Terry Kearns
Appearances
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
With a biological agent, it's a whole different level of what's going on because you can't see it, you can't taste it, you can't smell it.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
It wasn't dangerous levels because people weren't, you know, it wasn't getting up in the air and people weren't getting sick by it. But it was enough to let us know that of all of those mailboxes, only one had the anthrax in it.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
When you're in a search warrant, you have one chance.
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Episode 6: Adult Male Loner
Everybody is trying to be on their top game because this is high stakes. So it had to be a very extensive search. We didn't know if more attacks were going to occur. So everyone was on edge because of that.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
We get a room ready at the FBI headquarters and I have Warren come down. We ended up telling him, we're going to show you something and it's going to be disturbing and it's going to upset you, but we're going to show you who your friend is.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
The conversation kept going right to the edge, and then it would stop, and it would go to the edge, and it would stop.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
We had a fear that if Mark told him what happened, that, you know, Mark could take a rock to his head down there.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
If a red glow stick came out, then we knew we were gonna take Mark out at that point.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
That's a lot of stress for a guy like Warren.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
I knocked on the door, and Mark's wife, Peggy, finally came to the door. And I asked her if she knew where her husband was at. And she said, yeah, he's in his office. I knew damn well he was in the back of one of our police cars.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
His computer screen is up and still has porn on it.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
We very well might be looking at an excitement-based arsonist.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
I told him, hey, grab some popcorn, go down to the basement, pull up some TVs, I want you to go through frame by frame, and there's no fast-forwarding.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
He could say, hey, I was just marketing it for them. I didn't light them. Are there any footprints, any shoe prints, any fingerprints, or any eyewitnesses that can say he was at a fire scene? The answer to all those is no.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
He had said, I don't think that he's doing this, and without more info, I'm not gonna do what you guys want.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
Which ultimately is a lot more important than one would think.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 5: The Confession
The fact that he is out there getting off on this is one of the key pieces of evidence that got us to Warren Jeroms.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 4: The Bait
Who is this guy? You felt like you were one-upped all the time. Trent was upset.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 4: The Bait
You've put so much time and effort and work, and this person who you feel has been outsmarting you, you finally were able to catch them in the act.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 4: The Bait
But kind of a conservative excitement, because you don't know for sure, is it really him, and is it only him?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 4: The Bait
He kind of was brainstorming ideas on what we could do.