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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S12 Ep63: Neighbors

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.57.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Throughout Season 12, we've established that Robert and Cristin could not have committed the Pinyon Pines murders. But if not them, WHO? Today Bob looks into a few more possibilities.
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0:00.0

From NBI Studio, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

0:15.9

I'm Bob Brown.

0:30.0

We've spent a year and a half examining the case against Robert Payt and Christian

0:37.4

Smith.

0:38.4

In my opinion, they have been ruled out as suspects in the murders of Becky and Vicki

0:42.4

Friedley and John Hayward.

0:45.8

Aside from all of the many problems with the state's case against them, their wrongful

0:49.7

convictions can be easily pointed out simply by looking at the earliest possible moment

0:54.4

when Becky's body could have been ignited by the killers on the scene, 9.46 pm, and

0:59.2

coupling that with the 10-23 pm voicemail check connected to Tower 88, sector 1, and the

1:04.6

extreme north end of the valley.

1:06.8

They simply could not be in two places at once.

1:10.6

The mental gymnastics one has to jump through to even make an argument that there is an

1:15.2

extreme, outside possibility that they could have pulled that drive off doesn't even

1:20.8

come close to a threshold that anyone should be comfortable with.

1:24.9

They left in a car that no one saw, as neighbors were converging on the crime scene.

1:29.8

The fire trucks must have somehow missed them as they passed each other.

1:33.8

17-year-old Christian, driving an Accura, with very little ground clearance, managed

1:38.3

to make that drive in a time that the 2016 investigators, the ones that are trained to

1:44.3

drive professionally, were never able to achieve in their multiple drive tests, and

1:49.0

took Bodmer nearly a dozen attempts to finally make it in almost enough time.

1:54.5

On a route that's been disproved by the cell phone records, and they would have had

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