Investigator Mike Mayhew
Appearances
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
That's the shower stall with the body crammed down on the bottom of it.
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
We heard that name from day one. There were certain individuals who gave us that name and said, you need to look into Jodi Arias.
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
There was a hallway leading off to the bathroom where the shower stall was. That was all covered in blood. I noticed large amounts of blood pooling and smears.
48 Hours
Up In Flames
He just took whatever he could get and used it for his own personal use without any remorse for the people he was stealing it from. But Marc Ugella's world began to crumble. He owed a brokerage firm over $7 million, and they were asking for their money.
48 Hours
Deadly Divorce, Part 1
Yes. It's a homicide investigation right now. The prime suspect, Darren Mack.
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With God as a Witness
There was a very, very good chance that a court someday was going to give him a new trial.
48 Hours
With God as a Witness
There was nothing fair about this trial, nothing the prosecution had done, nothing that the judge had done, nothing about the evidence, the way it came in, was fair.
48 Hours
With God as a Witness
Were you surprised? Yes. I was flabbergasted. I mean, I truly was stunned that anybody would have the audacity to try to do this. The jury heard testimony that Price-Dash admitted he was hired to arrange the murder. I immediately started screaming. I never sat down for the next two days. I was objecting every chance I had.
48 Hours
With God as a Witness
Is this a major transgression? Yes, absolutely. And I'm not exaggerating. It was an appalling moment in criminal justice. Kelly Siegler, very experienced, very tough prosecutor. Very. She crossed the line?
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
They find nothing here with that technology, and they do a press conference and make a statement. There's no more bodies at 14th and Carnahan.
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Homicide in Spokane
I think there's several things in this investigation that really went sideways.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
Back in 97, they had everything that they needed. They had a witness who gave them a great clue.
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Homicide in Spokane
The driver of that car was Robert Yates Jr. Corey Truman stops the white Corvette. He does not run the plate before he stops the car. He talks to him, he puts down that he's cooperative, and he asks him a few questions.
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Homicide in Spokane
Corey Turman did pull over a Corvette two blocks from where Jennifer Joseph was last seen. I'm sorry. This guy is going to the station. Do I have probable cause? Absolutely.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
When they followed that Corvette clue as far as they could in a very short period of time, They should have released that to the public.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
I'm not the most popular character of a city government. This is a book about a frustrating investigation for a task force.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
I guarantee this, give me the white Corvette clue, when I first asked, I would have found Robert Yates. They had a great clue, which could have elicited the suspect in a few months.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
They live with us. They work with us. In a moment. In Murder in Spokane, I tried to get into the mind of a serial killer. I read about Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a dozen others. Did I learn anything? Yes, about those individuals. Did I learn anything that could catch Robert Yates? Not really. Serial killers are unique. They're individuals.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
They're manipulative. They're chameleons that walk among us and we never see them. They live with us. They work with us. We don't know who they are. Every case that we do, we create a profiler, another cop that knows a little more, another city, another agency. And then they all have to start from ground zero at the next one, because he's different, unique, smart. But the question always looms.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
Do we know why? The answer is no. In fact, we don't even know how many.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
Here we go. Mark Furman. I don't call myself an expert. I'm an expert in detective work, homicide, or anything else. But I've been exposed to a lot of things in a lot of areas. Remember the O.J. Simpson case? I remember that case.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
Jennifer Joseph and Heather Hernandez are found the same day, one in the county, one in the city. Now Mike, he had this gut feeling that they're connected. And then along came Darla Sue Scott.
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Homicide in Spokane
Now we've got three prostitutes that are murdered. So we start asking questions on the radio.
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Homicide in Spokane
What are they thinking? The first task we have is to find out if indeed this is the work of a serial killer. four bodies, all women, all prostitutes, and all shot with a small caliber weapon. I can't believe they're not connected.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
This was too little, too late. You have four detectives that are handling all the evidence booking, the autopsies, the families, the interviews, and things started coming in. Yes, they became very quickly overwhelmed.
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Homicide in Spokane
Laurieann Wasson and Sean McClenahan were found here at 14th and Carnahan in this field that's now a housing development. Why was this important? You had two bodies here. What does that mean? He came here twice. This guy, he's probably out of control.
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Homicide in Spokane
It's on-the-job training. It's not detective work. It's ridiculous. That's next.
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Homicide in Spokane
They find a body, they wouldn't tell you if it was male or female. That's crazy.
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Homicide in Spokane
They had a witness who gave them a great clue, which put out in the proper way, could have elicited the suspect in days, weeks, a few months.
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Homicide in Spokane
Greenwich book was done. What are you going to do next? Serial killers in my backyard. So I became engaged not only in the radio show, but then I became engaged to write the book. Furman and Fitzsimmons began to investigate the crime scenes. We were very well-meaning, trying to really get information that they needed out to the public from an avenue that could elicit some kind of clues.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
We would fax every clue we got from the radio. We would tell them everything that we had, not hoping they'd tell us something. We're trying to have them tell us, don't do this, don't give this out, this is important, don't. And finally, I just said, screw it.
48 Hours
Homicide in Spokane
Let's put the information out to the public because they have a right to know where this occurred because they might have seen something because we canvassed the neighborhood and nobody talked to anybody. Mark Furman implied that we should be, for some reason, consulting him.
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Homicide in Spokane
I think they were extremely unhappy. I think the biggest reason is we wouldn't go away.
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Homicide in Spokane
The representatives of the sheriff's department and the police department made some overture that we were interfering with an investigation and that they should reel us back. Of course, the TV and radio stations said, they're journalists. They're working on a case. If they're interfering, you know, deal with them. Arrest them.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Dragged her. und dann kam eine sexuelle Mutilation zu ihrem Körper.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Man konnte den Körper im Feld sehen, wenn man durch sein Fenster schaute. Ich glaube, er hat den Körper positioniert, damit man ihn aus seinem Wohnzimmer sehen konnte.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Im Gegenteil, es gab kein Verlust von Blut in den schmutzigen Schriftstücken in Masters High School Notebooks, die in seinem Raum, Backpack und Schule-Locker gefunden wurden. hat all kinds of graphic drawings and narratives about murders, violence against women. And we find a drawing where a body is being dragged from under the arms with blood dripping from the back.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
This is just a 15-year-old kid. He lives right next to the crime scene. He discovered the body. He never reported it.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
What was thought to be a nice incriminating piece of information really was pretty deluded.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich erinnere mich, dass ich überwältigt war mit dem Gefühl, oh mein Gott, das ist derjenige, der Peggy Hetrick getötet hat. This was more than just a passing fancy of a teenage boy. This is a window into his mind.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Es war immer mein Interesse, und jetzt bin ich in der Lage, etwas darüber zu tun.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
There's no way we're going to prove this crime. We got nothing. And that's when Broderick would say, wait a minute, come on guys, this is what we needed to do and it was the right thing and there was never any doubt in his mind. Tim's changed appearance helped their cause. The jurist didn't see this skinny little 15 year old kid.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The most compelling argument for me was, who else could it possibly be? Nobody else had a motive. Nobody else had the opportunity. Nobody else had the weapons. This is the guy.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Wir haben viele Vergleiche zwischen den Schriftstücken und unserer Krimi-Szene gemacht, so weit, dass die Verteidigung dachte, dass wir verrückt waren.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
He was a suspect in my mind from the very first day and nothing ever changed.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Terry Gilmore, in seinen Rebuttal-Klässen, hielt die Fotos, die wir hatten, von Peggy Hetrichs vaginalen Bereich, die die Mutilation dargestellt haben. Und dann bluten wir das kleine Bild, das er gemacht hat, und setzten ihn Seite für Seite. Und die Resemblanz war ungewöhnlich. Ich meine, die Juristen wurden einfach überrascht.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Nobody else had a motive. Nobody else had the opportunity. Nobody else had the weapons.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
He was told it wouldn't end, that we'd continue working this case.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Sie wurden zerstört und wir sollten darüber sprechen, warum sie zerstört wurden. Du hast all diese Gefühle, die auf diesen Tape sind, die uns anrufen und legitime Gefühle hatten über den Transfer dieser Bilder, was ein echtes Problem in der heutigen digitalen Welt ist. Es hat nichts mit dem Master Case oder dem Mord von Peggy Hetrick zu tun. Es gibt keine Verbindung zwischen den beiden von ihnen.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich glaube, er hat sie schon ein bisschen gesehen, vor dieser Nacht. Es hat sich schon lange gebildet. It was late at night. She was coming home probably one o'clock in the morning or later. She was walking down the curb line. She had no clue that the attack was coming. He circled around, came up behind her, stabbed her.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
You could see a bloody drag trail in the furrows. It was pretty apparent that the victim was dragged out to the final resting point.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The positioning of the body is something to pay attention to.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
His explanation for not reporting it was that he thought it was just a mannequin and somebody was playing a trick. I didn't believe it was real.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Und einer davon, wie Broderick bezeichnete, könnte die Mörderwaffe sein. Das ist eine ähnliche Größe Knife als die Knife, die Peggy Hetrick getötet hat.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich habe es schwer zu glauben, dass du nicht weißt, was das Körper ist.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The victim's gonna pass right there where he lives. Perfect opportunity under the cover of darkness to go out there and commit the crime.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
You could see a bloody drag trail in the furrows. Als Peggy hat Draco getötet, war es schockierend für diese Gemeinschaft.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Every single notebook had some sort of horrific drawing in it.
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Tracking a Crime
As soon as you get out of the vehicle, you can smell a burning odor. The body was wrapped in several items that had burned during the fire but were not totally consumed. There was the remains of a blue plastic camping tarp. Then around all that was rope.
48 Hours
Tracking a Crime
I could not even tell if it was a male or a female. But based upon the face, I knew it was a Caucasian person.
48 Hours
Tracking a Crime
The jury has reached a verdict. I'll ask the audience. Realize there are emotions in here, but we need for everyone to keep their composure.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Für David Tipton ist es ein geschlossenes und geschlossenes Geheimnis eines Drogenverbrechers, der für Geld tötet.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber außer für die Einladung zu Onkel Sparky, sagt Moore, dass er nichts damit zu tun hatte, dass Karen Tipton getötet wurde. Und das physische Beweis scheint ihn aufzulösen. Wurden Ihre Fingerprinte irgendwo neben diesem Haus gefunden? Nein, Ma'am. Wurde Karen Tiptons Blut irgendwo auf Ihnen gefunden, auf Ihrem Kleid? Nein, Ma'am. In Ihrem Auto? Nein, Ma'am. Welche Fibers? Welche Haare?
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A Conviction In Question
Zwei Haare wurden an der Szene gefunden, aber sie waren in schlechtem Zustand. Es ist möglich, aber nicht definitiv, dass sie Daniel Moore gehörten.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber es gibt auch hunderts von anderen Leuten in dieser Gruppe. Er ist nicht die einzige Person.
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A Conviction In Question
Sherman Powell hat den Finger des Leidens direkt an Dr. David Tipton gesteckt. Wenn Dr. Tipton sagt, dass es ein glücklicher Beziehung war, dass sie beide glücklich waren, dass sie sich gegenseitig vertraut haben, sagt er die Wahrheit?
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A Conviction In Question
Auch David Tipton war bewusst von den Gerüchten rund um die Stadt. During that first trial, Tipton admitted that just weeks before the murder, his best friend, Mikey Zell, had emailed Karen, suggesting they swap spouses.
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A Conviction In Question
Am Tag, an dem sie gestorben ist, hat Karen diesen Computer benutzt und hat eine Kollektion von Pornografie entdeckt.
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A Conviction In Question
Powell spekuliert, dass Karen den Porn entdeckt hat und ihren Mann konfrontiert hat, was den fadalen Kampf spielte. Oh, so you absolutely, as you're sitting here, think David Tipton is the one who's responsible for his wife's death?
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A Conviction In Question
Aber Judge Glenn Thompson hat auf die Beweise geschaut und fand es unabhängig.
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A Conviction In Question
At the end of the first trial, Moore's uncle was hopeful until he saw the jury file in with the verdict.
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A Conviction In Question
Daniel Moore wurde von capital murder verurteilt. Und am 23. Januar 2003 wurde er verurteilt, weil er von einer lethalen Injektion gestorben war. Er könnte immer noch auf der Todesstraße sein, wenn nicht für eine Erfindung, die seine Leben gerettet hat, und Rock Decatur. Auch in der politischen Süddeutschen Gesellschaft ist ein Lücher ein Lücher ein Lücher.
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A Conviction In Question
In February of 2003, Daniel Wade Moore became the newest inmate on Alabama's death row.
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A Conviction In Question
Sherman Powell immediately began working on Moore's appeal. What happened next changed the Moore case forever. Prosecutors turned over this 245-page report compiled by the FBI on the Tipton murder. An FBI report that prosecutors had repeatedly denied existed.
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A Conviction In Question
Judge Glenn Thompson was incensed. He believes Don Valeska, the Assistant State Attorney General trying the case, had lied to him.
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A Conviction In Question
No one from the Alabama Attorney General's Office would speak to 48 Hours about the case. But Valeska has insisted publicly that he did not lie and claimed that the FBI information was not a formal report. But whatever it was, that material appeared to help the defense. Why would the prosecution, why would the police withhold information from you?
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A Conviction In Question
The Decatur Police Department had asked the FBI for help. The information collected by the Bureau revealed that Karen Tipton had been leading a, quote, secret life, which included extramarital affairs.
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A Conviction In Question
The FBI surmised that Karen may have known her killer and recommended that both David Tipton and his best friend Mikey Zell be given polygraphs, even though they had been ruled out as suspects by police.
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A Conviction In Question
Police Chief Ken Collier. And didn't follow up on these other leads?
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A Conviction In Question
Paul schlug weiter und schlug Paydirt mit einem neuen Beobachter an, der nicht während des ersten Trialsturms angerufen wurde. Für den einfachen Grund, dass Paul nicht wusste, dass sie existierte. An diesem Tag, was war das Zeitpunkt, an dem du auf dem Weg gekommen bist? Ca. 3.30 Uhr, 3.25 Uhr.
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A Conviction In Question
Pam Smith, eine Tifton-Neighborin, sagte, sie sah Karen lebendig nahe ihrer Mailbox am Nachmittag ihres Mörders. Nachdem die Polizei glaubte, Karen sei bereits getötet worden, war sie auf dem Weg zurück in ihren Truck. Pam sagt, sie hat die Polizei nur Tage nach dem Tod angerufen, um ihnen zu erzählen, was sie gesehen hat.
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A Conviction In Question
Hast du die Polizei wieder gehört, nachdem du den ersten Anruf gemacht hast? Nein, Ma'am, nie. Glaubst du, vielleicht wurde dein Anruf verloren? Was glaubst du? Ich glaube, meine Geschichte passt nicht mit ihrer Theorie.
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A Conviction In Question
Im Februar 2005, zwei Jahre nach dem Entschieden von Daniel Moore zu Death Row, machte Thompson ein Gericht, das alle erschreckte. Der Gericht beklagte, dass ein neues Gericht Daniel Moore in doppelter Gefahr verurteilen würde. Er wurde zweimal für dieselben Verbrechen getroffen und wurde stattdessen verlassen. Ich dachte, ich hätte einen politischen Verbrechen verursacht.
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A Conviction In Question
Bis jetzt hat Dr. David Tipton seine Tochter 700 Meilen von Decatur entfernt.
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A Conviction In Question
Als er die Nachrichten über Daniel Moores Erläuterung hörte, war er furchtbar.
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A Conviction In Question
Everybody should be afraid. The state of Alabama wanted another crack at Moore and convinced the courts to put him back in jail pending appeal. Nach vier kurzen Freizeiten wurde Moore zurück in den Gefängnis gebracht, während die Berichterstatter versuchten, Thompsons Regierungen abzuschließen.
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A Conviction In Question
Es hat Jahre gedauert, aber die Berichterstatter haben es geschafft. Im Februar 2008, neun Jahre nachdem Karen Tipton getötet wurde, ging Daniel Moore zum zweiten Mal ins Gefängnis. Valeska beantragte, dass Judge Thompson von dem Fall entfernt wurde, um die Aussehung von Unverdächtigkeit zu vermeiden. Und so wurde Thompson von Judge Stephen Haddock verabschiedet.
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A Conviction In Question
Jury von der zweiten Trial waren deutlich beeinflusst von Informationen, die in dem jetzt berühmten FBI-Report enthalten waren. Was weißt du jetzt über Karen Tipton von dieser Trial?
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A Conviction In Question
As part of his strategy, Powell played up the allegations of extramarital affairs and the pornography, gay and otherwise, found on the home computer, to the dismay of Karen Tipton's husband.
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A Conviction In Question
Finally, after six long days, the jury came back into the courtroom. We tried very, very hard. And we just couldn't do it. Seine Entscheidung war keine Entscheidung. Und Judge Haddock erklärte eine Missverfolgung. In Decatur, wie sehen die Leute Daniel Moore an?
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A Conviction In Question
But Co-Prosecutor Corey May says he has no doubt about who killed Karen Tipton.
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A Conviction In Question
Daniel Wade Moore will stand trial a third time, although he was allowed to go home after posting Bond. But will this case ever come to an end? Wenn es ein weiteres Trial gibt, glaubst du, Daniel Moore wird verurteilt?
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A Conviction In Question
Acht Jahre nach dem Angriff auf Daniel Wade Moores, ist Sherman Powell nochmals bereit für einen Trial. Der dritte. Moores befindet sich nochmals mit dem Todspenal und dem Mord von Karen Tipton. Und nochmals wird Powell mit Assistenzstaatsanwalt Don Valeska kämpfen. Powell kann es kaum glauben.
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A Conviction In Question
Mehr bedrohlich ist, dass Powell immer noch glaubt, dass er keine Beweise hat.
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A Conviction In Question
Eines von Pauls Hauptkönnern war immer der Tipton Home Computer. Seit acht Jahren versucht er herauszufinden, ob es irgendwelche Beweise dafür gibt. Unglaublich, nur 72 Stunden vor dem Trial erscheint die Information. Daniel Moores Mutter, Virginia Byrd.
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A Conviction In Question
Und wie es scheint, ist es das, was vom Home Computer fehlt, das wichtig ist. Jemand mit Zugang zum Tipton Home hat die File vom Computer nach Karens Tod verlost, aber bevor sie an die Polizei geflogen wurde. Wie reagierst du auf so etwas, wenn plötzlich mehr Beweise an Daniels drittem Trial kommen?
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A Conviction In Question
Despite her frustration, Virginia hopes with all her heart that this time around, her son will be found not guilty. In the year he's been out on bond, Daniel's been living on his own, working at a local electric company and enjoying the support of his community.
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A Conviction In Question
How old is Daniel today? He's 34. Almost a third of his life has been, he's been in limbo over these charges. Right. How do you cope with that? How does he cope with that?
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A Conviction In Question
Es ist schwer zu glauben, dass in einer Stadt wie Decatur, wo Karens Mord und Daniels Trial große Nachrichten waren, aber diese Jury auf Moores dritten Trial sagten, dass sie wenig über den Fall wussten. Hat jemand von euch diesen Namen gehört? Wusste, wer er war? Ich habe ihn gehört, aber es bedeutet nichts für mich. Es klingt verdammt.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber dann kommt die Verteidigung, und Sherman Powell verwendet das neue Computer-Evidenz gut. Diese kuriosen Entschädigungen, um die Überraschung an Dr. Tipton zurückzuwerfen. Waren Sie alle besorgt, dass Dinge aus dem Home-Computer verpasst wurden? Ja, das war ein großer Teil.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber ist es nicht möglich, dass Dr. Tipton vielleicht etwas überraschend gemacht hat, aber trotzdem nichts mit dem Tod seiner Frau zu tun hatte?
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A Conviction In Question
Sherman Powell hat die Zeitung der Verwaltungsbefragung geäußert. Er hat die Arbeiter, die den Nachbar-Drehweg auf dem Tag, an dem Karen getötet wurde, vorgestellt. Sie sagen, sie sahen Dr. Tipton viel früher nach Hause kommen, als Tipton beurteilt hat. Warum ist das wichtig in diesem Fall?
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A Conviction In Question
And when Dr. Tipton testifies, as he did in the two previous trials, the jurors listen carefully.
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A Conviction In Question
Ich glaube nicht, dass er die Wahrheit erzählt hat, dass er auf dem Stand war. Und dann gibt es den schrecklichen FBI-Report. Der Grund, warum Daniel eine neue Begründung erhielt, nachdem er verurteilt wurde und tot verurteilt wurde.
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A Conviction In Question
Sie konnte nicht erwarten, dass jemand wie Daniel Moore, dass das etwas war, was in ihrer Leben stattfand, was sie wusste. Ja. Nach einem Monat Testimony ist es die Jury's turn.
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A Conviction In Question
Wir haben gebeten, dass wir die richtige Entscheidung machen würden. Die Jury nehmen ihre Zeit, um jedes Stück Beleidigungen zu prüfen. Dann, nach sieben langen Tagen Beleidigungen,
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A Conviction In Question
Als die zwölf Anwesenden zum letzten Mal in die Stadthalle zurückkehren, fühlen sie sich, als ob die ganze Stadt von Decatur, Alabama, auf sie wartet, um zu hören, wie Daniel Wade Moore verletzt wird.
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A Conviction In Question
Wird sie sich mehr für den Mord von Karen Tipton verurteilen und ihn zurück nach Death Row senden? Oder werden sie ihn freimachen?
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A Conviction In Question
Drei Mal jetzt haben die Tipton-Familie und Daniels Mutter durch dieses schreckliche Gewicht gestorben. Angst, dass der Jurist seine Verdacht über alle fünf Mörderkontrollen, zusammen mit Verbrechen, Zerstörung und sexuellem Verbrechen, beurteilen.
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A Conviction In Question
Not guilty. It is finally over. Daniel Wade Moore walks out a free man.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber für die Tipton-Familie ist diese Saga weit von vorbei. Karens Töchter sind jetzt in ihren Teenies. Wenn Daniel Wade Moore ihre Mutter nicht getötet hat, dann wer? Es geht unentschlossen.
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A Conviction In Question
For nearly a decade, Attorney Sherman Powell's faith in the innocence of accused murderer Daniel Wade Moore has never wavered.
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A Conviction In Question
Judge Glenn Thompson, who's also been living with the Tipton case for a long time now.
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A Conviction In Question
Aber nicht jeder denkt, Moore sei unnötig. Polizeichief Ken Collier.
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A Conviction In Question
So ist Assistant State Attorney General Don Valeska, who won a guilty verdict in the first trial, only to have it set aside because he withheld evidence from the defense. When the trial was over, the prosecutor said publicly that Daniel Wade Moore was the killer and that you all made a mistake. What was your reaction to the prosecutor saying you were wrong? Well, they picked us.
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A Conviction In Question
And so for Daniels mother, the 10 years of fear she has felt for her son has turned to anger.
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A Conviction In Question
As for Sherman Powell, well, he's just relieved his long quest fighting on behalf of Daniel Moore is finally over.
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A Conviction In Question
Die ultimative Gefängnis dann bleibt Karen Tipton, die nie zu Hause gehen kann, nie ihre Kinder aufwachsen sehen kann und deren Tod jetzt scheint, ein Geheimnis zu bleiben.
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A Conviction In Question
But authorities see it differently. They say Moore killed Karen Tipton, a wife and mother from Decatur, Alabama.
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A Conviction In Question
In fact, he's received more days in court than he'd care to count.
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A Conviction In Question
No one would blame Moore for giving up hope, especially after his first capital murder trial in 2002, when he was found guilty. Do you remember what you were thinking or what was going through your mind when the jury said guilty?
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A Conviction In Question
He wasn't the only one. Presiding Judge Glenn Thompson, who read over the jury's verdict moments before it was revealed in open court, could not believe his eyes. Given his reservations, what Judge Thompson did next could be considered shocking.
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A Conviction In Question
When it came to sentencing, Thompson said he was required by law to consider the severity of the crime.
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A Conviction In Question
Karen Tipton wurde 28 Mal gestoppt, und ihre Brust wurde geschnürt.
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A Conviction In Question
In Ordnung mit der Gesetzgebung hat Judge Thompson das maximale Penalty geimpft. Der Tod.
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A Conviction In Question
Es ist sehr ungewöhnlich für einen Juden, öffentlich über einen Fall zu sprechen. Aber er hat 48 Stunden dieses Interview verbracht.
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A Conviction In Question
But that guilty verdict was set aside and the state tried more again and then yet again.
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A Conviction In Question
How can that happen? How does a man get tried three times for the same murder? Wir erklären, aber zuerst müssen wir zurück in die Nachmittagszeit von 12. März 1999 zurück. Ein völlig normaler Tag. Dr. David Tipton, ein Psychiater, war mit Karen verheiratet, die eine 39-jährige Hausfrau war.
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A Conviction In Question
Sie war schöner, als sie jemals in ihrer Leben war. Tipton, der auch 39 war, sagt, er kam von der Arbeit früher als normal, um in den Theater zu gehen.
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A Conviction In Question
When he walked from the garage into the house, he noticed the deadbolt on the door was not locked. Dr. Tipton went into the foyer to hang up his coat.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Oh, no. Karen's nude body was lying at the top of the stairs. Die Anwesenden begannen, Klüren zu suchen, als die Anwesenden die Tifton-Kinder nach der Schule fuhren, wo sie nie aufgehoben wurden.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Die Krimi-Szene war faszinierend. Dr. Tipton berichtete, dass Karens Koffer und ein paar Gemüse verloren waren. Aber ihr Diamantring war noch auf ihrem Finger.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
At the time of the murder, Ken Collier was Chief of Investigations for the Decatur Police. Today, he is Police Chief. Was there any evidence of forced entry?
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
In a case where a woman is found in her own home, murdered in the middle of the day, who is usually the first suspect? Who do you look at first?
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Ich wusste das. Die Polizei glaubt, Karen wurde etwa zwischen 1 Uhr, nach einer Telefonrufe zu einem Freund, und 2.30 Uhr, als sie normalerweise die Kinder aus der Schule holte. Dr. Tiptons Geschäftsführer sagte der Polizei, dass Tipton in einer Nähe von Huntsville auf 3.30 Uhr aufgehört hat.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Aber wenn sie ihn zurück in die Haustür lassen, dann sind sie offensichtlich nicht ein Verbrecher, der versuchen könnte, irgendwelche Beweise zu zerstören. Nun, ich kann nicht in ihre Hände kommen, aber das ist ein sinnvolles Statement. Did he have any injuries on him or anything that would indicate to officers that he had just been involved in a brutal murder? No, no.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
One thing's for sure, the police needed some answers. There was no murder weapon or fingerprints found at the scene. Was there a lot of pressure to get someone for this crime? Sure there was.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Sie mussten etwas haben. Die Polizisten sind für einen Monat nicht mehr da, bis plötzlich ein glücklicher Abbruch. Ein Relativ von Daniel Moores ging an die Polizei und sagte ihnen, dass Moore etwas Alarmierendes gesagt hätte.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Back in 1999, even Daniel Wade Moore thought of himself as a drug-addicted loser.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Desperate for money, he brazenly snatched a gold chain in full view of a store clerk who called police. The chase was on and Moore wound up crashing his pickup truck. He was arrested and taken to jail, but as soon as he got bailed out, Daniel continued to binge on drugs. His uncle Sparky Moore tried to help, but Daniel pushed him away.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Anything, including telling his uncle that he was involved with the murder of Karen Tipton.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Defense Attorney Sherman Powell says that Moore's confession was pure fiction.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Help me out here, Daniel. Why would you basically confess or put yourself into a situation that you say you had nothing to do with?
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
But if Moore thought that story was going to bring him peace and quiet, he was mistaken. His uncle went to the police and told them what Moore had said.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
According to Collier, Moore was in town at the approximate time of the murder and had no alibi. Police brought him in for questioning. And the moment Moore was left alone in the interrogation room, he began stabbing himself with a penknife. Somebody who doesn't know your case could look and say, Look, you're using a knife. Karen Tipton was stabbed. You're trying to kill yourself.
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
Police saw the stabbing incident as confirmation of Moore's guilt. And that was even before investigators discovered a link between Moore and the Tiptons. How would you describe Karen Tipton?
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
As it turns out, Moore had worked for a security company that had installed the alarm system at the Tipton House. David Tipton speculates Karen may have allowed Moore in because she recognized him. How did you think it happened?
48 Hours
A Conviction In Question
The attack, Tipton says, continued upstairs in the bedroom, where police found Karens clothing on the floor and blood on the bed.
48 Hours
False Identity
The district attorney is not a publicist or the town crier, so to speak. He's the prosecutor, and he's got to prosecute the case. Which Guarino says he did right by the book. We really didn't handle it any differently than we would have handled. a forgery case of this nature.
48 Hours
False Identity
Did you know he was married with children? Yes, we did know because he told us he had walked away from a family. We had no current information on them or their whereabouts.
48 Hours
False Identity
No, at the time we did not. We did not think about it. We had notified all the agencies that we thought were proper, including the Ohio side of the equation. We thought they would seek them out, but we really didn't think about it. Hindsight's 20-20. I'd probably do it today.
48 Hours
False Identity
Mike Guarino, Galveston County District Attorney. He had seen certain things at the radio station in the office of Tim Kingsbury. They looked funny. A co-worker had come across forgeries.
48 Hours
The Preacher's Obsession
She loved the cars. She loved the crowds. And she was just really into it. Tilt your head a little in this way. Perfect.
48 Hours
The Preacher's Obsession
She was born in Singapore, came over here to the United States, and was chasing that American dream.
48 Hours
The Preacher's Obsession
Twist your hips this way. Nice. Felicia was definitely a natural when it came to modeling.
48 Hours
The Preacher's Obsession
I think fast cars and hot girls have gone together since the beginning of motor sports.
48 Hours
The Money Trail
We did the best we could, but there was some danger there because we didn't know where Robert Ortiz was.
48 Hours
The Money Trail
We were allowing the evidence to guide us where we needed to go. She was going to survive or she was going to break. She was very upset, very emotional.
48 Hours
The Money Trail
Every time we pushed a button, she would react in a way a true victim should.
48 Hours
The Money Trail
This was the card that Butler brought in prior to the robbery when he was discussing opening an account.
48 Hours
The Money Trail
Her background just didn't add up to at least what I had envisioned to be a person entrusted with the management of a bank.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
Bedford County is very rural in places. If you were driving through, you would think this is a very beautiful place.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
There was typing on it that appeared to be a suicide note. It was not signed Jocelyn, it was typed Jocelyn.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
We found out that she was married and was separated at the time. She was married to Wesley Ernest.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
They had built a lake house that was worth a lot of money. We're talking multi-million dollar homes all over this lake. Was there romance?
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
We asked Mr. Earnest if we thought his wife could be suicidal, and he told us yes. I was there for the autopsy. I thought the bullet wound was to the left temple, and it turned out being that the bullet wound was to the back of the head back here. I received a phone call from the guy in fingerprints in the lab, and he stated that he had found prints on the note.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
I'm at home and get a phone call. Wesley Ernest's house is burning down right now.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
How did they get there? Well, there's only one way they got there. He touched that note.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
There's no question this body had been moved by someone, and a pretty strong someone. Whoever shot this lady moved her at that time.
48 Hours
Marriage Secrets
She would never, ever lock her dog in there, turn the heat up, shoot herself, knowing her dog could be in there and die in that cage.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
Everything that happened to Scott after the summer is all Penny's fault. She ruined his life for her own petty amusement.
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Stalking Shadows
The number one rule of stalking is never use your own phone. He didn't care if he got caught. He's talking about himself.
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Stalking Shadows
I would like to take a hammer and repeatedly smash her face in with it until her face is a soupy, bloody pulp. Scott's moral duty has been satisfied by just sending these messages. You can never say that you didn't know. You were given the opportunity. Remember that.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
Shaker Heights is an affluent suburb. It's very diverse. There's a lot of old money. And I think people don't like to think things like this happen in places like that. You know, we've learned they do.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
Yeah, and I think you see that in the journals where Penny, at least for that summer, was his life.
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Stalking Shadows
In his journal, you see him talking about this girl as this wonderful thing and the object of his affection. The times that I had spent with Penny this summer when things were going good and she was nice to me was like a dream come true. The weather was beautiful, so was she, and I was at times happier than I had ever been in my life.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
No, I think it was a legal tactic to show the court, you know, I'm sorry and I'm taking steps to correct my behavior and I'm sick and I'm getting help.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
It's scary. You know, it's just frightening because he lays out what he's going to do. And you see this progression, this evolution in his mind of her as this sweet little girl to this evil object that has to be made to pay.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
I think that my actions were a way to force myself to be an important part of her life, even though it was in a negative way. I once thought, forget about me, bitch. I will make you remember me forever. And then the one that just, I still to this day can't get over. How cool and superior will you look when I blow your brains out into the ground?
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
He's at the Cleveland Clinic in their psychiatric ward writing, How cool will you look when I walk up and blow your brains out?" And five months later, in broad daylight, across the street from the police station, that's exactly what he did.
48 Hours
Hollywood Secrets
Bernie goes no place without companions, principally female, notably attractive, and inevitably more than one.
48 Hours
A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
We became convinced that he'd done it. It seemed like that every expert we talked to told us that it could not have happened the way Matt Baker said it happened.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
The fire evidence was probably the case. Prove the fire, prove the murder.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
It was a little tense. Once I found out that she was there, I was a little upset at that.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
He can't measure the depth of char to a piece of wood from a photograph where present at the scene we were able to do that.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
If you've got a calm day, then the smoke is obviously going to rise straight up quicker than you would with a 20-mile-an-hour wind that was pushing the smoke laterally.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
It was pretty quickly come clear to us that Patrick Bradford was the guy.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
Therefore... If Patrick Bradford didn't do this, he could tell us who did because he would have had to been standing beside him.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
The sides, the bottom and the side are cut straight. But the top, it just jags all the way down.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
All the stuff he did in that house to make it look like an unknown burglar came in to commit this crime, he wanted to make as obvious as he could.
48 Hours
The Imposter
Prepare to be entertained. Gladiator 2 is now streaming on Paramount+. Do you hear that crowd? It's ferociously entertaining.
48 Hours
The Imposter
Paul Meskel, Pedro Pascal, with Connie Nielsen, and Denzel Washington. Strength and honor. Strength and honor. Gladiator 2, directed by Ridley Scott. Now streaming on Paramount+. Rated R. Streaming on Paramount+.
48 Hours
Coerced Confessions
areas where they found blood. But what about the red sweatshirt? In the past, I have placed my camera tripod in a blood stain. In this particular case, I don't believe that I did. I would have tried everything possible to not do so.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
The left side of her face was extensively damaged. And then the shot continued through her right shoulder.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
Both of the men had similar injury wounds, that is shotgun wound to the face.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
Based on what I see at the scene, looking at the photographs, my estimate was something like two feet. You're two feet away. My goodness, you don't really need to aim. You just kind of point and shoot.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
There were three victims shot, each with single shotgun blast. The shooter comes to carry first, fires.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
It's amazing that she did survive because basically it looks like she was left for dead.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
The shooter leaves Kerry, proceeds to the parents' bedroom. The second shot was to Phillip.
48 Hours
A Family Affair
Linda was the mother. She's coming out of the bathroom to see what's going on because she doesn't have a clue.
48 Hours
Crossfire at the Shaughnessys'
I'm just telling you, we know you're involved in this. We know what happened. We know you're involved. Absolutely. There's no doubt.
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Crossfire at the Shaughnessys'
You're the only person I've shown regret. I don't understand how. How could you kill somebody and not have any emotion about it? And you actually killed him. I was in the situation. I'm devastated. I cannot sleep at night.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
We knew after talking to the parents that they would go to jail for him. Knowing the degree that the parents were helping him and his resources, his intelligence, We had to take a different approach on it.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
Yeah. They went out there with a small army, around 20 guys. They ended up finding his room, and they knocked on it, and he just came out and said, I'm who you're looking for.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
My personal take was he was being very cooperative, being very forthcoming. Obviously, he was in shock. Being very transparent. Very transparent, yeah.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
There's a video from a ring doorbell camera that clearly shows like a black SUV with a bike rack. Can't see the license plate because of the bike rack on it.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
He starts to portray her as being the jealous type, even saying things like, I can't keep people in my phone like Mo's not in my phone as Mo.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
And so a few things like that start to paint a picture of like, this could, it could definitely be her. Police worked quickly.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
We were thinking maybe she's driving cross country. We didn't know.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
Which made absolute no sense to any of us that you would just drive back.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
And we actually ended up sending a picture of Caitlin while we're on the phone with him. He looks at it and he goes, yes, but she doesn't look like that and she's not using that name.
48 Hours
Who Killed Moriah Wilson?
He's starting to get this sense that there could be some jealousy to it.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
I'll let you know if I see anything or hear anything.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
If we thought that Chris was going to make his way, say, back to Bellevue, what's the most likely path? Where are his friends at?
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
He's verbally belligerent to officers that have arrested him.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
He took Angela's possessions, money, a cell phone with him.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Are you believing any of this? No. I'm only believing the fact that he shot Angela.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We knew Chris. He would tell us how much he loved Angela, how devastated he was that there was a restraining order.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We knew the minute that there was a shooting at the kennel, something had happened with Chris. We were concerned that this was a getaway vehicle for him in here because it was just so odd. It had no reason to be here. I called 911 immediately. It was very intense because at that point he was still missing.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The minute we came in the door, I knew that Chris Pritchard had spent some time in here. He certainly made himself at home here.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You show up at a place where you know she's going to be You've got a gun with her. You know you've got a no contact order. An argument breaks out. She calls 911. She winds up dead. This wasn't just some accident.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
If this was an accident, why are you taking her cell phone, which is her only means of survival? Why aren't you calling for help yourself? Why aren't you rendering any type of aid for your wife?
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The gun was leaning up against the cupboards. He went to retrieve a backpack and it fell. And then that went off and shot her.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The fact that he's saying that after the gun went off and it struck her, that she's yelling profanities back at him. Well, we have a 911 recording of that conversation. That did not take place.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You leave no building unchecked. Obviously we're going to throw every resource that we have at our disposal to apprehending him.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
This appeared to be an assailant that knew her very well.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We had received word that there was a 911 call in the morning. Tell me about that 911 call.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
It's essentially that you're listening to the end of her life on the 911 call.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
As the dispatcher continues to ask, what's your emergency? You can faintly hear somebody say...
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
On a personal level, it's a very difficult thing to listen to someone's end-of-life moments. On an investigative level, that was a pivotal piece of evidence in the opening stages of the investigation. You guys ready? Let's go.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Passing by the kennel door on the right, and this is the area where we initially get a firsthand glimpse of Angela's deceased body here on the floor.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Ryan Kelly photographed the scene. She has a very large, significant gunshot wound to the chest. At close range. At, I would say, very close range. There has to have been some very, very high emotions involved in that. You have Angela Pritchard deceased here.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Leading out of this room and then into the dog kennel area through this door. We believe our assailant traveled from that area through here, left some blood evidence, and then likely went out this door directly in front of us. We're certainly trying to keep an open mind and determine that, OK, if Chris didn't do this, well, then who did?
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
But at this point, all of the information seems to be consistent with Chris being the guy that we need to locate.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
As we continue to work the investigation, we began to establish our timeline.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You can hear dogs start to bark. We had determined that was most likely the point when he arrived at the kennels.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The first video that they really got was Angela coming down to work in the morning. And right up here, you're going to see Angela start to pull down to the entrance at the Mississippi Ridge boarding kennels. pulling up to the kennel at 7.34. You can see her get out of her vehicle and she's gathering her belongings and then walking into the kennel itself.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
At 7.39 and 43 seconds, we heard a gunshot go off in the video.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Actually walking from the kennel area down to the fence area here behind me. That makes us believe that this is the first area that we need to check.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We have every resource at our disposal to try and do this manhunt. We have canines, we have airplanes, we have drones. This is your worst nightmare.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You've got a fugitive out there on the run, potentially armed.
48 Hours
Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
There's hundreds of acres here of farmland and woods, and we have the Mississippi River not far away. So knowing that he could have went any direction really makes the search difficult.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Salonia was 26 years old at the time. When I watched the crime scene video and saw Saloni's body in that car, immediately I was sad, I was mad. It was pretty apparent to me right away that whoever did this homicide hated this woman.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Well, why reopen it is an interesting question. This was a case, to me, right away when I looked at it, that there was a story to be told.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
He said, look, I've already poured hundreds of man hours into that case, and y'all didn't do anything. And he said, you're wasting your time, kid. Have a nice life, basically.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
So I offered him what I would say would be the golden ticket. But Barnes rejected the offer. He did not trust me. He did not believe me.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
As Barry and I were getting back in the car, Jim Ray Barnes came over to us and he said, I want you boys to know that I'm the key to it all. And he said, if you think you can indict me for murder, then do it. Anthony was quick to take him up on that challenge.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
So Barry and I went and met with him again. And in exchange for him telling us everything he knew, he was offered a deal to plead to accessory after the fact to murder and was given a five-year prison sentence.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
The reason I became a prosecutor is to fight for people like this. I see a woman whose body has been desecrated, violated, mutilated, and nobody spoke up for her and fought for her. And there's a quote that I love, and it goes, the dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them. And that's my job.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
My theory was that Salonia and Reginald were in a marriage that was about to come to an end. There was a history of abuse and that Salonia was tired of it and she was ready to leave Reginald. I think he was angry and he saw an opportunity for some money. I think that's why he killed this woman.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Later, police were able to find a bottle of lotion in the Reed household that matched that type of lotion that was on her body.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
My understanding after the fact is that Jimmy Ray Barnes talked to Reggie and said, where's the money? You told me $50,000. He says he never got a penny of it.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
As a prosecutor, when the jury deliberates, it's painstaking. You're just waiting and waiting and waiting.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
I wanted to tell him, I'm sorry for the loss of your mother. I'm sorry for your father going to prison. I can't even imagine the grieving process that he's got to have gone through.
48 Hours
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Anytime a young woman, Saloni's age, is killed the way she's killed, I think most people right away would assume the husband did it, right? And that's the easy way, that's the stereotypical way. But it's also not out of the realm of possibility that this was some killing for another reason. From that day on, my life changed forever.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
She had just moved into the home. There were still lots of boxes, items being unpacked. Didn't appear that there was any signs of a break-in or a crime that occurred at the home, but her car was there.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
The last person that we were able to determine that saw her was Sean Doyle.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
He was an executive for a company. We were able to track him down. He was interviewed.
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Facing a Monster
who was calling with concern of where she was. We're supposed to meet up. I got the tickets. I'm here. Are you okay? I hope an accident didn't happen.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
What became concerning for myself is the person that cared about her, supposedly.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
He just always had said all along that he left her and she was alive at the apartment.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
I made a promise to find a resolution. to this for them and give them the closure and answers that they needed. It was disheartening because every night I'd call them and give them an update, regardless of whether there was positive or negative information.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
He saw what he thought to be a toolbox that goes in the back of a pickup truck floating. Thought it may be useful for him, so he grabbed onto it, towed it with his boat about a mile and a half, and then they dragged it out of the water there.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
And there was contents, pillows, bedding, purse. But right on top was Lori's ID.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
She was handcuffed behind her back. There was duct tape around the handcuffs. Her feet were bound together and duct taped. Her face from chin to forehead had duct tape. And then once that duct tape was removed, there was a bandana tied in her mouth.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
Everything started to come together real quickly. We got a search warrant within hours to go to his residence.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
We were able to track down in the home similar handcuffs, bandanas, duct tape, other means he used that matched what was used on Lori.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
Just tell me about what investigators think happened. What was the theory?
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
The theory is that he came here with his pickup truck, came to the bridge somewhere in the center of the canal, and took the toolbox and basically just pushed it over the edge. And as he did, it scraped across.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
So Captain, just where are we? What is this place? So we're in the town of Kingsbury at the bridge that goes over the canal on New Swamp Road.
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Facing a Monster
July 24th, 2005, investigators are called out here. What brought them out here?
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
So we had a report that a fisherman had been going by. He saw what he thought to be a toolbox that goes in the back of a pickup truck floating.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
Did you ever see any sort of evidence of his professional boxing? I mean, do you think he was even a boxer ever?
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
They found a woman's body that was duct taped and handcuffed and wrapped in a comforter. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing to see.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Teenagers would go there, and they would party. They would drink. They would smoke marijuana.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Yes. And we believe that she was actually killed on the gravel driveway and then drug on her face through that window.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
You wouldn't hear it from that house where that house was located.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Anything you say can be used against you in court.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Didn't seem to really care that she was gone, let alone had been murdered.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
What kind of stuff were you all arguing about? Um, everything. Just normal? Just normal stuff.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
That he very much is the one who more than likely committed this murder.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He started dating Hannah Thompson, who I believe was 17.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Okay. Okay. You do not want to get wrapped up and catch in a murder charge. You're 17 years old. You have your entire life ahead of you. You may love John and you may think you two are going to get married and walk down Yellow Brick Road. But no man and no woman is worth going to prison for. Do you agree?
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Don't want to do what? Don't want to help us find out who killed her?
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
It's very aggravating because we know we're sitting across from the person who killed his wife. And shortly after that interview is when he fled the state.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Has John contacted you by Facebook at all since you separated? Or has he contacted you by any means at all?
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
We did our first interview with him several days after her body was located.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Shortly after that interview is when he fled the state.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
You've lied to your friends and your family. Yes. And he kept lying? Yes.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
A lot of this journal is filled with these fictional stories of observations. It's filled with poems, drawings, all kinds of things.
48 Hours
Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
She did a great job going up there and telling the truth and giving the key details of what John had told her, what he had done to Katie.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Her body had basically been folded into this box. It was a picture of what you would see in a horror movie.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Am I being charged with a crime? Because he's recording me, and I'm not comfortable with that. You're not being charged, OK, with a crime right now.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
If he was willing to kill his own wife, there's no telling what kind of danger Hannah Thompson would have been in by fleeing with him.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
John Blauvelt was working over there at the Armed Forces Center.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Once they got married, this is the house that they were supposed to move into and have a family.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Unfortunately, the only kids that were here were the teenagers that John Blauvelt invited.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Hannah became John's puppy. Anytime that John would tell her to do something, she would do it.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
She moved into John Blauvelt's bedroom in this house when Katie moved out.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
They tried to make contact with John, and John refused to come outside.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He was very vocal on the fact that he wanted Katie dead, he wanted Katie gone.
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The Boy Across the Street
As a father, I closed her casket and buried my 18-year-old child who was murdered by this animal. This is a body bag of my daughter. This is what you did to her, Steve.
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The Boy Across the Street
That bus ride was the longest ride in my life. The first hardest thing was when she died. This is the second.
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The Boy Across the Street
Steve sentenced my daughter to death forever. I ask for a fair trade. I ask you to sentence Steve to life in prison. Then it was Burns' turn to speak.
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The Boy Across the Street
I think coming out here and being able to talk to Katina gives me a peace of mind also that I can still communicate with my daughter, that it isn't the final end.
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The Boy Across the Street
It's the first skirmish in a long, long battle that we started today.
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Fatal First Date
Back at the police station, they confronted him with a gas station receipt.
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Fatal First Date
The gas station was near Tarr's home, an hour from the crime scene. Andrew Affronti is the Montgomery County state's attorney. He has dystonia, a condition that causes muscle tics and tremors. So why is it significant? So he went out and got some gas.
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Fatal First Date
Investigators believed it was proof Tar was lying about his whereabouts that night. They placed him under arrest. A frontie says they arrested Tar immediately because they feared Chris's life was in danger and they hadn't found the murder weapon.
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Fatal First Date
Just one day after Leslie Reeves was killed and Chris Smith was left fighting for his life, investigators believe they had the man responsible in custody. I'm Erin Moriarty. Bobby Tarr. But in his only media interview, Bobby Tarr tells 48 Hours they got the wrong guy.
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Fatal First Date
Bobby Tarr, charged with the murder of Leslie Reeves and the attempted murder of Chris Smith, is nothing if not unflappable. Did you kill Leslie Reeves?
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Fatal First Date
Was that text the last time you heard from Leslie Reeves? Mm-hmm, yes, it was. Did you try texting her in the morning?
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Fatal First Date
He kept his cool even when confronted with a litany of lies, he told investigators. You told the police you only left the house once. That wasn't true.
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Fatal First Date
You told the police you had no idea where Farmersville is. That was a lie. You lied about getting gas in your car that night. When he spoke with us, Tar admitted he was at Chris Smith's house the night before Thanksgiving, placing himself at the scene of the crime. He says the night began when he met Leslie at her part-time job at this loft store.
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Fatal First Date
Tarr says that when he declined the invitation, Leslie asked if he would follow her to Farmersville because her van was unreliable. And so he did. That makes no sense to Leslie's friend, Amy Steinhauer. She was terrified of him. and rightfully so. Just a few weeks earlier, Amy says Leslie told her that Tar had shown up while she was on a first date with a different guy.
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Fatal First Date
After that incident, Leslie told Amy she was frightened by Tar and texted Amy, I could be killed by him someday if I don't cut all contact. So you're telling me now that this woman who was scared of you, who had actually texted a friend that she thought you might kill her, asked you to follow her to another man's house? Does that make any sense?
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Fatal First Date
Tar says Leslie lied to her friends about their relationship. He insists she asked him to follow her north to Farmersville.
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Fatal First Date
If he had an innocent explanation for why he was in Farmersville, why did he lie to detectives?
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Fatal First Date
Tarr claims that after he lied to his daughter Shelby about seeing Leslie, he stuck to that lie at the police station because he was afraid they would tell her. And he never corrected those lies, even when detectives arrested him. Why not just say, look, between you and me, I lied to my daughter, so let me tell you the truth, but let's just not share that with her. Why wouldn't you do that?
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Fatal First Date
He's quick to point out the lack of physical evidence connecting him to the bloody crime scene. Investigators searched his white Jetta, but did not find any shards of glass or blood stains.
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Fatal First Date
Prosecutor Affronti has to concede that point. Was any of Tyre's DNA found inside the house?
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Fatal First Date
Were any of his fingerprints found inside the house? No. and authorities still had not found the murder weapon. But a week after the shooting, they got a phone call from Tarr's friend Billy Adams. Adams said Tarr had called him from jail. That call was recorded.
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Fatal First Date
Instead, Adams contacted the sheriff's office. Deputies suspected Tarr knew the phone call was being recorded and was speaking to his friend in code about something other than deck brackets.
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Fatal First Date
investigators were on their hands and knees in tar's yard looking for a gun dan fultz is tar's defense attorney they searched that area thoroughly no gun you know what they did find deck brackets a few days later they got another phone call this time from tar's brother asking them to come back to the house
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Fatal First Date
Tarr's family gave deputies a Ziploc bag they said they had found in the same yard that had been searched just days earlier. Inside, a Springfield Hellcat 9mm pistol and silver-colored ammunition. The Illinois State Police determined the gun was the murder weapon, and the ammunition matched the casings found at the crime scene.
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Fatal First Date
But if someone was framing Tarr, he or she would have to be pretty detail-oriented. The state police say Tarr's fingerprint was on the Ziploc bag.
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Fatal First Date
And Tarr points out neither his prints nor DNA were found on the gun itself.
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Fatal First Date
That spot was Leslie's DNA, say police, found on the guide rod of the gun. Tarr's explanation? The gun wasn't his. It belonged to Leslie.
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Fatal First Date
As investigators continue to build a case against Bobby Tarr, they say he was hatching a plan to silence the only eyewitness. Did you ask a inmate to shoot Chris Smith?
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Fatal First Date
If there's anyone who knew what guns Leslie Reeves owned, it's Howard Bolton, her close friend and firearm instructor.
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Fatal First Date
Bolton says Leslie had organized a class called Girls with Guns not long before she was murdered.
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Fatal First Date
Bobby Tarr insisted to us that Leslie owned the Hellcat that was used to kill her. But Howard says he never saw her use it.
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Fatal First Date
So then how did Leslie's DNA get on the guide rod of the murder weapon? Howard believes that Leslie's DNA could only be on that guide rod if the gun was fired at her at close range.
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Fatal First Date
In fact, Howard says Leslie owned a different gun. Her friends say they wish she had taken it with her the night she was killed.
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Fatal First Date
Tarr declared his innocence, but the case against him could hinge on what Chris Smith, the only survivor, remembers. Would he be able to identify him? That was the question as Chris remained in a coma.
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Fatal First Date
While Chris Smith lay helpless, authorities say Tarr was plotting to silence him forever. A grand jury indicted Tarr on two counts of solicitation of murder. Those charges are based on allegations by an inmate who says Tarr paid him $10,000 to shoot and kill the lead detective and Chris. Did you ask an inmate to shoot Chris Smith?
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Fatal First Date
Tarr says the alleged plot was a lie concocted by a former cellmate. Tarr says he loaned that cellmate $10,000 for his bond and that it had nothing to do with Chris Smith. Were you worried he was going to testify and point to you as the shooter?
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Fatal First Date
The truth was that no one knew what Chris Smith remembered. The first time he regained consciousness was in early January 2022, about two months after the shooting.
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Fatal First Date
That his old friend Mark Reardon, a talk show host in St. Louis, barely recognized Chris on the phone.
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Fatal First Date
After intense physical therapy, he's made incredible strides. He's much stronger than when he awoke from a coma, but he discovered there are gaps in his memory. What does he remember from that terrible night?
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Fatal First Date
Is Chris the same person who used to come on your show before he was shot?
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Fatal First Date
Chris works out at the gym most mornings, trying to regain muscle so that someday he'll be able to walk without assistance. He's even back to being the lead singer in his rock and roll band.
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Fatal First Date
Chris has resigned to living with part of that hollow point bullet in his brain. Doctors say it's in a spot that makes it too dangerous to remove. So that's where you got shot?
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Fatal First Date
Chris visits with his loyal dog, Tiki, but no longer lives with her. And he'd love to see his 12-year-old daughter more often, but he can't drive. And he's living in St. Louis, almost two hours away from his daughter and ex-wife.
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Fatal First Date
The trial of Robert Tarr was set for April 2024, but Chris would not be there. He told the prosecutor he was too angry to attend.
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Fatal First Date
But Chris's alleged shooter, Bobby Tarr, will be there. And he said he was eager to tell the jury that he's not a violent man. But on this one night early morning, did you snap?
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Fatal First Date
When Bobby Tarr went on trial in April 2024, prosecutors told the jury that he killed Leslie Reeves rather than allow her to live the life she wanted, a life without him.
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Fatal First Date
Andrew Affronti says Tarr secretly followed Leslie to Farmersville early that evening. And shortly afterwards, his phone began showing some interesting activity.
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Fatal First Date
Tar headed home and texted his friend, Billy Adams. I don't feel like she would drive that far for a party or go out with a girlfriend. I think it's for a dude. He also searched whether police could track his phone if he was using a VPN, a virtual private network.
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Fatal First Date
Authorities say around midnight, Tarr left home, stopping at that gas station. And then, according to a frontie, surveillance videos and cell tower records show that Tarr drove back to Farmersville. You believe he intended to kill both Chris and Leslie?
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Fatal First Date
With one victim dead and the other with no memory, it's difficult to say with certainty what happened. But the prosecution argued that sometime after 1 AM, Bobby Tarr tried to enter through the back door of Chris Smith's house. Leslie and Chris tried to keep him out.
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Fatal First Date
There was some kind of altercation or struggle. And that's when the glass was broken.
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Fatal First Date
Crime scene investigator Josh Easton told the jury what he had observed inside the kitchen.
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Fatal First Date
The refrigerator was pulled away from the wall where it appeared it normally was.
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Fatal First Date
Prosecutors believe Leslie was trying to use the refrigerator to block the door. And based on where Chris was shot in his head, they think he was crouching down to help Leslie.
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Fatal First Date
So you are the lead crime scene investigator? Yes. Were you really prepared for what you faced when you walked into that house? I was not.
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Fatal First Date
With Chris incapacitated, Affronti says Leslie hid in the living room, tarred, tracked her down, shot, and killed her.
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Fatal First Date
Foltz says evidence of a fight in the kitchen tells a different story. The amount of blood in that kitchen was astonishing. From looking at that crime scene, do you believe that Christopher Smith had to fight his wife? his assailant in the kitchen?
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Fatal First Date
And he says the assailant could not have been Bobby Tarr because he would have been covered in blood.
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Fatal First Date
But prosecutors argued the house wasn't bloody when Tarr left. They said Chris bled heavily in the 12 hours it took for help to arrive. And while the prosecution did not have a lot of forensic evidence linking Tarr to the crime scene, Affronti says his phone activity, his lies to investigators, and the evidence found on the Hellcat all prove his guilt.
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Fatal First Date
When it was the defense's turn, Tarr says he wanted to tell his story to the jury, but he chose not to testify. Why didn't you just decide you were going to talk to the jury and tell this story if, in fact, you have a story to tell?
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Fatal First Date
The defense didn't put on any witnesses and counted on the jury to find reasonable doubt in the lack of physical evidence. After three hours, the jury found Bobby Tarr guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Everyone clapped, and Bobby just sat there shaking his head. Two months later, Tar was back in court for sentencing, and this time, so was Chris.
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Fatal First Date
To tell the judge how the shooting impacted him and his family, cameras were not allowed in the courtroom.
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Fatal First Date
Tarr also spoke and denied shooting Leslie and Chris. The judge sentenced him to 85 years.
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Fatal First Date
Chris Smith says he never expected he'd be a victim of domestic violence and cautions other men to take a hard look at their behavior.
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Fatal First Date
While Chris mourns his old life, he's writing a book about his experiences and says he's working to make what he calls poor man's margaritas out of the lemons and limes he's been handed.
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Fatal First Date
I'm Erin Moriarty of 48 Hours, and of all the cases I've covered, this is the one that troubles me most. Listen to Murder in the Orange Grove, the Trouble Case Against Crosley Green, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Fatal First Date
On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day 2021, Nanette Stiber sat in her car and watched anxiously as EMTs and Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies descended on a house in the tiny village of Farmersville, Illinois.
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Fatal First Date
Nanette had been unable to reach her good friend Leslie Reeves. Nanette knew Leslie had gone to that house the night before to go on a first date with Chris Smith, a man she had met online. She was very excited. She thought, oh, this might be a really good connection. But now Nanette was worried. She'd seen Chris get taken away in an ambulance, but there was no sign of Leslie.
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Fatal First Date
I kept hoping, you know, OK, bring Leslie out, please. Finally, a detective approached and asked Nanette for a photo of Leslie. She showed him her phone and he gave her the horrible news.
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Fatal First Date
EMTs have found Chris barely conscious and unable to say anything about the shooting. They rushed him to the hospital, and deputies searched the house. Later that day, crime scene investigator Josh Easton of the Illinois State Police was called to the scene, and he began cataloging the mayhem inside. What do you see when you first approach the door?
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Fatal First Date
I noticed the side door of the house. The glass in the door has been broken out. The refrigerator was pulled away from the wall. The kitchen table was pushed. The chairs were knocked over.
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Fatal First Date
No weapon was found, leading investigators to suspect that a third person was involved. Eason took note of every detail, including the burnt pizza in the oven.
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Fatal First Date
I assumed that maybe they were cooking a pizza for the night and the... Suspect shows up at the door. They both tried to fight him off. And when Chris was shot, Leslie went to the living room to try to hide. How many times was she shot? She was only shot one time. In the head? In the head.
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Fatal First Date
Leslie's body was in the living room, while Chris had been found in the kitchen. Easton said of the 1,800 crime scenes he had been to, This was one of the most horrific.
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Fatal First Date
There was blood everywhere. The cabinets, the refrigerator, the countertop. There was blood from corner to corner in the kitchen.
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Fatal First Date
No, it was not. This one was bad. Two innocent people that were on their first date had their lives destroyed. For what reason?
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Fatal First Date
Easton spotted two silver colored bullet casings from a nine millimeter gun, one in the kitchen and the other near Leslie's body. As Easton processed the scene, detectives began learning about the victims. Chris Smith was a 48-year-old divorced father who worked for a pool contractor.
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Fatal First Date
Bartender Dena Legrand says Chris was well-known in town as the guy who grew banana trees and giant pumpkins.
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Fatal First Date
Did either one of you ever worry about Chris? No. No. Sharon Costanza is Chris's mother, Ashley Holcomb, his sister.
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Fatal First Date
Chris lived with a dog named Tiki, and an EMT told the family that Tiki may have helped Chris make it through the night by huddling with him for the roughly 12 hours that Chris was bleeding before being rescued. I think Tiki protected Chris.
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Fatal First Date
Chris's close-knit family could not imagine anyone wanting to kill him. It was like, no way. How? Why? Like, who? Yeah, who would have done that? Investigators had the same questions about Leslie and learned that she was a divorced mother of two children who lived in Troy, about an hour south of Farmersville.
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Fatal First Date
Although Leslie had a master's degree in engineering, she chose instead to teach Pilates and to promote self-defense classes for women.
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Fatal First Date
Leslie posted this video to her YouTube channel to advertise one of her classes.
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Fatal First Date
Leslie tried to help women in abusive relationships, but friends say she had her own troubles. Nanette told deputies she was worried about a former boyfriend, a contractor by the name of Robert Tarr, known as Bobby.
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Fatal First Date
Later that evening, news of Leslie's murder began circulating and reached another close friend, Amy Steinhauer. She had met Tar, a divorced father of three, and did not have a good impression of him.
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Fatal First Date
Amy called the sheriff's office that night to give them Tar's name. By then, Detectives had already set out to find Bobby Tarr. While 85 miles to the north, surgeons were fighting to try to save the life of Chris Smith, a bullet still lodged in his brain.
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Fatal First Date
After learning that Chris had been shot in the head, his family rushed to the hospital in Springfield, Illinois, two hours from their home.
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Fatal First Date
Doctors removed part of Chris's skull and some bullet fragments in his brain before putting him in a medically induced coma. His family, struggling to piece together what had happened, learned that he had been out with a woman named Leslie Reeves. Had you ever heard the name Leslie Reeves before?
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Fatal First Date
Nanette told them the same thing she had told investigators. She suspected Leslie's ex-boyfriend, Bobby Tarr, That night, sheriff's deputies went to Tar's home in Collinsville, an hour south of the crime scene. Authorities say he never asked why they wanted to talk to him, and he agreed to go to the police station without a lawyer.
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Fatal First Date
Although her friend said the couple had broken up, Tar told investigators that he and Leslie were still together.
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Fatal First Date
Investigators believe the shooting took place sometime early on Thanksgiving morning after 1 a.m. Tarr said after he got back, he was home all night.
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Fatal First Date
That's exactly what they did. Detectives brought Tarr's 17-year-old daughter, Shelby, to a different room at the police station. And she told them that her father actually left home twice that night.
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Fatal First Date
Shelby said he had been gone for more than two hours, and when he got home, he was upset.
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Fatal First Date
Shelby said she went to sleep around 9.30 and was awakened by her father around 2.45 a.m.,
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Detectives went back to Tarr and told him Shelby's story did not match his. Tarr then changed his story and said he had gone to his friend's house twice, but still insisted he was home by 8. As Tarr sat at the police station, detectives searched his house and found his phone and a Glock pistol. Shelby had told them her father had a different gun, but they didn't find it.
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Fatal First Date
Shelby told investigators she had seen it the day before Thanksgiving in her father's sock drawer.
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Fatal First Date
Bobby Tarr sat at the police station overnight while authorities continued to investigate. They had already learned that his car had been captured by license plate reader cameras just after midnight the night of the shooting. The cameras were near a gas station, and investigators discovered that Tarr had bought gas there just after midnight.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
We think there's enough evidence at the scene to prove of what occurred.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
He was trying to find them that night, and he was not happy about this whole situation.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You see Davis and Meredith, you know, having dinner.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You can see Bud, you know, he's talking to people, interacting, consuming alcohol.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You can see his vehicle drive through the parking lot as if he's looking for him.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Originally, it came out as a possible traffic accident. And then once officers arrived on scene, they realized it was more than that. A lot of people think it was an auto accident. Well, no, it wasn't.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Start roping this off, because this is going to be a crime scene.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
and there was significant damage to the fender.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
The front driver's side wheel was turned slightly.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
There was no rain or anything that would potentially wash anything away, so the main thing I focused on was the vehicle.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Usually when you would think of a normal fender bender, it would just kind of be pressed into it, and this was torn back like a tuna can in a sense.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
The assumption was that he was struck by a vehicle.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
They provided statements of what they saw and what had occurred all night long.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
She pretty much gave a summary of the whole back story that she had been dating Davis
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Just over a year later, it's still here. But there was a number of footprints and some tire tracks that were leading away from this oil stain.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Well, we knew that there was some type of impact to the vehicle, and then we knew there was oil and tire marks that left from here.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You could see it was very obvious that there was tire marks that had gone back down the road and kind of turned around.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
In a manner of speaking. You know, we just have to do the investigation and see what evidence is there and see where it leads us to.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
There was a trail that led from the incident location
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
He kind of walked up and almost was expecting us.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
there some kids here yeah okay whose kids are they mine yours and who uh my wife okay
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My Mother's Murder Trials Part 1
We analyzed every aspect of the case. And ultimately, we came to the conclusion that we believed justice demanded that we move forward and we pursue another trial.
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My Mother's Murder Trials Part 1
Two innocent people were murdered in our community. That demands justice.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Technically, right now, you are under arrest. The motive that the state painted was just an inaccurate portrayal of Matt.
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The Firefighter's Secret
They painted him to be this monster that, at the drop of a hat, after a career of saving people, decided to suddenly start killing people. You were indicted by the grand jury. The evidence doesn't show that Matthew Plody murdered Melissa Lamish or their own bone child.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Melissa Lamish was loved. This is not someone who had enemies lined up around the block who wanted to see her deceased. Rather, there was one person and one person only, and that was Matthew Plody.
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The Firefighter's Secret
What we wanted to portray to the jury is that he was a guy saving lives for his entire career.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Matt's plan was to financially support her. He had offered her money before. His plan was to be there.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He was keeping a secret, the fact that he fathered a baby in the hopes that the child wouldn't be born.
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The Firefighter's Secret
They discussed their finances. They discussed what would happen with the birth of the child. And then Matt left as she was making some lunch.
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The Firefighter's Secret
What was the last thing your sister said to you during that phone call?
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The Firefighter's Secret
He said, There's a deadline to these kinds of things. That was his deadline to murder Melissa.
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The Firefighter's Secret
What is chilling is the fact that he never denied murdering Melissa, and he never denied killing her baby boy. Not one time. It's chilling from a personal perspective, but that's also excellent evidence that the defendant couldn't bring himself to lie about that fact.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He was keeping a secret, the fact that he fathered a baby in the hopes that the child wouldn't be born.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Over the course of multiple interviews for several hours, he was calm and reserved.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He had a right to remain silent, but the police are allowed to continue to poke and prod and try to get him confused, and he just didn't buy into any of that.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He told them everything about his presence there. He didn't hide any of that. He just never admitted what they wanted him to admit, which was that he killed Melissa and his child, which he didn't do.
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The Firefighter's Secret
For Matt, he never had a child before. He didn't want to make it known to other people because he just wanted to keep that part of his life private.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Join the conversation on Facebook and X. The state's expert didn't do a fraction of what he should have done to properly determine the cause of the fire. This should have been an undetermined fire.
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The Firefighter's Secret
The complete lack of investigation of any other individual is shocking. I've never seen such a poorly investigated case.
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The Firefighter's Secret
If there had been another lead, investigators certainly would have followed it. There simply wasn't.
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The Firefighter's Secret
Matthew Plody was a person of interest on day one, simply because he was at the scene.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He clearly did not want to be involved in this baby's life. This is someone who actively hid the fact that a woman in the community was carrying his child.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He clearly had made some choices about having multiple relationships, but did not make him a killer.
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The Firefighter's Secret
He admitted he was there. He told them everything that they would have needed to know about his presence there. He didn't have anything to add. They discussed their finances, and then Matt left as she was making some lunch.