Lance Kirkpatrick
Appearances
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
So tell me when you lived with them, when was that? Do you have a car? No. No car. All right, so would he take you to work or, I mean, like, take you to the job site? Yeah, he'd take me to the job site sometimes. It's all, like, depending on where I'm staying, he'll come pick me up right now.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
So roughly how long, if you know him, Kim, as long as you know him, Derek, they've been married the whole time? Yeah, they've been married the whole time. Pretty much, I met, yeah. Who'd you meet first? Well, I met Derek first because I was working on his house, you know. This is before they moved in. This is before they moved in to the house. Okay, like they were building that house together.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
How long ago did you say you lived with him? Maybe a month, month and a half. Okay. Not even, I mean, I just went and cleaned. Matter of fact, it's been probably less than a month because I just went and cleaned the room. You know, he called me like a week or two ago, asked me to come clean the room upstairs. Okay. Did you leave it trashed?
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
Well, I didn't leave it trashed, but I still had some clothes up there, you know, after we had to be cleaned, you know, regular cleaning, stuff like that. So you went and did all that? So I went and did all that. When did you do that? I don't know, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, okay.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
So you move out, when you move out, where are you living when you have to move out of his place? Lance said that he'd been staying with a new friend named Brian Kiefer. As he told police after leaving the Dorseys, he'd become a bit of a vagabond. Okay.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
When's the last time you were over at Derek's house? I went over there a week ago, maybe a week and a half ago. looking for him, see if I could get some money from him, get a phone, stuff like that, but he wasn't home. Okay. Who was there? I thought him was there. The truck was outside, but nobody answered the door. Uh-huh.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
Lance admitted to the police that he knew where Kim and Derek kept their extra front door key, under the dog statue.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
Now, when you went over there on Saturday, how did you get over there? To Florida, Georgia? I'll bring up mine. Okay, who's that? Her name, I can't remember her last name. Melissa's her first name. She drove you over? Yeah. In what? And her little car. What kind of car did she have? A little blue SUV. A little blue SUV.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
You got to remember, I've talked to a lot of people. Okay. I spent all freaking day today talking to people. Okay. All right. And people talk. Okay. And people tell us things. Okay. All right. And I don't think it went inside the house, okay? And then it went inside the house. Well, yeah, okay. When we talk to people, we talk to a lot of people, we get a lot of information.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
And then we look at our evidence, okay? Do you know how a cell phone works? Basically. Tell me how a cell phone works.
Sword and Scale
Episode 277
Everybody has a side of the story. We have to afford you an opportunity for you to tell us your side of the story. Okay? That's what we have to do. What story? I don't... We'll get there. It's not costing you nothing to listen to me talk, right? You follow me? Okay. When I say you're not a monster, I know this because you talked to somebody and told them what happened. Okay?