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00:00it has now been 27 days nearly four weeks since anyone has seen this woman right here
00:11this is susan malden everybody loves susan she lived by herself she was a widow
00:16there was no sign of forced entry she opened the door to someone she knew and was expecting
00:23checking hospitals talked to more friends we expanded our search around the neighborhood
00:28when we opened the storage unit we had the dog go in they're certified to detect human remains
00:32cadaver dog hit on the storage ship oh my god why would a cadaver dog hit i felt absolutely um
00:42betrayed she asked him what he wanted for dinner uh and he hung the phone up and she never heard
00:48from him again it's a huge facility huge uh hills uh trash then on that ninth day someone starts
00:56yelling you guys get up here we found something well i knew immediately it was susan i had no doubt in
01:02my mind ladies and gentlemen there's only one person who's guilty in this case i'm guilty
01:07it looks like any neighborhood in america
01:20extremely peaceful very quiet this is not the neighborhood that you would expect any crime
01:30and this was the home of one of the area's beloved residents 65 year old susan balden everybody
01:37loves susan she lived by herself she was a widow she was originally from the uk when she came over
01:43here with her husband my name's howard fryer i was a detective um the lead detective at the time
01:51this investigation was going on it was a missing person uh when it was first reported by her friend
01:56i knew sue probably about 10 years we have a big english group here in town and i met her
02:07in the english group it was a kind of club founded after world war ii for british women who moved to
02:15the u.s after marrying american servicemen we like to eat and talk and you know catch up on what's going
02:24on over in england and all the latest gossip
02:27one of my other english friends she called and she says they don't know where sue is
02:37she had missed lunch with her friends and they asked police to go to her home to conduct a welfare check
02:43her car was still in the garage my first indication maybe said she had maybe gone on a trip somewhere
02:48didn't need her car so she got to the airport
02:50when authorities ran susan's passport number through tsa there was no record of her flying
02:56anywhere we're kind of a close-knit group you know if we were going to england everybody would have
03:03known check-in hospitals talked to more friends we expanded our search around the neighborhood
03:09within days police then pulled the surveillance video from school buses that traveled on susan street
03:15and they could see a white pickup truck backed right up to the garage of susan bolden's home
03:21belonging to a local contractor named cory binderham she had originally hired mr binderham to remodel her
03:29bathroom it was about twelve thousand dollars he came in and demoed the whole bathroom removed
03:34everything out of there and then essentially never did any additional work after that all that was left
03:40was the toilet bare walls no sheetrock no flooring it was no sinks and so it was just vacant like that
03:48for a year she was so upset because she could not have anybody in because she didn't have a bathroom
03:55for them to use on october 23rd in the morning she gave him the ultimatum that he needed to bring her
04:01back her money that day or she was going to hire an attorney and then she went missing on october 24th
04:08officers went to binderham's nearby home because he seemed to have been the last person to see
04:16susan i mean you know i don't answer your questions yeah i mean i know it's about what's it about
04:21it's about two binderham confirmed that he had been at her house that morning and that he refunded her
04:28the money she paid for the job she was frustrated that i couldn't come along right now and she was ready
04:33and and so it just got to the point where it was just better for both of us if i just refunded her
04:38the money i went about my way she could find us my house you know and that that was the conversation
04:43he provided a carbon copy of the check to patrol deputies and it was a check for a little over
04:491200 yeah yeah and that's what i gave her back her friends knew the amount that was actually missing
05:00and it was over 12 000 and they had told police that so what was her state of mind
05:05when he came inside i was anxious to know uh what what was going on
05:32my name is cassidy i am formerly cassidy binderham ex-wife of cory binderham i knew that miss malden
05:39had been missing and he could not stop saying how nice she was and that she was missing and that
05:46he hoped that they would find her then a search of susan's home turned up new clues they got the
05:53crime scene technicians involved we began seeing blood spots on the lampshade there were some blood spots on
05:59the floor looked like her laptop was missing we found a file cabinet with uh binderham remodeling
06:07had a red folder in it that was missing all the contents of the folders there was no sign of forced
06:12entry so it would lend to the belief that she opened the door to someone she knew and was expecting
06:19someone who was supposed to be giving her money back to her that morning
06:23so now detectives pulled neighborhood ring camera surveillance video and got a warrant to track
06:30binderham's movement on his phone's gps feature for that crucial morning
06:34according to his original timeline he met with susan that morning gave her a check and then left and
06:41that was it he had left out a very uh significant detail after leaving susan's home that morning he left
06:48and went to the rosemary hill landfill he was there for several minutes he left that completely out
06:54that he went to rosemary hill landfill after her the gps information showed that binderham then stopped
07:00at a storage unit he leased we have him on video entering uh into a storage unit but there was no actual
07:08video like of what he was put into the unit so they got a warrant to search the storage unit too
07:15and bring in cadaver dogs they're certified to detect uh human remains and decomposition
07:21um the dog alerted on uh binderham's storage unit especially on the tool bags and bins that binderham
07:28said he had picked up at susan's house we were definitely thinking that foul play was involved in
07:34this particular scenario what i'd like to do is let you know that basically you're on a long pier
07:42right now and you're coming to a short end so i'd like to talk to you about that before we get to
07:47the end of the pier if you'd like to do that uh i haven't done anything wrong i'm not saying you did
07:52but well you're saying chicken boxes but i don't necessarily believe that i think you're i think you guys
07:58have pegged me and think you've got tunnel vision i don't have anything to hide at the time i felt
08:03that the police had singled him out because he had had a past record from when he was 16 years old
08:10binderham was tried as an adult and convicted of aggravated battery in a shooting involving three
08:15people it made sense to me that you would look at somebody who had a prior felony and that you would
08:23look at them closely i never considered him to be somebody who could hurt a woman
08:32you know you lied to me right when we talked on Tuesday about what you said all you owed her
08:38was $1,294.54 you owed her $12,000 right why would you lie about that because $1,200 is a big
08:46difference in $12,000 right pardon me that's my wife hey they're still here kathleen yeah
08:56they are looking at me like i'm the reason why uh sue is missing i felt like they were early in the
09:03investigation and that um these were misunderstandings that were going to fix themselves in time this isn't
09:10fair i didn't do what you think i did and this is absolutely not fair so can you tell me what
09:17happened to her i don't know i don't have any clue we shook hands i left that's it that's the last
09:23i know i don't have an explanation i don't have anything i had nothing to do i know you don't know
09:28where she is now but you know what happened to her no i don't no i don't i shook her hand on the front
09:36portion that was that he was reassuring saying that he hopes that she's found she was a lovely lady
09:45and um of course you know nothing that the police told me was true so cassidy bendram had no problem
09:53going down to police headquarters where she would soon learn there was a lot about her husband she did not
09:59know
10:07it began to come into focus more that unfortunately we thought miss malden had met a tragic end
10:15and the focus in the search for susan malden was now on the rosemary hill trash site
10:20corey bendram had gone shortly after leaving susan's home there's three bins out there that
10:25aren't really monitored and you can dump something in pretty easy we're talking about corey bendram and
10:32you know him because you work with them right well i met him through another friend but yeah okay
10:37detectives brought in bendram's co-worker lee stansbury to see if she had noticed anything
10:43unusual about him so we had to know that we were unloading stuff and i was just joking this was before
10:49any of this what they said oh it'd be a perfect place to dump the body and he goes yeah it's a
10:54perfect place to dump the body and then we kind of joked and laughed you know it wasn't serious
11:02but detectives were taking it very seriously especially after locating surveillance video
11:07of bendram at a home depot seen buying heavy duty contractor bags and 50 pound bags of concrete
11:15hours before he went to the dump where he knew his truck would be weighed so he added the concrete
11:21to the truck to throw off the weight scale he knew if he just went and just dumped her without anything
11:26else that it would narrow down to it just being about the weight of a human body that morning when
11:31he went to the home depot he knew then what his plan was as they pieced it together bidram had started
11:38the day at home depot then went to susan's home then to the rosemary hill transfer station
11:44finally to the storage facility
11:49but detectives soon learned that in the days since susan had disappeared the trash dumped
11:54at the rosemary hill transportation had already been trucked out to a larger landfill operation
12:00across the state line in georgia we knew the statistics and the chances of finding a body
12:06in a landfill there had not to my knowledge been a successful landfill search at that point
12:12where the trash had actually been processed into the landfill but even without a body the case was
12:18still being handled by detective fryer as a homicide and cory bendram was his prime suspect
12:25he's absolutely suspect number one in our mind he was definitely at this point the guy
12:31since his early run-ins with the law at his teens bendram had seemed to be a model citizen the devoted
12:40father of two daughters he was working hard to rehabilitate himself he recognized that he had made
12:49some mistakes corey loved me very much and he doted on me and we were very happy he was actually a
12:55fantastic dad very very active um loved his girls corey bendram for all intent purposes he was uh living
13:05the american dream however uh when you started scratching the surface and seeing that he was struggling
13:10financially and that he wasn't able to even really pay uh the debts that he owed uh he he was draining a
13:18lot of money detectives learned from bendram's co-worker lee stansbury that he was heavily using
13:24cocaine and pills which he was keeping secret from his wife they're going through a lot of marital
13:29problems right now so he doesn't want her knowing he's doing a blow again because she would leave him
13:33so he's doing pills and yeah yeah he'll do the blow during a day and then takes the pills at night to
13:38go to sleep so i kind of thought that's what was making him crazy two weeks into the investigation
13:44corey bendram's wife cassidy voluntarily came to the sheriff's office confident her husband had done
13:51nothing wrong i mean as you already know we're investigating sue susan uh maudlin who's missing
13:59i've heard him talk about her before some stories that she's told him about england and yeah so as of
14:06today she's still not you know turned up anywhere so she was cooperative with us we explained to her
14:12the majority not everything but the majority of of the picture we had been able to paint the reason
14:17we served the search warrant on the storage shed is because cadaver dog hit on the storage shed
14:21oh my god i watch a lot of true crime i always have and i knew what that meant well why would a
14:31cadaver dog hit i don't know i don't know
14:40but i think that your husband does know more about her disappearance than what he's telling us
14:47she was coming to the realization that he may have been involved in this so the day he said he went
14:52to sue's house did he tell you why he went there yeah he had to give her a check for how much um he
15:00told me the check was for eight hundred dollars here's what i can tell you what we've discovered in
15:05the investigation is that i guess she contracted him to do a bathroom okay and that was uh eight months
15:11ago so eight months ago that course bathroom gets demolished the agreed upon price was nineteen thousand
15:18dollars she paid him twelve thousand dollars and banked the other seven till the job was done
15:26have you noticed like this gave him twelve thousand dollars twelve thousand
15:35we know that to be a fact
15:36and i said absolutely not we have not had an influx of twelve thousand dollars in our
15:43in our household money so that was a shock to me as well twelve thousand dollars in a short amount of
15:49time i've never even seen twelve thousand dollars so according to her closest friends the ones that
15:55actually called us is um she was threatening him with filing a fraudulent complaint with the sheriff's
16:05office that he was defrauding her because she paid out all this money and she'd gotten to work
16:11and so he was supposed to come on thursday to give her this money back so that she wouldn't contact
16:17anybody and again is that backing somebody in a corner i don't know what they told me was essentially
16:25that he was taking money for jobs not completing them that he was blowing through money on drugs
16:33and i understand from what i've heard in talking to people he may have a drug problem i don't know
16:39corey hasn't touched anything in god 10 years longer than that
16:46okay maybe not maybe not maybe not he's doing drugs recently like that's what we're hearing lately
16:57we don't have proof of that i felt absolutely um betrayed about um 10 years ago
17:06he developed a drug problem and i gave him an ultimatum saying that he had to go into rehab
17:12um or he was going to lose his family i never had any idea that drugs were a part of his life again
17:21um until i started talking with the police what kind of drugs cocaine cocaine cocaine and pain pills
17:29so i don't know if that's where maybe the money could have went
17:41it's it's and i realize this is your husband but it's important we know everything because this woman
17:47is missing i've got to find this woman i know
17:49i know a few nights later binderham failed to come home he simply called his wife one day and she
17:56asked him what he wanted for dinner uh and he hung the phone up and she never heard from him again
18:08clay county sheriff's office detectives have identified a person of interest in the investigation
18:13into a fleming island woman's disappearance detective howard fryer decided to go public
18:18about corey binderham once he learned binderham had fled the area and there's definitely mysterious
18:24circumstances associated with it and his whereabouts are unknown at this time anyone with information
18:28which may lead to the whereabouts of susan malden and corey binderham are urged to contact detective
18:33fryer with the clay county sheriff's office homicide unit his wife cassidy at first didn't believe it
18:39until police told her the details of what he had done all on the night before his daughter's birthday
18:45party and so he stole money from the gentleman that he was working with and i believe he forged a check
18:54for five thousand dollars and fled
19:00and that for me was the real turning point to align the fact that he would have fled and done this
19:08to his family on his daughter's birthday especially when they have a relationship where they're so
19:13close but i then realized that there's a lot that i don't understand the u.s marshals were brought in
19:22to help with a nationwide search for binderham through tracking devices with the u.s marshals they were able
19:28to determine that he had gone as far as colorado he just simply took off driving across the country he knew
19:35he was a suspect and i think he felt like the police were closing in and getting closer to making the
19:41arrest he actually contacted me for the first time on thanksgiving all he would tell me was that he
19:48wasn't in the state and that he missed us and he didn't know how long that he was going to be gone but
19:56that i needed to trust him and not listen to what the police were saying cassidy told detectives every
20:03time he called i decided the marriage was over when he left you want to be able to trust your spouse
20:11and certainly the implication that he had been using drugs would have ended our marriage anyway
20:17but um when he fled and left me and the children to deal with the fallout of the release of of him
20:27being a person of interest that was it breaking news tonight a person of interest in the disappearance
20:36of a fleming island woman is now in custody after two weeks on the run binderham turned himself in to
20:42face the forged check charges i believe that because her body had still not been located during
20:48that time frame he was gone and there was no arrest warrant out for his arrest for the murder of susan
20:54malden i personally believe he felt comfortable coming home at that point maybe he thought he had
20:59gotten away with it so the search for susan malden's body at the georgia landfill took on added urgency
21:07it's a huge facility and basically they compact it down and create uh huge uh hills of trash waste
21:18which just so happens by the grace of god or um luck whatever it was uh when she was dumped it was the
21:25last bit of trash that was going to be dumped in that specific area in folks in georgia the area was
21:32cordoned off and detectives went to the fbi for help huge ordeal a huge ordeal i mean you're you're
21:39talking they have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in equipment and man manpower the search
21:44began in early january it was freezing cold uh in folks in georgia it was like 30 degrees the trash
21:53the landfill none of it bothered me my sole focus was finding susan but after more than a week as agents
22:00and detectives focused on the one cordoned off area know susan it was at least 30 feet high and we
22:08had to start at the top then on that ninth day it was around 3 30 uh someone starts yelling you guys
22:16get up here we found something and we all just ran up there in tears because there she was there was her
22:24skull well i knew immediately it was susan i had no doubt in my mind and they were able to positively
22:31identify it as susan malden we found her body uh in the same contractor bags style contractor bag she
22:36had purchased this morning we are confirming that the remains of 65 year old clay county resident
22:43susan malden were recovered from the chester island landfill in folkston georgia
22:47ultimately through an autopsy they were able to determine that her hyoid bones had been crushed
22:55consistent with strangulation right here at the the neck it's very routine that in strangulation cases
23:01those bones are fractured you need water everybody uh water every time okay been around how you doing
23:12i'm all right i might ask you to stay in but i'm sure it's not like pleasure i wanted to come in touch base
23:20with you told you i'd give you an update when we got one sure um so we got one and uh cut right to the chase
23:29when we talked about before you indicated that i had tunnel vision i didn't have tunnel vision
23:36we know what you did we located susan we're bringing our home and you're going to be charged
23:42with murder and tempered evidence to begin with okay i know that's a lot to hit you at one second but
23:52obviously you've known this whole time you just kind of been waiting on it i'm sure not at all no i did
23:59reach out to cassidy give her heads up because i know obviously your daughters you know i don't
24:05want them to get bombarded with stuff that they don't need to okay i did that for cassidy not for
24:10you sure all right um and you you i'm sure you're familiar with this process how it goes from here
24:19yeah i'm gonna tell you i'm not gonna say anything you get upset again no no hey hey we won we got our body
24:26you're being charged i'm not upset you know it's very unfortunate that i didn't have anything to
24:35do with it so what we can prove otherwise but the evidence against bendram was almost all
24:41circumstantial the prosecutors knew this was no slam dunk case jurors they want a smoking gun they want
24:49they want to see the crime uh they they want to see it on video and and in this case we obviously
24:57couldn't do that for them
25:06you're charged with uh one county's murder and tampering with evidence as soon as he was arrested
25:11corey bendram's wife cassidy had begged him not to fight the murder charges in court you need to plead
25:19you need to work with the state look i didn't want my girls to see him the way he was going to
25:26be portrayed and correctly so by the state he did make an offer he initially offered 25 years and then
25:31he offered 30. ultimately that was rejected i didn't think it was enough for miss malden instead
25:38the prosecution went scorched earth seeking the death penalty we filed our notice and tried this case
25:45as a capital case and felt that because of the aggravation in the case death was the appropriate
25:51sanction while i was interested in him serving time and finding justice for miss malden it was not in
26:00my best interest or my children's best interest to have him on death row even though um i have to tell
26:06you i could have thrown the switch i was pretty angry the death penalty trial of a contractor
26:13accused of killing a fleming island woman got underway today it took five years for bendram's case to come
26:20to trial he had changed a lot i guess he had gained weight and he didn't look the same person at all
26:27i definitely felt like that i needed to be there because i needed to represent sue because she didn't
26:36have anybody else to represent her uh it's this parent to the state you make your jury prosecutor ashley
26:43terry took the jury through the timeline of susan malden's twelve thousand dollar remodeling job
26:49gone very bad she gave cory bendram the ultimate my money back or there will be gone and then he went to
26:59her house and he held her and then he tossed her out like the garbage she thought that she was
27:06at the end of everything those actions by this defendant will be clear to you and the other thing that
27:24will be clear is that he is guilty as charged thank you
27:31and the defense had one key fact that became the centerpiece of their case the dna found
27:48under susan malden's two fingernails when they compared it cory bendram was excluded meaning that
27:55there is no way possible that the male dna on that nail was from cory bendram they have never
28:00identified whose dna that is we've always believed that that was the dna of whoever strangled susan
28:07malden and we at the end of this case we determined murder are not guilty for all counts
28:22because there is reasonable doubt in this case
28:31right thank you
28:31yes it was difficult testifying i hadn't seen him in years um or had any type of communication with
28:59him uh he didn't make eye contact with me i didn't think that he would
29:04cassidy described to the jury her ultimatum after she first learned he was using drugs years earlier
29:12that was a mandate that i gave him was that um if we wanted to try and stay together and at that point
29:19it was a try um if we were going to try and work on our relationship that he had to go to rehab
29:26an inpatient rehab was he also aware that if you ever found out about drug use again that you would be
29:32yes and it's hard sometimes as a wife you don't want to emasculate
29:39your husband by constantly being over him all the time but i did i relaxed were you aware that miss
29:44malden was upset with him and was demanding her money back no were you aware that miss malden
29:50told him that if he didn't give the money back that she was going to the police of an attorney no
29:57had you been made aware that um the defendant had taken a 12 000 job and couldn't reimburse it and
30:04this malden was going to the police would that have been an issue for you yes you think that would
30:10have possibly led to you leaving the home or him leaving yes would that have meant he would have lost
30:16everything yes no further question i think that he simply lost control and um when he realized that
30:27she was going to let me know um and let others in the community know that he had essentially stolen
30:35money from her i think he probably felt he had no other choice and of course he did
30:41bendram had refused to talk with detectives the prosecutors learned he did talk with one of his
30:46fellow jail inmates and now that inmate tom smith would be a key witness for the prosecution
31:00what does a killer look like he was a completely normal middle-aged guy with a family and a business
31:09they didn't quote unquote look like what you would imagine um a murderer would look like
31:15but his former jail mate painted a much different picture of cory bendram would you introduce yourself
31:21to our jury please sir um thomas smith you convicted felon yes sir tell us tell the jury first how you met
31:29that um i was housed with him in uh d1 in a cell block we always have to be particularly
31:39cautious when incarcerated inmates bring evidence to the state but in this case this inmate when asked
31:48why he had come forward actually said it was because he had a mother that was around susan maldon's age and
31:57and bendram bragging about it was chilling to even him what word came out of his mouth he said what
32:05he did um he just said he shut it up what was great about the informant was the fact that he tells us in
32:15corey's own words what happened that morning did he tell you whether he went over there thinking
32:21clearly or was he under the influence of any kind of substance if so what i assumed the way he was
32:27talking he was you know under the influence of what um crack or uh coke or something like that all right
32:37all right was there any violence tell us what he did or what he told you he uh said that things started
32:44she started getting loud and he was trying to shut her up so he hit her or something and then he
32:50started screaming he choked her choked her out or something now what if anything did he tell you about
32:56hearing anything hurt on her broken bones anything like that what did he tell you about
33:03said he felt like something snapped did he say whether he heard something snap when he hit her
33:10or when he had his hands around when he had his hands around now sir tell us uh after uh he talked
33:18about what he did to her what did he do with her in particular after this operation recall
33:23he said he wrapped her up in something and took her to the dumpster or something like that
33:29i i assumed he had a dumpster out in the front yard or something that's
33:33what did he tell you with the words out of his mouth about what he didn't heard he said he wrapped
33:50her up and took her to the dump to dumpster or whatever sir were you surprised by what he was
33:57telling you very now mr uh smith i want to ask you a couple of questions have i myself miss hazel
34:07miss terry any member of the state attorney's office promised you anything at all about your case
34:12in exchange for what you're doing here today i mean i thought it was trash to be honest uh it lacked any
34:23detail of anything all right cross you're hoping that testifying for the state will help you out
34:31in your other two felony cases aren't you no i'm not oh you're not no i'm not they can say whatever
34:38they want on the witness stand but i'm telling you the only reason anyone ever comes forward is because
34:44they want a benefit did you actually tell the detectives that you said that you're over up in an
34:50old carpet i believe so and he said they put her in the dumpster is that why that's what i understood
35:00all right thank you uh mr smith you can step down susan moulton's body was in fact found wrapped
35:07in black contractor bags not an old carpet there was no rug missing okay from the house
35:13that is simply a fact that that is false the jury should have disregarded everything he said
35:20and the defense also scored points with expert testimony about the dna found under susan's
35:25fingernails cory binderem was excluded as a contributor to the mixed dna profile obtained from this item
35:34all right mr binderem uh the court has now received all the evidence in this case certainly from the
35:41state do you understand that it's the state's burden to prove the charges against you beyond a
35:46reasonable doubt if you made a decision of whether you would testify or not we were prepared for him to
35:53testify he's been kind of arrogant throughout this whole thing maybe he will and what is that decision
35:58now we've been following this case since the beginnings they say binderem was the last person
36:10to see her yeah these documents are pretty detailed the extensive media coverage of the trial made life
36:16difficult for cory binderem's wife and daughters they struggled during the trial i asked them not to watch
36:23it and they didn't watch it they were experiencing bullying and um you know it was a difficult time
36:31they didn't want to think that their father could be capable of something like this
36:37now the question was whether binderem would take the stand and give his version of what happened
36:43so i did believe that he may try to get on the stand so that the jury could see who he was
36:49and what is that decision there's a price that i have to pay any time i put a client on the stand
37:00and that is we were up against three very talented prosecutors with decades of experience they get to go
37:07after him now please pay attention to the lawyers as they give their closings hazel for the state
37:19ladies and gentlemen straining susan malvin is premeditated work 40 minutes is plenty of time
37:27to knock an elderly one to the ground strangle her which takes a matter of minutes put her in a bag
37:35and put her in the trunk of the pot i believed our evidence was compelling the timeline was tight
37:40and that we had proven what we needed to beyond a reasonable doubt there's a saying to the living
37:48we are respect and to the dead we owe the truth nothing that we do today will ever bring susan
37:57all of them back but it will forever define what happened on october 24th of 2019
38:05you know ladies and gentlemen there's only one person who's guilty in this space and it's
38:10corey benderam and say no accident and he finds him guilty as possible thank you so much for your
38:17mr karate you're closing sir thank you sir yes sir jerry good morning
38:29unknown persons or persons probably a contractor she was
38:33meeting with one she was communicating with online because that's why the computer is missing
38:39i thought the defense did a very good job of challenging the evidence and
38:43they challenged that the dna was not mr bendram's and that you know the real killer's dna was what was
38:49on the fingernail that nail had the flesh the skin of whoever killed susan walton
39:01the nail and both nails had no dna
39:10because he did not attack her he did not kill her we ask that you find mr bendram not guilty on all
39:17charges but if you believe he did kill susan walton we ask that you can build him on second degree
39:30the jury was back after four hours four hours were long but they're always long it feels like an
39:37eternity
39:37there's always a sense of relief when you know that the jury got it right
39:50i stand before you asking for justice for susan walton complete justice we are asking you to
40:15recommend to this court on revert form that this defendant it's a penalty thank you so much for
40:22your time all right mr hernandez you're closing sir
40:29why have you without the possibility of parole holds corey benderham fully accountable we had a lot of
40:36good deeds that corey benderham had done for others during his life we knew that his two daughters
40:41were going to be providing a statement asking the jury to spare his life the daughter's statement
40:47was read by a victim advocate lee wilson dad tried his best to lead by example and steer us towards
40:54success and happiness which is one reason this tragic crime has been so hard for us to understand
41:01we cannot imagine dad hurting anyone he has never been violent he has been a protective and loving father
41:08to us throughout our lives the only time he showed emotion through the entire trial was when the letter
41:14from his daughters was read and he cried we love our father very much and ask you to show mercy when
41:21considering his sentence if there is a chance for us to be together again one day free from all this
41:28completely free please do everything in your power to ensure we are able to do so we love our dad always
41:37sincerely bailey and megan benderham i think that uh the letter in conjunction with the pictures of
41:43them and uh obviously corey's active involvement in their lives i think that was important under florida
41:50law eight of the 12 jurors had to vote for the death penalty they were out for a very long time
41:56deliberating that verdict ladies and gentlemen i understand the jury has reached its verdict
42:01and so we know that they were thinking hard about what to do
42:07be the jury for the defendant 40 lewis enderman should be sentenced as follows
42:14life in prison without the possibility of parole five death seven
42:20so it was uh seven to five and seven for death five for life and therefore by florida
42:30law corey benderham was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
42:34there was definitely a sense of relief from him when the life recommendation was read don't know that
42:41he cried again but you could definitely see that he was relieved i was really grateful that they
42:47didn't recommend death and that the judge honored that recommendation but he definitely needs to
42:52be in prison for the rest of his life what he did to her was just horrendous and i don't understand how
42:58any human being could do that to another human being but over money over twelve thousand dollars
43:02twelve thousand dollars twelve thousand dollars changed everyone's life in this
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