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Hi, and welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas
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true crime podcast where we cover missing persons, unsolved cases,
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and the leading cause of homicide in the Las Vegas
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area domestic violence. I'm your host Sean and.
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I'm your co host John.
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This week, Crime Con, the world's largest true crime convention,
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is back in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace. Last week,
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the event coordinators reached out to us and offered us
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a spot on creator's row. This was a very welcome,
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last minute surprise, so we've spent most of this week
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getting ready for the event and also hosting several other
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family advocates at our house. This is very exciting since
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we cover local stories and have more than one hundred episodes,
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most of which are about unsolved homicides and missing persons
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stories right from our own backyard. We always want to
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take every opportunity to draw attention to these cold and
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unsolved cases, so If you're at the event this weekend,
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please come by our table. We'll have some giveaways and
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we're highlighting several of the stories we've covered over the years.
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One case that absolutely needs to be resolved is the
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murder of Tiffany Booth. We will have our wanted posters
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for Eduardo Clemente, who is still wanted in connection with
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her murder. Unfortunately, Tiffany's family was not able to make
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the trip to Crime Con this year, but we have
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free bracelets you can pick up and wear in her
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memory and to spread awareness about her case, and we'd
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love to see you this weekend.
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Last week, we brought you part two of our interview
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with Liz Ortenberger, a local expert on domestic violence. We
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discussed with her what we can do better to save
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lives and prevent domestic violence, both here and nationwide. The
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interview brought to mind one of the first cases we
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ever covered, the murder of Fukeo dej Odom and her
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three children. She was desperately trying to divorce her husband, Jason,
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who had a history of violence, child abuse, and death
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threats against her. She was doing everything possible to get
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her and her children away from him, and in June
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will hit the ten year anniversary of their deaths, and
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the issues we raised in this episode continue to plague
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Las Vegas.
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With the anniversary approaching, we wanted to dedicate this week
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to Fukeo and her children, and with seven thousand advocates, creators,
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and true crime listeners in town this week, we want
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to make sure she isn't forgotten and that we continue
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to press the justice system for changes so we can
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prevent these tragedies.
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So with that, we bring you this special remastered version
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of what happens when the System fails. Las Vegas, with
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its bright lights and big promises, is sometimes called the
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City of second chances. It's a city of endless possibilities.
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People come here from all walks of life, from all
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over the country in the world, looking for a fresh start.
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Many people think of Las Vegas as a giant neon
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reset button, a chance to start over.
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One of the most sobering facts about escaping domestic violence
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is that statistically, the most dangerous time for a survivor
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is when they leave the abusive partner. Seventy five percent
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of domestic violence related homicides happen after a breakup. We
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talked last week about how you often hear the question asked,
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or even ask the question to yourself, why don't they leave?
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This week, we talk about a case where a woman
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tried to leave, did in fact leave and sought help
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several times, but was hindered by the broken system.
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Tragically, her pleas for help to authorities and the system
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were simply rejected. She filed for an order of protection
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against a man with a history of violence so extreme
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that he put his then five year old daughter in
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the hospital at one point, but was denied.
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Welcome back to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas true
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crime podcast with a focus on the complexities of domestic violence.
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I'm Sean, and with me, as always is the one
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and only John.
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I am the only John in the room.
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John. This week, like every week in Las Vegas or
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really anywhere in America, we had a lot of news
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related to domestic violence coming up. Later in this episode,
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we'll discuss a local case that deserves much more attention,
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the murder of Tabitha Tazi.
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But first we're going to focus on the tragic and
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avoidable story of fo Keo dej Odem and her family.
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Foukeo was murdered on June thirtieth, twenty sixteen, along with
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her three children, as a part of a horrific murder
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suicide committed by her husband, Jason Dejodom.
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Foukeo's story has been appearing in several major news publications
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this month, as these murders remain relevant in the context
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of a case coming before the Supreme Court that deals
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with with whether it's constitutional to remove guns from those
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who have orders of protection against them. Who will get
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into that, John, do you want to start us off
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with some information about Fukeo and her children?
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Sure? Fu Keo, who went by Gail at work. In
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twenty sixteen, she was thirty five years old. She was
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married to Jason, who was a couple of years younger,
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in two thousand, when they were ages twenty and eighteen.
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She was a huge Cleveland Cavaliers fan, specifically a Lebron
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James fan, remembering, of course, that the Cavaliers won the
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NBA Championship right around that same time June nineteenth, twenty sixteen.
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The family lived at the Tory Pines Condominiums here in
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Las Vegas, and she was a stylist at sport Clips
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and by all accounts she just lived for her children.
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Her children's names were Anrak Jason who went by AJ
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age nine, Zanajuk who went by JJ, age fourteen, and
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her one daughter, Dolivan Ariel, who was fifteen. All of
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her friends agree she was bubbly, friendly, a loving mother,
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and she lived for her children. Her coworkers described her
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as a prankster. She was always in a good mood
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and she never seemed to get let her situation get
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her down at work. Her co workers at sport Clips
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said that her kids would often join her at work
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and they were the best, most well behaved kids, so polite,
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so bubbly. Neighbors said they saw them playing outside a
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lot and said they seemed very happy. One said that
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she saw Foukeo walking with her kids every day, and
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sometimes they would go to a local park and have picnics.
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On Rock's teacher, the youngest described him as being caring
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and helpful, an overachiever, an excellent student, and a beautiful
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light in the classroom. They called him aj. He was
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great at math, and he was withdrawn from school in
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January twenty sixteen to be homeschooled. Dolivan was amazing and
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nice and gorgeous, and she always tried to make people
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happy and lit up a room with her beautiful soul. Obviously,
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these people are more than what happened to them, but
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unfortunately this is all we were able to find out
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about them. We posted some links to articles containing some photos,
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which normally we wouldn't really do, but since they're all gone,
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it's a nice way to see them, remember them and
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honor their memories.
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Now regarding Jason, Jason was thirty four at the time
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of his death. He was born in May of nineteen
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eighty two. According to court documents, Foukeo listed him as
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being unemployed. He has some criminal history, non domestic violence
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related criminal history. He was charged with felony, theft and
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forgery in two thousand and seven. He pled guilty to
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the theft and the forgery charge was dismissed, and he
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was on probation until twenty fourteen. So fo Keo and
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Jason got married in Franklin County, Ohio in the year
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two thousand. In her order of protection application, Foukeo reported
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that as of twenty sixteen, she had been with Jason
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for twenty plus years and living together with him for
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twenty years. So that means they'd been dating and living
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together since they were teenagers.
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In the show notes, one of the more chilling items
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you'll find is the actual order of protection request in
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Fukeo's own handwriting. When we read through it, we were
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at a loss as to how this thing fell on
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deaf ears as for his domestic violence related criminal history.
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In Ohio, Columbus police responded to a call and Foukeo
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told the police that Jason had been beating and kicking
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and choking their daughter, Dollivan. He put his daughter in
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the hospital and she was five years old. Foukeo herself
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suffered injuries to her head and neck from Jason punching
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her on that occasion. Ohio police declined to arrest Jason,
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and on their report it is listed and this is
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actually true as not a crime slash other service. They
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instead left fu Keo resources and information on protection orders.
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So five hours later, on that same night, Foukeo calls
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the police again to report that Jason is calling her
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because she left and saying things like something was going
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to happen to her because she left, And according to
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the police report, a friend tried to call Jason and
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get him to calm down, and the friend had told
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Fukeo that Jason said that if he did not find
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out where Fukeyo was, that he was going to kill somebody.
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The family moved from Ohio to Las Vegas in March
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of twenty fifteen, presumably after Jason's probation ended for that
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theft charge. We don't have any information on what might
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have happened in between two thousand and five and their
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move in twenty fifteen. According to their new Las Vegas neighbors,
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they were quiet couple and friendly. One neighbor said he'd
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seen Jason repairing a motorcycle in the parking lot of
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the complex and that they seemed like just an average family,
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and when they first moved in, they went around their
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apartment complex to meet people, to get to know their neighbors. Especially,
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they made it a point to get to know their
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kids' friends' parents, and to me, John, this gives me
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the feeling that they were trying to make a fresh start.
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They want to become part of their new community.
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she was giving Jason every chance to be better. The
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couple separated on March twenty sixth, twenty sixteen, and Foukeo
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moved into her cousin's house. As I mentioned, there's a
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lot of detail in the order of protection and we
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will provide a link to that so you can read it.
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Shortly after. According to what Foukeo told coworkers, Jason took
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the three kids to Ohio without her permission and without
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even telling her, and when he finally came back with them,
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she had had enough and she filed for divorce shortly after.
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Yeah, on May twenty fifth, twenty sixteen, she files for divorce.
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In her divorce petition, she states there is domestic violence
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and child protective services involvement with her family. She requested
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sole custody of the three kids and wrote, quote, the
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father is a flight risk and the children need to
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be in my care for education purposes and stability. Father
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cannot hold a job end quote. According to the Las
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Vegas Review Journals, investigation police did respond to a domestic
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violence call at the family's apartment in early June of
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twenty sixteen, but there's no additional information that we were
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able to locate. The police withheld that information as part
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of an ongoing investigation. When this all happened.
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I'd like to talk about a few items from the
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June eighth order of protection, just to emphasize how shocking
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it was that it was denied by the family Court.
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So these are quotes from Fouquo from the petition in
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her handwriting. Throughout the marriage, the children's lives as well
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as mine have been threatened. Guns have been pulled out
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and pointed at our heads multiple times, he said me.
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Not returning home is not an option if anything were
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to happen to the children. I hope you can live
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with that. In the petition, she wrote on June seventh,
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just the day before she filed, Jason was calling her
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and sending harassing text messages. She told him to stop,
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and he ignored her. Then later that day at three pm,
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Jason showed up at her job and threatened to take
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the kids back to Ohio again and told her this
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will not end well.
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One thing I want to note that you and I
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talked about in a couple of places in her petition,
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as you said, is written in her own handwriting. It
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looks to me like there are two different people writing
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on her order protection petition, which means to me that
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she had someone's assistance and support and filing it. There's
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a couple like clarifying notes made as part of the petition,
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and I would have thought if she had help, that
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would have helped her get the relief she was asking for.
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on her paperwork that had the opposite effect.
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Yeah, I see that the threats were made in two
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thousand through two thousand and seven when we were living
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in Ohio. So it's written as if it was written
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by her, but it is written in what is clearly
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different handwriting. It's right after the part where she says
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guns have been pulled out and pointed at the kids' heads.
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So we have a Huffington Post article that explains the
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situation and why the order of protection was denied by
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Amy Maston, who is still currently serving as Clark County
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Hearing Master. BIO in the show notes because it did
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not meet statutory requirements. I will say that I am
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not qualified to evaluate whether it mets statutory requirements, but
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you will talk about that more in a bit. The
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reason given was that because Fouquo reference situations in Ohio
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many years ago, between two thousand and two, thousand and
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seven involving the father and guns, but nothing had occurred
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recently in Las Vegas. So I think that points directly
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to the fact that Amy Masten looked at that report,
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saw that the threats were made in two thousand to
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two thousand and seven, and based on that she decided
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it did not meet the statutory requirements, which it seems
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like is the reason that the order of protection was denied.
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Yeah, for me, something is not adding up here. It's
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not clear why it wouldn't have met the statutory requirements.
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I know, I'll go into this in more detail, but
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this protection order request, this was one that's in effect
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only for forty five days, and under Nevada law, the
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other party doesn't even need to be there to get
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that order because it's supposed to be about safety. So
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under Novada law, harassment and threats are included in the
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definition of domestic violence. And Foukeo does allege events that
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just happened just the day prior, so she files on
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June nath On June seventh, he's coming to her work,
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he's threatening her, and all of that happened in Las Vegas,
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and the hearing master could have asked for a hearing
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if she felt that there were unanswered questions. And I
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know we have hindsight here, but in the cases of violence,
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victims need options, and it's not clear to me what
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harm would have come to Jason if her request was granted.
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I don't understand what the downside is to granting this
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order of protection. Advocates in the community explained to The
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Review Journal in an article we link that in cases
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where the victim files for divorce and applies for an
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order of protection, the family court will often deny the
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order because the judge and the divorce case will issue
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a no contact order, which didn't happen because fou Keo
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was in hiding on June twenty second when her initial
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custody hearing was heard, so the case was dismissed.
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So shortly after the order protection was denied, according to
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her co workers, Foukeo started missing shifts at work. The
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Review Journal has reported that on June eighteenth, twenty sixteen,
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for Ko quit her job. She texted her manager, quote,
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I cannot work. He'll know where I am. I have
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to quit now end quote. According to her co workers,
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she was scared for her life and as John said,
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On June twenty second, there was a custody hearing related
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to the divorce, but neither for Keo nor Jason showed up,
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so the motion was dismissed. And that brings us to
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June twenty ninth, twenty sixteen, the night of the murders.
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So on that night, around seven pm, Las Vegas Metro
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Police received a call about a woman running through traffic.
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This was Fukeo. She was fleeing from Jason. She was
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seen waving her arms and screaming in the road. A
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Good samaritan was driving by and saw her stopped her
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car to pick her up. Jason then followed them in
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his car and pulled up beside them and threatened the
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driver with a gun. So the driver, of course pulled
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over and Jason pulled fou Keo out of the car
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at gunpoint, and security footage showed him forcing Fukeo into
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his black Mercedes and him driving away with her hanging
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out of the car window. She was able to get
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out of the car and again she runs. She runs
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around through the drive through of a Walgreens pharmacy. He
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fires four shots at her, one hits her in the
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back of the head. Another good Smaritan bystander finds her
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body just minutes late and attempts to render aid in CPR,
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but fu Keo was gone.
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So then around eight pm, as the police are processing
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the scene where fou Keo had been murdered, Metro gets
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a call from a relative of Jason's calling from Ohio
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saying that Jason had texted him saying he was suicidal
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and distraught and reporting that he had done something wrong.
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So at this point the police don't know these two
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incidents are related. Officers are dispatched to the family's apartment,
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which is close by, and when they pull up to
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the complex, they notice a car that matches the description
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of the car that was chasing the woman at the Walgreens.
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So they go into the situation cautiously and they start
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to put two and two together, anticipating a standoff. They
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set off flashbangs and order him to come out. He
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doesn't respond, so when SWAT officers show up at the apartment,
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they wait for a few hours until they realize that
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the children are in the apartment and they decide to breach,
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and when they do, they discovered all three children are
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dead from gunshot wounds and Jason is as well.
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One of the important lessons we want to talk about
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with regards to Foukeo's case is that the most dangerous
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time for survivors is when they leave. This statistic comes
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from the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness. Seventy five percent
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of domestic violence homicides occur upon separation, and there's a
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seventy five percent increase in violence upon separation for at
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least two years. And I know we can see that
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pattern here with Fokeo. She moves out in March, he
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takes the kids in April without telling her. She files
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for divorce in May. His threats continue to escalate. He's
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coming to her work. She files for the order of protection.
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It's denied. She quits her job. That's how bad it's
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gotten for her. And it's obvious here that the systems
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we had in place to help create a bubble of
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safety around survivors, around people like Fukeo has failed in
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this instance. So, just to add some more detail to
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the order of protect information. In Nevada, you can get
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a basic temporary order protection, which is what some people
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might call a restraining order. You can get one without
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the courts holding a hearing, which will order the other
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party to stay away from you, your kids, your workplace,
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et cetera, for forty five days. The court will even
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serve the notice on the other party for you. If
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you meet the statutory requirements for domestic violence, the court
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should offer you that short time of protection. What happened
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was after the murders of Fouqueto and her family, the
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Nevada legislature in twenty seventeen session did take a look
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at the statutes around domestic violence and order protections and
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they did take steps to try and strengthen what protection
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could be offered by an order of protection. So we
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mentioned the temporary orders, but a victim can request an
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extended order, which can last up to two years. It
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used to only be one year, but in twenty seventeen
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the law was changed to make it two years, and
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for this order, the court has to hold a hearing.
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But at that point, an offender could be ordered to
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turn over their guns or be prohibited from purchasing guns,
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and that was something that was added in twenty seventeen,
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and the Nevada legislature also passed the bill that year
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that required employers to provide leave, could be paid, could
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be unpaid leave, but some type of leave to domestic
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violence victims and additional protections which can help when you're
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trying to escape domestic violence and maybe you don't need
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to quit your job in order to do what you
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need to do to get safe. And just as an aside,
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if you're convicted. If a person's convicted of the crime
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of domestic violence in a criminal case, you can't own
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a gun. Nevada's Red Flag Law went into effect in
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twenty twenty, allowing for guns to be removed from high
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risk individuals, which could be domestic violence offenders or other
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individuals at law enforcement or even family members think or
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at risk for harming themselves or others. But definitely in
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future episodes, we're going to talk more about the relationship
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of guns to domestic violence and mass shootings.
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On the national level related in November of twenty twenty three.
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Next month, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments
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in the case United States versus Saki Rahimi. So this
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case deals with the issue of whether in existing law
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eighteen US Code Section nine twenty two, which will link
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in the show notes in case you're interested in reading,
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that violates the Second Amendment In short, the law prohibits
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the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence
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restraining orders. I really recommend reading the Scotus blog article
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on this. I'm not a lawyer, but I find this
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stuff really interesting. We will link it in the show notes.
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Another thing I want to touch on here again is
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the idea of victim blaming, which I think if you're
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listening you understand that's a topic you're going to hear
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about a lot as we talk about these cases. On
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the Vegas thread on Reddit, there's a conversation from the
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time in twenty seventeen where you can see someone comment
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maybe she should have left him a long time ago.
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And as another person in the thread points out, fu
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Keo checked all the boxes and tried like hell to
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get away from Jason. She moved out, She physically removed
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herself from her and her children from the situation, and
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literally hid from him. She filed for divorce, and she
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filed for an order of protection. In our last episode,
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the victim was physically unable to leave. She was literally handcuffed,
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whereas Fouko did leave. In this case, it was the
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broken system that may very well have cost her and
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her children, their lives. I'll also say that I think
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it's natural to search for simple solutions and think that
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because we can come up with simple solutions like just
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pack up a bag and go, this isn't the reality though,
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And I think that's more of a coping mechanism we
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use to convince ourselves that this will never happen to us.
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I kind of just want to share a little bit
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more about what happened after Couquo and her kids were murdered.
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On July first, twenty sixteen, there was a memorial held
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at the Walgreens where the murders took place and the
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children's teachers where there people lit candles and shared messages
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about the family john In about a year after the
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family first moved to Las Vegas, they were killed, and
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their extended families are in Ohio and Texas, and according
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to the GoFundMe that was posted after the murders, the
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plan was to bring the family home to Ohio for burial.
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The go fundme, of course, now is closed and there
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are no updates, but at the memorial, the Review Journal
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reported that quote men, women, and children of all ages
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and races helped each other light memorial candles end quote.
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So in the short time that they lived here in
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Las Vegas, it's clear they made an impression on so
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many people, their teachers, their coworkers, and their neighbors. We
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did an extensive search and we could not find any
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obituaries for for Ko or the children, but we know
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that they had many family members and friends who love
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them dearly. Something interesting that I want to share is
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that the story of what happened to them is memorialized
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in the official United States Congressional record. Fu Keo and
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her children's murders were included in a statement made on
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the House floor by Congresswoman Jackie Spear of California on
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July seventh, twenty sixteen. Fu Keo and her children's murders
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occurred about two weeks after the Pulse night Club mass
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shooting in Orlando, which happened on June twelve, twenty sixteen.
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So Congresswoman Spears spoke on the floor of the House
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that morning to honor lives lost to gun violence in
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the month of June twenty sixteen. Pou Keo and her
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children were included, along with forty seven other victims of
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gun violence that were lost that month, in addition to
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the forty nine lives lost at the Pulse night club.
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So then, on March fourteenth, twenty eighteen, on the floor
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of the Senate, Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto made a
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statement on the issue of gun violence. She stated that
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over the past five years, Nevada has lost an average
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of ten kids a year to gun violence. She read
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a list of fifty names of children lost a gun
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violence in Nevada, and Fukeo's three children were included. This
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was on the day when students all over the country
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did walkouts to protest gun violence, one month after the
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shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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This summer was seven years since the family was murdered,
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and I have mixed feelings about this, but Fukeo and
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her story continue to be used as an example of
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how we can do better as a society and improve
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our systems to protect victims and their children. And this
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case comes up very often in the national media regarding
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domestic violence and gun violence.
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So next week we're going to cover the Tabitha Tozi case.
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Earlier this week, Tabitha's family and friends held a peaceful
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protest on what was the sixth month anniversary of her murder.
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Tabitha was shot and killed on April twenty second of
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this year. A warrant has been issued for her boyfriend,
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Oswaldo Nathaniel Perez Sanchez, but he has yet to be apprehended.
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He shot Taba during an argument in front of a
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house on Legger Drive, which is near Cimarron and Alta
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in Las Vegas.
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A ten thousand dollars reward is offered for any information
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leading to Perez Sanchez's arrest. Tabitha's mother, family, and loved
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ones are seeking justice and asking anyone with information to
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come forward. They are also demanding that the Las Vegas
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Metropolitan Police Department provide an update on the status of
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the case and what efforts have been made to locate
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and arrest Perez Sanchez. Also, her family and friends mentioned
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that as part of the protest they held on October
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twenty second, that they wish to draw attention to gun
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violence and the murder of women and girls by men,
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which relates to Foco's case and sadly too many others.
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So keep an eye on our social media this week
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because we'll be posting pres Sanchez's wanted poster and description,
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and we will cover a Tabitha's case fully in the
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next episode. And it's important to note that when we
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post Perez Sanchez's wanted poster sharing, that may seem like
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something that's unimportant, but in fact, the more or widely
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we can get that wanted poster or shared, the more
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likely it is that someone's eyeballs who have seen him
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recently will let the police know where he is so
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we can be apprehended for this murder.
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