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Previously, on criminal conduct.

It was just dropped from the get-go.

I mean, you hear the word suicide and everybody's

throwing it around because Jeremy's yelling suicide. So what? We're just going to take you

the word for it? Ten years later Michelle's friends and family are struggling to let go.

I just want to be able to prove that he did it and you know why why can't we go to court why?

You're so innocent and you didn't do it prove it.

Now if the perpetrator is a police officer, the chances reduced dramatically of the victim calling for help because too often people think that, you know, the law enforcement family, it's a family and therefore nothing's going to happen and the victim won't be believed.

And just last year, Eli Washthock was close to wrapping up his investigation before someone murdered him.

Yeah, I'm feeling some shit to happen, so you got your kid living in the condo below you, like, why the hell, once you just packed your shit and came back up to Wisconsin.

Or even that, said, a kid, you gotta go skate with your mom for a little while.

Shits getting hairy around here, I don't know what's going to happen. After Eli was

he was shot's murder, the media reported that he was having his son live in a separate condo

downstairs because he feared for his safety.

But when we spoke with Eli's friends and family,

they had no idea he was taking these kinds of precautions.

So much of what the media initially reported

turned out to be wrong. So did Eli actually rent a condo

downstairs or did he just let his son stay at a friend's house? Or maybe Eli

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