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Daniel Marsh Video Transcript
Daniel Marsh Video Transcript
0:00Dark irony cuts deep. A 10-year-old boy gets a national award for saving a life.
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6 secondsThe same hands that did those chest compressions would spend the next 5 years fantasizing about taking one. This is not a story about a kid who snapped.
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16 secondsThis is a story about a kid who told everyone exactly what he was going to do and the system that watched it happen.
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25 secondsIn 2008, at just 10 years old, Daniel makes local headlines. His father
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32 secondscollapses from a heart attack. Daniel performs CPR and saves his life. The American Red Cross gives him a hero’s
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41 secondsaward. Daniel parents would divorce the same year and he began to fantasizing about killing people.
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49 secondsBy 11, he is telling a therapist about fantasies of torturing people and how badly he wants to make them real.
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58 secondsDoctors diagnose him with adjustment disorder with depressed mood. His parents think it is just a kid
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1 minute, 6 secondsstruggling with divorce. Daniel is kicked out the house by his father for substance abuse and he moves in with his
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1 minute, 13 secondsmother. He is confined to a mental health hospital for 30 days for anorexia. Daniel continues to struggle
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1 minute, 22 secondswith homicidal ideiation. He tells the school counselor, “The police are involved, but there is no plan or victim, so no intervention.” April 13th,
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1 minute, 34 seconds2013.
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1 minute, 36 secondsDaniel later tells police he had simply had enough. He plans it like a mission. all black clothing, a black face mask,
Chapter 2: Daniel Marsh Murders Elderly Couple
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1 minute, 45 secondsgloves to leave no fingerprints or DNA.
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1 minute, 48 secondsHe tapes the bottoms of his shoes so he will not leave footprints. He takes a 6-in buck knife from his mother’s
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1 minute, 56 secondskitchen. Between 2 and 3:00 a.m. on April 14th, he slips out and walks the streets of Davis. He checks 40 to 50
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2 minutes, 5 secondshomes looking for an open window. He finds one two doors down from his father’s house. Inside are Oliver Chip
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2 minutes, 14 secondsNorthup Jr., 87, and his wife Claudia Malin, 76. Chip is a World War II Navy
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2 minutes, 22 secondsveteran, a UCLA and UC Berkeley law graduate, a retired attorney who served
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2 minutes, 29 secondshis community for decades. Claudia is a pastoral associate at their church and a local stage actress. They had been
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2 minutes, 38 secondsmarried since 1996 and had a blended family of 11 children, 14 grandchildren,
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2 minutes, 45 secondsand eight greatg grandandchildren.
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2 minutes, 48 secondsDaniel cuts the screen, climbs in, and waits in their living room. He hears snoring and follows it to the bedroom.
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2 minutes, 57 secondsHe stands over them for about 10 minutes, watching them sleep. He later describes feeling nervous, but excited and exhilarated. Then Claudia wakes up.
3:09
3 minutes, 9 secondsShe screams.
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3 minutes, 11 secondsDaniel stabs her 67 times. He stabs Chip 61 times as Chip tries to defend her. He
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3 minutes, 20 secondskeeps stabbing after they are dead. Then out of what he calls curiosity, he dissects and mutilates their bodies. On
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3 minutes, 29 secondsJune 17th, 2013, Daniel Marsh is arrested. After 3 and 1/2 hours, he
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3 minutes, 36 secondsconfesses to everything. He tells investigators the murders gave him a feeling of pure happiness that lasted
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3 minutes, 44 secondsfor weeks. He feels no empathy, no remorse.
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3 minutes, 49 secondsWhen an agent asks how he would kill him specifically, Daniel gives multiple detailed methods and finishes with nothing personal. In September 2014,
Chapter 3: Daniel Marsh Sentencing
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4 minutes, 1 secondDaniel Marsh is convicted of two counts of firstdegree murder with special circumstances.
4:07
4 minutes, 7 secondsHe is also declared sane. He is sentenced to 52 years to life. Because
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4 minutes, 14 secondsof California’s Senate Bill 260, he becomes eligible for parole after 25 years.
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