Valerie Bauerlein

In the months that followed, Detective Mitling made multiple attempts to get a statement from Anthony Jean-Pierre, but he was unsuccessful.

Then, in May of 2024, Mitling got word that Pierre had been arrested after fleeing a traffic stop.

The next day, according to Hannah's reporting, a lieutenant in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit sent Mitling an email about the Colleen Fedrick case.

He wrote, quote, let's decide what this is going to be.

It can't stay pending forever, so let's make a plan to move forward.

Mitling replied by saying that he interviewed Pierre that morning, but Pierre, quote, couldn't quite grasp the concept of self-defense.

As the one-year anniversary of Frederick's killing approached, Detective Mitling said he was clearing the case after speaking with a local prosecutor.

He laid out his conclusion in a memo.

Do you have it?

Can you read it to me?

What does presumably mean?

Wow.

So does this mean that the police and the prosecutors decided unilaterally it was self-defense?

In the memo, Mitling laid out a theory for why Pierre might not have confessed to the shooting.

He wrote, quote, it is believed that as a convicted felon, he does not want to admit to having a firearm.

You spoke with Anthony Jean-Pierre.

What did he say about this case?

Did he know it had been closed?

Police reports show that law enforcement spent a total of 36 hours on the Killian-Federick case.

That's roughly four business days over the course of about a year.