58:09,777 --> 00:58:13,614
which would indicate
someone planning a murder

1051
00:58:13,615 --> 00:58:15,408
or preparing for a murder.

1052
00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:20,163
This wasn't just
a spur-of-the-moment decision,

1053
00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:23,082
but there was a culmination here.

1054
00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:26,001
It wasn't the product of a delusion,

1055
00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:30,339
but it was a response to neither side
getting what they wanted.

1056
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:32,508
And it came to a head on August 7th

1057
00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:36,261
when a caseworker
from the Division of Child Protection

1058
00:58:36,262 --> 00:58:37,889
arrived at the farm.

1059
00:58:39,265 --> 00:58:42,726
{\an8}Minutes later,
Michael Barisone is getting into his car

1060
00:58:42,727 --> 00:58:45,103
{\an8}and driving a half a mile
to confront Lauren

1061
00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:49,776
without even ever knowing or understanding
why that worker was at the property.

1062
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,278
Were you there looking specifically
for Michael Barisone?

1063
00:58:53,279 --> 00:58:54,197
No.

1064
00:58:54,781 --> 00:58:57,199
The caseworker had been sent there

1065
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,785
because of a neglect complaint
from SafeSport

1066
00:58:59,786 --> 00:59:04,706
about potential neglect
involving Mary Haskins and her children.

1067
00:59:04,707 --> 00:59:06,124
{\an8}When I made the report,

1068
00:59:06,125 --> 00:59:08,877
{\an8}SafeSport kept asking,
"Are there minors on the property?"

1069
00:59:08,878 --> 00:59:10,754
I'm not CPS, and I don't have kids,

1070
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:13,006
so I don't know
what they're thinking about this

1071
00:59:13,007 --> 00:59:14,091
or why it's important.

1072
00:59:14,092 --> 00:59:16,760
I'm reporting him for what he is doing.

1073
00:59:16,761 --> 00:59:21,683
It was only about harassment,
bullying, and abuse of power.

1074
00:59:22,684 --> 00:59:26,853
While Mary Haskins and the caseworker
were having that private conversation,

1075
00:59:26,854 --> 00:59:28,981
three times he went in and interrupted.

1076
00:59:28,982 --> 00:59:31,400
And on the third occasion
is when he told them

1077
00:59:31,401 --> 00:59:33,319
he needed to use the office,

1078
00:59:33,945 --> 00:59:36,572
the office being the place
where the gun safe was.

1079
00:59:36,573 --> 00:59:41,326
His own expert testifies
he remembers getting the gun,

1080
00:59:41,327 --> 00:59:44,496
loading it, and driving
to go confront her.

1081
00:59:44,497 --> 00:59:46,915
Your recollection is that at some point,

1082
00:59:46,916 --> 00:59:49,418
when you were interviewing
Michael Barisone,

1083
00:59:49,419 --> 00:59:51,253
he told you that he remembered

1084
00:59:51,254 --> 00:59:54,673
getting the gun from the safe
before he went to the house?

1085
00:59:54,674 --> 00:59:57,134
- Yes.
- You agree that's not in your report?

1086
00:59:57,135 --> 01:00:00,137
I'm not gonna look through it
and waste the jury's time.

1087
01:00:00,138 --> 01:00:01,889
I'll accept your representation.

1088
01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:05,892
He made a conscious decision
to go into his office

1089
01:00:05,893 --> 01:00:08,353
to get his gun, to load the gun,

1090
01:00:08,354 --> 01:00:10,440
put it in his pocket, hide it,

1091
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:15,820
and that he went there
knowing that this was... the end.

1092
01:00:21,409 --> 01:00:24,244
We should have
a kind of lengthy show this morning

1093
01:00:24,245 --> 01:00:25,746
with the closing arguments

1094
01:00:25,747 --> 01:00:28,333
of the Michael Barisone
attempted murder trial.

1095
01:00:29,667 --> 01:00:31,377
We'll bring the jurors in.

1096
01:00:33,087 --> 01:00:35,172
There's a connection with the jury.

1097
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:39,092
I think they appreciate my passion.

1098
01:00:39,093 --> 01:00:41,595
He could've made up a much better story!

1099
01:00:41,596 --> 01:00:43,722
"Kanarek had a gun. I shot her."

1100
01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:46,016
"I was getting the hell beaten out of me!"

1101
01:00:46,017 --> 01:00:49,561
"I don't remember" doesn't help him.

1102
01:00:49,562 --> 01:00:55,275
They believe that I believe
that Michael Barisone was not guilty.

1103
01:00:55,276 --> 01:00:57,944
I don't have
any remarkable catchphrases for you.

1104
01:00:57,945 --> 01:00:59,739
I'm not gonna cry.

1105
01:01:00,281 --> 01:01:03,992
I'm just gonna ask you to follow the facts
and apply the law.

1106
01:01:03,993 --> 01:01:06,203
When it comes time for closing argument,

1107
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:10,749
I'm asking them to rely on the evidence
we gave them and return a guilty verdict,

1108
01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:13,001
{\an8}that they trust the case
that we gave them.

1109
01:01:13,002 --> 01:01:16,546
Just based on the fact
that the defendant used a deadly weapon,

1110
01:01:16,547 --> 01:01:20,551
you can infer that his purpose
was to take a life.

1111
01:01:21,135 --> 01:01:24,388
He knew when he opened the safe
and took that gun

1112
01:01:24,389 --> 01:01:27,224
exactly what he was going to do.

1113
01:01:27,225 --> 01:01:31,562
What Lauren Kanarek
did to him was horrible!

1114
01:01:32,897 --> 01:01:33,939
Horrible!

1115
01:01:33,940 --> 01:01:39,945
Who goes to the extent that Lauren Kanarek
and Robert Goodwin went to?

1116
01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:42,239
Mr. Bilinkas said that
about Lauren Kanarek

1117
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,491
over and over and over.

1118
01:01:44,492 --> 01:01:45,659
"Who would do this?"

1119
01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:47,828
{\an8}The defendant is doing

1120
01:01:47,829 --> 01:01:50,872
the exact same thing to her.

1121
01:01:50,873 --> 01:01:54,836
Michael Barisone was insane
at the time of the incident.

1122
01:01:55,586 --> 01:01:58,505
He was suffering from a mental defect.

1123
01:01:58,506 --> 01:02:01,675
There's no memory disorder
that a person would forget

1124
01:02:01,676 --> 01:02:04,219
just the time
when they're committing a criminal act

1125
01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:06,471
until they're finished
committing the criminal act.

1126
01:02:06,472 --> 01:02:09,683
They had a plan
to destroy Michael Barisone.

1127
01:02:09,684 --> 01:02:12,269
Don't let them use you!

1128
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:15,689
I would ask that you not return a verdict

1129
01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:19,234
based on any sympathy,
disgust, or emotion.

1130
01:02:19,235 --> 01:02:22,280
Find Michael Barisone not guilty!

1131
01:02:23,030 --> 01:02:27,076
It is the right and just thing to do.

1132
01:02:30,121 --> 01:02:32,622
<i>Breaking news coming out of New Jersey</i>

1133
01:02:32,623 --> 01:02:34,374
<i>as a verdict is in.</i>

1134
01:02:34,375 --> 01:02:36,918
<i>A verdict is handed in
in the attempted murder case</i>

1135
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:38,712
<i>of ex-Olympian Michael Barisone.</i>

1136
01:02:38,713 --> 01:02:41,174
{\an8}The verdict is in for Michael Barisone.

1137
01:02:42,175 --> 01:02:44,302
The jury had been out for days.

1138
01:02:44,927 --> 01:02:48,013
The pressure, again, is mounting.

1139
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:50,808
You never know what a jury is gonna do.

1140
01:02:52,143 --> 01:02:53,935
As I tell almost all victims,

1141
01:02:53,936 --> 01:02:56,688
I felt very confident
in the proofs that we had,

1142
01:02:56,689 --> 01:03:01,611
but anything is possible
when the case goes to deliberations.

1143
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:03,862
All right, counsel, Mr. Barisone.

1144
01:03:03,863 --> 01:03:05,989
{\an8}The jury sent out a note
about ten minutes ago

1145
01:03:05,990 --> 01:03:09,201
{\an8}that they have in fact
reached a verdict in this matter.

1146
01:03:09,202 --> 01:03:10,202
{\an8}So we're gonna bring...

1147
01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:13,122
{\an8}I was convinced Michael
could literally have a heart attack.

1148
01:03:14,624 --> 01:03:16,125
I couldn't be in the room.

1149
01:03:16,626 --> 01:03:20,128
I left and went to go,
like, sit on the stairs

1150
01:03:20,129 --> 01:03:21,756
with just my head on my hands.

1151
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:27,845
The moment that
a verdict comes in is highly stressful,

1152
01:03:28,429 --> 01:03:31,264
and it only gets worse
as the jurors walk into the courtroom,

1153
01:03:31,265 --> 01:03:35,770
and literally the fate of the case
is in their hands.

1154
01:03:37,647 --> 01:03:38,940
Be seated, everyone.

1155
01:03:42,527 --> 01:03:45,071
{\an8}All right, Mr. Foreman,
please rise, please.

1156
01:03:47,031 --> 01:03:51,159
Mr. Foreman, has the jury agreed
upon a verdict in this case?

1157
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,494
We have.

1158
01:03:52,495 --> 01:03:56,248
With regard to count one,
attempted murder of Lauren Kanarek,

1159
01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:57,499
what is your verdict?

1160
01:03:57,500 --> 01:04:00,086
Not guilty by reason of insanity.

1161
01:04:03,506 --> 01:04:05,842
With regard to count two...

1162
01:04:07,718 --> 01:04:12,390
<i>I can't remember the last time
I heard, "Not guilty, reason of insanity."</i>

1163
01:04:13,641 --> 01:04:16,685
<i>It's not temporary insanity.
If he was temporarily insane,</i>

1164
01:04:16,686 --> 01:04:19,980
<i>why'd he sit in the courtroom every day,
looking like he was a crazy man?</i>

1165
01:04:19,981 --> 01:04:21,898
<i>He did it 'cause he put on a show,</i>

1166
01:04:21,899 --> 01:04:24,402
<i>and the jury bought it
hook, line, and sinker.</i>

1167
01:04:25,111 --> 01:04:28,947
<i>There's a lot of conjecture,
the idea that he was acting this way.</i>

1168
01:04:28,948 --> 01:04:32,117
<i>But I think for... That would have to be
an Oscar-level performance</i>

1169
01:04:32,118 --> 01:04:34,453
<i>for him to act that way for eight hours.</i>

1170
01:04:36,414 --> 01:04:39,207
People are saying, "That's an act."

1171
01:04:39,208 --> 01:04:42,711
"You had him act like this,
had him act like that."

1172
01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:46,507
Fuck you. That never happened.

1173
01:04:47,967 --> 01:04:52,013
That was raw human emotion.

1174
01:04:54,307 --> 01:04:57,142
They announced the verdict
over the loudspeaker

1175
01:04:57,143 --> 01:04:59,519
at the show in Florida.

1176
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,731
People at the show
were cheering and crying.

1177
01:05:02,732 --> 01:05:05,275
<i>Hashtag Free Michael!</i>

1178
01:05:05,276 --> 01:05:09,237
People would text me and say, "Oh, my God,
you've got to see the comments."

1179
01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:12,490
And, you know,
they would send me a screenshot.

1180
01:05:12,491 --> 01:05:15,995
Very few people had any support for her.

1181
01:05:16,704 --> 01:05:19,414
Members of the jury,
you have heard the verdict

1182
01:05:19,415 --> 01:05:21,959
as reported by your foreperson.

1183
01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:26,088
{\an8}The defendant, Mr. Barisone,
will now be civilly committed.

1184
01:05:27,256 --> 01:05:32,720
You can't shoot somebody,
and I think that remains true.

1185
01:05:33,346 --> 01:05:35,389
From a civilized perspective,

1186
01:05:36,140 --> 01:05:40,645
even if you don't like Lauren,
even if you don't like what she was doing,

1187
01:05:41,145 --> 01:05:43,730
it's just so hard for me
to wrap my head around

1188
01:05:43,731 --> 01:05:47,068
someone maintaining
that it was okay to shoot her.

1189
01:05:47,652 --> 01:05:51,029
When you reach breaking point,
you don't kill somebody.

1190
01:05:51,030 --> 01:05:53,698
You quit your job. You divorce your wife.

1191
01:05:53,699 --> 01:05:56,076
You throw the child out,
move across the country.

1192
01:05:56,077 --> 01:06:00,164
The world knows you don't kill people
because you're upset with them.

1193
01:06:19,350 --> 01:06:21,059
Finally, freedom!

1194
01:06:21,060 --> 01:06:22,435
Justice!

1195
01:06:22,436 --> 01:06:24,229
Finally, for all!

1196
01:06:24,230 --> 01:06:26,648
Michael Barisone is a free man!

1197
01:06:26,649 --> 01:06:28,025
Yee-haw!

1198
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:32,904
Thank you so much. Go home and--

1199
01:06:32,905 --> 01:06:35,700
- I'm gonna get drunk.
- I'm not.

1200
01:06:36,951 --> 01:06:39,996
After the not guilty
by reason of insanity,

1201
01:06:40,621 --> 01:06:43,707
Michael was put in a mental institution.

1202
01:06:43,708 --> 01:06:47,293
The doctors did there
an extensive evaluation

1203
01:06:47,294 --> 01:06:51,881
and determined
he does not have a mental defect

1204
01:06:51,882 --> 01:06:54,802
and that he should be released
to the community.

1205
01:06:59,306 --> 01:07:02,893
I was physically at the trial
every single day.

1206
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:05,603
Through everything,
our relationship just grew,

1207
01:07:05,604 --> 01:07:09,482
and, you know,
we just had feelings for each other.

1208
01:07:09,483 --> 01:07:13,778
With the verdict,
it was a huge, huge, huge relief

1209
01:07:13,779 --> 01:07:16,866
because I knew
that we would have a future.

1210
01:07:23,205 --> 01:07:27,167
I'm sitting here because somebody said,
"This wasn't his fault. He broke."

1211
01:07:27,168 --> 01:07:30,170
Whether I did anything wrong
or I didn't do anything wrong,

1212
01:07:30,171 --> 01:07:31,629
regardless of all that,

1213
01:07:31,630 --> 01:07:33,798
I've been given a chance
to have a new life,

1214
01:07:33,799 --> 01:07:35,092
and I wanna live it well.

1215
01:07:38,804 --> 01:07:41,097
Halt. Halt.

1216
01:07:41,098 --> 01:07:42,183
Thank you.

1217
01:07:42,933 --> 01:07:44,310
Okay, walk on.

1218
01:07:46,854 --> 01:07:48,647
How are you recovering from this?

1219
01:07:49,148 --> 01:07:51,816
I mean, it's... it's been a long road,

1220
01:07:51,817 --> 01:07:56,489
a very long, difficult, hard road
that is never-ending.

1221
01:07:58,407 --> 01:08:02,369
Once two bullets
collapse your lung entirely,

1222
01:08:03,579 --> 01:08:07,333
your body is never
going to be the same again.

1223
01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:14,256
I do not think Michael Barisone is insane
one single bit.

1224
01:08:15,216 --> 01:08:18,051
Something incredibly bad happened here.

1225
01:08:18,052 --> 01:08:21,054
I think that everybody involved
has a chance

1226
01:08:21,055 --> 01:08:23,431
to start to try
and live their lives again.

1227
01:08:23,432 --> 01:08:26,768
People go, "Michael,
you got your life back!" Blah, blah. No!

1228
01:08:26,769 --> 01:08:30,563
I lost a tremendous amount,
and I've gained back a lot,

1229
01:08:30,564 --> 01:08:34,901
but this is still
this trauma, stigma thing.

1230
01:08:34,902 --> 01:08:37,987
I have an asterisk next to my name
for the rest of my life.

1231
01:08:37,988 --> 01:08:39,198
I wanna show you this.

1232
01:08:39,698 --> 01:08:41,825
We have everything printed,
every single thing.

1233
01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:43,910
Two TBs of things printed.

1234
01:08:43,911 --> 01:08:47,205
I don't know if they're all here.
These are important messages too.

1235
01:08:47,206 --> 01:08:50,250
This is all printed-out text messages.

1236
01:08:50,251 --> 01:08:53,211
Don't get sucked down
that stupid rabbit hole from these people.

1237
01:08:53,212 --> 01:08:56,132
If you'd like me to produce the exchange,
I'll be happy to produce it.

1238
01:09:01,011 --> 01:09:04,264
I get told again and again and again,
"Michael, leave this behind."

1239
01:09:04,265 --> 01:09:06,099
I'm not allowed to leave this behind.

1240
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:08,476
This is the transcript of audio...

1241
01:09:08,477 --> 01:09:11,020
This stack alone is hundreds of pages.

1242
01:09:11,021 --> 01:09:13,398
Rob, where is Dr. Hassan's...

1243
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:16,109
How in the world
does someone survive this?

1244
01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:21,197
I was a law-abiding man
who never had any problems in life at all.

1245
01:09:21,198 --> 01:09:23,533
- Posting for page after page--
- Michael, we got--

1246
01:09:23,534 --> 01:09:25,410
Drink this. Relax.

1247
01:09:25,411 --> 01:09:26,578
We got this.

1248
01:09:26,579 --> 01:09:29,122
So he thought
I was gonna burn the barn down?

1249
01:09:29,123 --> 01:09:31,583
Bullshit. I'm not defending myself
against a post

1250
01:09:31,584 --> 01:09:33,084
that he made up in his head...

1251
01:09:33,085 --> 01:09:37,839
It's just so unbelievable
that this jury could reach this verdict.

1252
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:39,757
She has to watch it over and over again.

1253
01:09:39,758 --> 01:09:42,218
I'd prefer she stop watching
because it's so painful.

1254
01:09:42,219 --> 01:09:46,806
Lauren Kanarek sat on a stand
in a courtroom, and she said,

1255
01:09:46,807 --> 01:09:50,102
"I instituted a plot to destroy his life."

1256
01:09:50,769 --> 01:09:53,771
Lauren, you tried to destroy my life,
and you failed.

1257
01:09:53,772 --> 01:09:58,276
If I was to actually make
the Olympic Games or the World Cup final,

1258
01:09:58,277 --> 01:10:01,529
I will be the biggest comeback in history.

1259
01:10:01,530 --> 01:10:03,865
- <i>Michael Barisone!</i>
- <i>Michael Barisone.</i>

1260
01:10:03,866 --> 01:10:05,825
<i>Michael Barisone.</i>

1261
01:10:05,826 --> 01:10:07,619
And that's my goal.

1262
01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:10,830
I'm not the type of person
to go cry in the corner.

1263
01:10:10,831 --> 01:10:14,752
Come hell or high water,
I'm going to continue in this sport.

1264
01:10:15,252 --> 01:10:17,838
And if you want me out of it,
you're gonna have to kill me

1265
01:10:18,422 --> 01:10:19,548
like Michael tried to.