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00:00A lot of things look very strange in all of this.
00:27You don't kill people over a damn truck.
00:31What stands out to me about this case is just the number of people that were involved.
00:37You've got the old man.
00:40Tina was the maid, which is ironic because she was a mess.
00:45The watch is the barman.
00:48Sister, who turns out to be a daughter.
00:50I mean, it's almost like watching a Clue movie.
00:53It's just a tangled web.
00:55I'm telling you.
00:57And I'm telling you that's bullshit.
00:59That's what I'm telling you.
01:01So the police already knew who the killer was.
01:03But they still had one more question.
01:05As this case and investigation starts, we didn't know.
01:29It was a murder for a hiring case.
01:31But I show up with the mindset of, I'm going to start from zero and see where that takes me.
01:37The 911 call came from Loretta Luttrell.
01:42She was in her early 70s.
01:44Now, boys, what did you say?
01:47I just came at my church and my husband's laying in the floor.
01:51I think he's dead.
01:52Loretta goes to church that morning.
01:56Loretta's husband, Ernest, stays home.
01:59But when she comes home from church, she found her husband laying bloody on the floor.
02:04The scene where this had taken place, where the Luttrells lived, is probably a mile from where I grew up as a child my entire life.
02:20I would drive past it for 30 years.
02:22But now, it was a horrific scene, actually.
02:27It could shake you badly.
02:29You walk into the house, and in the kitchen, Mr. Luttrell is laying down.
02:35He was 73 years old.
02:38He had multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso head area.
02:44There was no shell casings at the scene.
02:47There was no force entry at all in this house.
02:49I didn't see anything like there was a struggle.
02:54So, that's what you have to work with.
02:57This is a very small area.
03:00Most everybody knows everybody.
03:03One of the first things you're going to do, you want to talk to the witnesses to learn who the victim was.
03:09I've known Ernest my entire life.
03:21Ernest was like an uncle, and Loretta was like an aunt.
03:25Ernest, he was bigger than life, boy.
03:29Ernest walked in a store.
03:31Everybody knew Ernest walked in.
03:33He was going to make sure everybody knew he was there.
03:35I am a retired Army veteran and the commander of the American Legion post here.
03:42I met Ernest Luttrell because he was a friend of my uncle.
03:45I would have been in grade school when I first met him.
03:48Really friendly man, jovial.
03:50I also knew him because they frequented the American Legion post.
03:54And Ernest was a military vet.
03:56He was an Army paratrooper in the Korean War.
03:59Being a paratrooper is really tough.
04:01Not everybody can do that.
04:02You're jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, and all you're attached to is a cord, and your chute opens, and that would be like skydiving here.
04:10But in Ernest's case, it was over a war zone.
04:13And then he worked at the auto dealership with my mom, and then eventually he went to work for Bored and Milk.
04:20And he worked for them for a long time.
04:22Eventually, he wound up retiring from them.
04:25And then he worked at the farm.
04:27My wife and I moved here in 1980.
04:33When I first met Ernest, he had hay that he was haying.
04:38He was kind of domineering.
04:40I just felt like that he was used to having things his way, and that was the way it was going to be.
04:46But up from the time when I first met him and the time that he got killed, Ernest and I became closer.
04:56We were beginning to develop a camaraderie.
05:00I admired him and respected him because I knew he was a hardworking man, and he was a self-made man.
05:09Everybody knew Ernest and Loretta.
05:11They were together for, you know, 50-plus years.
05:14They had one child, Katie.
05:17She lived in Texas.
05:19Katie was very smart.
05:21Had all these degrees and everything.
05:24He was doing well.
05:26When you first heard that Ernest was murdered, what thoughts did you have?
05:33Well, I'm going to relate a little incident that took place just before his murder.
05:41Ernest was having a rough go.
05:43He looked like he had seen better days.
05:47I asked, well, Ernest, I said, let me pray for you.
05:50He said, oh, no, I don't want you to do that.
05:54He says, you know, he says, I don't believe that anymore.
05:58I said, well, you can believe.
06:00I said, all you got to do is have faith.
06:03I said, have faith.
06:04He said, I appreciate you.
06:05But he said, I just don't want to do that.
06:09Two days later, he was killed, dead.
06:12It bothered me.
06:22It still bothers me.
06:25It was just sad.
06:27It wasn't necessary.
06:33It wasn't necessary.
06:34CSI did the search, and there was treads from, like, a pattern of a boot.
06:46But it was something that we knew wasn't ours, and it wasn't Mr. Luttrell's.
06:51It was obviously a work-type boot, something that would normally be associated with a man.
06:57Then we see, is there anything missing from the house?
07:01They noticed there was guns missing as well, some long guns, from the gun cabinet.
07:05Was there a robbery?
07:07Was it someone after his guns?
07:10At some point, noticed his truck was missing.
07:14He drove a one-tone flatbed truck.
07:18It didn't have a regular pickup bed on it.
07:20It had one of these utility flatbeds on the back of it.
07:24Where's Ernest's truck?
07:25Everybody knows Ernest.
07:26Everybody knows what Ernest drives.
07:28Any car that passes by, we were stopping them and seeing if they saw anything.
07:34It was Sunday.
07:36My family, we get up, go to church, and I noticed Mr. Luttrell had a new truck.
07:41But on the morning that I was going to church, I noticed that truck wasn't in his driveway.
07:47And that was around 9 o'clock.
07:51Ms. Luttrell goes to church at 8.30 in the morning.
07:54It was anywhere from 8.30 to 9 o'clock.
07:57We think that's probably when it happened.
07:59There's a pretty tight time frame of when this occurred.
08:03But that's one assumption you're making.
08:06That Ernest was murdering when he wasn't there.
08:09Yeah, that is our assumption.
08:13Ah, poor Ms. Luttrell would never do this.
08:15Just look at her.
08:16She's so innocent and sweet and fragile.
08:18Don't forget fragile.
08:20Right over here.
08:23You want me to call you Loretta or...
08:27Oh, gosh, Loretta was barely, maybe, five foot tall and 80 pounds soaking wet.
08:33She was tiny.
08:34She was 70 years old.
08:36She's just a sweet little lady.
08:38Loretta looked like your grandma who would knit you an afghan for Christmas.
08:44Very quiet, very mousy.
08:47Whenever Ernest and I were together, she would always stand off in the background
08:52and never really engage in a conversation.
08:56Ernest was good to Loretta.
08:59Sometimes Ernest could be rough and gruff and what have you,
09:04but she always drove a Cadillac.
09:06You know, he'd buy her a fur coat.
09:08He built that house for Loretta.
09:10It's a beautiful log house.
09:12It was the house that she dreamed of.
09:15At the American Legion, you would see them at the Friday night dances.
09:18He would dance with his wife, Loretta.
09:20They were happy.
09:22When the detectives arrived at the scene,
09:25the first thing they did was talk to Ms. Luttrell.
09:29I don't know if this goes on TV, but she goes to church with my mother.
09:33My mom did share with me that Loretta was at church that morning,
09:37and she remembers her being there.
09:40Ernest was not a church-going man,
09:42so she left him in bed on Sunday mornings to go to church.
09:45But on this Sunday, she arrived at church early,
09:50about an hour before church even started.
09:55Which all this was unusual,
09:57because you were lucky if Loretta even arrived anywhere on time.
10:01Oh, Ms. Eric, anybody you can think of that may be mad at Ernest.
10:06Loretta is supplying us information early on.
10:09But she was suffering from early signs of dementia, forgetting things.
10:14This is when it really gets interesting.
10:16There at the Luttrell property, there's a trailer house
10:18that's located behind the main residence.
10:21When I say a trailer, it's not like it was a really nice trailer.
10:24It was an old, run-down trailer.
10:27And the caretaker lived there.
10:30It was a male and a female.
10:32Ernest Farmedhand's name was Chris Tope.
10:39He was just a kind of a scruffy, little wiry guy.
10:45The old saying goes is he was rode hard and put up wit.
10:49Ernest gave him place to stay to help him with his chores that he had out there.
10:54Chris Tope's girlfriend was Tina Van Morker-Q.
10:59I would have called it Van Morker-Q.
11:01Q is how it's pronounced.
11:04Van Morker-Q.
11:05I'm not sure.
11:06I just knew Tina.
11:08Tina and Chris.
11:10How do you pronounce her last name?
11:11Van Morker-Q.
11:12Van Morker-Q?
11:13Mm-hmm.
11:13Tina was the maid, which is ironic, because she was a mess.
11:19She was 44 years old, but she looked much older.
11:31Now, was she hired as the maid originally?
11:35Probably not.
11:37I think she just took that role on for herself.
11:42Tina had open access to the Luttrell's house.
11:45Chris claims that he was there on the property, but he had slept in and wasn't really aware
11:51of what had taken place.
11:52That trailer was right behind the house.
11:58There's no way that he did not hear that gun going off.
12:03There's no way.
12:05Now, I can tell you some things, some hearsay things that I'd heard about Tina and Chris.
12:11Well, I had heard that Tina had taken Loretta's credit card and used it for some personal
12:17expenses.
12:19It was a few months before it happened, and Ernest wasn't happy about it.
12:24And he made a report with the Cattle Parish Sheriff's Office.
12:27Ernest's report, that was a couple thousand dollars.
12:33What'd you get?
12:36From his Loretta, going with her, to the bank.
12:39He wanted to fire, wanted to get rid of her, and Loretta didn't want him to.
12:45And I think that's kind of where the whole bomb went off at.
12:51Ernest wanted them off the property, and they didn't want to go.
12:57I believe that the farmhand and the maid all were in on it.
13:12That was a hard day.
13:29They had taken me in, because they thought I was a suspect.
13:34I was angry with her, you know, because I learned to the back of my dad.
13:41Even carrying a lot of this with the angry creeps.
13:43Yes, sir.
13:43I told him.
13:46I didn't hear anything, because I was far away.
13:49I had ACs running in my place, and that produced a lot of noise, too.
13:54I do think that it would be possible for somebody who lived close by that you would not know necessarily that had taken place.
14:04And you say, yeah, you know, I did hear something that caught my attention, but I certainly didn't think it was a gunshot.
14:10And there was no connection with Chris Toke to the boot print that was found at the scene.
14:16Tina had claimed she was at a nearby dollar store, maybe a quarter mile of that, away from the house.
14:29Okay, what time was it?
14:33I don't buy that.
14:36Mm-mm.
14:38Because she went to that particular dollar store because she wanted to be certain that she had a receipt.
14:42So she could say, look, I wasn't at the house.
14:45I don't know what happened.
14:48At this point, there's no evidence.
14:50Leighton prints, DNA, any other physical evidence that you could possibly link Chris and his girlfriend, Tina Van Markickew, in the murder of Ernest Luttrell.
15:01Ernest was a good man.
15:03He was like a dad to me.
15:06He helped me a lot by giving me a place to stay.
15:09I really, honestly, I've been blaming myself because Ernest is dead.
15:17If I could have, if I didn't oversleep, if the things would have worked out differently or what.
15:24After the murder, I ended up losing my place.
15:27I lost everything after that.
15:29Monday after the murder, the detectives still didn't have a firm suspect.
15:40We got a shoe print.
15:42We got no casings.
15:43We know now, okay, we got a car missing.
15:46So what's our next step?
15:47What are we going to do?
15:48We got to find this car, find the truck.
15:50While we were looking for the truck, we brought Miss Luttrell back to our house to see if anything was missing.
15:59She walks her really slow.
16:01She gets on the porch.
16:02And I'm walking her so gently into the house.
16:06And when that door shuts where nobody can see, she shugs me off and walks normal.
16:12It's like, you know, Jesus healed her, you know?
16:16So here she is just walking great again.
16:17We go back, and there's a safe in the house.
16:24She opens the safe.
16:27She is counting the money.
16:29We get to $4,000 and something.
16:32And she says, $3,000.
16:35And I'm like, no, you messed up.
16:38There was another $1,000.
16:39She said, oh, I missed that one.
16:41Or something like that.
16:42Which meant absolutely nothing to us at the time, you know?
16:45Meanwhile, the sheriff's office received a call from a young lady that saw or claimed that she had seen Ernest's truck.
16:54There were some guns in the truck and told us who was driving the truck.
16:59A boy named Eric.
17:00Eric Crane was, oh, I would say two-time loser, but it was like a hundred-time loser.
17:11Couldn't hold a job.
17:12I know that he was just an unemployed blue-collar worker.
17:17He worked for a mechanic body shop guy until he lost his job probably a week or so before the murder.
17:23We looked him up, and he had prior run-ins with the law.
17:29Dope and maybe drinking and driving.
17:33But nothing like homicides or nothing bad.
17:36I mean, nothing just violent.
17:39Eric lived in a travel trailer near the airport.
17:44And we go there.
17:45It's dark.
17:47There's no white truck there.
17:48They knocked on the door several times.
17:50Nobody would answer.
17:51I thought I saw the door of this trailer open and then shut.
17:55They knew someone was in there, so they called the SWAT team.
17:58They knocked again and told whoever was inside to come out.
18:03No one comes to the door.
18:04So they shot tear gas into the travel trailer.
18:09Within seconds, a sleepy Eric Crane came out.
18:12Coughing and choking from the CS gas.
18:15Screaming, what's going on?
18:17And the SWAT team did their magic and took him into custody.
18:21First of all, man, I asked, what the hell is this about?
18:24We're going to cover that, aren't we?
18:26At the time, we get a call that the truck has been located at Oldfield's site down the street.
18:33It was during the inspection of the truck that there was fingerprint information
18:41that connected Eric Crane to that vehicle.
18:45You work on Sundays?
18:47Sometimes.
18:48I'll have to go straight about approximately about 745.
18:52I'll work until, well, three.
18:55Eric gave an alibi during his interview, but Eric's alibi had problems.
19:00He no longer worked at the body shop.
19:03I don't see how Jimmy fired me when I just seen the man yesterday.
19:07Jimmy said he did not work for me Saturday or Sunday.
19:11When Detective Scoggins was interviewing Eric, he noticed that it looked like he had blood on his boots.
19:19Thank you, Boots.
19:26Later, it was determined that his footwear matched the print that was left at the Luttrell's residence.
19:33And it comes back later from the lab as earnest blood.
19:38We got information from a friend of Eric Crane who knew the whereabouts of the possible murder weapon.
19:53At an abandoned house near a little shed in the backyard, and we did dig up and find a large caliber handgun.
20:00After they booked him, the local news station went and talked to his former boss, Jimmy Sabbath.
20:15They interviewed him on camera.
20:17And while Mr. Sabbath was talking to the reporter, the phone rang.
20:24Hello, you have a free call from...
20:27And he put his phone on speakerphone.
20:32And now, Jimmy is like, oh yeah, just tell me, tell me, man, tell the truth.
20:36Did you kill him or what?
20:38Yeah, I killed him.
20:39And we're like, what?
20:40Oh, my God.
20:43I heard that.
20:44I heard that on the daggum news.
20:47And I'm thinking, you gotta be kidding me.
20:49This guy's a goofball.
20:51We have no doubt that Eric was the killer.
20:55Eric had the truck.
20:57He had earnest blood on his boots.
21:01But that doesn't make sense to me.
21:03You don't kill people over a damn truck.
21:06You know, if the killer left with a vehicle, that would pretty much mean that either he was already there or somebody dropped him off.
21:23Were there other people involved?
21:25Was there a conspiracy to hire a hitman?
21:29Who took you out there?
21:31I need a bad mark you.
21:33What?
21:34I need a bad mark you.
21:36According to Chris, Tina's boyfriend, she was not home the night before.
21:46Tina was arguing all night.
21:48I don't remember about what.
21:49But I told her to just go ahead and leave.
21:53She goes to a hotel.
21:54And so now it's, we need Tina.
21:58We gotta talk.
21:59Interviews again.
22:00Tina, what do you want?
22:02That's just more personal.
22:03On that Wednesday morning, about 9 o'clock, I went into the interview room to speak to Tina.
22:10The question is not, is Tina involved in this?
22:14Tina is smack dab involved in this.
22:18The question is, how deep does Tina involved in this?
22:21Was it that point that she shares that...
22:23I've been knowing Eric for years?
22:29She knew Eric because...
22:31He dated my oldest daughter.
22:32She had recently ran into him.
22:34It was at McDonald's.
22:36She saw him.
22:37I hooked him in the old man.
22:39Exchange phone numbers.
22:40And later...
22:41And then went back to the hotel.
22:43She goes to a hotel.
22:45And there's also video surveillance that puts her at this particular hotel.
22:52But someone is also captured on video there.
22:57We see Eric crying at your room.
23:03What's he doing at your hotel room?
23:06Did you send an attorney?
23:08Sex.
23:09No, I did not know that.
23:14Oh.
23:16My goodness.
23:18Okay.
23:19She told me that she spent the night with Eric Crane on Saturday, the night before Ernest's murder.
23:27And she admitted to bringing Eric to Ernest's house on the morning of the murder.
23:35I dropped him off on Walker Road.
23:37No.
23:38Leaving the motel room.
23:39Yes.
23:40But she claimed she just dropped him off close by.
23:44And I did not know he was told to kill Mr. Luthor.
23:48I did not.
23:49I don't believe that.
23:51I believe that they were behind it.
23:53She said she went to her house.
23:56And while she was there, she heard some gunshots.
23:59What did you do when you heard the shots?
24:00What did you think when you heard those dead gunshots?
24:02I didn't know what to think.
24:04Because see, there's a fire range up front.
24:06There's a lot of people fire there.
24:09There's not a shooting range out there.
24:12Where's the shooting range?
24:13I'm telling you.
24:15And I'm telling you, that's bullshit.
24:17That's what I'm telling you.
24:18Mm-mm.
24:19Yes, ma'am.
24:21He was looking for the person who possibly killed him.
24:23We're stopping cars traveling down the road.
24:26And you not one time says, this guy arrives up here with me.
24:30We could have ended this a long time ago, but you didn't do it for some reason.
24:34When I tried to push a little further there, she stopped and looked at me.
24:39And she said, can I smoke a cigarette or no?
24:43And I did something that I don't usually do.
24:45But I said, OK, Tina, let's take a break.
24:50So we went outside.
24:52And she took a deep draw on her first cigarette.
24:56And I continued to ask her questions.
25:02And finally, it came down to, who set this up?
25:07But she didn't talk.
25:08She would just shake her head, yes or no.
25:12In the process of these questions, I said, was it a man?
25:17And she shook her head no.
25:18So I named every female that I could come up with that was involved in the case.
25:29And she just shook her head, shook her head.
25:32And finally, I came to Loretta.
25:38And she shook her head yes.
25:40Tina, after her bout, her third cigarette, she sat down on the stairs out there and then told me the whole story.
25:54So several years ago in Shreveport-Bosier area, OK, I was called the Shell money all came in.
26:01Haynesville Shell.
26:03Yes, that was the name.
26:04Haynesville Shell was a big natural gas reservoir under the ground.
26:10They found a very large deposit in northwest Louisiana.
26:15It was a new drilling technique.
26:17And around this time, mineral companies were running around snatching up mineral leases all over the place.
26:22And they were paying a lot of money for it.
26:24Lease of mineral rights went up to $25,000 an acre.
26:28And you had farmers, which overnight became millionaires.
26:31They got a pretty good little chunk of change.
26:33Well, they call mailbox money.
26:36You wait on your mail once a month to get your check.
26:38Lord, I enjoy going to my mailbox to this day.
26:42And I don't have very much.
26:44But Ernest was smart.
26:46They wound up putting several wells on this land.
26:50That's a lot of money.
26:52Now, there's a difference between selling your mineral rights and leasing your mineral rights.
26:57He had leased his mineral rights.
26:59But then I was standing outside talking to him one day.
27:03And he told me that because of his age, that he decided to go ahead and sell his mineral rights outright and go ahead and get his money now for it.
27:12You just get one lump sum and you get a bigger chunk of money.
27:15When I interviewed Tina, what she told me was that two months before the murder, Loretta had a daughter that lived in Texas.
27:30Her name was Katie Passanetti.
27:32And Katie had a daughter, and she was going to graduate school.
27:39Loretta had said that Ernest had agreed to pay for it out of the oil money.
27:46I had heard, is what I'm going to say.
27:49I heard that Ernest said, no, why would I promise that?
27:54And, you know, Ernest got mad and got bullheaded with Loretta.
28:03Loretta started asking him, and graduate school was very expensive, by the way.
28:09And Ernest got tired of Loretta badgering him about this.
28:15And he said, just send her $1,000.
28:19Was Loretta angry?
28:21Extremely angry.
28:23What about Katie?
28:25Very.
28:27That's what set the ball in motion.
28:30Loretta was obsessed with getting the inheritance.
28:34And she asked Tina, can you find someone to kill Ernest for $1,000?
28:44When we heard that, we're going, that's why she miscounted at this house.
28:50That's why she wanted this $1,000.
28:52To pay for her hitman.
28:55If you're hiring a hitman, Eric Crane is not the one you want to pick.
29:00You probably need to spend a little bit more money.
29:04At that time, Eric had not yet been paid.
29:08Now, we set up a phone call between Tina Van Morkerkew and Loretta Luttrell.
29:14And tell her that Eric needs his money.
29:26Eric, the man, you know, shot Ernest for you.
29:29He managed to get out on bond about an hour ago.
29:33And he called me.
29:34And looking for $1,000 so he can get out of time.
29:38When do you think I can get some money?
29:42And she said...
29:43I'd like to give it to you.
29:44I don't have no way to give it to you.
29:46She says it.
29:47Oh, I'll get the money that I owe him.
29:50And I'm going to tell you.
29:52Everything we thought about her, poor, poor, poor, it completely leaves us.
29:57And we're going, that evil bitch, that's just evil.
30:03And I don't know what to do, she.
30:06She's hoping you'd say anything about me.
30:08This phone call led me to believe that Loretta is aware of what has taken place.
30:15We wanted to arrest her, but what if we were wrong?
30:23So you chip away at their story.
30:26We looked into Loretta's background, and it was shocking.
30:31The first revelation is that they weren't married at all.
30:35I never did see a marriage certificate or proof that they were legally married.
30:43I was shocked.
30:45I don't know if my mom and dad ever knew that.
30:50Because at that point, we got a search warrant for the Luttrell's home phone.
30:55And we learned when Loretta had returned home from church the day of the murder, rather than calling 911, she calls Tina.
31:05We had a murder warrant for Loretta Luttrell right before Ernest's funeral.
31:12Loretta Luttrell's home phone call.
31:13I don't know.
31:14I don't know.
31:15I don't know.
31:16I don't know.
31:17I don't know.
31:18I don't know.
31:19What was Loretta's funeral wife?
31:21I kind of stood back at the edge of it with the sheriffs and detectives because I told I wasn't allowed up there.
31:31It was a rather than what she said.
31:34Loretta didn't want you to visit the funeral?
31:36Uh-uh.
31:36but they arrested her at the funeral.
31:40It became a shock to the members of the Legion.
31:43When a veteran passes away,
31:45we'll be the one that places the flag upon the casket,
31:48then it's handed to the wife.
31:50And that's why it's so confusing to us
31:53how that Loretta had been arrested.
31:57I actually asked Loretta to come with us
32:00to the office for interview.
32:02I have a seat right here.
32:03I told her, I said...
32:04It was Tina that talked to you yesterday.
32:06Again, I was right here listening to it.
32:08Well, if somebody calls me and asks me
32:10that the man that killed my wife
32:11is looking for the money I owe him,
32:14do you think I'm going to respond
32:15while I don't have it to pay him right now?
32:16Well, I wasn't going to sit and argue with her.
32:18I was going to sit and argue with her
32:19when she's telling you...
32:21No.
32:22...that the man who you wanted to kill your husband
32:24wants to get paid.
32:26I wasn't going to sit and argue with her.
32:28That's not an argument.
32:29That's not an arguable situation.
32:31I said, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
32:34Or, okay, I'll pay you as soon as I can.
32:35And that's pretty much what you said.
32:37I was like, Tina, I'll go down and die and say that
32:39because I wouldn't have killed my husband.
32:41I loved him too much.
32:43We were certain at this point
32:44that she, too, had involvement in this scheme
32:48to kill Ernest Luttrell.
32:52But the case is not closed after that.
32:55The story just began to grow and grow,
32:58and more and more people, it seemed,
33:00were intimately involved.
33:04Katie Passanetti, who is Loretta Luttrell's daughter,
33:08came by the office to see me
33:09to tell me her mother had been charged with murder.
33:12And so Katie was trying to hire me to represent her mother.
33:15The sheriff's department, the DA's office,
33:17well, they're basically trying to portray Loretta
33:19as this evil mastermind,
33:21like something like you'd see off TV.
33:22But meeting Loretta, you can tell,
33:24I saw in no way at all
33:25she could possibly be some sort of mastermind
33:27behind all this.
33:28She'd been diagnosed by her doctors in writing
33:31with actually having early-onset dementia.
33:33As a matter of fact, at a few points,
33:34she actually asked me where her husband was,
33:36which is kind of sad.
33:37You know, she's asking about the husband
33:39she's supposed to have killed
33:40because she thinks he's alive.
33:42She had very little understanding
33:43of why she was even there.
33:46I dealt with dementia patients before,
33:48and a lot of times they'll nod.
33:49They'll say yes.
33:50If you ask one question,
33:51they don't want it to appear
33:52that they don't understand you.
33:54There were no eyewitnesses to say
33:56that Loretta came into the house,
33:57that she pulled the trigger,
33:59she had a gun.
34:00There's nothing really tying her to this
34:02beyond the possible testimony
34:04of the housekeeper saying,
34:05well, this is what took place.
34:07And why would you leave a housekeeper
34:08who clearly was involved?
34:11But then several months after
34:13I began representing her mother,
34:15here are other suspects involved.
34:16And then something else takes place.
34:17Ernest and Loretta,
34:20supposedly they had a daughter.
34:23I did find out later
34:24that it wasn't his daughter.
34:30Now, I can tell you some things
34:31about his daughter Katie.
34:33She never lived with Ernest and Loretta.
34:35So I did find out later
34:36that it wasn't his daughter,
34:38that it was Loretta's daughter.
34:40That's a story in itself.
34:47Loretta was very young,
34:4915 maybe, 16 when she had Katie.
34:52But I remember Katie being Loretta's sister
34:56and that Katie had found out
34:59when she was in her late teens,
35:02maybe in her 20s,
35:03that Loretta was not her sister,
35:06that Loretta was her mother.
35:08Because Katie was raised by Loretta's mother.
35:11It was a big secret
35:12that Loretta held very close to her chest.
35:16Katie had moved on, went to college.
35:18Katie was very smart,
35:19doing very well and was working.
35:21But Loretta would talk about Katie.
35:25But Ernest really didn't talk about Katie.
35:29Ernest was his own man.
35:33One day, when he told me
35:35that he had sold his mineral lights outright,
35:38he said,
35:39my daughter told me that I was stupid.
35:43I should have never done that.
35:45He said, that pissed me off.
35:48It ain't none of her business what I do.
35:50It made him mad.
35:53The point that he took her out of his will
35:55and that his daughter was not going to get anything.
35:59Now, he did tell me that.
36:00After the arrest of the three,
36:09Tina, Loretta, and Eric,
36:11the DA's office later uncovered that Ernest had a will.
36:15Which left everything to Katie and to her daughter.
36:18And I was like, well, that sounds suspicious.
36:21Now, did Katie have anything to do with the murder of Ernest?
36:25Ernest had apparently made some promises
36:27that he was going to help take care of the granddaughter.
36:31And apparently, later on, he reneged on his promise,
36:33which is one of the reasons the prosecution of police thought
36:36may have given Katie a reason to orchestrate all of this.
36:40The police and the DA approached the notary
36:42who signed off on this.
36:43Ernest wasn't there.
36:45The notary had fraudulently signed off on the document.
36:47This that we're referring to is entitled
36:50Last Will and Testament of Ernest Luttrell.
36:53When is the first time you ever laid eyes on this document?
36:57First time I saw it was October 22nd.
36:59I realized the document says July 1st,
37:02so it wasn't executed on the date that the will shows.
37:06Well, when you first saw this document,
37:08Ernest Luttrell was already on there.
37:10I heard the problem is on all three pages.
37:13Katie told me that Ernest signed this.
37:16You didn't say Ernest.
37:17So you have this signed three months after the man's dead?
37:22Yes.
37:23This was a forged document.
37:27Katie claimed that Ernest's sister
37:29was trying to take everything,
37:32and she said that she has no access to
37:35funds to pay to help her mother.
37:40The notary was in a lot of trouble,
37:41and I see a lot of trouble.
37:42She wasn't getting her hands slapped.
37:44Of course, when the police and the DA approached her with,
37:46you're about to get criminally prosecuted.
37:47Telling you the truth about this will keep me from being arrested.
37:51She was more than forthcoming to explain exactly what took place.
37:55Katie put her up to this,
37:57and that in no time did Ernest ever agree to any of this.
37:59Well, now, that was a surprise to me when I found out about the daughter.
38:11Well, the evil genius in this case is Katie Passanetti.
38:14I don't think that Loretta by herself really cared about having a lot of money
38:20or taking all of Ernest's money for her sake.
38:24But in my opinion, you know, Loretta's motive there
38:27was to make amends to her daughter.
38:31Katie felt like that money was due to her
38:33because her mother abandoned her.
38:36She's paying penance for ignoring a daughter
38:39that she didn't raise herself.
38:41Katie, of course, maintained her innocence on the case.
38:55But in the end, the jury actually came back and found her guilty.
39:02You know, I was looking very forward to going to trial with Loretta,
39:07letting the jury see what I had seen,
39:08that she had nothing to do with the death of her husband.
39:12Unfortunately, we weren't able to actually do the trial
39:14because of her untimely demise.
39:17Loretta, unfortunately, died in custody.
39:20She succumbed to her mental and physical conditions and passed away.
39:26There's no doubt who killed Ernest,
39:29but we'll never know what Loretta's involvement is.
39:32She was never convicted.
39:33I prayed that Ernest never found out if Loretta was behind it
39:42or had something to do with it.
39:45You know, that makes me sad.
39:48He did love her.
39:51He loved her.
39:52And, you know, I just don't think we'll ever get the whole truth.
40:02I don't think we'll ever know what happened for sure.
40:08But I know the love of money is the root of all evil.
40:11So I believe that it all revolved around money.
40:18And a good man
40:20was murdered over it.
40:24Go, go, go. Get up, get up.
40:34Why did they want to kill him?
40:36You think they're going to kill somebody?
40:38Can you get a hood on?
40:39Yes, and a mask.
40:40It's all over the country.
40:42There's a homicide over at the McDonald's.
40:44Yes, he's dead.
40:46That's what it comes down to.
40:47A broken shambler veil.
40:50He had the name I'm the witch doctor.
40:52The witch doctor.
40:54That was his chicken body name.
40:59Everybody else is quite their favorite view.
41:01I thought it was the gold.
41:04Everyone's a person of interest.
41:06If there was an intended target,
41:08why take two more?
41:10A lot of stuff can be hush-hush
41:12sometimes in a small town.
41:14It wasn't a heck of a lot of money
41:16to take three lives.
41:18Being placed under arrest for murder.
41:20My brother who?
41:20I got them who pulled the trigger.
41:22I didn't know it.
41:23Recognize this person?
41:25Who set it up?
41:25Who is pulling the strings here?
41:27She's the one who made that happen.
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