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A few days after Colton Pitonyak and Laura Hall were found in Mexico, Laura is called in to pick up her impounded car's keys at the Austin Police headquarters. When she shows up, she's led to a small room to be questioned by the police. Detectives are trying to figure out what her involvement is in the crime. She waives her rights to having an attorney present during an eight-hour interrogation. Her version of what happened the morning Jennifer Cave was killed sets in motion another major trial, and her lawyer worries that Laura’s own words might be her downfall.</p>

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Episode 5: Obsession | The Orange Tree

What you're about to hear contains strong language, drug and alcohol abuse, and descriptions

of physical violence that are gruesome in nature.

Some listeners might find this distressing.

If that's you, please take caution as we navigate the story about the life and death of Jennifer

I can remember exactly what I told her, but I showed her Jennifer's body.

Took her down to the bathroom and showed her Jennifer's body.

I can't think of any other thing that happened.

There's no way I would have been on purpose.

We the jury haven't found the defendant, Colton Pataniac guilty of the offense of murder

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to The Drag.
0:09.1	What you're about to hear contains strong language, drug and alcohol abuse, and descriptions
0:14.3	of physical violence that are gruesome in nature.
0:17.7	Some listeners might find this distressing.
0:20.1	If that's you, please take caution as we navigate the story about the life and death of Jennifer
0:24.8	Cave.
0:26.8	You're obviously on the orange tree.
0:30.3	I can remember exactly what I told her, but I showed her Jennifer's body.
0:36.1	Took her down to the bathroom and showed her Jennifer's body.
0:39.0	Yes, sir.
0:40.0	What did she say?
0:42.0	She just said, what are we going to do?
0:47.3	Who killed her?
0:49.3	I did.
0:50.3	How can you be certain?
0:52.3	I can't think of any other thing that happened.
0:55.3	Why would you have ever killed Jennifer?
0:57.3	I don't know.
0:58.3	There's no way I would have been on purpose.
1:02.4	We the jury haven't found the defendant, Colton Pataniac guilty of the offense of murder
1:06.1	as alleged in the indictment.
1:08.2	The jury sentences Colton to 55 years.
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Episode 5: Obsession | The Orange Tree

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