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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Monday September
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twenty second, twenty twenty five. You go away for two
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days to mock criminals Google searches, and the world completely
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falls apart. A teenage girl is found dead in singer
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David's tesla while he's on the other side of the country.
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Four adults in California were allegedly keeping adopted children in
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cages under beds like something out of a horror movie.
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Travis Decker, who murdered his three daughters, has been found dead,
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and a couple throw a carjacking victim off a bridge
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because apparently just stealing the car wasn't evil enough. This
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is what happens when I take a weekend to explore
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the Google graveyard, the real world graveyard gets fuller. This
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is Celebrity Trials. Let's start with the breaking celebrity news
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that has the music world in chaos. D four VD
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that's spelled D four VD but pronounced David because apparently
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normal spelling is to mainstream has canceled his world tour
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after a seventeen year old girl was found dead in
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his tesla. For those who don't know David Burke, better
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known as D four VD. He's a twenty two year
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old rising star with over fifteen million monthly Spotify listeners.
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His song Romantic Homicide has over a billion streams. Yes
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billion with a B and Yes, the irony of that
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song title is not lost on anyone. Right now, here's
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what we know. Friday night, September nineteenth, Celeste Reevas, seventeen,
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was found dead in a black Tesla Model S registered
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to David Burke. The car was parked at his Hollywood
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Hills home. David was in New York at the time,
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confirmed by multiple witnesses, social media posts, and hotel records.
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So how does a dead teenager end up in a
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celebrities car while he's three thousand miles away. The Hollywood
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Hills home where the Tesla was parked isn't technically David's.
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He's been staying there, according to sources, but it's owned
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by his label. It's essentially a party house for young artists, producers,
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and their entourages. Multiple people have access, Multiple people have
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keys to the Tesla. Celeste Revas was from Riverside, about
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an hour from Hollywood. Her parents reported her missing Thursday
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night when she didn't come home from what she said
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was a study group. Her last text to her best
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friend at nine forty seven pm Thursday, at the most
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Insane party. These people are famous, famous, famous famous, not
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just famous famous famous, the kind of famous that gets
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you a billion streams and a tesla you leave for
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other people to use. Security footage shows Celeste entering the
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Hollywood Hills property at ten fifteen pm Thursday with a
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group of people. The house was hosting what neighbors describe
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as a typical Thursday night party, which in Hollywood Hills
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means two hundred people, DJ, drugs and no supervision. David
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wasn't there. He was verifiably in New York doing press
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for his tour that's now canceled. But his car was there,
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his house was being used. His world is now under investigation.
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The footage shows Celeste leaving the main house at two
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thirty a m. Friday with an unidentified mail. They walked
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toward the garage where the tesla is parked. Neither is
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seen again on camera. The mail has not been identified
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or located. Celeste's body was discovered at six pm Friday
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by David's assistant, who came to move the car for
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street cleaning. She was in the back seat. Cause of
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death hasn't been released, but sources say there were no
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obvious signs of trauma. Toxicology is pending. David posted a
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statement yesterday. I am devastated by this tragedy. I didn't
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know Celeste personally and was not in California when this occurred.
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I'm cooperating fully with investigators, and my heart goes out
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to her family. Didn't know her personally. That's careful language,
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not I didn't know her, but I didn't know her personally,
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like she was known to his circle but not to
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him specifically. The tour cancelation is costing millions. Thirty seven
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dates across North America and Europe sold out venues. His
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label Interscope is in crisis mode. Their statement is pure
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PR speak. We support David during this difficult time and
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are cooperating with authorities to determine what happened. What happened
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is a seventeen year old girl went to a Hollywood
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party and ended up dead in a celebrities tesla. Whether
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David was involved or not. His car was the crime scene,
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his house was the party venue. His world was where
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Celeste died. The investigation has expanded. LAPD searched the Hollywood
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Hills house yesterday, removed computers, security footage, and what neighbors
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describe as bags of evidence. They're interviewing everyone who was
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at Thursday's party. That's potentially two hundred witnesses who were
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probably drunk or high and definitely don't want to talk
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to cops. Here's what's interesting. David's Tesla app shows the
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car was accessed at two forty seven a m. Friday,
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unlocked via phone app not key. That means whoever puts
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Celeste in that car had digital access. That narrows it
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down to David, his assistant, his manager, and what sources
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say are several friends who had app access for convenience,
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several friends. Multiple people could unlock a tesla worth more
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than most people's annual salary to potentially dump a body.
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That's not friendship, that's accessory to murder. Celeste's parents held
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a press conference yesterday. Her mother, Maria, barely able to speak.
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She was a straight A student, She wanted to be
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a doctor. She wasn't into parties or celebrities. Someone invited her,
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someone killed her. Someone knows what happened. Her father Roberto
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more direct. These celebrities think they're untouchable. They have these
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parties with underage girls, they give them drugs and alcohol.
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Then when something happens, they lawyer up and blame everyone else.
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David has lawyered up. Mark Urragos, who's represented everyone from
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Chris Brown to Jesse Smollett, is now representing David. That's
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not the lawyer you hire if you're just a witness.
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That's the lawyer you hire when you might be a suspect.
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The Reddit detectives are having a field day. They found
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Celeste's Instagram showing her at previous parties in the Hollywood
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Hills area, found connections between her and people in David's circle.
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Found that this isn't the first time police have been
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called to that house. June twenty twenty four, noise complaint
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turned into drug arrest, three people charged with possession. David
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wasn't there, but it was his house. April twenty five,
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assault complaint from a neighbor who said party guests attacked him,
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no arrests. David wasn't there, but it was his house.
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Starting to see a pattern. David is never there when
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bad things happen at his house. He's always conveniently somewhere
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else with an alibi while his property becomes crime scenes.
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His song, Romantic Homicide has been streaming even more since Friday.
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The lyrics include I killed the only girl I ever loved.
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It's about emotional pain, not actual murder, but the optics
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are terrible. TikTok is full of conspiracy theories. Twitter is
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convinced he's guilty. Instagram is defending him. Meanwhile, Celestreevas is
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dead at seventeen, never made it to senior year, never
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became a doctor, never got to leave that tesla alive.
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Her last text said the people were famous, famous. Now
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one of those famous people is either a killer, friends
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with a killer, or or so negligent that killers use
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his car like a company vehicle. David Burke, D four VD,
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whatever you want to call him, might not have killed
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Celeste Revas, but she died in his world, in his car,
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at his party, and canceling a tour doesn't cancel that
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responsibility more in a moment. Now to California, where four
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adults were arrested for something so evil it makes horror
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movies look like documentaries. Ricky and Starsia Myers, along with
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Lennon and Takia Williams are charged with caging adopted children
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under beds, not metaphorically, literally caging children in boxes built
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under beds for years. Riverside County Sheriff's Department responded to
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a welfare check last Tuesday at a home in Paris, Yes,
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the same city where the Turpen children were tortured. Apparently
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Paris is competing for worst place to be a child
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in America. They found was beyond comprehension. Custom built cages
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underneath beds, locks on the outside, scratch marks on the inside,
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children who hadn't seen sunlight in months, children who thought
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living in a box was normal. Four children, ages six, seven, nine,
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and eleven, all adopted, all receiving adoption subsidies from the state,
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all being tortured while the state sent checks. The six
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year old was found in a cage roughly three feet
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by three feet by two feet high. She couldn't stand up,
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couldn't stretch out, could barely turn around. She'd been in
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there for what investigators believe was twenty hours a day
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for the past year, twenty hours a day in a
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box under a bed at six years old. The seven
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year old had scars, on his wrists from being tied,
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raw wounds from trying to escape. He told investigators he
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was only let out to use the bathroom and eat
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one meal a day, sometimes not even that. The nine
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year old didn't speak when found not couldn't, didn't, had
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learned that making noise meant punishment, had been trained into
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silence like an abused animal. The eleven year old tried
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to protect the younger ones, told investigators it was all
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his fault that he was bad, so they punished everyone.
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An eleven year old taking responsibility for his own torture
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to protect siblings. Ricky Myers, thirty four, was the primary abuser,
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according to the charges. His wife, Startia thirty one, was
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the enforcer. The Williams couple, both twenty nine, lived in
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the home and participated in what prosecutors call systematic torture.
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Their defense, they claimed the children had behavioral issues that
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required containment. Containment like these are wild animals instead of
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traumatized children, they chose to adopt. The house was nice
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from the outside, two story, pool, three car garage. Neighbors
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said they seemed like a normal family. Never heard scream,
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never saw anything suspicious Because the children had learned not
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to scream, had learned that nobody was coming to save them.
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Inside was different. The cages were professionally built. This wasn't improvised.
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Someone designed and constructed custom torture devices disguised as furniture.
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The beds looked normal from above. Underneath were padlocked doors
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to hell. The children were homeschooled, of course. No teachers
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to notice, no friends to question, no mandatory reporters to report.
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Just four adults with complete control over four children's lives.
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They were collecting four two hundred dollars a month in
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adoption subsidies, getting paid by the state to torture children
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the state placed with them. The adoption agency Foster Family
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Network claims they did regular checks. Really, how do you
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regularly check and miss children living in cages? The children
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are now in protective custody. The six year old keeps
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asking when she has to go back in her box.
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The seven year old won't sleep in a bed, only
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on the floor where he feels safe. The nine year
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old has started speaking, but only whispers. The eleven year
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old keeps apologizing for getting everyone in trouble. All four
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adults were arraigned Friday. Bail said at one point three
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million dollars each. Their lawyer claims this is overblown, that
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the enclosures were for the children's safety. Safety from what freedom, sunlight,
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human dignity. The prosecutor, Jennifer Martinez put it perfectly. These
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defendants turned childhood into imprisonment. They took society's most vulnerable
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foster children who'd already suffered trauma, and tortured them for money.
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This isn't discipline, it's evil. The biological parents of these
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children are unknown. These kids were already in the system
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because somewhere, somehow their first families failed them. They got
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placed with new families who were supposed to save them. Instead,
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they got cages under beds and adults who saw them
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as paychecks. This case is ongoing. More charges are expected.
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The house is being treated as a crime scene. Investigators
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are looking into whether other children previously lived there, whether
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other cages existed, whether this is bigger than four children
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and four monsters Paris, California, where the Turpen children were
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chained to beds, where these four were caged under them.
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What is happening in this city that makes adults think
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children are property to be stored instead of humans to
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be loved. We'll be right back with. Travis Decker found
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dead after murdering his three daughters and a couple who
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threw their carjacking victim off a bridge. Travis Decker is dead.
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The man who murdered his three daughters during a court
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ordered visitation, has been found in the woods of northern Michigan,
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dead from a parent's suicide. Let me remind you what
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this monster did. August thirtieth. He picked up his daughters,
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Quincy fifteen, Charlotte twelve, and Hayden nine for his weekend visitation.
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Their mother, Tiffany, had fought against unsupervised visits. The court
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sided with the father's rights. He drove them to his cabin.
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Shot Quincy first, she was the oldest, might have fought back,
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then Charlotte as she tried to run, Then Hayden, who
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was hiding under a bed. Three girls, three gunshots, three
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futures ended by the man who was supposed to protect them.
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His body was found yesterday by hunters about two miles
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from the cabin, self inflicted gunshot wound. He'd been dead
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for at least two weeks, probably died within days of
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killing his daughters. Good I'm not supposed to say that,
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I'm supposed to be objective. But Travis Decker murdered three
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children because he was angry at his ex wife. He
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executed his own daughters to punish their mother. His death
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is the only justice those girls will get. The note
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found with his body, because of course there's a note,
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blamed Tiffany for turning the girls against him, said she
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forced him to do this, said, now she knows what
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loss feels like. She already knew what loss felt like, Travis.
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She lost the man she married to anger and violence,
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lost her sense of safety, lost the battle to protect
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her daughters from you, and now she's lost them forever
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because you decided murder was better than therapy. The funeral
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for the three girls was last week. Three coffins, three
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sets of friends crying, three empty desks at three different schools.
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Tiffany spoke at the service, barely able to stand, saying
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they were my everything. He knew that, That's why he
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took them. Travis Decker died alone in the woods, like
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the animal he was. His daughters died in terror at