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00:00First on ID
00:01Hartford is mostly a farming area
00:24Soybeans, corn
00:26Hartford has a sign
00:28As you go in the town
00:29It says, welcome to Hartford
00:30Home of 2,000 happy people
00:32And a few sore heads
00:34Hartford is a safe environment
00:38Felt like a safe environment
00:42Never judge a book by its cover
00:44It was literally like
00:46He just walked off the face of the earth
00:48He just vanished
00:49I was like, what did I do?
00:52I deserve this
00:53I think that he was set up
00:55It was a trap
00:57He had zip ties
00:59He had cords
01:00He had duct tape
01:01Not even Harry Houdini himself
01:03Could have gotten out
01:04I didn't know what to believe
01:06Everyone has their own version of the truth
01:08It's nuts, man
01:10Unfathomable
01:11As a mother
01:13What more could I have done
01:15Who's to say that it's not my fault?
01:18I don't think that it was datasets
01:20I think that it was a place
01:23But it was just too much
01:24To few of us
01:25When a childしゃik
01:25I was bunu
01:26As a mother
01:26Not my father
01:28Who's to say that it's not my fault
01:28Not my father
01:28As a mother
01:29I would love
01:30Of course
01:31Who's to say that it's not my fault
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03:57SIRENS SEVATE
03:59COMPERATIVE
03:59DEPARTMENT
04:00SIRENS
04:01FOREVER
04:02FIRE DEPARTMENTS
04:03STATE POLICE
04:05IT WAS CRAZY
04:07I NEVER SEEN ANYTHING
04:08LIKE THAT BEFORE
04:10OVER THE COURSE
04:11OF A 20-YEAR CAREER
04:12IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
04:13YOU SEE
04:14A LOT OF BAD STUFF
04:16BUT
04:17YOU'RE NOT REALLY PREPARED
04:18FOR THAT
04:19WHEN YOU SEE IT
04:20Quando ele abriu o tool box,
04:29ele me levou algumas minhas para perceber o que eu estava olhando.
04:34Eu consegui me fazer a minha mão e a minha mão.
04:39A minha mão era um pouco como se tornou a sua cabeça ou algo.
04:43E a minha cabeça era um cara,
04:46mas como se tornou com algo.
04:50Com duct tape around his hands and his mouth,
04:54você just wonder,
04:54o que foi esse person's last moments like?
04:57O que lede a isso?
04:58Você sabe, é como você deixe esse earth.
05:02Mas é só...
05:03É brutal.
05:05Nós não sabemos exatamente quem era do que a decomposição.
05:10Nós sabíamos que era um jovem, jovem, jovem.
05:14Você tinha um jovem jovem jovem que tinha sido morto por 10 dias,
05:17então, eu tinha uma boa ideia que isso era provavelmente a nossa missão.
05:21e um, subject.
05:24Eu meiai que eu meiai que eu meiai.
05:26Eu meiai que ninguém merecia ser feito assim,
05:30que eu meiai que eu meiai.
05:33Eu não dormi muito bem por um tempo.
05:35Eu meiai que eu ia dormir,
05:37I'd wake up, you know, see in that toolbox.
05:41My girlfriend, I don't think she ever has been kayaking back since then.
05:52When the toolbox was pulled from the creek,
05:55we brought it here to our evidence building
05:58so we could process the toolbox a little further
06:01and go through what evidence was located in there.
06:05Then if anything needed to be sent to the lab,
06:08within the toolbox, we located an electric cord
06:11that was used around his neck and hands,
06:13duct tape used on his hands and mouth and face.
06:18We weren't able to actually pull any fingerprints off of the body,
06:22off of the toolbox or off of anything inside the toolbox,
06:25probably because of the heat.
06:28When the toolbox was located in a creek
06:30that was no deeper than four or five feet,
06:33why would you throw roughly a three-foot-tall toolbox
06:39in a four- or five-foot creek?
06:42Because the toolbox wasn't there 12 hours before somebody found it,
06:47so I don't know if the suspects thought the toolbox would sink.
06:51Who knows?
06:51But it didn't travel very far down the creek at all before it was located.
06:59This case kind of hit me a little different
07:02than others that I've worked or seen.
07:06You just wonder how a human is capable of doing that to another human.
07:09A body was found in a toolbox floating in a creek near Louisville, Kentucky.
07:16The coroner says someone likely strangled or suffocated him.
07:19Anyone with information is asked to reach out to investigators in Kentucky.
07:23You can find that information on our website.
07:26I have lived in Hartford my whole life.
07:37I was born and raised here.
07:39I really like the small-town feel that comes with living in a place like this.
07:46Tremaine was texting me every day pretty much to tell me that he,
07:51you know, hey, I need a ride to work today.
07:53So Monday morning rolled around, and he never texted me.
07:57I didn't hear from him.
07:58I didn't think anything of it.
08:00It wasn't until I got to work a little bit later in the day
08:03that it dawned on me that he was missing
08:05after I had had some people come up and tell me,
08:08you know, hey, Tremaine didn't show up today,
08:10and nobody's heard from him.
08:12This area is predominantly white.
08:14So when they found the body in the toolbox,
08:17there started to be rumors circulating that that could be Tremaine.
08:21I did not think that somebody was capable of doing that to somebody like Tremaine
08:26or to another human being, for that matter.
08:35I wear a suit and tie every day to work.
08:39I take care of my appearance to let people know that I take care of the details.
08:42The first time that I heard about this case was it started out as a missing persons
08:49and then found out that this was a murder
08:52and that I was going to be taking lead on it.
08:55We had learned that this man was Tremaine Makel.
08:59He wasn't born or raised here.
09:01He was from a different state.
09:03So I made contact with the family in the end.
09:15Finding out the news that Tremaine was murdered,
09:19it was hard for me to hear it.
09:21And I just wanted to lay in bed and hold my pillow
09:27and just pretend that it was a dream.
09:32A nightmare that I wake up from.
09:38These are pictures of Tremaine, my favorite one.
09:43Him in the hospital getting his tonsils removed.
09:46I feel as though I'm gone back in time.
09:50Him being little growing up again.
09:52And I really enjoyed those moments.
10:01Tremaine was in the Navy for about a year
10:05when they found out that he had an enlarged heart
10:08and he had to have an honorable discharge,
10:13which basically broke his heart.
10:17He started getting little odd jobs
10:23and I guess just trying to find his way in life.
10:28Tremaine was on a website called MySpace.
10:34He found someone that he used to talk to.
10:38And I went to work one day and came home
10:45and all of his things were gone
10:46and he had moved to Kentucky.
10:48He didn't leave a note or anything.
10:50Not to say, hey, I'm happy.
10:53I found the love of my life.
10:54I'm leaving.
10:55It was nothing.
10:58Later on, he told me that
11:00Simone had driven
11:02all the way to get him
11:05to take him back out to Kentucky.
11:11And they had only been talking for a month.
11:15Who does that?
11:23Tremaine's significant other, Simone,
11:25had reported that he was missing.
11:28Tremaine and Simone
11:29had gotten some kind of altercation,
11:31and argument at a party.
11:34The next day after the party,
11:36when Simone woke up,
11:37Tremaine had not made it home.
11:39And, you know,
11:40she immediately started calling him.
11:42Couldn't get a hold of him.
11:43And at that point, she began to worry
11:45because it was not like Tremaine at all
11:48to not come home.
11:51Ten days later,
11:52his body was found right here.
11:56Tremaine was last seen at this party.
11:58So, automatically,
12:00everybody at this party,
12:01those are my prime suspects.
12:08I wasn't there.
12:10I don't know what took place.
12:11I just know
12:12Simone took my child
12:14to this silly party,
12:16and then he was found beaten
12:19and murdered.
12:22I've lived in Hartford for almost 20 years.
12:48I'm a high school freshman English teacher.
12:52It's entertaining.
12:54The students are different.
12:57Every day, every semester,
12:58it's something new.
13:00Everybody's pretty happy in Hartford.
13:02They keep to their self.
13:04You ask for help,
13:05then most of them are right there,
13:07willing to help.
13:08but they're not the type of community
13:10that's going to go out on their own
13:11to reach out.
13:20I was born in Ohio County.
13:23I have all good neighbors.
13:25I help my neighbors.
13:26My neighbors help me, you know,
13:28work hard,
13:29mind their own business for the most part,
13:31willing to give you a hand, you know.
13:33I would rather live here
13:36than to live anywhere that I know of.
13:39Of course, I don't know a lot about
13:41different places,
13:42but I'm satisfied here.
13:44I heard that Tremaine was missing
13:47when I read it in the paper.
13:49These are all of the articles
13:51that came out in the paper
13:53during that Tremaine Michael murder case.
13:58I don't ever remember anything like that
14:04happening anywhere near here
14:05in my lifetime.
14:07That's why I kept those papers.
14:13I'm a reporter with the Owensboro Times.
14:16This was one of the first murder cases
14:18I covered,
14:19and it was by far
14:20one of the most heinous.
14:23Tremaine Michael is a fish out of water
14:25in a place like Hartford, Kentucky.
14:28He's from Maryland.
14:29He's a black man.
14:31The population of Hartford
14:32is 98% white.
14:34He stands out.
14:36In these kind of rural communities,
14:37when you stand out,
14:39it's not very friendly.
14:42Tremaine's hands were zip-tied.
14:45His feet were bound.
14:47All of those things tell me
14:50that there's a very likely chance
14:53he was held captive
14:54before he was killed,
14:56tortured even.
14:58That just changes
14:58the whole way
14:59you see this case.
15:09This party started out
15:11as a typical
15:12get-together with friends,
15:14you know,
15:14have some drinks around the fire
15:16and to socialize,
15:17and it ultimately
15:18was the critical event
15:20in this investigation.
15:24When we first,
15:25when we executed the search warrant
15:26on the property here,
15:27we looked at everything.
15:29I actually seized their truck.
15:30There's actually two toolboxes
15:32in that truck,
15:32and they both confirmed
15:33that both of those
15:34are our toolboxes,
15:35and, you know,
15:36that's what we work,
15:37use as a work truck.
15:38When we went to the back deck,
15:41there was, like,
15:42an altar made up
15:43with gems and stones
15:45and things hanging
15:46from the porch.
15:48A lot of people
15:48that knew Melanie
15:50and actually described her
15:51as being a witch,
15:52so a self-proclaimed witch.
15:55She had an old,
15:56dead cow head on a stick,
15:59and that, you know,
16:00every full moon,
16:01and she was known
16:01to build a fire,
16:03just kind of a very odd
16:05and strange behavior.
16:07I've never ran across that,
16:08and to me,
16:09it just stuck out,
16:10so I didn't know
16:11as far as Melanie
16:13being a self-proclaimed witch,
16:14did that have something
16:15to do with what happens
16:17to Tromaine?
16:18I swabbed their cheeks
16:20for DNA.
16:21I took the shoes
16:22off their feet,
16:23these pieces of evidence,
16:24and everything I sent
16:25to the lab.
16:30William and Matthew
16:30and Melanie were my neighbors
16:32for roughly eight years.
16:35You had William,
16:37your big, friendly guy.
16:39Melanie stayed herself
16:40a little more.
16:42They were not your
16:42ordinary country people
16:44that live out here.
16:46William, he just seemed
16:48like a big teddy bear guy,
16:49almost.
16:49He got into wearing kilts
16:51for a while,
16:51and he was running around
16:52in a kilt, just waving,
16:55kept on going,
16:55like, whatever you do,
16:56you, buddy.
16:57But their trailer become
16:59a crime scene at that point.
17:01And we were like,
17:02wow, this is insane.
17:04What is going on?
17:08We brought William
17:09and Melanie Howard in
17:10for an interrogation.
17:11How did you come
17:12to know Tromaine?
17:13I can't honestly say
17:14that I know him at all.
17:15Diana is a friend of mine.
17:17Diana?
17:18Newton.
17:18I've known her probably
17:20three, four months.
17:21She called me.
17:23She said,
17:24I need a relaxation.
17:25What are you doing Saturday?
17:27Can we have a bonfire
17:28and drink some wine?
17:29And I said,
17:30sure we can.
17:31And then maybe
17:32the next day or the day
17:33after she said,
17:33it would be okay,
17:34Simone comes.
17:36Melanie was very talkative,
17:37and she was very cooperative,
17:39actually.
17:39and then we talked to William.
17:42Who is Simone?
17:43Simone is a long,
17:46long-time friend of Diana
17:47who was engaged
17:49to this gentleman.
17:51Okay.
17:51Those three people
17:53came in the vehicle
17:54at the same time.
17:56They get there,
17:56and he's black,
17:57and I was a bit surprised,
18:01you know,
18:01just because
18:02I don't think I'm racist,
18:05but I just don't know
18:07very many black people.
18:09And we joked about it that night.
18:12I was like,
18:12man, you're the first.
18:13He said,
18:14I'm not the first black man here.
18:16Yes, you are.
18:18Well,
18:18he seems like a really good guy,
18:20you know.
18:22As far as the party goes,
18:24Diana Newton had reached out
18:25to William and Melanie.
18:27And so we had brought in
18:28Diana Newton for an interview.
18:31She was obviously a suspect.
18:33What did the night consist of
18:35when you first got there?
18:36When we first got there,
18:38everything was fine.
18:39We were drinking a little bit,
18:40having a bonfire,
18:41just joking around,
18:42just having a good time
18:43like we always have
18:44when we go out there.
18:45The initial interviews
18:46that I did,
18:47they were pretty consistent
18:49about what started
18:52kind of this whole thing.
18:54Simone started asking
18:55what your name was at,
18:56and somebody said
18:56he went to the bathroom.
18:58So she got up,
18:59and she walked into the house.
19:01Whenever she came walking
19:01back out of the house,
19:02she said,
19:03Diana,
19:03we have to up and go.
19:04We have to up and go right now.
19:07Immediately,
19:08a fight breaks out.
19:09Not a physical fight,
19:10but just a verbal-only argument
19:12between Simone and Tremaine.
19:13And so William offers
19:23to take Simone home,
19:25and Diana actually lets
19:26William use her car.
19:28Tremaine, Simone, and Diana,
19:30they all live together,
19:31so she said,
19:32you know,
19:32just take Simone to my house
19:34and come back.
19:36and we watched
19:37a couple movies,
19:38and that's when I thought
19:38I was sleeping in the couch.
19:40Tremaine had taken off work.
19:45You know,
19:46the story that we had
19:47that Tremaine just wandered off
19:48from the party
19:49was last seen
19:51walking down the road
19:51after being involved
19:53in an altercation.
19:55Could something else
19:55have happened to him
19:56after he left the party?
19:58Could somebody pick him up
19:59and done something to him
20:00on the side of the road?
20:01It's all hands on deck,
20:02and we've got to figure out
20:03who did it.
20:28Tremaine wanted to be an artist.
20:30He wanted to be known
20:32as Maine Mac
20:33for his beats
20:34and for his singing
20:37and rapping.
20:44This is Tremaine's
20:45music box.
20:48It has files in it,
20:50DVDs of him
20:51doing bebop music.
20:53He loves music,
20:54and that was his life,
20:55and that was his getaway.
20:57Whatever he was going through
20:59at the moment,
21:00he wrote it down.
21:01He sang it.
21:03Sometimes he didn't even
21:04write anything down.
21:04He just put it into
21:06his little music,
21:08and he just voiced it all out.
21:14No one could have loved him
21:16more than me.
21:20No one.
21:21I spent a lot of sleepless nights
21:34thinking about
21:34what was I going to do
21:36the next day.
21:38What was my next step
21:39in the investigation?
21:41Hey, guys.
21:41What's up?
21:42Hey, how's it going?
21:43Be careful going down there.
21:45There's some rock and board.
21:46Oh, okay.
21:47All right, thanks.
21:48I can't tell you
21:49the hundreds of hours
21:51that I invested in
21:52Tremaine's case,
21:53and it wasn't only me.
21:54It was my coworkers.
21:56We all worked on this together,
21:58and it was very taxing,
21:59both physically and mentally.
22:01You know, everybody needs
22:02a place to kind of
22:04de-stress and unwind,
22:05and I like to come out
22:06here on my boat
22:06so I can start the next week
22:10with a recharge battery.
22:12With these types of cases,
22:19a lot of times
22:20a significant other
22:21is your prime suspect.
22:23So Simone was on our radar,
22:25especially because
22:26there was an argument
22:27between Simone and Tremaine.
22:34I felt that the house
22:36that they were at
22:37really didn't accept
22:38Tremaine being black.
22:39I think that he was set up
22:42going to this party.
22:43I think it was a trap
22:45for something to happen to him.
22:47You know, Simone and Tremaine
22:48were fighting,
22:50and that she probably was angry.
22:52I thought that she had a part
22:53of, you know,
22:55what happened to Tremaine.
23:01Tremaine was amazing.
23:03I didn't know anybody
23:03who didn't like him.
23:04Because of his sense of humor
23:05and his empathy,
23:07you know, he was a very strong,
23:08he was a very strong man,
23:10but he was very sensitive
23:11to other people's plights,
23:13which is a pretty rare combination.
23:16Diana approached me
23:18and said that William and Mel
23:21were going to have
23:21a little get-together.
23:23People who were there
23:25at the party that night
23:26were myself, Tremaine,
23:29my best friend Diana,
23:31William and Mel,
23:32and Jake and his girlfriend Mia.
23:36I had met Jake
23:38the time previous
23:40when I went to
23:41hang out at William and Mel's,
23:43but I had never met
23:45his girlfriend Mia
23:46until that night.
23:48But immediately upon
23:50getting there,
23:51like,
23:53Tremaine and Mia
23:54just immediately
23:56started talking.
24:00And it was at that point,
24:01I was like,
24:02something is going on.
24:08We learned there was
24:09two more people out there,
24:10Jake Miller
24:11and Mia Sanders.
24:14Jacob Miller knew
24:15William and Mel
24:16and he were fairly well.
24:17He had worked with them
24:18and lived with them
24:19on and off.
24:20Mia and Jake
24:21were dating.
24:23We brought Mia Sanders
24:24in for an interview.
24:25The older lady
24:26that was there,
24:28she said she was a witch
24:29and she gave me a drink
24:31and there was a five...
24:32What kind of drink
24:32did she give you?
24:33It was an alcoholic beverage.
24:35The people's faces
24:36started just,
24:37you know,
24:37like I just felt
24:38really, really strange.
24:40My vision was
24:41really messed up.
24:42I don't know
24:43if they gave me something.
24:45So I went
24:46to a back bedroom.
24:48I laid there
24:49for a second.
24:50She claimed
24:51that it's dark in there,
24:52no lights are on.
24:53and somebody crawls
24:54in bed with her
24:54and at that point
24:56the lights come on
24:57and Simone
24:59is standing there
25:00along with Melanie.
25:03It was perceived
25:04Mia and Tremaine
25:05were having
25:06a sexual relationship
25:07and she stated
25:09that she stayed
25:09in the room
25:10and Simone
25:11and Tremaine
25:12began arguing.
25:14At that point
25:15I was believing
25:15Mia's statement.
25:16out of all the people
25:22there,
25:23Jake Miller
25:23was the only one
25:25with the criminal
25:25record
25:26and his nickname
25:28was Jake the Giant.
25:29He was 6'5",
25:30huge guy.
25:32He was definitely
25:33going to be
25:34on their watch list.
25:36And further
25:36looking into him,
25:37he had active warrants
25:39and one of those
25:39was a parole violation
25:40warrant for his arrest.
25:41so notified
25:43our local
25:44U.S. Marshals
25:44and in no time
25:46they were able
25:46to capture
25:47Jake Miller.
25:48We're just trying
25:55to fill in
25:55some details
25:56of what exactly
25:56happened.
25:57Yeah.
25:58That later that night,
25:59earlier that next
26:00morning,
26:00didn't see anything.
26:02I woke up
26:02out of Mel's bed,
26:04I fell asleep in there
26:05and they told me
26:06to go to my bed.
26:07Who told you
26:08to go to your bed?
26:10I don't know.
26:12He said that
26:13he was in a bedroom,
26:14passed out
26:15and somebody
26:15had woken him up
26:16and said something
26:18about Tremaine
26:19being with Mia.
26:22And he said
26:23that he staggered
26:23to the other end
26:24of the house
26:25where Mia was
26:25and passed out
26:27on the floor.
26:29Jake's alibi
26:30was very weak
26:31in my opinion.
26:32You know,
26:33that's typically
26:33the response
26:34we get
26:35when somebody
26:36knows something
26:36and they don't
26:38have an alibi.
26:39We brought Simone
26:40in for an interrogation
26:41to see if
26:42their stories
26:43added up.
26:45As the evening
26:46where on Tremaine
26:47was spending
26:47no time with me.
26:49Like I was
26:50at this party alone.
26:52And so
26:53I went in the house
26:54and there they were.
26:59I was starting to cry
27:00and like
27:01I just didn't want
27:02to be there anymore.
27:02I was done.
27:05And she said
27:05William offered
27:06to take her home
27:07and at the same time
27:08William told Tremaine
27:09that he had to leave
27:10because it was causing
27:11such a disturbance
27:13in the scene
27:13there at his house.
27:14We got in the car
27:16and at this point
27:17Tremaine was walking
27:18off the property
27:19down the road.
27:21You know,
27:22we pulled out
27:22we drove past him
27:24and William was like
27:26do you want
27:26to pick him up?
27:28I said nope.
27:30I just needed
27:31to be alone.
27:36We had interviewed
27:37several people
27:38we had eyewitness accounts
27:39but at this point
27:40we just needed
27:41hard evidence
27:42that linked
27:43somebody to this crime.
27:45Nobody was pointing
27:46the finger at anybody
27:47so we couldn't either.
27:52The heinous nature
27:53of this crime
27:54stood out to me
27:55first of all
27:55but as time goes on
27:57people just turn
27:58a blind eye
27:59and focus on themselves.
28:02Tremaine was an outsider
28:03and in the end
28:06whether people
28:08ignored what had happened
28:09or they protected
28:10the people
28:11who did it
28:12doesn't really matter
28:14because they didn't
28:15speak up.
28:17Like it hurts
28:18my soul
28:19on the personal
28:20side of things
28:21to hear of
28:22somebody being
28:23treated like that.
28:24During the course
28:28of this investigation
28:29we obtained
28:30everybody's phone records
28:32that we knew
28:33that was at the party
28:34and along
28:35with those
28:36phone records
28:37comes
28:37GPS locations.
28:40Simone's
28:41story of getting
28:42drove home
28:42actually
28:43it actually
28:44was true
28:45so we could actually
28:46clear Simone
28:47as a suspect
28:48from that data
28:49we got
28:50back from the phone locations.
28:52All these people
28:52they had 10 days
28:53since the murder
28:54where we found
28:55the body
28:56to figure out
28:57what their story
28:57what their alibi is.
28:59We knew somebody
28:59there was
29:00responsible
29:01we just had to
29:02figure out
29:02which one
29:03or ones
29:05it was.
29:11The whole time
29:13we had a gut feeling
29:14that Diana Newton
29:15knew more
29:16than she was
29:17letting on
29:18and so
29:19we had brought in
29:20Diana Newton
29:20for another interview.
29:22You know
29:22her story was
29:23consistent with
29:23Simone
29:24that
29:24William had told
29:25Tremaine to leave.
29:27Diana states that
29:28Tremaine got up
29:29and left.
29:30He was like
29:30F this
29:31and he started
29:32walking towards
29:3254.
29:33Well while William's
29:34gone
29:35Diana and Melanie
29:36go back to the fire.
29:37So we were picking up
29:38the beer cans
29:38and cleaning up
29:40the fire and everything
29:40and Tremaine came back.
29:44He hadn't been
29:45gone
29:4515-20 minutes
29:46at that point.
29:48He did walk
29:48down the road
29:49but he actually
29:50came back.
29:51You know
29:51this was a new
29:52layer.
29:52before that
29:53I didn't know
29:54Tremaine had come
29:55back.
29:55He was still
29:56drunk
29:57and we just
29:58kept asking
29:58please just leave
30:00please just leave
30:01and kept telling
30:02Mel say one more
30:03thing and he had
30:04his hand out like
30:04this like he was
30:05going to hit her
30:05and she put her
30:06hands up like this
30:07and she said
30:08she said you just
30:08need to leave.
30:10And then
30:11Melanie said
30:12something to
30:13Tremaine that
30:14just set a fire
30:15under him
30:16and he went
30:17after her
30:18at that point.
30:19Tremaine had Mel
30:20up against the truck
30:21and he was choking
30:22her and he
30:22wouldn't let her go.
30:24Jake did hit
30:25Tremaine in the back
30:26of the head
30:27a few times.
30:27Well that
30:30completely
30:30contradicts what
30:31Jake had told
30:32me.
30:32You know he
30:33states that he
30:33really never came
30:34outside.
30:35Somebody had
30:36woken him up
30:36from one bedroom
30:38and he staggers
30:39to another bedroom
30:40and passes out
30:40again.
30:41Tremaine was not
30:42letting go.
30:43Well I grabbed
30:44his Adam's apple.
30:44I didn't know
30:45I was scared to death.
30:46I've never been
30:47around anything
30:48like that.
30:49And I guess
30:51whenever I grabbed
30:51his Adam's apple
30:52Mel got her hands
30:54up underneath
30:54his fingers
30:55and it just
30:56it all happened
30:57so quick
30:57whenever he let
30:58go of Mel
30:59all at once
31:00he swung around
31:01and he hit me.
31:05At that point
31:05I didn't know
31:06what to believe.
31:07You know I didn't
31:07know if that was
31:08true or they
31:09were just
31:09you know
31:10making all
31:10this up
31:11Diana had told
31:12me that
31:13Melanie calls
31:14William on his
31:15way home
31:16from dropping
31:16Simone off
31:17and says
31:17hey Tremaine
31:18is back
31:19and he has
31:20assaulted me
31:20and I'm scared
31:22you know
31:22get home quick
31:23William gets
31:24home
31:24Tremaine is
31:26on the back
31:26porch
31:27and it was
31:28kind of like
31:28a no questions
31:29asked
31:30he took his
31:31wife's word
31:31for it that
31:32Tremaine had
31:33assaulted her
31:34He immediately
31:36walked up to
31:37him and they
31:38fell off the
31:39porch
31:39and whenever
31:40they were
31:40away from
31:41the door
31:41fighting
31:42in the yard
31:42that's
31:43whenever I
31:43ran into
31:44the house
31:44In order to
31:46hold somebody
31:46and especially
31:47to charge
31:48them criminally
31:48we had to
31:49have more
31:49than a gut
31:50feeling
31:50and that's
31:51all I had
31:51with Diana
31:51but I needed
31:52probable cause
31:53I needed
31:54some kind
31:54of eyewitness
31:55or physical
31:56evidence
31:56that connected
31:57her to
31:57the crime
31:58and I just
31:59didn't have
31:59that
32:00I think
32:05a large
32:06part of
32:06me being
32:06a suspect
32:07was the
32:07fact
32:08that I
32:08did
32:08sleep
32:08through
32:09it
32:09it's
32:11hard
32:11for the
32:12police
32:13Tremaine's
32:13family
32:14people who
32:15don't know
32:15me
32:15to understand
32:17you know
32:17they just
32:18how can
32:19you sleep
32:20through a
32:20murder
32:20how could
32:21you not
32:21hear
32:21that
32:22well
32:23until you're
32:25in my shoes
32:25terrified
32:26and your
32:27adrenaline's
32:27pumping
32:27and you
32:29crash
32:29you can't
32:31answer that
32:31question either
32:32Tremaine would
32:38never hit a
32:40woman
32:40he was
32:41a good
32:42child
32:43everything
32:45was a
32:46lie
32:47that was
32:48said
32:49I think
32:54they
32:54fabricated
32:54the story
32:55maybe
32:57they didn't
32:58like
32:58something
32:59that
32:59Tremaine
32:59had did
33:00to
33:00Simone
33:00or
33:01maybe
33:01they
33:01just
33:02didn't
33:02like
33:02who
33:02Tremaine
33:02was
33:03I felt
33:04like
33:04those
33:04people
33:05were
33:05kind
33:06of
33:06like
33:06racist
33:07all
33:17the
33:17evidence
33:18was
33:18preserved
33:18from the
33:19toolbox
33:19from
33:20Tremaine's
33:21body
33:21we took
33:22everything
33:22that could
33:23possibly
33:23harbor
33:24DNA
33:24everything
33:25came back
33:26as negative
33:27no DNA
33:27profiles found
33:29it was just
33:29one dead end
33:31after another
33:31that was frustrating
33:33because usually
33:33in a case like
33:34this
33:34physical evidence
33:35is key
33:36and when you
33:37don't have your
33:38physical evidence
33:38you know
33:39you got to look
33:40at other angles
33:40three weeks ago
33:45a body
33:46was found
33:46in a toolbox
33:47loading in a creek
33:48near Louisville
33:49Kentucky
33:49this week
33:50police identified
33:51the victim
33:52as 29 year old
33:53Tremaine
33:54a Navy veteran
33:55from Maryland
33:56whenever it came out
33:58that it was
33:59a black guy
34:00seemed like a lot
34:01of people kind of
34:01talked about that
34:02might have been an issue
34:03and
34:04I don't know
34:06I hope it wasn't
34:07if it was
34:07that's terrible
34:08and it's
34:09ignorant
34:10but
34:11when I saw that
34:13toolbox
34:13on the news
34:15I remember
34:17it plain as day
34:17I was just like
34:19I know
34:20that toolbox
34:21everybody noted
34:23but nobody said
34:24anything
34:25nobody said
34:27a word
34:27a lot of people
34:44said they
34:44didn't want
34:45to get involved
34:46but what that
34:47really means
34:48in small towns
34:49like Hartford
34:50is
34:51they don't want
34:52to rat somebody
34:52out
34:53the community
34:54is just
34:55simply
34:55is not
34:56stepping up
34:58for Tremaine
34:58like they would
34:59had it been
35:00one of their own
35:01Detective Pryor
35:05he just wanted
35:06to figure out
35:06what happened
35:07and he wanted
35:08to bring justice
35:08to what happened
35:09and
35:10so why not
35:12help him
35:12so
35:14I told
35:15Detective Pryor
35:16William had
35:17a work truck
35:18it was an old
35:19white truck
35:19and then he had
35:20a late 90s
35:21Ram 1500
35:22single cab
35:23it was black
35:24but it was really
35:25faded out
35:25whenever I told
35:27the cop
35:27about the Ram
35:28he seemed
35:30really surprised
35:31because they were
35:32just aware
35:32of the other work
35:33truck
35:34that he was
35:34still driving
35:35but the other truck
35:37had disappeared
35:39at that point
35:42we had turned
35:42our attention
35:43trying to figure
35:43out where
35:44this second truck
35:45was
35:45because it wasn't
35:46at the Howard's
35:46residence
35:47I worked
35:58very closely
35:59alongside
36:00with the Kentucky
36:00State Police
36:01throughout the course
36:02of the investigation
36:02I wanted to get
36:03to the bottom
36:04of who would have
36:05done such
36:05a horrific crime
36:06one of the biggest
36:11hurdles that we had
36:12with this case
36:13was just waiting
36:13on the evidence
36:14to come back
36:15it just takes
36:16a long time
36:17for the actual lab
36:18to get to a point
36:19where they can come
36:20back with some
36:20definitive results
36:21you know
36:23after processing
36:24William Howard's
36:25truck
36:25we were able
36:27to find
36:27an air compressor
36:28you know
36:29the type
36:30that's portable
36:31that typically
36:31would be plugged
36:32into a cigarette lighter
36:33in a vehicle
36:34however
36:35this air compressor
36:36was missing
36:37the cord
36:38it took multiple
36:39months before
36:40we got
36:41any word
36:42from the Kentucky
36:43State Police
36:43Crime Lab
36:44but we finally
36:46received
36:47definitive proof
36:48that the air compressor
36:50that was taken
36:51from
36:51William Howard's
36:52truck
36:52was in fact
36:54the same
36:54air compressor
36:55that the cord
36:56belonged to
36:57that was used
36:58to bind Tremaine
36:58the thing
37:00that broke
37:00the case open
37:01was the cord
37:02linking those
37:04two items together
37:04as one piece
37:06and also
37:06there was a
37:07partial blue tarp
37:09that was in the bed
37:10of William's truck
37:11well there was
37:12a partial blue tarp
37:13wrapped around
37:13the toolbox
37:14that was found
37:15on the creek
37:15another thing
37:17that solidified
37:18is the phone records
37:20that we got
37:20on William Howard's phone
37:21the day that
37:23Tremaine was found
37:25William's phone records
37:26it shows him
37:27out there
37:28at that bridge
37:28on GPS coordinates
37:30so he was
37:31his phone was out there
37:32that was enough
37:33for our prosecutors
37:34to swear out
37:36an arrest
37:36on William
37:37I've been dating
37:43William Howard's mom
37:44for 16 years
37:45one day
37:47Melanie's cousin
37:48came over
37:49and said that
37:50William and Melanie's
37:51pickup truck
37:52was in his barn
37:53and wanted me
37:54to move it
37:54and I said
37:56no it's nothing
37:57to me
37:57call our police
37:58it just felt
37:59kind of weird
38:00to me
38:00why would he come
38:01to me
38:02wanting me
38:02to move
38:03his cousin's truck
38:04so I didn't have
38:05anything to do
38:06with that
38:06it was just days
38:08after William Howard's
38:09arrest
38:09that a cousin
38:11of Melanie Howard's
38:12called
38:12our state police post
38:14and said that
38:15the truck owned
38:16by the Howards
38:17was actually
38:18hidden in their barn
38:19on their farm
38:20in Ohio County
38:21we immediately
38:22went over there
38:23we seized the truck
38:24so this was
38:26the suspect
38:27William Howard's
38:28truck
38:29we used a chemical
38:31that reacts to blood
38:32it will show up
38:34a real bright blue
38:35as soon as we
38:37started spraying it
38:38the bed here
38:39in the back
38:40just lit up
38:41lit up
38:43like a Christmas tree
38:54at that point
38:59the rubber
38:59was really
39:00about to hit
39:00the road
39:00because we were
39:01about to take
39:02that statement
39:03and whatever it was
39:04whether that
39:05implicated others
39:06whether that
39:07cleared others
39:08I'm on my way
39:10back when I get
39:11a call from Melanie
39:11that says that
39:12Tremaine has come
39:13back
39:13that he has
39:15gotten physical
39:16so I'm freaking
39:17out
39:18I'm in a hurry
39:19to get home
39:19he's sitting
39:21on my back porch
39:21between me and the
39:22door to get
39:23into my house
39:23and I'm pissed
39:26I grab a bat
39:27out of my truck
39:28and I crack him
39:30across the forehead
39:31we end up wrestling
39:33in the process
39:34of wrestling
39:35he ends up
39:36passed out
39:37Jacob Miller
39:39then exits
39:40the house
39:40per William
39:41and helps
39:42to start
39:43getting some
39:44of the different
39:44items that were
39:45used to subdue
39:46and basically
39:47kidnap Tremaine
39:49I didn't want
39:50the boy to wake
39:50I didn't want
39:51to have to fight
39:51him again
39:52just to be honest
39:52with you
39:53it was pretty
39:54scrappy
39:54from what I can
39:56gather
39:56through timelines
39:58and stuff
39:58that Tremaine
39:59was probably
40:00tied up
40:00for four to five
40:02hours
40:03William had
40:04four to five
40:04hours to think
40:05about what he
40:06was going to do
40:06who did he call
40:08he called a trusted
40:09person
40:09a friend
40:10he reaches out
40:11to Chris Hill
40:11he shows up
40:13about 530
40:14quarter to six
40:15that morning
40:15he had brought
40:18Marcus Boykin
40:20with him
40:21and that was
40:22totally a shock
40:23to me
40:24because I thought
40:25I had it all
40:25figured out
40:26of who was out
40:27there
40:27and to throw in
40:28these other two
40:29guys that I found
40:30out showed up
40:31you know
40:32that was
40:32that was crazy
40:33to me
40:34we get him awake
40:35and I'm still
40:37discussing
40:38and calling
40:39the police
40:39he looked me
40:41in my eye
40:41and he said
40:42you call the police
40:43he said
40:44I'll be out
40:44before you will
40:45I'm coming back
40:47and when he said
40:51that I just
40:52flipped
40:52and that's when
40:53I decided
40:54that he wasn't
40:55going to leave
40:55there
40:55he wasn't
40:57going to leave
40:58there walking
40:58I put the wire
41:00around his neck
41:01I pull that wire
41:03tight and I hold
41:04it until he
41:05quits moving
41:05just hearing
41:09that from
41:10William
41:10the
41:14brutality
41:15of
41:15what these
41:17people did
41:17to this
41:18innocent kid
41:20William's statement
41:26in and of itself
41:27indicated that
41:28after killing
41:29Tremaine
41:30they loaded
41:31his body
41:31into the toolbox
41:32I had Jake Miller
41:35follow me over
41:36and I put
41:38that truck
41:38with the toolbox
41:39in it
41:40in that barn
41:40for a little bit
41:41and it stayed
41:43there for a period
41:44of time
41:44until it got
41:45to the point
41:45where the
41:46decomposition
41:46was making it
41:47to the point
41:48where they had
41:49to get rid
41:49of the body
41:50William indicated
41:51that he
41:52and he alone
41:53then retrieved
41:54the vehicle
41:55from the barn
41:56and then drove
41:57it to Short Creek
41:57Bridge
41:58basically taking
41:59it from the
42:00back of the
42:00truck bed
42:01and pushing
42:01it over
42:02the side
42:02of the bridge
42:03rail
42:03we've got
42:06a single
42:07African American
42:08at a party
42:08with the rest
42:09of the white
42:10people
42:11did it have
42:12anything to do
42:13with it in the
42:13end
42:13it may have
42:15I don't know
42:16I would have
42:17definitely pursued
42:18it as far
42:19as a hate crime
42:19so to speak
42:20but there was
42:22not enough there
42:22to make the charge
42:24I didn't think
42:27leaving him
42:27with these people
42:28that I trust
42:29in a place
42:30where my best friend
42:31the one person
42:32I trust
42:32like most
42:33in the world
42:33is gonna
42:34you know
42:36William Howard
42:46pled guilty
42:47to first degree
42:48murder
42:48and first degree
42:49kidnapping
42:50as well as
42:51tampering with
42:52physical evidence
42:53collectively
42:54he received
42:55a sentence
42:55of 30 years
42:56Melanie Howard
42:57and Chris Hill
42:58Marcus and Jake
42:59each of them
43:00received 15 years
43:02all ended up
43:03pleading guilty
43:03to facilitation
43:05which is
43:05essentially
43:06they're not saying
43:07that they committed
43:07the murder
43:08but they did
43:08something that
43:09allowed that murder
43:10to take place
43:11every hour
43:17that I put
43:18into this case
43:18every sleepless night
43:21it was all worth it
43:22bringing you know
43:23justice for Tremaine
43:24justice for
43:24his family
43:26and putting
43:27these individuals
43:28where they belong
43:29and holding them
43:30accountable
43:30for what they did
43:31this murder
43:33makes you
43:34second guess
43:35how well you might
43:36think you know
43:37your neighbors
43:38you can live
43:40by somebody
43:42for years
43:43and they're
43:44turn out to be
43:47a monster
43:48in a way
43:48it's scary
43:50I'll just never
43:56be the same
43:58Ashley
43:58because
43:59I was robbed
44:01and
44:01I was
44:03a life was taken
44:04that didn't have
44:05to be taken
44:05they took them
44:06from
44:07from us all
44:08if I knew
44:19that I could have
44:22one more conversation
44:23with him
44:24I would let him know
44:29I will never
44:32ever stop
44:33loving him
44:36and I'm
44:39a life
44:39and I'm
44:40here
44:40is
44:42the
44:43yes
44:50I'm
44:51I'm
44:52I'm
44:52I'm
44:52I'm
44:52I'm
44:52I'm
44:53I'm
44:53I'm
44:53I'm
44:53I'm
44:54I'm
44:54I'm
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