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they found h, e vict of a ruthle attack. >> i mean, your heart just drops to your omach. >> pential suspects? w about a cano's wor of customers? sunwas ryeaif. isomeonthat saw her at work and followed her home? >> we didn knoif the wassome psychwatcngyoknow, tching ugirls, work at the lms. >> or did the answers lie in the deadoman's past? >> shauna startethinking, i have got to get out of this situation. >> from ouof the blue, a tip. >> he hasomenformation tt was connted to our murder. >> tt would reveal a diabolical plot. >> i just could not understand hothis was rty. >> but was this kill too clever to be caught? >> he is extme smart. he is smarter than we all are. >> i'm lesr ho and this is "datele."

>> she was finhed no tired,rung out. must have been as she walked away fm the incessantly chirping machinery and the blearyyes ofhe gamers day fromealife who'd called out forer againnd again and again. tside inhe nht, a full mo bthe grt usf delight and sin in an unaccustomed shade of pale. was septe 29, 2012. at precily 3:0in the morning, in a ckm of the palms cae cktail itamhauna tiaffa rte card in e stfingachine and setut t break a little rul shauna had parkeher car he back lot, a practice discouraged because surveillance cameras re unable track her all the way to her car still easier this way. quicker. and after l, would a stalker really be waitinfor hehere, under a full moon? >> it was absolute horrible.

>> it'every woman's worst nightmare. >> wdidn't know a of us re nex >> it ne tna to becoma ck wtress whenhe movedves 20-sethi bacin the mid-s. what she wanted wato be closer toamily, meang big sister paul >> she originally st thought, "oh, the's no way i could be a cocktail waiess. i don't evenrink>> but in casi town, a cotail waitress could make good money. so now, at 46, she was a and she would laugh. shauna laughed at hersf a lot. you know, lea lot. anshe woulh se, and, you know, she'd say, "well, i l t know, you know, what these cocktls are. u know, i it orde'em anthey give them to me and i go take them to e -- the pele." >> but she was good it. everybody could sethat. >> all the cmers loved shna so ch. >> why? >> she w a sweet pn. >> beautiful. she made close friends. a wo family, really, including kelly chapman and stephanie

i rember the was one ti, i was the- i was at one of the bars ani saw her wa by. every ngle hd turned on that bawatching her walk by. and i remember thinking, i'm like, "why don't i loolike her?" because men, women, they -- they just loved her >> buto one loved her que the way heid a handsome boy scout of a fighter med ge tiaffay. gege was the genuine article an all amerin good guy. he'd overcome early obstacles to beco t notch student in high school, a star athlete. thiss hisister, ri mcgrew. >> aaledictorian and on e footll team. i -- >> yeah, you'd tnk- >> --he'd st be a jerk, right? yeah. >> just ki of a ck, me-spited sortf, who kn stereypical. but it s quite e cory, sa mar >> he was alwayshe calming force amongst fami and friends. y kw, he was the

this outlook in l where, "i wanna go a make the world a bett place.so mli." >> did. hened a prtigious tment wpoint, a ter grtioname combat gineer, served as a tion builde pama. his childhoofriend, aaron solano, went down r a visit. >>he stoes htold mabou the ssionshat acmplishedilng schoo, clics, rdways anbrids, really hadn impact on his life. finally felt like, "heym getting do somethg." >> wn george left the military with the ranof ctain, he took a corpote engineering job, but soon reized thalife in an office building wasn't for he wanted to work for real people, which is whyeorge pu aside that fcyegre his and went to vegas to train as a firefighter/emt. >> focusing on himselfot how he wanted to le his life. he wanted to serve.

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try al the undise recommenprobiotic. ,,,,,, part o of what madit so incompreheible was wheret happened. shna tiaffay lived in a good, saneighborho. partf town wheegas does not party, a pt of town ere the peopleho work the casinos raise eir fami and live ordinary qui lives. but, this is whe they found her. george andheir eight-year-old uger. inside her own hse. not so safe after all. >> i think i need to report a eain and a murder. >> grge would have known even

>> what's goinon there? >> she'deen dead for hours. >>y wife. wife on the floor, bloy, f, not movin we goa n thmoin >> dettive dg has in homicide long time, and god knows, vas has kept him busy. hiand his paner terri miller. >> when we arrived, there is were fire department personnel evywhere. it was all too obvious. shauna had been attacked, probably as shwaednto r house, had been beaten with sothing blunt and rd.>> and >> a the was things done with the body that made us think that there was possie sexual assault of some type t was posing of the body. >> some ndf edator at work here? a predator who esced with a good hunk of cash from the lks of it -- suna's rse was missg.

chips quite a bit. they're own to make $300, $400, $500 a night. they maka lot of money. especialthey're good. and we did send detectivver to the palms. ey talked to them. they said shauna is one of the best employe they ha >> but something happened ter shleft the palms. so what? >> shauna wavery beautif. is it someonthat her a wo and floweher home >>f courses the huand, georgeld hto be coidered a possie suect, to soetecves lled him aside, interviewed him rit on the spot. >>eorge, do you understand the stent's being recorded i understand. >> and you understand we want to lko you about whatappene this morning? yes, sir. >>eorge to dectives that en he ge dteng back while hwent inside. >> i saw shauna's . just laying therfrozen

and, in my job, i kn what that means. >> ok are you paramedic? i'm an emti firefiger. >> their daughter, thank god, didn see anything, said george. he rushed her out to the street. >> i didt know if there was sobody there. i wanted to get ouof the my uger. >> he ken e litt girl to shauna's place, he said, because it was shauna's turn. >> we are curry separated, but planned on moving back in togeer becausee started gealong agai nd mnwhi, they hhis complited ngement. shau worke7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a. at the casino. george, as a firighter, worked long shifts and got ts of days off. thr daughter shuled and forth between them and when they were both at work, the girl ent nights wh geor's what shift did you work sterday? >> a 24-hour shift. >> so was at work when shauna was kied. course, ey did some checking,

every run. you know, if he d left for a reason. >> but he was on eve run. did not leave work. atll. so, not the husband this time. >> he had noing to do with the atck of shauna. >> but george did offer a pole lead. >> t garage do waspe whh is unusu so we we wored because my wife's house got broken into a week or two ago. >>he tef in atarer burgryiteared, used shau's bathrm take a sh a lefwi several pairs of shaa'panties an some jewelry. left hind a pr of boxer shorts, ze sma. backheshna immiately suspecd someeibooo tes,aid gege >> so she had discusd it with several people, including geor, decided that it may

unloed. and it cld be mayb some kids that live in the neighborhood. >> so is that who killed her? lookg around therime scene, the detectives rlized that shauna's kler or kilrs had been inther booze, had taken not just her purse but, like in that elier burgly, her underweasohey set about checkingut everyne of the neigorho bs and --y had solid ibis, all of them. >> ty were not iolved in tbreak in.they we not involved i shauna's dth. now thgs get evemore scary because d't kw what we have. >> once that word got out, it could ry quily spread th terrorround. like it already had among shau'so-workers. >>e didn't know if there was sosywatchingyou ow, watchings, gir, work at the palms. we didn'knf any ofs >> the predator theo got a

walking path neaauna's soone found ts fher purse i.d., makeup kit, personal things. >> what crosses yo mind when you reale it's somody walking away from the scene, discarding things? >> a stalker? >> absolely. a predator. sexual pdator. >> they spread outt the rest of homicide involved. days off were cancelled. everybody out. they looked everywhere. >> there was considerable pressure. pressure from medi essure from our administration everybody wants this thing solved andut away quickly. >>nd then ite suddenly, a break. a pster on t crimestper's line with a story toell. >> he had some infortion tha he thought was connected to our murd. >> a wild goose chase? mae. and maybe not. >> cg up, the pster ntiod a tailbouthe crime, onet ge eone' atteion.

>> exactly. >>n "datinontinues >> good >>d job. >>. good in it's a rrible thing to bury a young mothern thprime of her life. especial in the shadow of murder. big sister paula had ft somehow ozen in a terrle dream that refused to -- or make sse- ever sin her mother called with the news oushau. what it like to hear something like that? >> don't know that you can scribe it. you know, i mean, yo heart just drops to your stomach. auland shauna's family and friendther turan memb hucthey out r. the funeral itlf was standing room only. >> iwas a beautiful tribute to auna >>eorge'big sister, ria -- >> i couldeeeorge was heartfelt d diwhate coul toress himsea terrible

it w all about showinghat auna was loved andared f >> mnwhilelas ves homicide deives worked diligently to identind tra down oever killed her. >> d have a pror? did she come home and they were burglarizing the house is they somewherat she de that eed find? >> and then, they got lucky. a man who calledimse "big llpennix called the crimestoppers hoine. big will had a story to tell.>>e had spent time in prison. and he worked as maintenance man. but heound satisfaction in lpinrs comg out of is and helping thefind the ght th. o sucma sd g wahomess hmao liout theert. we by the name "grhod." >> hdid a lot ofrugs.

s volatile. ath greyhound told a lot of tall tales, but will calledice this time use greyun bragged out killing someone -- a woman. and sa he used a hammer too it. >> and we d just come from topsy that morning. marks th were seen on shna's , we thoht that was possly a ham so no one knew that but the two of us. >> but ts y brings i. that's -- exact >> aomeless,rug addicted ex-con wh a volatile temper, sa b will. certainly emedfith profile of potential predator detectives we looking for. but big willold them, finding greyhound might not be so easy. >> he told uthat greyhound walks everywhere. he liv out in the desert. b b will wa to help, he saio he aeed to take them tsome of the placese thoughgreyhound liked to hang out. and,hat you know?

lot of a gas staontective ngpproachehim. swt ie, greyhound was. saide'd be perfectly willing to gto the stion andave a chat. his real name was noel stevens. what did he tell you? >> he knows shauna. he knew where they lived. that he did ya work and handymanork r george and ybody sethe neighbod. >> ssomeone shauna knew, somee george, the do-gooder, had tried hel thing t out ofharaer f ge. but eyund, or, noel, was adamant thate d nothinto doith sh'surder. thene agreed to show the detectives his campsite t in e desert. what did youind? >> swimsuit bottoms that iour search of shau'sse appear tme that matched the top that i had seen in her bedroo

shauna was vtiny.>> so greyhowas the bur poking around shna'ssonal things. and in fact, herrienreca shna had grown uomfortable with this particul charity case who'd been doing work ar the house. >> she didn't want noel in the house anymore. and she said, you know, you tter get out of thse or i'm calling the police on yo >> so was he the kille at theampse, detective did not find any evince nking him to the murder. so, they keplooking. >> one of the other thin big will told us was that el had a campsite numbeonand a campsi nbetw >> aecond mpsite out there somewhere. but where? and what, anything, was hidden there >> cing up -- >> under theh he saw a pair

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campsi. >> and wentered and we fnd a tationn the namef noel s,o we were in rht place. >> so they sd out,ept ing. and pretoo one of them called out. >> about75 feet fr t tt, found a bush. anundethe bu hw a ir ofled up den that appeared to him to hblood on them. we put those in for immediate dna testing. >> how didhat come back? >> it was shauna tiaffay's blood, and theants were worn by noel stevens. >> that's kinda your story the, huh? >>hat'kindf ousty the. >> proof the hels handyman georgend shauna tried help was a muerer but uld the story be that simple, rely? listen to shauna's sister paula, r exe, and things start sod a bit more complex. >>l, i justhink that he

he loved anyone else. wll about him and what he waed. that was georhe was talking about. the lfle firight h another side, said paula. >> the verbal abuse, the intimidation, the control. i meangeorgeas always contlling gu >> hold the carayo hand. >> accorng tpauleo had become er controlling, and jen especially about shauna's sp habits. irst time at the beach. >> only got worse when sun toldeorge the marriage w over. >> he sa, yoow, f you don'come back me and n'sort this out, you're going to lose custody of your daughter." and th was -- >> that was his threat. >> -- her number one fear. oh, absolutely. and she -- he used their dauger as a way to manipulate shauna, time and time again. >> shaunhad been letting her work mates rd the text messages grge se as thgs got worsin the marriage. >> onet,t would be nice,

like, "i lovyou. i've been thinng about you all day," "wneed to wo things out." and then, you know, weld be working. she woul'te able to text h ba right away and ten minutes later, he's blowing up her phone ssg her out, cal her names. >> shauna's supporrs membed her funer quite differently an george's people did. >> he had no emotion. no emoon at al he did a eulogy, talking about how much mey suna ked spd, and that there was one time s was at the gas station and accidentally left the pump in the car. in the eulogy? >> ieu. >> pla wat geoand hter at the ceme and fumed. >> they hadn't even lowered her in the ground yet, and he said, "come on," and took her hand, "it's time to go." and i watchehim walk off with my lite niece, you know, 8 years-old, jt st herom,

and i thght,ou know, this is exactly what he wanted. he wanted all the control over my niece. >> paula told the police her suspicions evebefore they began chasing down leads on greyhound. so evethou they had their killer, e idea tt geor was volved someh already in the back of their mis. the oer hand, george's family was just as e t assurehe policthat those attacks on george's character omuna's si were complete noense. >> i never saw shauna acwed or afraid of my brotr. she had an equal footing in e way interacted with one another. so that's -- that's why i still can bieve the -- it -- the insinuation, the legations that -- that he was abusive,r even corolling. >> george's friend, aarolano couldn agree more. >> no matter where he finds

situatio finds hlf in, he's always en consistently kind, nstentlyaring. >> so which george was t real one? the detectives decided to pay gege a visit at his ho thouy didn't tell him what they'd heard about him. the good or the bad. >> mr. -- can i call you george? yeah, cme george. >> georg, sure, new grhound. but said he'd never hearhim called noel evens fore >> you kw him as something else? >> i knehim aseal smith. george to detectives how he and shau had befriended this neal smith tried toelp him get back on his fe. >> me and the wife kinda lood at him like uh, like little charity case because he s a nice guy and he's down on hi luck. >> by now the detectivesnew greyhound was an addt and big drinker. so they ked george. >> was he a drug user? >> nothing. >> okay. cohol? >> yes.

a lot. just a beer or two? >> just a beer or two every now and then? yeah. >> that rais the aenna a bit. in his interview with dectives, und said h and george were t friends, ed out together, drank tother aot. but then, listen to this as george kept tking, the man heaid he knew as neal became el. >> she sai "cael help us out th thi" ift was mething i wasn't good at, welybno is good at it. because noel seemed to be at everythg i wasn'tood at remembe george sa he'd never heard the na noel evens before. knew greyhound onl smith. so, was n honestittle slip oras george hiding something? >> is it possible heas confused about the name, tha it, you knowgrhod us veral differt na >>hen you get nervous you're gonna rertack to wtever is natural. and heeverd back to noel. he just godone tellingim, "i've knn thisan for years

move." so i -- at's a tell. >> but why would george admit to knowing grhod and en lie abouthe name? the detectives left george at ade plan they ped would shakout the truth. we decideto amp up the essure. >> coming up, a bold calculation by dectives s about to iggestunnihain ti >>s driving tremely and forcing vehicles off the

in aemrr >> is >> it's an old police ctic to imulate -- mbe upset -- a spt yohavet que rner, hong for an ovreacon. sometiitorks, somemes not. so even though they didn't have solid a case yet, the detectives let word slip that they intend to arrgeorge, charge him wi murder,opg that he would do something rash d maybe incrimhimself. >> he s toldy his former attorney that he was going to be arsted. at the same me, pocefficers werehongp aty mother's drstep. >>hadid geor do? got to his truck, ced er

again, police watching.>> he was drivg tremel st. was forcing vehicles t of hiy,orcing vehicleoff thad. d thenlowe straightnto a ceme barrier. the officer follsaid, justommitted scide." >> whadid you ink when you gothat report, when you hear about at? >> well, i think -- was a very good indication to us tt we were finitely on the right track. >> butf suide wahis tent, as theetectis assume it dn't wk. his inries were not seve. stl, it lookedo detectives like a guilty george would rath kill himself than fac murder charge. and asrge y inostal berecoveng, el svens gave police the finapiece th need- he confessed that he killed shauna and said his good p, george, askem to do it.>>o wento h at the hospal. we went in told him that he wasnder st. >> did he say anything? >> he asked to speak with his attorney.

something to do wi >>oth george andoel were booked on rder and conspiracy and burglary charges. >> george is the one that wanted shauna dea gege is the contlling man that needed thatontrol of shauna. and he had a tool at his disposal thaworshipped him, that loved him, that would do what need to bdone. >> noel stevens pleaded guilty and spent the next three years cooperatg with the instigatio while george, who pleaded not guilty, set up a mtry in t clunty dettion cen d georgeister maria ined convinced he d not do it. >> why, the age-old conclusion, the husband always does it. >> he s a statisticasuspect fromay oor sure. my opinion is, ty sandba aroundhat to make a . >> why, asked, shod anyone believe an addt and known liar over geoe?

suicide attempt? that was hogwash, said maria. >> but let me tell ya, he s been on suicide evtion squads he's an emt. he is quitknowledgeable about what it takes to kill urself in a vehicle. so, driving that large vehle into-rail with your at belt on is not how an expert tries to commit suicide. he did something stupid, but he 't to kill himself. >> and it 't just george's family who stood firmly behind m. fellow firefigcame to his defee, fellow west point grads,ldhoriends.in he gives too much of himself and i thk that tha one of the ons he finds himlf in the siation he's in. >>ere you surpriseat the amou of support that george got? >> no. no. george, he makes lifelong connections.

>> and so on searing hot summer day in late august, 2015 -- >> good morning. >> those life-long connectns sat on one side of a las vegas cotroo >> george was adamant that this go to trial. ould not accept any plea deals, anything. we a agreed with him, family and friends. good. do that. want to show people tthis all wrong. >> and othe other side, a sea of hot pink. >> there were just an outpouring every day. you know, lots opeople that showed up wearing pink, and -- >> why that? >> pink was shauna's favite color. and t pale pink, hot pink. >> ex-workates were ther o. >> iantethe jury tseat e wa'tust a vegacotail waitre. you knowthat she was good person, beautiful person, a good human being. >> procutorsardigiacomo anpaweerly td e jury thathile noel "gyhou"

shauna tiaffay, he never uld've done it had george not put him up to it. >> he'got this singular goal of i need to kill wife. d he has to keep pushing noel too it >> shauna's sister paula testified that she encouraged her sistero move out. >> i told her that based on the things s was telng mabou things thahad been goi on for quite a whe, that i believed that she should separate hself frogeorge and move ta different home. >> so she did, and george incrsed his contact with noel. his phone calls to steve in the month before the murr proved a coniracy, saithe osecutors. they swethe ju his pho records. if you looked at w much h called noel, there's 87 phone calls. >> that's three or four calls a day. >>es. his moth is about once a day. then they said, look at this. here are grge d no

buying glove dark clhi, a ife. and on fr ffent occasis they bght hammer >> this ds up at tiaffay's hoe wherhe happens to have twother perfectly good hme in the garage. >> what else cld all of this ve bn,heke b a rd kit? e nal in eyund ldhe cs ate got to shauns acwith a key or gave m. anlook ath - here's george athe hardware ore, buying a key just like the key noel used. ly o possible conclusion, said prosecutors. noel stevens used the hammer. the person used noel steve george tiaffa >> ahh but - >>t's a goodtoryit's real interesting, b it's not even yet. >> this is grge's defense attorney, robert langford. the is sote reasonable doubt, as to george tiaffay's inlvement in thicase

for example,hat the prosecution found damni? none of the hammers they bought s e actual murder weapon. and besides, most of what they bought together was simple a innocent camping gear. gege helping a man in edas usual. >> he thought he w helping out noel stevens to live out whe noel wanted to live, which was tside of town.>> as for the 87 phonealls that the proseon saied orgendreyhound conspito kauna. innist there the defens jt a matr to contact s arity case handyman. >> i livout inhat area. and cell service is notoriousl ba on top of -- have you ever tried to call a handyman in this tow it is diculous difficult to get ld of those nds of works to come door

thonlyhing t stead tyingeor tthmueraseltevens's word. >> without noel stevens's statemt to the police, george is an innocent man. >> and how could the jury believe stevs, said the defense, wn even his own iend, e tipster big will said -in court- that the man was anabl liar. >> honestyi wod put him a scale of one through ten, i would put him , a scale ybe one and >>en being very honestnd zero being -- >> one and a half, meaning not honest aall. that's correct. >> george's torney was itching to cross examine the habitl ar who'd condemned his client. whicpresented the prosecutors with a dilemma. the man at the cenr ofheir se against georgght st destroy it. >> he could be reaproblem. >> he could be real problem. and there was a substantial amount of discsion bween pam and i overheer or not we'r callinhim or not >> does that imply that you

>> oh, yes, we disagreed. >> coming up, a risky decision looks likeght just bafire. >> do you hear voices? >> yes. >> i think everybody agreed that noel steve was as crazy a rat. >> why is it taking so long for

>> it was nerve-racking. pros osecuts marc digiacomo and pam weckly had a b problem, and they knew it. the problem had a namenoel stens. grhound. >> noel is a very imrtant piece of information, but he's also the biggest ris >> in the credibilit sweepskes, he's way downere somewhere. >> absolutely. >> your defendant is way up

precutors. she said, put him the stand. >> my thought was you don't understand who grge is aow sinister this was until u meet noel and say this is theerson the ve aess to. >> he said don'take the chance >> they could say this crazy, psychotic, homeless man did it on his own. who prevailed shdid. >> the state cls noel stevens. and so up went grhound to the witness stanoffered his grisly story >> i hit her in e head. >> when you hit her in the head, whatappened? >> sits floor. >> and after she hits the floor, what do you do to her? >> i jump on t of he >> and after you jump on top of r, what do y do? >> kp onitting her >> how long do you hit her for? >> i hit herntil she doesn't move anymore. >> why because, he saidsomeone told him to.

george. >> b was it ue? now e defense got tosk greyhound aboufor arrs s dictions. wild turkey 101. >> yes and vodka. whatev i could get my hand on. >> you dri it every day? >> every day >> just one two? >> i dnk uil i ain't goto more moneyr i drink. >> yes, and hemod weed, he admitted, and d speed. but it got worse. >> do you hear voices?>> yes. >> do you remeer saying to that person that tsounded like monster? >> yes. >> hallucinations, too. >> what kind of haucinations? >> ieehauna sometimes. >> sometim? yes. >> do you see her people? >> sometimes. >> well, i thinkvebody

>> how could you believe a man as crazys that. >> you are outde of reality at that point. >> you can't trust the primary witness. ey just didn't have it. >> so a n who arvoices? that got the jury's attentn. onjuror en submitted a queson read by the judge. >>id the vois you said you would hear from time to time ever tell you toilshau? >> no. >>re w the choice for the jury. george used noel as a murder weapon or e drunk heard voices killed shna and blamed an innocent man. the lawyers, frids the faly -- from bh sides, could only s. and it. >>t was nerve-racking. >> for tee days they waited. the prosecutor once confident, worried. >> the hunjury. >>t's e hungury siation. anso by y three u think there a hold o?

here it was. >> guilty firstegree murd. >>lty. gegeffay, his face almost serene, absorbed the verdict. >> it was so mucrelief. >> closure. >> it was ju this big ight ken off myhoulders, u know, because i felt this entire time that shaa hasn't had a voice in this. and, i've been so worried out reesenting her right, and sayinghe right this, and making sure that iortray her as the -- the woerful person s was >> the sentence, lifwithout parole. but wh felt ke justio some, to oths did not. and here's thilittle kid who was go l andrt and valedictorian anthe footll player and theest point grad

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>> we talk about her mom, and how muchhe loved her, and what we tnk her momould wt for her w. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm lester holt.new hamp new hampshire primary now just two days ay. last night, the most bitr reblican datt. >> there it is >> he knows -- >> tre it is. the memorized 25-seconspeech. >> at canp bound fr his disappoinng iowa finish? can marco rubio keepis momentum going aurge in new hampshire? can bush, kasi or christie survive beyonduesday? donald trump joins me ce-to-face. plus, the democrats are

>> can hillary cnton have r own own comeback kid-style new can bernie sanders turn new national movement? >> what leadership is out is cuent. sanders are with us this morning. and bern your enthiasm. was thatnie sas on "sn lastight, or larry davis, or both? >> pretty, pretty,retty, pret good. i'm chu todd in manchester, new hampshire. joininme for insight and analysis thispecial sunday morning are msnbc's chs mahewsnbc's andreaitchel hallie jackson onbc news, and dio show host hugh hewitt. trump,rs, clinton the test numbers. welcome to sunday and a special edof "meet t press." >>fr manchester, new hampshire, this is a special

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