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Avis Beery

Nov 24, 2025

12:27
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12:29
One of the detectives pulled out a shotgun and pointed it at him and said, "Put your hands up in the air and get down on the ground." Roy Waller looked very surprised, and he also peed his pants.
12:42
You know, he, he literally had the piss scared right out of him, and, and he had to be thinking to himself, "I think I know what this is about.
12:52
How much do they know?"
13:01
During the entire 90-minute drive, Waller didn't ask a single question about why he'd been arrested.
13:07
He's probably thinking, "Maybe they only know about Sacramento." I knew that he was more savvy than some suspects, but I didn't know what to expect.
13:17
I didn't, I didn't know if he was going to wanna just give it all up and wanna brag about himself.
13:23
I didn't know if he wa- was going to deny, deny, deny.
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17:13
I asked Avis when she first heard that name.
17:18
And I was actually on vacation, and when I came back, they, you know, my team was like, "Oh, you're, you're never gonna believe this.
17:25
We got a double rape." And I was like, "Oh, man, why do I always miss the good stuff?" Like, that's a really terrible thing to say, but, like, when you're in law enforcement or, you know, homicide and you get, like, a triple, it's terrible, but at the same time, it's like, wow, this is a, this is a good case, you know? So we're a little weird, all of us, but, like, that was a, that was a really exciting case for somebody who is a sex assault detective.
21:00
I was curious what Avis thought when she read Nicole's case for the first time.
21:05
I absolutely believed her.
21:07
And I felt terrible to my core that somebody would not believe her.
21:12
For, for what reason? Well, when I speak with, you know, other investigators, you know, I always tell them, "You don't lose anything by b- [laughs] by believing your victim from the get-go.
21:23
And if you run...

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