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00:30What all of this happened was the day before Christmas Eve. That day, I was sick. I had like a cold, so I didn't go to work.
00:47A pretty close neighbor, Jerry, came to the door. Helen, Helen, come quick. And he said, Mary Lou and Dorothy both are missing.
01:17So, my son, and I had to walk over there with him. I had a jollo, real small. Didn't hear not one peek out of nothing.
01:39I just found them upstairs. It was a shower. They were blood. From the living room all the way to the basement floor.
01:55When my son got to the basement, he hurt me. Mom, don't come. Don't come.
02:09Música
02:11Música
02:13Música
02:15Música
02:19¡Gracias!
02:49Ah, it was the 23rd of December, 1997.
03:08I worked as a detective in the Homicide Special Assignment Section.
03:12y esto significa que lo que tienes en fuerza cuando llegas a trabajar
03:20so you hope it's slow because it's christmas time
03:25i was looking forward to spending christmas with my family eating a ton of food
03:28visiting opening presents and things of that nature
03:33but the call came in and we were dispatched out to elm street
03:42Elm Street was a neighborhood that stood out by itself
03:46Like its own little peninsula
03:48It wasn't a lot of crime
03:51Or any action
03:52As I got out the vehicle
03:57You can see a guy standing in front of the house
03:59He had a hook
04:01On one arm
04:02And that was just really odd
04:05To see someone with a hook on their arm
04:07He said his name was Jerry Drury
04:11Wanting us to
04:15You know go in the house
04:16He was very very frantic
04:18As I walk in the house
04:33You can smell the blood
04:34Blood
04:36A Christmas tree
04:39Those two things
04:42Don't go together at all
04:44There were footprints
04:55Leading down to the basement
04:57Just like
05:00What am I gonna see when I get down there
05:03How do I get down there
05:06How do I get down there
05:20Without a house
05:21Without a house
05:22You know who would love to
05:23Bevil
05:24chỉ
05:24Bum
05:25En la basura, había un plazo de clothes.
05:40Pero realmente no era un plazo de clothes.
05:43Hay algo malo.
05:47Cuando me pulé de la clothes,
05:49hay un cuerpo.
05:52All you're seeing was the plastic bag over their head
05:57with the duct tape around their neck.
06:00There was so much blood.
06:02You couldn't see a face.
06:05I mean, I've not seen anything like that
06:07since I've been at homicide.
06:12On the left side of the basement,
06:15there was another body.
06:16And in the same manner,
06:19with a bag over the head,
06:21duct tape around the bag,
06:22when I went down
06:25and saw the second body,
06:28there was a tube sticking out of the bag.
06:34They were elderly ladies.
06:36I had elderly parents,
06:38and I just couldn't imagine
06:39having to come home
06:41to something that gruesome.
06:42and it was just really, really horrific.
06:45I was working for the Detroit Police Department
07:00in the homicide section.
07:02When I arrived,
07:05we found out that Jerry's wife,
07:08Mary Lou,
07:09was 57 years old.
07:12And his mother-in-law,
07:14Dorothy Gilbert,
07:16was 74 years old,
07:17on oxygen,
07:18and more or less disabled.
07:20When you first enter a house,
07:25the evidence starts writing
07:27the picture for you.
07:32In this case,
07:33there was blood and drag marks.
07:35It looked as if there may have been
07:41a fight or a struggle.
07:46So, it is my belief
07:48that they were alive
07:49when they were taken to the basement.
07:54I would say that
07:55whoever done this
07:57preyed on them.
08:00The murder itself was brutal.
08:05And they left a trail behind them,
08:07which means that
08:08we weren't looking
08:09at a professional criminal.
08:15What really actually stood out
08:17is that
08:17there were like claw marks
08:19on the desk.
08:22I remember it like yesterday.
08:25That was strange
08:26because Jerry,
08:27he had a hook on his arm.
08:28And the fact that
08:31instead of completing
08:32a search for his wife,
08:35he went and got someone
08:36to go into the basement
08:37of the house.
08:40So,
08:41maybe
08:42he was involved
08:43in it himself.
08:53I was 20 years old
08:54in 1997.
08:55I lived on Elm Street
08:59since I was 5 years old.
09:03And we knew everybody.
09:04Like,
09:05even if we didn't know
09:06your name,
09:06we knew your face.
09:09But when I seen my mom,
09:10my heart,
09:11it was in my stomach.
09:13My mom said
09:14they killed
09:14Mary Lou and Dorothy.
09:16And
09:17she was hysterical.
09:19She was bawling
09:20and crying
09:21and Jerry's
09:22in the back
09:22of a cop car.
09:24And I'm just,
09:25I'm just as shocked
09:27as everybody else.
09:29I moved into the neighborhood
09:30when I was like 5.
09:33Even as a kid,
09:34he came across as cold,
09:36like he didn't really
09:37look at me.
09:39It was like
09:40he gave me an eeriness
09:41about him,
09:42but it could be
09:43because he just
09:43didn't speak.
09:44Jerry stayed
09:46in that cop car
09:47for a long time.
09:50And
09:50I don't know
09:51like what was going on.
09:54I don't know.
09:56I think we all,
09:57like everybody
09:57was actually scared.
10:03Jerry,
10:04he said he had left
10:05about 9.30
10:05in the morning.
10:07He had a plumbing job
10:08that he went to.
10:09And that he arrived
10:10back at the house
10:11approximately around
10:1212.30.
10:14And then he saw
10:15the blood trails.
10:18We asked Mr. Drury
10:20what may possibly
10:22may have been missing.
10:25And during the search
10:26of the house,
10:28Mr. Drury discovered
10:29there was a bloody
10:31jewelry box
10:32that was empty.
10:35$400 in cash
10:36was missing.
10:37And credit cards
10:39were missing
10:39from the Drury home.
10:42The checkbook
10:43was missing.
10:44And they
10:49nickel-plated
10:49.38 revolver
10:51that had been
10:53taken
10:53out of the house.
10:56So based on
10:57the evidence
10:58that we saw,
10:59we knew
11:00it was a robbery.
11:02And then
11:03we found out
11:04that Jerry
11:04had a business partner.
11:06And it turned out
11:08that he was working.
11:10So we were able
11:11to eliminate him
11:12as the suspect.
11:13When the murders
11:17happened,
11:17none of us
11:18slept in our house
11:19that day.
11:19My mom,
11:20my dad,
11:20me,
11:21my uncle,
11:21none of us.
11:23I was actually
11:24scared
11:24for the first time.
11:28After it happened,
11:30I was scared.
11:31I was scared.
11:32I made my husband
11:34get up.
11:35Go to the bathroom
11:37with me.
11:40Because of the severity
11:42of the crime,
11:44the bags over the head
11:45with the duct tape,
11:47it's a horrible death
11:48when you're gasping for air
11:50and you can't get it.
11:52It made me feel like
11:53I've got to get
11:54this case closed.
11:56I've got to find out
11:57who did this
11:57and get them off the street
11:59before they do it again.
12:00I knew that there was
12:05the camera out there.
12:06It was Christmas time
12:17and we had
12:20a double homicide,
12:22items missing,
12:24weapons missing,
12:25and a perpetrator
12:26that was out there
12:27that was armed in danger.
12:29The crime itself
12:30was horrific.
12:32The victim
12:32was Mary Lou Drury
12:34and Dorothy Gilbert.
12:35What I saw
12:38in that house
12:39was like a nightmare.
12:41I can't forget this case.
12:45Elm Street.
12:46It was not a crime-written area.
12:49So, everyone was scared.
12:52Everybody was talking about it
12:54and we really did not think
12:56it was somebody
12:56from our neighborhood.
12:58Everybody was coming up
13:00with somebody
13:00trying to rob them.
13:02But how could this happen
13:03with the neighbors
13:05was right like that?
13:06The houses were very close.
13:09It was an eeriness
13:10in the air.
13:14It was just a shot.
13:17I didn't want to believe
13:24that Mary Lou would
13:28die like her.
13:30Oh, my.
13:36It kind of shook me
13:38to the core.
13:39Like, it was...
13:40It was one of the most
13:41heinous things
13:43that I've ever...
13:44Like, this was Elm Street.
13:49You didn't litter.
13:51You didn't bust the glass
13:53like you did
13:53on the other blocks.
13:54Like, all the kids
13:55played together.
13:56It was just...
13:57It was nice.
13:59And I just could not
14:01believe
14:01that this happened
14:03to them.
14:05Like, oh, my God.
14:07I love Mary Lou
14:16just as well
14:17as my mom.
14:20She never corrected you.
14:23She kind of let you
14:24learn your own way.
14:26She was super nice to me.
14:29And her mother, Dorothy,
14:30was more nice
14:31than Mary Lou.
14:32They were, like, family.
14:38Back then, in Detroit,
14:39murders didn't get
14:40put on the news.
14:43And we got news crews
14:45out there.
14:45We got Channel 4, 7,
14:47everybody out here now.
14:48Two elderly women
14:49have been found murdered
14:51in their Detroit home.
14:52Police are still searching
14:53for any witnesses.
14:54Residents are on edge
14:55after a brutal attack
14:56the day before Christmas
14:57on Elm Street.
14:58At the time,
15:02I was working
15:02as the crime reporter
15:03for the Detroit Free Press.
15:05I get a call
15:05from my editor.
15:06We got a breaking story.
15:08We got a double murder.
15:09You got to go out.
15:11Detroit was cold.
15:13So I bundled up
15:15and waddled my way
15:17out to the scene.
15:19At that time,
15:20there had been
15:21a rash of home invasions
15:23and murders
15:23in the surrounding neighborhood.
15:28Just a few weeks
15:30before,
15:31there had been
15:31a triple murder
15:32just a few blocks away.
15:49Two elderly sisters
15:50and a husband
15:52who was in his 80s
15:53had been stabbed to death.
15:55Twelve days later,
16:02before the Elm Street case,
16:04about four miles away
16:05from Elm Street,
16:07a mother,
16:08a daughter,
16:09and a grandson
16:10was actually shot to death.
16:15In this case,
16:16the home was also ransacked.
16:19In all three cases,
16:21there was no forced entry.
16:22So based on the similarities,
16:26the general public
16:27would say,
16:28oh my God,
16:29is there a murder spree
16:30going on
16:31in the city of Detroit?
16:33The first thought
16:34that you have
16:35is,
16:36could I be in danger?
16:38Like you've seen,
16:39people get jagged,
16:40people get robbed.
16:42But this was like
16:43different,
16:44different.
16:45This was like
16:46movie stuff.
16:47We never locked
16:50our door on Elm Street.
16:51And we was in the middle
16:52of Detroit.
16:54That's how safe
16:55we thought we were.
16:56It was a different feeling
16:58with Mary Lou
16:58and Dorothy calling.
17:00Like it wasn't the same.
17:02They was our neighbors
17:03and it was family.
17:08I was on day shift
17:09when we got a call
17:12from the medical examiner
17:13with autopsy reports.
17:17Based on Mary Lou's injuries,
17:19she was still alive
17:20during the time
17:22that they were putting
17:22the plastic bag
17:24around her neck.
17:28And the killer
17:29or killers
17:30decided to do
17:31the same thing
17:32to Dorothy.
17:35Dorothy had emphysema
17:37and it was just
17:38really horrific
17:39that, you know,
17:40that you would just
17:41stick a rag
17:42in her mouth,
17:44duct tape her,
17:47knowing that
17:47it had no oxygen tank.
17:50The brutality
17:51of the killings
17:52and also
17:54the fact that
17:55the body
17:56was partially covered
17:57was just
17:58a true indicator
17:59that maybe
18:00it was somebody
18:01that knew them
18:02prior to the death.
18:05When somebody
18:06covers the body,
18:07it's not to hide
18:08the body.
18:10It's to remove them
18:11from their vision.
18:16So at that time,
18:17we went back
18:18to the vicinity
18:18of the other murders
18:20to see
18:21are they connected.
18:23We had to see
18:24if there's
18:25any similarities
18:25with the Elm Street case
18:27where we could say,
18:31okay,
18:31this perpetrator
18:32was over here as well.
18:33Well, what you do
18:36a lot of times
18:37is you have to
18:38look for what we call
18:39a modus operandi.
18:42We look for things
18:44that are similar
18:45to other crimes
18:46that have already occurred.
18:48None of that
18:49was present
18:49at the time
18:50of our investigation.
18:53One house,
18:53the person
18:54was stabbed.
18:56The other person
18:56was shot.
18:57We discovered
18:59the only thing
19:00that actually
19:00connected them
19:01was that
19:02there was
19:03no forced entry.
19:06There was never
19:08a correlation
19:09between them.
19:12Based on Dorothy's
19:13and Mary Lou's
19:14injuries,
19:16the perpetrator
19:16just really had
19:17a vengeance
19:18against them.
19:18It was a well-knit,
19:23close community.
19:25And the more
19:26that we looked
19:27and the more
19:28that we investigated,
19:29it definitely felt
19:30as if they knew
19:31their assailants.
19:34The evidence
19:35led us directly
19:36to Elm Street.
19:38And that's where
19:39we started
19:39concentrating
19:40our energies.
19:41The day after
19:51Mary Lou and Dorothy
19:52was killed,
19:54it was Christmas Eve.
19:56I don't even
19:58remember Christmas
19:59in 1997.
20:01Like,
20:02we'd rather not
20:02have Christmas
20:03that year.
20:05You can't celebrate
20:06during that.
20:08Like,
20:08nothing as brutal
20:09has ever happened.
20:11But we went
20:17to the house.
20:18I was with my mom.
20:20It was horrible.
20:21Like,
20:21because we was
20:22helping clean up
20:23and stuff like that.
20:27Mind you,
20:28I'm 20,
20:29and I'm just...
20:30I honestly...
20:32I was scared.
20:35Delights,
20:36presents,
20:36everything like that
20:37was still dead.
20:41There was, like,
20:41splats of blood
20:42in places
20:43that they didn't
20:43clean up off the floor
20:44like the walls.
20:47You could see
20:48where the trail of blood
20:49has been.
20:51And, like,
20:52Jerry,
20:52he cried a lot.
20:55I...
20:55I...
20:55I...
20:56I can't forget.
20:57Like, I have a picture
20:58in my head.
21:00And why did this happen?
21:03That was one thing
21:05I've never understood.
21:19We had to find out
21:20who had a motive
21:21to actually commit the crime.
21:23So we went
21:25and did a survey
21:26of the neighborhood.
21:29During the canvas,
21:30we discovered
21:30that the Drury family
21:31pretty much owned the block.
21:35Mary Lou was in the business
21:36of renting the homes out.
21:39She pretty much
21:40picked her own neighbors.
21:42In this instance here,
21:45Mary Lou knew everybody.
21:48Mary Lou was the landlady,
21:51and, like,
21:51she gave me big boss energy
21:53without flamboyance.
21:56Like, she didn't have furs
21:57and she could have...
21:58She wasn't flashy.
22:00She was about her business.
22:02You knew not to play with her.
22:04Like, you knew to respect her.
22:07That's the energy she gave me.
22:11She had the office in the front
22:13that she would conduct her business.
22:17People would come in and out
22:18to drop their rent off.
22:21They really didn't lock the door,
22:24so anyone in that neighborhood
22:27had an opportunity
22:28to be able to enter
22:29the Drury home.
22:31The family,
22:33they were pretty much vulnerable.
22:35She was fair.
22:37She rented with people
22:38who are on welfare.
22:40If you didn't have
22:40your rent money,
22:41she wasn't the type
22:42to be like,
22:42you've got 30 days
22:43and you're out of here.
22:44I think Mary Lou
22:45was perhaps too trusting.
22:47We all know what it's like
22:48to have a landlord.
22:49It's not usually
22:50a loving and friendly relationship.
22:53December 23rd
22:54was the day
22:55the homicides took place.
22:57That was close to
22:59the time that people
22:59would come in
23:00and pay rent
23:01to the Drury family.
23:02During the search of the house,
23:09I discovered that
23:11there was some weapons missing.
23:18Mary Lou kept the gun
23:19at her desk.
23:22You know,
23:22a fight could escalate
23:24at any moment.
23:25We started asking people
23:31whether or not
23:32they seen anything remarkable.
23:35At the time,
23:35Jerry was at work
23:37from 9.30 a.m.
23:39up until 12.45 p.m.
23:44And that's when
23:45we discovered
23:46that one of the neighbors
23:48heard something.
23:51Hazel Johnson,
23:52who's sort of
23:53the next door neighbor,
23:54maybe a little bit
23:55of a nosy body.
23:57She was good friends
23:58with Mary Lou
23:58and it was Christmas time
24:00and so Hazel
24:02has some holiday cards
24:03that she wants
24:04to drop off
24:04to her friend.
24:06The family,
24:07they have five chihuahuas.
24:09The dogs knew
24:10the neighbor Hazel
24:11very well.
24:13Hazel was the cat lady
24:15on the street.
24:15She saved all the cats.
24:17If you walk past
24:19Hazel's house,
24:20you might see her
24:20walking around
24:21with a momma.
24:22You know what I'm saying?
24:22There were cats everywhere.
24:25Normally,
24:26the dogs would stop barking
24:27when they smelled her.
24:30Well, Hazel said
24:31that when she knocked
24:32on the door
24:32and she could hear
24:33the dogs barking
24:34frantically.
24:40The door was locked,
24:42which was very unusual.
24:45She's thinking
24:46that something's off,
24:48but she wasn't sure.
24:49If Hazel would've got
24:52inside that house
24:53that day,
24:53she would've definitely
24:54came to the same fate
24:56as Mary Lawndorff.
24:59Like,
24:59if you walk past
25:00her house,
25:01that's all you would hear
25:01is them dogs.
25:02That's why everybody
25:03didn't understand
25:05how this happened
25:06is because all these dogs
25:07would've been barking
25:08and nobody heard nothing.
25:11When I talked
25:11to the police,
25:12I said I didn't hear
25:13the dogs barking.
25:16But Pamela Vinoy
25:17was the tenant
25:18that lived above
25:19Mary Lou and Dorothy.
25:21Maybe she had heard something.
25:23My mom would take care
25:27of Dorothy
25:28all during the day
25:29and Pam moved in
25:32upstairs so she could
25:33be available at night.
25:36She was super nice to me.
25:38Like,
25:39she never yelled at me.
25:40She never did
25:41nothing like that.
25:43She was there
25:44to take care of Dorothy.
25:46Caregivers have a way
25:47of becoming endeared
25:49to the person
25:49they're giving care to.
25:50I would imagine
25:52that having a trusted person
25:54in their midst
25:55to take care
25:56of their ailing mother
25:58and treat her
25:59as a grandmother
26:00must have felt
26:01like a blessing.
26:04And based on
26:06the information
26:07that we received,
26:09Mary Lou and Dorothy
26:10got along great
26:11with Pamela.
26:14She even called
26:15Dorothy Grandma.
26:18The main problem
26:20was that Pamela Vannoy
26:22was nowhere to be found.
26:25The door was locked.
26:26Her vehicle
26:27was left outside.
26:29The question was,
26:30where was Pamela?
26:31Where is the caregiver?
26:33What time did she leave?
26:35And where did she go?
26:36And why hadn't she returned?
26:38We ended up getting
26:42a search warrant
26:43for her apartment.
26:47And looking at her apartment,
26:49it seemed like
26:49she just disappeared.
26:51If someone was going
26:52out of town,
26:52there were certain things
26:53that would have been missing.
26:54And those things
26:55were not missing
26:55at that time.
26:57We were thinking
26:58that Pamela
26:58could be the third victim.
27:00Pamela Vannoy
27:01could have walked in
27:02on the murderers
27:03in the act,
27:04and they could have
27:04killed her too.
27:05So there could have been
27:07three victims that day
27:08instead of two.
27:21The day after the murders
27:22of Mary Lou Drury,
27:24who was Jerry's wife,
27:26and Dorothy Gilbert,
27:27who was Mary Lou's mother,
27:29everyone's talking,
27:31everybody's there,
27:32trying to figure out
27:33who could it be.
27:35But then the investigators
27:36started looking around
27:38and asking,
27:39who's supposed to be here
27:40and isn't here?
27:42Guess who?
27:43It was Pamela Vannoy.
27:45Pamela Vannoy
27:45was a caretaker
27:46and was really close
27:48to the Truri family.
27:50She lived right upstairs.
27:52But at this point,
27:54she was nowhere to be found.
27:57This gave us
27:58even a higher intensity
28:00on the search for her.
28:01She too could have
28:02been a victim.
28:04So we called in
28:05the first person
28:06that we talked to,
28:07the homeowner,
28:08Jerry Drury.
28:09He was thinking
28:11on what else
28:12he may have missed.
28:15And he actually
28:16gave us information
28:17that on the day
28:18of the murders,
28:20he saw Pamela
28:21and Mary Lou
28:23talking for a long time.
28:25He said she had
28:28a boyfriend
28:28who was living
28:30with her on and off.
28:32Pamela and Charles,
28:33their relationship
28:34sort of volatile.
28:38Charles was around,
28:39did odd jobs.
28:41Early on,
28:42the Drury family
28:43felt like
28:44he could help
28:45with the house
28:45and the maintenance.
28:47Charles was a handyman,
28:49but he had
28:51a violent past.
28:54So Jerry thinks
28:56maybe something's off.
28:58From day one,
29:00it was always
29:01a feeling about Charles.
29:04It looked pretty bad.
29:05He never spoke
29:07to us much.
29:09I was actually scared
29:10for Pam.
29:11Later that day,
29:20we found a witness
29:21that Pamela
29:22came to her
29:23to use her telephone.
29:28She said
29:29the morning
29:29of the murders
29:30on December 23rd
29:32that Pamela Vannoy
29:34and Charles Vaughn
29:35showed up
29:36at her house.
29:37And she was
29:38carrying plastic bags.
29:39Pam had a lot
29:41of her personal
29:42belongings
29:43and she wanted
29:44to leave them
29:44at her house.
29:46And Charles went
29:47straight to the bathroom.
29:49She didn't think
29:49anything of it
29:50until when Charles
29:54came back,
29:55he pulled a gun
29:56and said,
29:56look,
29:57you didn't see us.
29:58And then they disappeared.
30:01It was a nickel-plated
30:03.38 revolver.
30:05It looked like
30:06the one that was missing.
30:08At that moment,
30:09we suspected
30:10Charles killed
30:12Mary Lou
30:12and Dorothy.
30:15He was armed
30:16and dangerous.
30:17He actually
30:18threatened a witness.
30:19So there was no telling
30:21if he would use
30:22that weapon
30:22for something worse.
30:25I continued to canvass
30:34the neighborhood.
30:38We found a witness.
30:40He made a statement
30:41that was revealing
30:43in several ways.
30:46So the neighbor,
30:48Ellen,
30:48had been drinking
30:49with Mary Lou
30:50the night before.
30:51You know,
30:54it was Christmastime.
30:56My mother,
30:57she worked for Mary Lou
30:59like everybody else
31:00throughout the neighborhood.
31:02But Mary Lou
31:03took her to bingo
31:04every night,
31:05five nights a week.
31:07That night,
31:08Mary Lou told Helen
31:10that she had caught
31:12Pamela stealing $15
31:13from her bingo envelope.
31:21And things went sour
31:22between the two.
31:25We found out
31:26Mary Lou told Helen
31:27that they had been
31:28trying to help her out
31:29because Pamela
31:30was a drug addict.
31:31asked Mary Lou
31:34to be careful
31:36of what you're doing.
31:41Pamela used heroin
31:43and heroin moves people
31:45into a different category
31:46because now
31:47they need drugs
31:49just to maintain
31:50their own physical strength.
31:53And they're more inclined
31:54to take something
31:55that's not theirs.
31:57Pamela Benoit,
31:59she really, really
32:00messed up her trust
32:01with Mary Lou.
32:02Mary Lou wanted
32:03to be able to trust you.
32:04But if you lose her trust,
32:06she didn't want you
32:07inside her house no more.
32:09That's what was so hurtful
32:12about it.
32:14I knew Pam
32:16was no good to it.
32:20It was discovered
32:21that Mary Lou
32:22was going to evict
32:23Pamela the next day.
32:26Pam wanted to get
32:28an extension.
32:30And Mary Lou
32:31said, no,
32:32because you stole.
32:34You have to leave.
32:36So,
32:37Pamela Benoit
32:38wasn't on the scene
32:40because she was supposed
32:41to be evicted
32:41that very day.
32:43Why?
32:43Because she had
32:44her sticky fingers
32:45in Mary Lou's
32:46bingo purse.
32:49It was too much
32:51of a coincidence
32:51that she got
32:53evicted
32:54from the home
32:55and the murders
32:56happened the same day.
32:57was Pam the victim
32:59or was she
33:00actually the perpetrator
33:02of this particular crime?
33:06The cops used to say
33:07at the time,
33:07let's heat these people up.
33:09And they started
33:10blasting that
33:11and pasting it
33:12all over the news media.
33:13So their faces
33:14were on TV.
33:15We said, look,
33:17if you see
33:17these people,
33:19they're armed
33:19and dangerous,
33:20please call.
33:22I'm like looking
33:23on the TV
33:24and could not
33:26believe
33:26what I was seeing.
33:28I knew
33:29exactly who
33:30they were talking
33:31about.
33:31Somebody that
33:32had access
33:33to her mother
33:34that was helping
33:35her.
33:36It was just
33:37unbelievable.
33:39It was just
33:39unbelievable.
33:40Turns out
33:46some clerk
33:47sees their pictures.
33:48They just checked in.
33:50Calls 911.
33:52Christmas Eve,
33:531997,
33:54someone recognized
33:55Charles Vaughn,
33:57the manager,
33:58gave us the information
33:59that they checked in
34:00on December 23rd.
34:02And we knew
34:02that Charles
34:03was armed
34:04and dangerous.
34:05So we mobilized
34:08some units
34:08to go with us.
34:09We had to be
34:12on high alert.
34:15There was a possibility
34:16that there could
34:17be shots fired.
34:20This could escalate
34:21at any moment.
34:23You know that
34:24these people are armed,
34:26they stole guns.
34:27This is the single
34:28most dangerous thing
34:29that any cop
34:29can ever do.
34:31Freeze!
34:39after the murder.
34:45Someone recognized
34:46Charles Vaughn
34:48and Pamela Vannoy
34:49at a hotel
34:50that was in
34:51Dearborn, Michigan.
34:53We knew that
34:54Charles Vaughn
34:55had a weapon.
34:56We saw movement
34:57by the vending machines.
34:59It was Pamela Vannoy
35:01and Charles Vaughn.
35:02We moved in abruptly.
35:10Freeze!
35:12We did take them
35:13into custody.
35:16There was no fight
35:18and they made the arrest.
35:26And we searched
35:27our hotel room.
35:30I poured back
35:31the heater.
35:32There was money
35:33that was behind there,
35:35credit cards,
35:36as well as
35:38the nickel-plated
35:38.38
35:39and another weapon
35:41was a .38 Cobra
35:42and it appeared
35:44to have dried up blood
35:45on the actual
35:46weapon itself.
35:49When the forensics
35:50came back,
35:52the blood belonged
35:53to Mary Lou.
35:55Once Pamela
35:56and Charles
35:57were under arrest,
35:59we talked to them
36:00separately.
36:03Charles said,
36:04Pamela
36:04is a drug addict.
36:06she's jonesing
36:08for heroin
36:09and so she's
36:10the one
36:11coming up
36:11with this
36:11concocted scheme
36:12to kill these people.
36:15He said
36:16he had no idea
36:17what Pamela
36:17had planned
36:18when he went
36:19upstairs
36:20to her apartment
36:21and left her
36:23downstairs
36:23with Mary Lou
36:24and Dorothy.
36:29He said
36:29a fight
36:30ensued
36:31downstairs
36:31and then
36:35everything
36:35just went quiet.
36:38After 20 minutes
36:40of not hearing
36:41anything,
36:42he went
36:42downstairs.
36:44He saw
36:45Pamela standing
36:46over the bodies.
36:49Charles said
36:50that he helped her
36:51move Dorothy's body
36:52because he was
36:53afraid of what
36:54she was capable
36:55of doing.
36:58Pamela
36:58has a different
36:59version of this
36:59story.
37:01According to Pamela,
37:02Charles wanted
37:02to do a robbery.
37:04He said
37:05they've used us
37:06long enough.
37:09Somehow,
37:11this wonderful
37:12family
37:13who took them in,
37:14gave them room
37:15and board
37:16and pocket money
37:17and paid them
37:18for an honest day's
37:18work,
37:19that somehow
37:20he was owed more.
37:22They were
37:25going to wait
37:26until Gerald
37:27went to work
37:28and went to
37:29go downstairs.
37:32Coast is clear.
37:33The plan
37:34was simple.
37:35Tie him up
37:35and rob him.
37:36No harm,
37:37no foul.
37:37Little bit of harm,
37:38little bit of foul.
37:39But certainly
37:39no bloodshed
37:40and murder.
37:43But Pamela
37:44says
37:44once they go
37:45back inside,
37:46some kind
37:48of switch
37:49went off
37:50and Charles
37:51became violently
37:52angry.
37:53She said
37:54that Mary Lou
37:56was begging
37:56and pleading
37:57before Charles
37:58did anything
37:59to her mother,
38:00Dorothy,
38:01but he didn't care.
38:02Pamela
38:03said she tried
38:04to intervene
38:05and stop him
38:06from what would
38:07become a murderous
38:08frenzy.
38:09He turns
38:10the gun
38:11on his girlfriend
38:12and says
38:14this deserves it.
38:16It wasn't
38:18a matter
38:19of who did it.
38:20Both of them
38:20were there
38:21at the time.
38:22Both of them
38:22became enraged
38:23because they
38:24had nowhere to go.
38:26They had no money.
38:28They had no family
38:29and friends
38:29that would take
38:30them in
38:30at that particular
38:31time.
38:33Truthfully,
38:34I don't believe it.
38:35I don't believe
38:36that one person
38:36did all of that.
38:39It was a
38:39two-person job.
38:46It's my belief
38:49that Dorothy
38:50heard the fight,
38:51heard the struggle,
38:53heard the yelling,
38:54and came to
38:55the assistance
38:55of her daughter
38:56who was fighting
38:58for her life.
39:01And she, too,
39:02got caught up
39:03in the web
39:04of the killing.
39:08They were alive
39:10when they were
39:10taken to the basement
39:11and they died
39:14a horrible death.
39:17They were both
39:18sentenced to life
39:19in prison,
39:20which I think
39:21was well-deserved.
39:26It's a sense
39:27of satisfaction
39:28that you were
39:30able to close
39:30a case.
39:33But the whole block
39:34was devastated
39:35by a homicide.
39:38Whatever sense
39:39of safety
39:40that this
39:41tight-knit
39:41Elm Street
39:42community
39:42had felt,
39:44that was
39:44over forever.
39:47Our life
39:48pivoted
39:49at that point.
39:50It didn't.
39:52Like,
39:52that was a
39:53pivot point
39:53of all of our lives.
39:57My mom
39:58didn't celebrate
39:59another Christmas
40:00until my son came.
40:03Mary Lou
40:04was
40:06like a sister
40:08to me.
40:11the world
40:12will never change.
40:17I just
40:18can't understand
40:21why
40:23somebody
40:28would just
40:29just...
40:30don't
40:31go.
40:36December
40:37of 1997
40:38just shows you
40:39how sinister
40:41and evil
40:42people can be.
40:44And it doesn't matter
40:44what time of year it is.
40:47Evil definitely
40:47doesn't take
40:48a holiday.
40:52The address
40:52is no longer there.
40:54As a matter of fact,
40:55it's now a parking garage.
40:57Pero las memorias de lo que sucedió en Elm Street todavía está en vivo.
41:09No hay otra memoria de that.
41:15Es still like a dream.
41:20Nunca me ha pasado.
41:27Nunca me ha pasado.
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