Investigator Mike Mayhew
Appearances
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
That's the shower stall with the body crammed down on the bottom of it.
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
We heard that name from day one. There were certain individuals who gave us that name and said, you need to look into Jodi Arias.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
There was a hallway leading off to the bathroom where the shower stall was. That was all covered in blood. I noticed large amounts of blood pooling and smears.
48 Hours
Deadly Divorce, Part 1
Yes. It's a homicide investigation right now. The prime suspect, Darren Mack.
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With God as a Witness
There was a very, very good chance that a court someday was going to give him a new trial.
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With God as a Witness
There was nothing fair about this trial, nothing the prosecution had done, nothing that the judge had done, nothing about the evidence, the way it came in, was fair.
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With God as a Witness
Were you surprised? Yes. I was flabbergasted. I mean, I truly was stunned that anybody would have the audacity to try to do this. The jury heard testimony that Price-Dash admitted he was hired to arrange the murder. I immediately started screaming. I never sat down for the next two days. I was objecting every chance I had.
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With God as a Witness
Is this a major transgression? Yes, absolutely. And I'm not exaggerating. It was an appalling moment in criminal justice. Kelly Siegler, very experienced, very tough prosecutor. Very. She crossed the line?
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Homicide in Spokane
They find nothing here with that technology, and they do a press conference and make a statement. There's no more bodies at 14th and Carnahan.
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Homicide in Spokane
I think there's several things in this investigation that really went sideways.
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Homicide in Spokane
Back in 97, they had everything that they needed. They had a witness who gave them a great clue.
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Homicide in Spokane
The driver of that car was Robert Yates Jr. Corey Truman stops the white Corvette. He does not run the plate before he stops the car. He talks to him, he puts down that he's cooperative, and he asks him a few questions.
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Homicide in Spokane
Corey Turman did pull over a Corvette two blocks from where Jennifer Joseph was last seen. I'm sorry. This guy is going to the station. Do I have probable cause? Absolutely.
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Homicide in Spokane
When they followed that Corvette clue as far as they could in a very short period of time, They should have released that to the public.
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Homicide in Spokane
I'm not the most popular character of a city government. This is a book about a frustrating investigation for a task force.
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Homicide in Spokane
I guarantee this, give me the white Corvette clue, when I first asked, I would have found Robert Yates. They had a great clue, which could have elicited the suspect in a few months.
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Homicide in Spokane
They live with us. They work with us. In a moment. In Murder in Spokane, I tried to get into the mind of a serial killer. I read about Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a dozen others. Did I learn anything? Yes, about those individuals. Did I learn anything that could catch Robert Yates? Not really. Serial killers are unique. They're individuals.
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Homicide in Spokane
They're manipulative. They're chameleons that walk among us and we never see them. They live with us. They work with us. We don't know who they are. Every case that we do, we create a profiler, another cop that knows a little more, another city, another agency. And then they all have to start from ground zero at the next one, because he's different, unique, smart. But the question always looms.
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Homicide in Spokane
Do we know why? The answer is no. In fact, we don't even know how many.
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Homicide in Spokane
Here we go. Mark Furman. I don't call myself an expert. I'm an expert in detective work, homicide, or anything else. But I've been exposed to a lot of things in a lot of areas. Remember the O.J. Simpson case? I remember that case.
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Homicide in Spokane
Jennifer Joseph and Heather Hernandez are found the same day, one in the county, one in the city. Now Mike, he had this gut feeling that they're connected. And then along came Darla Sue Scott.
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Homicide in Spokane
Now we've got three prostitutes that are murdered. So we start asking questions on the radio.
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Homicide in Spokane
What are they thinking? The first task we have is to find out if indeed this is the work of a serial killer. four bodies, all women, all prostitutes, and all shot with a small caliber weapon. I can't believe they're not connected.
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Homicide in Spokane
This was too little, too late. You have four detectives that are handling all the evidence booking, the autopsies, the families, the interviews, and things started coming in. Yes, they became very quickly overwhelmed.
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Homicide in Spokane
Laurieann Wasson and Sean McClenahan were found here at 14th and Carnahan in this field that's now a housing development. Why was this important? You had two bodies here. What does that mean? He came here twice. This guy, he's probably out of control.
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Homicide in Spokane
It's on-the-job training. It's not detective work. It's ridiculous. That's next.
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Homicide in Spokane
They find a body, they wouldn't tell you if it was male or female. That's crazy.
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Homicide in Spokane
They had a witness who gave them a great clue, which put out in the proper way, could have elicited the suspect in days, weeks, a few months.
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Homicide in Spokane
Greenwich book was done. What are you going to do next? Serial killers in my backyard. So I became engaged not only in the radio show, but then I became engaged to write the book. Furman and Fitzsimmons began to investigate the crime scenes. We were very well-meaning, trying to really get information that they needed out to the public from an avenue that could elicit some kind of clues.
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Homicide in Spokane
We would fax every clue we got from the radio. We would tell them everything that we had, not hoping they'd tell us something. We're trying to have them tell us, don't do this, don't give this out, this is important, don't. And finally, I just said, screw it.
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Homicide in Spokane
Let's put the information out to the public because they have a right to know where this occurred because they might have seen something because we canvassed the neighborhood and nobody talked to anybody. Mark Furman implied that we should be, for some reason, consulting him.
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Homicide in Spokane
I think they were extremely unhappy. I think the biggest reason is we wouldn't go away.
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Homicide in Spokane
The representatives of the sheriff's department and the police department made some overture that we were interfering with an investigation and that they should reel us back. Of course, the TV and radio stations said, they're journalists. They're working on a case. If they're interfering, you know, deal with them. Arrest them.
48 Hours
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Dragged her. und dann kam eine sexuelle Mutilation zu ihrem Körper.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Man konnte den Körper im Feld sehen, wenn man durch sein Fenster schaute. Ich glaube, er hat den Körper positioniert, damit man ihn aus seinem Wohnzimmer sehen konnte.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Im Gegenteil, es gab kein Verlust von Blut in den schmutzigen Schriftstücken in Masters High School Notebooks, die in seinem Raum, Backpack und Schule-Locker gefunden wurden. hat all kinds of graphic drawings and narratives about murders, violence against women. And we find a drawing where a body is being dragged from under the arms with blood dripping from the back.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
This is just a 15-year-old kid. He lives right next to the crime scene. He discovered the body. He never reported it.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
What was thought to be a nice incriminating piece of information really was pretty deluded.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich erinnere mich, dass ich überwältigt war mit dem Gefühl, oh mein Gott, das ist derjenige, der Peggy Hetrick getötet hat. This was more than just a passing fancy of a teenage boy. This is a window into his mind.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Es war immer mein Interesse, und jetzt bin ich in der Lage, etwas darüber zu tun.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
There's no way we're going to prove this crime. We got nothing. And that's when Broderick would say, wait a minute, come on guys, this is what we needed to do and it was the right thing and there was never any doubt in his mind. Tim's changed appearance helped their cause. The jurist didn't see this skinny little 15 year old kid.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The most compelling argument for me was, who else could it possibly be? Nobody else had a motive. Nobody else had the opportunity. Nobody else had the weapons. This is the guy.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Wir haben viele Vergleiche zwischen den Schriftstücken und unserer Krimi-Szene gemacht, so weit, dass die Verteidigung dachte, dass wir verrückt waren.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
He was a suspect in my mind from the very first day and nothing ever changed.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Terry Gilmore, in seinen Rebuttal-Klässen, hielt die Fotos, die wir hatten, von Peggy Hetrichs vaginalen Bereich, die die Mutilation dargestellt haben. Und dann bluten wir das kleine Bild, das er gemacht hat, und setzten ihn Seite für Seite. Und die Resemblanz war ungewöhnlich. Ich meine, die Juristen wurden einfach überrascht.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Nobody else had a motive. Nobody else had the opportunity. Nobody else had the weapons.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
He was told it wouldn't end, that we'd continue working this case.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Sie wurden zerstört und wir sollten darüber sprechen, warum sie zerstört wurden. Du hast all diese Gefühle, die auf diesen Tape sind, die uns anrufen und legitime Gefühle hatten über den Transfer dieser Bilder, was ein echtes Problem in der heutigen digitalen Welt ist. Es hat nichts mit dem Master Case oder dem Mord von Peggy Hetrick zu tun. Es gibt keine Verbindung zwischen den beiden von ihnen.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich glaube, er hat sie schon ein bisschen gesehen, vor dieser Nacht. Es hat sich schon lange gebildet. It was late at night. She was coming home probably one o'clock in the morning or later. She was walking down the curb line. She had no clue that the attack was coming. He circled around, came up behind her, stabbed her.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
You could see a bloody drag trail in the furrows. It was pretty apparent that the victim was dragged out to the final resting point.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The positioning of the body is something to pay attention to.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
His explanation for not reporting it was that he thought it was just a mannequin and somebody was playing a trick. I didn't believe it was real.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Und einer davon, wie Broderick bezeichnete, könnte die Mörderwaffe sein. Das ist eine ähnliche Größe Knife als die Knife, die Peggy Hetrick getötet hat.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Ich habe es schwer zu glauben, dass du nicht weißt, was das Körper ist.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
The victim's gonna pass right there where he lives. Perfect opportunity under the cover of darkness to go out there and commit the crime.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
You could see a bloody drag trail in the furrows. Als Peggy hat Draco getötet, war es schockierend für diese Gemeinschaft.
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The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Every single notebook had some sort of horrific drawing in it.
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Tracking a Crime
As soon as you get out of the vehicle, you can smell a burning odor. The body was wrapped in several items that had burned during the fire but were not totally consumed. There was the remains of a blue plastic camping tarp. Then around all that was rope.
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Tracking a Crime
I could not even tell if it was a male or a female. But based upon the face, I knew it was a Caucasian person.
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Tracking a Crime
The jury has reached a verdict. I'll ask the audience. Realize there are emotions in here, but we need for everyone to keep their composure.
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False Identity
The district attorney is not a publicist or the town crier, so to speak. He's the prosecutor, and he's got to prosecute the case. Which Guarino says he did right by the book. We really didn't handle it any differently than we would have handled. a forgery case of this nature.
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False Identity
Did you know he was married with children? Yes, we did know because he told us he had walked away from a family. We had no current information on them or their whereabouts.
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False Identity
No, at the time we did not. We did not think about it. We had notified all the agencies that we thought were proper, including the Ohio side of the equation. We thought they would seek them out, but we really didn't think about it. Hindsight's 20-20. I'd probably do it today.
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False Identity
Mike Guarino, Galveston County District Attorney. He had seen certain things at the radio station in the office of Tim Kingsbury. They looked funny. A co-worker had come across forgeries.
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The Preacher's Obsession
She loved the cars. She loved the crowds. And she was just really into it. Tilt your head a little in this way. Perfect.
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The Preacher's Obsession
She was born in Singapore, came over here to the United States, and was chasing that American dream.
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The Preacher's Obsession
Twist your hips this way. Nice. Felicia was definitely a natural when it came to modeling.
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The Preacher's Obsession
I think fast cars and hot girls have gone together since the beginning of motor sports.
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Marriage Secrets
Bedford County is very rural in places. If you were driving through, you would think this is a very beautiful place.
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Marriage Secrets
There was typing on it that appeared to be a suicide note. It was not signed Jocelyn, it was typed Jocelyn.
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Marriage Secrets
We found out that she was married and was separated at the time. She was married to Wesley Ernest.
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Marriage Secrets
They had built a lake house that was worth a lot of money. We're talking multi-million dollar homes all over this lake. Was there romance?
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Marriage Secrets
We asked Mr. Earnest if we thought his wife could be suicidal, and he told us yes. I was there for the autopsy. I thought the bullet wound was to the left temple, and it turned out being that the bullet wound was to the back of the head back here. I received a phone call from the guy in fingerprints in the lab, and he stated that he had found prints on the note.
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Marriage Secrets
I'm at home and get a phone call. Wesley Ernest's house is burning down right now.
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Marriage Secrets
How did they get there? Well, there's only one way they got there. He touched that note.
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Marriage Secrets
There's no question this body had been moved by someone, and a pretty strong someone. Whoever shot this lady moved her at that time.
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Marriage Secrets
She would never, ever lock her dog in there, turn the heat up, shoot herself, knowing her dog could be in there and die in that cage.
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Stalking Shadows
Everything that happened to Scott after the summer is all Penny's fault. She ruined his life for her own petty amusement.
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Stalking Shadows
The number one rule of stalking is never use your own phone. He didn't care if he got caught. He's talking about himself.
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Stalking Shadows
I would like to take a hammer and repeatedly smash her face in with it until her face is a soupy, bloody pulp. Scott's moral duty has been satisfied by just sending these messages. You can never say that you didn't know. You were given the opportunity. Remember that.
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Stalking Shadows
Shaker Heights is an affluent suburb. It's very diverse. There's a lot of old money. And I think people don't like to think things like this happen in places like that. You know, we've learned they do.
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Stalking Shadows
Yeah, and I think you see that in the journals where Penny, at least for that summer, was his life.
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Stalking Shadows
In his journal, you see him talking about this girl as this wonderful thing and the object of his affection. The times that I had spent with Penny this summer when things were going good and she was nice to me was like a dream come true. The weather was beautiful, so was she, and I was at times happier than I had ever been in my life.
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Stalking Shadows
No, I think it was a legal tactic to show the court, you know, I'm sorry and I'm taking steps to correct my behavior and I'm sick and I'm getting help.
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Stalking Shadows
It's scary. You know, it's just frightening because he lays out what he's going to do. And you see this progression, this evolution in his mind of her as this sweet little girl to this evil object that has to be made to pay.
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Stalking Shadows
I think that my actions were a way to force myself to be an important part of her life, even though it was in a negative way. I once thought, forget about me, bitch. I will make you remember me forever. And then the one that just, I still to this day can't get over. How cool and superior will you look when I blow your brains out into the ground?
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Stalking Shadows
He's at the Cleveland Clinic in their psychiatric ward writing, How cool will you look when I walk up and blow your brains out?" And five months later, in broad daylight, across the street from the police station, that's exactly what he did.
48 Hours
Hollywood Secrets
Bernie goes no place without companions, principally female, notably attractive, and inevitably more than one.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
We became convinced that he'd done it. It seemed like that every expert we talked to told us that it could not have happened the way Matt Baker said it happened.
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The Imposter
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The Imposter
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Coerced Confessions
areas where they found blood. But what about the red sweatshirt? In the past, I have placed my camera tripod in a blood stain. In this particular case, I don't believe that I did. I would have tried everything possible to not do so.
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A Family Affair
The left side of her face was extensively damaged. And then the shot continued through her right shoulder.
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A Family Affair
Both of the men had similar injury wounds, that is shotgun wound to the face.
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A Family Affair
Based on what I see at the scene, looking at the photographs, my estimate was something like two feet. You're two feet away. My goodness, you don't really need to aim. You just kind of point and shoot.
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A Family Affair
There were three victims shot, each with single shotgun blast. The shooter comes to carry first, fires.
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A Family Affair
It's amazing that she did survive because basically it looks like she was left for dead.
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A Family Affair
The shooter leaves Kerry, proceeds to the parents' bedroom. The second shot was to Phillip.
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A Family Affair
Linda was the mother. She's coming out of the bathroom to see what's going on because she doesn't have a clue.
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Crossfire at the Shaughnessys'
I'm just telling you, we know you're involved in this. We know what happened. We know you're involved. Absolutely. There's no doubt.
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Crossfire at the Shaughnessys'
You're the only person I've shown regret. I don't understand how. How could you kill somebody and not have any emotion about it? And you actually killed him. I was in the situation. I'm devastated. I cannot sleep at night.
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The Ivy League Murder
We knew after talking to the parents that they would go to jail for him. Knowing the degree that the parents were helping him and his resources, his intelligence, We had to take a different approach on it.
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The Ivy League Murder
Yeah. They went out there with a small army, around 20 guys. They ended up finding his room, and they knocked on it, and he just came out and said, I'm who you're looking for.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
I'll let you know if I see anything or hear anything.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
If we thought that Chris was going to make his way, say, back to Bellevue, what's the most likely path? Where are his friends at?
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
He's verbally belligerent to officers that have arrested him.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
He took Angela's possessions, money, a cell phone with him.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Are you believing any of this? No. I'm only believing the fact that he shot Angela.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We knew Chris. He would tell us how much he loved Angela, how devastated he was that there was a restraining order.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We knew the minute that there was a shooting at the kennel, something had happened with Chris. We were concerned that this was a getaway vehicle for him in here because it was just so odd. It had no reason to be here. I called 911 immediately. It was very intense because at that point he was still missing.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The minute we came in the door, I knew that Chris Pritchard had spent some time in here. He certainly made himself at home here.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You show up at a place where you know she's going to be You've got a gun with her. You know you've got a no contact order. An argument breaks out. She calls 911. She winds up dead. This wasn't just some accident.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
If this was an accident, why are you taking her cell phone, which is her only means of survival? Why aren't you calling for help yourself? Why aren't you rendering any type of aid for your wife?
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The gun was leaning up against the cupboards. He went to retrieve a backpack and it fell. And then that went off and shot her.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The fact that he's saying that after the gun went off and it struck her, that she's yelling profanities back at him. Well, we have a 911 recording of that conversation. That did not take place.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You leave no building unchecked. Obviously we're going to throw every resource that we have at our disposal to apprehending him.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
This appeared to be an assailant that knew her very well.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We had received word that there was a 911 call in the morning. Tell me about that 911 call.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
It's essentially that you're listening to the end of her life on the 911 call.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
As the dispatcher continues to ask, what's your emergency? You can faintly hear somebody say...
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
On a personal level, it's a very difficult thing to listen to someone's end-of-life moments. On an investigative level, that was a pivotal piece of evidence in the opening stages of the investigation. You guys ready? Let's go.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Passing by the kennel door on the right, and this is the area where we initially get a firsthand glimpse of Angela's deceased body here on the floor.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Ryan Kelly photographed the scene. She has a very large, significant gunshot wound to the chest. At close range. At, I would say, very close range. There has to have been some very, very high emotions involved in that. You have Angela Pritchard deceased here.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Leading out of this room and then into the dog kennel area through this door. We believe our assailant traveled from that area through here, left some blood evidence, and then likely went out this door directly in front of us. We're certainly trying to keep an open mind and determine that, OK, if Chris didn't do this, well, then who did?
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
But at this point, all of the information seems to be consistent with Chris being the guy that we need to locate.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
As we continue to work the investigation, we began to establish our timeline.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You can hear dogs start to bark. We had determined that was most likely the point when he arrived at the kennels.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
The first video that they really got was Angela coming down to work in the morning. And right up here, you're going to see Angela start to pull down to the entrance at the Mississippi Ridge boarding kennels. pulling up to the kennel at 7.34. You can see her get out of her vehicle and she's gathering her belongings and then walking into the kennel itself.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
At 7.39 and 43 seconds, we heard a gunshot go off in the video.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Actually walking from the kennel area down to the fence area here behind me. That makes us believe that this is the first area that we need to check.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
We have every resource at our disposal to try and do this manhunt. We have canines, we have airplanes, we have drones. This is your worst nightmare.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
You've got a fugitive out there on the run, potentially armed.
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Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
There's hundreds of acres here of farmland and woods, and we have the Mississippi River not far away. So knowing that he could have went any direction really makes the search difficult.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Salonia was 26 years old at the time. When I watched the crime scene video and saw Saloni's body in that car, immediately I was sad, I was mad. It was pretty apparent to me right away that whoever did this homicide hated this woman.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Well, why reopen it is an interesting question. This was a case, to me, right away when I looked at it, that there was a story to be told.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
He said, look, I've already poured hundreds of man hours into that case, and y'all didn't do anything. And he said, you're wasting your time, kid. Have a nice life, basically.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
So I offered him what I would say would be the golden ticket. But Barnes rejected the offer. He did not trust me. He did not believe me.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
As Barry and I were getting back in the car, Jim Ray Barnes came over to us and he said, I want you boys to know that I'm the key to it all. And he said, if you think you can indict me for murder, then do it. Anthony was quick to take him up on that challenge.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
So Barry and I went and met with him again. And in exchange for him telling us everything he knew, he was offered a deal to plead to accessory after the fact to murder and was given a five-year prison sentence.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
The reason I became a prosecutor is to fight for people like this. I see a woman whose body has been desecrated, violated, mutilated, and nobody spoke up for her and fought for her. And there's a quote that I love, and it goes, the dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them. And that's my job.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
My theory was that Salonia and Reginald were in a marriage that was about to come to an end. There was a history of abuse and that Salonia was tired of it and she was ready to leave Reginald. I think he was angry and he saw an opportunity for some money. I think that's why he killed this woman.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Later, police were able to find a bottle of lotion in the Reed household that matched that type of lotion that was on her body.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
My understanding after the fact is that Jimmy Ray Barnes talked to Reggie and said, where's the money? You told me $50,000. He says he never got a penny of it.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
As a prosecutor, when the jury deliberates, it's painstaking. You're just waiting and waiting and waiting.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
I wanted to tell him, I'm sorry for the loss of your mother. I'm sorry for your father going to prison. I can't even imagine the grieving process that he's got to have gone through.
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
Anytime a young woman, Saloni's age, is killed the way she's killed, I think most people right away would assume the husband did it, right? And that's the easy way, that's the stereotypical way. But it's also not out of the realm of possibility that this was some killing for another reason. From that day on, my life changed forever.
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Facing a Monster
She had just moved into the home. There were still lots of boxes, items being unpacked. Didn't appear that there was any signs of a break-in or a crime that occurred at the home, but her car was there.
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Facing a Monster
The last person that we were able to determine that saw her was Sean Doyle.
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Facing a Monster
He was an executive for a company. We were able to track him down. He was interviewed.
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Facing a Monster
who was calling with concern of where she was. We're supposed to meet up. I got the tickets. I'm here. Are you okay? I hope an accident didn't happen.
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Facing a Monster
What became concerning for myself is the person that cared about her, supposedly.
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Facing a Monster
He just always had said all along that he left her and she was alive at the apartment.
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Facing a Monster
I made a promise to find a resolution. to this for them and give them the closure and answers that they needed. It was disheartening because every night I'd call them and give them an update, regardless of whether there was positive or negative information.
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Facing a Monster
He saw what he thought to be a toolbox that goes in the back of a pickup truck floating. Thought it may be useful for him, so he grabbed onto it, towed it with his boat about a mile and a half, and then they dragged it out of the water there.
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Facing a Monster
And there was contents, pillows, bedding, purse. But right on top was Lori's ID.
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Facing a Monster
She was handcuffed behind her back. There was duct tape around the handcuffs. Her feet were bound together and duct taped. Her face from chin to forehead had duct tape. And then once that duct tape was removed, there was a bandana tied in her mouth.
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Facing a Monster
Everything started to come together real quickly. We got a search warrant within hours to go to his residence.
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Facing a Monster
We were able to track down in the home similar handcuffs, bandanas, duct tape, other means he used that matched what was used on Lori.
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Facing a Monster
Just tell me about what investigators think happened. What was the theory?
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Facing a Monster
The theory is that he came here with his pickup truck, came to the bridge somewhere in the center of the canal, and took the toolbox and basically just pushed it over the edge. And as he did, it scraped across.
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Facing a Monster
So Captain, just where are we? What is this place? So we're in the town of Kingsbury at the bridge that goes over the canal on New Swamp Road.
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Facing a Monster
July 24th, 2005, investigators are called out here. What brought them out here?
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Facing a Monster
So we had a report that a fisherman had been going by. He saw what he thought to be a toolbox that goes in the back of a pickup truck floating.
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Facing a Monster
Did you ever see any sort of evidence of his professional boxing? I mean, do you think he was even a boxer ever?
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Facing a Monster
They found a woman's body that was duct taped and handcuffed and wrapped in a comforter. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing to see.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Teenagers would go there, and they would party. They would drink. They would smoke marijuana.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Yes. And we believe that she was actually killed on the gravel driveway and then drug on her face through that window.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
You wouldn't hear it from that house where that house was located.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Anything you say can be used against you in court.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Didn't seem to really care that she was gone, let alone had been murdered.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
What kind of stuff were you all arguing about? Um, everything. Just normal? Just normal stuff.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
That he very much is the one who more than likely committed this murder.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He started dating Hannah Thompson, who I believe was 17.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Okay. Okay. You do not want to get wrapped up and catch in a murder charge. You're 17 years old. You have your entire life ahead of you. You may love John and you may think you two are going to get married and walk down Yellow Brick Road. But no man and no woman is worth going to prison for. Do you agree?
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Don't want to do what? Don't want to help us find out who killed her?
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
It's very aggravating because we know we're sitting across from the person who killed his wife. And shortly after that interview is when he fled the state.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Has John contacted you by Facebook at all since you separated? Or has he contacted you by any means at all?
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
We did our first interview with him several days after her body was located.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Shortly after that interview is when he fled the state.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
You've lied to your friends and your family. Yes. And he kept lying? Yes.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
A lot of this journal is filled with these fictional stories of observations. It's filled with poems, drawings, all kinds of things.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
She did a great job going up there and telling the truth and giving the key details of what John had told her, what he had done to Katie.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Her body had basically been folded into this box. It was a picture of what you would see in a horror movie.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Am I being charged with a crime? Because he's recording me, and I'm not comfortable with that. You're not being charged, OK, with a crime right now.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
If he was willing to kill his own wife, there's no telling what kind of danger Hannah Thompson would have been in by fleeing with him.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
John Blauvelt was working over there at the Armed Forces Center.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Once they got married, this is the house that they were supposed to move into and have a family.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Unfortunately, the only kids that were here were the teenagers that John Blauvelt invited.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
Hannah became John's puppy. Anytime that John would tell her to do something, she would do it.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
She moved into John Blauvelt's bedroom in this house when Katie moved out.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
They tried to make contact with John, and John refused to come outside.
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Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife
He was very vocal on the fact that he wanted Katie dead, he wanted Katie gone.
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The Boy Across the Street
As a father, I closed her casket and buried my 18-year-old child who was murdered by this animal. This is a body bag of my daughter. This is what you did to her, Steve.
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The Boy Across the Street
That bus ride was the longest ride in my life. The first hardest thing was when she died. This is the second.
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The Boy Across the Street
Steve sentenced my daughter to death forever. I ask for a fair trade. I ask you to sentence Steve to life in prison. Then it was Burns' turn to speak.
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The Boy Across the Street
I think coming out here and being able to talk to Katina gives me a peace of mind also that I can still communicate with my daughter, that it isn't the final end.
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The Boy Across the Street
It's the first skirmish in a long, long battle that we started today.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
We think there's enough evidence at the scene to prove of what occurred.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
He was trying to find them that night, and he was not happy about this whole situation.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You see Davis and Meredith, you know, having dinner.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You can see Bud, you know, he's talking to people, interacting, consuming alcohol.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You can see his vehicle drive through the parking lot as if he's looking for him.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Originally, it came out as a possible traffic accident. And then once officers arrived on scene, they realized it was more than that. A lot of people think it was an auto accident. Well, no, it wasn't.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Start roping this off, because this is going to be a crime scene.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
and there was significant damage to the fender.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
The front driver's side wheel was turned slightly.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
There was no rain or anything that would potentially wash anything away, so the main thing I focused on was the vehicle.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Usually when you would think of a normal fender bender, it would just kind of be pressed into it, and this was torn back like a tuna can in a sense.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
The assumption was that he was struck by a vehicle.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
They provided statements of what they saw and what had occurred all night long.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
She pretty much gave a summary of the whole back story that she had been dating Davis
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Just over a year later, it's still here. But there was a number of footprints and some tire tracks that were leading away from this oil stain.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Well, we knew that there was some type of impact to the vehicle, and then we knew there was oil and tire marks that left from here.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
You could see it was very obvious that there was tire marks that had gone back down the road and kind of turned around.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
In a manner of speaking. You know, we just have to do the investigation and see what evidence is there and see where it leads us to.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
There was a trail that led from the incident location
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
He kind of walked up and almost was expecting us.
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The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
there some kids here yeah okay whose kids are they mine yours and who uh my wife okay