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Murder at the Motel - Season 2 Episode 7 -
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00:00this case was one of the most horrific cases that I have ever worked on in my 27 years of
00:09doing police work her fingertips that had been sheared off were scattered on the ground right
00:16here you can't erase something you see you like that from your mind her mangled body just in a
00:22pile over here it was one of the worst crime scenes I've ever seen the dark blood that was
00:29sprayed on the walls the bloody handprint on the register here just told the story in itself she
00:38was my mom she's my mom you don't know if this was a single act or if this person is gonna go on a mass
00:46killing spree so now it's where is he and how do we find him I've never been on a manhunt quite like
00:53this before we've got a known murderer surrounded by a bunch of innocent people the crowd starts
01:00to disperse now we have a clear shot of this guy I was looking evil into the eyes
01:239-1-1 location emergency hi I need an aimless chief officer out of America's Best Value Inn like
01:39ASAP on the morning of July 7th 2017 a housekeeper at America's Best Value Inn in Lansing Michigan
01:48makes a bone chilling discovery our housekeeper found blood all over the place and someone went on
01:55the floor okay can she tell are they breathing they don't know they just freaked out ran out the
02:02room there are three sisters who work at the motel the first one who's going through is doing checks
02:09for people who were supposed to check out but never stopped by the front door so she goes to the room and
02:15she knocks and there's no response she needs to confirm that the person has checked out so she
02:20tries to open the door she can't get it open very far but she peeks her head in and sees that there's a
02:25foot and that there's blood coming out from underneath the blanket behind the door she goes to get her
02:31sister who is another cleaning person there they then go to the third sister who works at the front
02:36desk and they ask her to call 911 and that's when the police respond
02:40all right get an ambulance and the police on the way don't let anybody else go into the room until
02:48we get there and check on it okay okay a Lansing police officer is immediately dispatched to the motel
02:56can you start for a call at the america's best all of these on the way there 172 172
03:14anytime you respond to a call where you have a potential death involved yes your emotions start
03:21to kick in and you realize that this is going to be one of those calls that you remember for the rest
03:26of your career I was actually pretty close to the call at the time that it came in I was able to make
03:35it to the scene within a minute and a half I was the first one on scene at the motel I pulled into the
03:42parking lot looked for the room number which was 172 I unholstered my gun I approached the door when I
03:51tried to open the door though I was only able to open it about a foot before it was stopped I immediately
03:57recognized that I had a body on the floor and I backed out of the room to wait for additional units
04:02to come to the scene it was more than 30 seconds to a minute and another officer appeared on scene
04:18the urgency was real we needed to go into the room we went in just the two of us together I opened the
04:28door I actually needed to push the body a little bit further so that we could get into the room we
04:35entered the room I had my gun drawn we needed to clear the room which means check the room for any
04:40other people inside of the room and make sure we had no other threats inside that we needed to deal
04:44with you don't know what you're going to come across when you go into a scene like that we walked
04:51through the room we made sure there was nobody else inside the room we checked the bathroom we checked
04:57the closet we looked under the bed we located no other people inside of the room upon being in the
05:03room I realized the severity of what we had come across what immediately we picked up on was the smell
05:11of blood there was blood on the floors the walls the bed the air conditioner the table it was one of
05:22the worst crime scenes I've ever seen detectives from Michigan State Police are called in to
05:41investigate the scene it was July when this happened it was a very very hot day but as I pull in now
05:54everything looks the same a couple cars scattered here and there the residents that have taken up a
06:03little bit permanent residency here hanging outside their rooms
06:07on this little drive this was all blocked off by yellow crime scene tape
06:17as I stood outside and I looked in the story of what happened could be followed by the blood as it started
06:33from the bed area and was sprayed up on the ceiling it was clear to those of us on scene that the fight
06:40started at the bed and moved its way over to the door there was blood on the sink where the perpetrator tried
06:51to wash off what he could this case was one of the most horrific cases that I have ever worked on in my 27
07:01years of doing police work it was very obvious that a struggle had occurred in the room there was some
07:12drugs involved as we found some drug paraphernalia in the room looking at our victim it was not
07:22immediately apparent who she was we knew she was a female by long blonde hair her anatomy but you could
07:33not look at her face and immediately tell who she was there was way too much blood on her face and too
07:41many injuries it was absolutely a scene of carnage the medical examiner assesses the extensive trauma
07:52to the victim's body and identifies the cause of death judging by the puncture wounds and
08:01everything it was very quite clear that she had been stabbed each fingertip on her hand had been cut
08:08off and in my mind I can just picture her sticking her hands up and trying to defend herself from the
08:18knife perhaps even grabbing out for the knife just to fight it away and obviously the knife is gonna cut
08:26right through right through her fingers and those who were laying on the ground right next to her
08:31other detectives in the room had found an identification card with her picture on it but
08:40you could not hold the picture next to her body and be able to say the woman in the picture is who is
08:46laying here on the floor you have no other leads to go on at that time you have to go with what makes
08:53sense here what is most likely to be true and at that time what was most likely to be true is that our
09:00victim on the floor is the one in the picture of whose identification card we found that was Christina
09:07Daffenbaugh whenever a homicide in Ingham County would happen the first thing that we would do would be to
09:18contact the victim's family and ask them to come in in this case that was her parents
09:23I was at work and I got a call on my phone and they asked me the strangest question they asked me did the
09:37Pacifica that belongs to us when my daughter was driving were the windows broken in it I said no and then
09:45they were asking something about a motel and I didn't quite understand what it was but it was
09:52something very very strange to me anxious after the call from police Patricia leaves work and gets the
10:00bus home she gets off at a stop which is directly opposite America's best value in I could see the police
10:10and something terribly going on at the motel the lights and the police and just all kinds of things
10:21going on at the motel and I got home and shortly after we got a knock on the door and detective Johnston
10:34and another detective came when they broke the news and it was terrible after the initial moments of
10:47just not even being able to understand what this victim went through and her last moments of life
10:54after that passes through your mind now it's who is this monster that put another human being through
11:00something so traumatic like this there's somebody out on the loose that is responsible for having
11:08done this and we've got to find them we had her parents come in shortly after the murder and we
11:23sat down with them and we talked to them about who Christina was what we learned is that Christina had
11:30been living with her parents she'd struggled with drug addiction they had asked her to leave for a
11:34period of time and that she was working on going to rehab around this time and they were very hopeful
11:39that she was getting better she was homeless frequenting motel to motel they spoke glowingly of her
11:48they were still involved in her life she was driving their car on this night so they were still in
11:53communication I was raised by my grandparents my mother was there she just was pretty young when
12:01she had me 18 so yes my my grandparents they they'd ran the shows mostly my grandmother bless her heart
12:12she is the one that would make sure we got off to school and got to our doctor's appointments and
12:17everything you know but she was still there I mean everybody you know like has their ups and downs but
12:24I mean she she did her best and we we were happy a lot of memories I have of her is always wanting me
12:32to do like her hair she loved having it like the tips dyed different colors and I would be the one to do
12:39that she would get the box dies and be like Becca can you do my hair purple today or blue you know like
12:45purple and blue like she let me help her do that so those are really good memories I have about 10
12:59years before her death she had started to just spiral in a way like it just slowly just started
13:06going to go down until she just couldn't get out of this rut no matter how much she tried every day
13:15just depression and anxiety and just everything just got a little much for her investigators
13:24learned that prior to her being murdered Christina had been getting her life back on track we had
13:32actually kind of hit a good breakthrough with her a little bit before you know like she was taking her
13:39meds again she was seemed a happier person seemed like she was doing really good and she was getting out of
13:47that rut and she was really trying to turn her life around at that point she was looking forward to a
13:56party the next day for her grandchild her grandson and that was something she was looking forward to and I I had talked to her the day before and I said Tina you got to get help and she says I know mom I I am going to I want to thank she thanked me for reminding her that she needed to get help
14:23she needed to get help and it was hard
14:30after informing Christina's next of kin investigators focus on finding her killer
14:47investigators speak to witnesses outside the motel so how long is it got been senior for do you know
14:54you just notice the first time we the first time he got here was yesterday morning no what was yesterday
15:02yesterday would have been Thursday so that was Wednesday the first time I saw him and then yesterday my wife
15:08my wife and I were at the Meyers gas station we pulled up he was like hey you guys at the hotel right I'm like yeah he's like I'll give you guys a
15:15ride back but my wife out of her mouth she's like I don't feel comfortable getting in the car and so we just ended up walking and so he stopped me he was like yeah I went to the casino and want some money
15:25what time was it yesterday at the Meyer gas station do you know this was
15:32it's like around five six when we came back he was standing outside his door he was like hey you guys want to smoke you want to chill I'm like no I'm like my wife and my kids down there we good
15:42mm-hmm so he came down and knocked on the door um like around 8 39 o'clock and he was like well do you know I can get some weed from something I'm like I don't know nobody up here we're from Detroit
15:52mm-hmm just played it off because I'm like I really don't know you and my wife and already said she got a bad feeling from me mm-hmm
15:57so I'm standing in the door about it had to be about 11 15 maybe 11 30 and I was smoking a cigarette and I heard a
16:06a bam and that's what made me come to the door and the room door he had slung the room door open and jumped in the car and just sped off
16:15like no no no his room what time was that this is about 11 between 11 15 and 11 30 PM
16:21yes sir what does this guy look like how tall are you six foot so he was about
16:28maybe about 6'1 black male white male and Hispanic males light skin but I know he's
16:32African American he's light skin he has a very slim build and he has tattoos tattoos
16:39yes all over his arms and his arms and he had one on the side he had one on the side of his neck going towards like down by his shoulder
16:49remember anything about the tattoos no they were writing or anything it was a pig it was a design design and then he had different pictures of stuff on his arms and stuff
17:00okay so what about this vehicle then it was a white you said it was a light Taurus
17:04older model yes it was had because I had one so it's either a 99 or 98 and it was white
17:13okay and it had like kind of like black trim a little bit not throughout the whole vehicle but certain parts had like black trim on it
17:21like on the door on the door and like the front on the sides and stuff
17:27okay never saw a license plate on it when he was at the Myers gas station there wasn't a plate on there
17:33okay that was one of the reasons why my wife said she didn't feel comfortable riding back over here with him
17:37did he ever give you a name or anything he just said call me g call me g that's all that's what he said
17:45staff at the motel give police a crucial lead
17:49so yeah so we would be looking we want cameras from about 11 11 to 11 30 ish
17:59surveillance video played a critical role in this and luckily just because it was meant to be
18:05there was a surveillance video right outside this room
18:19July 7th 2017 detectives are about to learn the name of their suspect in the murder of Christina Davenbaum
18:27the identification of our suspect was not difficult he rented the room in his own name we found a receipt
18:37inside the room where he had ordered a pizza from a local establishment we had his phone number on that
18:44receipt we were able to contact that establishment get his name that matched the name that the room was
18:50reserved under his name is Curtis Eccles
18:54further investigation revealed that Curtis was from the state of Ohio he had driven up to Michigan on that day
19:10he'd gone on a bit of a crime spree on the way down from what we understand
19:15he arrived there in a stolen car from Ohio and then he checks into the motel room
19:21it showed Christina arriving to the room what vehicle she was driving and it also showed that nobody else other than those two had been in that room that night
19:28further key evidence is uncovered in room 172
19:35they find a receipt from Meyer which is a department store nearby
19:40they find a box for a kitchen knife and they find the kitchen knife and they find the kitchen knife from that box outside in the parking lot
19:47a unique characteristic about the knife which we still aren't sure why this happened but the knife was burned at the tip and then more or less melted and pushed to kind of
19:54be like a hook that's not how it came from the package that's not how it came from the package so Curtis must have done that before or after the fact
20:01there's a department store nearby there's a department store nearby they find a box for a kitchen knife and they find the kitchen knife from that box outside in the parking lot
20:07and they have user who's got a kitchen knife and that's not how they found the house I met a home but they only found the kitchen that was in some room
20:12so this was the yard but I thought it would be a house where we could see what was in here but the knife was on your desk they found the rubber
20:28which we still aren't sure why this happened but the knife was burned at the tip and then more or less melted and pushed to kind of be like a hook that's not how it came from the package so Curtis must have done that before or after the fact
20:33Using that receipt, they were able to find their surveillance video from the transaction.
20:38What they found was that he had walked there earlier in that day after checking into the motel,
20:43and he bought two things. He bought duct tape and he bought a small steak knife.
20:49And then he walked back to his motel unit.
20:53You're staying in a motel room for a night. You know you've got a girl coming over.
20:58What are you walking across the street to the grocery store to buy duct tape and a knife for?
21:03This was absolutely premeditated.
21:07And then shortly after returning, Christina arrived.
21:14We don't know what happens in the room. We have a few pieces of information.
21:19We have the text messaging between him and her recovered from their phones where she agrees to come to that location.
21:25She expresses some concern because she thinks that she may have been banned from that motel, but he convinces her to come anyway.
21:33We know from surveillance video that shortly before she gets there, he moves his car back to the dumpster at the back of the motel complex and then walks back to the room.
21:42She enters the room, closes the door. We see that door open one more time.
21:48The surveillance video showed her hands coming out of the doorway. You could see the blood from her hands in the door jam.
21:56It was very obvious that a struggle had occurred in the room and that Christina was trying to get out of the room in every way possible.
22:08The fact that she agreed to meet up with him that night, there didn't appear to be any kind of fear of him.
22:20She went there knowingly. She stayed for a while and then something happened inside that motel room that just sent Curtis over the edge.
22:29And he got out that knife and stabbed Christina repeatedly until she died.
22:35The door closes and that's the last we see of her.
22:42He leaves the motel a little bit after that, gets in her car, takes that to the back of the motel complex, gets in the car that he had stolen, that he had parked there and drove away.
22:52Somebody would only do that if they're trying to conceal that Christina was at the motel.
23:04You don't know if this was a single act or if this person is going to go on a mass killing spree.
23:11So now it's where is he and how do we find him?
23:22July 7th, 2017. Detectives have learned the name of their suspect, Curtis Eccles, but do not know where he is now.
23:33Investigators contact the service provider of Curtis' cell phone in an attempt to learn his current location.
23:42They have the technology to be able to locate the device right away.
23:45Mr. Eccles' phone was turned on, possibly in use, and we received a location in Indiana.
23:59I would presume that Curtis knows that we're going to find him eventually.
24:03I was sitting post command, answering the phones and assisting with dispatch, when I received a phone call from the Lansing Police Department.
24:23They had pinged the phone on I-80 at Edwardsburg Road, which is the location of the service area on the Indiana toll road at the 90 mile marker.
24:44I dispatched to Trooper Hipshire, who was working in that area.
25:05When I received the dispatch about the report of the suspect on the interstate, it was believed that he was approximately the center of the zone that I work.
25:12So I started traveling from the 73 mile marker, which is on the west end of my zone, toward that location, which is approximately 18 to 20 miles.
25:23At that time, my partner was just a few miles up the road from me and also was en route to that same location to locate the vehicle and identify the subject.
25:33It was a white four-door 1999 Ford with Ohio plates.
25:43However, the plates may or may not be on the vehicle at this time.
25:48Right now we are pulling into service area five south.
25:55This is the first location that my partner searched the rest area for the vehicle in question.
26:04While he did that, I sat at a crossover in the median of the toll road just to observe additional traffic coming by to make sure nobody got by us.
26:16And from the thousands and thousands of vehicles that go across the Indiana toll road, it was like a needle in a haystack.
26:22We also notified the Indiana toll road concession company, which is a company that runs the entire interstate.
26:37We asked them to monitor all their cameras at the toll plazas to see if any vehicles matching the description were to exit.
26:46So as we were coming westbound, the Indiana toll road concession company contacted us and let us know that a vehicle matching the description,
26:54or at least close to matching the description, was exiting at the 77 exit, which is the Notre Dame exit.
27:00My partner exited the toll road and went into the town of Roseland to see if he could find the vehicle in question.
27:09I've never been on a manhunt quite like this before because of the allegations that were against him.
27:14The fact that he had this felony warrant for rape as well as being a suspect in a homicide case that was discovered that day.
27:24I was beginning to get a little bit nervous that we weren't going to find the subject while we were on the interstate because of all the different ping locations
27:32and not finding a vehicle that matched that description according to the areas that we were looking.
27:37Wasn't sure how long the delay was on these pings that we weren't finding this because we had already come through those areas coming eastbound.
27:47And now we're traveling back westbound to try to catch up to this alleged vehicle that he's operating.
27:53So it was a little concerning.
27:57About 10 minutes later, I received another phone call from Lansing Police Department that stated that the suspect's phone was pinging near the area of US 20 and 31.
28:08Now, I'm familiar with that area, and I know that if they were to go on 20, if they went westbound, it's a common way that they go into Chicago.
28:17But on the other hand, if they were to go east at that location, they were going right to the South Bend Airport.
28:24July 7th, 2017, Indiana police are chasing Curtis Echols, their prime suspect in the murder of Christina Davenbaugh.
28:41His phone was last pinged heading towards a crossroads to either Chicago or the South Bend Airport.
28:48Lansing Police Department called back just a couple minutes later and said his phone was pinging at the airport.
28:54The ping was at the car rental parking lot, which is off to my left here I'm going to be turning into.
29:07As I'm traveling through here, I'm unable to find a vehicle that's matching the description.
29:14So I'm looking for a pedestrian that might have ditched the car and he's, you know, trying to flee the area or trying to find another vehicle to take.
29:24And as I'm driving through, I notice a pedestrian that's up by the terminal entrance, which we're about to pass by.
29:33And it appeared to be an employee that was on a smoke break, so I was going to go over there and just ask him if he had seen anybody matching this subject's description,
29:42as well as, you know, a white car that might have just entered the parking lot within the last few minutes.
29:50As I was getting ready to speak with that individual, I noticed over here off to my left that there was a bus that was getting ready to back out of the backside of the terminal.
30:01From working with other pings and how we weren't catching up to any vehicles that matched that, it just kind of clicked that he might be in that bus.
30:12As they were looking around, that bus started to leave.
30:19I drove around the block, then I pulled up alongside my partner's vehicle, and then basically with front of our vehicles facing head-on to the bus,
30:26we had our emergency lights on and we detained the bus.
30:32At that point, we both walked up to the bus.
30:34My partner asked the driver to step off and take the key out of the ignition,
30:40and then shut the door, and we did that, of course, in case the suspect happened to be on board.
30:46We didn't want him trying to take control of the bus or anything like that.
30:49It was a tender situation because we've got a known murderer on the bus surrounded by a bunch of innocent people.
30:59We definitely wanted to use extra caution, and of course, in the back of my mind, I was thinking he could take one of these passengers hostage,
31:07or he could harm somebody else in the process of trying to flee from us, so those were all things we needed to consider.
31:15So right over here, as you can see the blue speed limit signs, it was in those areas that we had both of our squad cars positioned to block off the bus.
31:36The bus was actually parked right in this area, and the passengers disembarked right in this spot.
31:45My partner and I decided that the best course of action at this point would be to have everybody on the bus step down the stairs one at a time,
31:52and then have them stand off to the side in the grassy area, and then we could clear the entire bus just to make sure he wasn't there.
31:59There are only about three more passengers to come down the stairs, and probably the second-to-last passenger coming down kind of resembles Mr. Eccles.
32:11So I'm staring at him, and next thing I know, he's staring right back at me, and he's got this nervous look on his face,
32:17and his eyes aren't going anywhere other than just staring me down as he's walking down the stairs.
32:23It appears that he's just trying to, like, hide behind some people.
32:26Like, he starts to turn his body to the side and show me just his left side, and then he starts looking toward the fence line,
32:32and I'm thinking, he's getting ready to bolt. He's going to run from us.
32:37My partner at that point comes over to me, and I describe the suspect, and then both of them make eye contact.
32:44At that point, my partner starts screaming at him to get his hands in the air.
32:51The crowd starts to disperse in both directions, so now we have a clear shot of this guy.
32:58Nobody on this bus has a clue that one of their fellow passengers just killed somebody up in Michigan.
33:04At that point, I drew my weapon as my partner started rushing over to the suspect
33:09and informed him that he needed to get on his knees and keep his hands in the air,
33:13and then he took him into custody at that point.
33:18Troopers ask him for his name, and he just hangs his head, and he says, I don't have a name.
33:24Police uncover the journey Echols took in a bid to evade capture.
33:33While going through his clothing, the officer stumbled upon a bus ticket.
33:38It was a Greyhound bus ticket, and it showed that he had actually boarded this bus in Detroit, Michigan,
33:47taken the bus to a stop in Toledo, Ohio, and had an ultimate destination of Chicago, Illinois,
33:55while making a brief stop in South Bend, Indiana.
33:58So we had just caught him on this last leg of the trip.
34:02He had been on the bus for nearly seven hours at this point.
34:08Finding and apprehending a suspect after he's traveled through three states on the very same day that he's committed a murder,
34:17and within six to seven hours of the finding of the victim and the processing of the scene is still taking place is pretty extraordinary.
34:32We were very lucky.
34:34Luck does play a big part in this.
34:37We were looking for a white vehicle.
34:39We very easily could have just bypassed these buses and went on looking for a white vehicle.
34:47When you are able to close something out like that, it makes you feel good inside,
34:52like you did something good and that you avenged the homicide victim.
35:00A lot of it was luck, but a lot of it was good police work.
35:05Once we got word that Mr. Echols had been arrested by the Indiana State Police,
35:10Detective Trooper Adamczyk and I drove down to Indiana.
35:14The way Mr. Echols looked at me when we interviewed him, I could tell there was no remorse.
35:23He kind of had that long gaze where he was staring right through me.
35:27I felt like I was looking evil into the eyes.
35:31Curtis Echols is extradited back to Lansing, Michigan.
35:46Christina's family are notified of his arrest.
35:50Like many people, they don't believe that something so terrible can happen in their life.
35:58They trust people and they don't believe that that can happen.
36:03He could have gone on and even done worse.
36:06I hope he's ashamed of what he did. That was just terrible.
36:11She would have been able to see me get married.
36:16She would have been able to see her grandchildren grow up.
36:20She would have...
36:23She would have been good.
36:25Like, all the things that have happened since she's passed.
36:28Just thinking about if she was here for that, how much better it would have been.
36:34Like, it would have been amazing for her to see all this.
36:40Her family growing up.
36:43The case is handed over to prosecutors who prepare for Echols to stand trial.
36:53It was not a whodunit.
36:55We had a lot of evidence against Mr. Echols.
36:58But it takes a lot of preparation going into trial to make sure that we get the conviction.
37:06Because it was a senseless act, there was nothing to be able to tell the jury why this happened.
37:11Why he did this thing.
37:12And you always worry that if the jury doesn't understand why it happened,
37:16that they'll have some skepticism that it did happen.
37:31The trial happened in downtown Lansing at the 30th Circuit Court.
37:35It started on Monday, finished the following Monday.
37:38That is something that is hard to get over.
37:45And I got to see what he looked like because they had me come in and testify one day in court.
37:53And he sat there with his hand like this, looking at me.
37:59Echols' demeanor was very cold.
38:01It was very distant throughout the trial.
38:03There was at least one point where he seemed to get a little bit agitated and he indicated that he wanted to just plead guilty and get this all over with.
38:10We took a break to allow him to talk to his attorney about that.
38:13And he ultimately changed his mind.
38:14But that was the only time that he had any real display during the trial.
38:17The defense attorney mounted the best defense that he could in the circumstances, pointing to the lack of motivation, the lack of specific reasons that this would have happened or pre-existing relationship between the defendant and the victim.
38:34But ultimately was not able to keep any of the evidence out that so clearly pointed at Curtis Echols.
38:45The jury finds Curtis Jamar Echols guilty of first-degree murder.
38:50He is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
38:54Mr. Echols was a very violent predator.
38:58He had done similar crimes in the past, not homicides that we know of, but abused women.
39:05And it was nice to get this conviction and get him off the street, not only for all the victims that he's abused in the past, but especially for Christina's family.
39:18It's a very difficult line that you're walking in these cases, particularly ones that follow so soon after the death.
39:25There's nothing that you're going to do that is going to bring their loved one back.
39:29And all you can try and do is get some measure of justice through a conviction.
39:36I have seen a lot of things in 17 years of doing this job.
39:41This was by far one of the most gruesome scenes I've been to.
39:47It does stay with you.
39:49You can't erase something you see like that from your mind.
39:53Christina did not deserve what had happened to her.
39:58Getting him off the street was a service to society.
40:04This case stands out because of the randomness, because we don't know why this happened.
40:10I've seen lots of cases where they are gruesome, maybe as gruesome as this, maybe more, but at least you know the reason that this person did this to another person.
40:20And so it is the combination of randomness and how brutal this was that sets it apart.
40:29She'd had a hard life.
40:30The thing that the judge said at sentencing is that because Curtis Eccles did this, she was never going to get a chance to get better.
40:38And that has always stuck with me.
40:39It's just a tragedy.
40:41I never got to tell her goodbye.
40:45Or that I loved her.
40:49No matter how much we fought, no matter how much we would yell at each other, or if like, I hate yous, or I never want to see yous anymore, got thrown around like she was my mom.
41:00She was my mom.
41:01She's my mom.
41:02And I love her so much, I will never stop loving her and wishing she was here.
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