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00:00up and we were still in the holiday spirit. Everybody was celebrating. I had a two-month

00:08old and we were taking the opportunity to have a night out while my parents were watching

00:13my son. We went to the restaurant that I worked at. I remember having a good time.

00:21About 11 o'clock, somebody at the restaurant had said they heard over the scanner that

00:26there was a stabbing. We figured it was just some drunk idiot got in a fight and pulled

00:33out a knife and we'll find out who it is later because it's small town, Massachusetts. We're

00:39going to hear about it. But while we were heading home to my parents' house on Elm Street, we

00:47saw about five or six police cars on the road, which is not normal. I never thought that I

00:54would be sucked into this nightmare.

00:55I never thought that I would be sucked into this nightmare.

01:24I was the on-call investigator. So I was the on-call investigator. So I was the on-call

01:43investigator. So I was just at home with the family. It was New Year's Eve and we were

01:59waiting for the ball to drop when I got that phone call.

02:04I got a call from the Middleborough Police Department reporting an apparent homicide on Old Center

02:15Street in Middleborough, Massachusetts. The residence is located in a very rural part of

02:22Middleborough. It's across from a cranberry bog and it's surrounded by woods.

02:28When I first arrived at the scene, it was cold outside. There had been a light snowfall. It

02:41was an inch or less. I was introduced to Mr. Gillen, who had discovered his oldest daughter,

02:47Tara, inside of the den with stab wounds. She was covered in blood.

02:58When I first saw Tara, you could immediately see the brutality that was involved in this crime.

03:07It was overkill. Tara was stabbed at least 21 times.

03:1514 times in the upper back. Three times in the neck. Leaving a gaping injury. Mr. Gillen was needless

03:42needless to say, very upset. But he was able to provide the details we needed.

03:51Tara was 20 years old at the time. She was a sophomore from Indiana University and was an English major.

04:00And she was home for the Christmas break between semesters.

04:08That evening, December 31st, was he and his wife's anniversary. So they had chosen to make plans to go out for dinner to celebrate.

04:16They had invited Tara to go with them, but she had declined and chose to stay home.

04:24They returned about 11 p.m. And as he pulled up the driveway, he saw an open door.

04:31He immediately ran into the house.

04:48Entered the den area, which is right off of the kitchen.

04:50And he saw his daughter, Tara, lying on her back, naked from the waist down, covered in blood, with a gaping wound to her neck.

05:10And she was unresponsive.

05:11He approaches Tara.

05:22He hears a noise out in this hot tub room that is adjacent to the den.

05:27He immediately yelled out, I'll kill you, you bastard.

05:30When he got out into that room, there was nobody there.

05:47But he felt a blast of cold air, and that oriented him to realize that the window had been open.

05:53He also heard noises in the woods that were consistent with somebody fleeing.

06:03The breaking of branches, the squashing of snow.

06:08Footprints were leading away from his home.

06:16Mr. Gillen advised us that he located a blanket, and he placed it over his daughter.

06:23Mr. Gillen remained by his daughter's side until the police arrived.

06:33As a person, and as a parent, and as the father of a daughter, I just cannot imagine what that felt like to make that discovery.

06:43Neither then, or frankly, today, how you would even go on and deal with that.

06:48It's just tragic, tragic.

06:53But any homicide, you look at various factors.

06:58She could have been targeted by a spurring lover or boyfriend.

07:02Her pants and her underwear had been pulled down to the ankle area.

07:07So you would assume that you may have a sexual assault involved as well?

07:15Did she have an old acquaintance that knew she was in town, and maybe they knew that the parents went out and she was going to be alone?

07:21It was very difficult to make a determination whether the terror was targeted or if this was just a random crime.

07:30As we entered the house, things were tipped over, it was just an absolute mess.

07:50It could have been part of a burglary or somebody looking for valuables.

07:54We noted a cigarette butt in the middle of the carpeted hallway or the upstairs portion of the house.

08:02That was strange to us.

08:09I inspected the area that Mr. Gillen described from which he chased the assailant out of the house.

08:15The room contained a hot tub.

08:19There was a window that had opened up.

08:21Observations of that window indicated a forced exit.

08:26When processing the scene, they also found a partial footwear impression on the hot tub cover.

08:34It was pointed in the direction away from the home.

08:38So that gave investigators the indication that that was a point of exit.

08:43And then we had a second set of matching shoe prints that went around the side of the house.

08:51The footwear impression had this wavy tread and it had a circle in the ball of the foot area.

08:59We take photographs of the impression to give to investigating officers.

09:04It was a tread pattern that was, to me, easily recognizable as a casual sneaker.

09:09It's virgin snow, so this likely was from the assailant leaving the scene.

09:16That's why that one shoe imprint impression is so important, because it's just absolutely pristine.

09:22So based on that information, we began an initial tracking of the suspect.

09:29There was no murder weapon discovered at the scene, so one would have to believe that the suspect was still armed.

09:34Officers were looking for footprints in the snow, the broken branches, property that he might have stolen and discarded.

09:45Things that didn't belong there.

09:49Additionally, a safe police helicopter was put in the air.

09:52All patrols were on the lookout in this area.

09:54And we had canines to find the assailant.

10:00Investigators had followed the trail, starting where he exited through the broken window.

10:09Ultimately, where they lost the trail in the cranberry block.

10:12After seeing what he did to the victim, I would say that there was a good possibility if he encountered someone, he would repeat his actions.

10:27What's this killing personally, given the brutality that was involved in this crime?

10:37Or was it just a total random act of violence?

10:41Someone who was out for blood.

10:42We didn't know what we were up against with this killer who had fled the scene.

11:01If he was bold enough to kill Tara Gillen on New Year's Eve, he could do it again.

11:05It was a heavy police presence, cruises going up and down the streets.

11:11There were helicopters up and canines.

11:14Living in a small town, word travels very fast.

11:18Everywhere we went, that's all everybody was talking about.

11:24I didn't think that something like that would be possible, just because of the atmosphere in our town being so peaceful.

11:35A lot of time was spent with families and friends and cookouts and backyard parties and, of course, rooting for all the Boston sports teams that might have been playing at the time.

11:46It's a small town, a lot of working people, cranberry bogs.

11:49Middivore would not be the type of town where you'd find a vicious murder.

11:56One of the things that investigators will look at is the neighbors within the immediate area.

12:01So when detectives were advised that there was a registered sex offender living in the home immediately behind the victim's house,

12:12we raced to the house hoping that this could be the break we needed.

12:16There's the belief that this person could have been watching her while she was home for the holidays.

12:29Stalking her, watching her every move.

12:36This was a slam dunk.

12:37A sex offender living directly behind the victim.

12:47But the resident advised them that the sexual offender was no longer there because he was currently incarcerated.

13:17Whenever you have an investigation or homicide, your chances of solving it within the first 48 hours are 80%.

13:27From there, it begins to go down quickly with each ensuing day.

13:32So you flood the neighborhood with investigators.

13:36You're talking to neighbors.

13:37You're talking to friends.

13:39You're trying to get as much information as you can.

13:41We were working down the street, knocking on doors, trying to get information, when we were approached by a neighbor.

13:52This neighbor advised detectives he found that door was open to his hayloft.

13:57Once detectives were told that the door to this hayloft was always kept shut.

14:18They figured it would be a good thing to check it out to see if someone was possibly hiding up there.

14:23One of the detectives was shown the open door by the owner of the property.

14:31The detective went up into the loft to check it out.

14:33The detective went down thehetto.

14:34The detective went up into the factory.

14:35The detective went up into the field, and he premia himself, and tried to check it out in the traffic window.

14:36The detective is 뭐ified in it.

15:11There was nothing.

15:31It was just full of cobwebs up in the haylock.

15:41While detectives went to a house a few doors down from the scene of the crime,

15:50the resident stated that something odd did happen earlier in the week.

15:55She stated that when she was sleeping, she heard a noise.

16:10She pulled back the curtain, didn't see anything, and went back to sleep.

16:27But it did make her feel uncomfortable, as she felt that someone could be watching her.

16:38This is a lead that had to be considered because the neighbor lived so close to the victim

16:44that it was a possibility that she could have been watched by the perpetrator,

16:48and he was just hunting for his perfect victim.

16:55The local detective was asked who in this neighborhood could be involved in something like this.

17:00The detective talked about one individual who, in the past, had committed some vandalism.

17:06It was a rumor, although never confirmed, that he actually pulled a knife out on his parents at some particular point in time.

17:16One of the things that I do is footwear comparisons between shoes and impressions left behind at the scene.

17:44And my goal is to identify the shoe, not only the manufacturer, but the actual model of the shoe.

17:52In this particular case, it was made by Puma, which is an athletic shoe company.

17:58I contacted the factory, and ironically, it was located here in Massachusetts.

18:06So right away, they were able to get back to me and said,

18:09Hey, listen, this was a very unique shoe.

18:12This is a prototype. This didn't even make production.

18:16There's one shoe. There's one killer.

18:18Find the shoe. Find the killer.

18:29During those initial hours of that search for Tara's killer,

18:33We learned about a young man, Jonas Fell.

18:39This is a kid that, according to the police, it had repeated interactions with.

18:45He was well known to them, and he lived less than a mile from Tara Gill.

18:49We had shoe prints at the crime scene that matched shoe prints that brought us nearly to the fell house in that direction and very close to it.

19:02When detectives hear that type of information, right away, they perk up.

19:07Here we have a troubled kid.

19:09The vandalism, potentially rumor that he's pulled a knife.

19:12And here we have a stabbing that's occurred to Tara.

19:19We decided to immediately go over to this individual's house and conduct an interview.

19:28As we arrived at that house, it was early morning.

19:31It was obvious that a party had taken place the evening before.

19:35Evidence of bottles and cans from a get-together.

19:37During an interview with Mr. Fell, Jonas' father,

19:45We learned that his son had hosted a New Year's Eve party at the house in the basement the night before.

19:52As far as he knew, it was just a regular party with the kids.

19:55He had said that he, the father, had gone out the night before with his wife.

20:03They ultimately come home around 9 o'clock or so, and they found Jonas at the house.

20:09And there was nothing out of sorts or caused any reason for concern by him.

20:15Jonas had stayed there the entire time.

20:17But one of the things investigators still had questions about was,

20:24Did Jonas pull a knife out on them in any particular time at all?

20:31He told them that that was just a rumor that was going around the town.

20:35It had never happened.

20:36So when following the footprints from the Gillen house to Jonas' house,

20:45We had to be concerned with the fact that the killer could be one of the partygoers.

20:52Could the assailant be somewhere in the neighborhood, perhaps even watching us?

20:57We just didn't know.

21:06What we were told is this group of individuals met up at the local McDonald's.

21:10They got together around the 7 o'clock hour and then returned to Jonas' house for a planned New Year's Eve party.

21:21We know from our interviews that these partygoers drank beer.

21:25They had Goldschlager, that they played the games that these youngsters would play in terms of drinking games.

21:31But nothing ever got out of hand.

21:36We stopped by the party around 9.

21:46It was pretty early on in the night because we had plans to go out afterwards.

21:51There was about 20 or so kids there when we stopped there.

21:57Jonas was a friend of my brother's.

21:59It was more so my brother's group of friends.

22:03Seemed like they were having fun.

22:04Everybody was in good spirits.

22:06But it was just a crowded group of younger kids.

22:11So we left.

22:13I absolutely did not think anything that was going on was unusual at all.

22:24During the course of talking with these partygoers, a common theme started to develop.

22:29Several individuals indicated one particular individual got into an argument and ended up leaving the party early.

22:38This individual was intimately involved with his girlfriend at the party.

22:48And at some point in time before he finished, she went to use the restroom and then never returned.

22:55And this is around the time that that altercation or that verbal confrontation occurred.

23:12So whether he was upset and got into it with his girlfriend or just was being an ass because he was upset.

23:19It was not clear to us, but he was asked to leave the party by Jonas.

23:23So he left the house upset.

23:29His girlfriend went with him trying to talk him into coming back to the party, but was unsuccessful.

23:35It was a cold evening.

23:36She got cold and she returned to the party and actually remained there the rest of the night.

23:40We didn't know if this was just some angry kid who ended up going home or if this was our actual killer.

23:58Less than 24 hours after Tara's murder.

24:01The name Ryan Burgess was given to us as an individual who had attended the party partially.

24:13In between the 9 and 10 p.m. hour, he'd gotten into the fight with a host and had left the party in the direction of the Gillen home.

24:22On his way home, a short amount of time before Tara Gillen was brutally murdered.

24:32And frankly, it had been the biggest great outside of that initial shoe impression that we had gotten.

24:38As investigators talked to various individuals who had attended the party,

24:43they described Mr. Burgess as an 18-year-old, was a quiet individual, kept to himself, had been bullied in the past.

24:50He wasn't an individual that had really gotten into trouble, wasn't an individual to start trouble.

24:57Investigators were able to get in contact with Ryan's girlfriend.

25:01She certainly did admit that they were together that night.

25:04She went back to the party and he went off on his own,

25:06but she just didn't think that he was the type of guy that could have committed that type of crime.

25:15Investigators started to check into Mr. Burgess' background.

25:18And they found out that he didn't live that far down the road from the Gillen residence.

25:25So right away again, another indicator that certainly they needed to talk to Mr. Burgess.

25:32Detectives found out that Ryan Burgess was living with the Shelley family on Elm Street.

25:37My mom was a big heart.

25:44And she had no problem opening her home to anybody that needed it.

25:49And when my brother said, Ryan needs a bed to sleep in, she said, absolutely.

25:57Ryan actually grew really close with my family.

26:00He would do anything for anybody.

26:03There were some kids in town that kind of felt like Ryan was a target.

26:13My brother would fight some of his battles for him when he needed to.

26:18Ryan was just more of a passive kind of kid.

26:21Ryan came from a tough background,

26:23but he was just the kind of kid that needed a break and needed someone to love him.

26:27The night of the party, I'd only seen him for an instant.

26:35When we were leaving, Ryan seemed like he had been feeling pretty good.

26:45That night, we had got back to my parents' house.

26:48It was just before midnight.

26:49And my son was already sleeping.

26:58And we were just sitting in the living room,

27:01waiting for the ball to drop.

27:02Ryan had walked in the door.

27:21He was soaking wet from his waist down.

27:36And I remember looking at him like, for lack of better words,

27:40can you do it?

27:41You know, and he looked at me and he's like,

27:43oh, just, you know, I walked home and this and that.

27:46I made a comment about him being an idiot

27:50because he walked all the way home

27:52and we would have went and picked him up if he needed a ride.

28:05Ryan went into the bedroom that he was sharing with my brother,

28:09changed, got some sweatpants on,

28:11and came out and sat on the couch

28:13and just talked to us.

28:19And I said, you know,

28:21we heard somebody got stabbed up on Old Center Street.

28:25You know, she wrote that way.

28:26You stabbed anybody tonight?

28:29No, no, no, yeah, just in his normal way.

28:32He was a fairly quiet kid.

28:35He didn't talk to you, like, face to face

28:37because he was always, like, head down, like, you know,

28:40no, no, no, I wasn't.

28:55He just laughed it off and said,

28:58no, I have no idea.

29:04We left, he went to bed,

29:06and the night kind of just ended.

29:07When we had woken up,

29:21my dad called.

29:22I need you guys to come over here.

29:25He just said the state police were there

29:27on Elm Street.

29:30Obviously, it was a frantic drive over there

29:32because we had to know what was going on.

29:34We were going through every scenario in our head,

29:39you know, what we thought had happened.

29:45When we got there,

29:46there were reporters wanting to speak with us

29:49and it seemed a little bit chaotic.

29:54With all of the chaos going on,

29:56detectives in the house

29:57getting various bits of information,

30:00it was pretty confusing

30:03and emotional at that time.

30:06And my dad said,

30:08Ryan has been talked to about

30:10a break-in and a murder.

30:16He's going to help

30:17because he can get an accusation

30:19of something he didn't do.

30:20How do you know he didn't do it?

30:22Well, I know he didn't do it.

30:24I can just help.

30:25I was thinking

30:27that they must have had the wrong person.

30:32Oh, I didn't want to cry.

30:36There's no way

30:37he had the capability

30:39of doing that.

30:40He's harmless.

30:41He's a good soul.

30:43He's got such a big heart.

30:44How could he possibly

30:46kill somebody?

30:47And I remember talking

30:48to the state troopers

30:49and saying,

30:50there's no way he did this.

30:52He got the wrong person.

30:53When we announced ourselves

31:03at the Elm Street residence,

31:06Mrs. Shelley was surprised

31:07that we were there.

31:09We indicated to her

31:10that we had interest

31:11in speaking with Ryan Burgess.

31:14She indicated that Ryan

31:15was currently taking a shower.

31:23When Ryan came out

31:27of the shower,

31:28we introduced ourselves

31:30to him.

31:32We immediately observed

31:34that he had a cut

31:35to his left upper lip.

31:42In addition,

31:43he had several random scratches

31:45on both of his forearms.

31:47when they asked him

31:49how he got these marks,

31:51he stated he was

31:52in a fight with somebody

31:53but he couldn't remember

31:54who it was.

31:57And we asked him

31:58if we might be able

31:59to see the clothing

32:00that he was wearing

32:00the night before.

32:03He consented to that

32:04and actually let us

32:05into his bedroom.

32:09As investigators

32:10are going through his room

32:12and they asked Mr. Burgess

32:14for the shoes

32:14he had been wearing

32:15the night before,

32:16He reached under the bed,

32:25pulled out a pair

32:26of pumas,

32:27blue pumas.

32:33They looked at the shoes

32:34but immediately

32:35their attention

32:36was drawn to the outsole.

32:39And what they noted

32:40was the same wavy pattern

32:42with the circle

32:43that they had seen

32:44the night before.

32:46That was the golden ticket.

32:48Those shoes matched

32:50exactly what we saw

32:51at the Gilling crime scene.

32:54This is when I knew

32:56we had our suspect.

33:00We left the residence

33:02and began driving

33:03to the state police barracks

33:05which was actually

33:06very close

33:06to the Elm Street location.

33:08We said to him,

33:11Ryan,

33:11we know what happened

33:12last night.

33:13And he said to us,

33:14I don't know

33:15what you're talking about.

33:17It's Ryan,

33:18did you enter

33:19a house

33:20on Old Center Street

33:21maybe to get warm?

33:24He denied that.

33:27And we said,

33:27Ryan,

33:28maybe the person

33:28even let you in.

33:31Maybe they even

33:32came on to you.

33:33And to our amazement,

33:35he said,

33:35yeah,

33:36she came on to me.

33:37She led me on.

33:42That was the first

33:43indication from him,

33:44almost a soft admission,

33:45that's putting him

33:46at the residence

33:48with Tara.

33:48This was big.

33:54But we pressed it

33:55a little bit more.

33:57We said,

33:58Ryan,

33:59we think something

33:59bad happened

34:00in that house.

34:03And that's when

34:04Mr. Burgess

34:05started to come around

34:06and talk about

34:08what had actually happened.

34:11He said after

34:12a fight with his girlfriend,

34:14he left the fell house

34:15at around 9 p.m.

34:18He actually sees

34:31a car back out

34:32of a driveway

34:33at the Gillen residence.

34:41He went around

34:42the side of the house.

34:48He entered a screened

34:56porch area

34:56through a storm door

34:57that was unlocked.

35:01He could see

35:02a young female

35:03watching TV.

35:05He was surprised

35:18that all of a sudden

35:19she showed up

35:19right at the door.

35:22Face to face with him

35:23just through the glass.

35:28She asked him

35:29who he was

35:30and what he wanted

35:31and his response was,

35:32I'm friends

35:33with your sister.

35:35Somehow,

35:50the door

35:50ends up opening

35:51and she tried

35:52to run away from him.

35:53and he caught up

36:08with her.

36:12Tara screamed.

36:16And when she screamed,

36:18he reached out

36:18with both hands

36:19and began strangling her.

36:21He continued

36:26to squeeze

36:28and strangle her.

36:33She fell to the floor.

36:41And while she

36:42laid there

36:43gasping for breath,

36:44trying to breathe

36:45according to him,

36:46he went out

36:47into the kitchen

36:48and retrieved

36:51a steak knife

36:52and as Tara

36:53continued

36:53to try to breathe,

36:56she saw him coming

37:01and tried

37:02to run away

37:03from him.

37:07But she fell

37:07down on the ground.

37:08And that's when

37:24he began

37:25to stab her.

37:28At least

37:2921 times.

37:30He had removed

37:38her pants

37:39and he stated

37:41to us

37:41that he

37:42had intercourse

37:43with her.

37:46Ryan stated

37:47after ransacking

37:48the house

37:49and had his cigarette,

37:51he heard

37:51a car approaching

37:52and at this time

37:54he knew

37:54he had to get

37:55out of the house.

37:55That's when

37:58Worcester Gillen

37:59had come home

38:00and found her.

38:04Horribly horrific.

38:07It's just

38:08the total

38:09randomness

38:09of that evening

38:11to put all

38:11these pieces

38:12in place

38:13with the ultimate

38:14loss of Tara's life.

38:16It's just

38:16incomprehensible.

38:21When I found out

38:22what had transpired

38:24and how brutal

38:25everything was,

38:27that was a tough

38:27moment.

38:34Several days

38:35later,

38:35with Ryan's help,

38:36he was able

38:37to guide us

38:38to the location

38:39of the murder

38:40weapon.

38:42Ryan stated

38:42that while he

38:43was running,

38:44he threw

38:44the knife

38:45in the darkness

38:46into what

38:48he believed

38:48was a cranberry

38:50bug.

38:51And we started

38:52walking along

38:53the edge

38:53of the cranberry

38:54bug.

38:56And somebody

38:57found it.

39:01We found out

39:02that Ryan

39:03dropped out

39:03of school

39:03in the ninth

39:05grade,

39:05got involved

39:06with drugs,

39:08and had a history

39:09of breaking

39:10and entering.

39:11By 1996,

39:12his parents

39:13had actually

39:13put him out

39:14of the house,

39:14and that's

39:15when he met

39:15the Shelleys,

39:16and the Shelleys

39:17took him in

39:18and gave him

39:19a place to stay

39:20at their home.

39:25Ryan Burgess

39:26was ultimately

39:26found guilty

39:27of murder

39:28in the first

39:28degree,

39:29which amounted

39:30to life

39:31in prison

39:32without the

39:33opportunity

39:34of parole.

39:36It does make

39:37him a monster,

39:37but I think

39:38that monster

39:38was buried

39:39down deep

39:40inside,

39:41and something

39:42happened that

39:42night,

39:43and that all

39:43came out.

39:44I don't think

39:47that Ryan

39:47was able

39:48to digest

39:49what he did.

39:52I think

39:52the guilt

39:53and the remorse

39:54for what he

39:55had done

39:55was just

39:56unbearable.

39:58He destroyed

39:59not just

40:00Tara's life,

40:02but her

40:03parents,

40:04the rest

40:04of her family.

40:07That is

40:07something you

40:07can't come

40:08back from.

40:10It was only

40:11a couple

40:11years after

40:12he was

40:13incarcerated

40:13that he

40:14took his

40:14own life.

40:17Tara had

40:18her whole

40:19life in

40:19front of

40:19her.

40:21The 20

40:21year old,

40:22she had

40:22barely begun

40:23to live it,

40:24and her

40:24life is

40:25just wiped

40:26out for

40:27no reason

40:27at all,

40:28and that's

40:28it.

40:30There's no

40:31replay,

40:31there's no

40:32pause,

40:32there's no

40:33rewind.

40:41That house

40:42on Elm Street

40:42was a

40:43horror scene.

40:43Somebody

40:44died in

40:44my house.

40:45Somebody

40:46what?

40:46Die.

40:47Toothpished

40:47up the

40:48nose and

40:48shampoo in

40:49the eyes.

40:50I've never

40:50seen a scene

40:51like this

40:51before.

40:53They only

40:53left a

40:54three-year-old

40:54alive.

40:55His mom

40:56had always

40:56told him

40:56that monsters

40:57aren't real.

40:58She was

40:59wrong.

40:59go.

41:00go ahead.

41:01go ahead.

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