Detective Mike Dugan
Appearances
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Deadly Fortune | 5. Judgement Day
And Tex was a very articulable, very bright young man. A brilliant lawyer. corporate lawyer, so you know he dealt with the upper end of society the whole time. Police officers, typically we don't deal with that level of people. Typically we're dealing with the bottom of society. And here we are dealing with the top edge of society, which makes it a little bit of a problem.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Deadly Fortune | 5. Judgement Day
Tex was top edge society. Diane was top edge society. So everybody involved in this thing was top edge society that nobody's used to dealing with.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Deadly Fortune | 5. Judgement Day
You can't change facts and you can't change physical evidence. You can change a witness, you can't change physical evidence. I think there's more to that story that hasn't been told yet, sir.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Deadly Fortune | 5. Judgement Day
I mean, again, everybody wants to believe Tex. So they wanted to believe Tex, so they didn't want to disprove the story. Depends upon how you do an investigation. And these officers are the best homicide unit probably in the country. Hardest working group of guys I've ever been around in my life. And they eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff. And they want to do the right thing.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Deadly Fortune | 5. Judgement Day
None of them wanted to believe that Tex was what he was or what he is. And only God knows for sure. Mostly they're doing... ghetto homicides. Mostly they're doing drug homicides. I'm sure they wanted to believe Tex as much as they could. And they started an investigation. They tried to listen to Tex and they got to thinking about it and I think they decided that they couldn't listen to Tex.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
It was extremely interesting, like it was so bizarre, you know, learning more about Dr. Boyle and what he was like.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
Once I was assigned the case, Dave Messmore was my go-to guy. He and I were constantly talking, and I know that he took this case really to heart because of the children, especially Collier.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
We waited until they completed their execution of the search warrant in Mansfield. And when that turned up negative, that's when we went and applied for a search warrant to go and search the Wolf Road address.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
We actually got to the Wolf Road address around, oh, about 20 after five or so, and no one answered the door. I kicked the door in.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
And we rolled up the carpeting.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
The basement was not finished other than the fact that the floor had been painted. And in one section was green indoor-outdoor carpeting that had been glued down. And on top of the indoor-outdoor carpeting, there was shelving units.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
And we got down on our hands and knees. We're feeling along the shelving, and there was a little bit of an indentation under the shelving, which was odd because the rest of the basement was pristine. At that point in time, we decided that we're going to have to take the shelving unit down.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
And that area was six foot eight inches in one direction and two feet six inches in another. So it actually almost looked like a grave site, the size of a grave site. At that point, we took the sledgehammer and I hit like in the center of the uncured concrete. I broke it up a little bit and then got down and started digging it out.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
And I reached in and grabbed the tarp and started pulling it up a little bit. And I got a distinct odor from the hole. And it was that of a dead body. Once you smell a dead body, you never forget that smell. So, whoo!
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
The tarp was wrapped with a rope, cut the rope so that we could open up the tarp.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
And because it had been wrapped and it had been in a cool, moist grave, there wasn't any really decay. We found that she had a white plastic bag over her head and that was tied around her neck. The only thing that she was wearing were panties. She was naked. And that's all she had was just a pair of panties on and then the jewelry.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
He went and actually cut the plastic bag to reveal the face.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
He tentatively identified the body that we had just unearthed as Noreen Boyle.