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In South Carolina, two and a half years after a man was shot dead on a country road. A judge listens to witness testimony. Body cam video and 911 calls to figure out what happened. Hey, I've got a guy pulling a gun at me driving. In Date Line Roundup, closing arguments are said to begin at the murder trial of Michigan Farmer, Dale Warner.

And in Miami, the trial of the former college football player, accused of gunning down his team made 20 years ago, comes to a surprising end. The Patta family, they've been very emotional throughout the proceedings. They seem like they were in disbelief. Plus, it's a tool we see investigators use a lot to zero in on a suspect, photo line-ups.

A retired police chief tells us how it's done. Even subtle cues are in breeding, posture, tone of voice. Can influence the witnesses choice. Before all that, we're heading back to Utah. Where Cory Richens, the mom of three accused of fatally poisoning her husband,

came face-to-face with the prosecution star witness. Her former housekeeper. It's week two at the murder trial of Cory Richens, the woman who wrote a children's book about grief after her husband, Eric's mysterious death, only to be charged with his murder. Prosecutors say Cory Poison, Eric, in March 2022,

so that she could cash in on his life insurance and start life over with her lover. She says, "That's not true, and is pleaded not guilty." So far in the trial, we've heard from Eric's family members about the couple's relationship and the devastating impact of his death. Eric was one of the most likable people.

I'm sorry, guys. It's my life. Now prosecutors are telling the jury how they think Cory went about poisoning him, calling to the stand Cory's 54-year-old former housekeeper, Carmen Lobber, the person they say purchased the fentanyl that killed Eric.

Here to bring us the latest is date line producer Karen Israel. Thanks for coming back on the podcast, Karen. Thanks for having me.

“So let's get straight to this important testimony.”

Remind us why Carmen Lobber is such a key prosecution witness. Sure, so Eric's cause of death, according to the medical examiner, was a fentanyl overdose. The defense doesn't dispute that Eric died from a fentanyl overdose. They argue that Eric could have gotten it himself or accidentally ingested it. So the prosecutors need to be able to make the connection between Cory and the fentanyl.

Carmen does that for them. And it was big moment when Carmen took the stand. What was your impression of her? Did she see nervous? Did she look at Eric's family?

Because she's basically testifying about procuring and illegal drug that may have resulted in his death.

She stayed pretty calm and seemed confident, but she was also emotional at several points. And clearly seemed disturbed by the possibility that she may have played a role in Eric's death by producing the fentanyl. The investigators told you that Eric had died. I already knew Eric had passed away. But when they had mentioned that, it was from an overdose.

And that hit hard.

“Only the fact that that's what happened.”

I needed to step up and take accountability of my part in this. What happened? The prosecutor revealed right out of the gate that Carmen was testifying subject to an immunity agreement. Why do you think he did that? This was a way to deal head on with the defense saying that Carmen's testimony might be less credible because she was working with prosecutors.

Carmen had to testify truthfully to meet the terms of that agreement.

“So what did you learn about who Carmen was when this all happened?”

So Carmen told the jury about her long history of substance abuse on top of a criminal drug history. She testified that she's sober now and has been for some time. Cory Richens and to run the housekeeping business and Carmen used to work for her. She cleaned Cory's house about every other week for years. And she said she discussed her drug use with Cory.

Then she said in early 2022, the nature of their conversations changed. She reached out and asked if I could do her favor and I said, "Yeah, probably what is it?" And then she had called me and asked me if I could reach out to somebody for some pay meds for an investor that she knew. And I told her I could see what I could do. Carmen said she bought some opiate from a friend, but then Cory asked her for something stronger.

What then did you do? I had text Cory back and told her that I hadn't a friend that could get them, but they were fat not pills. How did Cory Richens respond? She said, "Okay, go ahead and go." She said she bought pills from a friend of a friend named Robert Crozier who was a drug dealer.

In Carmen testified that she got those pills to Cory a number of different ways. One time she handed her a bag of pills in person, another time she hid them at a property, Cory was flipping.

“Did she tell you what she wanted you to do with those?”

She responded back with taking them over to the Midway House, put them in a shed. I didn't feel comfortable leaving them in the shed out in the open. So I went to a fire pit and dug a little hole and put the gravel back on top of it and then kind of turned to the side to kind of cover it up. And then what do we know about the dates of these drug purchases for context? Eric Richens was found in almost four years ago exactly on March 4th, 2022.

Carmen couldn't give exact dates for any of the purchases, but the prosecutors showed the jury a Facebook message. Carmen sent to the person she said connected her to Robert Crozier the drug dealer. That was in February of 2022. And she testified about buying drugs for Cory a few days after Eric's death. So the drug buys are roughly the month around his death.

All right, then it was time for the defense. How did they attack Carmen's credibility as a witness? They kind of had a two-pronged approach. They went after her memory and her relationship with prosecutors. They said she'd regularly been using drugs at that time when she made these alleged purchases.

So her memory couldn't be trusted.

In fact, they pointed out that she told investigators herself when she was first talking to them that she couldn't remember stuff.

They're trying to help you pin down a date, but you just, you say I really, you told them all the times I really don't know. There was no on the ground. It really was an absolute correct on the dates now. The defense read snippets of Carmen's various interview transcripts to the jury. And pointed out that there were some inconsistencies between her testimony and what she initially told

investigators. That's right. Perhaps the biggest difference being that Carmen initially denied buying fentanyl for Cory. The defense suggested that the detectives were the ones to plant this idea that Carmen had bought fentanyl for Cory.

“The only pressure up to this point was put the word fentanyl in your head or these detectives correct?”

Ooh. This lover, you're on the stand. That point, they are the ones that told you it was fentanyl. They're the ones that put the word fentanyl in your head. They're the ones that told me that that's where I passed away from.

Okay. The defense also challenged Carmen on her immunity agreement. And you are willing to do whatever it takes to save yourself from getting kicked out of drug court and going to prison. Correct? I'm going to go forward with the truth, yes.

One of the next witnesses, the prosecution called was Robert Crozier the man. She says she purchased the fentanyl from for Cory. Give us the rundown of his testimony.

Something important to know about Crozier is that when he first spoke to investigators years ago,

he corroborated Carmen's story that he sold her fentanyl and signed an affidavit. But he is since recanted and said he didn't start selling fentanyl until late 2022, months after the alleged drug purchases. I'm curious how the prosecution handled that. They told the jury about his signed affidavit.

And they said, even if he didn't know he was selling fentanyl, other drugs can be laced with fentanyl without the user or dealer's knowledge.

We were sent a bag.

And you got that bag from your plug, right?

Correct. You did not get that bag from a pharmacy, correct? No, thank you.

“Did any other witnesses get your attention this week?”

We heard more about the state of Eric and Cory's marriage from the wife of Eric's former business partner, Allison Wright. She said that years before Eric's death in 2019, Cory told her they were having trouble. And she felt trapped because of their pre-nup tool agreement. We've also heard from a forensic accountant who was describing how deeply and debt Cory was

in the months leading up to Eric's death. All right.

Well, Karen, thanks for bringing us these updates.

It's great. Thanks, Lester. We have our own quick update for you about this trial on Wednesday after you know, and after I tape my conversation with Karen, the prosecution called Robert Josh Grossman to the stand.

“The man prosecutors say was Cory Richin's lover at the time of Eric's murder.”

And the man they say fueled her murder plot will tell you all about his testimony next week. Coming up, after a man was shot dead on a country road, no criminal charges were filed. Now, the man's sister is fighting to change that. [ Music ]

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Listen for free, starting Tuesday, March 10th, or subscribe to date line premium to unlock new episodes. [ Music ] For our next story, we're headed to a stretch of country road in South Carolina. Two and a half years ago, a 33-year-old man by the name of Scott Spivey was shot dead there.

[ Music ] The man who shot him, well-dened boyed and Kenneth Bradley Williams told police they were acting in self-defense and the state's top prosecutor believed them.

They have never faced criminal charges, but Spivey's sister Jennifer Foley refused to let it go.

[ Music ] And after filing a wrongful death stew, she uncovered phone calls, 911 calls, and other material, she says proof Spivey was killed in cold blood. And local police officers may have helped cover it up. At a recent four-day hearing, a civil court judge got to take a look at all that material.

Date line producer Carol Gable was there. Carol, good to have you. Thanks for being with us. >> Thanks, Lester. It's good to be here. >> So first off, tell us a little bit about the man Scott Spivey who was killed in all this. >> Well, he was 33 years old and insurance adjuster and apparently on September 9th,

he was at a local bar watching football and drinking for several hours, before getting behind the wheel of his Chevy Silverado. And witnesses saw him drive very radically down US Highway 9. Sometimes he would wave his gun out the window, sometimes according to some witnesses at them,

but most times just waving it in the air. >> I am on Highway number 9, there is a guy that is waiting to turn in front of me. He's all over the road and I have his license plate number. >> That's when he crossed paths with Weldon Boyd and his passenger Bradley Williams. >> And where were they coming from?

>> Well, they had been running errands all day. They were going up Highway 9 as well. >> Okay, so walk us through how this escalates. >> The clearest sort of window into Weldon's thinking is the 911 call, because he calls 911 and it leaves them on speakerphone.

The whole time this is happening. >> Hey, I've got a guy pulling a gun at me driving. >> And he's describing how Scott Spivey continues to wave in and out. In fact, at one point Scott Spivey drives Weldon Boyd off the road into the grass median.

and stop that he would put him down.

“>> Listen, this shit that may we're going to put him down.”

>> Sort of like you talk about putting a rabbit dog down. According to some witnesses, Weldon Boyd was behind Scott Spivey. And both of them were driving at rates of speed more than 100 miles an hour at times.

Finally, they come to an intersection of Camp Swamp Road.

So instead of moving forward to his destination, Weldon Boyd is still going after Scott Spivey. >> People were still calling 911, which is why we know what was happening. So Scott Spivey eventually comes to a stop at Camp Swamp Road in his black truck. Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams are on a white truck behind him. Take us through what happens next.

>> So by now, Scott Spivey has jumped out of his truck and he has a gun by several reports

“is down by his side and he's yelling stop following me.”

>> He told the guy, do not follow me anymore.

The guy in the white truck had his gun drawn pointed out and the guy in the black truck

kind of like move his pistol. >> And as he turns to go back to his truck, he shot in the back. >> Now, there is also testimony that Scott Spivey fired around that went into the dirt. But he climbs back into the cab of his car and he's mortally wounded. >> So let me ask you about the attorney general who declined to prosecute the men saying it was a clear

cut example of self-defense under the stand your ground lawn. Explain exactly what it allows you to do. >> What's danger ground in South Carolina is supposed to do is protect you and give you civil and criminal immunity.

“If someone is attacking you or threatening you with deadly force in a place you have a right to be.”

>> Scott's family didn't accept the standard ground explanation. >> They did not and chief among those would be Scott's sister Jennifer, very, very close siblings, you know, peas and a pod. So she decides to file a wrongful death suit against these two guys. She finds buried within the discovery more than 90 phone calls that Weldon Boyd had made.

>> How is it that all these recordings exist? >> Well, Weldon Boyd had a girlfriend and she got pregnant and they broke up. So he started trying to get custody. So he flipped a switch on his phone that meant all of his phone calls were recorded all the time. Because he thought he might catch her in some incriminating statement or something that would help in his case.

>> What did they reveal those phone calls? >> After the shooting, the kill Scott's baby. He says things like to his mother, I had a blast to someone else. I had a good time. >> So it didn't necessarily paint the picture of someone who is fearing for their life at that particular moment.

Some of these calls that raise eyebrows were ones that Boyd exchanged with local police officers.

>> Oh, yes, the first one when he calls his friend on the force who's, you know, a high person and says,

I just shot somebody. I had to shoot them and he's told, well, I got the wrong thing. I got the people coming to the agency. >> And then there's another moment in body camera tape.

When another officer walks up to weld him with a piece of paper, a pattern is hand that says act like a victim. >> After the calls became public, Boyd's friend on the police force resigned. Boyd was attorney told us he denies any wrongdoing and had nothing to do with the investigation into the shooting. And the police officer who wrote the message act like a victim was fired. The way the shooting was investigated is now under review by a grand jury and Carol, that's not all.

This seemed to shake loose how prosecutors were thinking about the criminal side of things. >> After this happened, the attorney general appointed a sort of special prosecutor to have another look at this case. >> So take us to the hearing that concluded just a few days ago. What was it about? >> It was significant because Jennifer's quest to sue Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams in civil court

So this was a four day hearing geared to a party of one because the judge was the one who had to make that decision.

>> This was the first time we heard Weldon Boyd tell his story under oath.

Let's take a listen to some of it. >> Do you think he has hurt that man? >> Well done, started his testimony sobbing and extraordinarily upset, but then he just stuck by his story that he didn't have a choice but to shoot Scott Spidey. >> So what did the judge decide?

>> He said he was basically stunned and shocked at Weldon Boyd's behavior that it didn't seem like standard ground at all. >> It's not relevant. It seems that driving over 100 miles an hour trying to keep up the god of the gun is foolish. I find that there's a bullet request for immunities to not.

>> The net net was Weldon Boyd can be sued civilly and there's a possibility that the judge decided about the other person who was in that vehicle, Mr. Williams. >> Well the judge wanted to take a little more time to make that decision and he has asked both sides the defense and the plaintiffs to submit briefs for him to look at.

“And I believe there's going to be due in the next week or so and then he will come back and make that decision.”

>> After the judge gave his ruling Jennifer spoke outside court, let's take a listen.

>> It's been a lot of news in the last two and a half years and this is the first year.

This is just a start on the road to try and get justice for him. >> Okay, fascinating case, Carol. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Coming up, it's time for date line roundup. We'll bring you the latest from the murder trial of former college football player Rashad Jones.

And the one time MLB pitcher Dan Seraphini convicted of shooting his in-laws finally learns his fate. Plus, the do's and don'ts of photo line apps are retired police chief shares his tips. >> Welcome back. Joining us for this week's roundup is date line field producer Alex Lorey. >> Hey, Alex.

>> Hey, Lester. >> First, we are going to head back to Miami floored it with the latest in the murder trial of Rashad Jones. The University of Miami football player accused of killing his fellow teammate Brian Patta. He's pleaded not guilty and Alex, you've been in Miami covering this one. And on Monday, there was huge news from inside the courtroom before we get to that.

Remind us where we left off in this case. >> Yeah, sure. We left off right as closing arguments were getting underway. The prosecutors told the jury that Rashad Jones killed Brian Patta out of envy and jealousy. They leaned hard on the videotape testimony of an eyewitness who identified Rashad from a photo line up as the person that he saw at the scene that night. As for the defense, they said there was just wasn't any evidence connecting Rashad to the crime.

The eyewitness wasn't even 100% sure of his ID.

“>> Deliberations began last Thursday on Monday the jurors sent a note to the judge. What did they say?”

>> Yeah, they said that they were deadlocked. The judge encouraged them to keep trying. But after another hour of deliberations, the jurors again said that they would not be able to render a verdict. And so the judge declared a mistrial. >> At this time, I will declare a mistrial in a home during. >> You were there in the courtroom for that moment? What was it like?

>> Yeah, so, you know, obviously the Patta family, they've been there every single day. They seemed like they were in disbelief outside of the courthouse after everything was over. Brian's brother Edwin spoke to the media and he said that he's convinced now more than ever that Jones is guilty. >> Let's listen to Edwin's interview with our affiliate NBC6 South Florida.

>> Like there are some things that I heard throughout this trial that I've never even heard of.

>> And that gave us more confident that he's the guy he's actually killed. >> And we're confident with that and we're going to stay with that. >> He knows that he did that. >> Alex, you were able to speak with one of the jurors afterwards.

“What insight did the juror give you into deliberations?”

>> Many of the jurors had questions about the eyewitness. And for this juror, the motive didn't really make sense. >> Did this juror share the breakdown of how the jurors were divided?

It was five to one to a quit.

“They went away over the weekend and returned Monday and the whole doctor wouldn't change their mind.”

And that's what led to the mistrial. >> And prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will retry the case against Rashad Jones. His retrial is scheduled to begin May 18th and of course we'll be watching it closely. >> Next up we're turning to a Michigan courthouse where a trial we've been watching closely is winding down. Dale Warner is charged with murdering his wife D in 2021 and concealing

her body inside a fertilizer tank on his Lena Wake County farm. He has pleaded not guilty. Alex, what's happening in court at this stage? >> A lot. The prosecution and the defense both had big moments. The prosecution took the jurors on a site visit.

So they didn't just hear about the Warner Farm they walked in.

Giving jurors a first-hand look at the property where a D's body was found.

And Alex the prosecution rested on Tuesday.

“So the jury also got to hear from some defense witnesses.”

What were the highlights there? >> The main witness that defense called was D's brother Greg Hardy. The defense challenged Greg about a text that he'd sent. You indicated that you have potential liability if the prosecutor is not successful in getting a conviction against Mr. Warner. >> Correct.

>> That's what the text says. >> And you wrote that text, right? >> I did. This was suggesting that this was suspicious behavior. And after that, the defense rested.

>> We'll have an update next week.

>> And finally, we're off to California where former Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Seraphini learned his faith this week.

He was found guilty back in July for the murder of his father-in-law Gary Spore and the attempted murder of his mother-in-law Wendy Wood. Alex first remind listeners about this case. >> Sure. So prosecutors say back in 2021 Seraphini ambushed his in-laws at their Lake Tahoe home shooting both of them. Prosecutors said Seraphini plotted to kill his in-laws over money so that he'd have access to a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

>> Seraphini made several attempts to win himself a new trial since he was convicted back in July. >> That's right. All those attempts, however, were denied by a judge and Seraphini sentencing move forward last Friday. >> The court hereby sentenced to use a life without the possibility of parole. >> Victim impact statements immediately followed Adrian Spore, the victim's daughter, had this to say about Dan Seraphini.

>> He is a monster that knows no more boundaries and has zero reservations about taking lives to benefit himself. >> She even asked the judge to put Seraphini in solitary confinement because she's afraid he will conspire with fellow inmates to have her killed. >> Then Seraphini himself got to say a few words. >> In this court, I was called heir of the NVIDIA and a lot of them. I accept my families, but I remember.

>> The judge wasn't too keen on what Seraphini had to say about himself. >> But I heard from you was all about you and not enough about the victims that died in this case. >> Some of the jurors who convicted Seraphini returned to court for his sentencing, they talked to our affiliate KCRA outside the courthouse.

“>> I think it's a moment for closure for all of us.”

We really wanted to be here in support of the family. >> It was a tragedy and these are real people realize and just to hear the devastation caused by these murders. >> It's awful. >> Well, Alex, so much from jurors this week, thanks for bringing us these updates. >> Thanks for having me, Lester.

>> For our final story this week, we're talking about something that got our attention while we've been covering the trial of Rashad Jones over the past few weeks. >> Photo lineups, as we just talked about and round up, the prosecution star witness was an eyewitness who picked Jones out of a photo lineup. >> But the defense had questions about his identification. >> It made us curious about how detectives conduct a photo lineup in the first place and the obstacles that exist to getting a solid ID. >> My next guest, Ken Wallen-Tine, is a retired chief of the West Jordan Utah police department with over four decades of experience in law enforcement.

>> Welcome to the show. >> Ken, great to have you with us. >> Thank you. >> Ken, we've all seen photo lineups done in movies and we've heard about them on certainly on date line episodes. But walk us through what the procedure is actually like in real life.

>> You know, the first thing in a photo lineup is we want to start out right. Typically, you'll see a minimum of six photographs.

Sometimes a few more, I hope, never less.

And typically, that's one suspect. One person we believe might be the perpetrator. And at least five, what we call fillers. In other words, people who are similar in appearance, not to the suspect.

We want the witness to be told, you know, the perpetrator may or may not be present in the photo lineup. We assure the witness that the investigation will continue regardless of their identification or inability to make an identification. We caution them not to look to the detective or whoever is administering the photo lineup for any guidance.

“And then one final thing in administering is the best practice today I believe is a blind administration.”

And what do I mean by that? It's a blind administration's where the photo ID lineup administrator doesn't know the suspect's identity. And the purpose of that is to eliminate either intentional or unconscious cueing because even subtle cues from the administrator and breathing, posture, tone of voice, can influence the witness's memory and also the witness's choice. You've been in law enforcement for four decades, a police chief for two of them.

How is the process of police lineups evolved over the years? Oh my gosh, so we go back to my family to 1869 in law enforcement. And when my grandfather was doing identification, they were still doing live lineups. We typically don't do those anymore. Photolineups became fairly popular in the late 1950s, the late 1960s when we started really collecting photographs,

mug shots, if you will, and making them available. In the 1960s, there was very limited training on how to administer, and I witnessed identification procedure that detective who was the investigator took the photographs, put him in front of people, might have even pointed to photographs as sure he moved along. And then when I became a cop in the late 1970s, really about the beginning of the 1980s, there was a scientific awakening. And so in the 80s and 90s, we moved from assuming memory works like a video recording to understanding that it's reconstructive and vulnerable to suggestions.

Finally, in the last even less than decade, we have seen courts and legislatures drive best practices as they're embedded into evidentiary rules and evidentiary laws.

What I'm hearing is that this is a useful technique, but one that has to be handled very carefully because of just human reaction and how we process information.

“So with that in mind, how common is it for police to use a photo line up?”

Well, you wouldn't see a photo line up used, for example, in a shoplifting and a convenience store, typically. Certainly in serious felony cases, aggravated assault, sexual assaults, people who may witness a homicide. In those kind of cases, it all stops or pulled all hands on deck, and we'll do everything we can to identify the perpetrator. And very often, if we have an eyewitness, that will involve a photographic line up procedure. All right, I was struck by this one figure, according to the National Institute of Justice, mistaken eyewitness identifications of played a role in 75% of wrongful convictions.

That's a pretty alarming high number. Can what could make an eyewitness pick the wrong person? One thing is that they don't have them and give them proper instructions, they go into the procedure believing, as the logical I think to believe, that one of those six people is the perpetrator. And they also feel like they have an obligation to identify someone. And last year, we all inflate our confidence in our memories.

And when you couple that with the pressure or the direction to identify a suspect, maybe you think it's your civic duty, maybe your anxious to see justice done for a crime that was perpetrated against you, that's a dangerous combination.

“Once a witness or victim has made an identification, how does that impact the investigation?”

Is there anything the police should or shouldn't do afterward? Really good detectors will consider that eyewitness identification, and then they will balance it with the other information that they have, and they will pursue any other leads they can. We don't want officers, we don't want investigators to be overconfident.

You know, eyewitness testimony can be powerful. It can also be vulnerable.

So I would hope last year that once a night identification is made, that's simply another brick in the wall, that's simply another step taken, but not conclusive and not a terminal point for the investigation. Can you be great on all this? Thanks so much for spending some time with us. Thank you.

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