March 23, 2026

50 Shades of Evil: New Mexico

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“Clifton Bloomfield” AKA the “Breaking Bad Killer” was Born in Arizona in 1969 with a violent criminal past that landed him in prison as a teenager, Bloomfield was released in 2002 and reinvented himself in New Mexico as a roofer… and a movie extra. He walked the sets of the prison drama Felon and even auditioned during the early days of Breaking Bad. But behind the camera, this career criminal was quietly hunting.

Between 2005 and 2008, Bloomfield slaughtered five innocent people in their own homes: 37-year-old Carlos Esquibel, strangled after a chance encounter; 81-year-old retired schoolteacher Josephine Selvage, who suffered from Alzheimer’s; elderly couple Tak and Pung Yi, beaten to death during a home invasion; and newlywed Scott Pierce, shot dead in a botched contract killing gone horribly wrong — carried out with an accomplice while his bride hid in terror.

DNA finally connected the dots after his 2008 arrest. To dodge the death penalty, Bloomfield pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and more, receiving five life sentences plus 45 years. Years later he tried to walk it all back… and failed.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola. I'm your host,

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Jim Chapman, and we are back with another Fifty Shades

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of Evil episode. This time we're going to New Mexico

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and I'm going to tell you the story of Clifton Bloomfield. Now,

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before we get into it quickly, I want to apologize

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for not releasing an episode last week. I was actually

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in court for about eight days and I'm talking eighteen

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hour days in court. Now. There was a very high

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profile case here in my community, and I was there

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for every second of that trial. Unfortunately, what was estimated

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to likely be a four day trial turned into an

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a day trial, so I was unable to record an episode.

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But I'm back and we're going to get into this

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story now. In two thousand and eight, Bloomfield pleaded guilty

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to ten charges, including five counts of first degree murder.

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He is likely the most infamous serial killer in New

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Mexico history, and due to his role on the very

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popular series Breaking Bad, he has become known as the

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Breaking Bag Killer. So let's get into it, and we're

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going to start in March of nineteen sixty nine when

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Clifton Bloomfield was born in Kingman, Arizona. Now, Kingman, Arizona

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is a pretty historic city. It's actually known as the

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heart of Route sixty six. There's a lot of tourist attractions.

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There's a lot of historic buildings, museums, et cetera. Now,

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his household was a working class household. Both of his

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parents hard workers. Not much documented as to what they did,

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but they had more of a blue collar background. Now,

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when Clifton was two years old, his parents did have

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another child, and Clifton would welcome a younger sister who

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would play a role later on in this story. So,

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believe it or not, it didn't take Clifton long to

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have his first scrape with law enforcement. As a matter

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of fact, in nineteen seventy nine, at the age of

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just ten years old, he had his first scrape with

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the law. There's actually a documented case in Mohave County Arizona,

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where apparently Clifton was threatening other kids with a bb gun.

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Not sure how serious the case was, but it appeared

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very serious because the judge in Arizona, he took it

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seriously enough that he plays Clifton Bloomfield on probation until

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his eighteenth birthday, and he ordered him to enroll in

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children's homes in Tucson, Arizona, where he stayed for three years.

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So at the age of thirteen, he gets released from

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his children's home and he returns to live with his

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parents in Kingman, Arizona, and his parents were struggling with

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a lot of behavior issues out of Clifton, so much

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so that they started bringing him to mental health clinics

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pretty much on a daily basis, and he gets formally

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charged with schizophrenia, which leads to him being prescribed an

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antipsychotic medication called sarentil, which y'all know. I do my

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research and I looked up what this medication was, and

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according to my research, serentil is historically used to treat

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schizophrenia in patients who have failed to respond to other treatments. Now,

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it was also used for behavior problems, anxiety, and alcoholism,

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but in two thousand and four was actually withdrawn from

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the United States market after significant risk of serious cardiac

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events and also serious severe side effects of other types.

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So you learn it all on this show, folks. Now

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back to Clifton. He returned at thirteen home and shortly

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after that he gets committed yet again for another juvenile offense.

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As a matter of fact, it was numerous offenses, including

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stealing a motorcycle and breaking into a church. So he's

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in and out of the juvenile facilities a lot between

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the ages of thirteen and eighteen. He was very, very aggressive.

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He was a problem child. He would fight staff members

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often and it was completely obvious that this guy had

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some major problems. So moving on to nineteen eighty seven,

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he becomes an adult. He's eighteen years old and it's

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not much better for clefting. He didn't exactly mature as

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we would say. He teams up with his sixteen year

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old sister, her name was Eva, and they'd go on

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a weak, long armed robbery crime spree across Phoenix, Arizona. Now,

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during this crime spree, they targeted convenience stores and pizza

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delivery drivers primarily, and the cusp of this crime is

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Bloomfield would either enter a store, a convenience store, or

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he would approach pizza delivery drivers as just an ordinary customer.

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He'd yank a gun and he would demand cash at gunpoint. Now,

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he and his sister of eventually got caught just shortly

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after starting these crime sprees and they are both arrested

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on four counts of armed robbery. A year later, in

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nineteen eighty eight, Clifton is admitted to the Arizona Department

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of Corrections, but he's classified in the minimum security level, which,

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considering this guy's previous record, that kind of surprised me.

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He gets a fourteen year sentence and his sister received

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a much lighter sentence, which I'm sure it's primarily due

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to her age. She was sixteen at the time, and

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I'm sure they probably assumed that he was influencing her

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in a lot of what she was doing in the

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way she was acting. So Clifton does serve that full

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fourteen year term in prison. He wasn't released early, served

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all fourteen years. Now, while he was incarcerated, there was

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no record of any major dist urbances that he was

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causing in prison, and it appeared that he was doing

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his time without much trouble. And that told me a lot,

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because he had these schizophrenia episodes growing up in life.

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But yet he goes to prison and he doesn't really

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get in any trouble for those fourteen years. So even

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with all these alleged mental issues, he is able to

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keep his nose completely clean in that jail stem. So

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we're going to move on to December twenty third of

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two thousand and two, and at this point, Clifton Bloomfield

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is thirty three years old and he's finally released from

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Arizona State Prison and he settles into a small home,

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and this is likely some sort of group home that's

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designed to help incarcerated inmates that are released kind of

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get back to society and adjust to that society.

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Now.

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During this time, he does take on manual labor jobs,

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though they're between his employment and non employment, and he

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would work at a local hotel, he would work at

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a roofing company, and from the outside looking in, it

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actually appeared that his life was pretty stable. Maybe this

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guy was getting his life together right, making decent money.

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He even develops a romantic relationship with a girlfriend during

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this time, and she starts taking Clifton Bloomfield to Church.

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Everything seems to be turning around for him. He does

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also relocate during this time to New Mexico, and between

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two thousand and three and two thousand and five, unfortunately,

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he starts developing a New Mexico criminal record involving primarily

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property crimes and home invasions burglary type things. Now, these

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were primarily armed robberies and aggravated burglaries, which you would think,

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after he's got all this history, this big record behind him,

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you would think he would get incarcerated at that point. However,

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for whatever reason, he ends up with purbation in these cases.

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And it's also around this time that he does some

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film work. Now it's extras for the popular show Breaking Bad. Now,

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extra rolls are no big deal, really, but it's a

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pretty good show to put on your resume, right, And

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he had kind of a look that you would think

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when you're thinking of casting an extra for Breaking Bad.

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He really fit some sort of role there in mys

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Now we're going to move on to October twenty fourth

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of two thousand and five, and I'm going to tell

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you about the murder of Carlos Esquabel. Now to tell

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you a little bit about Carlos. He worked as an

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interei designer and his family and friends to them, he

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was known as a wonderful artist. He was known to

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have exceptional personal senses of style and fashion, and often

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noted for his sharp outfits. And he was just well

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known and well liked in Albuquerque's arts community, very outgoing,

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had a large circle of friends. So I'm going to

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take you to the evening of October twenty fourth of

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two thousand and five, and he was dining alone at

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Thud Rutgers Restaurants. Now, according to reports, Clifton just so

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happened to already be eating there. They didn't know each

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other at the time, but they strike up a conversation together. Now,

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Carlos was a gay man, and Bloomfield and Carlos, they

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eventually end up going back to Carlos's apartment. They end

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up in the bedroom, and once inside that bedroom, Bloomfield

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strangles Carlos to death with Carlos's own shirt. Bloomfield then

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searches the apartment for valuables. A burglar, right, well, now

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he's a murderer. He steals a few things and he leaves.

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The next day. The landlord discovers Carlos's lifeless body. Now, police,

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of course are called, and they do all the things

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that you think they would do. They checked for fingerprints,

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they get DNA, they categorize the scene, they look for weapons,

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all those sort of things, take pictures, they process all

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that stuff, and they start an investigation. So apparently Clifton

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he has gotten his first taste of death, if you will,

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And it was not long before he would strike again.

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Just three days later, on October twenty seventh of two

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thousand and five. I'm going to tell you about an

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eighty one year old by the name of Josephine Salvage

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who would cross his path. Now a little about Josephine.

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She was a retired school teacher and at this point

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in her life she was living alone. She was struggling

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with Alzheimer's. Now, on the very late evening of October

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twenty seventh, two thousand and five, Bloomfield was walking neighborhoods

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looking for trouble. He's a burglar, now a murderer. He's

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looking to steal shit. He happens to walk past Miss

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Josephine's house and he notices that the back door of

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her home was ajar. It was cracked open. And when

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you're someone like Clifton Bloomfield and you see a back

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door cracked open in the middle of the night, and

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you have a history of breaking and entering, I mean

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you're known for burglarizing homes, there is no way he

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was going to walk right past that door. To him,

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that was a sign that he needed to go in

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there and rob shit. So he walks up to the

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door and he just walks in. He makes his way

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into that home and the first thing he sees is

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a purse on the kitchen table, which he picks up

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and he steals. He then moves to the other rooms

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of the home. He steals a bunch of jewelry. And

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during this process Miss Josephine she must have heard something

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because she gets up out of bed to investigate. Now

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she goes to where she heard the noise, which was

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in another bedroom, and that is where she is confronted

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by Clifton Bloomfield. He sees her standing in the doorway

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and he overpowers her look very easily. This woman is

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eighty one years old, obviously due to her age in

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her mental condition, and this six son of a bitch

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strangles her by suffocating her with a piece of clothing,

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which by now you can see this is becoming his

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calling card, if you will. He kills her, and he

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steals a bunch of shit and he leaves home. Now

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police discover her body that same night, and there are

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no reports on how they knew something was wrong and

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went to that residence to discover her body. I don't

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know if somebody saw him walking down the road with

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a freaking purse and other items that he had stole

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from her and they called police. It's never been reported,

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but certainly police were made aware of it. They go

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to the scene, they process that scene much the same

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way they processed the first murder that I told you about,

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and again this looks like an armed robbery gone wrong

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in the eyes of the police. Now it gets quiet

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for about a month. Police they're working both of these murders.

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They are not sure if they're connected just yet. And

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on November twenty ninth of two thousand and five, they

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would be busy yet again when Clifton Bloomfield would come

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across a couple by the name of Edwin and rupe Garcia.

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This time the mo would be completely different Bloomfield would

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pose as a potential home buyer after seeing a sign

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that said the house was for sale in the front yard,

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and he goes up to the Garcia's doors. He knocks

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on that door and he engages them in small talk.

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He's putting on the charm, right, He's acting like he

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wants to buy this home. He then asks them if

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they can give him a tour of the home. He's

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interested in it, wants to buy it. They agree to

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do that, and upon entering the home, he's walking around

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for a minute looking at all these rooms. Oh this

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is so pretty, look at the chandelier. He suddenly pulls

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a gun and presses it to Edwin Garcia's neck and

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he threatens. He says, quote, if you do something I

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don't like or whatever, I'll blow your brains out. He

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then forces the couple at gunpoint into their garage and

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he holds them hostage for nearly an hour as he

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went around that house, and he steals about a thousand

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dollars in cash and jewelry. Now, after that robbery, he

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flees the scene. He did leave them alive, thankfully. He

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goes back to his hid out if you will, and

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he leaves a note for that girlfriend I told you

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about now Buquerque, and all the notes said was he

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had to leave town now. The victims later told reporters

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they could still clearly picture his face. They said, quote

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when we close our eyes or something like that, we

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can see him. Sheriff deputies quickly identify Bloomfield as the suspect.

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They put a bolo a bee on the lookout for

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his vehicle, and on March twenty second of two thousand

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and six, nearly four months after that incident, US marshalls

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spot his vehicle in Lubbock, Texas, and they take Clifton

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Bloomfield into custody. Now, shockingly, he is sentenced for this

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US obvious on robbery, no jail time, none, just four

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months probation. In October twenty nineteen, high ranking Livingston Parish

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Sheriff's Office deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife Cynthia were

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arrested and subsequently convicted of over one hundred and fifty

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sex crimes involving minors. During the investigation into these crimes,

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an eighteen minute video surfaced. This video would show Dennis

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Perkins and another woman initially thought to be Cynthia, performing

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sex acts on a seemingly unconscious, unidentified female. Further investigation

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would reveal that the female performing those sex acts was

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a popular Livingstone Parish realtor by the name of Melanie Carton.

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In twenty twenty, Curtin was arrested, and in December of

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twenty twenty one, Curtin was convicted and sentenced to life

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in prison for aggravated rape plus five years for video voyeurism. However,

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in twenty twenty three, that case was thrown out after

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an appeals court ruled that not only did the evidence

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admitted unfairly prejudice Melanie Curtain, but also ruled that evidence

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not allowed in during that trial prevented Curtin from mounting

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a proper defense. Despite this ruling, the Louisiana Attorney General's

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Office continued to pursue the case under reduced charges of

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third degree rape in video voyeurism. On March seventeenth, twenty

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twenty six, after a retrial on those reduced charges, Curtin

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was found not guilty unanimously by a twelve person jury.

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What happened in this case? How can a person go

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from being unanimously convicted to life in prison to being

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found not guilty just three years later, unanimously by a

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jury in the same community. In this series, I will

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bring you inside the courtroom and cover the case exactly

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how it was present in court. I'll give you the

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backstory of what led up to the initial investigation into

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Melanie Curtain and let you decide guilt or innocence. This

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is eighteen minutes the Trials of Melanie Curtin Unexposed Investigates

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podcast Docuseriies. So we're gonna move on to December fourth

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of two thousand and seven, and you're gonna see why

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that pisces me off so much, because lives could have

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been saved here. But we're gonna move on December fourth

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of two thousand and seven, and I'm going to tell

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you about Korean's Tack and punk Ye. They were an

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elderly Korean immigrant couple. Tack was seventy six years old,

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Yee was sixty nine years old. He likes to pick

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on these elderly people, right, He's not a man that

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could pick on someone his own age. He's got to

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pick on elderly people. But they lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

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and they would indeed become the next victims of Clifton Bloomfield.

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So in the late night hours of December fourth of

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two thousand and seven, Bloomfield would enter their home through

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an unlocked sliding glass door. Tac would actually see him

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coming in the house, and regardless of the fact that

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Tech was seventy six years old, he was about that

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life and he fought to save his wife. He actually

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gets in a fistfight with Clifton Bloomfield, but sadly, Bloomfield

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would beat Tack to death. However, Tach didn't know DNA

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was an important thing, and police know that because he intended.

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You can tell he intentionally scratched Bloomfield several times to

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get the DNA under his fingernails, and this would become

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key evidence later. Now sadly Pung his wife sixty nine

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years old, She was also beaten to death in the

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same incident. And even as tragic as that, the ye's

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adult son would be the one to discover the bodies

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the next morning and call police. An investigation would ensue.

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But initially this particular incident would lead to two completely

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different suspects. And I'm going to tell you about Travis

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Raleigh and Mike Smith. And they were magazine salesmen, and

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they had been canvassing that neighborhood where Tech and Ye lived,

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about six miles from that home. They were canvassing, and

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this was the same day that this all went down,

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on the same night and the night before. A neighbor

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that police talked to when they canvass the neighborhood trying

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to find out if anybody might have known what happened

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or who did this. That neighbor said, well, there was

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some magazine salesmen around here yesterday and the day before.

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So police find out who these two magazine salesmen are

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and they arrest these men on December eighth of two

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thousand and seven. Now, during an intense interrogation, Rawleigh actually

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gives a confession, a detailed confession, and later he would

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have alleged that he was coerced into this, but it

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included some non public crime scene details. So when police

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worked these crime scenes, a lot of times they will

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leave some things out intentionally. The reason they do that

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is these are things only the killer would know, right,

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they never released them publicly, and he knew some of

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these things. His confession was believable, and he also implicated

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his fellow magazine salesman Mike Lee as the one who

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actually committed the murders. So both of these guys they

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get charged with double murder and they're held in jail

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and they're facing the death penalty, and they're in jail

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quite a while. And that brings me to Scott Pierce

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and Catherine Bailey Scott, and they were a forty year

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old couple. And Scott Pierce was a registered nurse, and

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he and Catherine had actually just got married six days

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prior to the incident I'm going to tell you about.

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This incident occurred on June twenty eighth of two thousand

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and eight, So six days prior to this incident they

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get married. Newly was and Scott, y'all was a really

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big man, really big as in a giant. He stood

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six foot eight inches tall and he weighed three hundred

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and fifty pounds. Now, he was a gentle giant. He

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wasn't a guy you would call a fighter or a

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shit starter, although he was a protector. Everybody who knew

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Scott described him as a really good guy. Now. Catherine

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also pretty awesome in her own right, and she and

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her husband, Scott would bring out the best in each other.

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Let's go to June twenty eighth, two thousand and eight,

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and it's around three o'clock in the morning. Scott and

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Catherine's dogs they start barking. They were sensing something and

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it was not good. So Catherine she's awoken during these

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dogs barking. She's half asleep. She gets up, She's like,

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what are they barking at. She gets to the living

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room and she notices that the back door is a jar.

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So at this point, she's still not thinking anyone's in

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the house. She's thinking Scott left the back door open.

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And it's about this time, as she's making her way

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to close that back door, that she sees a figure

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in the dark, like an apparition, and it appears this

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figure is pointing something at her. Now, initially she thinks

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it's Scott trying to scare her, play a trick on her.

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Scott was still asleep in the bed, and this was

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confirmed when she hears a voice not belonging to her

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husband Scott say, quote, get down on the ground, So

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she complies. She gets down on the ground, and then

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that figure says to her quote, where is manny? And

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this didn't make any sense to her, It didn't register. Now,

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during all of this, Scott wakes up and he heads

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toward the front of that house and he stumbles across

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this scene and he sees this shadow pointing a gun

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directly at his wife. And I can only imagine what

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the person behind that gun must have been thinking. I mean,

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this is a six foot eight, three hundred and fifty

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pounds guy that just walked in on you while you're

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apparently trying to rob somebody or something. But as I

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told you, Scott had a very protective instinct, and that

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instinct kicked in almost immediately, and he lunged toward that

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intruder and tried to grab that gun. Boom, one quick,

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loud gunshot, and Scott falls on to the floor. The

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intruder then just turns tail and runs out of the house,

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leaving Catherine laying over her husband, and she is in

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sheer panic. So police arrive at the home and they

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find Scott dead from a shotgun wound to the neck.

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Catherine was unharmed, but she was very obviously traumatized, and

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she tells police everything I just told you. But there

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were questions. Initially, police found it strange that Catherine was unharmed,

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and they looked at her as a suspect pretty hard initially.

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Now that's normal, you're going to work that circle from

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inside out. And she was the person who last saw

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him alive. She was unharmed. I can see police wanting

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