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[on video] Hey!
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[Dianne Valiante] Tiffany was just...
just always beautiful.
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Always bright. Energetic.
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She got a scholarship to play volleyball.
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She was gonna be a middle starter.
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That doesn't happen in college,
being a freshman starter.
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She wanted things in life.
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We were all so very proud of her.
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That night, she was found approximately
four miles away from our house,
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where she was hit by that train.
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New Jersey Transit put it out there
that my daughter committed suicide.
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There's absolutely no way!
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No way at all.
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I wanna know what happened to my daughter.
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[mysterious music playing]
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[somber music playing softly]
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This is my daughter's room.
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The whole room is the way she left it.
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That's her writing
and her little hearts and what.
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No one will ever go in this room.
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It's like a tomb.
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She loved life,
and she was full of it too.
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That's my baby.
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[Dianne] I met Stephen in 1989,
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{\an8}and I had already had my girls,
Jessica and Krystal.
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I ended up pregnant with Tiffany
and had her in 1997.
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We were shocked when we had Tiffany.
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You know,
we didn't expect to get pregnant,
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but the first time we laid eyes on her,
it was just like...
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you know, just heaven. It just...
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She was absolutely gorgeous.
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[Stephen Valiante] Tiff was just
a ball of joy.
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She enjoyed what she was doing.
She didn't worry about nothing.
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{\an8}I mean, there's nothing
that she didn't like.
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[Dianne] Picture up there
is of her on a beach in North Carolina.
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This is New Year's Eve.
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Uh, here's her graduation.
You can see how happy she is.
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Tiffany's sisters are the ones
that had this made for me.
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Just a memorial of all,
you know, of Tiffany's life.
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To walk in here every day
just makes me feel close.
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I feel like she's with me
'cause I miss her so much.
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{\an8}[intriguing music playing quietly]
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{\an8}[Dianne] It was a Sunday.
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We went to Tiffany's cousin's
graduation party across the street.
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And Tiffany came with us.
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We were there for several hours
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steaming clams and having a good old time.
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Tiff was having a great time.
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Playing volleyball, having fun,
waiting for her friends to come over.
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{\an8}[Dianne] I remember Tiffany
running back home.
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{\an8}We were still at the party, and at 9:15,
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{\an8}I got a phone call
from one of her girlfriends and says,
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"I'm pulling up now.
Can you come over to the house?"
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I said, "Sure, is everything okay?"
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So I told my husband, Stephen,
that I gotta go over to the house,
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and he said, "Oh, I'll go with you."
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And we walked up
to the road between the two houses.
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Tiffany's friend got out
screaming and hollering,
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and accused Tiffany of using
her credit card without her knowledge.
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And Tiffany denied it
until after the friend left,
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and then she told me that she did use it.
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And I said, "Why would
you use somebody else's card?"
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"You know better than that.
Didn't raise you that way."
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"And now I gotta go tell your dad
you used the card."
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And I went in the house,
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I got Stephen, and within one minute,
we walked back out, and Tiffany was gone.
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[Stephen] We looked for her.
Looked around.
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I walked up and down the street
many times.
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There must've been at least 20 or 30 cars
going back and forth up this road.
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They were all parked on the
side of the road. Nobody's seen nothin'.
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[Dianne] I know if Tiffany walked,
somebody would have saw her.
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There's no doubt in my mind.
She's 6'2". You couldn't miss her.
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[Robert Valiante, Sr.]
We were walkin' up and down the streets,
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{\an8}looking behind houses and everything close
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{\an8}'cause we knew
she wouldn't walk any distance
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because she was scared to death
of the dark.
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[phone chiming]
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[Dianne] Everybody was calling, texting,
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you know,
trying to find out where she was.
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Stephen's calling
and she's not answering her phone.
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[Stephen on phone]
Tiff, please, just come home.
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I love you to death.
You mean everything in the world to me.
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Please just come home.
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[Stephen] I walked
up and down that street.
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And all of a sudden,
I looked down at the ground,
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and I had seen something flat.
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-And it was Tiff's phone.
-[phone vibrates]
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[Stephen] Phone was about five to eight
feet off the side of the road.
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In front of my house.
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That kid would have
never left her phone here.
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That phone was locked to her hand 24/7,
seven days a week.
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She took a shower with the phone.
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Then when we found the phone,
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all kinds of things
are going through my head.
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I knew there was something wrong.
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We were searching,
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and then later on,
Stephen remembered about
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the deer camera being in the woods.
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[ominous music playing faintly]
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[Stephen] Tiff left at 9:28,
according to my deer camera.
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And me and Dianne walked out at 9:29
with Tucker, which is her dog.
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We walked outside and she was gone.
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[Dianne] Tiffany was
wearing a black shirt,
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white blue-jean shorts.
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She had her flat shoes
that she had just bought,
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and she put her hair up
with a messy bob on the top
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and her white headband.
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She's doing her regular stride,
walking down the driveway.
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And because of the picture
on the deer camera,
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the only thing I could come up with
is that somebody called her name.
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And at that point, she was gone.
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{\an8}I got a phone call,
"Hey, Tiffany's missing."
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{\an8}"Can you come and help look for Tiffany?"
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{\an8}I said, "Sure."
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We went to my mom's house 'cause
they assumed she probably went there.
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It's walking distance. I would say
roughly a half mile it would be at most.
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She wasn't there.
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{\an8}So then we started
driving around different places.
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{\an8}We couldn't find her.
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{\an8}Something told me just to go down Pomona.
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{\an8}And when I drove down Pomona,
I crossed the railroad tracks.
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{\an8}There's a roadway alongside of the tracks.
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-An access road for transit.
-[police siren chirps]
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[Michael] It was lit up.
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There was a Galloway police officer there
said somebody was hit, possibly a female.
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{\an8}But Galloway Township
didn't get involved in it
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{\an8}because this happened
in the jurisdiction of New Jersey Transit.
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I saw a transit police officer there.
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I spoke to him.
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I say, "Hey, did you
happen to see a very big girl,
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6'2", very athletic?"
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And he said, "No, but we had somebody
who was struck by the train."
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At that point,
I'm thinking, "I hope it's not Tiffany."
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But they were pretty
confident that it was her.
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The transit officer said to me,
"Can you identify her?"
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And I said, "Yes, I can."
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And I am very glad
that I am the one that went down there,
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'cause I truly believe in my whole heart
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that my brother would never
have been able to handle it.
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What I saw that night,
no one needs to see that.
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It was probably one of
the most horrific things I've seen.
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You know, being struck by a train.
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So I went there,
and I did do the identification,
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and then they said, "Hey,
we have to go back to your brother's,
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and you have to tell your brother."
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[Dianne] It was 2:30 in the morning.
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And I remember walking out of the house,
and my son-in-law was standing there,
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and he said that Uncle Mickey called him,
told us to stay put.
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And I remember my son-in-law
looking totally white.
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And I remember us waiting
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and some type of cop car pull in.
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My brother, Mickey,
got out of a transit police car,
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and Dianne's yelling, "What happened?
What happened? What happened?"
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[Michael] And I told my brother
what happened. Tiffany was hit by a train.
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He did say, "I wanna go down there."
I'm like, "No, you're absolutely not."
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"You don't need to see this."
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[Stephen] We just lost it.
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It's like... you lost your life.
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When one of your kids die,
you lose part of your life.
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[crying] Oh, God, I miss her so much.
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She was my baby.
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I miss everything about her.
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[Robert, Sr.] I mean,
we just held each other and cried.
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It was like in disbelief.
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It was the most horrible thing
you could even imagine at that time
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that something like that could happen.
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[crying] We were in such shock.
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Total shock.
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'Cause, like, hit by a train?
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It just didn't make sense to me.
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[Stephen] Mickey said that
Tiffany got hit by a train.
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We didn't know what happened.
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Then the following morning,
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it was already in the papers
Tiffany had committed suicide.
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I was devastated.
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I couldn't understand, you know,
how they could come up with that.
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My daughter wasn't depressed.
She wasn't suicidal.
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Tiffy was happy.
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She was making plans to go to college.
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She was making plans with her roommate.
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She was making plans
to play softball that Wednesday.
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She had plans to go to Great Adventure
the next morning with friends.
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[Robert Valiante, Jr.] The night I spoke
with Tiffany, obviously, at the party,
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{\an8}she showed no signs of any kind of stress.
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She had her school clothes.
She had things prepared.
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Tiffany was ready to make that next move.
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[Dianne] There's no way in hell
she committed suicide.
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New Jersey Transit made the determination
that my daughter stood on those tracks
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and committed suicide in less than
24 hours from the time she was hit.
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People that knew Tiffany
just couldn't believe it.
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We were on a mission because we knew
our daughter didn't do this.
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[intriguing music playing]
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My name is Paul D'Amato.
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{\an8}I've been a trial lawyer for 46 years.
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{\an8}Most of my cases
have involved representing victims.
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And there have been those cases,
like Tiffany's case,
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that you simply cannot say no to.
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When I first met Steve and Dianne,
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they were sitting right here.
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And they were so broken
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and so upset.
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They told me that
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their daughter did not take her own life.
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I didn't know if I could help them,
and I said to myself,
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{\an8}let me get the records
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from the New Jersey Transit
Police Department.
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I'll present the reports to them,
and sadly, I'll have to tell them,
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"Your daughter took her own life."
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But that never happened
once we got the records.
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Tiffany Valiante was 18 years old
and lived with her family
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in a very rural area of New Jersey
west of Atlantic City.
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Now here's what we know
about the night that she was killed.
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On Sunday, July 12th,
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New Jersey Transit train number 4693
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left Philadelphia at 9:50 p.m.,
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heading east to Atlantic City.
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There were about
60 passengers and crew on board.
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The train had just passed under the bridge
at Tilton Road in Galloway Township
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and was headed toward the crossing
at Genoa Avenue.
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It was 11:12 p.m. at mile marker 45
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on a very dark stretch of track
where Tiffany was hit by the train.
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[dark music playing]
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[Paul] When the train was examined later,
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it showed that the impact was specifically
on the lower left side of the train,
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close to the track.
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There were two engineers
on board the train.
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A senior engineer and a student engineer.
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{\an8}That night, they both signed the report
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{\an8}saying that Tiffany
dove in front of the train.
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But here's the problem.
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Six days later, when he's put under oath,
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the senior engineer comes up
with a completely different version
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of what he told the detective
the night of the incident.
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Here's his story.
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"I was talking to the conductor."
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"I never saw her. My back was turned."
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So you throw his statements out,
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and then you look at what
the student engineer said.
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Initially, he was asked,
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"When did you first see the trespasser?"
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What was his answer?
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"I didn't see her
until I was on top of her."
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[train whistle blowing]
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Ten days later, he's put under oath,
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and now here's his story.
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"I see something
when I'm half a mile away."
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"Then I see something
when I'm a quarter-mile away."
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"And then I see this person
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jump out of the woods on to the tracks."
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In the end, the student engineer
was the only witness.
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A student engineer who gave variations
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of what he saw that night.
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To this day,
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the New Jersey Transit Police Department
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stands by the inconsistent,
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contradictory statements
of the student engineer.
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My name's Louise Houseman,
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{\an8}and I'm retired from the Atlantic County
Medical Examiner's Office,
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{\an8}where I was the senior investigator.
I worked there for 20 years.
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I've probably been to
several thousand scenes
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over the course of 20 years.
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I was really concerned
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with the sworn statements by the engineer
and the student engineer.
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Because a great deal of weight
was apparently given
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to the information
they provided at the scene,
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which turned out to not be correct.
268
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The major incident event recorder
is considered the black box.
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It records everything that happens
with the engine as it's going along.
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The speed of the train,
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when the hand brakes are used,
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when the horn is rung,
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if the headlights are on.
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And it gives the distance
the train has traveled
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when all this happens.
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So it's very easy to read.
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There's nothing mysterious about it.
It's very straightforward.
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According to the event recorder,
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from the time the apprentice engineer
sounded the horn, struck Tiffany,
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and applied the emergency brake,
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it took a total of 4.1 seconds.
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That train's traveling 80 miles an hour.
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So, did he see what he thought he saw?
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That she jumped in front of him?
I don't know.
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I believe that the student engineer
was in a type of trauma, in shock.
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Anyone would be.
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If you hit someone in a car,
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are you gonna be able
to describe exactly what happened?
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Probably not.
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When you read the transcription,
it seems to be rambling.
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He's not really sure of what he saw,
292
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and it's possible what he saw was
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when the train struck her,
294
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the body parts flew
in all different directions
295
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because she was being dismembered.
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[train whistle blowing]
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[Louise] I don't think
he saw her jump in front of the train.
298
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And she may have been dead on the tracks.
299
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[Jim Brennenstuhl] If you assume
that it's a suicide right at the beginning
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and then tailor the facts
to fit your assumption,
301
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everything else after that is suspect.
302
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My name is Jim Brennenstuhl.
303
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{\an8}I have, for the last 45 years,
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{\an8}either done police work
or private detective work.
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00:21:42,676 --> 00:21:45,679
Mr. D'Amato called me and asked
if I would be involved in the case.
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The train strike is variously recorded
as some time a little after 11:00.
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According to the way they reported it,
this is where it happened.
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Milepost 45.
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{\an8}It's pretty dark.
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Why would she walk all of that distance
and jump in front of a train there?
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What is it about there?
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If she killed herself that way, why?
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Why go that far? Why do it that way?
314
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[Louise] When I saw exactly
where she was struck by the train,
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I was really surprised.
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She was a mile
from the closest intersection
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into the woods.
318
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And it was dark. There's no light.
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The hairs on the back of my head
just went up.
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I said, "There's something
really wrong here."
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[train whistle blowing]
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{\an8}I think there's probably not a day,
certainly not a week,
323
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{\an8}that goes by
that I don't ask myself the question.
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"How did Tiffany Valiante die?"
325
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I am convinced
she did not take her own life.
326
00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:11,640
The lead investigating agency
into the death of Tiffany Valiante
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was the transit system.
328
00:23:18,897 --> 00:23:23,443
New Jersey Transit is one of America's
largest transit operators.
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It runs commuter rail trains
330
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and it has
a significant-size police force.
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And I have great respect
for transit police officers
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and the job they do.
333
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However, most transit police officers
will tell you,
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their wheelhouse
is not homicide investigations
335
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and not suspicious death investigations.
336
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The first thing investigators need to do,
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even in the case of a suspected incident
338
00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:02,983
of somebody
possibly taking their own life,
339
00:24:03,066 --> 00:24:07,779
is first determine whether
they were the victim of a murder.
340
00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:11,283
We have no indication that was ever done.
341
00:24:12,576 --> 00:24:15,162
[Paul] The area
where this whole event took place
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was not treated as a crime scene.
343
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:20,959
People were walking all around there,
344
00:24:21,042 --> 00:24:24,963
and it had not been
roped off appropriately.
345
00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:29,301
[Stephan] It appeared from the outset
346
00:24:29,384 --> 00:24:34,139
to be a textbook example
of a rush to judgment
347
00:24:34,222 --> 00:24:38,727
to misclassify
the manner by which she died.
348
00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:41,771
This is the death certificate.
349
00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:47,819
Tiffany Valiante died
shortly before midnight, July 12th.
350
00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:51,907
On the 17th of July, when this is dated,
351
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the manner of death is suicide.
352
00:24:57,329 --> 00:25:02,709
You cannot draw conclusions
that early in an investigation.
353
00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:05,420
That's an impossibility.
354
00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:10,592
[Louise] Suicide closes a case,
355
00:25:10,675 --> 00:25:13,470
as far as
a prosecutor's office is concerned.
356
00:25:14,095 --> 00:25:16,598
As far as the medical examiner's office
is concerned.
357
00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:19,601
As far as New Jersey Transit is concerned.
358
00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:23,605
"This is a suicide,"
and it's simply a statistic.
359
00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:28,151
As far as the family's concerned,
it's their child,
360
00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:31,071
and they wanna know
what happened to their child.
361
00:25:33,698 --> 00:25:37,118
[Dianne] They should have
investigated like they were supposed to.
362
00:25:38,411 --> 00:25:41,289
You know, the State of New Jersey
has books on procedures
363
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on what they're supposed to follow,
and those procedures weren't followed.
364
00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:52,259
[Stephan] A full autopsy
was never conducted.
365
00:25:52,342 --> 00:25:55,095
No rape kit was ever performed.
366
00:25:55,178 --> 00:25:57,264
DNA was never tested.
367
00:25:57,347 --> 00:25:59,891
No organs were examined.
368
00:26:01,268 --> 00:26:02,143
Why?
369
00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:03,853
Why?
370
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:09,359
You have to give weight
to the toxicology report.
371
00:26:09,442 --> 00:26:15,448
There was no alcohol,
no drugs in Tiffany Valiante's system.
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00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:17,993
A totally clean toxicology report.
373
00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:21,371
After the toxicology report came back,
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00:26:21,454 --> 00:26:25,458
and it was found that Tiffany
had no drugs or alcohol in her system,
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00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:30,547
the manner of death probably should have
been amended to "undetermined."
376
00:26:31,965 --> 00:26:37,804
There's no reason to rule the case
"suicide" unless you're sure,
377
00:26:37,887 --> 00:26:39,848
you're absolutely sure,
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00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:42,976
that this was a suicide.
379
00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:48,440
[Paul] Within a couple of days
after Tiffany's death,
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her remains were cremated.
381
00:26:50,984 --> 00:26:54,237
So it's not as if we can exhume the body
382
00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:56,364
and have a fresh look at this.
383
00:26:57,866 --> 00:27:01,995
[Louise] Also, the detective
does write in his report
384
00:27:02,078 --> 00:27:04,914
that no shoes were found at the scene.
385
00:27:04,998 --> 00:27:06,958
Her shoes were not with the body.
386
00:27:08,084 --> 00:27:09,961
To me, that is suspicious.
387
00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:15,800
[Dianne] When she walked away,
she had a white headband on,
388
00:27:15,884 --> 00:27:18,845
she had blue jean shorts
that were almost white,
389
00:27:18,928 --> 00:27:21,848
and she had a black T-shirt on and shoes.
390
00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:28,396
When they found her, all she had on
was a sports bra and black underwear.
391
00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:31,733
Well, where's her shorts?
Where's her shirt?
392
00:27:33,276 --> 00:27:37,113
[Louise] Isn't that one of the questions
a medical examiner would wanna know?
393
00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:43,578
The medical examiner's report
was so small, so scant.
394
00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:51,670
I saw no evidence
that they contacted Tiffany's doctor,
395
00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:54,422
that they contacted
anyone from her school.
396
00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:59,552
Nobody ever came and talked to us
and asked me questions about my daughter.
397
00:28:00,136 --> 00:28:03,515
[Robert, Jr.] They didn't talk to her mom
and dad. They didn't talk to anybody.
398
00:28:03,598 --> 00:28:07,686
You're just gonna say "oh, it's a suicide"
because somebody got hit on the tracks?
399
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:08,853
That's crazy.
400
00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:15,819
[Louise] She had no history
of any medical problems.
401
00:28:15,902 --> 00:28:19,280
No history of drug abuse.
No history of alcohol abuse.
402
00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:20,824
An active athlete.
403
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:25,245
Someone that was really loved
and was just doted on by her family.
404
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:32,627
The phone messages
that I was able to look at,
405
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,380
I didn't see anything really unusual.
406
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,760
She had broken up with her girlfriend,
but it seemed to be amicable.
407
00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:44,806
[Dianne] Tiffany had
a girlfriend from Philly.
408
00:28:45,306 --> 00:28:50,478
It was, uh, right around that Friday
before she died that they broke up.
409
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:52,439
But it was mutual.
410
00:28:57,318 --> 00:28:59,988
[Louise] There didn't
seem to be any hostility
411
00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:01,948
from the phone records that I read.
412
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:08,371
And actually, Tiffany had started
another relationship with another woman,
413
00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,957
according to her phone records.
414
00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:14,419
[Dianne] She actually wrote,
415
00:29:14,502 --> 00:29:16,671
even in her phone
the night before she died,
416
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,132
that "I'm actually content with my life."
417
00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:23,970
[Louise] So, why did she do this?
418
00:29:24,053 --> 00:29:26,473
If she committed suicide,
was there a reason?
419
00:29:26,556 --> 00:29:28,266
Why would she commit suicide?
420
00:29:35,064 --> 00:29:39,277
[Robert, Sr.] This happened at night,
and I came down early the next morning.
421
00:29:41,696 --> 00:29:46,534
I didn't want my brother, Stephen,
or his wife, Dianne,
422
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:49,621
to have to walk down that tracks
and see what I saw.
423
00:29:50,413 --> 00:29:52,123
Pieces that they just left behind.
424
00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:54,876
[somber music playing]
425
00:29:56,419 --> 00:29:59,422
[Robert, Jr.] My father and I were
looking for things that were missing.
426
00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,007
{\an8}We're looking for her sneakers.
427
00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:02,634
{\an8}We're looking for her headband.
428
00:30:02,717 --> 00:30:07,972
We're looking for her earrings,
her jewelry, her shorts.
429
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,391
[Robert, Sr.] I don't know how I did it,
430
00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:14,187
{\an8}but I picked up pieces of her skull
with hair on it.
431
00:30:14,270 --> 00:30:20,401
I picked up a jawbone with teeth
and various parts of her bones.
432
00:30:22,737 --> 00:30:25,323
We found one of her bracelets
and gave it to Dianne,
433
00:30:25,406 --> 00:30:26,825
and she has that today.
434
00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:30,161
And that was on her at the time.
435
00:30:32,163 --> 00:30:35,083
To have to pick up
pieces of her off the track
436
00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:38,545
was the most devastating thing
I ever done in my life.
437
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:45,593
[Robert, Jr.] Walking to the tracks,
438
00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:49,264
I see bloody rubber gloves
laying on the ground.
439
00:30:49,347 --> 00:30:51,224
That scene's already contaminated.
440
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,852
It wasn't even roped off.
441
00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:58,231
New Jersey Transit just...
They're not trained for that.
442
00:30:58,731 --> 00:31:01,234
And they didn't do a good job
cleaning the tracks.
443
00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:04,654
We would go down there
and keep looking, and looking,
444
00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:06,489
but we never found her shoes there,
445
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:08,449
we never found her headband there,
446
00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:10,952
we never found any of her clothes there.
447
00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:17,083
Where is the stuff
that she was wearing from the party?
448
00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:34,475
[Dianne] Walking down Tilton Road,
just walking,
449
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,604
I had already been
up and down that street a million times.
450
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:44,360
For weeks, we were walking just looking
for any kind of sign of something
451
00:31:44,444 --> 00:31:46,821
'cause I knew
my daughter's shorts were missing.
452
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,657
Her headband was missing.
Her shoes were missing.
453
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:51,659
And as I'm walking along,
454
00:31:52,869 --> 00:31:59,208
I got to about here, and I looked over,
and I saw my daughter's shoes.
455
00:32:05,131 --> 00:32:08,134
[crying softly] And when I saw that,
I fell to the ground.
456
00:32:10,303 --> 00:32:13,556
And when I fell to the ground,
about six feet away,
457
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,142
was Tiffany's white headband.
458
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:21,564
I felt like a Mack truck hit me.
459
00:32:23,274 --> 00:32:24,609
I'll never forget that day.
460
00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:26,736
And I remember it like yesterday.
461
00:32:26,819 --> 00:32:28,780
We got a phone call from my Aunt Dianne.
462
00:32:29,989 --> 00:32:32,533
That she found
Tiffany's shoes and headband.
463
00:32:33,117 --> 00:32:35,370
And it was almost two miles away
464
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:36,996
from where she was struck.
465
00:32:38,581 --> 00:32:41,084
I ran down there and she's just losing it.
466
00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:45,713
She's... I mean, my wife was hysterical.
I couldn't understand what she was saying.
467
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:54,472
Her shoes and stuff were,
like, in here, this area.
468
00:32:56,599 --> 00:33:00,603
And they were side-by-side almost,
like a foot apart.
469
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:05,066
The way they were positioned,
like, I just...
470
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:07,902
I felt like somebody took her
right out of her shoes.
471
00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:08,987
That's how I felt.
472
00:33:10,571 --> 00:33:13,783
But other people thought
maybe somebody placed them there.
473
00:33:16,244 --> 00:33:18,246
New Jersey Transit came here.
474
00:33:18,329 --> 00:33:23,501
They took pictures of her shoes,
and they put the shoes in a brown bag.
475
00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:26,421
They took the items in
and that was the last you heard of it.
476
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,297
You never heard anything else.
477
00:33:33,970 --> 00:33:35,805
They had all these items,
478
00:33:35,888 --> 00:33:39,642
but they were never sent out
for any type of testing
479
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:44,856
to see if there was any other
possible DNA on them.
480
00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:48,776
Five years
after their daughter was killed,
481
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:52,697
the families had to pay
to have those items tested for DNA.
482
00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:57,035
But the chain of custody
has been broken on that,
483
00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:59,370
so it's not of any use at all.
484
00:34:01,789 --> 00:34:03,875
[Dianne] After we found her shoes,
485
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:06,335
we actually got about 15 of us together,
486
00:34:06,419 --> 00:34:08,921
and we scoured that woods
487
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:11,674
{\an8}all the way to the train tracks
where she was hit,
488
00:34:11,758 --> 00:34:15,845
{\an8}looking for anything that would help
to prove that she didn't do this.
489
00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:19,557
{\an8}The one thing
that's still missing of my daughter's...
490
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,142
{\an8}[voice breaks] ...is her shorts.
491
00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:23,436
[dark music playing]
492
00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:25,855
[Dianne] To this day,
those shorts are missing.
493
00:34:28,816 --> 00:34:32,904
[Paul] I asked myself,
"How did the shoes get to this area?"
494
00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:40,244
It may very well be
that Tiffany was the victim of foul play.
495
00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:44,665
Someone that was involved in the foul play
496
00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:50,088
picked those items up and threw them away
when they were leaving the scene.
497
00:34:55,384 --> 00:34:59,222
Another theory is that
Tiffany took her shoes and headband off
498
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:03,142
where Dianne found them
and walked barefoot to the tracks.
499
00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:07,647
I don't know what sense it would make
500
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:13,569
to walk from Tiffany's house
to where the shoes were found,
501
00:35:13,653 --> 00:35:16,697
and then take your shoes off
and put them in the woods,
502
00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:19,200
and then walk
to where the train strike happened.
503
00:35:21,327 --> 00:35:23,329
You got your shoes on. Why take 'em off?
504
00:35:29,752 --> 00:35:34,340
See how far we've gone so far
on this ride down the tracks?
505
00:35:36,676 --> 00:35:39,053
You're sitting in the back.
Can you feel this?
506
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:41,597
-Feel the road surface?
-[producer] Yeah.
507
00:35:41,681 --> 00:35:43,391
How you doing that in bare feet?
508
00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:46,561
This is just a railroad bed
509
00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:49,939
and has nothing
but sharp rocks with edges.
510
00:35:55,069 --> 00:36:00,324
[Paul] If you look at the photographs
of Tiffany's feet,
511
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:02,577
especially her right foot,
512
00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:07,165
there are no markings whatsoever
513
00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:09,876
that you would expect to see
514
00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:12,920
if someone had walked in their bare feet,
515
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:18,843
especially over the rocks
and the glass along the tracks.
516
00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:22,388
[Dianne] If she walked
on the train tracks itself,
517
00:36:22,471 --> 00:36:24,557
she would have had splinters on her feet.
518
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:28,728
To walk for miles
and have her feet completely clean
519
00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,355
proves to you that she did not walk.
520
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:36,986
[Robert, Sr.] I walked that tracks
after the fact,
521
00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:39,655
and I had a hard time
walking on 'em with work shoes,
522
00:36:39,739 --> 00:36:43,743
and that's what makes me feel
that she never ever walked there.
523
00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:46,954
[ominous music playing]
524
00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:54,462
[Louise] If someone,
especially a female 6'3",
525
00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:56,422
is walking on the roadway,
526
00:36:56,505 --> 00:36:59,634
someone is going to see them,
and going to notice them,
527
00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:03,638
because it's very unusual to see anyone
walking on the roadway in this area.
528
00:37:04,513 --> 00:37:07,600
[Paul] If you look at the photos
529
00:37:08,267 --> 00:37:13,397
from Steve's deer cameras
outside of his home,
530
00:37:14,148 --> 00:37:17,985
you will see headlights of motor vehicles
531
00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:21,948
at the same time
Tiffany's walking down the driveway.
532
00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:28,037
I believe she enters a motor vehicle.
533
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,290
I suspect voluntarily.
534
00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:37,338
I believe she got in a car
with somebody she thought she knew,
535
00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:39,215
was very comfortable with them.
536
00:37:42,134 --> 00:37:45,930
When she entered that vehicle,
somebody grabbed the phone.
537
00:37:46,013 --> 00:37:47,765
And I think that phone
538
00:37:48,307 --> 00:37:51,352
was thrown out of the car
539
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,145
as they were pulling away.
540
00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:58,150
[Dianne] When they took her phone,
that's when I think reality hit.
541
00:37:58,234 --> 00:37:59,527
She was in trouble.
542
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:07,201
[voice breaking] Everybody has
their own scenarios
543
00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:09,161
of what happened to my daughter.
544
00:38:09,912 --> 00:38:12,456
I thought,
"Well, maybe they tried to rape her,
545
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:13,582
and she ran from them,
546
00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:16,002
and maybe she was trying
to get away from them,
547
00:38:16,085 --> 00:38:18,129
and then she just couldn't run anymore."
548
00:38:18,796 --> 00:38:22,466
[crying] I truly believe that she
was hanging on to this for dear life,
549
00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:25,219
trying to save herself,
you know what I mean?
550
00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,471
And trying to keep them from taking her.
551
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:29,557
[mysterious music playing]
552
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,566
{\an8}[Robert, Sr.] Right behind us,
where the tracks are,
553
00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:40,359
that's where Tiffany lost her life.
554
00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:46,907
It's really desolate back here.
It's really kind of creepy or spooky.
555
00:38:48,367 --> 00:38:51,412
If you were to pull back here,
you wouldn't hear anybody.
556
00:38:51,495 --> 00:38:53,497
You have the noise of the train
on one side,
557
00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:57,126
and you have the noise of the pike
to the right of me here.
558
00:38:59,253 --> 00:39:02,423
[Robert, Jr.] If I wanted to get rid
of somebody, what a better spot to do it.
559
00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:04,717
That remote location,
you could do anything you want.
560
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,219
There's nothing there.
Nobody's gonna hear a scream.
561
00:39:07,303 --> 00:39:08,637
Nobody's gonna hear anything.
562
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,266
What a perfect spot to commit a murder.
563
00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:14,352
[dark music playing]
564
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:21,108
[Paul] If you look at the photographs
565
00:39:21,192 --> 00:39:24,904
that were taken by
the New Jersey Transit Police Department,
566
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:29,742
as well as the New Jersey
State Medical Examiner's Office...
567
00:39:31,952 --> 00:39:36,082
you will see that at the point
that the train and the body of Tiffany
568
00:39:36,165 --> 00:39:38,667
came in contact with each other,
569
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:41,754
there is what looks like
a large pool of blood.
570
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:46,634
Which suggests that the body
could have been laid there
571
00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,762
and was bleeding
before the train hit the body.
572
00:39:51,138 --> 00:39:53,140
[ominous music playing]
573
00:39:55,017 --> 00:39:56,852
[Paul] They never tested anything.
574
00:39:56,936 --> 00:40:01,023
They said they had enough
to conclude that it was suicide
575
00:40:01,107 --> 00:40:02,733
without doing the testing.
576
00:40:03,609 --> 00:40:05,319
So it was never determined
577
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:08,531
if that was, in fact,
Tiffany's blood on the tracks.
578
00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:16,872
The medical examiner in this report says,
579
00:40:16,956 --> 00:40:22,044
when referring to Tiffany's arms and legs,
580
00:40:22,628 --> 00:40:25,798
that they were cut from the torso.
581
00:40:25,881 --> 00:40:30,219
That word "cut" is right in their report.
582
00:40:30,302 --> 00:40:33,180
Not ripped away, but cut.
583
00:40:34,306 --> 00:40:36,058
And that says to me
584
00:40:36,142 --> 00:40:39,645
that there is a viable theory
585
00:40:39,728 --> 00:40:44,942
that she was harmed
before the body was placed on the tracks.
586
00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:47,611
The arms were placed out,
587
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,906
and the legs
were hanging over the other track.
588
00:40:51,824 --> 00:40:54,368
[Dianne] Her feet were intact,
and her hands were intact.
589
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:55,411
What's that tell you?
590
00:40:55,494 --> 00:40:59,457
She wasn't standing on that track
and hit by the train.
591
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:01,292
She was laying there.
592
00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:03,002
They were cut off.
593
00:41:06,255 --> 00:41:09,467
[Robert, Sr.] I believe
somebody laid her on the tracks,
594
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:12,511
and, uh, she bled out there.
595
00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:16,182
{\an8}[Robert, Jr.] Seeing the location,
596
00:41:16,265 --> 00:41:18,976
{\an8}definitely she was murdered
and laid on that tracks.
597
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:20,978
No doubt in my mind.
598
00:41:21,061 --> 00:41:24,732
She was laid on those tracks.
That's how they got rid of her.
599
00:41:24,815 --> 00:41:26,692
And somebody's getting away with it.
600
00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:29,236
Somebody's getting away with it.
601
00:41:36,076 --> 00:41:39,288
{\an8}My name is Chuck Atkinson.
I'm a private investigator.
602
00:41:39,371 --> 00:41:42,249
{\an8}I was in New Jersey State Police
for 26 years.
603
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:44,376
As a detective for 17 years.
604
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:48,839
I've been working for Paul D'Amato
since early 2008.
605
00:41:48,923 --> 00:41:50,925
[suspenseful music playing]
606
00:41:52,593 --> 00:41:55,429
Paul and the family
had decided to set up a hotline,
607
00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:58,682
and they were looking
for any type of anonymous tips.
608
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:00,017
And we got a call
609
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:03,395
from a convenience store worker
610
00:42:03,479 --> 00:42:07,733
who had overheard three employees
of that convenience store
611
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:10,486
speaking about the Valiante case.
612
00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:14,782
[Paul] I remember quite clearly
613
00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:17,785
my legal assistant telling me,
"There's a gentleman,
614
00:42:17,868 --> 00:42:21,830
and he has information
about Tiffany's death."
615
00:42:24,708 --> 00:42:27,878
{\an8}[on video] Sergeant Rosell's gonna be here
any minute. We can get started.
616
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:33,217
{\an8}And that particular individual
was interviewed under oath.
617
00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:34,635
{\an8}Extensively.
618
00:42:34,718 --> 00:42:36,929
{\an8}[on video] Of course,
I read about it in the newspaper.
619
00:42:37,012 --> 00:42:40,349
{\an8}I heard about it, you know.
The kids were talking about it at work.
620
00:42:40,432 --> 00:42:43,686
{\an8}[Paul] He shared with that detective
621
00:42:43,769 --> 00:42:45,521
what he had heard.
622
00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:48,941
{\an8}I had been given some information
from these guys that work for me.
623
00:42:49,024 --> 00:42:52,611
[Chuck] They were telling a story
about how it had been a homicide.
624
00:42:52,695 --> 00:42:54,905
So the three subjects that he overheard
625
00:42:54,989 --> 00:42:58,158
did not have anything to do
with this homicide.
626
00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:00,911
They were just relating
something that they had heard.
627
00:43:02,204 --> 00:43:05,249
One of the subjects
was at the uncle's party
628
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:07,543
that Tiffany was at that night,
629
00:43:07,626 --> 00:43:09,962
and he did see Tiffany at the party.
630
00:43:11,463 --> 00:43:13,799
There were references to an argument.
631
00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:17,511
[man on video] And the argument went on,
and then Tiffany left.
632
00:43:18,053 --> 00:43:21,223
{\an8}Now they told me
she was picked up by somebody.
633
00:43:21,307 --> 00:43:22,725
They knew Tiffany.
634
00:43:27,396 --> 00:43:32,526
[Chuck] It was two females and a male
who pick Tiffany up in a vehicle,
635
00:43:33,319 --> 00:43:36,280
taking her somewhere
near the train tracks.
636
00:43:36,363 --> 00:43:40,409
Stripped her naked, held her at gunpoint,
and humiliated her.
637
00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:44,455
-[man] I'm telling you third-party stuff.
-[officer] Yeah, right.
638
00:43:44,538 --> 00:43:46,999
-I'm just telling you what was told to me.
-[officer] Okay.
639
00:43:50,002 --> 00:43:53,005
{\an8}[Chuck] The prosecutor
interviewed the three individuals
640
00:43:53,088 --> 00:43:55,299
{\an8}that were overheard
at the convenience store.
641
00:43:55,382 --> 00:43:57,384
{\an8}[officer] With relation
to the possible homicide,
642
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:58,844
{\an8}did you hear anything about that?
643
00:43:58,927 --> 00:44:02,556
{\an8}Like how it went down
or where that came from?
644
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,600
{\an8}[man 1] No. I don't know.
645
00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:06,977
{\an8}[officer] Did you hear any other rumors?
646
00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:08,771
{\an8}-[man 2] I haven't heard anything.
-Nothing.
647
00:44:08,854 --> 00:44:09,855
{\an8}[man 2] No.
648
00:44:11,690 --> 00:44:15,778
{\an8}[officer] There's rumors that
you knew a lot about what happened.
649
00:44:15,861 --> 00:44:18,822
{\an8}[man 3] To be honest,
that sounds completely absurd.
650
00:44:18,906 --> 00:44:22,034
{\an8}[Chuck] All three witnesses
denied ever saying anything
651
00:44:22,117 --> 00:44:26,080
to the effect of what was overheard
by the convenience store worker.
652
00:44:26,163 --> 00:44:28,999
{\an8}[officer] Since that night,
have you heard anything about it?
653
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:30,125
{\an8}[man 1] No, just...
654
00:44:32,086 --> 00:44:35,047
{\an8}It's just the... suicide.
655
00:44:35,130 --> 00:44:36,298
{\an8}[officer] So, there was no...
656
00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:38,342
{\an8}It was never brought up about
657
00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:41,804
{\an8}possibly being anything
other than a suicide?
658
00:44:41,887 --> 00:44:43,222
{\an8}[man 2] Uh, no. No.
659
00:44:46,183 --> 00:44:51,021
[Paul] In the reports of the interviews
of certain people that knew Tiffany,
660
00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:55,567
some of them did say that she was sad,
that she was depressed.
661
00:44:55,651 --> 00:44:58,153
{\an8}[woman] I don't think she was,
like, very happy.
662
00:44:58,237 --> 00:45:00,280
{\an8}Like... I mean, like...
663
00:45:00,364 --> 00:45:03,659
{\an8}I don't think you could see it unless
you were, like, really close to her.
664
00:45:03,742 --> 00:45:05,244
{\an8}-Because...
-[officer] Sure.
665
00:45:05,327 --> 00:45:08,706
{\an8}[woman] ...she always was, like,
so happy, and like...
666
00:45:08,789 --> 00:45:10,916
Well, like, if you really knew her,
667
00:45:10,999 --> 00:45:12,668
she just, like, I don't know.
668
00:45:12,751 --> 00:45:17,005
I just feel like
she felt like she could never fit in.
669
00:45:17,506 --> 00:45:20,676
[officer] Did she ever
mention anything to you before about, um...
670
00:45:20,759 --> 00:45:22,720
besides just noticing she wasn't happy,
671
00:45:22,803 --> 00:45:26,557
that she wanted to... she was thinking
about harming herself at all?
672
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:27,641
{\an8}[woman] No.
673
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:29,560
{\an8}[officer] Um...
674
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,522
[somber music playing]
675
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,502
[mysterious music playing]
676
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:01,383
{\an8}[Paul] How did Tiffany get from her home
677
00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:05,429
{\an8}to where her body
came in contact with the train?
678
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:07,264
Did she walk?
679
00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:10,225
Did someone pick her up
and drive her there?
680
00:46:10,309 --> 00:46:12,853
Was her death some kind of accident
681
00:46:12,936 --> 00:46:14,605
or was it foul play?
682
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:16,690
[mysterious music continues]
683
00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:22,029
[Paul] There are people out there,
as we speak,
684
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:25,157
that have knowledge of what happened.
685
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:28,535
And I'm begging them to come forward
686
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:30,245
and help this family.
687
00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:36,794
[Stephen] Before my daughter
went to college,
688
00:46:36,877 --> 00:46:39,046
I promised her
I'd build her a volleyball court.
689
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:41,924
And after Tiffany's passing, I said,
690
00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:44,301
"Well, I promised it." So I built it.
691
00:46:47,721 --> 00:46:51,391
Tiffany just couldn't wait to
go to college and have fun at volleyball.
692
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,105
But somebody took that away from her,
and it ain't fair.
693
00:46:58,315 --> 00:46:59,441
We need justice.
694
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,079
[Stephen] Is it rough every day? Sure.
695
00:47:12,162 --> 00:47:13,914
Every day, it's a job to wake up.
696
00:47:13,997 --> 00:47:15,624
Every day, to go to sleep.
697
00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:19,419
But it's what I have to do
until I find out who did this to our baby.
698
00:47:22,589 --> 00:47:27,094
[Dianne] This here is a cabinet of nothing
but beautiful memories of Tiffany.
699
00:47:27,177 --> 00:47:28,053
And...
700
00:47:29,596 --> 00:47:32,558
friends and relatives
have brought things here
701
00:47:32,641 --> 00:47:35,435
in memory of Tiffany
to put in her cabinet.
702
00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:37,646
Tiffany's bracelet here.
703
00:47:38,522 --> 00:47:41,900
This was on her the night she died.
704
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,153
So I wore it for a long time.
705
00:47:45,904 --> 00:47:50,868
This is Tiffany here
in the solid wood urn.
706
00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:53,912
It's a prayer box. I pray every night.
707
00:47:56,164 --> 00:47:58,000
Then I put a message in there.
708
00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:03,171
"For justice for Tiffany
709
00:48:03,255 --> 00:48:06,675
and hope that the people
that did this to her will come forward."
710
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:14,725
[kisses]
711
00:48:20,939 --> 00:48:22,316
I love you, Tiffy.
712
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,083
[dramatic music playing]