Episode 10

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Any untimely death is a tragedy, but when the victim is young, beautiful, and an all-around wonderful person, the whole thing seems to be much worse. Unfortunately, there are two high-profile cases in the news this week that fit this too-familiar mold. We walk you through the backstory of both of them, told by those who knew the victims best. We also speak to high profile crime experts Levi Page, host of The Levi Page Show and frequents HLN contributor and Cathy Russon from CourtChatter.com. The first case is that of nursing student Holly Bobo, who was abducted from her home in 2011. The case made national headlines and the inspirational tale of how an entire town rallied around the search for Holly is truly inspirational. This three-year-old case had started to grow stale, until shocking news this week which suggest the perpetrator was someone that everyone in the community knew, including Holly. Next we travel to the crime-laden land of South Africa, which is hosting a murder trial which has the entire world captivated. It is that of Oscar Pistorius, who shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home on Valentines Day last year. According to Pistorius, he thought she was an intruder and he thought a home invasion was occurring when he shot Steenkamp, but his behavior leading up to the incident and the testimony of ear-witnesses who heard the incident that night tell a different story.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sword and Scale episode 10, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:17.0	This week, we have coverage of two high-profile cases. In both cases, the victims were young,
0:24.2	blonde, and beautiful. We'll tell you their stories and their road to justice coming up. Approxed around 7.30 at this date, we received a call, Swan Johnson Road, a young lady there that had been adopted supposedly.
1:03.0	We went to the scene immediately. We've tracking down every lead that we've got we've called in different agencies we've
1:11.1	had tracking dogs we've had helicopters everything that we could get we've had
1:15.5	here looking for the young lady there as of this time there hasn't anything
1:19.9	turned up new anything that we know we don't know about the suspect we don't
1:25.8	know whom that it might be we don't know whether it's an enemy or a foe we don't know about the suspect. We don't know whom that it might be. We don't know whether it's an enemy or a foe. We don't know at this time
1:31.3	Until we get things together, then we're still doing our
1:35.7	preliminary investigations at this time and
1:38.6	We've got captain of the Highway Patrol Lake District here. His helicopters been in the air flying
1:46.0	What exactly saw this young woman take? There was a neighbor that lives just up the road there from the house and didn't see it but heard the screams of the young lady
1:53.0	as she was leaving the house.
1:55.0	This seems like a huge investigation. I mean, I've never been to just an abduction and seen, you know, TBI, FBI and all.
2:01.9	Is it something else behind this? I mean, has something else like this happened? Or why just all
2:06.9	the influx of so many law enforcement on it? We're not sure at this time. We're taking every
2:11.7	precaution that we know to take at this time, whatever it might be. Then that's what we're,
2:17.4	that's what we're trying to prepare for.
2:19.5	On April 13, 2011, a young woman named Holly Bobo disappeared from her family home in Decatur
2:25.6	County, Tennessee.
2:27.1	The initial search area that we was looking at was approximately a five-mile square.
2:33.2	That was our initial search.
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