Deputy U.S. Marshal
Appearances
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He seemed very arrogant, cocky, narcissistic. Then the cop fired. Point blank, that question.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Like he was put off, like we were taking up his time. That he was smarter than we were, and that he was going to get away with this.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He had taken this red GMC Yukon. And he was gone. He was.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
And if they got Katie out of the way, she could have John to herself.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Shortly after midnight, I got a phone call from our chief of police at the time, and he advised me that they'd found a body at an abandoned house. Very dilapidated house. How had she died? She'd been stabbed in the neck.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
We had a long-term goal of A, finding John, B, prosecuting him. And she was the key to a lot of that.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
It was very frustrating, and it was the only case that I still had that was open.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
It was a great place to be a police officer, and murderers and serious assaults were few and far between.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
I contacted the United States Marshals. This is their bread and butter, what they do best. I'm a Deputy U.S. Marshal.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
There was a rectangular concrete box kind of in the center of the basement. We found Katie's body inside of that box.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Didn't ask normal questions such as, where did you find her? How did she die? He wasn't shocked by the news. He didn't seem to be at all. What did that suggest to you? that he knew how she had died. He knew where her body was.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He loved his military career. That's one thing we learned is that his career was everything to him.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
There had been a domestic violence incident where John allegedly pointed a gun at Katie.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Fountainhead Police Department investigated the matter and ended up charging him with domestic violence.