He wasn't capable of that. If I had laser beams out a her thing in the back of his head. Coming up, for investigators, the depths of despair, I felt helpless. This was a very scary case. Dianna Brice was last seen on March 30, 2021, at the K Laundry laundromat on Church Lane in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, where her mother was doing laundry. Generate leasing sales for manufacturing equipment ranging from $5,000 to $1,000,000. But Sam wouldn't budge. Did you tell him what your situation was and what had happened to you? And you heard the pain in her voice. Yeah. IE 11 is not supported. I thought that was my last moment on Earth when you thought to yourself, I'm about to die? We got some news about the duct tape case. I was becoming more and more discouraged and frustrated. I walked in there and her face was unrecognizable. Well, that was easy, said Bryce on his ear, or to his trying to get revenge on me for getting in trouble in the first place. Like, I know. Gradually, they and the other housemates helped Amber learn to smile again, but particularly Sam, a bright, gentle guy, good listener. And we were not able to locate an ad that had the amount of detail that stuff on it reported this ad having. Good situation. Could she really accuse him? It was like all the air had been sucked out of the room and she's like, no, you don't get it. I'm sorry I didn't hurt you. Moon the maximum possible sentence. I was horrible. And I remember jumping out of bed and calling her and she told me that we had a DNA hit and I was so happy I was over the moon took forever. The shooting was just the beginning of an investigation that would lead many to wonder if it could have been prevented. The doctors assessed her head injury, patched up the rest of her as best they could. I was like, yes, the start of a new beginning. Here's Keith Morrison with Left for Dan. Dateline NBC presents an original podcast on Richard Rosario, who was convicted of a 1996 murder in New York City. And I was driving about as fast as I could. A sentence that would last more than a lifetime moon won't be eligible for parole until the year 21 15, when he'd be more than 130 years old. And so she began, in a way, embarrassed about going drinking with her friend Eric. You can hear his wheels spinning as he's trying to create the story that is somehow plausible, given the evidence he's trying to figure out how to make what we have matched, something that could have happened. Associate Bryce.Bailey@gtlaw.com. Kirsti had been helping raise and her son was babysitting the night of the attack. Six chances for you to help bring somebody home. She became very isolated and she was very self-conscious about everything and everybody that she was around. And no, I didn't hurt you. At the Desk Of: Alexandra Lo Re, Dateline Dateline sat down at the desk of program coordinator, Alexandra Lo Re to learn more about her. But who did this Detective Seymour wanted? And for a minute it was like old times. His claims are ridiculous and ugly, a Craigslist had never happened, she said, and as she finished, Amber realized she'd managed to inspire herself to I really empowering at a lot of people there to support me, too. I tapped Amber on the shoulder and I very quickly spoke with her because I wanted to hear her. Yeah, I wanted to know. I was involved. Bryce joined Baker McKenzie's IP Practice Group following his graduation from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2020. This is for real. But Sam did not report his roommate to the police. It was never his investigation. The brutality of this was unlike anything that I'd heard about why would you attack somebody and brutalize them to such a degree if you didn't know them or have a grudge against them? You can change how the story ends. A stew of emotions overlaid with confusion. The judge gave Mr. From the 2013 incident, the one I told you about, the one I wrote down to you and told you about multiple times. Did you have fun with somebody last night and he beat the hell out of me and told me you killed her before anything quietly in her almost gentle way, Detective Seabaugh pushed back. It was crazy. Yeah. But this time Amber was more lucid and the story she told even now, years later, as she began to tell us the same story, waves of anxiety all but stopped her. Yeah, you got the guy. Where is he? Was there a point at which it came crashing down on you, it was him had to be him during the trial, wasn't it, till then? I was heartbroken. Apparently no idea what was coming. He can't sit idly by for the rest of his life, he's going to do something at some point we're going to catch him doing something. It was never our guy ever. There's been an update in your duct tape case where at that moment were you thinking, like, we got it. What do you mean. The county sheriff calls for a full-on manhunt and the search for Denise Hallowell's killer begins. Her friends and family begin a 40 year search to find her killer. Well, youll just have to slow down and listen to find out, Producer Carol Gable typically works from her home office in South Carolina, but while she was in New York working on a story, we sat down at a guest desk to learn more about her (and her dog, Beau!). Patrol officer Dane Stratton, first person to respond to the scene, haunted by it all for years, who'd spent many nights searching on his own for Ember's attacker finally in court, saw her for the very first time since he'd rescued her. With an electrical engineering degree, practical work experience for various electrical contractors, and studies in circuitry design and electromagnetics, he is able to leverage his experience across the patent prosecution, IP litigation, and technology transactions areas. And this tape on her forehead and face was just cutting into her skin. And I went to the home and I looked under the door to figure out what the vantage point was that Stephon had claimed he had. I still couldn't believe it. And get our conversation now for free wherever you download your podcasts. Yeah, huge. What's the next thing here? You know that. Why would you attack somebody to such a degree if you didn't have a grudge against them? He was disgusted and surprised that he didn't feel this. The detective with that little nugget of information in her back pocket, who knew when she might need it. Talk to kids in the middle and I would talk to people hanging out. I don't like to see them all over her body. . So a partner of mine and I went to the church to contact him there. As the call continues, Sam never wavered. So there was this tremendous amount of pressure to get it right. Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. And you could just see, like. Roxburgh Park, right? We sat down at his desk to learn some more about him. What was her condition when you got there? I never, ever, ever, never heard or Detective Seymour does not bluster or threaten and she didn't hear. Dateline NBC Showcast. This is more than just fear, wasn't it? A mysterious trail of death follows Helen and Olga, two kindly old ladies determined to help homeless men in Los Angeles. Could she do it? Did they give you a script to read or anything like that? So I would drive my police car through the park. So when I performed my statistical analysis in this case, the statistic was one in 10 quintillion. That he had left her in that condition. I'm one of that confession. And then they started reporting they could hear her screaming, help, help. Amber, who refused to call herself a victim, even faced her attacker in . It seemed the old Amber was beginning to emerge again. She was wearing only a sock on one foot. Right. Bryce Bailey is on Facebook. She swabbed all areas of the tape. I'm a nurse and I say all I hear is that Shamoon was an unlikely suspect for sure, and he'd offered alibis. Get your free dark web scan at LifeLock dotcom slash scan. So good to her and her son Gabe. And winter came to Fort Collins. She was afraid because she didn't know who did this and confused. I've always felt responsible or like it was my fault. She's like, I know him for a moment. Like, who is this guy? My personal business thanasis out for everybody. and in the ambulance, as she struggled to calm down, David Stratton asked, what happened when you woke up, where you. And then the fact that I was alive and the fact that they gave me an alias for the hospital live so that nobody could find you. I didn't hurt you. I would see people stumbling home from the bars and I kind of became a self-motivated taxi. But the heart of Sam's alibi was his claim that he had sex and only sex with Amber after reading a Craigslist ad offering free sex in the park. Evening again, one day later, Fort Collins, Colorado, and once again restaurants and bars began to fill with young people eager to meet new friends. And somebody who would do a thing like that to you must be on the list, right? We have seven years where we get to be a detective for you and then you get rotated back out to patrol. If somebody looked at me for longer than, you know, a few seconds, I would get suspicious. She said we could catch him. You should go there. The patrol officers knew the suspect had used red duct tape. She is such a strong woman. Select this result to . Yeah. She said, call me. Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight people were murdered near or along Virginias Colonial Parkway by an apparent serial killer. It didn't seem to register because that was her old friend, her gentle confidante, her housemate, that man. Where does fiction end and reality begin? Did she recognize the voice when Dateline continues? OK, but they have your DNA. Was the person who attacked Amber Smith still out here looking fishing? The idea crossed your mind. The hot bike thing is, Colorado frowns heavily on people who sell hot goods to pawnbroker's, which in the state of Colorado is a felony to lie. How do we not know who this guy is? Hey, guys, Willie Geist here this week on the Sunday Sit Down podcast, I get together for a rare conversation with John Cusack to talk about his new series, Utopia and his long career of memorable roles. Yes. And so if they had stopped a car with a strange guy in it and he had red duct tape, they took his swabs, collected the duct tape. It had taken four long years to this moment in Amber Smith's little apartment, where Detective Chevon Seymour could finally tell her the news that the man who had raped and beaten and found her up, the red duct tape had been found. Yeah. So why wasn't his DNA in the massive CODIS system? On February 12, 2010, shots rang out at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Yes, he said, you know, I'm so sorry. Really. We were pretty shocked as a DNA laboratory. We were surprised that there were no other cases and no offenders within the database that this case matched to. Yeah, that's a place I'd never want to go. When Dateline continues. Simpson Case. And then the judge asked if Dane Stratton had anything to say. And she was young and pretty, had lots of friends. I was beyond scared. A community is on edge after a 27-year-old Egypt Covington is shot to death in her Michigan home. Chodas is a great big system with every felon in the nation. The answer? She sentenced him to twenty eight years to the remainder of his natural life. Gradually, they and the other housemates helped Amber learn to smile again, but particularly Sam, a bright, gentle guy, good listener. Ahead of next week's premiere of the new NBC show Timeless, we got to thinking if you changed one moment in time, could you alter history? Then they tracked down Bryce Bailey, told him what Sam said. She was found naked and bound with red duct tape. Couldn't Sam. And there was screaming and yelling and excited us on the other side of the phone. Dude, how do you explain that. I actually feel a sense of hope now. Detective Seymour wrestled with something that felt like dread and intense pressure. And the picture was Sam Sam Moon, but it didn't compute. She answered the door and I said, we got a hit. No match? And her emotions, her depression, her fear pulled her down for months. A bottle that up and just try to forget about it. Yeah, that's what I thought. Midnight past the usual rowdies, busy, but nothing special. So ordinary next swabs on our hands on the left hand swab to take your DNA. The red that I was seeing was a red duct tape, her hands just bound and duct tape, her hair matted across her face bound and duct taped, her eyes covered. Dateline Crime Capsule: The Golden State Joseph James DeAngelo has pleaded guilty to 13 murders ascribed to the Californias Golden State Killer. The serial killer attacked women and couples throughout the 1970s through 1980s. I don't know if there were things that he did growing up or here, but I never saw him looking at weird pornography. Prepare lease quotes based on weekly cost of funds in order to maximize . Correct. Was it remotely possible he was telling the truth or what? As the young cop approached. Because now she knew someone was her kidnapper and attacker, that she needed to share her story to help put him behind bars. There was a roll around it. I just was so nervous and so many people I just was getting very overwhelmed. I thought he had left me for dead. Oh, and say, OK, you go ahead. And would you like a hug? He'd been on the job barely two months. And I feel like it's you have a future ahead of me and I feel like I might help people and. Sensitive, compassionate. It wouldn't be just a question of I give up. Bailey, was living in the basement and . Keith Morrison tells the twisted tale in Datelines latest podcast. This is the guy you confided in. We caught up with Sarah Goode at her desk to find out a little bit more about her! He didn't do it. He was like a ghost like this, the boogeyman. Of the ducted case. Take a look back at the case in Dateline Crime Capsule. I did not hurt you, Amber, but that was a terrible thing to say. Yeah, you were the. I'm . And that's why his DNA showed up. You didn't hesitate. Kirsty Aguilar's saw her once happy friend turned into someone she barely recognized. Amber Heard's Dateline interview is happening tonight, Friday, June 17, at 8 p.m. EST on NBC. Simpson case? I mean, we were chasing down everything we could. Scared, of course, it's still very traumatized. We know it's hard to keep up with our schedule Get your Dateline weekly newsletter, so you don't miss a thing! Take some breaths, OK? Dateline Crime Capsule: The O.J. Contact Bryce for services Business Analytics, 3D Design, Graphic Design, and Financial Analysis Unseen by the party crowd, a rookie cop named Dane Stratton prowled the streets around the Little City graveyard shift. I thought, like, it was rigged. Another clue, the brutality of the assault. And still, Detective Seymour hadn't been able to decipher from Amber exactly what happened to her, and so 13 hours into her investigation, she returned to the hospital. I thought I would come back for me, even in the safe houses. The first part of that conversation was exciting because we were able to develop a DNA profile, a full and complete genetic picture of the suspect, which they could use to I.D. Yeah. Nobody there. I just can hear still to this day her screams of just agony, pain. When Dateline continues, the trauma of the kind suffered by Amber Smith is a beast, the long tail. No, I haven't. He deserves every year, every minute, every second that he spends in prison. Pick the plan that's right for you and save up the 25 percent off your first year by using promo code dateline. There's a sense of disorientation, like everything that was real in her world just went poof, kind of a second victimization. So this one hit her hard, especially when she found out Amber had a son, too. So that flipped a gear in my head that something was seriously wrong over there. Little Bejar, mostly guys. There was some around here a while ago. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, and he was eager to provide me with a sample of his DNA to exonerate him. Amber could not see her attacker's face or recognize his voice, but there was one thing she was sure of. Where was she? It's you. Yeah, I was scared everywhere. Sam insisted he'd responded to a personal ad on Craigslist, and that must be how she picked up his DNA. And then for Amber, a brand new trauma have like an anxiety attack, just like the overwhelming sense of doom. Drink too much. He said he did not rape Amber. She asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in Denver to rush tests on DNA samples taken from Amber and forensic analyst Melissa Grass to work. This didn't seem like a stranger thing to me. Amber was still deeply conflicted. This is interesting. But not everyone was satisfied, Sam Moon's parents, the mortified by what their son had done and what it all meant for their family, were not so convinced that he was the one who beat and bound that in duct tape. She had suffered from a broken jaw. Irritating. And then she focused on raising her son. Protecting your IP at the source: licensing and other transactions, Up-and-coming KC musician Danza drops his second record. She doesn't know. Couldn't be true. Can't die. I think he was surprised that it had happened. I thought I was deceased or he had left the country. Amber struggled to remember everything. I'm not a victim. June 12, 2016: School Camp. A few hours after the attack, Detective Seymour, under partners tracked down Amber, sister in law and it turned out best friend Kirsty Aguilar. That is 10, followed by 18 zeroes. Updated: Sep 24, 2020 / 04:05 PM EDT. And if she did, would she be right or wrong? Her voice steady, calming as she gently lowered the boom. Yeah, but all somebody is. I couldn't make out what she was saying at that point because my heart's pounding. Dana Stratton, the first responder, tried to be businesslike on the stand, he couldn't do it. Sam. She had to let it go. One more night to take a lusty bite of fleeting summer that last Friday in August 2013. Could anyone understand how she was feeling, the grueling pain, the unrelenting terror, humiliation, loss? But even if Amber doubted herself, the prosecutors never did, and when she took the stand, she was phenomenal and I think she really got to take back some of what Steffon Moon took from her when she sat there and confronted him. In February 2003, a shot rang out in famed music producer Phil Spectors California mansion. And soon fast friends like Bryce Bailey, a boyfriends buddy and Bryce's childhood pal, a friendly guy named Stephan Moon who crashed on the couch. A young North Carolina man named James Chambers goes missing and his family is frantic. Like we got it. Right in the center of downtown Fort Worth, Texas is a 5-acre park known as the Fort Worth Water Gardens. Amber, after all, was slated to be their star witness and they needed her to help seal the case here for the first time since that night in the park, she would finally confront Simon face to face. But surely he couldn't be because of how brutal it was. There's no way this is this is the wrong guy. It was extremely emotional for me because it was so vivid when I was being asked about this crime scene. I went through some of the things that he had Googled and which is gross, gross stuff. I have fought for my life because of my son. He was famous for doing stupid things, but nothing aggressive, nothing violent. I do believe that he was and is a ticking time bomb. Waves of students had come and gone. I just sobbed. I remember a rope being put across my neck and then some words were said to me. Life had moved on. In the rush to market, to license to third parties or to create new software-as-a-service (SaaS), companies . 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