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00:00The New Barbie Pool Party
00:30I am from Jefferson Township, New Jersey.
00:40It's my hometown where I've made the best friends that I've ever had in my life.
00:501988, this terrible thing happened a mile from where I grew up to a kid that I played basketball with.
00:55There was this explosion of violence that nobody saw coming that just hasn't ever made sense to me.
01:05A mother and son from New Jersey are dead tonight.
01:07This was brutal. This was much more than typical murder.
01:13Tommy was my age. Same socioeconomic background. We all grew up with the same rules.
01:20Great kid, wrestler, baseball player, good student.
01:23And his mom. Super, super leading.
01:26Such a small town was such a tragic event.
01:32It was just all everybody wanted to talk about.
01:36We prayed for Tom. We prayed for Betty Ann.
01:39We prayed for the family that was left.
01:42We prayed for ourselves.
01:43The rumor mill's running wild because people want answers.
01:49Morris County police are broadening their investigation to determine if it was linked to a local satanic cult.
01:54We had a lot of things that pointed toward the devil made him do it.
02:00Is that possible?
02:02Everybody was buying in that this was a satanic murder.
02:05To the greatest demons of hell, I'd like to make a solemn exchange with you.
02:11When you make a pact with a deity, there has to be a sacrifice.
02:19This meeting in Morris County was set up to make people aware that Satanism exists.
02:24People in the community, we're looking for something to blame.
02:27I just cannot believe what's going on.
02:30You can call it the boogeyman, you can call it the devil.
02:32The devil doing it, it's not really a satisfying explanation.
02:36What was going on with this family?
02:38What's being hidden here?
02:41Parents were terrified that their kids could be next or that they could be next.
02:45It's one of those moments that you question your faith.
02:49How can this happen?
02:52The whole room got cold.
02:54The question was, was I talking to Satan or Tom?
03:02It's horrifying, it's scary, it's fascinating, it's mysterious, it's insane.
03:09You know, Satan comes in many disguises.
03:13And he knows everybody's weaknesses.
03:15And he knows how to manipulate them.
03:18What he did, I don't know.
03:20But I know he played a part in it.
03:25It wasn't God.
03:26He's a god.
03:47He's a god.
03:48He's a god.
03:48The suburbs in the 1980s was the ideal place and time to be a kid.
04:07No phones, no social media, just bikes, friends, and freedom.
04:13The world felt safe and magical, a perfect little bubble.
04:18But beneath that innocence, there was this thing, this malevolence creeping in the shadows.
04:26No one knew where or when it would strike, but when it did, it was shocking, and it shattered everything we thought was real.
04:35I'm Eli Roth, and I've spent decades writing and directing horror movies.
04:41They entertain, but they also tap into real fears we all have about the darkness around us.
04:48I've been inspired by true stories.
04:53They conjured images in my mind that were even scarier than any ghost story I could make up.
04:58And it's these kinds of stories that haunt a whole community for decades, just like what happened in Jefferson, New Jersey, one cold, snowy night in 1988.
05:09I was a police officer for Jefferson Township in the 80s, 20-something years old.
05:26Now I was really just becoming an adult, really.
05:28I came from a family of police officers.
05:34My dad was a police officer in Jefferson Township also, and spent most of my childhood around police and police families.
05:41I always looked up to my father and, you know, respected him and wanted to follow in the path that he took.
05:50I knew the police life, and I understood it, and just always found it interesting, you know, dangerous, risky.
06:02And I kind of enjoyed that, you know, the adrenaline and something I really like to do.
06:08Usually on a Saturday night, you'll get a call about a party or a bar fight or something.
06:31Officer McConley?
06:33The dispatch said, oh, we got a call, but a guy couldn't find his wife.
06:38And it was kind of a weird call.
06:40You know, to me, it sounds like, all right, does she have a boyfriend?
06:42Or, like, you know, like, what do you mean you can't find your wife?
06:45Copy that.
06:49I was young, so I was aggressive.
06:54You know, I got there quick.
06:57It was cold and it was snowing.
07:00And I remember a lot of snow on the ground.
07:04When I pulled up, there was a yard that went up kind of like a hill to the front door.
07:08There was a group of people down by the road.
07:12And one of the kids I played football with, Stuart Kennedy, was in the yard with some people.
07:19He was my age.
07:20You know, we graduated together and everything.
07:22And he was distraught.
07:24And I got out of the car and I said, what's up, Stuart?
07:28And he said, oh, you might need the first aid kit.
07:31She's bleeding.
07:32We proceeded into the house.
07:40It was a small house, very small.
07:43So we went in the front door.
07:45And it was like a living room area.
07:48We proceeded straight.
07:49And then when we took the corner, there was the steps going down to the basement.
07:59Never expected to come across what I found.
08:02Hello?
08:16Is anybody here?
08:19This is police.
08:20This is police.
08:20Ma'am?
08:44Blood is like oil.
08:58If you take a quart of oil and you drop it, it'll keep spreading.
09:02Remember, I leaned over her because I didn't know if I was going to need to do CPR.
09:13That's when I saw that, like, I remember, Craig, like an eyeball hanging out of the head and all.
09:18It was, it was pretty, um, don't know how to explain it.
09:23But, um, it's not something, you know, you'd expect to see, like, you know, it's like something out of a horror movie.
09:37Then I saw weights on the floor, and the weights were off the one end.
09:41So I assumed that her head was bashed in, which caused her eyeball to explode out of the socket.
09:48And at that point, I knew that she was gone.
09:53When I went into, like, my job mode,
09:59I didn't know if somebody had broke into the house and killed her.
10:08Was it a burglary that went bad?
10:10Was it?
10:11I had no idea what it was.
10:13I'm just, is there a killer in this house?
10:19Hello?
10:19The basement was small.
10:27But then it was kind of like a utility room.
10:32I thought for sure, because the blood was still coming out, like, slowly,
10:36that whoever did it was, was maybe in the other room.
10:40You know, your blood's pumping.
10:45For a second, I didn't know it was Stewart.
11:06So, that was close.
11:09Hey.
11:10He was shooken up.
11:11Yeah.
11:15Once we realized there was nobody there, then I went upstairs.
11:19A lot of people in town had police flectrons, so they could hear everything that you talk about on the radios.
11:26So, we were instructed that if it's something major, call headquarters from the phone.
11:31And then Bruce showed up.
11:33When Bart got on the radio, you could tell it was obviously something serious.
11:36His voice was excited.
11:37He was calling for the detectives, calling for the medical examiner,
11:40calling for additional help and resources.
11:42In 1988, I was 31 years old.
11:48At that time, I was a patrolman in Jefferson Township.
11:51Married.
11:52No children at the time.
11:54And just enjoying life.
11:56Well, it was a nice town.
11:57I mean, obviously, I was familiar with everybody.
12:01I grew up here.
12:02And that's the way the town was back then.
12:03Everybody knew each other.
12:05It was just a normal, you know, good place to live.
12:08There's been other homicides within the town, but not frequently.
12:18Maybe, you know, once a year or once every two years.
12:21So, this was shocking.
12:26When I arrived at the scene, it was 11 o'clock at night.
12:30About a dozen people out in the front yard.
12:33As soon as I got out, all kinds of people are telling me what's going on
12:36and, you know, trying to sort out who was who
12:39and who actually even lived in the house.
12:48When I first entered, I noticed the smell of burnt paper.
12:52There was books scattered about the floor
13:07that had been on fire.
13:12I remember just a lot of confusion, you know,
13:15trying to figure out what was going on.
13:16So, I'm up by the kitchen now
13:20and this guy comes storming in the house.
13:25Shoot, sir.
13:26This is a close crime, sir.
13:28This is who did it.
13:30This is my son.
13:31I live here.
13:31And says,
13:32my son did it.
13:34Like, aggressively.
13:37Thomas Sullivan Jr.
13:38How old is your son?
13:3914.
13:40He grabs a photo.
13:44Looked like a school photo of a young boy.
13:47And that kind of threw me back.
13:49I said, well, who's that?
13:50And he said, that's my son, Tommy.
13:51He killed my wife.
13:53She's downstairs.
13:55He was excited and upset, understandably.
13:59I was trying to calm him down.
14:02He was adamant that it was, you know,
14:03Tommy was the one that did it.
14:05But I just couldn't comprehend
14:06that a young boy would be able
14:08to do that to his mother,
14:10you know, an eighth grader.
14:11I mean, he looked like he was a child.
14:14She looked at the picture.
14:15It was a child.
14:18I remember he seemed credible
14:19when I first spoke to him.
14:23He was very adamant.
14:24My son did this.
14:25Get him.
14:26Look, he tried to burn the house down.
14:29That's what really threw me off.
14:32The father made him a suspect,
14:34which I found unusual because
14:37I don't think a father would want
14:40to blame his kid until he knew.
14:43Wouldn't you be worried
14:44that maybe they abducted your son, too?
14:46Killed the wife and took the son?
14:48The father would protect his child.
14:52None of it made sense to me.
14:58There are several police reports
14:59available from that night,
15:00and one is a write-up
15:02from Officer Bart McConley.
15:05In his report,
15:06he recounts a statement
15:07from the father of the house,
15:09Tom Sullivan Sr.,
15:10about his whereabouts that night.
15:13He advised me that he was sick
15:15and went to bed early.
15:18As he was sleeping,
15:20he heard the smoke detector go off.
15:23He got up to see what was wrong
15:25and found what he thought
15:27was newspapers burning
15:28on his living room couch.
15:29After distinguishing the fire,
15:33he went to the door
15:34and saw his automobile
15:36rolling down the driveway
15:37and into the snowbank
15:39across the street.
15:41He claims he then went over
15:43to neighbors
15:43and had his neighbor
15:45call the police.
15:50I was at a party
15:52at a friend's house,
15:53which was right across the street
15:54from the Sullivans.
15:56All of a sudden,
15:57somebody started rapping
15:57around the door real loud.
15:59And it was Tom Sr.
16:02from across the street.
16:04He was, like,
16:05hyperventilating, sweating.
16:07I mean,
16:07the guy's a mess.
16:08And he said that his house
16:10was on fire
16:10and he can't find his family.
16:12So they immediately
16:13called the cops.
16:15I said,
16:15let's go over there.
16:16I went into the house
16:18with him
16:19and there were books
16:21on the floor
16:22that were on fire.
16:25We started stamping it all out
16:27and the books
16:29that were on fire
16:30were satanic books
16:31that were set up
16:32in a circle
16:32in the living room.
16:35It was unnerving,
16:36that's for sure.
16:37The younger son
16:45comes out
16:46of his bedroom.
16:48I mean,
16:48that kid was young.
16:52So I said,
16:53well,
16:54let's check downstairs.
16:56Ready, Anne?
16:57Get halfway downstairs.
17:08Tom looks to his left
17:09and sees his wife.
17:11Ready, Anne?
17:13And just flipped out.
17:14Ran up,
17:15picked the kid up
17:16and ran across the street
17:17to my friend's house
17:19and I just followed.
17:22He turned to me and said,
17:25Tom, you did it.
17:27Oh, scared shitless.
17:29Scared shitless.
17:36Received a phone call.
17:39We lived probably
17:41a mile,
17:42mile and a half
17:43from the scene.
17:45In 1988,
17:47I was a detective
17:48and a juvenile officer
17:50for the township
17:51of Jefferson Police Department.
17:53So any kids
17:53that got in trouble
17:54usually ended up
17:55sitting in front of my desk
17:56or me paying a visit.
17:58I had never heard of Tommy
17:59or his brother Brian,
18:00so they had no history
18:02with me as a juvenile officer
18:03or the department.
18:05They started looking
18:06at what was going on
18:07with this family,
18:08how did this come about.
18:12The family,
18:13Betty Anne and Tom Sr.,
18:15to the best of my knowledge,
18:17had never had any contact
18:18with the police department.
18:20It wasn't a place,
18:20as soon as they gave out
18:21the address,
18:22you know who it was,
18:23that type of thing.
18:23We certainly had plenty
18:24of those over the years.
18:26I had never had any dealings
18:28with this family at all
18:29prior to this
18:30and after this.
18:32They weren't on the radar
18:33for anything.
18:35Betty Anne was a devout Catholic.
18:37From what we understood,
18:38she went to Mass every day.
18:40She made sure
18:41that Tommy got to Mass
18:42usually at least once a week
18:43on Sunday
18:44and maybe even more.
18:47We have no real idea
18:49of why this happened.
18:51We need to facilitate
18:52the gathering
18:53of whatever forensic evidence
18:54might be available
18:55at the scene.
18:59There was still
18:59some smoke evidence
19:00in the house at the time.
19:02I'm just looking at remnants
19:03of a newspaper fire
19:05where somebody
19:05bought some newspaper up
19:06and lit it.
19:08And then there were
19:08the books that were
19:09in the circle.
19:12After I got down
19:13to the basement,
19:13the first thing I saw
19:15was Mrs. Sullivan.
19:18And it was obviously
19:19the, you know,
19:20she was deceased
19:21at that point.
19:21It wasn't even a matter
19:22of, you know,
19:23any ambulance transport
19:24in her because
19:24she may make it.
19:28What we initially
19:29took away from it
19:30was the level of violence.
19:33People can get upset,
19:34have a fight,
19:36maybe lose their temper,
19:38hit someone,
19:39have a weapon
19:40and use it,
19:42you know,
19:42in the heat of passion.
19:43But this was brutal.
19:47She was stabbed
19:48multiple times
19:49about the upper torso
19:50and the face.
19:51And just the saturation
19:52of the blood
19:53down in the basement
19:54was, kind of,
19:55sticks in my mind.
19:57She had to put up
19:58a fight.
19:58She did have,
19:59you know,
20:00wounds to her arms,
20:01mostly to her upper torso,
20:03which I'm guessing
20:04after she had collapsed
20:06that they continued
20:07stabbing her.
20:08these were serious wounds.
20:11The number 47
20:13sticks on my mind,
20:15the ones to the face.
20:16It appeared
20:17that there was
20:19almost an attempt
20:20to peel
20:21the skin off the face.
20:23I was the traffic
20:27officer for a while
20:28and handling
20:29many accident
20:30investigations.
20:31And quite honestly,
20:32I could say
20:33I've never even had
20:33a motor vehicle
20:34accident that was,
20:36uh,
20:37the victims were
20:38as, you know,
20:39disfigured
20:40as what
20:40Mrs. Sullivan was.
20:43It was definitely
20:43a homicide.
20:44At that point,
20:46I'm trying to piece
20:47everything together.
20:48Mr. Sullivan was inside
20:50along with Mr. Eastman,
20:51one of the neighbors.
20:52So,
20:52I'm trying to figure out
20:54the time frame
20:54of everything
20:54that had happened
20:55at this point.
20:57We had everybody
20:58accounted for
20:59in the family.
21:00Tom Sr.,
21:01who was the father,
21:02Betty Ann,
21:02who was the mother,
21:03and she was the victim.
21:04And then,
21:05and then Brian Sullivan
21:06was also at the house.
21:08We hadn't seen
21:10or there was no account
21:11of Tommy Jr.
21:12The question became,
21:13where is Tommy
21:14Tommy?
21:20I was the
21:21next-door neighbor
21:22of Tom.
21:24I could walk
21:25and knock on Tommy's
21:26door,
21:26and it would take
21:27me 30 seconds.
21:30Tommy was my age.
21:31We grew up together.
21:33We were in the same class
21:34and wrestled
21:35on the same team.
21:37Jefferson,
21:38it was just like
21:39a regular, I guess,
21:40middle-class type town.
21:42There was a bunch
21:43of kids,
21:43all the same age,
21:44on that street.
21:45Wait up!
21:46So we would all hang out.
21:49There was this old,
21:51burnt-out tray
21:51that had, like,
21:5320 Playboys underneath.
21:55We would always
21:56ride our bikes there
21:57and look at the Playboys.
21:59If the weather wasn't nice,
22:00you'd try to play
22:01video games inside.
22:02Oh, my God.
22:03I remember we had a
22:05Calico Vision.
22:06I remember we had a Calico Vision.
22:06The Sullivans had an Atari.
22:08His mother would bring us
22:09out with snacks,
22:10bring juice or whatnot.
22:11She was always really nice to us.
22:13Being in the house
22:18was just, like,
22:19kind of normal.
22:21We would see the mom
22:23and the boys at church
22:24pretty regularly,
22:25and they were, you know,
22:27for the most part,
22:28just super quiet.
22:30They were just like
22:31every other family
22:31on the block.
22:34There wasn't really anything
22:35out of the ordinary.
22:37Being on your own
22:38is a responsibility
22:39that begins
22:40as soon as you leave school.
22:4180s kids had so much freedom.
22:45Summer breaks and weekends
22:47were spent playing all day,
22:49either riding bites
22:50until the streetlights
22:51flicked on
22:51or retina burned
22:53from an arcade screen.
22:54At some point,
22:55someone's mom would scream,
22:56it's dinner time,
22:57and we'd all go home
22:58and dine on Blue Box
22:59mac and cheese and burgers.
23:02But underneath that independence
23:04was something new.
23:05Everyone looks forward
23:06to growing up,
23:08and it's a good feeling
23:09to be given more responsibility.
23:11For many families,
23:12this was the first time
23:13that both mom and dad
23:15had full-time jobs.
23:16So when you got out of school,
23:17you'd come home
23:18to an empty house.
23:20They called us
23:21Lashkey kids,
23:22and of course,
23:23it was fun,
23:24but it made us vulnerable,
23:25and it made people nervous.
23:27It's 10 p.m.
23:28It's 10 p.m.
23:30It's 10 p.m.
23:31Do you know
23:32where your children are?
23:34That wasn't just a PSA.
23:37It was more of a warning,
23:39because when no one's
23:39paying attention,
23:41anything can happen.
23:45I'll never forget that night.
23:53What the...
23:54there's police
23:56in the backyard?
23:57There was yellow caution tape.
24:00I remember seeing the dogs
24:01going around
24:01and sniffing things
24:02in the woods and whatnot.
24:04You could see a ton of footprints
24:05all over the place,
24:06so people have been trampling
24:07all around the snow
24:08in between his house
24:09and our house,
24:10and in both backyards
24:12and the front lawn
24:13and whatnot.
24:13Growing up in the town
24:15we grew up in,
24:16I mean,
24:16you never really saw
24:17any cops.
24:19You're like,
24:20oh my God,
24:20is everybody okay?
24:22What the hell
24:23happened next door?
24:25The first thing
24:26that clicked in my head
24:26was just find Tommy
24:27and find out
24:28what was going on.
24:29I did a search
24:38of the house
24:38to make sure Tommy
24:39wasn't there.
24:42I remember walking
24:43into his bedroom.
24:51The room was fairly dark.
24:53Bed was there,
24:54still made,
24:55so we know
24:55he didn't go to bed
24:56that night.
24:59I have to look
25:00under the beds
25:01to see if he's under there.
25:04With all these cuts
25:05and everything
25:05on this woman,
25:08I'm thinking
25:08I'm going to get stabbed
25:09in the face.
25:10I didn't know,
25:10you know, like...
25:23There was some things
25:24referring to some
25:25heavy metal.
25:36I did notice
25:37some drawings
25:37that he had made,
25:39ram skull,
25:41some pentagrams
25:42that he had drawn,
25:43just on scrap paper
25:44and notebooks
25:45on the covers
25:45of the books.
25:48The one that I
25:49remember in particular
25:50was one of
25:51Satan's face.
25:52You could tell
25:55that he was not
25:56of the normal mind
25:57of what was going on
25:58at that point.
26:00Heavy metal.
26:01Is it harmless
26:01for your children
26:02or an invitation
26:03to drugs,
26:04violence,
26:04even suicide?
26:05Every decade
26:06has its own unique
26:07teenage rebellion.
26:09Pop culture
26:09to help them
26:10rage against
26:11the status quo.
26:12The 80s
26:13were no different.
26:14Alienated boys
26:15taking comfort
26:16in the aggressive
26:17sounds of
26:17Ozzy Osbourne,
26:19Anthrax,
26:19Metallica,
26:20laughing at the
26:21tongue-in-cheek
26:22slasher films
26:22like Friday the 13th
26:24or Nightmare on Elm Street.
26:25It's the one
26:26and only
26:26Freddy Krueger.
26:30When it comes
26:30to fashion,
26:31if you couldn't
26:32find a pentagram shirt
26:33or a band you liked
26:34at the local mall,
26:35you just got out
26:36a black marker
26:36and did it yourself.
26:38In fact,
26:38I remember being
26:39around Tommy's age
26:40and I silkscreened
26:41an Iron Maiden Eddie
26:42on the back
26:42of my Texas
26:43Chainsaw Massacre shirt.
26:45It was an innocent
26:45expression,
26:46a way to feel
26:47tough and in control.
26:49Unless it wasn't.
26:50Unless it was
26:51something darker.
26:53But how would
26:53anyone know?
26:54The main thing
27:00at that point
27:01was secure the scene.
27:03Hey!
27:04Hey, come on, guys!
27:06In the house,
27:06we probably had about
27:07maybe six people
27:08that didn't belong there
27:09that went in.
27:10Outside,
27:11we probably had about
27:11another seven or so
27:13that didn't belong
27:13on the property.
27:15They all knew
27:15the Sullivans
27:16and they were trying
27:17to help.
27:18It was kind of
27:18overwhelming
27:19trying to control
27:19the scene
27:20when you have
27:21a dozen people
27:22wandering around.
27:23At that point,
27:23we realized
27:24the scene
27:24was completely
27:25contaminated.
27:26I got everybody
27:29out of there
27:29and secured
27:30the area.
27:31And that's
27:32when we started
27:33doing our searching
27:33of the outside area.
27:37The Sullivans' car
27:39was out of the driveway
27:40and kind of
27:42perpendicular
27:43to the roadway
27:44almost,
27:4545-degree angle
27:46stuck in a snowbank.
27:47And at that point,
27:48the problem was
27:49we didn't have
27:50really many witnesses
27:51other than the father.
28:01I was 19 years old
28:02going to college.
28:05Coming back
28:06that first winter break,
28:07that was my first time
28:08being back home.
28:10I remember just
28:11feeling on top
28:12of the world.
28:15Chris Eastman,
28:15he was a friend of mine.
28:17We used to always
28:17have parties
28:18at his house.
28:20So there was
28:21one that night,
28:22you know,
28:22I knew all my friends
28:23were going to be there,
28:24or a lot of my friends
28:24anyway.
28:25And, yeah,
28:26so it was just
28:27an exciting time
28:27to get back
28:28and just to connect
28:28with everybody.
28:32Parked probably about
28:33maybe six or seven
28:34houses away.
28:35I remember just
28:37getting out of the car
28:38and I was just
28:39in a good mental spot.
28:40I remember
28:41singing a song.
28:42You know,
28:42I know it's a little corny,
28:43but I was just
28:45in that good a mood.
28:45I was humming, singing,
28:46and as I was doing that,
28:49I noticed up the block
28:50somebody come running
28:51outside with something
28:52shiny in their hand.
28:55I thought it was
28:55a flashlight at first,
28:57but then I realized
28:58the way it was moving
28:59in the light,
29:00that it was something else,
29:01and I had no idea,
29:02but I knew it was metallic.
29:04I kind of stopped
29:05because I just thought
29:05it was weird
29:06that they were moving
29:07so fast.
29:08Couldn't tell
29:09how old the person was.
29:10I probably couldn't tell you
29:11if it was a guy or a girl.
29:12That's how far away I was,
29:13and it was dark out.
29:16Hopped in the car,
29:17started,
29:17and pulled out right away.
29:18It was like there was
29:19no warm-up
29:19or anything like that,
29:21so I was like,
29:21wow, this is really weird.
29:23Backed out very aggressively
29:25into a snow mound.
29:26We had a lot of snow
29:27at that time,
29:28and the car got stuck
29:29in the mound.
29:31Couldn't get out,
29:32opened the car door.
29:34They didn't go in the back
29:35and try to dig it out.
29:37You know,
29:37they didn't even get out
29:38and look at it
29:39while it was stuck.
29:40Left the door open
29:41and ran back up
29:43their driveway
29:44to the right,
29:45and they went
29:46in between the houses
29:47that was directly
29:48to the right of them
29:49and disappeared.
29:52I went joyriding
29:57with my friends
29:58in Jefferson
29:58before we were,
30:00you know,
30:00of age,
30:01so I thought
30:02that might have been
30:03the situation
30:03where somebody just
30:04was trying to joyride
30:06and made a mistake
30:07and just kind of
30:08just took off
30:09because they were scared.
30:11I headed back
30:12to Chris's party.
30:13So I went inside
30:19and I told Chris,
30:20I said,
30:20hey,
30:20your neighbor
30:21just backed out
30:21and left the car
30:22running with the door open
30:23kind of in the middle
30:25of the street.
30:25You know,
30:26I guess me just passing
30:27that piece of information
30:28to him
30:28satisfied me,
30:30you know.
30:30I was like,
30:31oh,
30:31I kind of did my job.
30:32I let him know
30:32that there was something
30:33outside that was
30:34a little unusual
30:35and he's not worried
30:36about it,
30:36so I'm not going
30:37to worry about it.
30:40Started having
30:40a couple beers.
30:43You know,
30:44it was just,
30:44it was a good time.
30:47I was down there
30:48for maybe
30:49about 20 minutes
30:50and the Jefferson
30:53police came.
30:56Most people there
30:58at Chris's house
30:58were 21 years old,
31:00you know,
31:00so I was one
31:01of the minors,
31:01so I was really worried
31:03about being in trouble
31:05for underage drinking.
31:07But they hit us
31:08right away
31:09with,
31:10did anybody
31:11see anything
31:11next door.
31:12It's okay.
31:13And I just kind
31:15of raised my hand
31:16and opened my mouth.
31:17I saw something.
31:18Do you mind
31:19coming with me,
31:20please?
31:21Yeah.
31:22They took me down
31:23to the police station
31:23because they said
31:24they wanted to,
31:25you know,
31:25do some questioning.
31:29You knew something
31:30happened and that's
31:31when I really started
31:32to get scared.
31:32Yeah,
31:33but this is
31:33I am a lifelong resident
31:50of Jefferson Township,
31:52born and raised
31:52in the Lake Shawnee
31:53section of the community.
31:54I love growing up there,
31:56raised my own family there
31:57in the house
31:58that I actually grew up in,
31:59so I can't get
32:01any more hometown
32:01than that.
32:03For the last six years now,
32:04I've been the mayor
32:05in Jefferson Township.
32:07But in 1988,
32:09I was on the Jefferson
32:09Township Police Department
32:10at that point
32:11about two years.
32:12That night,
32:15I was working
32:16the midnight shift.
32:17At that point,
32:18they were going to do
32:19a search of the area
32:20looking for Tommy Sullivan.
32:23For a lot of reasons,
32:24you know,
32:25you want to try
32:25to find him.
32:26What happened?
32:27Was anybody else there?
32:28I mean,
32:28at that point,
32:29you don't know.
32:30He was the missing piece
32:31of, you know,
32:32anybody in the home
32:33at the time,
32:33so naturally,
32:35he's the first suspect.
32:36On foot,
32:37he couldn't have gotten
32:38too, too far,
32:39but it was imperative
32:40to try to find him.
32:43At that time,
32:44we were about 30 officers,
32:46which is relatively small
32:47in New Jersey.
32:48We had a large area
32:49to cover,
32:4942 square miles.
32:51Not a big population.
32:52I think at that time,
32:53we were probably running
32:54about 18,000 people.
32:57But a wide area,
33:00a large area.
33:03My understanding
33:04is that my parents
33:05talked to the police
33:06and said that
33:07Tommy was not in there.
33:09And they were literally
33:09just looking,
33:10like police came in,
33:11looked around
33:11in all the houses
33:12to see if Tommy was there,
33:13and then they went
33:14to the next house
33:14to see if he was there.
33:15And it was just,
33:16like, kind of a manhunt
33:17for Tommy.
33:18As all the investigators
33:19started arriving,
33:20I started to become
33:21more involved
33:21with the outside search.
33:25It started out
33:26when we had
33:26to organize in teams.
33:28We didn't want
33:29to damage the scenes
33:30any more than what it was,
33:31so we held off
33:31on doing a foot search
33:32of the general area.
33:36Initially,
33:37it took a while
33:38to get the canine unit there.
33:40You want to get
33:40the canine there
33:41as quick as possible
33:42so that the scent
33:44is still fresh.
33:45You know,
33:45another animal
33:46comes through
33:47or anything
33:47can distract the dog
33:48off that particular scent.
33:51They started at the car
33:52where it was stuck
33:54in a snowbank
33:54and went across the street
33:56through the neighbor's yard
33:57and down
33:58and across through the woods.
34:01White Rock is
34:02kind of a planned community.
34:04You know,
34:04houses on one side,
34:05houses on the other,
34:06and woods behind.
34:08We're walking
34:09through the woods
34:09just looking for anything,
34:11looking for tracks,
34:12looking for,
34:13you know,
34:13canine will lead you
34:15in different directions
34:16and stuff like that.
34:17I was with the handler
34:19from the sheriff's department
34:20tracking the dog
34:21from White Rock Boulevard.
34:22We ended up
34:23all the way out
34:23to Schoolhouse Road,
34:24which is a road
34:25that runs parallel
34:26with White Rock Boulevard.
34:30Turns out
34:31what we were tracking
34:32was one of the neighbors
34:33that thought
34:33they were being helpful
34:34trying to find
34:36Tommy.
34:40When the canine search
34:41didn't come up
34:42with anything,
34:43then we started
34:43branching out more
34:44and doing a search
34:45of the neighborhood.
34:49A lot of things
34:50going on in my mind
34:50about which way
34:51to proceed next.
34:52Wintertime, nighttime,
34:53so he's not going
34:54to be hanging around
34:54outside.
34:55So, you know,
34:56first thing you're worried
34:57about is he trying
34:57to break into
34:58somebody's home.
34:59He'd be known
35:00in the area
35:00because the neighbors
35:01all knew each other.
35:02So they would know
35:03if he tried to their house,
35:04they'd be calling us
35:05right away.
35:06At some point,
35:07it was decided
35:08we needed to take
35:09Brian and his father
35:10to the police station.
35:11A gentleman and his son
35:31were in a room.
35:34They were, you know,
35:34very upset.
35:37I was scared.
35:42I didn't know
35:43what was going on
35:43and I could tell
35:44the father was
35:45really emotional.
35:49The father was
35:50pacing back and forth
35:52saying,
35:54I don't know
35:55if I'm going to hug him
35:56or if I'm going to kill him.
35:58When they find him,
35:59I don't know
35:59if I'm going to hug him
36:00or if I'm going to kill him.
36:01And that's when
36:03I realized something,
36:04you know,
36:05really bad happened.
36:10Tom?
36:12They took the father out
36:14and they left me
36:15in the room
36:15with the young boy.
36:20And I could hear
36:21a lot of commotion
36:22through the door
36:23and I realized
36:23that somebody died.
36:25The boy was sitting
36:30there crying.
36:44You know,
36:45I went over
36:45and, you know,
36:47he didn't know me,
36:48I didn't know him,
36:49but, you know,
36:50he was crying.
36:51And then, you know,
36:52I started crying.
36:54Not sure why.
36:56Don't know why.
36:57Maybe I was feeling
36:58compassion for the boy.
37:01Maybe I was scared
37:02that somebody died
37:03and I'm in the police station
37:05and I'm being questioned.
37:08It was just a really
37:09emotional experience for me.
37:12But I remember
37:13I was just trying
37:14to comfort the boy
37:15and I don't know
37:16how long it was,
37:17but they pulled me in
37:19for some questioning.
37:20I just remember
37:23I needed to focus
37:24and give them
37:25every bit of information
37:26as best I could,
37:27but it was certainly
37:28a tough time,
37:30for sure.
37:33There was a lot of concern
37:35about Brian that night.
37:37Tell me everything
37:38you remember tonight.
37:42And then he started
37:43talking about it.
37:45And what he related to me
37:47was his interaction
37:49with Tommy.
37:50Brian Sullivan,
37:57age 10,
37:58states that he
37:59and his brother Tom
37:59had watched TV
38:00in the downstairs family room
38:02from approximately
38:038 p.m. to 10 p.m.
38:06During this time,
38:07his mother remained
38:08upstairs with his father,
38:10who wasn't feeling well.
38:11at approximately 10 p.m.
38:24he went to his room
38:37to go to bed.
38:40He said his prayers.
38:47A short time later,
38:49he got up to go
38:50to the bathroom.
38:52He got up
38:53and came basically
38:54face to face
38:55with Tommy.
38:59He saw his brother Tom,
39:00who appeared all hyped up,
39:03shaking and nervous.
39:05Tom?
39:05Tom?
39:08Noticed that Tommy
39:09was getting cleaned up.
39:10It looked like he had
39:11blood on his hands,
39:13bloody towel,
39:14that type of thing.
39:15And asked him
39:16what had happened,
39:17and Tommy just kind of said,
39:18don't worry about it.
39:20I just cut myself.
39:21It's all taken care of.
39:22Tom then told Brian
39:23to go back to bed
39:25and don't wake up daddy.
39:29Brian then states
39:30he became scared
39:31and went back
39:32to his bedroom
39:32to find his stuffed animals.
39:37It wasn't long after that
39:38that the smoke alarm
39:40in the house went off,
39:41and that's what kind of
39:42sparked the series of events
39:44that led to the discovery
39:45of Betty Ann
39:46in the basement.
39:53I would say
40:01it was maybe 45 minutes
40:03to an hour
40:03before I was sent
40:04back on patrol.
40:09So I'm driving,
40:11and I remember
40:11a lot of things
40:12were going through my mind,
40:13thinking about
40:14what my father told me.
40:18It just didn't feel right to me.
40:21For a father
40:22to draw a conclusion
40:23that quickly
40:23to go from knowing nothing
40:25to saying,
40:26get my son,
40:28when you don't even know
40:28where your son is.
40:30He was very adamant.
40:31My son did this.
40:32Look, he tried
40:33to burn the house down,
40:34but how do you know that?
40:37You were sleeping.
40:39He said that the smoke detector
40:40woke him up,
40:42and already in my mind
40:43I'm thinking,
40:44that brutal murder
40:45didn't wake you up
40:46in that little tiny house.
40:48I found it a little odd.
40:51You never search your house.
40:53Why are you going
40:53to look at a high school party?
40:55Why wouldn't you look
40:55in your house first?
40:57And why did you have
40:58teenagers call headquarters?
41:01How did you go
41:02from going down the street
41:03to the party
41:03to coming back
41:04and knowing that
41:04your son did this?
41:07At minimum,
41:08I felt like he knew
41:09a lot more
41:09than he was telling me.
41:10my shift ended.
41:18I didn't go home.
41:20I went to my parents' house,
41:21and I remember
41:22I was still in uniform,
41:23and my dad came out
41:24and said,
41:25what's going on?
41:26I was really just
41:29becoming an adult,
41:30really,
41:31like 20-something years old.
41:33Didn't experience
41:34much in life,
41:35and I just kind of
41:37told him what happened,
41:38you know,
41:40that I found this woman
41:42that was,
41:43like, brutally murdered,
41:46and I was trying
41:47to process it.
41:49I mean,
41:50it was terrible,
41:50and it bothered me.
41:56My dad,
41:58he was like,
41:58you know,
41:59it's terrible,
41:59but imagine what kids
42:00in being um saw.
42:02You know,
42:03like,
42:03they went through
42:03a lot worse.
42:06Back then,
42:07you didn't,
42:08you didn't really discuss
42:09your emotions
42:10or anything.
42:11He always taught us
42:13to be men,
42:14and so,
42:15I just buried it,
42:17compartmentalized it.
42:21You know,
42:22you can't be a crybaby.
42:39Not only did we
42:40search the woods
42:40behind the homes
42:42across the street,
42:43but, you know,
42:43we had a condo development
42:45that were just being
42:46built at that time,
42:47and you're talking
42:47a couple hundred units.
42:48You just don't know
42:51what you were going
42:52to run into
42:53if, in fact,
42:54you found him
42:55or, you know,
42:56other people with him.
42:58You have to have
42:59that little bit
43:00sense of fear
43:00just to get the adrenaline
43:02going a little bit
43:02and, you know,
43:03and to help you
43:04do your job better,
43:05so it was pretty intense.
43:10We don't know
43:11if we have
43:12a teenager
43:13or a young boy
43:14that is out of his mind
43:15somewhere with a knife
43:16doing something,
43:17or we don't know
43:18if he hurt himself
43:19or, you know,
43:21we don't know
43:21much of anything.
43:23Was it going to hurt
43:24neighbors?
43:25What was it going to do?
43:26You know,
43:27where was he?
43:29What happened?
43:30Was anybody else there?
43:31I mean,
43:31at that point,
43:32you don't know.
43:33Was there other people
43:34involved?
43:35I mean,
43:35he could be another
43:36homicide victim
43:37for all we know
43:37at that point in time.
43:39Was there a fight?
43:40Did the kid run
43:41because he saw something?
43:42Don't know.
43:43He's the missing link.
43:46He's the one
43:47that'll have answers.
43:47Come on.
44:14He's the him.
44:14He's the one
44:14that'll have A Ser vem.
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