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We have a lot of murders in
Houston, but not necessarily a
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lot of murders of cab drivers.
This man had been shot to
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death. It was a very disturbing
scene.
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There was smoldering smoke,
the distinct smell of burning
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human flesh.
Two cab drivers murdered
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within 48 hours of each other.
Both individuals had come
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here trying to live the
American dream. You need to be
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careful. You don't know who
you've got in your cab.
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His last words on this earth
is, "please. I have children."
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Don't do this."
I think the ultimate motive
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was money, was thrill.
Five unique perspectives.
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Five points of view. One murder.
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I'm a homicide veteran.
I've been a reporter here in
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the Houston area.
I was one of the
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investigators assigned.
My name is Chaz blackshear.
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I was the lead prosecutor.
My name is Brian Harris. I'm
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a 21‐year retired homicide
veteran for the Houston police
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department. On October 14, 2010,
when I arrived at work at the
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homicide headquarters downtown
Houston, I ran into two
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detectives. I knew they'd been
working nonstop on a taxicab
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killing, a yellow cab murder
where the driver of that cab
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had been murdered and his body
was dumped on the north side of
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the city of Houston. I quipped,
"glad it's you, not us."
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Little did I know that within
the hour, my partner and I
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would be assigned the murder of
the second cab driver within 48
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hours. Right away, my partner
and I are talking while we're
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driving out to the West Side of
Houston that, could this be
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connected? We didn't know at
the time, but, you know, our
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spidey senses certainly were
tangling. We had a Houston
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officer, and he was simply
making rounds, driving through
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the various different parking
lots in his beat and saw a
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yellow cab. Quickly, he figured,
that's certainly out of place.
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Why would a yellow cab be in
the middle of a parking lot at
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3:00 in the morning? As he got
closer and he could see, the
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cab was smoldering, there was
smoke coming from the cab.
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There was also that distinct
smell, the distinct smell of
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burning human flesh. By the
time I get there with my
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partner, there's dozens and
dozens of people along the
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perimeter of the crime scene.
We don't know who are witnesses,
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who are just casual onlookers.
In a chaotic scene, you've got
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to start breaking that scene
down into larger parts, smaller
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parts. No matter how crazy it
looks, you can make a lot of
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sense out of that. The dead
themselves, in a way, speak to
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us. Not literally, but the
position of their body, the way
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their body is inside or laid
out or presented in any
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different homicide scene can
tell us a lot. This case was no
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different. It looked as though
there was a struggle. The
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person was trying to escape. It
looked as though they almost
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did escape out that door and
they were shot and dragged back
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into that vehicle. And then to
add insult to injury, the car
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is set on fire. But we weren't
dealing with exact rocket
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scientists here because they
didn't understand that fire
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needs oxygen to breathe. So
when they set this car on fire,
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other than the initial
explosion or burst of flame,
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the fire quickly dies because
there's no oxygen to feed on.
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They were sloppy. They left
evidence behind. They left the
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shell casing. One on the
outside of the car. One on the
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inside of the car. This is all
great stuff that we can work
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with. So, how did he die? Was
it the fire or was it the
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gunshot? And there's an easy
way to tell. See, when an
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autopsy is done, if there's
soot on the inside of the lungs,
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if they're soot on those lungs,
that means they were alive when
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the fire was started. I'm just
very thankful, as gruesome as
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this scene was, was that it was
clear after the autopsy that he
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died of the gunshots, not of
the fire, because there was not
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any soot in the lungs. Now
we're able to attach a name.
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This is somebody that had a
family. This is somebody who
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had people who loved him,
somebody that he was trying to
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provide for working a second
job, bringing in extra income
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so he can just make it. Blaise
was no different than myself.
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We all have three things in
common ‐‐ we all want to be
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loved, we all want to be
respected, and we all want the
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ability to provide for the ones
that love and respect us. They
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wanted that American dream, and
that's exactly who he was. He
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was trying to provide for his
family. On this particular
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scene, the cab is in the
parking lot. Looking up at the
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office complex, it is clear
that there are video cameras.
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So one of the first things that
we do is look at these videos.
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Partner and I, we walk in and
we go to the security office.
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We don't know what we're
getting ready to see. And as
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that videotape starts, we see
the yellow cab pull up and we
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see clearly a black female with
this wild afro, crazy kind of
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hair. And she gets out and she
starts to run to the front of
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the cab area. She keeps going,
has a lookout. Is anyone around?
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And there's one particular
moment, she stops and is caught
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in mid‐stride, staring directly
into the camera. It was the
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perfect shot. We just knew then
we had to freeze that frame and
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that would be the picture that
we would use. But the video
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keeps going. She comes back to
the cab and then there's a
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flash. There's a flash inside
the cab. You see that same
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black female. She runs across
the parking lot, and then a
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lanky, thin male, baggy t‐shirt,
pants on, runs past the camera,
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as well. Where are they running?
You had absolute fear and
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terror running through the
transportation industry. One
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incident, two incidences. It
will be a third. Will there be
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a fourth? We needed to get this
stopped. Throw in the fact that
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now there's a male there, is
this their version of trying to
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be Bonnie and Clyde?
Hi, I'm Sara Davenport, and
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hi, I'm Sara Davenport, and
I've been a reporter here in
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the Houston area for over a
decade. When the news broke
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that there had been a murder,
it wasn't that uncommon. It's a
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big city, 6 million people. But
what was uncommon was a small
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twist. Two cabdrivers murdered
within 48 hours of each other.
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October 12th, early morning in
2010, a utility worker was out,
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and he spotted something
strange in a drainage ditch.
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When he went to look, it was a
very gruesome discovery. It was
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a body. You can imagine how
terrifying that is. I mean,
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normally, early morning hours,
it's pretty quiet. And here
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this body is covered in dirt,
shot up, possibly stabbed. You
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could tell it was a very
disturbing scene by the way
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when the utility worker called
9‐1‐1, he was terrified. When
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the police first arrived on the
scene, they're trying to
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identify who this is. And they
didn't find anything on his
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body. I mean, it looked like
he'd been robbed. There's was
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nothing in his pockets. But
when they started searching
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just a little bit away, they
were able to find his passport
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and also his cellphone. That
was a pretty significant break
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for two reasons. One is it
looks like the body was dumped.
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The murder probably didn't
happen there since the
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cellphone and passport were in
a different area, but it was a
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huge break because now they
knew who this body was, through
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the passport and now they had
his cellphone and could figure
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out more about him. They were
able to identify the victim as
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32‐year‐old Mohammad El sayed.
Mohammad had been in the
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Houston area for a few years.
He was a family man, had
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several children. He was a cab
driver, and he had been working
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to pick up some extra shifts to
make some more money to help
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out at home. He was working
really hard to make ends meet
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for his family. They were new
immigrants to the Houston area,
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to the United States. And so
being a cab driver was a good,
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honest job for him to do. Being
a cab driver might be somewhat
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of an easy job from the outside,
but it's a risky job. You never
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know who you're picking up,
what the next fare is going to
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be. When police went to the cab
company, they ran the number
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from where the last call had
come in from Mohammad El
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sayed's cab. It had come in
from a gas station, a chevron,
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around 2:00 in the morning.
Thank you for calling yellow
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cab. This is Cheryl. How may I
help you?
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Yes, I need a cab over here
on 1900 dairy ashford at the
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chevron. A cab just drove by.
1900 south dairy ashford?
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Yeah.
And that's the chevron
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service station, sir?
Yeah. The chevron service
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station. One just passed by. I
don't know if he works for
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y'all.
Okay, we'll get someone out
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there for you, sir.
Alright, thank you so much.
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When police got to the
chevron station, they thought
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maybe this could be their first
lead, but it really wasn't
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because the security cameras,
they weren't working that night
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and the phone had been totally
wiped clean of fingerprints.
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The suspects were really lucky
on this one because the police
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were hot on their tail until
they weren't. Suddenly, it went
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cold. There were no
fingerprints. There's no
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security cameras. The police
didn't have any sign of the cab
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near where Mohammad El sayed's
body was found, so they went
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back to the chevron and started
looking in that vicinity. And
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it was paydirt. The cab was
found about three or four
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blocks away from where the call
was originally made, right
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behind a strip mall. It had
been wiped clean. There were no
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fingerprints, but they did find
some small traces of blood. And
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then they did find two .380
caliber bullet shells. Where
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those bullet casings were found
suggests that the driver,
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Mohammad El sayed, had been
sitting in his cab when he was
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shot. Police had the cab and
they had the victim, but they
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really didn't have any leads.
The call was made about 35 to
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40 minutes away from where the
body was found. So what does
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that mean for these suspects?
If they're willing to drive
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that far to dump the body,
where are they now? They could
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be in Dallas. They could be out
of the state of Texas. People
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started wondering, is there a
serial killer on the loose?
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What's going to happen the next
day after that? The tension in
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the city with these reports
coming out, it was very real.
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Mohammad and Blaise were both
Muslim cab drivers. Did that
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have anything to do with these
murderers?
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My name is Roger chappell,
and I was an investigator with
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the Houston police department
assigned to work this case. Cab
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drivers are hardworking people.
It is not your
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gangster‐on‐gangster or your
dope dealer‐on‐dope dealer kind
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of stuff. These are innocent
people doing hard work.
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Something like this, where we
have at least two cab drivers
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that were killed in such a
short period of time, so at
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that point, the urgency really
did kick in. This was
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definitely going to happen
again. To me, it's not a matter
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of if, it's when. I made a
phone call to yellow cab and
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was able to obtain the
recording for the second case.
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The deceased had picked up a
fare somewhere on the West Side
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of town, and it was a female
that had made that phone call.
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A name that I heard, as I
remember, was shauntay, because
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it was a little difficult to
understand on that recording.
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Yellow cab. Can I help you?
Hello, um, can I have a cab
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to, um, 1905, um, dairy ashford?
It's gonna be by a cricket
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store.
Kroger store?
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Cricket.
Alright, can I get a name?
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Um, shauntay.
My immediate thought was
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that's a fake name. I don't
know if it's just a version of
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her name or if she just made it
up, but that's one of the
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things, too, that we
disseminate to the other
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investigators. In most murder
cases that I have investigated,
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this is the first one where we
actually had the murderer
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captured on video. It truly
does open up the book for us.
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As these folks were leaving and
running away, what direction
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where they headed? So that's
where we're going to start our
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canvas. We decided to go ahead
and concentrate on the
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apartment complexes as first.
When the officers were out
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there, this manager is like,
"you know what? I could be"
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wrong, but this is a
coincidence, to me, that I just
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can't seem to get over. I had
this tenant who was behind in
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her rent. She was due to be
evicted. Then all of a sudden,
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"she comes in this morning and
pays off everything." The
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public already knew that we had
two cab drivers. The media had
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already reported that. For this
manager, based on what glimpse
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he got from the surveillance
video photograph, was able to
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draw those parallels very
quickly. They gave her name as
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crystal Jones, and the physical
description seemed to match.
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What we want to do is to get
her before she gets inside her
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apartment. And there's a reason
for that. It creates too much
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hazard for the officers and for
other citizens. Crystal shows
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up, and once everything
everything got explained to her
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about how we wound up there,
she agreed, "yeah. You know"
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what? Let me run down, explain
all this to you. I don't have a
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"problem doing that." Just that
cooperation right from the
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beginning sent a very clear
message to us. So when she
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comes into homicide, sergeant
Harris talked to her. He felt
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very quickly that she wasn't
involved in this. Brian was
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like, "her voice is just too
raspy. It just doesn't quite"
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"match up." When Brian asked her
about, you know, how she came
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into all of this money and was
able to pay off all of her debt
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all of a sudden, she said, "oh,
well, I sold my car." And he
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said, "what do you mean?" And
she was able to produce the
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documentation, the bill of sale
and everything. We can tell
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when someone's lying to us most
of the time, very quickly. We
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can also tell when they're
being very truthful. Brian just
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felt right away, this isn't our
girl, period. Once crystal
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Jones is eliminated as a
suspect, it's very late at
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night. Everybody's worn out.
There's really not much more we
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can do at the moment. All of
our physical evidence is tied
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up at the crime labs. We come
back in the next morning, and
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we get a phone call from our
firearms lab. Typically, from a
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firearms report, we may get
between eight to fifteen
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firearms that these shell
casings could have come from.
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But Kim downs came downstairs,
and for the first time since
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I've known her, she's ecstatic.
There is, I don't know, four or
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five of us standing around. She
says, "you're looking for a"
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cobra 380. She even shows us a
picture of it. She says, "I'm"
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not saying it's this number of
firearms. This is the gun
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you're looking for. That was a
game‐changer. Our crime analyst
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starts doing the research on
stolen firearms. Well, there
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were two reports that were
located, and one of them
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mentions two suspects by name.
Turns out, this gentleman had
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allowed these two folks to stay
with him, and they stole a
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pistol from him. He names them
as Chaz blackshear and Danielle
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Hudson. Immediately, we started
doing the research on those two
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folks, and we noticed that he
has an arrest, a prior arrest.
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So every arrested that occurs
in Houston, the arrestee is
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assigned an hpd number. And lo
and behold, if we don't find
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pictures of them. They resemble
what we see in the video,
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especially with Danielle. Phil
calls somebody in our
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fingerprint lab, and the
information he was trying to
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tell the fingerprint person is,
"hey, I've got an hpd number I
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need you to compare this to."
He didn't even mention the
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name. He said, "don't tell me
it's Chaz blackshear." Phil,
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literally, I think he came
close to dropping the phone.
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All of that took place
literally in a matter of ten
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minutes, fifteen minutes. Just
boom, boom, boom, boom. The
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gentleman that listed his
pistol, he was friends with
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Chaz. He had his cellphone
number and he listed it on the
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police report. Now we have
enough evidence against Chaz to
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be able to get a warrant for
his arrest. Once the marshals
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were able to get the court
order and activate the phone
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search, it literally took us
right back to the same
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apartment complex that we had
been to before.
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My name is Chaz blackshear.
I'm from Dallas, Texas. As a
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child, I went through a lot of
emotional roller coasters. My
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mother being in jail. That's my
first memory. I used to get
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letters, drawings from her. I
know my real father, but I only
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stayed with him for a short
amount of time. It was in
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Arizona. I left him up there
because, you know, he used to
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put his hands on me, busted my
nose and all that. Not too long,
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got to live with my mom, got
out of jail. Within probably a
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couple of months, maybe, she
had met this dude named John.
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He was different, man. He
actually showed up, made me do
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my homework, made me, you know
what I'm saying, do things that
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counted in life, and he was
that father that I wanted. He
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had a motorcycle. You know what
I'm saying? He loved to ride
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the bikes. And I'd hop on the
bike with him. He rode off, and
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he never came back. I remember
the police came, the police
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came knocking at our door
probably around 10:00, 11:00 at
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night. So I watched her open
the door, see what's going on,
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till they put their hands on my
mama. And I just heard her
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busting out crying. And he had
had a wreck on the bike, and
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the wreck killed him. He flew
off the highway or something. I
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don't know. In a way, I feel
like everything was snatched
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from me, the little family that
I had. After he died, my mama
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went back on the drugs. I seen
my mother o. D. One night. She
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was foaming at the mouth,
couldn't stop shaking, and I
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was scared. I ended up moving
in with some cousins. So I
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ended up staying there with my
adoptive father and my adoptive
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mother. They wouldn't let me do
certain things that I was used
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to being allowed to do, and
that was one of the reasons
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that I really rebelled a lot as
a child because I couldn't get
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my way. Lot of times, I was
craving, like ‐‐ man, I was
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caught up in suicide at an
early age. Music was my passion,
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my goal, and my dream back then,
you know. That put all my
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emotions, everything I been
through in life, I put it in my
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music. And that's ‐‐ that's one
of the things that I know that
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I'm blessed at and I'm gifted
at and a thing I can breathe in,
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you know? I could ‐‐ I could do
it for the rest of my life as a
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career and be happy doing it.
Not just doing it for the
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popularity or the money. Nobody
supported me through what I
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wanted. It was always what
somebody else wanted, what they
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think is right, what they
believed in. They told me, "go
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to college, go to the military,
get you a job. You got to do
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"something." and none of it
involved music. So basically, I
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ended up joining the military
just so I can get out the house,
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so I can get away, just get
away. If things wasn't gonna
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get better, I was gonna force
them to get better. Danielle,
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she was one of the first people
who believed in me. She really
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showed me something that I
never really seen out of a
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woman. She wanted the same
thing I wanted. She was raised
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by her granny and everything,
too, so we kind of had similar
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backgrounds. We just kind of
built that trust, you know,
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'cause we both been through
something. And then after a
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while, you know what I'm saying,
she started staying there with
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me, and I guess that's when
everything kicked off. She just
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so happened to have a child,
and I knew that his father
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wasn't really in his life. I
could see her son really looked
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up to me, always wanted to be
around me. That made me hold on
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to her tighter, you know, 'cause
that's how I felt, that he
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needed a father. You know, I
didn't want them to feel the
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same way that I felt back when
I lost John. And I was willing
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to do anything to make sure
that don't happen. I really had
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tried to stop hustling and, you
know, and actually go out and
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get a real job'cause I don't
want nothing to take me away
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from my family. And it was hard
to get a job. You know, I
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couldn't get one, I couldn't
find one'cause I was
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dishonorably discharged from
the military. We end up getting
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kicked out of the apartment,
and they had put the eviction
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notice on the door. The next
day, we had to go. I had to
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take care of them. I figured it
was my responsibility. I felt
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if I didn't do nothing, I
wasn't a man. The first thing
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that came to mind was quick
money, and I was desperate for
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it. I'm pretty sure anybody,
for their family, would do
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anything they have to to make
sure their family was okay. I'm
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not gonna lie. I probably
wasn't mature enough to see I
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could have found a better way.
I had never forgot. I was
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laying on the floor. She was
sitting up. And I was asleep. I
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was sleeping so hard, I didn't
even hear them kick the door
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in. I didn't even hear it. I
don't know if it was from the
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stress or being depressed. I
don't know what it was. I was
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actually in a dead sleep. She
shook me and woke me up. I said,
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"what's up? "She said, "man,
the police are here." And they
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took me in. But I could have
took that. But with her, when
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they took her in ‐‐ you know,
aj was still there. Man, it's
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stuff I didn't want him to see,
man.
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My name is Caroline dozier.
I'm a prosecutor at the Harris
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county district attorney's
office, and I was the lead
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prosecutor in the Chaz
blackshear and Danielle Hudson
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capital murder cases. My very
first involvement with this
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case was when sergeant Harris
and detective waters came to my
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office and talked to me about
picking up this case. A cab
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driver had been murdered, and
they wanted my help. There were
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two very good leads that led us
to Chaz blackshear specifically
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and then ultimately Danielle
Hudson, as well. One of which
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was the link between the two
cases, the shell casings. They
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were found to be fired from a
very unique type of gun. In
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addition to that, they took
fingerprints off of the cab,
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and they were able to match one
of the prints to Chaz
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blackshear. We knew that Chaz
blackshear had a phone and we
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were in contact with the phone
company about his service. It
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was a prepaid phone, and it was
running low on minutes. And so
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in a ruse, they told the phone
company to call him and let him
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know that they were giving him
additional minutes so that we
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could keep tabs on where he
might be. Chaz blackshear and
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Danielle Hudson were staying at
a family member's home. I
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believe it was a cousin's home.
And so we wrote warrants for
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Chaz blackshear. We didn't
believe that we had enough at
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that time to write one for
Danielle Hudson. They found
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Chaz and Danielle both at the
home. I believe they were
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sleeping on an air mattress.
There was something about the
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shape of danielle's hair or her
head that was familiar. When
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they saw her, she looked
basically like the person who
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was in the video of the two
suspects running away from the
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taxicab. The other thing that
the officers found familiar
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about Danielle was the sound of
her voice. They had listened to
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the recordings of the phone
calls being made to the cab
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companies. And when they talked
to her, they noticed that her
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voice sounded very similar to,
if not the same, as the person
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who'd made those phone calls.
They arrested Chaz on the
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warrant. And then they asked
Danielle Hudson if she wouldn't
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mind coming down to the police
station and giving a statement,
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and she agreed to do so. The
detectives decided they first
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wanted to speak with Chaz
blackshear and see what he
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would admit to regarding the
crimes. He said that he had
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taken cabs. He might have even
been in the cabs of the
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murdered drivers, but that he
was not involved in any way,
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shape, or form in those murders.
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Chaz. Chaz, listen to me, my
friend. I know where you went
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because I've got it on
videotape with three different
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angles. I know where Danielle
went. I know where she walked
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to. I know when she walked
back. I know when you got out
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of the cab. I know when you
walked around the cab. I know
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when you walked up to the
driver of the cab. And I know
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what you did when you got to
the driver because I've got it
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on videotape.
I never, well, that's not
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true. That couldn't have been
us. That's not true.
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Detective waters was trying
to get Chaz to confess to his
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involvement in these crimes,
but was unsuccessful initially.
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And the one ace in the hole
that we had was Danielle
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Hudson. We still had an
opportunity to talk to her and
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try and find out the crime from
her and then maybe use what she
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told us to get Chaz to tell us
the truth. Brian Harris showed
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her the footage from the crime
scene and pointed out the
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similarities between her and
the female on the surveillance
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footage. And she admitted at
that point that that was in
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fact her. That was a huge break
in the case for us. We already
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had some evidence that tied
them to this particular case,
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but now that we know that she's
admitting to being the person
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on that video, now we know that
those two are probably our best
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suspects. Danielle seemed to
think that because she wasn't
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the actual shooter, that
somehow she would play no part
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in this particular crime, and
she was pretty quick in ratting
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out Chaz.
He cocked the gun, and
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that's when the cab driver
opened the door. I tried to
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take off the seatbelt to run,
and that's when he just started
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shooting him. He just told me,
he said that we'll call the cab
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and that he was just gonna Jack
the man. I didn't know that he
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was going to kill the man. I
did not know that.
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Okay.
Danielle Hudson claimed that
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she was driving the cab and
that she heard Chaz having a
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conversation with Mr. El sayed.
At that point, she just thought
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00:32:05,524 --> 00:32:08,536
they were gonna Rob him.
Mohammad was saying, "please"
431
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,772
don't kill me. I have kids."
And Chaz said, "well, how old
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00:32:10,796 --> 00:32:13,875
are your kids? "And once he
told them how old they were",
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00:32:13,899 --> 00:32:16,177
Chaz was basically like, "well,
that's old enough," and shot
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00:32:16,201 --> 00:32:21,516
him. The children were like
maybe 6 years old. That was old
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00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:26,821
enough in his mind. And when
the gun went off, she claimed
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00:32:26,845 --> 00:32:29,557
she was surprised, although she
then helped pull the body out
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00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:32,927
of the car and kick him down
into the culvert. From
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00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,431
danielle's perspective, I think
she wanted the police to
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00:32:36,455 --> 00:32:39,834
believe that they were only
gonna use the gun to scare
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00:32:39,858 --> 00:32:43,271
people and get money. She did
not want the police believing
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00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:46,841
that she knew that the murders
would happen beforehand. As she
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00:32:46,865 --> 00:32:53,247
said in the interview, this was
the beginning of his life of
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00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:56,918
crime and that maybe he enjoyed
it a little bit. Danielle
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00:32:56,942 --> 00:33:01,689
claims that Chaz told her,
"don't worry about it. If we
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00:33:01,713 --> 00:33:04,992
ever get caught, " and that's a
big if in his mind, "if we ever
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00:33:05,016 --> 00:33:08,629
get caught, I'll take full
responsibility and you won't
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00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:10,593
"have any blame in this
whatsoever."
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00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:18,773
Two cab drivers murdered
within 48 hours of each other.
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00:33:18,797 --> 00:33:23,578
The tension in the city with
these reports coming out, it
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00:33:23,602 --> 00:33:27,682
was very real. And now we
finally have two suspects that
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00:33:27,706 --> 00:33:30,885
have been arrested. And the
city of Houston, you could
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00:33:30,909 --> 00:33:34,856
almost sense a sigh of relief.
Chaz blackshear and Danielle
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Hudson were now looking at two
counts of first‐degree murder.
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During the interview with
Danielle, my partner's in the
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00:33:45,724 --> 00:33:49,070
other room with Chaz, and
they've been talking for a long
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time, and he was a pretty cool
character. He wasn't giving an
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00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:56,277
inch.
Detective waters told Chaz,
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00:33:56,301 --> 00:33:58,379
you know, "danielle's talking
to us. She's telling us what"
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00:33:58,403 --> 00:34:01,449
happened. She's telling us that
you were involved and that you
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00:34:01,473 --> 00:34:04,018
"are the shooter in both of
those cases." And Chaz wouldn't
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00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:07,154
bite. He didn't believe that
she was telling them. He said,
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00:34:07,178 --> 00:34:10,458
"that's not the truth."
Sergeant Harris had Danielle
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00:34:10,482 --> 00:34:14,395
write a note, like, "you
promised me you'd take"
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00:34:14,419 --> 00:34:17,265
responsibility."
he looks at that note, and
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00:34:17,289 --> 00:34:21,035
it doesn't break him. He looks
at it, and he says, "she didn't"
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00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:25,006
write this. There's no spelling
mistakes. She's not that
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00:34:25,030 --> 00:34:29,944
"smart." still not breaking. We
bring in the photographs, and
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00:34:29,968 --> 00:34:33,581
on one of the photographs,
Danielle has circled Chaz and
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00:34:33,605 --> 00:34:37,485
she writes in her own
handwriting, "my ex‐boyfriend."
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He's surprised. And then
finally, as a result of seeing
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00:34:42,347 --> 00:34:45,927
more and more of these
photographs that she has signed
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00:34:45,951 --> 00:34:48,429
off on, he then agrees to tell
the full story to my partner.
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00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:56,453
Chaz blackshear said he
would tell the police
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00:34:57,529 --> 00:35:00,641
everything, but not until he
had a chance to talk to
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00:35:00,665 --> 00:35:03,544
Danielle. "I want to see her."
If you let me see her, I'll
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00:35:03,568 --> 00:35:05,947
tell you whatever you want to
know. "We said," well, we don't
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00:35:05,971 --> 00:35:09,750
‐‐ we're not gonna put her in
the room first. Tell us first,
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00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:14,689
"and then we'll see what we can
do." And he does. He describes
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00:35:14,713 --> 00:35:19,894
in detail what he did. The
actual, quote, confession
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00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:24,165
itself is probably less than
five to seven minutes. What
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00:35:24,189 --> 00:35:27,101
happens next is pretty
incredible.
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00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:34,942
The detectives were true to
their word. After Chaz
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00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:37,478
confessed and told them what
had happened in the crimes,
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00:35:37,502 --> 00:35:40,648
they allowed Danielle to be in
the same room with Chaz. You
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00:35:40,672 --> 00:35:46,420
could see what their
relationship was like, and
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00:35:46,444 --> 00:35:48,623
there was no fear on danielle's
face. As a matter of fact,
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00:35:48,647 --> 00:35:50,958
instead of sitting in a chair
across the table from him, she
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00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:52,827
went right up to him and sat in
his lap.
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00:35:52,851 --> 00:35:58,032
Her arms are curled around
his head, like almost massaging
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00:35:58,056 --> 00:36:02,069
his ears and scratching his
head and saying, "well, you"
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00:36:02,093 --> 00:36:07,808
told me that you would do this
and that you would take
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00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:09,610
"responsibility because I have
my son."
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00:36:09,634 --> 00:36:15,650
When they let her come talk
to me, I told her then, you
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00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:19,286
know what I'm saying, "I got
you. Put it on me. But you got"
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00:36:19,310 --> 00:36:21,956
to do the same. It's the only
way you can get out of it."
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00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:24,759
He then asked her, "are you
going to jail?" And she
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00:36:24,783 --> 00:36:27,895
doesn't know at that point,
because in our interview, I
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00:36:27,919 --> 00:36:30,931
said, "I don't know if you're
going to be charged." Basically,
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00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:35,169
depends on what she says.
Do you hate me?
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00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:38,372
No. That's why, that's why I
confessed to it. If I hated you,
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00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:43,911
I wouldn't have did it.
Criminals normally aren't
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00:36:43,935 --> 00:36:47,114
very smart, and so the fact
that the two of them were
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00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:50,051
together and they spoke so
openly talking about the case,
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00:36:50,075 --> 00:36:53,154
who was gonna take the blame,
they must been shocked when
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00:36:53,178 --> 00:36:54,955
they realize that the police
were listening to every word.
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00:36:54,979 --> 00:36:58,359
Once we had the confessions
from Chaz and Danielle, we then
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00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:02,329
filed formal charges of capital
murder against them for both of
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the cab drivers.
Just because she didn't
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00:37:07,459 --> 00:37:10,071
shoot the victims, just because
she wasn't the one actually
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00:37:10,095 --> 00:37:12,273
pulling the trigger doesn't
mean that she was gonna get off
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00:37:12,297 --> 00:37:16,243
completely scot‐free.
In the end, both Chaz
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00:37:16,267 --> 00:37:20,748
blackshear and Danielle Hudson
plead guilty.
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00:37:20,772 --> 00:37:25,786
She was allowed to plead
guilty to a lesser included
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00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:30,057
offense. The state chose to
seek the death penalty against
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00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,827
Chaz blackshear because we
thought the cases were
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00:37:32,851 --> 00:37:35,362
cold‐blooded enough, and we
thought a jury would return a
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00:37:35,386 --> 00:37:38,766
verdict of death.
Danielle Hudson gets
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00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:42,470
sentenced to 40 years, 40 years
in Texas, department of
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00:37:42,494 --> 00:37:47,274
corrections ‐‐ tdc. Chaz
blackshear, he also pleads
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00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:51,212
guilty.
My lawyer at the time didn't
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00:37:51,236 --> 00:37:56,617
understand. At the time, they
were trying to get me the death
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00:37:56,641 --> 00:37:59,386
penalty, you know? And I wasn't
trying to fight it. And I
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00:37:59,410 --> 00:38:02,690
really didn't care about it.
Long as they got off, then I
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00:38:02,714 --> 00:38:06,093
was good no matter what, you
know, what I'm saying? Whether
525
00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:08,028
it's death, whether it's life,
whether it's freedom. I put
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00:38:08,052 --> 00:38:10,231
them before myself and that's
what a family man does.
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00:38:10,255 --> 00:38:18,255
Chaz, he takes a life
sentence without the
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00:38:19,998 --> 00:38:22,009
possibility of parole. He will
die behind bars in tdc.
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00:38:22,033 --> 00:38:30,033
I would say that Chaz
blackshear and Danielle Hudson
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00:38:31,609 --> 00:38:34,889
were both just cold‐blooded
killers. They really don't care
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00:38:34,913 --> 00:38:38,159
about anybody who isn't part of
their immediate family or their
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00:38:38,183 --> 00:38:42,696
inner circle. The cab drivers
that they killed were nothing
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00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,200
and nobody to them.
Danielle had a child. And so
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00:38:46,224 --> 00:38:49,970
potentially the motive behind
this was maybe they were trying
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00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:54,008
to provide for the child. And
then it just kind of spiraled
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00:38:54,032 --> 00:38:57,444
out of control.
Would they have gone on to
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00:38:57,468 --> 00:39:01,348
kill again? I'm convinced of
it. How many more dead bodies
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00:39:01,372 --> 00:39:04,351
would there have been? Who
knows? I was very grateful to
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00:39:04,375 --> 00:39:08,489
see that they were stopped
before we could find that
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00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:15,029
answer out. In either case,
society lost two people who
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00:39:15,053 --> 00:39:18,666
were family men, who loved
their children, who needed to
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00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:22,870
be treated with dignity in life,
and certainly were not treated
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00:39:22,894 --> 00:39:28,434
with dignity in death by these
two crooks.
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