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Chapter 1: What happened to the beloved firefighter?
Tonight, a beloved firefighter gunned down in his very own driveway.
But does the evidence to convict someone all come down to a single deleted phone call? A brand new 2020 begins right now.
Get the med kit. He's still got a pulse.
Who would want Robbie dead? That was the million dollar question.
Robbie.
Robbie.
He's got a fireman shirt on.
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Chapter 2: Who were the suspects in the murder case?
I'm in panic. Please save my husband.
He's done, dude.
Oh, God, no. Is he alive?
No, he's not. Oh, my God. Robbie Doerr pulls into this driveway. He's ambushed and gunned down.
So that's the last image they got is Robbie laying there dead on the sidewalk.
I don't know what, I mean, I know what happened to Rob in my driveway, but I don't know who did it.
They've got it all wrong. They're wasting their time.
Hey, Andy. Do you know something that we don't?
You're pulling into the house after the funeral. Right. Lights and sirens, guns out, dogs barking.
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Chapter 3: How did the investigation unfold?
And just when you thought you heard the most shocking part, there was another part, Emily.
Can you describe to me the night of that shooting?
I was getting ready to cook pork chops. I had turned the oven on. A few minutes later, I saw the truck lights come into the driveway. Sometimes I would go greet Robbie, and sometimes I didn't. It felt like it was just like a minute later. I hear these popping noises. It almost sounds like fireworks, but not fireworks.
Is this your husband?
Yes.
I'm in panic because he's breathing. He's alive. Please save my husband.
Yeah, his name is Robert Doerr. He's a firefighter.
Elizabeth Fox Doerr, also known as Becky, is married to 51-year-old Robbie Doerr. He's a respected veteran firefighter. He's been at the Evansville, Indiana Fire Department for 28 years, works out of Station One.
I'm up here at the intersection of Colorado and Oakley.
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Chapter 4: What evidence pointed to potential suspects?
Robby! He's done, dude.
Damn it!
Oh, God, no. Damn it! Does he know him?
I assume it's a small department, man. He's got a fireman's shirt on.
Chapter 5: What was the significance of the deleted phone call?
Robby's colleagues, in utter disbelief, are trying to collect themselves.
Let's get them up out of here. Hey, man, let's go back this way. Come on. Let's go back. I know, man. I don't want to be rude or disrespectful, but we've got to get the fire out of here, because that's one of theirs.
Evansville police are investigating a deadly shooting.
One person was shot and killed here tonight, and police still looking for a suspect. Normally, the media will stage in a certain area. Police officers will chat with us, will tell us a little bit about what's going on. That didn't happen that night, so I knew that this was a big deal. Police say that just after 7 o'clock tonight, they had several calls come in reporting shots fired.
They do know who the victim is, but they are not releasing his name just yet. We were just hearing that night that it was a firefighter, and by the amount of firefighters showing up to the scene kind of confirmed to us this is a first responder.
Becky calls her oldest son, Nathan, to come and be by her side.
It's my dad. I need to get down there. I understand. You're not going through this crime scene. Okay. Well, then get my mother down here. Her name is Elizabeth Doerr.
Nathan is allowed on the scene, and he calls Becky's youngest son, Taylor, who then was 21, and is living at the house.
He was spam texting me, spam calling me, and he was like, you need to get home, and now Rob's been shot. I was like, is he okay? He was like, I don't know, Taylor, get home. Where's my mom? I was probably there, like, within, like, a minute or two. I just flew down the road. Really didn't feel real. Like, I just, I was stunned, I feel like, the whole time. Follow me.
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Chapter 6: Why was Larry Sr. a suspect?
A gunman could be on the loose, and Becky says she was scared.
I was afraid to go out at first because I didn't know if there was somebody out there.
He said he doesn't have any enemies. He's a firefighter. He's a recluse. Whenever he goes to the fire station, he goes to his little room. He stays there until he's needed. The thing is, this is very odd.
We look at all angles of everything. Where's his daughter? She's right there.
Is that the daughter?
Robbie's adult daughter, Lindsey Griffin, is also notified. Like many others arriving at the scene, she is unprepared for what she's about to see.
He was my best friend. All I could think about was I needed to be next to my dad. Like, my dad was alone on that concrete. He didn't have me. I needed to be with him.
Who shot him? I have no idea. Oh, no, no.
They wouldn't even let me out there with him.
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Chapter 7: What were the family dynamics like after the murder?
I've already told fire very specifically that they have to stay outside the table.
The ones that were called to the scene, they all knew Robbie. That's the last image they got is Robbie laying there dead on the sidewalk.
Did the people who treated him actually know him?
Oh, yeah. When a member of the service, police officer, or a fireman has been killed, you step outside your personal attachment to the case. Then you protect the integrity of the crime scene, that you were able to get justice for that person who was the victim.
They are turning their focus to gathering clues and asking questions.
That's not a casing. That's an actual round. That's a round, yeah. The crime scene was very chaotic. We found no shell casings. Right away, there weren't any real solid leads.
I want to say I'm very, very little. Robbie's lived in this town his whole life. He's a firefighter for nearly 30 years. Who would want Robbie dead?
That was the million-dollar question that nobody could think of anybody. It just didn't make sense.
Robbie Dorr was shot and killed outside his Oakley Street home. This is a bad nightmare. Didn't have an enemy in the world. Everybody loved him.
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Chapter 8: How did the community respond to the tragedy?
Robbie was a devoted father, husband, grandfather, and firefighter. And in addition to all those roles, he took on another. He was working full time at the fast food chain, Taco John's. You would think that being a firefighter would be enough.
Firefighting is not a career you're going to get rich at. Firefighters only work 10 days a month. 20 idle days cost a lot of money.
I quit my job to go be a general manager at Taco John's, and that's how I met Rob. The jokester that he was always was there to make me laugh when I was struggling at the drive-through.
Robbie and Becky had known each other for 11 years before they started dating.
Robbie would have done anything in the world for her. Rob was going to be the person that gave my mom a consistent life. Who did you grow up with? You were in the foster system?
I was in the foster system until I was four. Went from one foster home to another.
At the age of four, Becky is adopted into the Fox family, as was Mandy Fillmore. You were two and a half. She was four. Tell me about your big sister growing up.
We played. We traded stickers. We jumped on the trampoline. Wham. Not in trouble.
My father was a dentist. My mother was a dental hygienist, but she decided to stay at home with us girls and take care of us. They had a Christian handbell group called the Melody Bells.
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