1:24:17
I knew this girl in high school...
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...smart enough...
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...but she didn't really
come from anything.
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And to everyone's amazement,
the most popular boy liked her.
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State pole-vaulting champ.
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You'd watch him go over
that bar in the sunlight...
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...that golden body, it was like...
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...life just couldn't get
any more beautiful than that.
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And it didn't.
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She was 16 when she married him.
1:24:47
Seventeen when he knocked out
her upper bicuspid.
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Eighteen when she decided to leave.
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He put her in the hospital
with a serious concussion.
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A week later, when she got out...
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...she started packing,
and he was drunk.
1:25:02
He pointed his finger at her. He said,
"You try that again, I'll kill you. "
1:25:08
He took another drink...
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...and she headed for the door.
1:25:14
Why didn't she wait till he was out?
Left for work?
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She couldn't,
she had to go right then.
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- Why then?
- I don't know.
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It was because... .
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Because she... .
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It wasn't about getting away from him,
it was about standing up to him.
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Even if it killed her.
1:25:38
I guess so.
1:25:42
So he stabbed her 17 times
with a kitchen knife...
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...and dumped her body
on a country road.
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Yeah, ruined my favorite dress.
1:25:55
Carl Hudson.
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Cutest boy I ever saw...