Dr. Richard Illes
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There's plenty of money to go around. My lifestyle wasn't cramped.
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I think that these are great, gross exaggerations, and some of it's taken out of context. Sure, did I call her names once in a while? Absolutely. Miriam, you know, blasted me a number of times. It's just what normal people go through when they're getting divorced.
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Oh yeah, I could have made, but I would have made a silencer that was good. That silencer that they found is very amateurish.
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If I was on the run, I wouldn't be in the United States. I'd be in South Mexico in a villa somewhere. But I didn't want to give the impression to anybody that I was guilty of anything.
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Yes, I was, actually. That was another major interest of mine, and I had some training in it.
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Anything that they could twist, distort, or contort into looking like it implicated me, they did.
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I'm smart enough that I would know in advance that I would be targeted if something like this happened to her. Why would I do it?
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I think he has one hell of imagination, and he has nothing to do except grasp at straws and make the evidence fit who he wants to convict. Simple as that.
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The murderer had size 14 shoes. I wear a size 9 1⁄2. They found DNA on a cigarette butt that only the killer could have left there.
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If you're the murderer, you don't want to leave a silencer behind that has evidence. You don't want to leave evidence in letters that can be traced to you. I'm enough of a scientist to know that.
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I don't think so. I think it's far better to have no evidence than to have evidence that is puzzling.
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I thought it would generate more interest and more widespread knowledge of the actual facts of the case, which were not being disseminated by the police. That was my motive.
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I don't know. Depends on what the jury decides. Obviously, it's in their hands and in God's hands.
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We both came from humble backgrounds. We lived well, don't get me wrong, but we didn't live extravagantly. What was your impression of their life in Williamsport?
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Oh yes, absolutely. We were very prominent and we were embraced by the community very nicely, I think, and I was compensated probably more than I was worth, but everything was wonderful here in Williamsport for us.
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It's challenging and you save people's lives every day and you're in the middle of very exciting, very challenging cases all the time.
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God gave us a healthy, beautiful, intelligent child. We were blessed. She was a wonderful mother. I couldn't have hoped for anyone better than her to take care of my son.
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We work so close together and so intimately in very life-threatening situations, and you develop a bond.
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I had a pretty perfect life there for a little while, you know. I had a girlfriend who I loved, and we had a great time. I had a beautiful son who was being taken care of by his mother, who was fantastic.
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I wasn't interested in the beginning, but as time went on, the thoughts occurred in my mind. You don't talk about them, of course, because your girlfriend that you're having a relationship with certainly isn't going to appreciate those thoughts. This was kind of a mess, wasn't it? It was kind of a mess, yes.
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Two policemen came out, and I said, what's going on? Is there a robbery here or a burglary? And they said, no.
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I said, well, what's going on? And they said, your wife is dead. I said, oh, my god. I got emotional, and I said, did she have a heart attack or a stroke? And they said, no, she was shot.
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Oh, I was a suspect absolutely from day one. On the second day after her murder, there were rumors throughout the town that the district attorney was saying, I know that Dr. Illes did this and I'm going to nail him. Why would I do it? I mean, I didn't have a motive.