Patrick Bradford
Appearances
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
It's like trying to walk through mud up to your knees. Anything you wish you could do for yourself, you just can't do.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
You'll have to forgive me. It's somewhat humorous, just the very idea that a police officer who works in the inner city would be dependent upon one of his regular people that he runs into, has arrested twice for his alibi. It's just...
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
I was looking for a resolution, I think, and I thought that there could be a resolution in that.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
I was going through some pretty frightened emotions there. This was the first interview that was hostile or adversarial.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
I don't think I was giving any signals. I think he's just telling you that to support his conclusion of guilt.
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A Cop Behind Bars
There's no question. I was exceptionally good at it. It came naturally for me. And it was just like being right where you're supposed to be.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I've never snapped like that. The prosecution said I snapped because there was no apparent motive.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I had the opportunity to finally answer some of these charges, and I knew the evidence very well.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
It was pretty shocking. I think I was just on the verge of losing consciousness, just fainting.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Tamara Lohr died from 21 stab wounds to the back, neck, and face before her body was set on fire.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
We're getting new information every day. Tips are leading to solid evidence.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Everybody had a vendetta against the prosecutor or anybody else had something to say. And a lot of it was wasted time and energy.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I'm not a bit surprised somebody called and said, I saw a police car in the driveway. To give the whole public that important bit of information, that's inviting that kind of thing. You never do that.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Tammy's dead. Somebody killed her. And that's not the end of it. Now, somebody who didn't kill her, somebody who she loved more than anybody else, is paying for it.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I'll do the hard part and nail that on the floor. I have a little bit of ability to build.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
It's actually 27 inches on one side, 24 on the other. It's dimensionally identical to the house where the crime happened.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Her daughter's killer has not paid. They don't even know the extent of the injustice that's going on here. Not against me, against Tammy.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I haven't reached a conclusion. I wouldn't dream of doing exactly what the Evansville Police Department would have done in the same situation and rush to judgment.
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A Cop Behind Bars
No, I'm not treated any differently. Of course, there have been, you know, the odd occasional incident. But overall, things have pretty well just smoothed out.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I've run into several people that I've arrested. Yeah, it's awkward. It is a bit awkward.
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A Cop Behind Bars
He was always just a patient, older brother, always looking out for me. Helped me learn to ride a bicycle, how to swim. Saved me once, pulled me out of the water.
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A Cop Behind Bars
He just had that certain way of looking at the world, like it was his responsibility to make things right. He wanted to be the best policeman that ever was.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. You know, all my dreams as a kid had to do with being a hero, rushing in and saving the day.
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A Cop Behind Bars
She was just wonderful. The kind of person who would sort of light up her surroundings.
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A Cop Behind Bars
You're crossing boundaries continually, and as you get used to crossing the boundaries, and before long, it's, well, I've gone this far.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I even shock myself when I think back to what great extents we went to be together and how much pain it caused my wife and my family and her family.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I would guess that the family situation, the children, and a genuine love, I think, between us that was still there is what held it together.
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A Cop Behind Bars
No, certainly not. There was a character flaw there that allowed me to go ahead and make that choice.
48 Hours
A Cop Behind Bars
All my dreams as a kid had to do with being a hero, rushing in and saving the day.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Very busy, but that's not unusual at all. You would expect to be really busy on a Saturday night in the summertime.
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A Cop Behind Bars
It was obvious that it was an involved house fire. Coming up... I went into the house to see if I could get her out or find her.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I started to go into that professional mode of trying to do something. So what did you do? I went into the house to see if I could get her out or find her.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I could see what looked like flames arcing out from underneath where the bed would be. I felt like it was pretty hopeless that she couldn't survive that.
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A Cop Behind Bars
You know, I was disoriented. And I paused for just a moment there, and then just crawled right back out the way I'd come.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I did do that. When somebody's murdered, that's what you do. You try to find out who did it.
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A Cop Behind Bars
I wish I had, only in retrospect, because that would have probably prevented everything that followed.
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A Cop Behind Bars
Now somebody who she loved more than anybody else. is paying for it. Was there a rush to judgment?