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The First 48 - Season 29 - Episode 04: The Cool Mom
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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:25Insolidated dispatch operator 381.
00:27Yes, hi.
00:28So I'm the chief, I can get to the Canada Outlet.
00:32We have two buses that are here, this group of young, like 13-year-old girls,
00:36and they need to afford this bus.
00:39We have somebody, I don't know if they're alive,
00:42they like right next to the bus sitting on the wood line,
00:46which is terrifying.
00:48My partners are defending the closest to all the units.
00:58These are the buses right there.
01:01There's a deceased female.
01:04Blunt for its trauma to the head.
01:08So around 7.53 this morning,
01:11patrol responded to a call for an unidentified body in the bushes.
01:17Initially, we thought it was potentially a hit and run.
01:20He's in almost full rigor.
01:23Looking at it, you can tell if she wasn't hit by a car, she would be beaten up.
01:27It looks like it's going to be a homicide.
01:29Your baby will be around.
01:38For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half
01:43if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours.
01:54North Charleston, South Carolina.
01:57I love North Charleston because it is a unique city.
02:03I mean, people flock here.
02:05100,000 people to like 200 and some thousand people during the day.
02:09North Charleston is a truly diverse city.
02:13The city of North Charleston,
02:15the police department and the community itself is just a big family.
02:18And, you know, our crime rate is steady dropping.
02:21You know, we're getting the bad guys off the street.
02:24We deal with a lot of high-end situations that perhaps a confident smaller town
02:28wouldn't get that kind of experience.
02:30I do like that about North Charleston that you never know what's going to happen.
02:34I feel that the community interacts very well with police.
02:38We've spent a long time building that trust.
02:42Well, I would say at least 50% of the people that we get in contact with,
02:46I either know a family member or went to school with a family member
02:49or we actually grew up in the same neighborhood.
02:51And then be able to help these moms and dads and families members,
02:54I feel great about that.
02:57You have to have a servant's heart somewhere down inside of you.
03:00You have to come in here to say that I'm going to serve people
03:02and that I'm going to be the one that's going to fight for those
03:05who can't fight for themselves.
03:07The team has a 73% solve rate,
03:1020% higher than the national average.
03:13First thing that pops in my head when I think of the unit is unity,
03:17you know, friendship, family.
03:19We all work together, always have each other's back.
03:22We're always there to help each other to accomplish the same goal.
03:27We all come from different backgrounds of life.
03:30We all have different years of experience in law enforcement.
03:34Sergeant Bailey just told me this morning,
03:36he's got a pair of socks that are older than I am.
03:40Unlike some departments,
03:41North Charleston doesn't immediately assign a lead detective,
03:44approaching each case as a team.
03:47When we have a homicide occur,
03:49it could be a day or two later that we'll assign a case agent to it.
03:52And a lot of things come into factor with that.
03:55The connections that could be made on scene,
03:57you'll see that one detective has a stronger connection
04:00with the family than another detective.
04:04If it's going to be solved relatively quick,
04:06you're going to want to assign that to somebody
04:07that's going to be able to get everything together in a timely fashion.
04:11We're here trying to do the right thing,
04:13get justice for people.
04:22So right now we're heading over to the Tanger outlet area.
04:25We've got a female that's deceased in the bushes over near one of the hotels in between.
04:31We have homeless population in the area.
04:34So, you know, vulnerable people in bad situations.
04:50The cause of death is blunt force trauma.
04:55I'm not seeing a club or a bar.
04:58Might have just beat her with his hands, honestly.
05:02But she looks pretty fraggled.
05:05I'm trying to identify her.
05:08Detectives find no identification on the victim.
05:11The coroner will get all that information.
05:14Hopefully, if she's been in Charleston County,
05:16we'll get her identified by fingerprints.
05:22On this side, a lot of the bushes, you can tell they're broken,
05:26where possibly she was pulled in from this side.
05:32Bunch of fingernails.
05:37Possible struggle out here.
05:45I like about blood and drag marks.
05:49I really got to wait to find out who she is before we really get further from there.
05:53Hey, go over here to see if they'll keep you a tenant house.
05:58Now it's the job of figuring out where we got to get the witnesses.
06:21So we got multiple witnesses.
06:23The team identifies two hotel residents who might have information about the victim.
06:29One of the gentlemen that's been saying that a girl named Kelly,
06:34he saw her wearing like a blue sweatshirt and like some blue sweatpants.
06:37And that clothing kind of matches what our victims wear.
06:41So the lady I spoke to, she's not from here.
06:44She said her friend left and never returned last night.
06:48The two witnesses are taken to homicide for questioning.
06:52We have a name.
06:54We'll start going through the tenant list.
06:58Fire extinguisher over there.
07:00It's not in the right spot.
07:01Okay.
07:02CSI finds a fire extinguisher left near the hotel's front office.
07:06Maybe we're just going to be related.
07:08Take photos and fingerprint where it's supposed to be.
07:11I'm trying to find her on camera, seeing who she was with.
07:16Corporal Tim Holly and Detective Cameron Miller break off to look for nearby businesses with
07:21surveillance cameras.
07:23All right.
07:23I'm going through the office.
07:36Okay.
07:36Thanks.
07:39In the corner, we've got the fingerprints back.
07:42So it's going to be Kelly Wingate.
07:48That's going to be her.
07:5048-year-old Kelly Wallace Wingate was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina.
07:56She had three daughters, ages 29, 28, and 13, and a 16-year-old son who thought of her
08:04as the cool mom who loved to paint.
08:0713 years ago, she opened a carpentry store, but struggled with drug addiction and ended up
08:14living on the street.
08:16It looks like the victim's daughter is local.
08:20The coroner will be making that notification.
08:26At least 30-plus arrests for drugs and shoplifting.
08:30We'll try to draw a link.
08:31Let's try to figure out what the link is.
08:34He knew Kelly would start with him.
08:44Hi.
08:47So this is, I'm Desette Reed's.
08:48We met out there at the hotel.
08:50Mm-hmm.
08:51I appreciate you coming in and popping to me.
08:54Feels bad.
08:58Kelly?
09:01Tell me all about Kelly.
09:04Kelly is a homeless lady from here.
09:07Kelly does drugs.
09:09She has heroin.
09:12She told me she was in the parking lot.
09:15But Kelly told me she got trespassed from there, so I don't know where she stays.
09:22Tell me what happened, yes, sir.
09:30He says he saw the victim with the other resident, who was brought to headquarters near a picnic table at
09:35the back of the hotel.
09:37How do you know her?
09:39I don't remember her last night.
09:43So back at 10 p.m. last night, what happened?
09:46I went back inside and go to sleep.
09:50I woke up like 6.30.
09:52Right before she didn't ride out.
09:54Mm-hmm.
09:54And I went out and smoked a cigarette.
09:58And was the only one at the picnic table now.
10:02I said, we're the same way you know me.
10:04She said, I don't know if she left.
10:07And she said, you want some white kids or something?
10:09She never came back.
10:10I was like, okay, well.
10:14She said that she was worried about her.
10:17Because some white dude was harassing her.
10:20And I said, one thing about Kelly, you know, she's down here.
10:23She knows how to handle herself, you know.
10:25She's like, well, this cat is really, he was scaring me.
10:29So.
10:30And that's all of that was this.
10:33So we'll fix that.
10:34She said that there was a black male.
10:37Mm-hmm.
10:39Harassing Kelly.
10:41Did she tell you who it was?
10:55No.
10:56She didn't know the names.
10:59Did he, did she tell you what the black male looked like?
11:02No.
11:03Did she tell you that she had ever met him before?
11:07No.
11:08She never said that either.
11:11Okay.
11:11I'm gonna give you my number.
11:12That way you can catch me.
11:15Okay.
11:16I'm gonna give you my number.
11:21I'm gonna give you my number.
11:22I'm gonna give you my number.
11:26She mentioned to us that she was with Kelly last night.
11:34How are you?
11:35The team turns to the woman who said her friend went missing last night.
11:40What did you get down?
11:41Uh, it'd be two weeks Monday.
11:44Okay.
11:46And how did you meet Kelly?
11:48I met her yesterday.
11:50I went to go sit down with her camp because I just got done walking.
11:56Where's her camp?
11:57It's kind of like where the site is, but a little bit further down.
12:01She says Kelly was staying in a tent near the hotel parking lot where she was found.
12:06What time yesterday did you meet her?
12:07It was probably about one.
12:10In the afternoon?
12:11Mm-hmm.
12:13We started walking around.
12:14We're talking about our kids because we have kids around the same age.
12:17Um, and she just seemed like, you know, a sweet person.
12:22Like, she had a good heart.
12:25And she's like, I'm gonna take in.
12:26You stick with me.
12:28You know, this girl's gonna stick together because there's a bunch of words I heard.
12:32So, we went to Circle K.
12:34What time do you go to Circle K?
12:35I'm not sure.
12:37It was night time.
12:38And she's like, that guy over there started talking with me.
12:42She says she pointed to a man standing outside the convenience store.
12:46You know, like, last week, he pulled me by my hair.
12:48It hit me.
12:50Is there any alteration in Circle K?
12:52No.
12:55What does this guy look like?
12:57He's black, big eyes, bald.
13:01He had dark black jacket on.
13:03I don't know if it was blue jeans or black jeans.
13:04He had two shoes on.
13:06And he had it like he was like some tough guy.
13:09Like, he just ran his mouth to people.
13:12And then we walked back to the hotel.
13:14We're sitting outside chit-chatting.
13:16Where are you chit-chatting now?
13:17We're sitting at the picnic table at the hotel.
13:20And we're talking about our older kids and how we'd meet.
13:23Like, we got all the situation that we're in.
13:25That our kids would meet.
13:28She's like, I'm gonna get some blankets.
13:30Do you have anything to do with time this is?
13:31It's around 11, 11.30.
13:34It's just the studio?
13:35Yeah.
13:37And she's like, I'll be back in about two minutes.
13:3910 minutes went by.
13:40Nothing.
13:41I'm starting to worry.
13:43And he just happened to come by and he's safe.
13:48Yeah.
13:50Yeah.
13:51And he said something to me and it didn't make sense.
13:54And he just kind of running at me.
13:57So I got up.
13:59And I'm scared of .
14:00And I keep remembering.
14:01Well, Kelly keeps telling me that he's a hitter.
14:03What's he gonna do to me?
14:05Mm-hmm.
14:06And I was running full speed because at that time, my adrenaline was rushing.
14:10I went across the street where there's lightning.
14:12And I knew those people in case something happened.
14:15See, just the way his demeanor was, it just scared me.
14:19And then I heard him yelling.
14:20He was yelling at her.
14:21She says when she was across the street, she heard the man yelling at someone near the hotel.
14:27He was yelling, I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna kill you.
14:30Where does he go?
14:32I don't know.
14:33I didn't see where he went off to.
14:35This bald-headed blackmail.
14:36Have you seen him at all today?
14:37No.
14:39I felt like something bad happened.
14:41I tell you, she's not been back.
14:42She's not been back all night.
14:44And I told him, I said, I wish I would've been to go sit for her.
14:47To look for her.
14:48Because if I would've looked for her, maybe she would be around.
14:53She's dead.
15:02Give me a seat.
15:08Why?
15:09She's such a beautiful person.
15:13Oh, I'm sorry for his cold.
15:15But I hope anybody who'd be f***ing in it.
15:23three hours in they responded to an incident where crazy guys did a fire extinguisher
15:30corporal rob van tyne finds a police report about a recent disturbance at the hotel
15:34near the crime scene so there's a call at some point last night involving somebody
15:39out there spraying people with a fire extinguisher
15:44turn 315 robert gardner a hotel resident identified 42 year old robert antonio gardner
15:53as the alleged offender with the fire extinguisher but he wasn't caught
15:58match the description of our suspect gardner was born and raised in charleston he has previous
16:05misdemeanor convictions for drug possession and shoplifting then detectives get another
16:13lead female let us know that hey i have information about what happened last night while canvassing
16:19for surveillance video another resident of the hotel approached corporal tim holly with
16:24possible information about the murder there's somebody who'll interview her hopefully she
16:30can tell us who did it okay i appreciate you coming in on the side of holly did you see
16:43kelly
16:43yesterday oh i never saw her at all she says she was at the convenience store last night
17:12okay he got in trouble at the store so that's why you wanted to get a ride to get out
17:18of there
17:18okay so um i guess i went to jail i was sitting in my car because we were working for
17:25an argument
17:25okay and um so i was sitting there good maybe 30 40 minutes and just rob walked up to the
17:34car like
17:34i mean he was just pouring sweat i've never seen anybody that way in my life okay when he came
17:41to
17:41the car he said you know that bitch she says robert brought up the name of another woman
17:48you don't know what i'm killing you i got that bitch good
18:06i got that bear that's what he said yeah he never really said anything that he did to her
18:18okay and then where did he go he went to the second floor and then he just disappeared
18:24have you seen rob since his incident no he disappeared and he came to bed
18:30what does it look like i don't even know okay she claims she doesn't know the other woman
18:37robert was talking about how long have you known rob maybe eight months
18:44can you describe him to me what does he look like
18:53do you remember what he was wearing yesterday
19:06all right um we want to show you one thing and then we'll get you out of here
19:17so the witnesses talked about rob being upset with another female but i believe he was referring
19:23to kelly as being the individual that he got he said i got that bitch
19:28a lot of times with a lot of these young ladies they'll give us a little bit of information but
19:32they won't always give us everything um just because they don't want to be labeled a rat or they
19:38don't want to get beat up or anything like that so we can't push them too hard then they'll just
19:43shut down and then they'll walk out so sometimes we have to kind of be careful
19:49we want to be in a lineup for robert gardner we'll get a person who doesn't know anything about the
19:54case
19:54to create a lineup for us there she identifies him as being the one who said i just got that
20:00bitch
20:08hey how's it going i'm going to end up showing you one picture at a time
20:14okay
20:21and what is his name
20:26what is his name
20:31when those interviews definitely did help but none of the witnesses we have so far saw the murder
20:37well he'll be on video footage with kelly at the circle that would be good
20:51an hour later
20:52somebody's got a video
20:57that's the victim
20:59and the witness
21:01we see her show up at 11 25
21:08she's friends with all the clerks
21:1211 29
21:13there he is
21:15that's him
21:19yeah she gets out of there immediately
21:21she sees him
21:26just walk out
21:44he's just raging
21:47pacing back and forth
21:5012
21:53her car's pulling up just like she said
22:02everything is matching up
22:05i think we just got it over to get arrest warrants
22:08the witness
22:09the witness placed the suspect in the same area where the body in the victim's camp is out
22:13with him yelling out i'm gonna kill you
22:16another witness identified him as being the guy who said i just got that bitch so
22:20her statement combined with that statement combined with the video that we got we can piece it all together and
22:25say that the person who said i just got that bitch is the same person who ran into the wood
22:28line saying i'm gonna kill you
22:30i'm gonna kill you
22:31who's case is this cam's with all signs pointing to robert gardner as their suspect
22:36the case is assigned to rookie detective cam miller as lead i feel really good about
22:42solving cam's case for
22:43i think we have enough right now just trying to put all the pieces together because we have
22:49so many hands in it so we're trying to put everything that we have together but right now
22:54i'm gonna try to type in warrants and then hopefully we're gonna try to get out and locate this dude
23:10i'm right around the tanger area and see if i can see him
23:15the team searches the area around the crime scene for robert gardner
23:20we'll probably try to get this dude by the end of the night uh just because of how brutal
23:26it was and he seems to be targeting multiple women so the longer this dude's out the higher
23:35the chance he does it to somebody else we don't need that
23:42two hours into the search
23:45oh yeah i'm sorry your office is back
23:48you're a detective door driver in secret town
23:51two six eight center up to you
23:58yep he's wearing the exact same
24:03how you doing see each other name
24:17yeah it's him north ralston police stand on face wall
24:27just an investigation that's all i can say detectives want to talk to you
24:45and he has what appears to be blood on his shoes
24:56hopefully we can talk to him
25:00what's up man i'm lieutenant miller
25:04have you ever been in trouble before yeah okay where you from
25:11charleston what's the highest level of education you completed
25:14sixth grade
25:28what were you before that all right so there was an incident with a female that happened probably between
25:41midnight and probably like six o'clock this morning
25:45i don't know what i got to do with me
25:48i don't know if i don't feel my friends
25:49um can you walk me through what happened with you yesterday
25:54no
25:54no
25:57what
25:58that's that
25:59i don't got an answer to nothing
26:03i sleep very tired bro i know you're tired i can tell you tired so can you tell me where
26:10you were yesterday
26:10what a
26:10hey mr garnered
26:25he's just trying to get in cam's head mind game type of thing
26:30Oh, for sure.
26:40I'm doing something wrong.
26:43You're letting him get to you.
26:45He's a very smart criminal.
26:48You just go in there and be straight up honest with him.
26:51Like, you're in here right now because you're a person of interest.
26:55We have witnesses who are saying you murdered the girl.
27:02You just took all your clothes because you're a person of interest.
27:04We got a bunch of video from the area.
27:07You know, he's the one who's got to explain himself.
27:09He's the one who's got to try and justify what he did.
27:16Hey, Robert.
27:18You know who that is?
27:21She look familiar.
27:24She else beat to death.
27:29She look familiar?
27:31No?
27:34You were the last person in that area with that female.
27:39That's a lie because I haven't been with that lady.
27:41It's not a lie.
27:41It's on video.
27:43I have video surveillance from Circle K.
27:46You were there last night.
27:48I was not with that lady.
27:51You were at Circle K.
27:53I've been at Circle K, but I haven't been with no people.
27:55After you left Circle K, you walked back towards the extended state, right?
28:01I went through the extended state.
28:03Did you see anybody as you were walking to the extended state?
28:08There was a girl by quality and extended sleeping on a bench.
28:14Well, where's that bench at?
28:16Right by Zaxby's.
28:18He says the woman he saw was near a neighboring hotel, 100 feet from where Kelly was found.
28:24Did you see that female?
28:27No, she was covered up.
28:29She had like a white blanket on her.
28:32She was by herself?
28:33Mm-hmm.
28:35Okay.
28:36Who else did you see there?
28:38I was talking to somebody over the fence.
28:41She got smart.
28:42I asked her if she had an extra pipe.
28:44Mine's broke.
28:45Okay.
28:45What did she say to you?
28:47She was like, get the hell out of something.
28:49And then that's when I kept walking through the parking lot.
28:52Okay.
28:52So when you walked through the parking lot, where did you go to?
28:56When y'all picked me up and I slept out there last night.
28:59But you've never seen this female before?
29:03I see her around.
29:18Do you recall seeing her last night?
29:35I don't think that's true because she wasn't what I do with Dre.
29:39Yeah, what's blood on your shoes?
29:42Whose blood is on your shoes today?
29:47Yours?
29:47What happened?
29:50When did you cut your foot?
29:53Antonio?
29:56What problem you got with her?
30:02You ain't got to hang with her to have a problem with her.
30:04You have an issue with something else could have happened.
30:07The reason why I'm asking, man, because you're facing a murder charge.
30:11I don't want you to be viewed as a woman beater or nothing like that.
30:14So that's why I'm trying to get to the side of the story and trying to figure out what happened.
30:22What's crazy?
30:34I can't hear you, bro.
30:37Antonio, man, come on.
30:38Talk to me.
30:40You said no?
30:49He's shutting down, like...
30:51He said, I don't know her, never seen her.
30:54Yeah.
30:54And then he says, well, I've seen her now.
30:57Y'all trying to say I was with her last night?
30:58I wasn't with her last night.
31:01He puts himself there.
31:04It can be frustrating.
31:05He didn't confess to what he did.
31:08The blood from Rob's shoes will be sent to SLED for further testing.
31:13Our witnesses, we don't know how reliable they'll be.
31:16Yeah, they came in and talked today.
31:18But a lot of times it's going to be very hard to try and get them in a court of
31:21law to testify.
31:21The chances of that, I'm going to say with this case, are pretty slim.
31:27I think with the DNA evidence, that's crucial.
31:30But there are several avenues we can take to help sure up this case for trial.
31:35It's not closed until it goes to court and we have a conviction, so we'll continue to do our investigation.
31:42Hello?
31:47Hello, is this Ms. Devon Craig?
31:52Hey, this is Detective Hollywood, North Charleston Police Department.
31:56Hey.
31:56Hey, so I'm just calling you to let you know that we just made an arrest in your mom's murder.
32:04You did?
32:06Yes, ma'am.
32:08Oh, I killed her!
32:11A subject by the name of Robert Gargan.
32:15I'm sorry you're having to go through all this.
32:18Detective Miller is going to be the case agent on this, but I will have him reach out at some
32:23point and make contact with you.
32:25Do you have any questions for me as of right this second?
32:28I don't know.
32:30Again, I give you my condolences.
32:34Bye-bye.
32:36Yeah, I hate doing those, man.
32:44Twenty-four hours in.
32:47My worst nightmare.
32:51This is the worst thing that could happen.
32:55Devin and her boyfriend come into homicide to speak with detectives.
33:02Um, do you have any other siblings or anything you do?
33:07I have a full sibling.
33:08She's ten and a half months younger than me.
33:11I have two half-siblings.
33:14They're from my mom's second marriage, and they're 16 and 13.
33:18The younger two have lived with me since August of last year.
33:24Can you remember the last time you talked to your mom?
33:27Thursday.
33:29About seven days ago.
33:32The last time you talked to her, everything seemed normal.
33:35Yeah.
33:37She wanted me to come and see her.
33:39Um, she said that she missed me.
33:42She said, you promise you'll come and see me?
33:44And I said, yes, I promise I'll come and see you.
33:47And I wasn't able to go see her.
33:50Um, she never mentioned any trouble with anyone.
33:56She told me that she gets raped and beaten out there all the time.
34:03And that I don't know what it's like to live out on the streets.
34:06And she wanted to live with me.
34:08And I told her that I had her kids and I couldn't, I couldn't let her live with me.
34:14Because she's lived with me before and she stole from me.
34:20Mm-hmm.
34:22How was your relationship like?
34:25I loved her.
34:26And she loved me and she loved all of her kids.
34:32And I loved being around her.
34:38She was just crippled by her addiction.
34:42She started doing drugs when I was like 10.
34:46I know she didn't want to do drugs.
34:49I know that's not the life she wanted.
34:56What questions did you have for me?
34:58Why was she murdered?
35:01That I don't know.
35:03There was an arrest that was made.
35:06Well, I found him so quick and some people don't ever get justice.
35:11I'm just grateful for that.
35:18I know Harvey can have a kid who can assist you.
35:21Would you like to speak to her?
35:23Yeah.
35:29Hi.
35:32Our job is to try to help you get through each phase of the process.
35:45We're going to continue to aggressively work the case, looking for video and other possible witnesses.
35:53I think a lot of people can relate to her mom's story.
35:56A lot of people will just look at, like, she's just a homeless person that's around here.
36:00She's a dirty person and she's not.
36:04She had this whole life and got addicted to stupid shit that she just couldn't get off of.
36:10I've been on the side of that, the family members that have the addictions and stuff like that.
36:15And you want to be angry with them and tell them to get their shit together.
36:18And sometimes they just can't.
36:21The victim's daughter, she's going to think about, like, had she just sucked it up and had her mom living
36:27with her and stealing from her,
36:28then maybe she would still be here.
36:30She doesn't have to take care of everybody else right now.
36:32Now she needs to make sure she takes care of herself and let other people take care of her when
36:38she needs it.
36:45Still lacking any direct evidence that Robert Gardner killed Kelly.
36:50This is video of the wood line where the victim was found.
36:54The team gets video from another hotel facing the crime scene.
36:58This view is right here, out towards where the body is.
37:01Right on the other side of the bus.
37:07So that's the victim right there.
37:10It looks like she has a blanket over her shoulder.
37:14We're at the picnic 2-1 at the hotel.
37:17She decided I'm going to get the blankets.
37:20She walks pretty fast.
37:25She's searching for a room.
37:27That's going to be the suspect behind her.
37:42We know just based off clothing descriptions, he was wearing a puffer jacket.
37:48Our victim is being followed by the suspect.
37:52It's her.
37:55That's him.
37:571.30, they disappear in this area where the bus is.
38:031.43, he pops out from the wood line.
38:09She was killed at 1.38, 1.39.
38:12He does go back to the hotel for killing her.
38:16I believe the video is great evidence for court.
38:20It's just frustrating not knowing exactly why this happened.
38:23But right now, I don't have a motive for why Rob did this to Kelly.
38:28She probably was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
38:31I don't think we'll ever know the exact reason of why someone would do something like this.
38:37To someone who appears to be completely innocent and just be brutally beaten for no reason.
38:44With all the evidence and the witness statements that we have, it feels like we bring justice for Kelly.
39:24One time for science class, she made slime and she came into the classroom dressed like a mad scientist.
39:34She had like wire hangers in her hair, braided it up into crazy little things and then different colored socks
39:42and like a mad scientist trench coat.
39:45And was like, hey kids, we're going to make slime today.
39:49And like, everybody's like, man, your mom's so cool.
39:55When I was one years old, this was my birthday party and my mom was helping me open all my
40:00birthday presents.
40:03And that's me.
40:04This was hers.
40:05She was a witch one year and I put it on.
40:09Um, I always wore her like shoes and hats and sunglasses and um, she would catch me in her high
40:16heels sometimes and she'd be like, better get those high heels up.
40:22I miss the way she laughed.
40:24Funny as woman on you.
40:27I miss her like before she got like back into drugs.
40:32I miss her like being happy.
40:35I miss the moments before that when she was trying to be a mom.
40:39She was very loving and caring.
40:42It does suck that she wasn't in our lives like as much.
40:48I really do miss my mom and like the woman that she could have been.
40:54I was hoping that she would get better eventually and that we would get to see her and stuff.
41:00And that she would like be more of a mother figure for us.
41:05I don't have a lot of like early memories of her before she started doing drugs and stuff.
41:11When she was in jail, she used to draw us pictures and put them in letters and then mail them
41:16to us.
41:18Like Philip got like a little Iron Man.
41:21You got a flower.
41:22I feel like I did.
41:24A big sunflower maybe?
41:25Yeah.
41:36This is my mom's urn and I put a beautiful plaque on it.
41:41It says I love you to the moon of that because that's something she would always say.
41:47And she kept pictures of us to try and remind herself to do right.
41:52My mom seemed so happy with all of us kids around her.
41:56That's when she was the happiest.
42:00Whatever had a hold of her, she wasn't strong enough to fight it.
42:06But, you know, I never got that opportunity to see if my mom would actually stop with the things that
42:15she was doing.
42:17And because he took her life, I'll never know.
42:21But I like to hope she would have.
42:26I love you, mom.
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