it was like oh, wow. he did it. he took off and we didn know where he was. he took off, and we did not know where he was. call it a mother intuition. she had a sign. i don t know how, something wa wrong. her daughter away at colleg was not answering her phone. she was scared. she did not know where ale was. then, terrible news, student had been murdered, i young woman, but apparently it was not alex the girl on the floor had very dark, almost black colore hair she had much lighter hair. so, who was it, and where was alex at that point, it was one that, and perhaps anothe missing. the color could be roaming campus of students we were really scared in a serious tweet. what did you think? i don t exactly know. a terrifying phone call my son just called and told me he killed somebody. and a terrible truth. i did not know how, and i did not know who and i did not know anything. i just knew she was gone hello, and welcome to dateline
growing up with my dad one man i despised your dad? in the minutes before he wa arrested, clayton wrote bizarre apology to alex and th family, sorry to the family an you, he texted, nothing will ever fix or undo what i did. i became my father in court, clayton sister too the stand and supported he brother s story. their father, scott whittemore did not respond to datelines calls. there is no records of complaints against him, but defense expert, a psychiatrist testified, scott admitted that as a former marine he may have been rough because of that abuse, the expert concluded that clayto was suffering that extreme emotional disturbance an snapped in the dorm room the prosecution begged t differ it s sad and tragic, yo know, we never discounted or deny and his past but that doesn t excuse what he did
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canada okay. just take a couple of dee breaths and we re going to try to find him to get him help. the dispatcher got the name alex kogut from the stressed out mom. slightly wrong, but it was enough seconds later, he was on the phone to the campus cops i brockport. and now, finally, the pieces o the story began to fit together we had a call from a father about an hour ago, and sai that his son called him, and said that he killed somebody weeping this phone the son s name is clayto whittemore okay. apparently, he went out wit his girlfriend at college. yeah. that s who we are looking for. are you looking for them i had him earlier on an ope container, just after midnight is the girl okay, we re concerned about what is goin on if we don t know where this alex kogut, we can t locat her. but her roommate is doa. that s the theory tha campus cops were acting on tha