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Original subtitles

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- St. Marys, georgia, is located on the st. Marys river.

- It's very coastal, and it centers

On fishing and shrimp boats.

It's just a beautiful little town.

[dramatic music]

[radio chatter]

- But there's crime in st. Marys

Like there's crime in any town.

- Camden county 911. Where is your emergency?

- All I could see was this blazing inferno in the river.

♪ ♪

My stomach just sunk to the floor.

- Somebody possibly poured gasoline on that boat.

- Several pieces of human skeletal remains

Were recovered.

- We don't know, is it one body?

Is it two bodies? Is it twelve?

♪ ♪

- The whole boating community was in shock.

- He'd just turn into an evil, evil, hateful person.

- He did pull out a pistol

And raised and pointed that said pistol at law enforcement.

- I can just feel my heart beat.

Something's about to happen.

[gunshots]

[seabirds squalling]

[tense twangy music]

♪ ♪

- The 130-mile st. Marys river is a blackwater river,

Which is a slow-moving channel

Flowing through forested swamps and wetlands.

Located in southeast georgia,

It serves as the border between georgia and florida,

And the surrounding areas have both southern charm

And easy coastal living.

In 2012, however, the small, quaint town

Was shocked by a series of tragic events.

♪ ♪

[phone line trills]

- Around 3:00 in the morning,

The st. Marys police department dispatch received a 911 call.

There was believed to be some screaming

Heard over that line.

[muffled screaming continues]

- It's really haunting.

It begins with some moaning, and then there's

Some indistinguishable kind of sounds.

[indistinct moaning]

- And then that's--that's it. It's over.

There's no more sound after that.

- I was the on-call investigator.

[siren wails]

The only information known was that the phone number

That was related to an address in the city of st. Marys

At a boatyard off of new point peter road.

And I was driving there to where the marina is.

I was just thinking, is there somebody

Hurt somewhere that we need to get to?

And as I come to the middle of the causeway,

All I could see was this blazing inferno in the river.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

And, like, my stomach just sunk to the floor.

Because your first interest is preserving life.

[radio chatter]

The fire department's on scene.

We can't even get near it because of the heat

Emanating off of this vessel anchored out in the water.

You can even feel the heat just standing on the shoreline.

You can't even get close without risking

Getting hurt yourself.

And so all you can do is just let the fire burn down.

And then once it gets small enough,

You can start pulling it in.

But at that point, if there's a person on that boat,

They're not a person anymore.

♪ ♪

- A fire caused by flammable liquids,

Such as gasoline, oil, or grease,

Cannot be extinguished with water.

In fact, water can spread the liquids,

Making a fire much, much worse.

Without knowledge of how the blaze started,

Firefighters absolutely have no choice

But to wait for the flames on the trawler to burn out.

- My brain's already in overdrive.

And I'm just trying to wrap my head around,

Okay, is this an accidental fire?

Is this an intentional fire?

It was still really dark outside.

An agent from dnr,

The department of natural resources,

Showed up with a boat.

He let me and one of the officers get onto his boat,

And he took us as close to the boat that was on fire

As he could.

I was able to get my camera lens in close enough

That I was able to capture the "premium time" name

On this great harbour trawler boat that was burning.

- The "premium time" is a great harbour 37-foot

Liveaboard full displacement trawler.

While historically trawlers were known as fishing vessels,

Today many, like the "premium time,"

Are designed as houseboats

With comfortable living and entertaining spaces

And are outfitted for long-range cruising.

If someone was living on this vessel,

It's essentially like a house fire on the water,

And there's the possibility of multiple victims on board.

- The investigators called the office

Of great harbour trawlers,

Because that was the manufacturer,

To find out who was in possession of the boat.

That was the starting point for that investigation.

- Just like the vin on a car, every boat has

What's called a hin, or hull identification number.

This number is assigned to the vessel's registered owner.

- Our investigators started giving me information

About "premium time" and confirming the owner for me,

Which was karen barnes.

- Police are trying to reach karen,

Because if she's on that boat, this is a nightmare.

But they couldn't get in contact with her.

- This took several hours,

And the boat's just becoming nothing

As it's--as time passes.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

People started waking up, those who lived in the marina.

There's buzzing going around,

And there's people saying, oh, I know karen.

But nobody had seen karen.

Nobody had heard from her since the previous day.

And then some of the residents that were in the area

Who woke up from all of the commotion,

They're like, well, this guy named larry ford

Was living on the boat next to hers.

Larry's a good friend of karen's.

Larry would often go visit karen.

So while we were out there on the water in dnr's boat,

He took us over to larry's vessel in the spirit

Of a wellness check to make sure, is larry okay?

And could she have been on his boat that night?

[knocking on door]

So we boarded larry's boat, and we're knocking,

"karen! Larry!" and you know,

Hoping somebody would open the door.

And we weren't getting a response.

♪ ♪

And so I'm looking at this boat, "premium time,"

From larry's boat.

His boat is next to hers, and it's still burning.

And I'm thinking, minute by minute,

Second by second, the evidence is burning,

And there might have been people on board.

[radio chatter]

Around 6:20 in the morning, the fire had diminished enough

That fire personnel could get closer to it,

Cut the anchor, and guide it towards the dock.

The fire wasn't fully extinguished

Until about 12:15 that afternoon,

Quite a long time.

I remember, we went down into the boat,

And it's just this charred mess.

At that point, we could really get into the investigation

And see what evidence is there;

What is left for us to collect here?

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- The investigation was led

By the st. Marys police department,

But it also involved the georgia bureau of investigation

And the camden county sheriff's office.

- When the gbi was requested to help with this investigation,

There was virtually nothing left of the boat.

In this case, you have to worry about the challenges

Of solving a case that involved fire.

And is the evidence washed into the ocean?

And is it gone?

- And we're just starting to sift through

And just see what can be recovered.

We're looking, and my thought is,

I hope we find nothing, but I hope we find everything.

And then we start finding

Several pieces of human skeletal remains.

[dramatic music]

- Was it an accidental fire on the boat?

We don't know, is it one body?

Is it two bodies? Is it twelve?

♪ ♪

- My gut's sinking.

If larry's not on his boat,

And karen's not with larry on larry's boat,

Where are karen and larry?

♪ ♪

- We don't know who it might be,

How many people it might be.

- You can't light these boats on fire very easily.

There's only one way that it could happen.

It's accelerants.

- This had to be intentional,

And it had to be methodical.

I'm literally, like, boots on the ground,

Going through the woods

Like a predator going after its prey.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

[radio chatter]

- 13 hours after the "premium time" went ablaze

On the st. Marys river,

Investigators discover human bone fragments

Within the smoldering ashes.

With karen barnes' whereabouts still unknown,

Authorities fear she could be a victim of the fire.

- We don't know

Who it might be, how many people it might be.

So those pieces that were found,

They were collected, and those remains were transported

To the medical examiner's office in savannah, georgia.

[intriguing music]

Through the autopsy, even in a fire case,

If a body is not able to be identified

Through physical means,

You can use dna examinations of bone marrow

To possibly identify the remains.

♪ ♪

Through dna testing,

The remains were identified as karen barnes.

- It's very tragic, and you have to tell families.

This is the sort of notification

That never gets easier.

[somber music]

- Once I got the call, I broke down.

Kind of heart-wrenching.

Lost my whole world.

♪ ♪

- The whole boating community was in shock,

And our group of great harbour owners,

We were just all like, what could have happened?

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- You want to treat everything serious like a homicide

To begin with, but you have to also consider other factors--

Possible murder, arson, an accidental fire.

So now we needed some background information

On karen.

[somber music]

- Karen is my sister.

She's the oldest,

Then we have two brothers in between us, and then me.

♪ ♪

Karen lived in myrtle beach, and then she moved down here,

And I got her a job as an event planner.

She loved the beach.

She loved to go looking for shells,

Kayaking, swimming.

She loved all of it.

♪ ♪

- I first met karen through great harbour boats.

We had matching boats.

She was just warm right off the bat.

- Karen lived on the boat.

Being on a boat on the water really made her tick.

- Karen was such a beautiful, beautiful person,

Inside and out.

She was just so bubbly,

This bouncy, bubbly-- full of personality.

She was just a really good person.

A great loss.

[seabirds squalling]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- An investigation on the water

Is much more complicated than investigation on land.

On land, everything is pretty much

Contained right in one spot.

On the water, the evidence can be lost in the water itself.

It makes it that much more difficult.

- While we were sifting through and trying to find

The pieces that we needed to tell the story,

Some shell casings from a firearm were recovered.

♪ ♪

- There were shell casings, but there was

No evidence of a handgun on board.

The discovery of shell casings amidst the ashes

Suggested it was more than just a fire.

- Karen did have a gun

So that she felt she could protect herself.

- Maybe the gun could have been on larry's boat.

But where's larry?

He's not out here looking for karen.

He's not on the dock. He's not showing himself.

There are so many questions, like,

Was larry with karen

On the "premium time"?

- Investigators talked to some other

Great harbour trawler owners who lived at the marina.

They said larry ford apparently is a boat guy,

That he had been a boat technician

For a long time in that south georgia area,

Fixing boats and installing equipment on boats.

- I learned that at one point,

"premium time" was docked in jekyll island.

She had met larry ford in jekyll,

And they became friends there.

When karen left jekyll and came down to st. Marys,

Larry actually moved his boat as well.

- Larry was just the nicest man, just real laid-back.

He would help karen, and she would take him food.

He just kind of was there and would help anybody

With whatever they need done.

- Karen's loved ones said that larry, he was a good guy.

But maybe something was going on in their lives

And their relationship that we don't know about.

[dramatic music]

But then I received a phone call.

And we were able to confirm through the medical examiner

That there were two bodies that were recovered

From "premium time,"

And we still hadn't heard from larry ford.

So I'm automatically thinking, it could be larry's remains.

♪ ♪

- Through familial dna,

Which essentially means comparing the tissue samples

That they have of the victims to family members,

The other remains were identified as larry ford.

Not only did we have one body.

Now we had two.

So that complicates the investigation.

- It looked like the individuals

Whose bodies were found inside had been shot,

And the boat had been torched to cover up the crime.

- Or could it have been murder-suicide?

- Was it a homicide?

A target towards karen barnes?

♪ ♪

Or was it a target towards larry ford?

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Authorities learn that the human remains

Recovered from the "premium time" do, in fact,

Belong to karen barnes and her friend, larry ford.

With the fire having destroyed all of the forensic evidence

Like fingerprints and dna,

Detectives cannot determine if another person was involved

Or if this was a murder-suicide.

So the next step in their investigation

Is to uncover as much as they can about the victims.

[seabirds squalling]

- Those who lived in the marina said that larry,

He was a nice friend, and he could tell

That karen was concerned

About this husband that she just had divorced from.

♪ ♪

Five months prior, in April of 2012,

Karen filed for divorce from david trauger.

But I wasn't really sure, like, what had happened

To deteriorate this relationship.

I need to get some background information.

Could he be involved?

There were so many unanswered questions,

And I needed answers.

[soft music]

- Karen barnes and david trauger met in 2009

While she was working as an events coordinator

At a restaurant in georgia.

♪ ♪

David trauger,

He had an insurance company in pennsylvania.

He was financially well-off.

David trauger, I believe, acquired "premium time"

In 2006.

You have to have pretty solid financial footing

To be able to afford "premium time."

- Liveaboards can range in price quite a bit.

But for the "premium time"

That had a custom interior and the addition of a tender,

The ticket price was $560,000.

- I think karen saw in david a change for a new future,

You know, the beach.

David pretty much told her, you won't have to work.

Because she pretty much gave up everything

To marry him and move down to jekyll island on the boat.

♪ ♪

They got married, I think, three months from meeting,

On "premium time."

- Karen was good to david.

She took good care of david.

[indistinct chatter]

But david was an alcoholic.

Karen did say she would never have gotten involved with him

If she knew he was an alcoholic.

- When david drank, he just turned

Into an evil, evil, hateful person.

- I learned from loved ones,

They had some prior awareness of complaints

Of domestic issues between karen barnes

And her ex-husband, david trauger.

That's never a positive thing.

- At one time, karen told me they were down in the bahamas.

He had thought somebody was flirting with her.

He threw her wedding ring into the water.

He ended up twisting her arm,

Where she had to go get it in a cast.

[tense music]

When she--you know, when she told me about the abuse,

I really wanted her to leave him.

But she actually stayed with him for years.

♪ ♪

- In 2012, karen and david got into an argument in the car.

And he tried to run the car off the road.

At that point, karen came to our firm

To file a divorce against her husband,

David trauger.

She had been in this abusive marriage

With david for several years, and she wanted out.

At that point, she and david had agreed

On how to split their assets.

They agreed that he would maintain the business,

Two houses, and other property.

Karen would receive alimony and "premium time."

Karen loved living aboard a boat.

And she loved the lifestyle that came with it.

So after the divorce, karen was still living

On "premium time" on jekyll island.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- We had received a call at the fire station

From a gentleman by the name of ken fickett,

The owner of great harbour trawlers.

He was trying to get in touch with law enforcement

Because he had information.

♪ ♪

He told me that he built "premium time"

Specifically for david trauger.

Ken was giving me some background

Of the "premium time" and helping me understand

This boat.

- They're very, very safely built boats

With significant electrical systems.

There's all kinds of things that we do

In the manufacturing process

That would preclude the boat from catching on fire.

- According to david's, like, wants and specifications,

Ken added this thing called a fireboy suppressor

To the boat.

- Fire suppression systems are automatically activated

By excessive heat or smoke

To stop engine room fires before they spread,

Which means it's highly unlikely

The fire on the "premium time" was accidental.

- Ken thought the burn was suspicious,

That this boat shouldn't have burned down.

- We refuse to put propane on the boats

Because it's such a fire hazard.

And we build everything from fiberglass.

- Fiberglass doesn't burn easily.

You could put a blowtorch on it,

And it won't catch fire.

- I said, there's only one way that it could have happened.

It's accelerants.

- If you pour enough gasoline on it,

You can get it to burn, and once it starts burning,

It doesn't stop.

[dramatic music]

- There's no way that this is just, like, an arbitrary fire.

This had to be intentional,

And it had to be methodical.

♪ ♪

- And that's when they realized that it had to be arson.

And then someone became a suspect almost immediately.

- I told the detective,

David trauger was a very tempestuous guy.

He had a temper that was pretty dramatic.

♪ ♪

I thought, you know, he was enough of a jerk

That depriving karen of that boat by burning it

Would be something that he could come up with.

As I recall, my quote was,

"that son of a bitch, he burned the boat."

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- After authorities determine that the fire

On the "premium time" was indeed arson,

They suspect that karen barnes' ex-husband,

David trauger, may have been involved.

[dramatic music]

- St. Marys police department

And the georgia bureau of investigation

Were working in tandem in order to find david trauger.

- I need to find david to find out what's going on.

[siren wailing]

Where is david trauger?

♪ ♪

- It was learned that after the divorce,

There were police reports made

Where david trauger was stalking karen barnes.

♪ ♪

- In June 2012, david appeared on the boat on jekyll island.

He tried to use his key to get in the back door.

Karen had changed the locks at that point.

And so she called 911.

[radio chatter]

- He was greeted by a police officer,

And he was asked to leave the area,

That it was karen's boat now,

And that she didn't want him there.

♪ ♪

Not long after that, he's starting to follow her,

Starting to look for her.

He's emailing karen obsessively.

I think this was the turning point

For david's life, where this boat was--

Was his retirement plan.

This boat was-- was something he loved.

And I think it sets in his mind this downward spiral,

And he really wanted his boat back.

At the time larry and karen became friends

On jekyll island, karen had some safety concerns,

So larry had actually got karen a gun

For her protection.

- Eventually, they made the decision

To try to get away from jekyll island marina

Because they didn't want to be found by david.

- Karen and larry left jekyll,

Came down to st. Marys.

Larry actually stayed docked near her,

And I think it gave her a sense of comfort,

Having somebody there who looked out for her.

- They selected, you know, the waters out front

Of st. Marys marine services boatyard

Because it was a good place to hide.

But david somehow manages to--

To find them.

And it could have been as simple

As him visiting the boatyard

And just seeing "premium time" anchored out front.

Nobody actually knows how he figured out

Where they were, but he did.

- Unfortunately, the stalking still ensued,

And at that point, escalated even further.

♪ ♪

- David knew this boat in and out,

So he could still maneuver and get on the boat.

And at one time, david had broke into the boat

And messed with a lot of stuff on the boat.

Larry found that all the steering

Had been tampered with,

So there was no steering on the boat.

- Karen was sure that david had disabled the boat

In some manner, because this was a boat

In pristine condition.

Also, through the investigation I learned

That there was an incident at a grocery store.

And it turns out that she had spotted david in the store,

And he had been stalking her.

♪ ♪

- Because karen didn't feel safe, she filed

A petition for family violence and stalking order.

She was asking the court for an order

To keep david away.

We identified a few places

Where we thought david was staying,

But the sheriff never found him,

So david was never served with a petition.

[insects chirring]

- Karen had actually been coming and staying with me

So she could feel safe.

But she actually left my house the 12th, that evening,

Because she had to go get bags of her clothes.

And I just knew-- just had a feeling

Something was gonna happen.

And I was begging her, please stay with me.

We gave, like, the longest, biggest hug.

And...Then she left.

[dramatic music]

- David trauger quickly became a suspect

Due to the stalking reports

And the contentious nature of their relationship.

♪ ♪

- And so now we feel confident, david's our guy.

This was arson and murder.

As far as we know, he's armed, unstable.

Is he gonna kill somebody else?

We really need to make the citizens aware.

We have what we believe is a threat to our community.

We need to stop david trauger.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- David trauger, the prime suspect in the shooting deaths

Of karen barnes and larry ford,

Is considered armed and extremely dangerous.

So authorities form a special task force

In hopes of catching him before anyone else gets hurt.

♪ ♪

- Once david trauger has been identified

As the prime suspect, he's in the media.

He's been pictured.

And almost everyone in the local area knows

What the guy looks like and why he's wanted.

- This was a case that we needed that teamwork approach.

We had, at the time,

The camden county sheriff's office,

The kingsland police department.

We had the georgia bureau of investigation

And the coast guard.

So many people showed up to help.

This is a manhunt for david.

We had issued the bolo for anybody to be on the lookout

For any signs of david.

♪ ♪

[radio chatter]

- It was all over the news. They were trying to find him.

They weren't sure where he was.

They didn't know if he was, you know, in st. Marys, jekyll.

They didn't have any idea where he was.

♪ ♪

- The police were searching for david,

But he was evading them.

- They can't find david.

Is david gonna come to our boat

And say, "hide me," or would he come kill us too

Because we were friends with her?

[dramatic music]

We didn't know what to do. David was crazy.

♪ ♪

I--I have no idea what he could have been thinking.

But he was gonna take care of things his way.

♪ ♪

- So we're driving around kingsland.

Investigators run across a vehicle at a gas station

That seemed to match the lookout that we had issued.

Sure enough, it matched the vehicle

That we were looking for.

The discovery of this truck was very interesting.

Why is his truck here?

Then we decided to just take a look, the surrounding area.

Could he be on foot? Could he be in the store?

Could he be nearby?

There was actually a path behind the gas station.

So the officers and one of the investigators

From st. Marys went to check out the path.

Not too far into the path, lo and behold,

There is a holster covered in blood.

But the gun is missing.

There's a few dollar bills bloodied on the ground.

There's a wallet, and then there's an id card.

And the id card belongs to david trauger.

♪ ♪

When we find david's belongings in the woods,

Everything shifts.

I'm literally, like, boots on the ground,

Going through the woods.

[suspenseful music]

I am hunting david

Like a predator going after its prey.

Is he gonna stay shallow in the woods?

What path is he gonna take?

♪ ♪

And we walked the woods,

Just searching, searching, searching,

Everywhere we could think that david might go.

Where would a 67, 68-year-old man go?

Would he get tired? Where might he rest?

And we searched the first night.

The next day starts, we search again.

And there's officers searching everywhere.

There's just people out helping.

And then the phone calls start coming in from the citizens.

[phone rings]

- Police get a call from a witness

Who says he's seen david trauger

Near the apartment complex where he was living.

[phone rings]

- "hey, there's a guy here.

"looks like the guy on the news.

He's an older gentleman."

We have our walkie-talkies

And we're deep in the middle of the woods,

As far away from our cars as possible.

And we're running back, racing to get to our cars.

♪ ♪

And by the time we get back to our car

And we get into the area,

The other law enforcement officers already have

A pretty decent perimeter set.

We were all holding our position at the perimeter.

♪ ♪

- David trauger comes out of the apartment building.

- When you box an animal into a corner,

What are they gonna do?

I can just feel my heart beat.

Something's about to happen.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- After an exhaustive search, authorities have located

Armed murder suspect david trauger

And have him surrounded at a local apartment complex.

[dramatic music]

- We're holding our position at the perimeter.

And you just have that sense of,

Something's gonna happen, and your heart's beating fast.

♪ ♪

- David trauger comes out of the apartment building.

♪ ♪

- He did pull out a pistol

And raised and pointed that pistol at law enforcement.

- You heard one gunshot... [gunshot]

Followed by a brief pause.

- David fired first.

That's all the georgia police needed

To unload on him.

[gunfire]

David was hit several times

And killed on the spot.

For good measure, they handcuffed him.

- That's it.

Manhunt's over.

If david wants to engage in suicide by cop or he wants

To do something reckless, that's david's choice.

I just want all the police officers to go home.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I found out that david had been

In a shoot-out with the police.

My uncle called me and said, they got him.

[sighs]

Kind of disappointed

That he died that way,

Because you can't get to tell him what he's done to you,

To tell him his victim impact statement.

- When we heard that it was suicide by cop,

It was such a relief to us.

- During the course of the day,

As everything was unfolding,

I was able to inventory the contents

Found in david's truck.

And I recovered, like, suicide notes inside of them.

There was documentation that he purchased a small boat,

As well as letters for where he wanted property to go.

- Police found evidence that indicated

That he was contemplating a suicide by cop scenario.

- I think david was losing control of his pride and joy,

Which was the "premium time,"

Along with his wife.

- I think this is where he starts to develop this plan

Of her end-of-life plan and his end-of-life plan.

[tense music]

The next day, I received a call

That david's small boat is actually found

In somebody else's backyard a little ways down the river,

And that it had been spray-painted black,

And that there were spray-painted black gas cans

And cinder blocks sitting inside of it.

♪ ♪

I think it shows his efficiency as a navigator

And his willingness to go to great lengths

To commit terrible things to karen.

We weren't there, and now we can't ask david,

We can't ask karen, and we can't ask larry.

But when I look back to the morning of August 13, 2012,

You can't help but try to piece together

What you think really happened.

♪ ♪

- Investigators believe david put his johnboat in the water.

A johnboat is a swamp boat

In florida and georgia and other parts of the south.

He put cinder blocks in the front of the boat,

And this is believed to have been a way of keeping the boat

From slapping as it was pushed through the water,

And thus drawing attention to it.

- Swamp boats are flat-bottomed watercraft

That are used to navigate marshy or shallow waters.

As they move, water hits the bottom of the vessel,

Creating a lapping sound.

It seems trauger knew cinder blocks would

Weigh down his boat,

Therein greatly reducing that noise.

- Police believe he piloted his johnboat

To where "premium time" was anchored.

They've got the doors locked,

But he manages to get in anyway.

When he gets in, they wake up.

They're at gunpoint.

[gunshots]

They're shot.

[gunshot rings]

♪ ♪

David spreads the gasoline around...

Lights it on fire.

- At some point, karen has her phone,

And she calls 911.

I think that phone call was her last hope,

And we just couldn't get there fast enough.

That's a very torturous death.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- This tragic case was ultimately solved

With the assistance of many heroic people.

The boat manufacturer armed detectives with details that

Helped classify the crime as a double homicide and arson,

And good old-fashioned police work quickly identified

David trauger as the likely perp.

Amazingly, interagency coordination

And an immediate response by the task force

Kicked off a manhunt that caught up

To the violent killer in just two days.

♪ ♪

- Larry ford is the most innocent in all of this.

He was really just trying to be a gentleman,

And he was able to help.

- Anybody would have helped karen,

And he was glad for the opportunity to help her.

They didn't deserve to die.

- What I want to say is,

For victims to trust their instincts,

And to know that a piece of paper,

An order for protection, is not going to protect you.

I wish there was more that could be done

For victims of stalking,

Especially in cases like karen's.

- A restraining order isn't gonna do anything.

This all should have been prevented,

If they'd have just found him

When all the stalking and everything was going on

And put him in jail.

We lost a really wonderful person.

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