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popular restaurant in Eastern Kentucky was found dead and tonight her family says they're patiently waiting for the
investigation to play out and in the meantime as 13 news reporter Lane ball explains they're raising some questions
about a possible Communication Breakdown at a time when she needed help the most
Amber spradlin's loved ones were emotional as they gave details on how she died she was stabbed at least 11 times in her
head her neck and her throat I can't imagine what she was going through and how she was feeling and
it is it is horrible but that's not all they shared Thursday afternoon during a press conference outside of the Floyd
County Courthouse some members of the community who were there to show support Thursday have
questioned how long it's taken to figure out what happened at a Holman Martin nearly two weeks ago
but the family says they have regular contact with the Kentucky State Police Troopers and do not want to rush their
investigation process when they are ready to release it to us they will that's you know and I want them to do
their job the best possible way that they could you know I want them to do it correctly so that way we get the right
person that did this well they wait for answers they're calling into question possible confusion with the 9-1-1 system
they're concerned the calls requesting help did not get through to the closest law enforcement agency if our 911 system
has failed her then at least she's too it's too late for her but at least it might help another family and that's why
this is so important you know I wouldn't wish this on anybody to have to go through Floyd County Fiscal Court
documents say in December 2022 the decision to move the call center from the Kentucky State Police post to the
city of Prestonsburg was because of an increase in service fees now they've launched a petition to move
the call center back to the Kentucky State Police post a family heartbroken wanting answers and
changes but willing to be patient until investigators have all the pieces to this puzzle
reporting in Prestonsburg Lane ball 13 News [Music] you heard it there in that clip there we
have trouble in East Kentucky and people are emailing True Crime garage asking us
to cover this case this is a very aggravating and upsetting case Amber Spradlin 39 years old of
prestonburg killed at a supposed friend's home just over a month ago the original article that comes out in
this case Captain is from the June 21-23 Chronicle and times out of Floyd County Kentucky with the headline KSP
Foul Play suspected in Floyd woman's death and the article reads Kentucky State Police said June 19 they suspect foul
play in the death of a Preston Berg woman according to a statement KSP Post 9 was notified of a deceased female on
June 18 at a residence on Arkansas Creek in the Martin community of Floyd County
KSP Troopers and investigators responded to the residents on Arkansas Creek in reference to the incident the initial
investigation indicated Amber Spradlin age 39 of Prestonsburg had suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of
suspected Foul Play The statement said Spradlin was pronounced dead at the scene by the Floyd County coroner's
office and detective Justin Wireman is leading the investigation and was assisted on scene by KSP Personnel this
is a case that if you're not in this area you may not have heard of but it's making big news in East Kentucky
and the reason being is there's a lot of mystery that surrounds this case first of all the information that's coming out
they're not releasing hardly any information regarding this homicide and and this is
a very violent homicide you heard that in today's trailer the woman you heard describing the injuries is a relative of
Amber Spradlin the other reason why this has made such big news is it's calling into question the 911 response system
and setup there in Floyd County Kentucky now I believe that we know why they are
holding so much information close to the vest in this case and we'll get into that as we go through the case but we
need to point out here that we had a huge response from our audience and a very much needed call to action here in
this case well rightfully so I think we have some public outrage you have a lady
that was at a party of several eyewitnesses she is murdered they don't respond to
the scene fast enough which maybe could have saved her life and there is nobody arrested there's
nobody held accountable for these actions as of yet 39 year old Amber Spradlin was laid to rest her funeral
was June 24th at Davidson Memorial Gardens huge outpour from the community and a lot of people in the community
reaching out to her family with words of kindness and prayer and hoping the best
for this family this case is crazy and I'll tell you why I'm not going to sit here and try to walk some kind of Fine
Line because we have friends at KSP Kentucky State Police over the years the garage has made
friends with several of the Troopers and detectives for the Kentucky State Police
they are a little bit under Fire with this whole 9-1-1 situation which we will dive into and make clear the details of
that but also this case makes me very Furious Captain because of the victim here and we talked about this
before in the garage and I cannot explain why but some of these cases they just they just bother you and disrupt
you more than others and this is one for me when we talk about Amber and her life
it's described as tragic I don't know that I would describe it as tragic but I certainly didn't know her I would
describe it as sad and upsetting she was just 39 years old when she was killed and this is a violent murder a
violent very bloody crime scene but in her 39 years unfortunately Amber lost her parents at a young age so she was
raised by her grandparents and then she has an additional tragedy of losing her sister
in a car accident when she becomes an adult most of us go out we spread our wings some of us go off to college some
of us start our careers some start a family Amber was such a great person she did none of
those things her grandparents who raised her because of the tragedies in her early life they
were in need of care to be taken care of they raised her and took care of her growing up and now it was Amber's turn
to take care of her grandparents as they were very elderly in Amber's adult life
and it was only less than a year before Amber was killed after her grandparents passing away
that she was able to spread her wings and go out and live a more traditional adult lifestyle right she was she was
living in a home of her own for the first time little did anybody know that she would live there for less than a
year before she is killed now one thing that makes me very angry here in this case Captain is we have this beautiful
wonderful person kind-hearted good-natured person and make no make no mistake about it
the beer that was picked for this week that's on purpose I believe that Amber 39 years old
thought that she was out with friends that night thought that she was surrounded by friends that night and it
turns out it was the exact opposite not only is she killed but whoever was there
with her and there's the Waters of murky but whoever was there with her that night
no one it doesn't seem like anybody came to her Aid nobody seemed to stand up for
this wonderful kind-hearted person yeah it makes absolutely no sense and we'll go through some of the details of the
events but you have people at this party somebody's being attacked and nobody stops them or nobody speaks up
afterwards doesn't make any sense the following week the chronicle and times Floyd County reported a community Mourns
ask questions as investigation continues into Women's Murder questions abound and this article really lays out the
case fairly well and we'll get into some problems that I have with the article some problems that I have with this case
in general but the article reads the investigation into the death of Preston Berg native Amber Spradlin is ongoing
though no arrests have yet been made in connection with her murder after her body was found on June 18th
spradlin's death has been at the center of controversy although Kentucky State Police haven't said much about the case
yet they have confirmed that her death is believed to be the result of Foul Play all right let's let's dissect this
a little bit before we get all the way through the article okay first of all an investigation ongoing no kidding I
100 believe that and I do believe that the Kentucky State Police are doing good work on this investigation I also
believe that this thing will be solved and in fact I was a little nervous talking about this case today Captain
here in the garage because due to circumstance we're recording this several days before it will be released
there's a chance that by the time this hits your ear balls there may be an arrest in this case because I think that
Kentucky State Police are doing good work on this case now what I don't like is almost every one of these articles
they are dancing around this whole idea of this being a brutal violent murder that's what it is let's call it what it
is it's a brutal violent murder if you dumb this down or sugar coat it and make it anything other than what it is shame
on you all of these articles and this is a fine newspaper that we're quoting from
but Kentucky State Police Preston Berg police Floyd County and the newspapers everybody keeps saying suspected Foul
Play you heard her loved one you heard her relatives talking in that trailer leading us into Today's Show she stabbed
11 times at least 11 times this is not suspected Foul Play This is Foul Play right this is a violent brutal
murder of a good-natured kind person the incident took place in the Arkansas Creek area of the Martin Community okay
again the other problem that I have with some of the reporting here is that most of these articles just say that it
this is an incident that took place at a residence in the Arkansas Creek area no we know
what residence it took place at right somebody killed Amber Spradlin in the home of Dr Michael McKinney let's let's
say that that's a fact not let's not allude to where her body was found and recovered from
now in a statement issued June 27th the attorney the the family very rightfully so good on them good job by them they
hired an attorney his name is Mark wohlander he issued a statement on behalf of spradlin's family
announcing there will be a press conference on June 29th that press conference was very interesting to
listen to it I'm having trouble finding it online or on YouTube today so I don't
know if it was taken down you can find a short version of that in fact that's what we played for you in
the trailer today but that press conference was interesting because it had details about
the crime that were not listed in most of the papers or the articles that are about this case
this article goes on to say the purpose the statement said is to discuss updates
on the murder investigation and the family's concerns about the case quote the family has questions as to those who
were at Dr Michael McKinney's house located on Arkansas Creek Road this is in Martin Kentucky so to kind of paint a
picture here Martin Kentucky is a community that is south east ish it's it's south of Peter it's south of
Prestonsburg Amber worked in Prestonsburg and that's not a huge Community it's like 3 600 people looks to be a great
Community though like a lot of good restaurants uh very quickly you could be out in the country
off of any route going out of that little tiny town there but one of those communities would be
Martin Kentucky which is a much smaller Community I believe about 600 people live in that area and it's not terribly
far from Prestonsburg now the thing that I like here is that look the family what did they say the family
has questions as to those who were at Dr Michael McKinney's house they're not dancing around the idea that
we know where her body was found and this is a prominent doctor he's a dentist in Preston Burke he's also the
owner of the restaurant the Amber Spradlin worked at so she worked as a hostess I was trying to figure out how long she
had been working there it sounds to me roughly maybe a year but the other information that's coming
out of East Kentucky is that she was friends with this Dr Michael McKinney or at least thought she was yeah the
doctor was her boss and supposedly her her friend and he's supposed to be this well-known
dentist in town probably doing pretty well for himself if he's a restaurant owner and a well-known well-liked
dentist so how does this well-known well-liked professional and this very much liked kind-hearted person
Amber Spradlin end up back at his place and then she's found murdered at about 10 a.m the next morning well let's start
breaking down the timeline in Amber's case yes Captain so on June 17th it's my understanding that Amber Spradlin went
to her place of work which is The Brick House Restaurant I've looked them up online they got a
cool menu looks like the kind of the place that you could walk in and see the captain in the colonel sitting at a
table big plates of food and a bunch of beers having a good time Amber Spradlin like we said had worked
there for approximately one year and she is getting along with co-workers and friends with the owner who is this
Dr Michael McKinney sometime after her shift Dr Michael McKinney and Amber and others these
others are not named went to a place called The Seasons Inn Motel now what happens is afterward
time unknown they go from the seasons in motel and end up back at Dr Michael McKinney's house that sounds all a
little confusing but further digging found out that there is a restaurant and bar at the seasons Inn Motel
my guess here without being able to confirm this what would make the most sense is that Dr Michael McKinney and
Amber Spradlin along with others unnamed go to the seasons Inn motel they're at the restaurant they're at the bar
they're having an after hours good time right after work let's get together for a couple beverages maybe a pitcher of
margaritas have a good time right we've all gone out after work we all for the most part enjoy
however this this Gathering continues and makes its way to the doctor's house which is not terribly far away maybe 10
minutes or so but this party supposedly continues on through the night into the wee hours of the morning
what we've been told is that at some point and this is believed to be in the five o'clock hour the 5 a.m
hour that there is a call from someone that is at this party or at this Gathering
that says to 9-1-1 and it's a little confusing what the 9-1-1 call is but the reason why people
were up in arms and while people are Furious about this case especially the citizens of Prestonsburg
is that nobody ever responded to this call now to be perfectly clear we do not know
exactly what that call was to 9-1-1 and as the story goes there's another call to 9-1-1 this is close to the 10
a.m hour this call is responded to and this is when authorities find Amber Spradlin murdered
having been stabbed at least 11 times rightfully so people were up in arms because many believe had there been a
response to the first 9-1-1 call that this could have all been avoided Amber's life could have been saved she
could have been walking around with the rest of us the thing here is though we don't know what that first call was
about now the rumors that are coming out and this would seem to make some sense there's two rumors one that there were
two calls in that five o'clock hour placed to 9-1-1 the other rumor is that there was one single call but there were
two people two voices that were on the call those 9-1-1 calls have not been released
to the public and I do not anticipate that they will be anytime soon even after an arrest is made the reason being
is there's probably going to be some kind of lawsuit that is involved in this case
so the rumors I have heard and these seem to make some sense to me Captain is that
a 9-1-1 call is placed and there are two people on the call or there's a follow-up call
and both rumors are very similar that there's a fight there's some kind of altercation going on at this residence
they might need the police to come and break this thing up either somebody else jumps on the phone or a second call is
placed which kind of calls off the alarm everything's fine here we got it all sorted out no big deal no need to send
anybody whatever call comes in at 10 A.M again this is not clear but this leads authorities to going out to Dr Michael
McKinney's house and finding Amber Spradlin dead as that article stated she was pronounced dead at the scene by the
coroner's office that's on the 18th of June so even though the the emergency didn't respond right away what law
enforcement now has to do is gather up all the information of who was at that party and who was having interactions
with Amber correct and so this article says the family has learned that along with Dr McKinney his son Michael K
McKinney Roy Kidd and there were at least two other individuals at the home when Amber was
brutally murdered and that's a quote from the family the family the statement that they
released we'll also be addressing concerns they have regarding Floyd County judge
executive Robbie Williams decision to transfer the 9-1-1 emergency call center from Kentucky State Police Post 9 in
Pikeville to the city of prestonsburg's 9-1-1 call center okay so to break that down for everybody and this is one thing
that I don't appreciate we have people saying that there's some kind of police cover up here
Kentucky State Police it doesn't seem like they would have any vested interest in covering this up
and as we said we know some members of that Force it's a large force and we're not going to sit here and pretend that
every one of them are Eagle Scouts the best person you ever met in the whole world
but what this article was stating is just the facts in 2022 December of 2022 it was a decision made by a judge and the
mayor of Prestonsburg to remove the 9-1-1 call center duties from Kentucky State Police from that post nine and
bring them in-house to Prestonsburg the reason why to save a whole bunch of money
now where the gray area becomes is who is supposed to respond to those calls and who is dispatched supposed to call
to those calls and why didn't they so the problem here is this residence is not in Prestonsburg
but the 9-1-1 call center is in Prestonsburg Kentucky State Police and it's this
sounds reasonable says look this used to be our jurisdiction the calls would come into our call
center and we would dispatch a patrol car to the call well now that the call center is moved
and it's in-house with Prestonsburg they are to dispatch one of their police officers a Prestonsburg police officer
patrol car to the call what we do know is whoever was dispatched or not dispatched
no one arrived to the scene nobody showed up to that 5 a.m call the problem is this incident did not occur
within the city limits of Prestonsburg so we're getting conflicting reports and statements the mayor of Prestonsburg is
saying well we received the call at our 911 call center our officers have an obligation
to the citizens of Prestonsburg and if we have cars available we send them past City Limits meaning
they're it the gray area is who is supposed to be responding or dispatched to calls outside of Prestonsburg City
Limits but within the county of Floyd and so there's a little bit of finger pointing here the Prestonsburg PD and
mayor saying Kentucky State Police or or the county should have been responding to those
calls and Kentucky State Police and the county are saying no no no the deal the contract that was made so your city
could save money is that you would take these calls or at least dispatch us if you don't have cars available
the thing here is trying to sort out who dropped the ball was it the call center
and they actually dispatched somebody to go to the scene and nobody showed up right or did the call center just
not dispatch anybody the statements by the mayor are troubling because it it almost sounds like the mayor's saying
well if we have a car available we send someone if not we have priority with Prestonsburg because the taxpayers that
are funding the 911 call center live here okay well what like you you you call and order a
pizza and they're just like no all of our cars are out so we can't sell you a pizza that's not how it works somebody
has to respond to this call even if it was called off and most jurisdictions that's protocol somebody calls 9-1-1
even if somebody calls back and says Nope all good here officers they still send somebody out to make sure that
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everybody in the back cheers to you captain and one thing here that we need to sort out is in this article it says
that the family spradlin's family has said that they have learned that along with Dr McKinney his son Michael K
McKinney Roy Kidd there were at least two other individuals at the home when Amber was brutally murdered that's their
words I don't know we cannot figure out because their names have not been released who those other
two people were and the the statement is at least two other people we're there now when they say to other people is one
of them Amber or is this five people plus Amber or is it five plus plus Amber it's a little difficult to sort out
right now exactly who was there and again the details coming out are sketchy the way that they're delivered it's
almost like they're concerned about protecting the people at this Gathering the problem for that for
me is until I can prove you didn't have anything to do with the murder of this woman you had something to do with the
murder of this woman who cares about protecting these individuals it seems pretty clear to me right police
show up detectives show up we've gotta we've gotta secure this scene and collect evidence you were here you were
here you were here you were here what happened charged with something because they you
know first of all you didn't stop the attack and then once she was attacked when
there was a call made which we believe was made by Amber it wasn't made by anybody else
you did well you see that I don't know he did nothing in the assistance of getting her help
correct yeah that I don't know I don't know if Amber called or if somebody else called and said hey there's a fight
going on here and then somebody else called off the dogs but what I would like to know is
the time of death because what we do know is everything we're hearing is that that first call
came in in the five o'clock hour second call or the third call comes in in the 10 o'clock 10 a.m hour and that's
when they find her dead at the scene well if you can get a an expert to say that you know what she was very likely
killed before that five o'clock call well now you have a whole different set of circumstances
or if you can get an expert to say that she was killed shortly after that five o'clock call
we got other concerns and if if she was killed hours before the 10 a.m call one who called at 10 A.M
why and what was done in the meantime do we have people there that were cleaning
up the scene destroying evidence yeah tampering with evidence some of the more disturbing rumors
coming out regards the injuries to our victim here and it goes beyond stabbed at least 11 times in the head
face throat neck area the rumors are that a knife was broken off in her Temple that the cause of death was actually due
to her throat being slit and this is even more troubling I believe it or not more troubling
it's believed that she had no defensive wounds so was somebody or somebody's holding
her down while she was attacked and she was not able to defend herself yeah or was she passed out at the time
the other rumors is that there was a bag of bloody objects found bloody towels cloths maybe even clothing this to me
would suggest that somebody was attempting to clean up the scene right the other rumor is that the scene was
incredibly bloody and and I think this this one carries a lot of weight because of something we know that has
been stated by Kentucky State Police and the family's attorney later this rumor is that there was the the
hallway along with the stairs and maybe even a portion of the upstairs of this home covered in blood
another statement by the family's attorney is that at least one other individual
was cut and that individual was somebody that we've already named Roy Kidd so then you gotta Wonder a couple of
things here if there was a fight that broke out amongst who did this fight break out
why is Roy Kidd injured we know that in stabbings it's very common for the perpetrator to
accidentally cut themselves the other thing that we're wondering is if there were in fact no defensive
wounds and she was awake moving attempting to defend herself if she doesn't have defensive wounds
that means somebody or somebody's held her down or she was restrained in some form or fashion
did Roy Kidd get this injury because he's the perpetrator did Roy kid get this injury because he
was involved in holding her down or did Roy Kidd get this injury because he was attempting to defend her her
or he was in an altercation himself with somebody else lots of questions here and it seems very
easy to me that we should be able to have the names of the persons that were there
if you all are innocent then you have no reason to not tell us who else was there
that night I believe Kentucky State Police have a good idea who else was there that night
oh definitely and the other thing to Circle back to the blood everywhere rumor that is out there
is that Kentucky State Police have said that they have been interviewing people and have searched numerous residences
electronic devices and have a bunch of physical evidence the evidence that they have Captain is now at the Kentucky
State Police Laboratory so from what we've been told is that some of the blood evidence that was
collected at the scene contains blood from two if not more sources of course we would expect to have our victims
blood there Amber's blood unfortunately right we know from information coming out of East Kentucky that Roy Kidd may
have had an injury a bleeding injury a cut that night there would seem to be reason
that you might have another individual that had some type of injury especially if Roy Kidd wasn't the sole
perpetrator of whatever went down that night so what they're doing now is these lab
reports and please push Amber's case to the front line because you have a killer
walking amongst everyone out there in East Kentucky nobody's been arrested yet nobody's been arrested or charged at all
we're going on six weeks now so they're going to need to sort out the DNA and the blood evidence that they
have one thing that's that I have a lot uh I believe there's a lot of Promise here Captain is I believe once they have
those results those results are going to confirm or completely refute some of the
statements given to them at the scene it's of my belief that where the problem is in this investigation currently is
you probably have multiple people giving multiple versions of this story right and it's all going to collapse like you
said as as more reports come out and more of the evidence is examined by professionals then they're going to go
uh see you told us this story but that doesn't line up with the evidence and people are going to start folding and uh
turning on each other pretty quickly I hope so and I think I think the way that that kind of starts is to quit dancing
around these ideas and and just say what it is it's not suspected Foul Play It's
a brutal homicide of a good-natured person it's not found in the area of Arkansas
Creek it's the victim was found dead at this dentist's home right where he's there
with his son and some other people and who knows who who came or went throughout the course of that evening
the other thing too is when you have the finger pointing going on and that makes sense that you would
have that because I believe that there will be a lawsuit in this case regarding the 9-1-1 or lack thereof 9-1-1 response
is it wouldn't be outside of your best interest to release those 9-1-1 calls at some point
especially after you've charged someone or someone's in this murder because I think what we need here is
clear evidence who dropped the ball because if the dispatch call center did not call anybody did not dispatch
anybody well therein lies your problem that's you that's easily fixed you take the power back from that Prestonsburg
call center and you put it back at the Kentucky State Police post nine I'm wondering if it's the problem to me if I
had to sit here and and make a wager on it Captain I feel like the problem is either the call center
or the Prestonsburg police because it sounds to me that a lot of people are saying Prestonsburg police
were supposed to respond to this and I'm getting the vibe that it's like well if we have a car available we send
somebody and in this situation somebody again just rumor somebody called back or
somebody hopped on the phone and said nope everything's fine here so we disregarded the call
well if protocol in that area is to respond anyway to any call coming in then you guys dropped the ball and I'm
sorry but saving money is not worth risking lives we need people to respond to these calls
people rely on having this lifeline well one of the things I'm proud about being a part of this show is our
audience and and the call to action like we said before getting so many people on
social media and through emails saying please take a look at this case I know on the surface it looks like you know
there's maybe some kind of conspiracy here but what the conspiracy to me is the people at the party and it's not law
enforcement and and we're going to play a clip just a little bit later where you'll hear about how they're tracking
down every lead but a lot of the leads that they're getting right now are just hearsay
but I think this case is very important again lack of information lack of evidence but we can get people talking
about this this doesn't need to go away from the Public's eye well and in the defense of Kentucky State Police I
believe the reason for the lack of information made available to the public currently is that they're sorting
through these different statements that were given by people that were there either
when she was killed or they're at the gathering before or after she was killed again weak it would be foolish of us to
sit here and believe that all of those statements are 100 percent true because if they were there would be an arrest by
now and so my belief is and I think this will pan out once an arrest or arrests are made
is that Kentucky State Police are rightfully so withholding a lot of this information
and details about the timeline about the crime scene and about the evidence because they're still sorting through
these stories and probably a lot of them are a lie and what they do know is that
if a bunch of these people that were involved or not involved or at least there that night
if they have all the information that Kentucky State Police do well they have a greater Arsenal than the detectives
have and so that's why they're withholding information rightfully so let's get the
lab results Let's test all the evidence the physical evidence let's gather all of the statements and here's the thing
too you're exactly right Captain conspiracy on the part of the people that were supposed to be her friends
because guess what she's not hanging out with any of these people at the seasons
in motel and restaurant unless she's invited there she's not at the dentist home unless
she's invited there she thought these people were her friends and it turns out I don't
this kind of thing happens none of these people are your friends what why is the
truth not being delivered on a silver platter to the detectives now a couple things that I wanted to
make sure from this article that we include before we wrap up here in the garage today it's some very
key things here Captain the family in their statement said that they have all the confidence in the
investigators conducting the investigation this is the Kentucky State Police quote the family continues to
support and thank Captain Randall subber and the men and women of the Kentucky State Police for their dedication and
involvement in the investigation of Amber's murder the statement said the family has complete confidence that
those responsible will be brought to Justice spradlin's cousin Debbie Hall who has been at the
Forefront of keeping her cousin's case in the public eye said the community support has been overwhelming quote I
knew she had a lot of friends and touched a lot of lives but I really had no idea she said
she goes on to say I have received thousands of messages texts and phone calls since this happened
and we talked about Amber's sad and tragic life leading up to this her childhood with her mother passing away
with losing her parents and losing her sister and then taking care of her grandparents because they did a great
job taking care of her what a good what a good person to recognize that and to say you know what I will be there for
you because you were there for me put my life on hold because you put a lot of things on hold for me
and so she does her grandparents a solid and then unfortunately this horrible what a horrible thing to happen to such
a good person and Hall goes on her cousin goes on to say in this article that she believes
that there are many at fault and I think the captain and I share that opinion she goes on to say quote politicians
have placed politics and profit before people and their policies have failed Amber
the monster who committed this crime and the people supporting them will hopefully be punished they do not
deserve to be in society anyone who committed such a brutal murder will do it again
most definitely sad I mean some people believe that Amber knew that there was a call into 9-1-1 and that she was waiting
for help that never showed up but again this is important to keep a spotlight on this not not that we need
to put pressure on law enforcement because I think law enforcement is doing what they need to do and it's tragic
that no First Responders showed up and nobody came to her rescue and nobody saved her but nobody at that party did
anything right and and so what's going to happen I wouldn't be surprised if if everybody at that party isn't charged
with something right and I think here the situation Captain Justice for Amber Spradlin first right the I understand
9-1-1 being an issue remember the old song Chuck D Public Enemy 9-1-1 is a joke uh yeah 9-1-1 is a joke in yo town
and we're talking about Prestonsburg Kentucky we're talking about Floyd County Kentucky your 9-1-1 system is a
joke return it to the the Kentucky State Police where they didn't have problems before sorry it cost you a little extra
money but it may save lives and fix that problem after you fix this problem because there's going to be a lot of red
tape involved in the 911 problem what we need to focus on now is getting Justice
for Amber finding out who is responsible it sounds to me like this is probably a
situation where more than one person has some level of involvement in her murder
so that means there are kill or witnesses to a murder walking around free well and that's what the community
can do the True Crime Community can put pressure to go here are the individuals that were at the party these are the
individuals that need to be cooperating with police and giving them the correct information and not trying to be
nefarious with their answers or their details or their lack thereof so let's put pressure on them to tell the truth
tell us what happened and let's get Justice for Amber be the good person in the room somebody there can be the good
person and tell police what it is that they need to know because here here's the thing the captain said conspiracy
the captain said cover up when it comes to the people there at that home that night
he could not be more spot on because if the rumors are true that either a second
individual jumped on the phone and said nope nothing to see here call off the dogs we don't need any help the
everything's been straightened out or the other rumor that somebody then called in a second call shortly after
the first saying the same thing call off the dogs nothing to see here we don't need any help
that is the start of a cover-up that is the start of the conspiracy that is the first Domino
that falls in preventing anybody from outside of those four walls knowing what's going on
inside of those walls and it's not a big leap to make to go from somebody called off the authorities
and called off police to someone or someone's started to clean up the scene and cover up what really happened here
that night that horrible tragic night another thoughts are with the community and with Amber's friends and family the
ongoing investigation of the murder of Amber Spradlin Kentucky State Police have issued a PSA regarding information
related to the case they humbly request that anyone who wishes to share information to be sure it is true KSP is
currently investigating what little evidence they have during the course of Investigation investigators with
Kentucky State Police have interviewed several uh members of the community and executed numerous search warrants on
different residences electronic devices collecting physical evidence along with DNA evidence all those all the evidence
has been transported to the KSP Laboratories and we are currently awaiting the results of the evidence any
false information submitted is likely to consume KSP Resources with nothing to show for it this can also lead to others
making claims they believe to be true any credible information that anyone may have about this investigation we would
really like to talk to you so if you have any information that is credible please call us at
606-433-7711 we would like to add that every tip that comes to enter any bit of information that these detectives
receive they have to look into to make sure they're sterile as possible so please if you do call make sure it's
credible information and not hearsay or false information because they have to track those leads down and that's taking
time away from the investigation while they're out looking for information that turns out just to be false a lot of
these tips that we're getting they're going out and they're spending countless hours out investigating and it turns out
that it was just false or third-hand information that that this wasn't true at all so we just ask that if you do
have information we definitely want it but make sure that it's credible information that can help help us lead
to an arrest and disinvestigation Reporting from Mountaintop news I'm Nick collum
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On June 18, 2023 first responders arrived at the scene of a residence on Arkansas Creek in Martin, Kentucky. Martin is a tiny community near Prestonsburg. Later, Kentucky State Police announced that they had found 39 year old Amber Spradlin dead at the scene due to a knife attack. The community is in an uproar as more than one 911 was made before anyone showed up to the scene. Could Amber’s life have possibly been saved that night? Prestonsburg interim Police Chief Ross Shurtleff said the 911 center didn’t receive any calls from Amber Spradlin on June 18. All calls from that day have been forwarded to the Kentucky State Police for their investigation. If you or anyone you know has information that could help this murder investigation please contact the Kentucky State Police at 1.606.433.7711

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Brief Summary

Amber Spradlin was murdered in Kentucky; community outrage over investigation and 911 response issues persists.

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Community Outrage Over 911 Response. The community questions the 911 response system after Amber's murder.
Mystery Surrounds Amber's Murder. Amber's murder remains unsolved, with many unanswered questions.
Emergency Call Made. A 9-1-1 call is placed regarding a fight at a residence.

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