Ted Hamm
Appearances
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
Almost universally, the people in the team said, no way. We don't want anything to do with that. We don't want to get shot at. Yada, yada, yada. Me, my brain's going, that sounds like fun. The first year I worked with him, we would have successes on these criminal cases, the word spread.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
So it was a little bit humbling and, you know, millions and millions of dollars were being spent.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
He slobbered more than any bloodhound I've had. And this dog smelled so bad. He stunk. And he was. He did not work at anything more than a slow walk. But he was methodical and he was good. So I start my dog and we kind of amble through a neighborhood. And then we get into an apartment complex.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
I told the guys, I said, look, I think they're sent here. So assuming my dog is correct and my interpretation of what my dog is doing is correct, it's one of these four doors. And he said, well, let's not talk about it here.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
We walked back to the street, and when we got back to our cars, now, like, the whole team's there. And they said, well, now that you guys have all finished, you all did the same thing. But you approached it from three different directions. But they all ended up on that same landing spot.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
As a dog handler, what I see, is rather damning evidence against Mr. Hatfield.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
It's just one of those times you're going, we're working the biggest case the FBI's got. Because what? Oh yeah, because we've got a couple dogs.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
We get to a set of stairs. The knight starts going up the stairs. He turns around and he comes down. And right on the bottom step, he takes a crap.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
I think we spent three or four days just in those mountains. Every, literally every turnout. Any place a person could park a car, even for just a few seconds.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
Until... I got taken to a turnout, and I started the dog, and he started off... It's a well-defined trail. There's a branch. We take the branch, and we're going across what is basically a little dam, and there's a little pond behind it. And we go across that little dam, and then we circle back around to where we started. They go, what's it mean? What's it mean? What's it mean?
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
I said, what do you mean, what's it mean? It means what it always means. My dog got sent here, but he just went in a circle. Through the course of those days, all three dogs did approximately the same thing.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
If you just look at what the dogs did, and if you look at the total body of work for these dogs, it's not just anthrax. It's all the murders. It's all the bombings. It's all the rapes. It's all these cases we've worked, we've prosecuted, we've put people in jail. It's accepted, it's understood, but these guys, it's just everything you did was under the microscope.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
They introduced themselves, and they were both detectives from the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau. And they said, hey, we'd like to talk to you guys for a few minutes. You got some time?
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
Basically, what they were pitching is they wanted to start trying to use the dogs to help solve murders.