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Hay Township is a remote area.
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We have quite a few cabins that
are seasonal.
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It was a requirement
for Cindy
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to live in the middle
of nowhere.
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And she liked that about
being in the cabin.
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It was just the two of them
up there.
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It's a very isolated area.
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Nobody would see a thing
or hear a thing.
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There was a freshly dug hole.
There was a can of gas.
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So in my mind,
his intention would have been
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to kill her, burn her,
bury her, and try to obliterate
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or destroy any evidence.
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She was not going to die
in the cabin.
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She was not going to let that
be the end of her story.
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On Saturday the 19th, I was in
the area patrolling...
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when Central Dispatch contacted
me by radio by radio
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and advised that a woman had
been shot in the head
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two times.
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They said the person that shot
the victim, Cynthia Hartman,
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was currently driving around.
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And he was in
a silver-in-color trailblazer.
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We located the suspect
traveling down the road.
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That's when I initiated
a traffic stop.
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My sister, Cindy, was
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like, fearless.
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You just, you could not
stop her.
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She was a fun person to
be around.
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She was excited.
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She would never say no to
anything, you know?
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Let's go canoeing.
All right, what day?
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She was always adventurous.
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I'm the oldest.
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Tricia is the next.
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She is two years younger
than me.
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Cindy would be next.
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She is three years younger
than Tricia.
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and then Darcy is the baby.
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Growing up wasn't easy for any
of us, that's for sure.
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It was always
a fear of violence.
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We had food, we had a roof.
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But it was not
a good childhood.
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She met her husband through
a friend, and they hit it
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off, and then they ended up
getting married,
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and she got pregnant young.
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Cindy had three children.
Her boys were her whole world.
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Cindy was her kids' hero.
Cindy was...
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...a great mom.
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Cindy was 33, and her
three boys were in school,
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and she decided to go
to college.
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And her husband didn't want
her to go to college.
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Her relationship with
her husband was tenuous.
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He wasn't encouraging her to
follow her dream.
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She said he was being
too controlling.
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So she decided to leave
her husband,
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because it wasn't working.
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Her kids were staying with
their dad at the time.
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She was trying to actively get
a good future going for her
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and for her kids.
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Things were starting to turn
around, starting to look up.
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Cindy seemed very happy.
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She was in school studying to
be a mortician.
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In October 2012, she told me
she met a man named
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Shaun Cleary.
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She needed help with math,
and Shaun was her math tutor.
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He seemed really friendly
and kind, and she wanted to
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pursue a relationship with him.
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She just seemed to really care
about him.
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He had taken a lot of interest
in her hobbies and stuff
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and things that she did.
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He said he was in the Army
for four years.
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I was in the Army.
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I was like, cool,
you should ask him what job
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he had or where he was.
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Apparently, they hit it off,
and were spending
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a lot of time together.
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Cynthia had been staying with
Shaun Cleary for a couple months
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at his dad's cabin in
Hay Township.
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Hay Township is a remote area.
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We have several lakes
and rivers.
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There are quite a few cabins
that are seasonal.
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The winters are quite cold here,
and the vast majority of
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the time in the winter,
those cabins are vacant.
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That area is surrounded
by miles of forest.
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There's not a lot of close
neighbors around the cabin.
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Cynthia loved living
in the woods.
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She loved living in northern
Michigan at the cabin.
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She loved being
outdoors, the quiet.
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It was a requirement
for Cindy
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to live in the middle
of nowhere.
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She would say, "I don't want to
live where I can hear traffic.
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"I don't want to live where
there's people coming in
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and out of the building
next to me."
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And I knew she liked that about
just being in the cabin.
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It was just the two of them
up there.
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As she started getting closer
to him, she started feeling
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like she was giving more
information than he was.
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It was
a one-sided relationship,
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and I think she realized
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whatever it is,
something's off.
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She wasn't sure about
continuing to date him.
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That morning, Shaun Cleary left
for work around 3:45
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in the morning.
He was a sawmill operator.
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They were texting back
and forth about whether
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they were going to continue
this relationship.
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Shaun Cleary texted that
she should probably get back
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together with her husband.
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She was definitely distraught
over this argument.
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She just wanted to clear
her mind and figure out what
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she was going to do.
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She already was going to
her friend's house to babysit,
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so she decided to stay there
a few days.
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She started to pack all
her belongings into her vehicle
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without telling Shaun.
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But he came back early.
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Instead of going to his place
of employment, he returned back
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to the cabin to speak
to Cynthia.
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Shaun Cleary observed all
her stuff she had packed in
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her vehicle, which upset him.
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He convinced her when she was
trying to leave, to stay.
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They go inside the cabin.
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He said, "I want to give you
a letter that I wrote that
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"expresses how I feel
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you know, about you
and about us."
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And she's always
willing to listen.
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He said, "Can you go back
in the bedroom?"
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When Shaun Cleary came walking
into the bedroom, instead of
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having a letter in his hand,
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he had a rifle.
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Shaun said to Cynthia,
"Nobody leaves me."
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When Shaun pointed the gun at
her, just the sheer
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fear that she must have been
going through, the disbelief.
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Had never done anything like
this to her before.
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They'd have arguments,
just like any couple would
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have an argument.
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But they never got violent,
never physical.
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Cynthia had no idea
of his past.
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She didn't realize how much
danger she was in.
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She didn't know about
Penny Doane.
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Shaun Cleary was
19 years old at the time.
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He and Penny Doane had been
dating for two years and were
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engaged for about a year.
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But in her mind,
things weren't working out.
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She wasn't happy.
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The relationship was failing,
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and Penny was honest
with Shaun about that.
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October 8, 2000,
it was a Sunday morning.
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They'd been arguing,
and Penny told Shaun that
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it was over.
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Shaun was crying,
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and he was very upset
about the breakup.
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He wanted to go for a walk with
her and discuss the matter.
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And of course, she wanted to
appease him.
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She believed she owes him at
least a conversation.
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Shaun told Penny, "If I can't
have you, nobody will have you."
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Shaun snaps
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and attacks Penny.
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He stabbed her in the chest.
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There's a shed
that's back in the woods,
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and he locks
her inside the shed.
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This was kind of a sustained
assault, a sustained captivity.
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This occurred over hours.
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Penny really believed
she was going to die.
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Eventually she thought
she heard a truck leaving,
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thinking it might be
Shaun leaving.
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She seized that opportunity.
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She mustered what little
strength she had left,
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and she was able to get out.
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It's a miracle
that she survived.
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After I arrived on the scene,
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I recall there was a freshly
dug hole next to the shed.
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There was a can of gas that
I remember seeing.
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So in my mind, from what I saw,
his intention would have been
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to kill her, burn her,
bury her, and try to obliterate
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or destroy any evidence.
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Those things kind of burn
into your memory.
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They're kind of seared in
your mind, just like the name,
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like Shaun Cleary.
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He met Cynthia a year after
he got out of prison.
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He was lying about just being
in the military.
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He was really in jail during
that period.
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For most people,
you would think that would give
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them an opportunity to reflect,
possibly get rehabilitated,
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but not Shaun.
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He came back out and just
settled right back into what
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he'd done before.
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Picked another girl,
another relationship,
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and when things didn't go
his way, he turned to violence.
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With Penny, he did tell
her that if he had had a gun,
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it would have
been much easier.
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It would appear that he did
take his own advice and obtain
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a gun to use for the next
situation he ran into with
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a woman that wanted to
break up with him.
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After she was shot,
Cynthia thought she had died.
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And it came to her almost as
like a realization that she was
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getting onto her feet.
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She didn't have a chance with
him having a gun
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to be able to defend herself.
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He pulled the trigger and shot
her again in the head.
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Amazingly, she was still alive,
and it kind of stunned her.
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She's in shock.
She's upset.
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She's trying to get away.
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Some people give up.
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Cynthia Hartman didn't give up.
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But Shaun is larger.
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He's stronger.
She's injured.
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Shaun pressed the gun against
her forehead
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while she just sat there, begging.
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She was bleeding from her head.
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It was running down her face
into her eyes.
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Cynthia told Shaun that
she needed to go
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to the hospital.
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She was afraid that
she was going to die from
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the gunshot wounds.
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Shaun did not take
her to the hospital.
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Instead, he said,
"Put your hands together
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as if you're praying."
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That's when he duct taped
her two hands together.
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She was begging him
and pleading for her life.
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And then he kept telling her
to be quiet
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and stop talking,
stop talking.
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And she continued,
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even though he was
threatening her with a gun.
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It's not like a neighborhood
or in the suburbs where there's
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house after house after house.
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Unless you're right there at
that property, you might not
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hear somebody scream.
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And you might not think that
much of it if you did.
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When Cynthia tried to scream,
Shaun began to wrap duct tape
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around her head,
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starting at the top
and working the way down.
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So not only is she shot,
not only is she bleeding,
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not only is she scared beyond
belief, but now he's
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potentially going to cut off
her air supply by wrapping
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her head up in duct tape.
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Cindy thought that Shaun was
trying to suffocate her.
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She thought
she would suffocate to death.
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And immediately, of course,
you try and clear the duct tape
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off, but her hands were duct
taped together,
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so that didn't work.
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And she could barely
take in any air.
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She realized that she had to
calm her breathing down in
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order to survive this.
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Once she stopped struggling,
he removed the tape from
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her face, at least her mouth,
where she could breathe.
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And then she said,
"I bet you'll be quiet now."
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If you continue to scream,
Cynthia, at least in her mind,
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would believe she's committing
her own death sentence.
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So she stopped.
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Shawn left most of the tape on
her face, just where she could
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breathe but could barely see.
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It was hard to distinguish
between hours and days.
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But it was quite a long time
where she just laid on
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the floor quietly while Shaun
paced through the residence.
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She thought she would die from
bleeding out.
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I can only imagine it felt like
you want it to end,
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but you don't want to die.
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And those are conflicting
thoughts when someone's
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got you captive.
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After a while,
Shawn Cleary returned
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with some kind of capsules.
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Once Shawn walked away,
she didn't swallow any of
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the capsules because she was
unsure what they were.
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She spit them out, but some of
them actually stuck to the duct
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tape that was on her face.
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When Shawn returned,
he observed the pills that were
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attached to the duct tape
and asked why
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she didn't take it.
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Cynthia basically told him that
he gave her too many,
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that she was unable to swallow.
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That upset him,
that she did not
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take the medication that
he gave her.
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She laid there for several more
hours, just in the darkness,
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waiting, trying to figure out
what is going on.
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Cindy was stronger than
Shaun, internally.
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Had a lot more willpower,
a lot more drive.
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And I think that that was part
of it, is just thinking this is
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up to me to get out, to still
be alive, to beat him.
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Cindy was in survival mode,
just thinking,
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how do I get back to my boys?
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She was not going to die there
in the cabin.
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She was not going to let him
kill her and be the end
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of her story.
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Eventually, Shaun Cleary comes
in the room,
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picks her up, says,
"Time to go for a ride."
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She had no idea where
he was taking her
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or what was going on.
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They drove only a short
distance, and she could discern
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kind of where they were.
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He said, "Get out of the car,"
and she's trying to hop
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down a hill.
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She's falling down.
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She realized that due to
the incline, she was going
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towards the river.
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As he is leading her down from
the roadway, down
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closer to the water,
he said, "This all has to end."
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And at some point,
she decides, I'm not going to
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go like a lamb to slaughter.
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She's already been assaulted.
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She's already been shot,
not once, but twice.
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But now he's trying to
drown her.
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That's when she decided to just
stop and drop all her weight.
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After a few minutes, Shaun said,
"You must have a guardian angel
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because I'm unable to kill you."
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He still loved her.
In his own way, he loved her.
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It's hard to understand that,
but that's the only thing that
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makes any sense,
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especially if he'd plan to
throw her in the water,
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because it's a very
isolated area.
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Nobody would see a thing
or hear a thing.
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I think that's when it changed
in her head, and she's like,
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oh, my life is still in
my hands.
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And she's planning to do
something about it.
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Cynthia Hartman is able to
at least temporarily stall
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his plan to kill her,
and they end up back
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at the cabin.
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That point in time,
his attitude did change.
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Shaun still kept her bound,
at her ankles and her wrists.
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But he did remove the tape
from her face.
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She ends up building rapport,
sort of winning him
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over every now and then.
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He started to take care of her.
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He was allowing her to eat
or drink at this point in time.
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And then he would also provide
her with Tylenol.
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Shaun tried to tend to
her wounds and help
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clean her up.
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She was shot with a .22 short.
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So normally, people would use
that to shoot like a squirrel
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or a rabbit or some
small mammal,
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which is probably why
she didn't die.
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And then in other times,
his demeanor and disposition
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would change to frightening.
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It seems as though his anger
waxes and wanes, like he can
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almost be nice
and then he's not,
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just very unstable.
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That must have been
very tormenting for her.
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And this goes on not just for
minutes or hours, but this goes
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on for days.
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At different points in time,
she would take the rifle
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and put it on her body and say,
"Do you want me to
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"shoot you there?
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How about here?
How about here?"
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These aren't idle threats.
She already knows he's violent.
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She already knows the trauma
that's been done to her.
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At any point,
her life could end.
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I'm sure that would play
through your mind
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over and over.
This is how I'm going to die.
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Is anybody going to find me?
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Are they going to know
how I died?
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We had no idea anything
was going on.
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I hadn't heard from her in
a little while.
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And I texted her, and I said,
"Hey, are you doing OK?
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What's going on?
I haven't heard from you."
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She texted back, and she said,
"Yeah, I'm fine."
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But it just seemed a little
weird because she didn't
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elaborate, and she wouldn't
reply to any more texts.
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And it turned out that
that was him.
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That was Shaun replying with
her phone to my text message.
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The way he was manipulating,
making her believe at any
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moment that
she was going to die,
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and then prolonging that,
it's like if you ever
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watched a cat
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with a mouse or a shrew,
they'll catch it.
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The mouse is not likely to
escape, but the cat won't
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kill it.
It'll bat it.
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It'll play with it.
It'll taunt it.
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It'll let it crawl
a little ways.
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Then it'll drag it back.
Shaun is like that cat.
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He's just taunting her,
keeping her alive,
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controlling the situation.
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She had to have kept
a cool head.
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She didn't ever test him.
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She always just
pleaded and begged.
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And I think that's what filled
his ego enough to
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keep her alive.
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She knew what she had to do
because of
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our abusive childhood.
She's been trained
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to deal with a person that one
minute is very loving and kind,
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and the next minute
will beat you into submission.
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Cindy used those childhood
experiences
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in order to stay alive.
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Shaun Cleary grabbed the gun
and placed the barrel against
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his chest and ordered Cynthia
Hartman to pull the trigger.
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Cynthia was scared.
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She didn't know if
the gun was loaded.
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She was afraid this
was a trick.
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I mean, it didn't kill her,
so who's to say
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it would kill him?
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And she refused to
pull the trigger.
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At this point,
she realized, like, he's either
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too much of a coward to do what
he wanted to do, or this is
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just going to keep going.
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Nobody's going to come
and save her.
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It's not a movie.
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She was the one that was going
to have to pull through this.
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She was the one that was going
to have to save herself.
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At that point, he's already
done so many horrible things.
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She's already desperate.
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She knew that if she was not
going to escape this residence,
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he was eventually going to
kill her.
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He's going to go in to
take a shower.
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She pleads with him,
"Please don't tape my hands up."
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So he doesn't restrain her as
much as he had before.
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She had angled her foot just
slightly to where when he taped
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her ankles, there was enough
gap for her to slide
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her foot out.
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He threatened her and said,
"Don't get rabbit
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in your blood," to try to
convince her not to run.
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And he took the gun with him
when he went to the shower.
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After five days of torture,
it was her moment to get out.
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She waited until she heard
the shower curtain close
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and the water turn on.
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She knows as soon as she starts
to unlock that deadbolt,
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it's going to make that click.
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And Shaun's probably
gonna hear it.
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But at this point,
she doesn't have a choice.
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She ran out and never
looked back.
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She runs outside, and she can
hear Shaun coming.
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There's not a large population
in that geographic area during
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that time of the year.
She has no idea
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if somebody will notice her,
somebody will help her.
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She was good at hiding,
especially out in the woods.
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She ran to a neighbor's
barefoot, and she saw something
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that had a tarp over it.
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Cynthia Hartman was terrified
that Shaun Cleary
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was going to find her.
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She didn't know if Shaun had
the rifle with him.
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She just stayed quiet,
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and she played
the waiting game.
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It was just a nightmare,
a living nightmare.
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And this is far from over.
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While Cynthia Hartman was
hiding at that neighbor's
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house, she could hear two
gentlemen talking
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inside the cabin,
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but she was afraid to make
contact with them.
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She didn't feel safe
at the moment.
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00:32:23,620 --> 00:32:26,827
Eventually, she could hear
Shaun Cleary's car leave
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the dirt road that
they lived on,
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and she knew he was driving
the other way.
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00:32:38,586 --> 00:32:41,689
Cynthia Hartman then made
contact with the gentleman that
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lives at that residence.
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He was able to call 911 to get
her some help.
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I was about a mile and a half
away when the initial
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call came in.
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Within two or three minutes,
I was able to locate
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the suspect vehicle
and identify the driver as
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Shaun Michael Cleary.
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Shaun Cleary initially denied
all allegations.
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And then while I was trying to
figure out exactly what was
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00:33:33,517 --> 00:33:38,448
happening, radio traffic from
my 911 dispatcher came in.
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He overheard the radio
communications,
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00:33:46,965 --> 00:33:48,896
and he immediately bowed
his head.
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And then one of the other
police officers approached me
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during my interview and told me
that Cynthia Hartman identified
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Shaun Cleary as the person
responsible for shooting her.
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At that time, Shaun was placed
in the back of a patrol car
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and taken to jail.
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At that point, I began aiding
Sergeant Townsend
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and securing the scene.
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Inside the cabin, I observed
there was some blood spatter
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on the wall that would be
consistent with Ms. Hartman's
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statement that she was shot.
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00:34:44,206 --> 00:34:49,413
We also recovered some pieces
of duct tape
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that would have presumably been
used to restrain Ms. Hartman.
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Once we had Shaun Cleary in
custody, Cynthia was able to go
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to the hospital.
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00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,241
She did have to have further
medical treatment.
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00:35:06,241 --> 00:35:08,482
The bullets were removed.
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At least the majority
was removed.
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Some of the fragments remain
in her skull.
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Cynthia was quite distraught
at the hospital.
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She was not sure what was even
happening to her.
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The next day, I sat down
and interviewed Shaun Cleary in
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reference to the allegations.
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During the interview, I noticed
the complete lack of empathy.
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I'm not sure why
Shaun came clean,
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00:37:07,827 --> 00:37:10,413
I don't think it's
because he felt bad.
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00:37:10,413 --> 00:37:12,827
I think he just knew
that he was caught.
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In January of 2014, Shaun Cleary
pled "no contest"
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to assault with attempt to
commit murder.
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Cynthia Hartman was able to
write down
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quite a great
impact statement.
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She read it at the sentencing.
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Cynthia talked about the ways
that those days in the cabin
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changed her entire life.
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Everything from when she could
see her own sons to how
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she took care of herself.
487
00:37:49,620 --> 00:37:55,172
She had health issues
and she had PTSD.
488
00:37:56,482 --> 00:38:00,620
Shaun Cleary was sentenced to
between 30 and 65 years,
489
00:38:00,620 --> 00:38:02,517
and he was 32 at the time.
490
00:38:05,172 --> 00:38:08,862
He turned to Cynthia before
he left the court and said,
491
00:38:08,862 --> 00:38:10,103
"I'll see you soon."
492
00:38:11,241 --> 00:38:14,413
It's just absolutely sinister.
493
00:38:15,724 --> 00:38:16,827
And all this time,
494
00:38:16,827 --> 00:38:18,758
Shaun is
writing her letters from
495
00:38:18,758 --> 00:38:20,172
jail or prison,
496
00:38:21,344 --> 00:38:23,103
and contacting her.
497
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
They were crazy ramblings.
498
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,206
He'd go from,
"It's not your fault" to,
499
00:38:30,206 --> 00:38:31,724
"I can't believe you made me
do that."
500
00:38:31,724 --> 00:38:35,724
And then back to,
"It's not even my fault."
501
00:38:35,724 --> 00:38:39,000
It was just someone grasping
at straws.
502
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:46,448
She just wasn't the same person
after that.
503
00:38:46,448 --> 00:38:48,379
She was so scared.
504
00:38:56,586 --> 00:38:58,758
I don't think she ever made it
out of the cabin.
505
00:38:58,758 --> 00:39:01,793
The fearlessness was gone.
The bravery...
506
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,448
was gone.
507
00:39:06,724 --> 00:39:11,931
She was on several different
drugs for the pain, and she was
508
00:39:11,931 --> 00:39:13,931
on different antidepressants.
509
00:39:16,655 --> 00:39:19,551
I felt really helpless for her.
510
00:39:19,551 --> 00:39:22,068
It was like everything was
against her.
511
00:39:27,655 --> 00:39:31,413
I got a call from my mom,
and she could barely get
512
00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:33,931
the words out, said that
Cindy's dead.
513
00:39:33,931 --> 00:39:37,620
And I remember feeling
completely crushed by
514
00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:42,758
the grief, like it was so
difficult that I thought it
515
00:39:42,758 --> 00:39:44,241
could kill me.
516
00:39:45,275 --> 00:39:51,137
The coroner's report was that
she died from a lethal mixture
517
00:39:51,137 --> 00:39:52,965
of prescription medications.
518
00:39:55,344 --> 00:39:59,068
I don't necessarily know that
it was an accident.
519
00:39:59,068 --> 00:40:02,379
Part of me hopes and wishes
and wants it to be an accident,
520
00:40:02,379 --> 00:40:04,068
but part of me knows
521
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
that she was tired.
522
00:40:09,551 --> 00:40:12,000
A human can only fight
for so long.
523
00:40:15,068 --> 00:40:17,482
100% Shaun Cleary
killed my sister.
524
00:40:17,482 --> 00:40:22,586
He didn't kill her physically,
he killed her spirit.
525
00:40:22,586 --> 00:40:26,517
And then four years
later, she died.
526
00:40:26,517 --> 00:40:31,310
I will make sure that he spends
his entire life in prison.
527
00:40:31,310 --> 00:40:32,862
There will be no doubt.
528
00:40:34,896 --> 00:40:38,758
I think he's a very dangerous
man that should never see
529
00:40:38,758 --> 00:40:41,689
the light of day
on the outside.
530
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:46,931
He has something wrong with him
in his brain that makes him
531
00:40:46,931 --> 00:40:48,586
pure evil.
532
00:40:49,758 --> 00:40:51,793
He took my sister away.
533
00:40:55,896 --> 00:40:57,448
He took my best friend.
534
00:41:01,103 --> 00:41:02,172
She was witty.
535
00:41:03,758 --> 00:41:07,551
She was fun, but mostly
I just really miss her.
536
00:41:09,793 --> 00:41:11,241
Every day I think about her.
537
00:41:11,241 --> 00:41:13,206
It was just
my sister, you know?
538
00:41:13,206 --> 00:41:14,793
I couldn't believe it
for years.
539
00:41:14,793 --> 00:41:17,862
It still doesn't feel right.
540
00:41:19,724 --> 00:41:21,379
I'm very proud of her,
541
00:41:26,931 --> 00:41:30,068
but I just wish she were here
to tell her that.
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