Sgt. William Springer
Appearances
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
Because every time he ever got in trouble, I think it was his mother or his parents always got him an attorney. So he never really talked that much because he knew he was going to get an attorney. And they had money.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
So he knew he had mental issues. And when he said that, we were kind of, you know, when an attorney, we're dumb.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
He spliced two movies. He had an X-rated video. And I don't know if you ever saw a movie with Sally Fields in. I'm just going to say that. That she is on the phone with her daughter who is at home. They're getting ready for a party. The guy breaks in. and starts viciously stabbing and attacking her daughter. And Sally Fields is going crazy because she can't get to her daughter.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
And that is spliced in the middle of this film. And then after you watch maybe 15 minutes of it or 20 minutes of it, all of a sudden pop comes this Sally Fields movie with her daughter being viciously stabbed in her house.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
And then we took each one individually. And had him talk. And let me tell you, when David Miller said something, you could see the fear on a lot of their faces just by looking and him talking.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
I think he was invited in. I truly think he was invited in. People, they get judgmental and they say, well, maybe she invited him home and she shouldn't have invited him home. Well, you know what? She's a single female and if she wants to invite some man home, then that's her prerogative.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
She's not doing anything wrong, but people will become judgmental and they'll type their little nasty notes because they can get away with it because nobody knows who they are. tell me to my face that the woman was wrong if she invited him home or if she invited him in because she's not. She's no different than anybody else.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
If I was single and I met some young lady and I wanted to bring her home with me and have wings and I'm not doing anything wrong. So, you know, if she invited him home, she had no idea he was a murdering bastard. Excuse my language. I'm sorry.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
He needs to be back in prison because I really, truly believe he will offend again.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
Let me put it this way. My previous supervisor who taught me everything, John Kiyonka, would say, do not get tunnel fishing. So if somebody come along and said, well, it wasn't David Miller, it was John Smith. then I'm going to look at John Smith. I'm not going to throw that away and think, well, it's David and I'm done. No, I never do that.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
David's a prime suspect, a person of interest that we cannot exclude. My job as a detective is to exclude. So if I get information on David Miller, my job is to try to exclude him. And once I get him excluded, then I'm great. But if I can't get him excluded, then he continues to be a potential suspect. So is it possible that there's two David Millers out there running around?
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
I would say there's always that possibility. But it's awful funny, when David Miller went to prison, we had no more females that were attacked in their apartments and viciously stabbed. If there are, then they haven't come forward and we're not aware of it.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
I would just like to be able to put him back in jail for another attack on somebody. Whether we'll ever be able to connect him to Donna Martin, I don't know. I never promise to solve cases. I never tell a family, I'll solve your case. I will tell you I will work diligently and do everything possible on the case. It may not come out to what you expect, but at least we'll keep working it.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
In 2004, we formed our cold case unit. So every time we got a grant, we would go through all our open cases, which were probably 300 back then, and we would look at all the different evidence and see what we could do. So it's been a progression over the years. And I know Don thought that we're probably not working on Donna's case. But through the years, we had worked on it here and there.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
We just never could come up with anything good. Because when they did the rape exam and they did everything, they never found semen, never found anything. So we were kind of in a dead end thing. Her clothes, the problem with her clothes, if he was dancing with her at the porterhouse, then you can assume that he may have shed some hair on her. Maybe he rubbed up against her.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
Maybe they're slow dancing. So if we got his DNA on anything like that, we're still dead in the water because the court, the defense attorney is going to say, well, he was dancing with her, so you would expect his DNA to be on her. So it's, you know, it's one of those cases that you have to find something in the apartment exclusive that you could put his DNA there.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
And so far, let's put it this way. We haven't got lucky yet.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
I think there's other people out there, other victims that, you know, that never came forward for one reason or another. If they're out there, they need to come forward. What bothers me, to me, and this is overall, to me, the human life is a precious, precious thing. And everybody deserves to live their life to the fullest and enjoy the things in life.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
And when you have somebody that takes a human life, they have now taken away the joy that I have got to see My family grow, my grandkids, my great-grandkids, and a whole gamut of things that they took away from Donna that she can never enjoy.
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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
She has nylons on, underwear, bra, everything, and everything is intact. In my opinion, and the observation, there was no signs of a struggle. She never saw it coming.