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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You know, oftentimes we see that with people who go, you know, off the grid and just disappear. There's some kind of indication like they're into being a survivalist. They've done it before, but come back. There's usually an indicator somewhere in their past.
They don't just fall off the face of the earth without some kind of indication with family or friends or no left behind or, you know, I mean... He had his whole life ahead of him, and everybody that you talked to that knew him said that was just not his nature.
So John Wayne Gacy, he's a pretty well-known serial killer. I think he has just over 30 confirmed victims that he raped and murdered.
Their specialty was kind of updating pharmacies, you know, old drug stores to make them more modern. There are rumors mentioned in the reports that he was in this area around that time, which I've since been able to confirm that he was actually up here in Reedsburg, which is in our county about 15 minutes northwest of here. He was there remodeling a drugstore and that was in July of 1977.
I've spoken with the wife of the owner of the store and he at least was up here to bid the job. It's a little bit fuzzy on whether he actually completed the work or if he just came here to bid the work. But he was here in July of 77, which obviously that's two months before Robert's disappearance.
Baraboo is the home to the Ringling Brothers. They started their first circus here. There's a huge circus heritage here. The Circus World Museum is here.
So I don't know if that's related or not. That's just speculation that maybe he was tied to Baraboo
I'm working with a Cook County sheriff's investigator who has a lot of knowledge on the Gacy cases. And it sounds like he was in a lot of his interviews very vague about, you know, maybe I did more, maybe I didn't. That's for you guys to figure out type attitude. So currently working on that end of things as well. Whether Gacy's connected or not, still working on that.
I'm not proficient enough in the DNA world to know, like, how close of a match does it have to be? Or if it's a degraded DNA sample from remains, like, how much of the profile does there have to be to match a family member's profile? You know, that's all real science-y stuff that those professionals, DNA analysts, they know those questions, of course.
I don't want to say she was a biker gang member, but she would hang with these guys and they were upset. I think their motive for murdering her was they thought she was being an informant for law enforcement, which wasn't true. That's why she was killed.
I really dug into this one. We do look into cold cases from time to time to get a new set of eyes on it. Last thing anybody did, I think, with this case was 2013 when they put in Amy and her dad's DNA. So I figured it'd be good to look it over again. And that's when I really started with everything.
Obviously, with going on 50 years almost, 48 years, it'll be in September. Memories fade, people die, so that's been hard. The other challenges now would be different, how we would probably process items of evidence, but 77, it just wasn't a thing. Reporting techniques were different back then.
There's some things I'm finding out now that we would have definitely documented and reported now that... I can't find reports on. Everything is done paper. There's an electronic record, so it's paging through paper reports. And I don't know if they just have gone missing or they were never done. I don't know, you know.
My hope is that somebody out there now is in that boat where they have a change of heart or a change of circumstance that they can give us information, you know, because time's only going to drag on and more people are going to be gone and more memories are going to be faded. And with his brother and sister still alive to get them some answers.
Once the officers get there, they discover the door slightly ajar and immediately see, when you walk in, stuff on the floor, a sweater, a shoe, keys, and a cell phone. They call her name. They call out. They don't hear too much. They're walking around, and it's a very small apartment. And two officers eventually find her and hear her moaning in the closet. She's collapsed.
But first, I guess she's sitting down in a laundry basket. She's got two gunshot wounds.
It's a murder investigation.
Your name has come up in a murder investigation. That's why the state is here. That's why we have fed help to help speak to us. And as he said, at any time, you're free to leave. But we would like to speak to you and answer our questions if you don't mind.
We had tracked Matt down, I mean, because he's a fisherman, and he was doing a tournament in Arizona. So loaded up the plane, went out there, and we figured out where it was being held, and it was like a little hotel or something like that where they checked in. So basically, me and I think it was another detective waited in the lobby, found out that he had come in.
And then as he was walking back out is when I met him right there in the lobby. We go back to the car because that's where all our stuff is. He agreed to talk to us, asked him to, as we're speaking, just tell the truth, nothing but the truth. We get into it and he goes into their marriage was fine. They weren't going to get divorced. We were in love, that type of thing.
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