Carnahan said she had been working at her computer on a campaign speech she had been planning to deliver the next day for her husband when he called her, shortly before the crash.

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Mrs Thompson last spoke to her husband just after the game ended when he called to tell her he was heading to their favourite Cardiff pub.

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She claimed when he came back he went upstairs and called her to get an ambulance.

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Police said the woman fought off her assailant when he tried to grab her again before she called authorities.

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The friend, Britney Smith, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the younger suspect had called her when he came to New York, hoping she was in town.

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When he asked if they should drive, she shook her head, so he called 911, and told her mother, Dawn, who was in the next room, what was going on.

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When she called her father to apologize for telling him prematurely that she was getting a divorce, he started to cry.

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