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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff. Real Crime Stories. I'm |
| 0:09.5 | your host, the tied NYPD sergeant, Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. |
| 0:15.9 | You know, we're hearing now about the Koeberger plea deal. And specifically, we're hearing from prosecutor Bill Thompson, |
| 0:27.6 | who seemed to avoid interviews in the press. Well, we've got to remember there was the |
| 0:33.0 | gag order, but even after it was lifted, he didn't seem to be one that wanted to be in the public eye. |
| 0:40.2 | He didn't seem to be the person in my mind that really wanted to go after this case from a death |
| 0:48.6 | penalty perspective. It seemed to me like he was okay with taking the plea. |
| 0:57.2 | And there are many, many aspects to that. |
| 0:59.9 | And I don't, I've said on this show numerous times, |
| 1:03.1 | I don't think it was really the wrong decision to take the plea. |
| 1:08.8 | I do, however, believe that they could have gotten more back for the plea. |
| 1:14.4 | In essence, they were in the driver's seat. |
| 1:17.4 | They were running that ship. |
| 1:19.3 | They would dictate the terms of this plea. |
| 1:22.5 | Yet they got very little from the plea other than, well, they got a plea. |
| 1:27.5 | They got four first- the plea other than, well, they got a plea. They got four first degree murder pleas, one at a time, for four lives that was snuffed out. |
| 1:35.8 | But they got nothing in regards to information. |
| 1:40.8 | They got nothing in regards to how. |
| 1:43.5 | They got nothing in regards to why. They got nothing in regards to why. |
| 1:46.8 | They got nothing in regards to where is the evidence? |
| 1:51.3 | Where is the K-Baw knife? |
| 1:54.5 | Where is the clothing you wore that night? |
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