Investigative Reporter
Appearances
48 Hours
Heartbreak in Williamsport
Four years of work, you want it to be there when he's finally taken into custody. We just want to make sure that we've got them covered in the affidavit here.
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Heartbreak in Williamsport
Well, what we expected was everything to go perfect. And it didn't.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
A lot of twists and turns in this one. It's definitely not your normal standard murder.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
I was looking for this guy, Jerry Walters, whose name this card was in. We hadn't spoken to him at this point, and so one of our goals was to try to locate him.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
How do you feel right now? I think we feel good. We got the result that we anticipated having in the long run. But it's nice to see the jury validate our investigation and bring a little bit of justice, as close as we're going to get here anyway.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
We knew that a bank card in his name was used and was instrumental in making this homicide happen, but we really didn't know what his role was in it, if any. And so we're trying to figure out who's Jerry Walters.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
We also were able to determine that wigs were purchased during this time with that card from wigs.com.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
We knew that they were sent to a location in Kingwood, Texas, and we had an address. There was a box there rented in the name of Piper Roundtree, which also had Jerry Walter's name on that box, and that's where the wigs had been delivered to.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
As things came to light, it was apparent she did have a plan and attempted to disguise who she was and thought she could get away with it.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
I think she was crushed when she didn't get custody of her children. We knew that several weeks before this murder, she had come up and taken the children camping. I think that they probably had a really good time, and I think that that caused her to just think, this is what I'm missing.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
I'm missing the great time watching my children grow up, experiencing them as they become teenagers, adults, and so forth. I think it's probably around that time she started hatching a plan in her mind of how she could change custody. And the way to do that, she had been through the court system.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
That had not worked in her favor, and I think she was looking for alternate plans, which ultimately left to her decision to kill Fred.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
She had asked whether I would go up there and testify at her custody hearing, and I said yes. I wasn't sure if I was going to be up there at that time, but I told her, I said, I will be happy to. And what she was working on is trying to establish that I had eliminated her as a suspect, and I certainly had not at that point.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
Definitely. It was not a deal breaker that she was not in Richmond, but it saves extradition, that sort of thing.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
You've got a university professor killed in a neighborhood that that's really not the norm.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 2
So who killed Fred Jablin? People said, I have no idea who would want to do this to Fred, but have you talked to his ex-wife?