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[Dennis Bowman] But before I ever
went into the service,

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I had told Brenda,

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I'd met her about a year before I went in,

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I told her, I said,
"Look, when I get out of boot camp,"

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I said, "And I come home for leave,"
I said, "Will you accept my ring?"

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And I knew she was the one
just as soon as I met her.

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[Brenda Bowman] We got married in '71.

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And he got stationed in San Diego.

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We lived there for six months.

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And I had my choice of duty station.

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We came to Norfolk, Virginia.

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[Brenda] And at that time,

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they told me there was a double uterus.

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"Chances of you getting pregnant
are probably very slim."

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And that's when
we were applying for adoption.

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And it took us, like…

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I can't think how many years.

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The social worker called one morning,

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and she goes, "We have a baby for you."

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"Six months old."

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She called the next day,

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and she goes, "Brenda, I made a mistake."

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I says, "We can't have her?"

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And she goes, "She's ten months old."

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And I go, "Okay."

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We adopted Aundria.

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I was never supposed to have any,
and we got the miracle of adopting.

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She had always been Daddy's girl.

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She was the sweetest kid that ever walked.

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[Brenda] And then years later,

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I was constantly sick.

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And Denny just come home from work one day
and threw a pregnancy test down.

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And I go, "Yeah, right."

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"We got a 13-year-old adopted daughter."

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And I got up in the middle of the night
and I says, "Well, may as well take it."

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And then I just go…

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In fact, it was Father's Day weekend

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because I come back to bed,
and I go, "Wake up, Daddy."

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And Aundria was ecstatic
when Vanessa was born.

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[Dennis] But when she turned 12, 13,

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it was like
somebody just flipped a switch.

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And all of a sudden,
she's running away from home.

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She's taking drugs from kids at school.

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She's shoplifting.

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She's lying.

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One day she got mad at my wife

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and stuck her fist
through the front window of the door.

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I mean, we were taking her to counselors
and this and that.

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[officer] The day Aundria went missing,

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what do you remember happening?

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[Brenda] Denny had taken her
to school that morning.

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There was a band thing.

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He went and picked her up.

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And Aundria was just very quiet with us.

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And then I had to go to work.
I worked second shift at Lincolnshire.

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We bundled up the baby
and take the baby,

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so Aundria could do homework
and not use the excuse,

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"Well, I was watching the baby."

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And Denny dropped me off.

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[Dennis] When I came home,

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I walked through the front door.

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The house was unlocked.

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I took the baby in,
and I laid her on the couch.

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I went upstairs.

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I called for her.

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The door to our bedroom,
which was locked, was busted open.

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We had little carry bags for overnight.

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We had a set of 'em, and one was gone.

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We had gotten
our income tax money.

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Some of it was in the bank,
but there was cash in an envelope.

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And he kept it hidden in his dresser.

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She took that.

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She took all the change whatsoever
she could get out of the baby's bank.

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And her purple coat.

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So I called the police right away,

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and I said, "Look, my kid's missing."

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They came down.
They came in. Took the report.

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She was gone.

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[Dennis] We hunted and hunted.

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We borrowed people's cars

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and went down through Holland at night
so she didn't recognize our car.

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[Brenda] I would get off of work
at 11:30 or whatever, and I would,

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I would go around the streets
looking for her.

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Until it got to a point
that Denny says, "You gotta stop."

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"You have a baby at home.
You have got to stop."

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We were two grieving parents,
and our daughter was missing.

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Aundria disappeared.
She was gone.

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She was just gone.

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[Det. Workman] Well, good morning.
My name is Todd.

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[Dennis] Dennis.

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Dennis? Nice to meet you, sir.

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So we're out of the State Police post
in Wayland.

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Obviously, this is an old, old case,

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but we've been brought in
to try and bring some closure.

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[Brenda] Some closure.

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There's never any closure.

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Let's get down to business.

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-Let's find my daughter.
-Yeah, that's where we're at too.

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[Dennis] So I called the police
right away,

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and I said, "Look, my kid's missing."

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I don't know how to say this
in a nice way,

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Dennis was different.

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He made me feel

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uncomfortable at times.

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He's not someone I wanted to be around.

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She told me
that her parents didn't like her.

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Something tells me
it was a house of horrors.

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[Dennis] Aundria disappeared.

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She was gone.

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[Brenda] One day, there was an argument,

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and she turned around and said that
"Daddy had molested me."

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And I told her, I said, "That's a lie."

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At the time, we had her in counseling.

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And the three of us went in
to talk to the minister.

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And he took her in
and talked to her first.

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And then he had Denny and I come in.

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He says, "Do you have something to say?"

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And she just says, "Yeah. I lied."

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You know, he told her,
with all of us there, he says,

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"Do you realize what kind of allegation
like that could do to your dad?"

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[Dennis] She admitted
that nobody touched her.

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It was a lie
but she was trying to get her way.

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[Brenda] I moved to Kinross
when he was transferred there.

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And she always had
this chip on her shoulder.

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"Well, all the kids know
I'm a prisoner's daughter."

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And I said, "You're not the only one."

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Heaven forbid I took that child
into a prison visiting room.

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[Brenda] I had taken this notebook.

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'Cause I had the suspicion
Cathy was gonna be there

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and I was going to meet her.

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I was going to share pictures.

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And I said,
"Today, she has two mothers here."

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"I want to thank you for coming, Cathy."

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And that's all I said.

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She acted like such a…

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witch.

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She screamed and hollered that

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because my husband was in prison one time,
he was a monster.

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He killed her, and I stood and watched.

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We're not that kind of people.

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She just started in,
screaming and ranting and raving.

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And I says,
"Carl, I was willing to talk to her today,

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but not if she's gonna be like this!"

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I walked up. I got my candle.

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Lit it.

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And I thought,
"Well, who's the better mother here?"

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"She won't even walk across
stage for her daughter?"

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[Dennis] We had nothing to do
with Aundria's disappearance.

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I will swear that on a stack of Bibles.

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[Det. Haverdink] Aundria hasn't been seen
or heard from in a very long time.

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My assumption is that she is dead.

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I've had that assumption
for a long time.

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-But you can't prove it.
-I can't prove it.

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Do you ever worry about
posting stuff like that?

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[Det. Fuller] Have you ever been accused
of that, before that?

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[Dennis] No.

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It was shit,

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and she was feeding it to everybody.

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And she's still feeding it.

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The only reason the posters was put up,
just was to hassle us.

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Did you take any of 'em down?

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No. I want to find her.

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[Dennis] She gave up her kid,
and she comes off like,

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"Oh, my poor child.
And we gave her to these monsters."

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[Dennis, to himself]
Six cops come at me out of nowhere.

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Slam me against the window
and said I'm under arrest.

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They won't tell me what for.

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I didn't kill my daughter.

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There's no goddamn way.

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Thirty-one years ago
she walked out of our life.

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We have no idea where she is.

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I didn't murder my daughter.

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[Lt. Squyres] Good morning, Mr. Bowman.

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I'm Lieutenant Squyres,
and this is Detective Smith.

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Do you know why we're here?

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[Dennis] I have no freakin' idea.

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-None?
-None.

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You've been waiting for me.

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You gonna tell me why I was arrested?

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Absolutely I'm gonna tell you
why you were arrested.

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I'm the guy that you have been
looking over your shoulder

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waiting for to show up
for most of your life.

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And now it's here.

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Your eyes okay?

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Kinda, yeah.

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Goody-goody, so you're a Norfolk cop.

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That's correct.

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You're under arrest
for the homicide in 1980

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that you did when you killed
that fighter pilot's wife in Virginia.

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You're out of your freakin' mind.

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That's why we're here.