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Your emergency?
911, what is the address of
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oh, my god! I need an
ambulance right away.
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Ma'am, calm down. What's
going on there?
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I think my mother fell down
the stairs, and there's a knife
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in her hand and stabbed
herself. Oh, my god! No!
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Is she breathing? Ma'am?
It looked like she was
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strangled, stabbed and beat in
the head. To me, that's
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definite overkill.
I see my mother laying
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there. I assume she was hurt.
There was a knife sticking out.
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I mean, I figured she fell.
Whenever someone of
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considerable wealth is murdered,
we look at who has a motive.
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They were already trying to
focus in on me. Where was I?
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What was I doing? It was all
about greed and money. Who has
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access to the house?
Five unique perspectives.
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Five points of view.
One murder.
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I'm Peggy nadell's daughter.
I was the lead detective.
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I am a longtime friend. I
was a close friend of Peggy
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nadell's.
I was a prosecutor.
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My name is susanne
nadell‐scaccio, and I'm Peggy
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nadell's daughter. My
relationship with Peggy was
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very close, as I would say,
most daughters'and
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mothers'relationships are. My
mother and father made a very,
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very handsome couple. They were
striking. My mother used to
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like to go to the city and to
the museum and to theater and
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movies. They loved to travel.
They traveled all over the
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world together. When I was 3,
my brother Jamie came into the
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world. I think my brother
developed ‐‐ I‐I‐it's hard to
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put my finger on. I think he
was a strange adolescent and he
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developed into a strange adult.
His differences spoke volumes.
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He was not social. He was very
cerebral. He went away to
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school. Moved to Florida. Never
came home to see my family.
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Never came home to see my
parents. My father passed away
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in 2003 very unexpectedly, and
it was devastating. I knew that
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my mother would want me to be
strong. And I didn't want to
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let her down. I wanted to be as
strong as she was. My
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relationship with my mother was
very close. I would speak to
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her probably two or three times
a day. Not a day ever went by
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that I didn't either see,
physically see, visit, or have
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a phone conversation with my
mother. Saturday morning, I
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always call between, I don't
know, 7:30, 8:00. 8:00, 8:30 on
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the weekends. I tried the house
phone. It was ringing, ringing,
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ringing. The answering machine
never kicked on. I called the
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cell. Ringing, ringing, ringing,
ringing. I said, you know,
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maybe she went out to the end
of the driveway to get the
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newspaper, to put something in
the mailbox. I must've called a
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dozen times to each number, and
she was not picking it up. So I
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told my husband, Bobby, "I'm
going down there. My mother's"
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not answering the phone. I want
to make sure everything's
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"okay." I open the door, and I
realized the alarm wasn't on.
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I'm like, "gee, why wasn't the
alarm on?" I walked in, and I
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found her. And I immediately
ran over. And the first thing I
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noticed, she was bashed in the
head and she was bleeding, and
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I saw blood coming out around
the rise in her nose and the
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side of her mouth. I said, "oh,
my god. She fell down the"
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"stairs." once I got in and got
close, I saw it was more than a
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fall down the stairs. The knife
was stuck in peggy's chest.
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Then I'm like, "oh my god. She
stabbed herself," and I pull
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the knife out. And I was gonna
do cpr, and I checked for a
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pulse, and she was cold. I'm
like ‐‐ and then I realized I
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‐‐ you know, I mean, everybody
says, "what did you do that for?"
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What are you thinking? "You
just react. I mean, you don't"
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‐‐ you don't think about what
you're doing. I ran outside. I
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call 9‐1‐1. Oh, my god! Oh, my
god!
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911, what is the address of
your emergency.
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I need an ambulance right
away! My mother's fallen! She
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fell. She had a knife in her
hand! Oh, my god!
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Okay, is she breathing?
No, I don't think so. Oh,
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I'm afraid to go back in. Oh,
my god. When the police showed
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up, they kept me outside and
they were asking me questions.
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And at that point, they wanted
to take both myself and my
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husband, Bobby, down to the
police station, so I had no
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choice but to go. When I was in
the police station being
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interviewed that Saturday, they
came into me and said, "this"
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was not an accident. Your
mother did not fall. Your
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"mother was murdered." I was
shocked, and I could not
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possibly conceive who would do
this to my mother. And that's
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when they started asking
questions. I told them that I
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pulled the knife. I said I was
trying to do cpr on her and
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then I realized it was past
that point. I also told them my
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fingerprints will definitely be
on the knife as my DNA will be
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all over this house. I'm here
two, three times a week. My
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hair will be here. My
fingerprints will be on every
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doorknob. I think at this point,
they were already trying to
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focus in on me being that they
had me in the police station
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for several hours and were
asking me questions. I'm like,
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"why are you asking me that
question?"
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Your mother had some assets.
My mother has a lot of
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assets. Probably close to $3
million. Do I need my lawyer?
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Why?
I don't know. I'm just
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asking. You're asking me all
these questions. The following
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day, which was sunday, the
detectives called me and asked
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me to come down to the police
station to talk to them. And at
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that point, I felt it was being
directed at me, and I'm like,
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"wait a second. I don't want to
talk to you now." And I hired
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an attorney. They didn't like
that.
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My name is Earl lorence. I...
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My name is Earl lorence. I
was the lead detective working
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the murder of Peggy nadell. The
morning of January 25, 2014, I
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was the assigned detective
working that weekend. So at
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around 8:00 that morning, I was
at the local bagel store.
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That's where I received the
phone call. And the desk
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sergeant said that there was a
death of an elderly woman
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inside her residence and that
she had slipped and fallen on a
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knife. The house is in an
upper‐middle class neighborhood
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in valley cottage, New York,
very tidy, very well‐kempt. The
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daughter of the victim, susanne
nadell‐scaccio, she was in a
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frantic state ‐‐ panicked,
yelling, screaming. Upon
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entering the home, the victim
was just inside the threshold
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of the doorway at the base of
the stairwell. You try not to
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harden yourself too much to
each situation. So at this
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moment, it really did kind of
hit ‐‐ hit home because this
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was an 80‐year‐old woman at
home alone. My mother is 80
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years old. She lives alone.
That does have a personal
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connection there. So you want
to do all you can. My first
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instinct, obviously, was that
it was a homicide. There was no
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way she accidentally fell down
the stairs and stabbed herself
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in the chest three times. We
saw the knife, which was very
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obvious, a few feet away from
the victim. She had obvious
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trauma to her head. She also
had what appeared to be at
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least one or two stab wounds to
her chest. Her neck appeared to
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be quite bruised, black and
blue. Now, it looked like she
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possibly was strangled. It
looked like she was stabbed,
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and she looks like she was beat
in the head. Now, to me, that's
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definite overkill. The first
thing I want to determine is,
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is there a break‐in? I looked
at the front door, and there
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was no apparent force used to
get into the house. I walked
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upstairs and went to the master
bedroom. There was drawers
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pulled out and placed on the
floor, totally out of place
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because you don't put them on
the ground like that. So it
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looked like a stage burglary.
About that time, susanne
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understandably was stressed
out. She wanted us out of
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there. She wanted us to clean
up the scene, get her mother in
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an ambulance, and take her to
the hospital. There were red
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flags immediately with this
investigation. One of the very
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first things she says in the
first couple of minutes of us
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arriving is that her mother is
worth high seven figures, "oh",
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and my DNA and my fingerprints
are gonna be all over that
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"house and that knife." It just
seemed like an odd thing to
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focus in on. It struck me as
odd. Because she was so erratic,
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it took a long time to kind of
settle her down and to get her
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to go back to the station and
just talk about who may or may
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not have done this thing.
Susanne, she said she came to
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the home, her mother's home,
and when she opened the door,
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obviously, she saw that her
mother had the knife in her
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chest and she pulled the knife
out.
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So I thought maybe she fell
down the stairs because of the
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way she was, and I saw the
knife. So I pulled the knife. I
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touched her neck. I touched her
face. I said, "oh, this is not"
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good."
that was a big concern for
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us. Why would you touch the
murder weapon?
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I guess I shouldn't have
touched the knife, huh?
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With susanne, we basically
just wanted to go back the last
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couple of days. We wanted to
know what she was doing, where
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she was going, where she had
been. We spoke to her for a
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number of hours, but these
investigations take time. We
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might have to revisit the same
witness over and over again. So
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we made an appointment for the
following day. The next day,
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she hired an attorney and
stopped talking to us. She
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refused to cooperate. To me,
the biggest red flag of all is
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when you hire an attorney and
refuse to help law enforcement
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when your own mother is the
murder victim. So if you don't
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want to help the people who are
trying to find the people who
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killed your mother, who are you
going to help? After susanne
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told us that she wasn't going
to cooperate any further, we
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had to refocus our energies. As
it turns out, there was no DNA
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evidence. There was no
fingerprints. There was no hair,
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saliva, nothing. We were beyond
frustrated, but obviously we
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didn't stop. We kept ‐‐ we kept
digging. We had to keep moving
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forward. We go back to basics.
We take a look at the phone
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records for Peggy. At the same
time, we're getting her son's
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phone records and her
daughter‐in‐law's phone records,
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as well. I was parsing through
each individual phone call. I
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got to like the sixth number.
We discover a phone call at
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approximately 1:30 in the
morning the night of the
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homicide coming from a throw
phone. The burner phone, I was
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ecstatic. We also get a
notification from the alarm
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company that she had spoken to
the alarm company because the
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alarm went off around the same
time. So we actually have
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peggy's voice speaking to the
alarm company, telling the
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alarm dispatcher that
everything is okay.
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Hello, this is the
monitoring center with bullet
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security.
This is Peggy nadell. The,
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uh, code word is, uh, "Max."
I'm sorry.
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That's okay, ma'am.
Everything's fine.
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I'm glad everything's okay.
We'll disregard for you. Have a
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good night.
It was about a 20‐second
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phone call, and in conjunction
with that, the alarm going off,
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and no forced entry at the
front door, at that point, we
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were positive. This was not a
stranger lurking around the
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neighborhood killing old
ladies. This was somebody that
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Peggy knew.
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I'm Anne Martin, and I was a
close friend of Peggy nadell.
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When I found out that Peggy was
murdered, I mean, I just ‐‐ I
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just couldn't believe it. It
was sunday morning. I remember
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picking up the phone and
susie's hysterical. She's
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saying, "my mother's gone! My
mother's gone!"
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Anne, it's susie. My
mother's gone.
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Say, "she passed away."
She's passed away.
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She just didn't even know
what to do. The police were
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questioning her. I think she
was just in a state of shock.
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It was unbelievable. People
were saying, "oh, well, she"
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could have done it. Why did she
pull the knife out? "Well, I'm"
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sure if I saw my mother lying
there, I would think, "my
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"goodness, maybe this hurts." I
don't know. You don't know what
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you would do if you're in that
situation. The detectives came
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to my home probably one or two
days right after that. You know,
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asking me all kinds of
questions and, of course, they
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‐‐ they did ask me what kind of
a relationship she had with her
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children. Jimmy and susie, they
were both, I'd say, different.
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Susie was, uh, strong‐minded.
She knew what she wanted. She
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could take care of herself.
Peggy was more protective of
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Jimmy. I think Peggy probably
worried about Jimmy a little
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more because he was far away
and he did march to a different
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drummer. After he graduated
college, when he went to live
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in Florida, he started to work
for a hospital as a
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psychologist, and that's where
he met Diana. They went
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together for several years
before they had any intentions
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of getting married. When Peggy
found out that Diana was
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pregnant, she was delighted.
She was beside herself. Peggy
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would fly to Florida to help.
When Peggy would talk about her
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grandchildren, her whole face
would just light up. She just
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thought the world of them.
Diana, she liked to have
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designer clothes. She liked
nice jewelry. They really
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couldn't afford all these
things. And then she would
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depend on Peggy. I think the
issue started to come up
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between Peggy and Diana when
Diana started to become a
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little too demanding. Peggy was
always sending them money.
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Peggy said, "you know, Diana,
this is just a little bit too"
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"much. You know, I won't go
along with this." Diana says,
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"well, if you won't come across
with the money, " she says, "I
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"just won't let you see the
children." Well, that just
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absolutely devastated Peggy. I
mean, not be able to see or
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talk to her grandchildren was
horrible. It was a terrible
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thing to do. Peggy did mention
to me that they were having
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problems, Diana and Jimmy, and
that they might separate. And
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of course, Peggy was concerned.
I mean, she was concerned about
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her son, his happiness, and how
this was going to affect him.
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Peggy was very astute when it
came to finances. She had her
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will and her trust. Everything
was in order. Everything was
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divided equally between her son
and her daughter. They were to
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get the bulk of her estate. She
made it clear that if they ever
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separated or divorced, that,
you know, Jimmy was to get the
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money and that Diana was not to
get any of peggy's estate ‐‐
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none ‐‐ none whatsoever. So
aunt Diana, when she found out
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that this was so, of course,
was not very happy. After Peggy
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died, she came in, just putting
her name on everything she
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wanted. She wanted peggy's
jewelry. She wanted peggy's
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purses. Peggy had a lot of nice
handbags. She wanted the
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furniture from the house. You
start thinking and putting two
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and two together. And you think,
"you know, she has a good"
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motive. It's very possible that
she would do something like
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"this."
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My name is Darcy Greenberg,
and I am a longtime friend of
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susanne. After susanne got out
of the police station, I was
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waiting for her at her home and
we were treating it as an
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accident. We were, you know,
comforting her because her
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mother fell with a knife. It's
a different feeling when you're
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comforting someone for a tragic
loss like that. And then you
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get accused of being the one
that did it. That changes
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everything. Sometimes I think
the authorities say who has
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access to the house, and 95% of
the time, it's family. "Oh, it"
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"must be her." Every day, I was
at her home. We would wave to
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the undercover cop sitting in
front of her house. They
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watched every move she made.
They had to become more
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intimate with the family, with
susanne, with Peggy, to really
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know who could have done this
to her. I have been speaking
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with the investigator since the
beginning. You take the
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information that there's a lot
of money involved and you also
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take the information of a knife
being put through someone's
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heart, and they tell you that
it's most likely a family
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person, somebody that had
something to gain. I looked at
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them, and I'm like, "everything
you're saying and the reasons"
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why you think somebody would do
this, I agree with you, but
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"you're looking at the wrong
person." I told them susanne
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didn't need the money. She had
her own. Susanne was a
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laid‐back jeans girl with the
same kitchen from the 1960s,
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the same furniture her dad
picked out when she moved in.
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Knowing that it wasn't susanne
100%, knowing that they felt it
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was family, my instincts was
for them to follow the greed,
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follow the money, follow Diana.
Anyone who didn't really know
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Peggy would not know her wealth
because she was not a flaunter.
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She was very smart about how
she spent her money, who she
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spent it on. Peggy was always
financially providing whatever
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Diana needed because it was
important to her to have a good
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relationship with Diana, to be
able to have that good
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relationship with her
grandchildren. Most of the
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money would just go directly to
Diana. She was in charge of the
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household, the bills, the money,
all of that. Jimmy trusted her.
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From what the police told me,
when they spoke to her, she was
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at her cousin's wedding in
Maryland and her phone pinged
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in Maryland. And as far as they
were concerned, that's where
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she was. I don't know. Maybe I
watch too much TV. Something
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just didn't sit right with me.
Just because the phone is
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somewhere, it doesn't mean a
person is there, too.
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Eventually, they noticed that
the phone was not used. It was
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just there. She wasn't anywhere
near the area of Maryland where
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the wedding was, and that was
just the beginning of
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everything just exploding and
unraveling and getting to the
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truth. Shortly after that, I
started getting phone calls at
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my house, and Diana started
calling me, and she was, you
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know, very upset. She was
calling me almost every morning,
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and it would be from different
phone numbers. And she seemed
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very rattled and very off and
very asking me a lot of
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questions where it seemed like
she was getting nervous, like
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the police may be looking at
her, which I said, "they have"
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to look at everybody. They have
to look at you. They have to
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"follow their leads, and don't
worry about it." And as each
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day went on, it felt like it
was getting worse and she was
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getting more nervous and more
upset about her being
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questioned or her being thought
of as a possible suspect. Now,
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one morning she called me and
she thanked me for listening
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and said she's leaving and
taking one of the kids and
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she's moving back to Jamaica. I
got off the phone, and I'm
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thinking to myself, "she's
leaving the country. That's it."
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"Whether she's guilty or
innocent, that's it." Once
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she's gone, she's gone. That
can't bring her back. So I
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called the police. I said,
"listen, she's leaving. She's"
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got her tickets. She's getting
on a plane. If you think she
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"did this, you need to go get
her."
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My name is Richard moran,
and I was a prosecutor handling
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this matter. When the Diana
nadell called her friend and
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said, "I'm leaving Jim and
we're going to Jamaica," it
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was at that point we decided,
you know what, we've got to go
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to Florida. You've got to be
very careful when you
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investigate these cases because
one wrong move, and your target
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knows you're looking at them.
When you first start
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investigating a case ‐‐ it's
her daughter‐in‐law. Your
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thought really isn't that she's
gonna be the one that did this.
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Diane, she had an alibi that
she was at a wedding in
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Washington, d. C. What it kept
coming back to is, yes, her
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phone was in d. C., but other
than those phone calls, there
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was really nothing to
corroborate that she was there.
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A big key of this investigation
was the fact that just prior to
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Peggy nadell being murdered,
her phone received a call from
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an alarm company. And in
looking at the caller I. D., we
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saw that just before the alarm
company called, it was what
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some people called a burner
phone ‐‐ a phone that's prepaid,
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that's not really associated
with any one specific person.
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When we learned that the track
phone was purchased in Florida
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so close to Diana nadell's home,
that was a game‐changer for us,
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and it really shifted the focus
of our investigation. We did a
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thorough analysis of Diana
nadell's phone records. Just a
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day or two before Peggy nadell
was murdered, all of a sudden,
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Diana nadell starts speaking on
the phone with a person named
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Andrea Benson who's in
Washington, d. C. She also
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starts communicating with a
person named tanisha joyner in
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the days following the murder
‐‐ people she had never spoken
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with prior to this happening.
At that point, we had enough to
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go up on a wiretap. What we
decided would be the perfect
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trigger is, let's ask Diana
nadell about her alibi. Who was
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she with in Washington, d. C.?
And we were asking her if they
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could just give us a call and
confirm her alibi. And once we
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did that, her phone calls
exploded. She reached out to
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tanisha joyner, and there was
this very interesting call.
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Tanisha says, "wait a minute.
Was I with you from 9:00 p. M."
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To 6:00 a. M., or from 6:00 A.M.
to 9:00 p. M.? "Because she"
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doesn't know because she wasn't
with her. There were several
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phone calls with Andrea Benson.
They wouldn't talk about the
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case on the phone, but there
was one time where Andrea
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Benson said, "listen, I'm in
this with you. I'm in this",
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"too." the adrenaline starts
pumping. We feel like we're
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really getting to the point
where our theories are now ‐‐
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they're not theories. Now it's
evidence. It was after that
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phone call about her going to
Jamaica, we decided to move. We
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sent people to interview Diana
and all of the people that she
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had involved in this plot. We
had the teams actually with
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people under surveillance. At
the word "go," everybody went
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into action. Tanisha joyner was
taken into custody. Andrea
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Benson was taken into custody.
And that all happened
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simultaneously. Once these
people are being spoken to and
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interviewed by detectives,
Diana nadell's entire story
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starts to break down. Tanisha
joyner was being interviewed in
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Baltimore and was telling the
detectives there that Diana
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nadell had asked her to make
phone calls that evening. When
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we interviewed Andrea Benson,
we learned a lot of details
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about this case that we just
didn't know, things that we
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thought were always going to
remain a mystery. She met Diana
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nadell through her aunt.
Andrea's aunt was supposed to
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pick up Diana nadell from the
airport in Washington, d. C.,
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but she couldn't, and so she
sent Andrea. When she picked
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Diana nadell up, Diana asked
her if she wanted to make $10,
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000, and to do so, she would
have to go up to New York and
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kill diana's mother‐in‐law.
While driving up to valley
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cottage, Diana had Andrea
Benson activate the burner
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phone, and that was along route
95. On their way up, Diana,
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every time they were at a toll
Plaza, would hide her face so
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that her face couldn't be seen
on camera. Once they got to
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Peggy nadell's home in valley
cottage, Diana nadell called
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Peggy from the burner phone and
told her she was in the area.
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Could she come in? It had to
have been such a surreal
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scenario for her. Her
daughter‐in‐law is at her door
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with a stranger. It's 1:00 in
the morning. Nonetheless, it
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was her daughter‐in‐law, and
she let her in, gave her a
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glass of water, sat down and
spoke with her. At that point,
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Diana asked Peggy, "can we go
upstairs?" Peggy told Diana
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she was gonna go use the
restroom, so Diane and Andrea
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were in the room alone. And
Diana begins, like, "we're"
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"gonna do this now." And Andrea
told us that she had taken off
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the strap from her pocketbook.
It unhooked on either side. And
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she was gonna use that to
strangle Peggy. Diana starts
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talking to Peggy about the
family jewelry. And they start
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going down the stairs, and
peggy's in front, andrea's
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right behind her. That time,
Andrea starts strangling Peggy
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from behind. And in
interviewing Andrea, she kept
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repeating the phrase, "but she
wouldn't go. She wouldn't die."
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Diana ran to the kitchen and
grabbed a kitchen knife and
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brought it back and was telling
Andrea, "stab her! Stab her!"
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And Andrea said she refused to
do it. And so while she was
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choking Peggy, Diana stabbed
Peggy nadell in the chest. Once
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Diana was picked up in Florida
and brought in for an interview,
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at first, she didn't know why
she was there. And then she saw
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detective lorence and detective
cole‐hatchard walk in the room,
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and her face dropped. The first
words she said was, "you think"
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I killed my mother‐in‐law?"
You know who we are, right?
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Yeah, why wouldn't I know
who you are? They think I
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killed my mother‐in‐law. Is
that what this is about? I did
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not murder my mother‐in‐law.
Under those circumstances,
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it was very telling. Diana
nadell and Andrea Benson were
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both arrested and charged with
murder and had to wait to be
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extradited to the state of new
York. Just when we thought this
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case couldn't get any crazier,
it did.
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I was fast asleep. It was
like 11:00 at night, 10:00 at
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night, and Bobby came in and
woke me up and said, "your"
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cousin is here." I came out.
They said, they told me, "they
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arrested Diana, " and I was ‐‐
I was shocked, but I wasn't"
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surprised. I think the first
thing I said, "I knew she had"
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something to do with it."
When Andrea Benson and Diana
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nadell were first charged, they
were charged with murder in the
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second degree. Once Andrea
Benson flipped and became a
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witness for the prosecution, we
were then able to upgrade the
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charges against Diana nadell to
murder in the first degree,
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murder for hire. Tanisha joyner
also became state's evidence
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and pleaded guilty to a lesser
crime.
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Andrea, she doesn't come
from a lot. She's had a tough
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upbringing, as it were, and she
has quite a criminal history.
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She has a young child at home,
doesn't have a husband, works a
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menial job at one of the local
supermarkets. Diana offers her
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$10,000 if she would help her
kill Peggy. She agrees on the
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drive from the airport.
Andrea Benson only received
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$500 up front and was going to
get the rest of the money when
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Diana got her money, which
never came, obviously.
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I received a phone call from
a detective in the jurisdiction
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of where Diana nadell was being
held in custody, pending trial,
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and we were told that an inmate
had reported that Diana nadell
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tried to hire her to arrange
for the murder of tanisha
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joyner. There are some people
that can't help but to try to
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control every aspect of a
situation, and Diana nadell
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kept trying to do that even
while she was in jail. We met
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with the inmate. She was fitted
with a recording device and
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went back into the area where
Diana nadell was, and at that
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time, Diana nadell did exactly
what the inmate said she did.
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She gave her the information of
tanisha joyner, said she needed
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to be dead. We went into grand
jury and indicted Diana nadell,
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at that point, for attempting
to have this witness murdered.
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And at that point, she had no
choice but to plead guilty.
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Diana nadell's attorney came to
us and asked us if we would
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consider a plea of 23 to life.
And after speaking with the
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family and weighing everything,
for us, that was something we
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could live with.
I saw Diana when she was
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being arraigned. That's the
first time I saw her after my
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mother's murder. She wouldn't
even turn around and look at
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me.
This murder was about greed.
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Diana learned that if she left
her husband prior to peggy's
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death, she would get nothing.
And that wasn't something she
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was willing to accept.
Diana saw my mother as a
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cash machine. Diana thought she
knew what my mother was worth.
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I didn't know what my mother
was worth. I knew there was
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money. I didn't know how much
money. It didn't matter.
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It sounds cheesy, but you
become a prosecutor because
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it's one of the only jobs in
the world where your job is to
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just do justice and to do the
right thing. This case began
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with walking into Peggy
nadell's home and seeing her
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brutally murdered on her floor,
and it ended with Diana nadell
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serving what I believe will be
the rest of her life in prison.
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I know that Diana is not
enjoying jail. I've heard
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through the grapevine, Diana
refuses to tell anybody why she
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is there. I guess she's
embarrassed. She doesn't want
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anybody to know she's a
murderer. I think, to this day,
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she's still claiming she was
framed.
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She just ruined so many
lives. You know, friends,
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family. I mean, what susie had
to go through and even, I'm
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sure, what Jimmy had to go
through.
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Now susanne and Jimmy have
to live without their mother
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and live with the nightmare of
what happened. Not only did
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