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[man]
The thing inside of me,
it's like the appetite.

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It's like a wolf that's
gone to hunger.

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[Sahni]
Despite being law enforcement
himself previously,

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Clay Waller didn't bother to
call dispatch

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until he receives pressure
from Jacque's family.

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Waller's lack of concern
or urgency for locating

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his estranged wife,
the mother of his triplets,

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who are only five years old,

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just makes
his overall behavior suspicious.

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What his son is starting to
paint for us is a picture of

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somebody with
a parasitic lifestyle mix,

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where you're using other people.

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You're willing
to live off of other people,

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and there's no real
sense of adult responsibility

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or conscience
to take care of yourself,

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to have
a sense of integrity.

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[reporter]
39-year-old Jacque Waller,
formerly of Cape Girardeau,

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was last seen here on Woodland
Drive in North Neal in Jackson.

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Dozens of officers are now
working this case.

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No one believes that this
mother of three

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would just walk away
from her children.

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[Saraiya]
"Wednesday, March 23rd,
Clay called me at 7 a.m.

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"He was threatening me
and yelling at me.

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"Met him at the airport.

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"He told me that divorcing him
was a death sentence.

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"He would get me,
and if he couldn't get to me,

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"he would kill our kids."

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So in this excerpt, you can see
that there's just no regard for

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his having any real genuine
affection for his own children.

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And just like all
the characters in

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a psychopath's life,
they're not other people

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who have feelings and interests
and the ability to feel pain

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or anything else.

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They're simply characters in
the story as they relate

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to the psychopath,

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and it's striking that even
his young children,

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that he later claims he cares
so much about, actually appear

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as just pawns
for him to use as suits him

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in a particular situation.

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When we look
at journal entries like this,

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I think what this speaks to

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is a pattern
of coercive emotional abuse,

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physical threats,

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and he is doing what so many
domestic abusers do.

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When they can't get
to their partner,

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They use the children as
a weapon, and they threaten

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to harm the children.

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\{reporter 2]
A new development
in the Jacque Waller case.

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Investigators searching
her estranged husband's rental

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have discovered blood spatter
on two walls

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and that carpet
had been removed.

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[line clicks]

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[dial tone]

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[reporter] Clay Waller says
the community's out to get him.

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People spray painting
"killer" on his truck.

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I mean, it's been a hard time
for us all.

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Carpet and carpet pad hidden
out of view

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in the back of a crawl space.

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One piece had a large blood
stain that the crime lab

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confirmed contained
Jacque Waller's DNA.

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Clay, do you have any comment?

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He was arrested
in Malden, Missouri

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on charges not related to his
estranged wife's disappearance.

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He now faced a charge of
stealing from a Cape Girardeau

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company and also
a harassment charge.

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They haven't yet
found enough evidence

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to actually
charge him with anything,

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and in his mind, as former law
enforcement, without a body,

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what are they gonna charge
him with?

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So he just continues to
taunt them.

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It's quite possible that this
cat and mouse game isn't just

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Clay's hope to keep himself
out of trouble.

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There's a secondary euphoria
he's getting

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by thinking he's in charge,
he's smarter than them.

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I think his body language
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He's almost, like,
stretched out,

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owning the entire
interrogation room.

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He wants to show,
I'm in control.

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You may think this is your
interrogation, but really,

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I'm the one who's deciding
which way we go.

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[Sahni]
When he's confronted
about the biological evidence,

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he doesn't even miss a beat.

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He doesn't hesitate
to just insert another lie.

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If she had a nosebleed,
if she tripped and hurt herself,

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why would you cut out
the carpet in a rental?

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And then on top of that,
he very covertly hid it so that

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it would be out of line of
sight for anybody

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if they came through the house.

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Every step of the way,
he has done what he can

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to hide and obstruct the
process.

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His need for power and control

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and his narcissistic
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far supercede
any fear response he may have,

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and that's something
we do see oftentimes

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in psychopathic individuals.

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[reporter] On Thursday morning,
Clay Waller appeared in court

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regarding the alleged death
threats he made to Jacque

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Waller's sister,
Cheryl Brenneke,

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on the website Topics.

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Jacque's sister got custody of
the children, the triplets.

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So I think that what this
represents is that Jacque's

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sister has basically become
a proxy for Jacque.

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The narcissistic traits in
psychopaths, you know,

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if they experience kind of
anything that threatens

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their feeling of mastery,
it's going to trigger anger,

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and they're prone to lash out
with violence, with threats,

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things like that.

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This specific dynamic of
someone is going to take

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the children away from me,
that sets him off,

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and he directs thoughts
of violence toward that person.

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So for the longest time, it
was Jacque.

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Jacque's out of the picture.

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This is a very kind of
clear substitute.

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[reporter] Clay Waller
has not been charged

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in connection with
his wife's disappearance.

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[Humphreys] She's still missing,

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and our first and foremost
priority is to find her.

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Waller's parents just want
their daughter found,

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especially for the sake
of her three children,

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who turn six next month.

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It's gone on so long,

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we want there
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Because it's so hard
not to know.

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[Sahni] He's doing things to
enjoy that arousal

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of being in charge,

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and particularly with somebody

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who's a domestic violence
perpetrator,

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that need for control
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than it is for most of us,

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and so it's important to
realize that at this point,

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Because we know after the fact
that Clay has killed Jacque,

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he's hidden her body,
nobody knows where it is.

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He's gotta get
that thrill seeking,

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that arousal,
from somewhere.

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So continuing to jerk
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is how he does that.

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[reporter] Waller pleaded guilty
to second degree murder,

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a lesser charge.

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You'll be remanded to
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of the Missouri
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to serve a term
of 20 years of imprisonment.

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[reporter]
Clay Waller led investigators
here to Devil's Island

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in Alexander County, Illinois,

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where they dug up
Jacque Waller's remains.

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In return, Mr. Waller had to
provide the location

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of Jacque Waller's body,

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sit down, and give an accounting
of how he killed Jacque Waller.

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Essentially, he states that it
was Jacque's fault

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that she was killed.

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He said, "I warned her,"

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as if a threat
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is in any way valid.

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But on top of that,
he explains how he looked

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her in the eye as he was
killing her, and he just didn't

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feel anything bad
because he warned her,

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and so he's absolved
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or responsibility.

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He had just committed murder,
and his wife is now dead.

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The children that he has with
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and he's complaining about
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Even then, he's saying it in
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that the only real emotion
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While Waller
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of what actually happened
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there are moments
where he sounds like

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it was this impulsive act,
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He knew
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the minute she didn't
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There's a complete disconnect
from the terror

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and coercive behavior
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throughout their relationship.

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Perpetrators of domestic
violence have a very distorted

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view of their role
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how they behave,
the motivations behind

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the violence and aggression,
who's to blame, as well as

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a belief, perhaps, that these
are actions of love.

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Jacque wanted to leave
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a better life.

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That was her riskiest point of
safety, and she didn't make it.

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[reporter] In May of 2016,
Clay Waller was charged

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with interstate
domestic violence,

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meaning Waller
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between Illinois
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with the intent
to kill his wife.

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Jacque Waller's sister

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delivered
the victim's impact statement.

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Cheryl Brenneke now raising,
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Clay and Jacque Waller's
seven-year-old triplets.

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They know you murdered
their mother.

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We had to tell them that.

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Clay Waller's son, Maddox,
also had a taped recording

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for his dad.

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