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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Tuesday, September ninth,
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twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Remember Megan Boswell,
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the Tennessee mother who killed her baby and then led
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police on a two week wild goose chase while little
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Evelyn rotted in a shed. She's already serving life for murder,
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but last Friday, a judge said that's not enough and
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slapped on another thirty three years consecutive, because sometimes one
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life sentence doesn't capture the evil. The man who tried
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to assassinate Donald Trump at his golf course has decided
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to represent himself, because when you're facing federal charges for
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attempting to kill a former president, who needs a lawyer.
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And the kiss and Kill trial continues in Wisconsin, where
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writing down your murder plan before committing murder remains a
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terrible idea. Three defendants, three different flavors of narcissism, all
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convinced they're smarter than everyone else. This is Celebrity Trials.
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Let's start with a case that makes my blood boil
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every time I think about it. Megan Boswell, the Tennessee
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mother who killed her fifteen month old daughter, Evelyn and
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then led the nation on a two week search for
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a baby she knew was decomposing in a shed. She
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was convicted back in February of nineteen charges and got
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life with parole eligibility after fifty one years. But apparently
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that wasn't enough, because last Friday, September fifth, the judge
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decided to pile on more time, an additional thirty three
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years consecutive to the life sentence. Let me break down
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this sentencing math because it's actually beautiful in its complexity.
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Twenty five years for aggravated child neglect consecutive to life,
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six years for tampering with evidence, four years for false reporting,
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two years for abuse of a corpse. The way they
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stack and run concurrent and consecutive is complicated. But here's
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what matters. Megan Boswell was already going to be seventy
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two before she was eligible for parole. Now, at another
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thirty three years, she'll be one hundred five if she
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ever sees freedom, she'll die in prison. Good. But let
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me remind you what this monster did, because even though
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she was convicted in February, the additional sentencing shows the
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court's continuing disgust with her actions. December twenty nineteen, baby
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Evelyn Boswell disappears, but Megan doesn't report her missing, not
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for two months. Two months. It's only when Evelyn's grandmother,
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Angela Boswell reports concerns in February twenty twenty that anyone
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starts looking for this baby. When questioned, Megan had a story,
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multiple stories. Actually, she's a creative fiction writer when it
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comes to dead babies. Story number one, Evelyn was with
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her father, Ethan Perry in Louisiana. Police check. Ethan hasn't
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seen Evelyn since May. Story number two. Actually, Evelyn was
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with a babysitter named Angel, whom Megan can't locate because
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Angel doesn't exist. Story number three, her mother Angela took
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Evelyn to a campground in Virginia. Angela was in jail
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at the time. Story number four, she gave Evelyn to
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strangers in a silver camper. Can't remember where, or when
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or who. For two weeks, while Tennessee mobilized massive searches,
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while the FBI got involved, while the entire nation looked
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for baby Evelyn, Megan Boswell went on TV crying fake tears.
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She did interviews begging for Evelyn's return. Posted on Facebook
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about missing her baby, shared the missing posters, all while
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knowing exactly where Evelyn was in a shed on family property, dead,
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wrapped in a blanket, decomposing. March sixth, twenty twenty, acting
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on a tip, police searched the property belonging to Meghan's
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fan Emily. In a shed, they find Evelyn's remains. She'd
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been dead since at least December, possibly longer. The autopsy
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showed the cause of death was homicidal violence. The exact
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method couldn't be determined due to decomposition, but the medical
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examiner found evidence of blunt force trauma. This baby was
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beaten to death by her mother, then stuffed in a
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shed like garbage. But here's what makes this even worse,
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and yes, it gets worse. During those two weeks of searches,
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Megan was actively misleading investigators. She'd send them to locations
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she knew Evelyn wouldn't be, She'd give false tips. She
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was enjoying the attention. She posted on social media about
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being a grieving mother, changed her profile picture to Evelyn,
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shared Bible verses about God's plan, all performance, all lies.
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At trial in February, the evidence was overwhelming Megan's car
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had cadaver dog hits her phone pinged at the shed
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location multiple times in December, She'd googled how long before
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a baby's body decomposes? And can you track a phone
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that's off. Her defense, she claimed Evelyn died accidentally and
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she panicked that she didn't report it because she was scared. Scared.
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She wasn't scared, she was calculating. She hid that baby's
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body and then played grieving mother for the cameras. The
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jury convicted her on all nineteen counts life for felony murder,
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but that was just the beginning. At Friday's sentencing hearing
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for the additional charges, Judge James Goodwin made it clear
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why he was stacking time. The life sentence was for murder.
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These additional sentences are for what you did after, for
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the torture you put this community through, for the lies,
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for the performance, for treating your daughter's corpse like trash.
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The prosecutor, Dan Armstrong argued for maximum consecutive time. She
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didn't just kill Evelyn once, she killed her, hid her,
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and then killed the hope of everyone searching for her.
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That deserves every possible day in prison. Megan's attorney tried
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to argue the sentences should run concurrently, that life in
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prison was enough. The judge's response, nothing will ever be
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enough for what she did to that baby and to
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this community. Judge Goodwin didn't hold back. Miss Boswell, you
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are perhaps the most selfish person I've encountered in thirty
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years on the bench. You killed your child and then
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made her death about you. You enjoyed the attention, You
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feed off the sympathy. You are a narcissist of the
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highest order. Megan cried during the sentencing, real tears, this
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time not for Evelyn, for herself, because she realized she's
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never getting out. She tried to speak, saying I loved
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Evelyn more than anything. Judge Goodwin cut her off. You
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loved yourself more than anything. Evelyn was an inconvenience to
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your life lifestyle. These additional thirty three years are for
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the additional torture you inflicted on everyone who searched for
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a baby you knew was dead. So now Megan Boswell
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faces life plus thirty three years. The extra time is symbolic.
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She'll die in prison either way, but it sends a message.
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Every crime counts, every lie matters, Every day that baby
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rotted while people search deserves punishment. Evelyn Boswell was fifteen
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months old. She was just learning to talk. Her favorite
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word was mama, the last word she probably said before
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that same mama killed her. Tennessee searched for two weeks
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for a baby who was already dead, hundreds of volunteers,
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thousands of hours, millions of dollars, all while Meghan Boswell
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knew exactly where her daughter was decomposing life plus thirty
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three years, she'll be over one hundred before she's eligible
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for parole. She'll die in a cell. Still not enough
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for what she did, but it'll have to do. The
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judge's final words, Every one of these consecutive years represents
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the continuing harm you caused after you murdered your child.
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You turned a tragedy into a performance. You turned grief
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into entertainment. You turned your daughter's death into your spotlight moment.
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These thirty three years are for that good. Let her
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rot in prison like she let Evelyn rot in that shed.
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Now to Florida, where Ryan Wesley Ruth has decided that
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attempting to assassinate a president is the kind of charge
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you should handle yourself. Yesterday Ruth informed the court he'll
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be representing himself in his federal case for trying to
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kill Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club because nothing
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says stable decision making like firing your lawyers when facing
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life in prison. Let's remind everyone what this genius did.
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September fifteenth, twenty twenty four. Trump is golfing at his
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West Palm Beach course. Secret Service agents are sweeping ahead
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of him when they spot a rifle barrel sticking through
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the fence, and not just any rifle, an AK forty
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seven style weapon with a scope. Behind that rifle, Ryan
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Wesley Routh fifty eight, who'd been hiding in the bushes
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for twelve hours twelve hours in Florida heat and mosquitoes,
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waiting to shoot a president. Secret Service opened fire. Routh
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Ran leaving behind the rifle with obliterated serial number two,
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backpacks with ceramic tiles, makeshift body armor, a go pro
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camera he was going to film it, a handwritten note
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that said this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,
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a handwritten confession at the scene, like he was leaving
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a YELP review for his own crime. He was caught
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on I ninety five in a black Nissan license plate
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readers doing what license plate readers do. When arrested, he
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was calm, almost proud. Now this criminal mastermind wants to
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represent himself. The federal public defenders tried to talk him
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out of it. The judge warned him repeatedly, but Routh insists,
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you know who else represented themselves, Ted Bundy, Colin Ferguson,
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Darryl Brooks. How'd that work out for them? Here's what
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Roath is facing. Attempted assassination of a president, possession of
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a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, possession
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of a firearm with obliterated serial number, assaulting federal officers.
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That's life, multiple life sentences, and he wants to argue
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this himself. His previous lawyer, Christy Milatello, tried to suggest
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mental health evaluations. Routh refused, said he's perfectly competent. The
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man who hidden Bush's for twelve hours to shoot Trump
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thinks he's competent. But here's the really scary part. Routh
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has a history of this. In two thousand and two,
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he barricaded himself with a machine gun in North Carolina.
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In twenty nineteen, he was sending threatening letters to world leaders.
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He has a book, self published, of course, about how
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to fix the world through violence. This isn't mental illness,
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this is narcissism. He thinks he's a revolutionary, a hero,
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the man who would save America by killing Trump. The
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judge Aileen Cannon, yes, the same judge who handled Trump's
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classified documents case, has reluctantly agreed to let Ruth represent himself.
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She appointed standby council, but Ruth's in charge of his
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own defense. His first filing as his own attorney a
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motion claiming the Secret Service entrapped him, that by existing
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and doing their job, they somehow forced him to bring
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a rifle to a golf course entrapment for an assassination
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attempt that he confessed to in writing at the scene.
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The trial is set for February. Routh plans to call
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Trump as a witness. Think about that circus, the defendant
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who tried to kill Trump, questioning Trump on the stand.
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The prosecution has the rifle, the note confessing to assassination.
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Go pro footage of Ruth setting up cell phone data
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showing twelve hours at the scene, multiple witnesses, his confession note.
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Ruth's defense he'll probably claim he was protecting America, that
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Trump is a threat, that assassination is patriotism. It won't work,
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but we'll all have to watch this narcissist perform his
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revolutionary theater while the family of what could have been
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victims sit in court. Ryan Ruth thought he could kill
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a president. Now he thinks he can be a lawyer.
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He's wrong on both counts, but we all have to
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endure his delusions. We'll be right back with updates from
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the Kiss and Kill trial, where the defendant's own handwriting
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is the prosecution's best friend. The Kiss and Kill trial
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continued yesterday in Kenosha and Folks, Samantha Krebs is learning
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that murder plans shouldn't be written in your own handwriting.
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We covered jury selection last week, but now we're into
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testimony and it's devastating for the defense. Detective Sarah Morrison
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took the stand yesterday and read Krebs's handwritten notes aloud
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to the jury. Let me remind you what these notes said.
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Kiss him first, so he lets his guard down. Knife
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in kitchen drawer, second from left, stab upward under ribs
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for heart, Call nine one one after ten minutes, so
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he can't be saved. Tell them he attacked me first.
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The detective read this in a monotone voice, no emotion,
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just facts. The jury was riveted. Several were taking notes
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of the notes. Then the prosecutor, Jennifer Walsh introduced the
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nine to one to one call. Remember Krebs's notes said
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to wait ten minutes. The call came exactly ten minutes
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and thirty four seconds after. Neighbors reported hearing screams on
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the call. Krebs is hysterical. My boyfriend attacked me. I
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defended myself. There's blood everywhere. Please help. But here's the problem.
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The medical examiner testified that Marcus Chen had been dead
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for at least ten minutes when paramedics arrived. The wounds
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were all in his back. Defensive wounds on his hands
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showed he was trying to protect himself, not attack. The
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defense attorney, Michael Torres, tried to claim the notes were fantasy,
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writing that Krebs wrote dark fiction as a coping mechanism
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for abuse. But Prosecutor Walsh had a response. She introduced
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Krebs's journal, dozens of entries about Chen, not about abuse,
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about insurance money, about being free, about starting over one
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entry dated a week before the murder. Soon, I'll be
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free and rich. Just need the courage to follow through.
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That's not fiction, that's planning. The most damaging testimony came
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from Chen's best friend, David Park. He testified that Chen
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was planning to break up with Krebs, had already started
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moving his things out, had opened a new bank account
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she didn't know about. But here's the kicker. Chen had
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told Park he was scared of Krebs, said she'd threatened
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him before, said she'd held a knife to his throat
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during an argument months earlier. Park asked why he didn't
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call police. Chen said no one would believe a man
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was being abused by a woman. He was right, and
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now he's dead. The defense tried to paint Chen as abusive,
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but they have no evidence, no police reports, no medical records,
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no witnesses, just Krebs's word against a dead man who
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can't defend himself. Meanwhile, the prosecution has written murder plans
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in her handwriting journal entries about insurance money. The nine
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one one call timed exactly as planned, All wounds in
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the victim's back life insurance policy with Krebs as beneficiary.
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The defense's star witness is supposed to be Kreb's herself.