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WEBVTT >> I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY BABYIS.AND, I MAY NEVER SEE HER AGAIN.PATRICK: A MOTHER SEARCHING FORHER MISSING DAUGHTER NEARLY FOURYEARS LATER, PROSECUTORS HAVEFILED CHARGES IN THEDISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER OFKELLY DWYER.TOYA: THEY LET OUT THE CASE --LAID OUT THEIR CASE AGAINST HERBOYFRIEND KRIS ZOCCO, SAYING HEKILLED HER DURING AGGRESSIVE ANDVIOLENT SEX.12 NEWS NICK BOHR IS LIVE ATZOCCO'S OLD APARTMENT, THE LASTPLACE DWYER WAS SEEN ALIVE.NICK: THAT IS RIGHT.SHE WAS SEEN ON VIDEO GOING IN.ZOCCO LIVED ON THE 18TH FLOOBUT THERE IS NO VIDEO OF HERCOMING OUT.A 16-PAGE COMPLAINT DETAILS HISINCREASINGLY VIOLENT SEXUALBEHAVIOR.HOW IT COULD HAVE LED TO HERDEATH AND HOW HE TRIED TO "GETAWAY WITH MURDER."WE FIRST LEARNED KELLY DWYER WASMISSING IN OCTOBER OF 2013 FROMHER MOM AS SHE PASSED OUTMISSING POSTERS IN THE THIRDWARD. >> THIS IS THE MOST AWFUL,INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE THING ANYONECOULD EVER GO THROUGH.I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY BABY IS. NICK: HER BODY WAS NOT FOUND FORA YEAR AND A HALF ALONG A RURALJEFFERSON COUNTY ROAD AND NOWPROSECUTORS SAY HER BOYFRIEND ATTHE TIME KRIS ZOCCO PUT HERETHERE. THEY TRACKED DOWN AT LEAST FOUROF ZOCCO'S FORMER SEXUALPARTNERS WHO SAY HE WASINCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE, ANDUSED RESTRAINTS, AT TIMESRESTRICTING THEIR BREATHING.ONE OF THEM SAYING ZOCCO "SEEMEDTO ENJOY OVERPOWERING HER AFTERSHE WOULD SIGNAL FOR HIM TOSTOP."POLICE ALSO HAVE A SEX VIDEOFROM ZOCCO'S PHONE SHOWING DWYERHERSELF TIED UP, HER BREATHINGRESTRICTED JUST A MONTH BEFOREHER DISAPPEARANCE. SHE WAS LAST SEEN GOING INTOZOCCO'S APARTMENT BUILDING, BUTINVESTIGATORS SAY THERE IS NOVIDEO OF HER COMING BACK OUT.INVESTIGATORS SAY ZOCCO'S TRAVELGOLF BAG, LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLDHER BODY, WAS REMOVED AND NEVERFOUND.THE DAY AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED,ZOCCO REMOVED THE SIM CARD FROMHIS PHONE FOR MOST OF THE DAYMEANING INVESTIGATORS COULD NOTTRACE HIS WHEREABOUTS.PROSECUTORS NOW BELIEVE THAT ISWHEN HE WAS DUMPING HER BODY. IN THE COMPLAINT, PROSECUTORSCONCLUDE, "ZOCCO KILLS KELLYDWYER, PROBABLY ON HIS BED ANDPROBABLY AS THE RESULT OF ANINTENTIONAL SEXUALLY MOTIVATEDHOMICIDAL ACT, OR DURING THECOURSE OF AN EXTREMELY RECKLESSSEXUAL ASPHYXIA SCENARIO TAKENTOO FAR." BECAUSE DWYER WAS SO BADLYDECOMPOSED, INVESTIGATORS WEREUNABLE TO DETERMINE EXACTLY HOWSHE DIED.TOYA: ZOCCO IS IN PRISONCONVICTED IN AN ENTIRELYSEPARATE CASE. NICK: THAT IS RIGHT.HE IS SERVING 19 YEARS IN PRISONFOR A CHILD PHOTOGRAPHY CASE.HE IS NOT CONFESSED AND NOTE NEWSTATEMENTS IN THIS CRIMINALCOMPLAINT.COMING UP ON 12 NEWS AT 6:00, APOLICE DOG WAS ABLE TO FIND NEWINFORMATION WHEN THEY SEARCHEDHIS APARTMENT AND CAR.TOYA: THANK YOU.PATRICK: WITHIN THE HOUR,MILWAUKEE'S POLICE CHIEF WEIGHEDIN ON THE COLD CASE.HE SAYS HIS OFFICERS WORKED VERYHARD FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO GET TOTHIS DAY>> BIT OF A JIGSAW PUZZLE ANDTHERE WERE A LOT OF PIECESALWAYS AVAILABLE TO US AND ITWAS JUST ULTIMATELY LEARNING HOWEACH PIECE FIT WITH THE OTHERS.I THINK THERE IS AN OVERWHELMINGAMOUNT OF INFORMATION IN THECOMPLAINT THAT INDICATES THAT WEESSENTIALLY ELIMINATED EVERYOTHER CONCEIVABLE SUSPECT ANDTHIS INDIVIDUAL CLEARLY HAD THEOPPORTUNITY AND BY ALL ACCOUNTSCOMMITTED THIS ACT.TOYA: AS NICK REPORTED, ZOCCODID NOT CONFESS IN THIS CASE.WE SPOKE WITH A WELL-KNOWN LOCALDEFENSE ATTORNEY ABOUT THECHALLENGE PROSECUTORS COULD HAVEPROVING THEIR CASE IN COURT.>> IN TERMS OF WHAT ACTUALEVIDENCE WILL GET IN FRONT OF AJURY, I WOULD SAY THAT'S GOINGTO BE A PRETTY GOOD FIGHT.AND I WOULD THINK A NUMBER OFTHINGS LISTED.I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I WOULDTHINK A NUMBER OF THINGS LISTEDARE NOT GOING TO FIND THEIR WAYIN FRONT OF THAT JURY PANELWHICH ARGUABLY MAKES AN ALREADY

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