Detective Scott Roberts
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295 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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So at that point, you're looking for knives, ice picks, screwdrivers, anything that's linear and can cause that kind of damage.
There was a lot of knives. Like, when I tell you there was a lot of knives, Ballpark, he's probably over 20. We located knives in bedrooms, the dining area. So they were all over, probably everywhere but the bathroom.
When a crime like this is committed, we as investigators start dumpster diving. We start jumping into these dumpsters and looking for anything that could have been discarded by the suspect or suspects. You know, whether it's throwing away clothing or hats, masks, gloves, any kind of weapon, we take and we seize it and we test it. So we collected a large amount.
We call it an inventory of weapons or tools that we didn't know if they were used or not. You get one shot at it, the trash company comes and dumps that dumpster. You don't get it again. So you just sort of have to jump in there and it's not a perfect world. It's not TV. Yeah, they tell you seven and eight and one eighth inch object, the diameter of this.
They don't tell you that until sometimes weeks later.
Whomever was responsible, I believe, knew him. Whomever is responsible, I believe, knew him. He's in his underwear in his own apartment that late at night. If someone did come and made contact with him, you would think it'd be someone he is familiar with. Obviously, there was an issue. There was a disagreement or there was a conflict of something that would cause this to happen.
And I don't think it was just as a random attack on an elderly man inside of his apartment. I think it's more personal. And I think the wound and his appearance suggests that. And where he was positioned, there was nowhere for him to go.
So it was almost like it was a confrontation where the suspect knew that this is the spot where they can have William at a disadvantage, seated with nowhere to go because of a recliner to his left, a wall to his right, and another wall behind him.
Literally cornered. I wanted to say that, but yeah, literally cornered. He was in a corner of a room. You feel even worse because he really didn't have a chance.
He spent his days just hanging out with neighbors. He would frequent the soup kitchen, which is right here, one block over. He didn't have transportation. He was limited physically on what he could do. I mean, he was an older man. He liked to just have a couple beers, hang out with his brother, hang out with family and friends whenever he could, and just enjoy life.
A lot of her statement was very mumbled and quiet and rambling at some points. When they exited the interview room, like she would actually continue to talk to herself again. It's just one of those things that you just sort of put in the back of the head and you're like, all right, you know, we'll maybe go back to that, which they did.
And the state police did an extensive investigation into the persons of interest in the beginning, which obviously revolved around Carmen. Just because of her access, she saw him last and then discovered him. Nothing came to fruition with Carmen. She was cooperative. A lot of the clothing that she had on before and after, she voluntarily gave up. We had them tested.
We didn't discover anything that would lead us to believe that she was responsible.
She deserves all the credit in the world for this because she would not let it go, and nor should she.
And I'm not saying Carmen's, you know, an angel. I just, I'm an evidence-based guy. I follow evidence, you know, and evidence at this time does not suggest that she's involved.
It's like a frustrating game of just like a ladder. You go to speak to this person. No, I didn't say that. I said that he told me he saw that. Then you go to speak to him. No, I told my wife that this is what I saw. But she said she saw it from... And then you keep on going down the line. And then you hit, just by the laws of probability, you hit one of those severely mentally ill tenants.
And then he goes off about the aliens or goes off about the government conspiracy. And you're like, there's now... There's the gap in the ladder. So I think that's where bringing more awareness to it, you might get the top of that ladder that I can't follow because I'm being cut off by a lead that doesn't go anywhere.
I wholeheartedly believe that people in that building right now know what happened. With William and the violence of that attack, I find it very hard to believe that one person could do this without anyone knowing.
Now, whether it's that attacker being seen by someone or telling someone or asking for assistance in getting rid of weapons or evidence or someone seeing him or her getting rid of any weapons or evidence, I think someone saw something. I think they're scared because if that can happen to Willie, who is the nicest guy in the world, what can happen to them?
I put those posters up in the lobbies and people take them down. So for me, that says something. Why is someone taking down the poster that offers a reward? Like that money, I know it's not about the money, but $50,000 for someone that lives in that building is probably more than their yearly income rate, a lot more. So someone's deliberately went out of the way on one occasion to take them down.
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