Explore the chilling world of crime with Robin Bagayoko on In Time Crime, as she recounts unforgettable stories of heinous acts committed on November 22, 1999. In this episode, hear about Afif Hazim, a Syrian immigrant whose life was tragically cut short by an off-duty police official. The question of what makes a promising teenager like Damien Purrier crossover to the dark side also adds to the underlying mystery.
Another shocking case dissected in this episode is that of Precious Bedell. Following her conviction for the brutal murder of her own daughter, LaShonda, Bedell witnesses a surprising twist in her own fate. After years of exemplary conduct and visible growth inside prison, Bedell's release from prison sparked a series of discussions on justice and the concept of second chances.
Listen as Robin narrates these heartrending stories with fierce emotion and an unwavering commitment to truth. This episode also underscores the critical importance of vigilance and empathy, as we navigate through a world where crime can lurk in the most unexpected of places.
As the episode concludes, a tribute is paid to baby LaShonda and all other children stuck in similarly perilous situations. This profound episode acts as a humbling reminder of the atrocities that continue to surface in the world, calling for a collective effort to remain vigilant and protect those around us.
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Music.
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Welcome back to another episode of In Time Crime.
I am your host, Robin Bagayoko.
Today, I'm going to begin by making a couple of announcements.
Before I do that, let me just say, how are you guys doing?
I'm posting this very late on a Sunday. It's either going to be posting on a Sunday or a Monday.
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Because I've been, you know, dealing with a couple of things.
You know life happens you know life
be lifing but um yes basically
happy birthday to everybody that has a birthday this week what is this this
is mark this is april now but we're still for the aries so happy birthday to
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all my aries out there thank you guys for stopping by you could be doing and so many other things.
But you are here listening to In Time Crime and it is greatly appreciated.
So the quick announcements are basically, I need you guys to,
you know, go follow me on TikTok, follow me on Instagram, follow me on Facebook.
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I will have a Patreon up soon. I'm working on it.
Merch is in the future. You know, we're hoping to be great here.
You know, we were hoping for greater things.
So, but right now, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, please go follow me.
I have no followers there because I haven't really, you know,
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been putting myself out there or keeping up with the Facebook.
I have followers on TikTok and I do have a couple on Instagram for the In Time Crime page.
But if you are listening, just go follow, you know, those all the all the social
medias are in the description for each video, each audio.
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So you can always just go to the audio and find the links to all the social
medias, all the everything.
And or I'm on Facebook, but I don't know how to find you.
Da-di-da, I'm on Instagram or whatever, TikTok. Well, not TikTok yet,
but Instagram for sure and Facebook.
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There is a link tree. And once you click on the link tree, it will take you
directly to all my other stuff.
You know, everything that I have going on right now, the link tree will take you there.
So by all means, definitely, you know, follow me on Instagram because that's
where you can find that link tree so that you can't go everywhere else.
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You can go to TikTok, Facebook, you can go everywhere else.
So yeah, you guys ready for some crime?
You ready for some crime?
Well, today's date is November the 22nd of 1999.
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And I have three crimes for you guys today.
Three crimes. Not too much information about them because I tried to research about these crimes.
I've never heard anybody cover these cases, I don't think.
And I listened to a lot of other people's true crime stuff. You know,
I listen to Crime Junkie.
I listen to And That's Why We Drink.
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I listen to My Favorite Murder.
I listen to I don't mind telling these other people's name. You can go check them out. That's fine.
Come back to me, though. Make sure your ass come back.
I'm just kidding. Do you? Do you? you.
But I have checked out these other places, you know, these are,
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and I'm just basically listening.
I don't know if I just missed it. Okay.
But I have not heard about these cases.
I haven't been, I haven't listened to every single one of their,
the cases that they discussed.
So maybe, possibly I have missed them, but I've listened to a lot of cases and
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I have not heard of these ones.
So like I said, today, we have three, we're going to get into it.
But before we begin, like I said, go ahead, go to TikTok, Instagram,
all of those, they're in the description.
It's not, it's not nothing for you to kill yourself to look for.
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And you know, tell a friend, tell somebody to tell somebody to tell somebody
else to listen to Insom Crime.
This might be, you know, something that they would like. So share.
Sharing is caring. Okay. All right. Let's begin.
OK, so today's first story, like I said, you guys,
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this today's today's discussion will be, you know, today's cases are based on the date 11-22-1999.
So I have three cases that either, you know, the person was convicted on this
day or it happened on this day or somebody passed away on this day.
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But they're based around this date, November the 22nd, 1999.
Okay, so our first case is a construction worker named Afif Azeem, who moved,
well, immigrated from Syria to America so that his three children could,
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you know, have or live the American dream.
They could go to school, then go to college, and, you know, just to get a better
life than what they had in Syria. you.
Mr. Hazeem, he had came to the United States 10 years prior to the date.
And like I said, he just wanted a better life for his kids. You know,
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he just wanted to do right by his family.
And he moved in, he came to the United States and moved in with his younger
brother, whose name is Elias, you know, and they all moved to Brooklyn.
That's where the family was staying in Brooklyn, New York.
Basically the company that his brother worked for, he put him on to a job there as a contract.
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Let me get it right as a laborer. So, you know, since he's coming freshly to
America, you got to work on his papers and stuff.
So, you know, he kind of just gave him some, got him some kind of hands-on kind of work.
And that's what Mr. Azeem was doing the day that he was tragically murdered.
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So on the day of the incident, Mr.
Azeem was repaving the bridge at three.
He was repaving the Throgs Neck Bridge,
sorry, and he was struck and killed by an off-duty police captain.
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Who basically was coming back from a celebration for a promotion that he had actually received.
And I guess he was intoxicated. Yep, not a guess. He was intoxicated.
And basically, there were three lanes, two lanes out of three lanes of traffic
that was shut down. and Mr.
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Captain O'Connor here decided to go past the two that were shut down and,
you know, drive past everybody that was, you know, I guess it was like bumper
to bumper because, you know, it can be when there's construction work,
everybody's bumper to bumper because they're either being nosy or it's only like one or two lanes.
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So it kind of slows up traffic from everybody merging and letting everybody,
you know, like people letting people in front of them or people don't want to
let people in front of them.
So, you know, it tends to be a little bit slower because of that.
So Mr. Captain O'Connor, under the influence, decided that he was going to drive.
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Around the cones, you know, and they said it looked like he was knocking over
cones as he he was traveling.
And that is when he struck Mr. Hazim, killing him.
So after this tragic accident, we're going to say it's an accident, but Mr.
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Hazim was, you know, this is a murder because you were driving intoxicated, which you as a captain,
you as a person that is in the law firm is very, very well aware of the consequences
of driving while intoxicated.
You know what I mean? This is your job. This is what you do.
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And you've been promoted, which means you know your job very well.
So on the day of the incident, or after the incident, maybe like a month or
so later, I was not exactly sure of what the date was,
but his family, of course, and I do agree,
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are suing for wrongful death.
It also says that Mr. O'Connor was a dedicated, hardworking guy.
You know, that's what his fellow colleagues are saying about him.
But regardless of that like I
said you are you've been promoted so you obviously know very much of the consequences
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of your action and what that action was and why you should not have done that
action it also says that he is not given a statement to say what happened and what he was doing.
On the night of the incident, what he was doing in that area,
because I guess he doesn't really live around that area.
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But like I said, I believe I read somewhere where it did say that he was coming
from a celebration for the promotion that he had received, allegedly,
because I probably do need to get my story straight on that.
But of course, Azeem's family is very, very devastated. devastated.
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They are extremely devastated, you know, because this was a hardworking man
that came to this country to change his life and make everything better for his family.
And how he died was so unnecessary and so callous.
So that is, that is tragic.
If you do know anything about the story or you have other information that you would like to share,
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by all means, email me so I can update the story with, you know,
whatever you say about the case.
Or you can leave a comment.
It's up to you. Okay, next case.
Okay, our next case is about a teen that is being arraigned at Bellevue on this
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day, November the 22nd, 1999.
This is Mr. Damien Perrier, 17 years old.
He is a teenager. So let's give a little bit of backstory on Mr. Damien.
Basically, his family spoke very highly of him saying that, you know,
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he's like a straight A student. student.
He's very, very smart. He wanted to be a computer engineer.
And he also had the grades for the possibility to be a computer engineer. Like he was that smart.
And he would tutor other kids his age.
He was a straight, you know, he was a kid on the straight and narrow,
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went to church, purge, prayed with his grandmother,
you know, just a very, very decent child, a very decent, God-fearing child.
But unfortunately, in September, Damien snapped and his family said that they
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could see where he was heading in that direction because he was complaining
to his family that he needed help.
You know, and it said it said time and time and time again,
regardless of how somebody's been, if they come to you and they say they need
help or they seem happier than usual, you know, you always got to check on the
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happy people, you know, but he was telling his family, I need help.
I don't feel all right. I feel crazy.
He was just, he would even begun to like show actions that he was losing his shit because he would,
one of his friends reported that he was taking like bottles and objects and
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throwing them around and saying that he was going to kill the world.
And I mean, if that's not enough sign for you to know that somebody needs help, I don't know what is.
But they could tell that he was very different from the young man that he was
growing up to, you know, growing up to be.
He was born in Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, which I can relate.
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I was raised in Jamaica. but anyways so
his parents had gotten divorced
so his mom moved to London and his father moved to Brooklyn and he moved with
his aunt in Washington and then after a year or so he moved with his father
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to Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn,
New York at nine years old.
So like I said, growing up, he was raised by his father and he was a very excellent
student. He was extremely smart.
And I hate to see a young, excellent brain go to waste.
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But that is what happened here. So, like I said, he was showing signs of,
you know, that he was losing it. People thought he was probably taking drugs.
His father did a drug test on him and it came out clean. So apparently he was mental.
There was something just mentally going off. He just snapped,
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you know, for whatever reason.
The devil's strong out here you know I'm saying and apparently it seemed like
the devil was really just messing with this young man so on the day of the incident Mr.
Purier was on a train a
Manhattan subway car where he took out a box cutter and attacked a gentleman
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I believe leave and then attacked four other people in the train car.
One of the victims, he even slashed his throat from chin, from his,
from, I think they said from his ear to his chin or something like that.
But basically he attacked five people that day on the train.
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He just started an argument with one person and went berserk from there.
So after that, like I said, on this day, November the 22nd, 1999.
He is being reigned and he's.
The charges, I'm sorry, carry a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
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This young man was so gifted, so smart, so, you know, such a good influence to his family.
They had high hopes, extremely high hopes for this young man.
And like I said, all of those high hopes are gone out the the door because he
is going to prison for up to 25 years.
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He was even arraigned in his pajamas. He was arraigned in his pajamas, y'all.
Because he was locked in a psychiatric ward because,
you know, they were trying to, this is something, something went
wrong and we need to figure out what happened here
you know and that is true if somebody was
really smart doing really good everything's going
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great straight A's you know future looking bright and all of a sudden you just
lose your shit oh yeah you you need a psychiatric evaluation and that is what
he was that is he was being held at the Bellevue hospital for a psychiatric
evaluation of course and psychiatric treatment.
And that is where he was when he was arraigned in his PJs.
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So yeah, very, very, very sad situation. I hate to see when young people lose their minds and,
you know, change their entire lives and make extremely terrible decisions that
just ruin their entire future.
This young man seems to, you know, have been battling some serious psychiatric
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issues issues that maybe he just could not help himself.
So it's pretty sad. It's a pretty sad case, pretty sad to hear that this happened to this young man.
It's pretty depressing. So yeah, moving on to our next case.
I tell you, I tell you what I've told you before when I did the first case on Nicholas Green.
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I hate, I absolutely hate to hear when people do things to children.
And unfortunately, on this date,
November 22nd, 1999, we have another case of a mother being freed on this date
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from a case of her killing,
murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Not only do I hate to hear about a crime that is the harm of a child,
but for a parent parent to harm their own child, it makes me feel that much worse.
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It makes me dislike this person that much worse.
I hate doing cases like these. I hate when bad things happen to children.
They never deserve it, especially, especially not from a parent.
The one person who's supposed to, you know, take care of them and protect them
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from all the dangers of the world, And this is her mother, you know,
her mother carried her for nine months.
And this happened to her at two years old. So this little sweet little princess,
she was barely here for but two years.
That is not a long time at all.
Okay, so this Miss Precious Bedell is the parent of LaShonda. LaShonda.
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Is her youngest daughter. It is said that she had three children.
She has three children and they were all taken away from her because of neglect.
Like she is a bad parent. Okay. It's been written. It's been known.
It's been seen and actions have been taken that this woman is a bad parent. parent.
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So after she took classes to become a better parent,
they gave her back her youngest daughter, LaShonda, which I'm pretty sure they
are regretting that decision at this time, because why would you even?
You know, this lady was already neglecting her three kids. I don't care how
many classes you want to take.
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You had a chance. You messed up. And, you know, people do do deserve,
maybe people deserve second chances in life and stuff like that,
but you cannot play around with lives.
You only get one, okay? You only get one life and that's it.
Once somebody is gone, they cannot be returned.
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They are gone, gone forever.
So this lady was already neglecting her three kids
showing that she is no in no
place to be a mother at
this time okay and she decided to have three of
them she decided to have three damn children three of them so
yeah so because of the
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the class that she was taking they decided to
go ahead and let her have her
youngest daughter her back okay so basically
only seven weeks she took
that damn class they decided she
can have back her little bit her little bitty baby
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they gave her back her youngest child say okay have her you did your classes
here take the take the youngest one take take this one take take just one of
them we gonna see how it goes like i said you can't play around with these lives
you giving Giving this child back to somebody that do not take care of her child.
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You playing with lives. Okay.
Because just seven weeks. Only seven weeks.
Not even a complete two months after receiving back her little daughter.
This heifer. And I want to call her so many other words. But I'm being nice.
I'm trying to keep it clean.
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I'm trying to keep this channel as clean as possible. So that everybody can
listen. Listen, OK, everybody of all ages, if you can take a murder case, you can listen.
I'm trying to keep it clean. I'm trying to keep it clean. So.
This person, only three weeks after getting her daughter back,
went to a restaurant with three of her friends, a steak restaurant,
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a steakhouse for dinner.
And because her daughter simply two years old, half of the child is two years
old because her two year old daughter, you know, had bad table manners and spilled food on her dress.
This I barely want
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to call her a woman this thing took her
daughter to the bathroom where she
pummeled her pummeled her
and fractured her skull knocking
her baby unconscious four days later her daughter was pronounced dead so I originally
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started this case story saying that on this day,
November the 22nd, 1999,
she's being released.
So why is she being released, you may ask, after being such a terrible ass parent?
Why are they letting this biatch back out into the world?
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And it is because for the same damn reason she got her daughter back,
proving that I am a better person.
I'm a good person. I'm a better person.
I'm a great person.
What I did, I made a mistake, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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So basically, while she was in jail, she was a model inmate.
Okay, she was in there for 19 years. And while she was in there,
she earned her bachelor's and her master's.
And it says that she developed a mentoring program for other African-American
inmates and published articles on parenting and rage control. troll.
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I want to say I don't give a shit, but let's continue.
So after doing all of this, you
know, people, she had supporters that were pushing for her to be released.
They're like, she's changed. She's earned all these degrees.
She's written these articles.
She's teaching other people not to be like her. She's a changed person.
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The judge looked over her twice. for her appeal of being released.
He looked it over twice, and I guess he had denied it.
So her former, the former, her former district, the former district attorney,
Richard Hennessey, I don't know why it was taken so long for these words to
come out, who persecuted her,
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prosecuted her, sorry, has criticized her release.
I'm reading verbatim from this article here.
And basically he has said, and I quote, and yes, oh my God, were truer words have never been spoken.
He says, all murders are odious, meaning extremely unpleasant and repulsive,
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which I completely agree with.
And then he goes on to say, infanticide is a little worse. Quote and end quote.
He damn right. killing your own child, murdering your own child,
beating the shit out your own child to the point where they are knocked unconscious
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with no chances of survival is extremely, extremely,
horrible and horrendous. This woman is a monster.
So after she did all of this, she got the degrees,
she wrote the article blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah I can never forgive somebody that hurts
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a child I don't give a shit you could go out here and say 15,000
people for the one person the one little tiny person you killed I don't give
a shit you heard it you you did this to a child you hurt a child you were you
will never ever be forgiven in my book so yep you know she she like I said on this date.
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Apparently, she won over her case and she was released on November 22nd,
1999, after serving 19 years in prison.
So basically, they released this heifer because they said there were certain
errors, certain legal errors that had occurred during her conviction,
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including them keeping her in waiting in the restaurant lobby while they went
into the bathroom to, you know, check out where the child was murdered.
Murdered and then they also said
that it is her right to accompany the jurors as
they were touring the crime scene and then they also ruled that the comment
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that the judge so apparently the judge made a comment that the tour about the
tour being where the baby was killed and apparently that was was not proper
and that is prejudicial.
So yeah, apparently because of all these reasons, they had to go ahead and let
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this bitch back out into the world.
So yep, on this day, she is, she was released.
She was freed back out into society.
Hopefully because I did not do further the
research on this woman I was totally disgusted by her
and repulsed but hopefully
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she did not get the other two kids back even though she did all
this bullshit that they said she did hopefully she did not get the
other two kids back and I am
so extremely sorry for
what happened to baby LaShonda hopefully she
is of course she is resting in peace she was just
a little little bitty thing so you
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know RIP to LaShonda let's take a
moment of silence for LaShonda and
pray for that little baby she
is gone now but let's pray for other
kids that have parents like this you know that hopefully
nothing happens to them and somehow they
can get out of these situations because believe me you guys
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this world is not a beautiful place everywhere
you know it's pretty horrible out here
and this is why we have crimes to report on and we report on
crimes so that you're aware of the type of
things that are happening in the world because if you're just living in
a candy-coated world where you're all sunshines and rainbows and you don't know
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about nothing but you listen to in-time crime and you find out that there's
some shit going down then you may be a little bit more aware that you need to
be more conscious of your you know surroundings and you need to be.
More caring for people because you don't know what people are going through.
And, you know, it just brings some kind of awareness to your everyday life.
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That's what true crime is all about. Bringing awareness to certain situations
where you're like, oh, dang, this happened because she did this.
Oh, snap. I was just doing this the other day. Did nothing happen to me. Praise God.
But it was a possibility. OK, the true crimes are here to let you know that
certain things that you you may be doing that you were not paying attention
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to the fact that something could happen.
It brings it to your attention that you need to be more cautious.
We're not saying leave your life in fear.
Don't go outside and be scared of every and anything.
Just know that there are certain situations that you could be putting yourself
in that you need to avoid because other people have been put in this situation.
And unlike yourself who has survived and is able to listen that that something
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happened and do better next time.
They did not. And therefore they are no longer here. Okay.
So yes, Jesus. Okay. So I wanted to say on this, this third episode,
this is episode number three, right?
This third episode that, you know, let's put God first, you know,
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especially especially about the young man, Mr. Damien.
He was a God-fearing little young man. And these things started to happen to him.
Let's put God first in everything that we do.
And that way we can have a little bit more protection out here in the world.
Pray before you do certain things.
Okay? Put God first. Amen?
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Be blessed. Right, right?
Okay, so last message before we wrap it up.
If you are listening and you have listened to this point, and I appreciate you so much.
I am your number one fan. Thank you so much for listening to episode number
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three, which is this date, November the 22nd, 1999.
Thank you so much for sticking around and being a good listener,
I guess. and do me a favor and hit the follow button, subscribe, subscribe.
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That's it. No less than a four. Stop right there. Okay. Five is enough.
Four is enough. But yes, go ahead and rate.
And if you would like to leave a comment about any of the cases that we covered
today or any of the cases that we have previously covered, by all means,
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go ahead and leave a comment.
Be nice, be nice. If you wanna be mean, my email is there.
Email me the mean words you wanna say. You don't have to let everybody know how you feel, okay?
So email me, my email is robin at endtimecrime.org.
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So feel free to email me if you cannot hear what
I'm saying like I said all links are
in the description my email is in the description everything's in
the description for this video go ahead email me follow me I appreciate you
guys thank you so much for once again listening to this episode of In Time Crime
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and I will see you next time for episode number four you guys be Be blessed,
put God first, and have a wonderful afternoon.
Music.
Music.
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Welcome back to another episode of In Time Crime.
I am your host, Robin Bagayoko.
Today, I'm going to begin by making a couple of announcements.
Before I do that, let me just say, how are you guys doing?
I'm posting this very late on a Sunday. It's either going to be posting on a Sunday or a Monday.
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Because I've been, you know, dealing with a couple of things.
You know life happens you know life
be lifing but um yes basically
happy birthday to everybody that has a birthday this week what is this this
is mark this is april now but we're still for the aries so happy birthday to
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all my aries out there thank you guys for stopping by you could be doing and so many other things.
But you are here listening to In Time Crime and it is greatly appreciated.
So the quick announcements are basically, I need you guys to,
you know, go follow me on TikTok, follow me on Instagram, follow me on Facebook.
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I will have a Patreon up soon. I'm working on it.
Merch is in the future. You know, we're hoping to be great here.
You know, we were hoping for greater things.
So, but right now, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, please go follow me.
I have no followers there because I haven't really, you know,
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been putting myself out there or keeping up with the Facebook.
I have followers on TikTok and I do have a couple on Instagram for the In Time Crime page.
But if you are listening, just go follow, you know, those all the all the social
medias are in the description for each video, each audio.
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So you can always just go to the audio and find the links to all the social
medias, all the everything.
And or I'm on Facebook, but I don't know how to find you.
Da-di-da, I'm on Instagram or whatever, TikTok. Well, not TikTok yet,
but Instagram for sure and Facebook.
(02:38):
There is a link tree. And once you click on the link tree, it will take you
directly to all my other stuff.
You know, everything that I have going on right now, the link tree will take you there.
So by all means, definitely, you know, follow me on Instagram because that's
where you can find that link tree so that you can't go everywhere else.
(02:58):
You can go to TikTok, Facebook, you can go everywhere else.
So yeah, you guys ready for some crime?
You ready for some crime?
Well, today's date is November the 22nd of 1999.
(03:19):
And I have three crimes for you guys today.
Three crimes. Not too much information about them because I tried to research about these crimes.
I've never heard anybody cover these cases, I don't think.
And I listened to a lot of other people's true crime stuff. You know,
I listen to Crime Junkie.
I listen to And That's Why We Drink.
(03:42):
I listen to My Favorite Murder.
I listen to I don't mind telling these other people's name. You can go check them out. That's fine.
Come back to me, though. Make sure your ass come back.
I'm just kidding. Do you? Do you? you.
But I have checked out these other places, you know, these are,
(04:03):
and I'm just basically listening.
I don't know if I just missed it. Okay.
But I have not heard about these cases.
I haven't been, I haven't listened to every single one of their,
the cases that they discussed.
So maybe, possibly I have missed them, but I've listened to a lot of cases and
(04:24):
I have not heard of these ones.
So like I said, today, we have three, we're going to get into it.
But before we begin, like I said, go ahead, go to TikTok, Instagram,
all of those, they're in the description.
It's not, it's not nothing for you to kill yourself to look for.
(04:44):
And you know, tell a friend, tell somebody to tell somebody to tell somebody
else to listen to Insom Crime.
This might be, you know, something that they would like. So share.
Sharing is caring. Okay. All right. Let's begin.
OK, so today's first story, like I said, you guys,
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this today's today's discussion will be, you know, today's cases are based on the date 11-22-1999.
So I have three cases that either, you know, the person was convicted on this
day or it happened on this day or somebody passed away on this day.
(05:28):
But they're based around this date, November the 22nd, 1999.
Okay, so our first case is a construction worker named Afif Azeem, who moved,
well, immigrated from Syria to America so that his three children could,
(05:51):
you know, have or live the American dream.
They could go to school, then go to college, and, you know, just to get a better
life than what they had in Syria. you.
Mr. Hazeem, he had came to the United States 10 years prior to the date.
And like I said, he just wanted a better life for his kids. You know,
(06:12):
he just wanted to do right by his family.
And he moved in, he came to the United States and moved in with his younger
brother, whose name is Elias, you know, and they all moved to Brooklyn.
That's where the family was staying in Brooklyn, New York.
Basically the company that his brother worked for, he put him on to a job there as a contract.
(06:40):
Let me get it right as a laborer. So, you know, since he's coming freshly to
America, you got to work on his papers and stuff.
So, you know, he kind of just gave him some, got him some kind of hands-on kind of work.
And that's what Mr. Azeem was doing the day that he was tragically murdered.
(07:00):
So on the day of the incident, Mr.
Azeem was repaving the bridge at three.
He was repaving the Throgs Neck Bridge,
sorry, and he was struck and killed by an off-duty police captain.
(07:26):
Who basically was coming back from a celebration for a promotion that he had actually received.
And I guess he was intoxicated. Yep, not a guess. He was intoxicated.
And basically, there were three lanes, two lanes out of three lanes of traffic
that was shut down. and Mr.
(07:48):
Captain O'Connor here decided to go past the two that were shut down and,
you know, drive past everybody that was, you know, I guess it was like bumper
to bumper because, you know, it can be when there's construction work,
everybody's bumper to bumper because they're either being nosy or it's only like one or two lanes.
(08:10):
So it kind of slows up traffic from everybody merging and letting everybody,
you know, like people letting people in front of them or people don't want to
let people in front of them.
So, you know, it tends to be a little bit slower because of that.
So Mr. Captain O'Connor, under the influence, decided that he was going to drive.
(08:31):
Around the cones, you know, and they said it looked like he was knocking over
cones as he he was traveling.
And that is when he struck Mr. Hazim, killing him.
So after this tragic accident, we're going to say it's an accident, but Mr.
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Hazim was, you know, this is a murder because you were driving intoxicated, which you as a captain,
you as a person that is in the law firm is very, very well aware of the consequences
of driving while intoxicated.
You know what I mean? This is your job. This is what you do.
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And you've been promoted, which means you know your job very well.
So on the day of the incident, or after the incident, maybe like a month or
so later, I was not exactly sure of what the date was,
but his family, of course, and I do agree,
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are suing for wrongful death.
It also says that Mr. O'Connor was a dedicated, hardworking guy.
You know, that's what his fellow colleagues are saying about him.
But regardless of that like I
said you are you've been promoted so you obviously know very much of the consequences
(10:02):
of your action and what that action was and why you should not have done that
action it also says that he is not given a statement to say what happened and what he was doing.
On the night of the incident, what he was doing in that area,
because I guess he doesn't really live around that area.
(10:23):
But like I said, I believe I read somewhere where it did say that he was coming
from a celebration for the promotion that he had received, allegedly,
because I probably do need to get my story straight on that.
But of course, Azeem's family is very, very devastated. devastated.
(10:44):
They are extremely devastated, you know, because this was a hardworking man
that came to this country to change his life and make everything better for his family.
And how he died was so unnecessary and so callous.
So that is, that is tragic.
If you do know anything about the story or you have other information that you would like to share,
(11:11):
by all means, email me so I can update the story with, you know,
whatever you say about the case.
Or you can leave a comment.
It's up to you. Okay, next case.
Okay, our next case is about a teen that is being arraigned at Bellevue on this
(11:36):
day, November the 22nd, 1999.
This is Mr. Damien Perrier, 17 years old.
He is a teenager. So let's give a little bit of backstory on Mr. Damien.
Basically, his family spoke very highly of him saying that, you know,
(11:58):
he's like a straight A student. student.
He's very, very smart. He wanted to be a computer engineer.
And he also had the grades for the possibility to be a computer engineer. Like he was that smart.
And he would tutor other kids his age.
He was a straight, you know, he was a kid on the straight and narrow,
(12:20):
went to church, purge, prayed with his grandmother,
you know, just a very, very decent child, a very decent, God-fearing child.
But unfortunately, in September, Damien snapped and his family said that they
(12:41):
could see where he was heading in that direction because he was complaining
to his family that he needed help.
You know, and it said it said time and time and time again,
regardless of how somebody's been, if they come to you and they say they need
help or they seem happier than usual, you know, you always got to check on the
(13:04):
happy people, you know, but he was telling his family, I need help.
I don't feel all right. I feel crazy.
He was just, he would even begun to like show actions that he was losing his shit because he would,
one of his friends reported that he was taking like bottles and objects and
(13:26):
throwing them around and saying that he was going to kill the world.
And I mean, if that's not enough sign for you to know that somebody needs help, I don't know what is.
But they could tell that he was very different from the young man that he was
growing up to, you know, growing up to be.
He was born in Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, which I can relate.
(13:50):
I was raised in Jamaica. but anyways so
his parents had gotten divorced
so his mom moved to London and his father moved to Brooklyn and he moved with
his aunt in Washington and then after a year or so he moved with his father
(14:13):
to Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn,
New York at nine years old.
So like I said, growing up, he was raised by his father and he was a very excellent
student. He was extremely smart.
And I hate to see a young, excellent brain go to waste.
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But that is what happened here. So, like I said, he was showing signs of,
you know, that he was losing it. People thought he was probably taking drugs.
His father did a drug test on him and it came out clean. So apparently he was mental.
There was something just mentally going off. He just snapped,
(14:57):
you know, for whatever reason.
The devil's strong out here you know I'm saying and apparently it seemed like
the devil was really just messing with this young man so on the day of the incident Mr.
Purier was on a train a
Manhattan subway car where he took out a box cutter and attacked a gentleman
(15:24):
I believe leave and then attacked four other people in the train car.
One of the victims, he even slashed his throat from chin, from his,
from, I think they said from his ear to his chin or something like that.
But basically he attacked five people that day on the train.
(15:48):
He just started an argument with one person and went berserk from there.
So after that, like I said, on this day, November the 22nd, 1999.
He is being reigned and he's.
The charges, I'm sorry, carry a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
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This young man was so gifted, so smart, so, you know, such a good influence to his family.
They had high hopes, extremely high hopes for this young man.
And like I said, all of those high hopes are gone out the the door because he
is going to prison for up to 25 years.
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He was even arraigned in his pajamas. He was arraigned in his pajamas, y'all.
Because he was locked in a psychiatric ward because,
you know, they were trying to, this is something, something went
wrong and we need to figure out what happened here
you know and that is true if somebody was
really smart doing really good everything's going
(17:02):
great straight A's you know future looking bright and all of a sudden you just
lose your shit oh yeah you you need a psychiatric evaluation and that is what
he was that is he was being held at the Bellevue hospital for a psychiatric
evaluation of course and psychiatric treatment.
And that is where he was when he was arraigned in his PJs.
(17:27):
So yeah, very, very, very sad situation. I hate to see when young people lose their minds and,
you know, change their entire lives and make extremely terrible decisions that
just ruin their entire future.
This young man seems to, you know, have been battling some serious psychiatric
(17:48):
issues issues that maybe he just could not help himself.
So it's pretty sad. It's a pretty sad case, pretty sad to hear that this happened to this young man.
It's pretty depressing. So yeah, moving on to our next case.
I tell you, I tell you what I've told you before when I did the first case on Nicholas Green.
(18:13):
I hate, I absolutely hate to hear when people do things to children.
And unfortunately, on this date,
November 22nd, 1999, we have another case of a mother being freed on this date
(18:37):
from a case of her killing,
murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Not only do I hate to hear about a crime that is the harm of a child,
but for a parent parent to harm their own child, it makes me feel that much worse.
(19:00):
It makes me dislike this person that much worse.
I hate doing cases like these. I hate when bad things happen to children.
They never deserve it, especially, especially not from a parent.
The one person who's supposed to, you know, take care of them and protect them
(19:21):
from all the dangers of the world, And this is her mother, you know,
her mother carried her for nine months.
And this happened to her at two years old. So this little sweet little princess,
she was barely here for but two years.
That is not a long time at all.
Okay, so this Miss Precious Bedell is the parent of LaShonda. LaShonda.
(19:51):
Is her youngest daughter. It is said that she had three children.
She has three children and they were all taken away from her because of neglect.
Like she is a bad parent. Okay. It's been written. It's been known.
It's been seen and actions have been taken that this woman is a bad parent. parent.
(20:18):
So after she took classes to become a better parent,
they gave her back her youngest daughter, LaShonda, which I'm pretty sure they
are regretting that decision at this time, because why would you even?
You know, this lady was already neglecting her three kids. I don't care how
many classes you want to take.
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You had a chance. You messed up. And, you know, people do do deserve,
maybe people deserve second chances in life and stuff like that,
but you cannot play around with lives.
You only get one, okay? You only get one life and that's it.
Once somebody is gone, they cannot be returned.
(20:59):
They are gone, gone forever.
So this lady was already neglecting her three kids
showing that she is no in no
place to be a mother at
this time okay and she decided to have three of
them she decided to have three damn children three of them so
yeah so because of the
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the class that she was taking they decided to
go ahead and let her have her
youngest daughter her back okay so basically
only seven weeks she took
that damn class they decided she
can have back her little bit her little bitty baby
(21:40):
they gave her back her youngest child say okay have her you did your classes
here take the take the youngest one take take this one take take just one of
them we gonna see how it goes like i said you can't play around with these lives
you giving Giving this child back to somebody that do not take care of her child.
(22:00):
You playing with lives. Okay.
Because just seven weeks. Only seven weeks.
Not even a complete two months after receiving back her little daughter.
This heifer. And I want to call her so many other words. But I'm being nice.
I'm trying to keep it clean.
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I'm trying to keep this channel as clean as possible. So that everybody can
listen. Listen, OK, everybody of all ages, if you can take a murder case, you can listen.
I'm trying to keep it clean. I'm trying to keep it clean. So.
This person, only three weeks after getting her daughter back,
went to a restaurant with three of her friends, a steak restaurant,
(22:46):
a steakhouse for dinner.
And because her daughter simply two years old, half of the child is two years
old because her two year old daughter, you know, had bad table manners and spilled food on her dress.
This I barely want
(23:07):
to call her a woman this thing took her
daughter to the bathroom where she
pummeled her pummeled her
and fractured her skull knocking
her baby unconscious four days later her daughter was pronounced dead so I originally
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started this case story saying that on this day,
November the 22nd, 1999,
she's being released.
So why is she being released, you may ask, after being such a terrible ass parent?
Why are they letting this biatch back out into the world?
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And it is because for the same damn reason she got her daughter back,
proving that I am a better person.
I'm a good person. I'm a better person.
I'm a great person.
What I did, I made a mistake, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
(24:14):
So basically, while she was in jail, she was a model inmate.
Okay, she was in there for 19 years. And while she was in there,
she earned her bachelor's and her master's.
And it says that she developed a mentoring program for other African-American
inmates and published articles on parenting and rage control. troll.
(24:41):
I want to say I don't give a shit, but let's continue.
So after doing all of this, you
know, people, she had supporters that were pushing for her to be released.
They're like, she's changed. She's earned all these degrees.
She's written these articles.
She's teaching other people not to be like her. She's a changed person.
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The judge looked over her twice. for her appeal of being released.
He looked it over twice, and I guess he had denied it.
So her former, the former, her former district, the former district attorney,
Richard Hennessey, I don't know why it was taken so long for these words to
come out, who persecuted her,
(25:29):
prosecuted her, sorry, has criticized her release.
I'm reading verbatim from this article here.
And basically he has said, and I quote, and yes, oh my God, were truer words have never been spoken.
He says, all murders are odious, meaning extremely unpleasant and repulsive,
(25:56):
which I completely agree with.
And then he goes on to say, infanticide is a little worse. Quote and end quote.
He damn right. killing your own child, murdering your own child,
beating the shit out your own child to the point where they are knocked unconscious
(26:21):
with no chances of survival is extremely, extremely,
horrible and horrendous. This woman is a monster.
So after she did all of this, she got the degrees,
she wrote the article blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah I can never forgive somebody that hurts
(26:42):
a child I don't give a shit you could go out here and say 15,000
people for the one person the one little tiny person you killed I don't give
a shit you heard it you you did this to a child you hurt a child you were you
will never ever be forgiven in my book so yep you know she she like I said on this date.
(27:04):
Apparently, she won over her case and she was released on November 22nd,
1999, after serving 19 years in prison.
So basically, they released this heifer because they said there were certain
errors, certain legal errors that had occurred during her conviction,
(27:26):
including them keeping her in waiting in the restaurant lobby while they went
into the bathroom to, you know, check out where the child was murdered.
Murdered and then they also said
that it is her right to accompany the jurors as
they were touring the crime scene and then they also ruled that the comment
(27:49):
that the judge so apparently the judge made a comment that the tour about the
tour being where the baby was killed and apparently that was was not proper
and that is prejudicial.
So yeah, apparently because of all these reasons, they had to go ahead and let
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this bitch back out into the world.
So yep, on this day, she is, she was released.
She was freed back out into society.
Hopefully because I did not do further the
research on this woman I was totally disgusted by her
and repulsed but hopefully
(28:30):
she did not get the other two kids back even though she did all
this bullshit that they said she did hopefully she did not get the
other two kids back and I am
so extremely sorry for
what happened to baby LaShonda hopefully she
is of course she is resting in peace she was just
a little little bitty thing so you
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know RIP to LaShonda let's take a
moment of silence for LaShonda and
pray for that little baby she
is gone now but let's pray for other
kids that have parents like this you know that hopefully
nothing happens to them and somehow they
can get out of these situations because believe me you guys
(29:13):
this world is not a beautiful place everywhere
you know it's pretty horrible out here
and this is why we have crimes to report on and we report on
crimes so that you're aware of the type of
things that are happening in the world because if you're just living in
a candy-coated world where you're all sunshines and rainbows and you don't know
(29:33):
about nothing but you listen to in-time crime and you find out that there's
some shit going down then you may be a little bit more aware that you need to
be more conscious of your you know surroundings and you need to be.
More caring for people because you don't know what people are going through.
And, you know, it just brings some kind of awareness to your everyday life.
(29:57):
That's what true crime is all about. Bringing awareness to certain situations
where you're like, oh, dang, this happened because she did this.
Oh, snap. I was just doing this the other day. Did nothing happen to me. Praise God.
But it was a possibility. OK, the true crimes are here to let you know that
certain things that you you may be doing that you were not paying attention
(30:19):
to the fact that something could happen.
It brings it to your attention that you need to be more cautious.
We're not saying leave your life in fear.
Don't go outside and be scared of every and anything.
Just know that there are certain situations that you could be putting yourself
in that you need to avoid because other people have been put in this situation.
And unlike yourself who has survived and is able to listen that that something
(30:43):
happened and do better next time.
They did not. And therefore they are no longer here. Okay.
So yes, Jesus. Okay. So I wanted to say on this, this third episode,
this is episode number three, right?
This third episode that, you know, let's put God first, you know,
(31:06):
especially especially about the young man, Mr. Damien.
He was a God-fearing little young man. And these things started to happen to him.
Let's put God first in everything that we do.
And that way we can have a little bit more protection out here in the world.
Pray before you do certain things.
Okay? Put God first. Amen?
(31:26):
Be blessed. Right, right?
Okay, so last message before we wrap it up.
If you are listening and you have listened to this point, and I appreciate you so much.
I am your number one fan. Thank you so much for listening to episode number
(31:47):
three, which is this date, November the 22nd, 1999.
Thank you so much for sticking around and being a good listener,
I guess. and do me a favor and hit the follow button, subscribe, subscribe.
Like I said, go into the link tree and follow me on TikTok and Instagram.
(32:13):
And there's also other links to, you know, follow up in there, Facebook.
So follow me in all those places, but definitely follow me here,
whatever platform that you're listening on, hit the follow button, subscribe, rate.
If it allows you to rate five stars, rate five stars. Do not go below that.
(32:38):
I will give you, go ahead and do a four, but that's it.
That's it. No less than a four. Stop right there. Okay. Five is enough.
Four is enough. But yes, go ahead and rate.
And if you would like to leave a comment about any of the cases that we covered
today or any of the cases that we have previously covered, by all means,
(33:00):
go ahead and leave a comment.
Be nice, be nice. If you wanna be mean, my email is there.
Email me the mean words you wanna say. You don't have to let everybody know how you feel, okay?
So email me, my email is robin at endtimecrime.org.
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So feel free to email me if you cannot hear what
I'm saying like I said all links are
in the description my email is in the description everything's in
the description for this video go ahead email me follow me I appreciate you
guys thank you so much for once again listening to this episode of In Time Crime
(33:44):
and I will see you next time for episode number four you guys be Be blessed,
put God first, and have a wonderful afternoon.
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