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. whatever you want. i cannot wait to just get a huge plate of dressing. yeah, i like that stuff. yeah. cranberry sauce. yeah. yeah, i like to. i like people who change up on thanksgiving and make, like, gumbofferent than the traditional. theaddressiñ? yeah. you know, we got to put it done always. stephen. so good to have you on the show. than you. yeah. and pam, the regulars andor joining us folks. before we go send us like it or not questions or record yourself asking a question. tell us where you're from and you could see yourself on our next program or send usu can go to instagram or ktok. like it or not, we'll see u now on true crime news. vicious murder in a charming bookstore. >> my wife's been murdered. awakes. no. >> hidden behind the stacks of old books. the body of sherryer black liesin a pool of blood. >> it was jt so vicious and senseless. >> true crime news has details
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on ther. a clue no one could see. it reads like something out of a mystery novel. plus, a wealthy new york businessman ambushed in his home and shot in the face. the shooter. >> he appeared to be the perfect kid. 20 year old ivy league son. but d else pull the >> no question in my mind that that call was completely >> he didn't buy the gun. his prints aren't there. >> our entiree defense was built around. you don't know who shot this person. someone els possible your daily source for true now. the brutal killing of c black. she was connected to a famous family in salt lake city, utah. here back room of her book shop shocked everyone. but now true crime news has learned that deep inside the shelves of the bookstore was a clue. a clue no one had seen. and it was the whole time. sometimes all it takes is a tiny break to get justice. salt lake city, headquarrs of the mormon religion. its histories and
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registries written in the 100 year old pages of pages that worth a fortune. >> a nice is a $100,000 book. >> cherrey black lived here and loved books too. >> my mom >> heidi m greg miller, is the former owner of the nba team utah jazz. but his in-laws, sherry and earl, preferred a simpler life. >> therd to make the most of what >> later in life, together, shoyerry and earl fulfill a dream opening a quirky little store along this busy stretch of eight lane and this quaintligious is the last place you'd expect anything bad to happen. >> i called her cell phone and i called her home and nobody just so, so strang i just really weird feeling. >> sherry's husbao the shop in the early afternoon. earl winds his way through sherry stacks of books calling her name. >> when you initially walked in you not even known anything was amiss until youooking closer.
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>> when earl does lookloser back in the stockroom h an absolute horror. >> i'm 1-1. what is the address of the aaron solo? >> it's sherry lying in a pool of blood. awake? >> no. she'sx dead. okay. >> is she breathing at all? dead. i can't i can't handle this. >> it's a sight so graphic and terrifying. it stuns even veteran d setera. beaten and stabbed and it was a violent brutal t was just so vicious andyk >> there's cash l in the register and the rest appears . >> we could never confirm that anything was actually missing from the bookstore. she kept the most valua books in a safe, and itor. >> but if not a robbery then why? >> this was not a well-anpl well organized crime. >> the killer left fingerprints, fv and randomly a trendy armani exchane don't believe it was
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actually used in the attack, but we believe maybe he was planning on using it anyone attack the mild mannered owner of a book shop all the time? >> we've been t was very surprised that we'd been robbed o that way. >> the fingerprints, blood nothing matches anything in police records. it was still not enough to find their killer. until the world of digital reconstruction isduced. >> t 46% western africa and4% european. killer's blood work through the process of phenotyping generating a mug shotrom mere strands of 25 to 30 8 t old. reexamining interviews and evidence and getting the ki digital mug shot out in the public eye. >> this is a case that's never going to go away. it's not going to be put on the shelf >> sherry's daughter, heidi wasn't about to let sherry's killer off the hook, either, reward
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to $250,000 for information that nabs the killer. resources paired with new to catch adam durborow. it turns out he didn't even know his victim. butcv listen as he confesses to the >> it's a mistake that i wish every had never ever ma stupid. i was so angry. i was so confused. and i'm sorry that i did it. caught for doing it, it. but i am sorry that i d wish i could take it back. >> his only motiveor the attack. anger. science proves with certainty his blood matched dna scene. >> this family has beee seen them. they asked for answers. d pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. he is currently serving a life sentence w parole inison, utah. sherry's case has had a utah herry black bill w allows police there to access genetic archives
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w few before it was it continues to be shocking. chinese immigrants jim tan and his wife jean and youngest son charlie were living the american dream. 19 year old charlie was already exceeding his parents expectations. >> charlie w well-liked in sch athletically so well. >> charlie went on to prestigious cornell university in ithaca, new york, where the as excelling. >> charlie is a very accomplished young man overachiever as it related to grades, as it related to sports, as itelated all h be the perfect kid. >> but behind charlie's affable demeanor and broad smile, there wasy there was distress in the household. >> police had been called to the tan home more thanes over the years and just weeks before her husband would be and apparently wk;5rrified, jean 11 again. >> are you injured? >> yes i and i'm so scared.
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please, please call me. nih please come. please come help me. >> then just a week later something happens charlie rushing back to his parents home from his dorm at cornell, where he reportedly told his football coach tn't be here for ing tomorrow. >> and his coach said, you know what'srong? he said, i got some things i got to do and you know get home. >> we've speculated and assumed that there was some communication between charlie and his caused him at that point to pack up his belongings and come home and assist her i some way. >> just four days tan onc >> 911 address of the emergency? >> cops arrive at the tan home to find jean outside who makes a shocking pronouncement. >> they asked where his dad was. he said he'ss upstairs. i had to do it. mom. >> jean corroborates >> jean tan says, my son did did it. it appeared thatny deskie working answering emails. >> then there's horrific way jim was killed, his body
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found lying under his desk in the study with three wounds in 12 gauge shotgun. >> itxf looked like an assassination or an execution. >> charlie is arrested and charged withecond degree murder on the strength of his crime scene >> he was very calm, very, almost businesslike. >> from moment lead detective steve peglow arrives at the tan home, he's that charlie and his mother are both lying about when jim tan was actually killed, there was an odor of what bodies smell like when they while, and they have started to decay. >> and you get t smell when you walk into the home. >> there are other clues. this was not a murder, including d blood stains and >> jim tan was out of rigor mortis. whe dies, their body stiffens and it stiffens for 12 to 24 hours and body goes out of rigor mortisve and becomes very limber again the coroner concludes. >> jim tan
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stigators turns it on, there was emails on the computer ad read since the previous thuda the son charlie had mysteriously rushed back to the family home from cornell. >> we felt confident that thur the last time breath. >> did jean tan call she made four days later? >> no question in my mind that that call on monday night was completely fake. >> but investigators have no evidenceng jean actually committed the murder. instead they say points to charlie killer. investigators soon uncover this surveillance video showing charlie trying to buy a shotgun at a walmart near cornell on his way back to rochester, turned away because he reportedly doesn't have the documents. the surveillance video then friend going back into the store and buying the this shotgun would become a centerpiece of the murder case. >> we believe he loaded it because his fingerprints are on
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the ammunition, came homeially ambushed his father as he sat at his desk. >> investigators also find thisforeboding email charlie sent to his fraternity brothers at cornell the day he left. titled showtime, it reads in the coming days, you'll start to hear things in the news and possibly get a couple of visits from authorities. don't lis you hear. a few already know my true story and in due also, the email becomes critical for pross. >> it shows his intt. it shows that this was purposeful for hi what he w going to do. >> charlie's defense attorneys email. >> so you're going to see what happened. and he also importantly says what you're going to hear isn't true. that suggests to me that he's taking the fall for his mother. >> when we come fly as charlie tan stands h>> this is an egregious error but th ou never want to lose sight of the things you love, we get it. some
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one of cha's fends for him just hours before the fatal a foreboding emaie sent his brothers warning them about shocking news they ou informal con to cops at the crime scene. the prosecution even has charlie's alleged motive to protect his mother. >> it wasg omesc violence in the house. >> the defense cast suspicion on arlie's mother, charlie never spoke to police. >> his mother, frankly has a much motiv a and much greaten which to fuel this type of a violent act. >> the defense tries to convince the jury that charlie was prot >> there's far more evide!krze to suggest she did it than charlie did it. if you agree with that statement, you have to find him not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> after five days of ble to reach a unanimous verdict. judge james pompiano declares a al and we would start this case over again when theto court, expecting to disc the date for a new trial. judge pompiano makes a jaw
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dropping announcement. >> the case is dismissed. >> nobody saw that coming. >> it was a shock. it wasn't what we were expecting. >> but district attorney sandra,p doorley cries as cle legally sufficient evidence to allow that case jury for a decision. >> this is an egregious error. >> lead prosecutor bill gargan is furious when he objects. judge pompiano threatens to have him arrested and handcuffed re in court. >> this is the only time in my career i've ever been threatened with jail by a judge but had he sought to put me court, a free his freedom is short lived. remember the friend who for him the day of the murder? that connection came back to haunt charlie . two years after the trial police arrest charlie tan on federal gun. he pleaded guilty to purchasing a gun with the intent to kill and was in charlie tan is serving his sentence in a prison near lake placied in upstate new york.
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go underwater to break the window and rescue her knowing every second counts. the femalesq out of the tucker 10-4 swimming her back. >> now thanks to their bravery the woman got out with no significant injuries. that's you next time, everyone. crime (dramatic music) - what did he tell police had happened? - [jake]e says he put the kids to bed and when he wakes up, she's gone. (eerie music)latile relationship. alarted seeing or talking to another ma
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