Tim Masters
Appearances
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
He didn't do anything. I still remember to this day them planting the newspaper articles on my friend's truck in my driveway, but I didn't know they were watching me when they did it.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
So now everyone in the school thinks I'm a murderer. I only had one friend that stuck with me the whole time. I mean, I had lots of people come up to me and say, I don't think you did it. But they still weren't going to go to the prom with me.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Als ich in die Navy eingestiegen bin, dachte ich, das ist alles hinter mir. Ich war mit meiner Karriere unterwegs. Ich dachte, mein Leben geht gut. Ich habe gerade eine Promotion bekommen. Ich dachte, es sei vorbei.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
So when they were interrogating me, I told them how I knew what I knew.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
And one of them scouts just happened to sit at my table in art class, and one day she says that they had been looking for Peggy Hetrick's nipples.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
My peers seemed to approve of them. They liked those drawings. They would offer suggestions. So that encouraged me to draw even more. Das war alles. Aber Dr. Reed Molloy sah viel mehr. Er sagt, er hat Hunderten von Linken gefunden, aber zwei Schriften standen aus.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich bekam am Montagmorgen, als ich auf die Tür kam, einen Mann, der mit Schuhe und Kleidung auf der Tür war. Er sagte, Tim Masters, du bist verurteilt für den Tod von Peggy Hetrick. Das ist unglaublich. Unglaublich.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Meine Geschichten und Schriftstücke waren gruselig, gewaltig, aber niemand wurde in den Hintergrund geschlagen, niemand wurde sexuell ermordet.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich dachte nicht, dass ich ein Verbrechen verlieren würde. Ich dachte nicht, dass es möglich wäre, mich für etwas zu beurteilen, was ich nicht getan habe.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Es gibt keine Weihnachten im Gefängnis. Keine Geburtstage, kein Weihnachten.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Year after year, it was like a personal vendetta for him to come after me.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
I didn't think it was possible to be convicted for something I didn't do when there's not even any physical evidence.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich lag in meinem Gefängnis und es erstaunte mich immer noch, dass ich da war. Ich konnte es nicht glauben.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Für mich ist es noch nicht vorbei. Ich bin immer noch in orange. Ich bin immer noch in einem Gefängnis. Es wird vorbei sein, wenn ich aus der Tür gehe.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
It was a 15-year-old kid. But all morning long as I'm at school, I was thinking about it. Well, what if it was really a body?
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Right away, they started saying, I know you did this. Just fess up to it. Sie fragen immer die selben Fragen.
48 Hours
Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
Who goes through life expecting to know someone who gets murdered? You don't ever expect to have a friend murdered.
48 Hours
Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
On the morning of the 30th, I got up, planning on going to the gym to work out. I was putting on my running shoes when all of a sudden my husband and I heard three loud noises. sounds bang bang bang we kind of looked at one another like what could that possibly be i said well maybe people are hunting duck hunting down around tuckahoe creek
48 Hours
Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
I came in through the door. I was all set to cook everybody breakfast. Tim came into the kitchen and said, Megan, you need to come outside immediately. He held onto me. He said, Megan, Fred Javelin is dead. I said, what? Things like that, it just doesn't happen. You know, that's not this neighborhood. He said, Fred Javelin is lying in his driveway. He is dead.
48 Hours
Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
All I could think of right then were those three children that were still in the house.
48 Hours
False Identity
Ted and Chris, I love you deeply. I really do. The great sadness of my life is that because of what I've done, you may never know how much I love you or how much I missed you. Peachy, I'm sorry. You did a wonderful job with the boys. I'm sorry for what I've done. And I'm ready to continue my punishment. Thanks.
48 Hours
False Identity
I need to explain that I never stopped being a loving father. I know I did bad things. I know I did terrible things. But I tried once and for all to make something positive of my life in Galveston.
48 Hours
False Identity
I need to explain that I never stopped being a loving father. Until now. I did this thing to make life better for my boys without having to live under the shadow of this criminal who was Pat Walsh.
48 Hours
False Identity
I mean, it was very, very vivid in my mind when it happened. I had told Elizabeth that I was going to pay her father back money that I didn't have. That was January 21st, 1983, the day Pat Walsh disappeared. I thought there was some way I could get that money, and when I couldn't get that money... I knew that what was going to ensue was just the disintegration of everything.
48 Hours
False Identity
And I said, this is it. This is the moment that I have to just go kill myself. Did you really intend to kill yourself? Absolutely. Absolutely. I went to the edge of the pier. I was a bad person to myself. I thought they would eventually be happy to have been rid of that bad person. In the end, I couldn't face that, that in the last second, you can't say you're sorry for killing yourself.
48 Hours
False Identity
How did you come up with the name Tim Kingsbury? Looked in a newspaper for someone who was born about that time.
48 Hours
False Identity
Far away. I've never known anyone from Ohio who'd ever gone to Texas. Couldn't afford to go to the East Coast or to California. Texas.
48 Hours
False Identity
I knew that my family had the resources to take care of the boys. I knew that Elizabeth was beautiful and talented and someone else would come into her life and become a new father for the boys.
48 Hours
False Identity
GHF is where I learned and grew professionally. It's through GHF that I fell in love in every sense of the word.
48 Hours
False Identity
The passion that he poured into getting the schools improved in our community, you know, matched my own, and I have little children.
48 Hours
False Identity
I wondered when we were having the school bond election, what would make a young man with no children who's not married get so involved?
48 Hours
False Identity
It's devastating to hear that someone that you talk to just about every day has a whole other life that you didn't know about. It's an incredible feeling.
48 Hours
False Identity
I don't blame Patrick Welsh. I don't know Patrick Welsh. We know Tim Kingsbury.
48 Hours
False Identity
I'm only in a position to judge what he's done here, and that's been remarkable.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
He definitely knew because he wrote a note to himself that he knew.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
The cut in the coat, the cut in the blouse, and the cut in her body do not line up. You have to move the blouse one inch to her left. You have to move the coat two inches to her left in order for that wound to line up. You have pulling on your coat and blouse. I stab you one time in the back. So she's killed in the car. Right. And the car then could be anywhere.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Where you have drag marks, you have no blood. Where you have blood, you have no drag marks.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
And on her jeans, you would see the marks that the grass makes and the dirt makes and the blood makes.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
You don't see those on her because her legs are not in contact with the ground when she goes through there.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
She is carried. Her heels are not in contact with the ground except for that run down the slope.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
The two individuals that carried her would have transferred their DNA onto her clothing as they carried her into the field.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
We're one month shy of 20 years, so are we still going to find the DNA? We don't know, but we're going to try.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
The doodles are the evidence. I never thought there was a chance in the world that they would convict me without evidence. But they did. It was just totally surreal. How could this happen? How could I end up in here for something I didn't even do?
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
What he's looking for is not the blood stains, not the saliva stains, not the semen stains. He's looking for skin cells that are transferred onto clothing when someone uses a lot of force.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Where would I grab somebody? One, to stab them. One, to carry them. One, to pull their pants and panties down, et cetera. And that's where we collected samples. We worked 10 days collecting samples from these clothing and looked at them with different lighting, infrared, UV, normal lighting, et cetera.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Geez, how do you describe that to someone who hasn't experienced it? It's just unbelievable.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
I didn't do this. I couldn't let him win that easy. I couldn't leave my family like that.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
To me, it's not over yet. I'm still dressed in orange. I'm still in a gel.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Every day, I'd work on it a couple hours a day. People would be walking past my cell on the way to chow, and there'd be papers and books spread all over my bed. But I didn't expect anything to come from it. But then Maria got appointed.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
I thank my family and my friends who stuck with me all these years. Without their support, I don't know if I could have made it through this.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Just imagine, well, I don't even know if you could imagine spending all that time up there in prison and finally being free after all these years. Well, I don't even know how to answer that question.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Surprised me the most? The price of everything. I was not ready for that. Do you avoid sort of thinking about what this cost you? No, not necessarily. How would you quantify it? What I've lost? Jeez. I mean, damn near 10 years of my life. I don't know how you put a price tag on that. I mean, what's 10 years of your life worth? Especially 27 to 36.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
HCZ. So my vision is actually to the point where I can legally drive? You can legally drive.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
It's pretty obvious who did this to me. It was one detective, Jim Roderick.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
I wouldn't talk to Jim Broderick at this point. There's not a whole lot of love between him and me, so it'd be best if we just didn't speak to each other. But what would you like to say to him? I'm not going to say on camera.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Little utility area right here. Home sweet home. No guards, no orders, no rules. For the last two years, I was in a six by eight cell, which was about from this wall to that wall and about to here.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
I always loved this place. I like the mountains, period. There's a part of me that doesn't even want to start rebuilding my life because I'm afraid of losing it again.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Right away, they started saying, I know you did this. She's dead. We thought the right thing to do was to cooperate with the police.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
February 11, 1987. I was walking through a field on the way to catch a school bus. I saw a body. I didn't believe it was real. I thought it was a mannequin and that someone was playing some kind of sick joke on me.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
Every time I'd come into court, we'd get a new piece of evidence. We just kept finding stuff that's hidden. Super secret file after super secret file.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
In 1987, Jim Broderick knows in his own mind that Tim Masters committed this homicide.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
We're in open court, and Dave Wymore is talking to Eric Fisher, one of Tim's original defense attorneys.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 2
One at the curb and after making several turns 30 feet in, there's the Tom McCann again next to the blood trail in blood.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
So February 11th, 1987, I woke up. It was normal time. I think it was somewhere around six o'clock. I still remember my father had fixed sausage and eggs for breakfast that day. So I had sausage and eggs for breakfast, took a shower, got dressed. I typically wore a T-shirt, jeans, and a jean jacket. And about 6.55, I walked out the back door to head through the field to go catch my bus.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And I remember, I still remember to this day when I was getting close, we had a little fence halfway across the property line, like not at the edge of my property, but about halfway between the trailer and the edge of the property. And I remember seeing, at that time of day, it looked like there was trash out in the field. I thought somebody had dumped some trash out in the field.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
That's what it looked like. And I remember thinking, man, this kind of crap never used to happen before these roads went in. Now people are dumping trash in the fields. And I walked on and went through the fence onto the field north of my house. And I remember see, it started to look more like a body out there.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And I remember seeing, it looked like someone had spray painted brown paint on the ground, reddish brown paint, like a rust color, along the field going out to it. And I remember walking my normal path, and then I veered over to go look and see what the hell was in the field.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And I walked over towards it, stood there and looked at it, and to 15-year-old me, I think I was in such a state of shock that I couldn't believe that was a body. I thought it was a mannequin, specifically a Rosessa Annie doll that someone had stolen from the school and dropped out in the field as a prank. And I remember walking away,
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
kind of confused about it, thinking, no, there's no way it's a body. Somebody dropped a mannequin out there. And I walked on, caught my school bus, and I didn't say anything to anybody about it.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
I'm told to report to the master at arms first thing in the morning the next day. I'm like, well, this is weird. I report to the master at arms office the next day, and the... The E4 that's assigned to escort me somewhere is like, should I put him in handcuffs? They're like, no, no, that's not necessary. And I'm going, what the hell? Handcuffs?
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
He takes me over to the Navy Intelligence Office in Philadelphia. And there I'm met by three detectives from Fort Collins Police. Hal Dean, Jim Broderick, and Linda Wheeler. And I... I proceeded to endure about a day and a half of interrogations. I didn't recognize them, I didn't know Linda Wheeler.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
I didn't recognize him until, so Jim Broderick had this habit of wearing like reddish color deodorant and he had pit stains. And when I saw the pit stains, I recognized him. And so I remember my thought was, what the hell? I can't believe five years later, I'm still being harassed over this. I didn't have anything to do with this.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And then, but I was still under the mindset of, especially, I'm just an E4 in the Navy. I really respected, I really treated authority with respect and Linda Holloway, well she's Linda Wheeler at the time, Jim Broderick, they were still authority. I still treated them with respect and I kept telling myself, they're just doing their job.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
After the interview with Linda Wheeler, I had put it all behind me, I thought it was over. And I thought the Fort Collins police knew I didn't do it. So I didn't even think about it.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And he said, are you Tim Masters? I said, yeah. He said, you're under arrest. I said, what? What for? And he wouldn't tell me. And he handcuffed me. And as he's taking me out the door, Jim Broderick meets me there and he goes, you're under arrest for the murder of Peggy Hetrick. And I went, phew, what the hell? You've got to be kidding me. It was a complete shock.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
As I was standing there, I was thinking, I'm going home. I'll be going home after today. Yeah. And then the jury came out and I kind of knew something was off. None of the jury would make eye contact with me. Like, oh God. And then the judge asked, have you reached a verdict? And the foreperson on the jury says, we have.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
and they hand it to the judge and the judge reads it, Tim Astor, you have been found guilty. And so the media at the time described me as being completely emotionless as the verdict is read. It wasn't a lack of emotion, it was complete shock. Like, oh my God, I can't believe this. I just got convicted of murder. They cuffed me, they took me to the county jail and now I know I'm going to prison.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
So the judge sentenced me to life in prison with possibility of parole after 40 years. Oh, it was awful. It was like a world ending event. Like your life is over.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
So I'm in the unit. All of a sudden, the whole facility locks down for some reason. And they lock down a lot. You just assume a fight broke out somewhere, somebody got hurt, whatever. So I'm sitting in my cell and my case manager comes up while everybody's locked down. And he says, Tim, your lawyer just called. She wants you to call her back. I'm like, okay, I'm locked down, what am I gonna do?
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
He says, I'll try and get you out here in a minute. So he goes down, then he comes back a little bit later, they take me out, or no, he goes back down to talk about it, and the news comes on, and there's an announcement from the special prosecutors in my case, and they announced that they're gonna dismiss the case against me, and I'll be released on a PR bond.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And I'm like, and everybody in the unit was cheering. Yeah, you're going home, masters. You're out of here. I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm going to talk to the lawyer later today. We'll find out for sure. Because at this point, I'm so pessimistic. I don't even believe what I just saw on the news. And then I go down to the case manager's office. He calls my lawyer, Maria Lou.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
And she says, you're out of there. They're letting you go. So ironically, I made it, I wasn't in prison for quite 10 years, but I was in there almost 10 years, and oh man, it was weird. My lawyers bought me a suit out of their own pocket, and I got to wear a suit. They talked the sheriff into letting them release me from the courthouse rather than coming back to the county jail to be processed.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
So I went in there and they released me out of the courthouse. That never happens in Colorado. If you get released, you got to go back to the county jail, wait around while they process you. And they let them release me from the courthouse. My entire family was there. My family was so big that they couldn't fit in the courtroom and the courtroom was packed anyway with people.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1
So they had my family go back in the judge's chambers. And when the hearing started to release me, all my family started walking out and there was my sister. I almost broke out in tears when I saw my sister. It was a good day.