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Murder at the Motel - Season 2 Episode 8 -
Davis Motel
Davis Motel
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00:00an unresponsive female you find a deceased female naked on a bed under a
00:04pile of clothes with a belt wrapped around her throat it's a very harrowing situation
00:11does she come into the bedroom yeah and that's when she sees you she didn't even see me when
00:15she came through that's when i grabbed her to know like your mother and your grandmother
00:21was murdered by their own belt it's heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking
00:26is it weathered a little older like well what time i got done with it yeah
00:35the murder was such a shock to that community that i know of at least one family that that actually
00:41moved as a result of the incident it really weighs on you to make sure that you try to locate that
00:46suspect as soon as possible the possession of children's underwear in the vehicle is really
00:52really concerning he knows he's a monster he was just a scary looking individual who just had no
01:03emotion and really could cared less of the heinous crimes that he just committed she's gone and gone
01:09violently and brutally and painfully the place i hold ill will is for those responsible for not
01:14heeding his warning
01:28i don't know
01:43on november 3rd 2011 police respond to a motel in utica new york after receiving reports of a
01:50a deceased female discovered in a room on the premises we learned that from one of the caretakers
02:00she noticed some real aberrations you know lights were on that typically weren't on there were
02:04candles burning there were doors open things like that and as she's bending down she puts
02:08her hand on the bed and unfortunately at that point feels a cold leg we're arriving on scene
02:15it was somewhat eerie because you're pulling into a property that's a little bit out of the way
02:20as far as the city goes a hotel sits back on some land so it's a it could be a little bit eerie when
02:26you pull up this is potentially somebody's mother somebody's daughter somebody's aunt somebody's
02:36relative friend you know that you're walking into that and then you know the recourse that
02:41that has on all those people police enter the crime scene located in the main office of the motel
02:50the room was in disarray there were lights on there were candles still burning there were doors
02:57open there were things thrown everywhere obviously we didn't know you know the circumstances of it
03:00it would appear that a struggle had ensued
03:05unfortunately the victim was naked on a bed under a pile of clothes she had a belt wrapped around her
03:10neck a couple of times and her hands appeared to be tied behind her back so certainly there was
03:14appeared to be some sort of robbery and likely sexual motivation to be involved in this crime
03:20the scene itself definitely showed that there was evidence that the victim had fought for her life
03:29we were able to identify the victim in this case relatively quickly she was confirmed as linda turner
03:34linda turner was 68 years old and she owned davis motel but she also lived there that was her residence
03:47as well linda turner was a staple in the utica community she ran the davis motel flawlessly she
03:53really had the desire to keep it as a family-run place somewhere that people felt safe to come
03:58somewhere people felt longing to come to utica and really enjoy their stay and we really appreciated her for
04:02that the individuals that she had renting those rooms were very peaceful very respectful everybody
04:08we ever spoke to had nothing but the most glowing things to say about her
04:14this was very big news especially because she was well known so the community was shocked and they
04:20were even more shocked in the manner of death how she died it was very tragic it could be your mother
04:26it could be your loved one they're in the safety of their home and a stranger comes in
04:30and commits such a horrendous crime it really strikes the court and everyone feels it the murder was
04:35such a shock to that community in north utica that i know of at least one family that that actually moved
04:42as a result of the incident nobody ever wants to think of anyone dying that way it was just brutal
04:50the hardest day was going to the crime scene
04:59to this day i mean i feel like i've i've really tried to grieve and process it well but uh seeing her her
05:05fingernails on the floor from fighting seeing the dinner that she was trying to enjoy still sitting
05:11on the tray or knocked onto the floor
05:17it's one thing to grieve the loss of a loved one and it's never easy even when unexpected
05:24but when it is something so violent and and and so brutal um and out of nowhere
05:32uh it is a different level of processing grief
05:39sensing the terror that she went through the last few minutes of her life was
05:44sheer terror you know and and fighting for her life and and and the struggle and you know
05:50there's no goodbyes there's there's no you know prayers there's no blessings there's no priests there's
05:57no you know last hug last kiss it's just she's gone and gone violently and brutally and painfully
06:14utica police launch a full-scale murder investigation into the death of linda turner
06:21for us it's important that our crime scene unit outside of the responding officers are the first
06:26people to kind of enter the crime scene secure the crime scene kind of observe the crime scene
06:32and then be able to escort the investigators into the crime scene so that we don't disturb any type
06:38of evidence for our evidence technicians to be able to collect the evidence needed especially when
06:44you're talking about dna and um physical evidence of that nature we don't know what happened
06:53you find a unfortunately deceased linda turner naked on a bed under a pile of clothes with a belt
06:58wrapped around her throat it's a very harrowing situation and at that time we have no idea who
07:03the suspect is so at the time 2011 the davis mortality had no surveillance unfortunately it's a very small
07:09place you kind of know everybody or you have a really good familiarity of the people that stay there
07:13a lot of people are repeat tenants so there really probably wasn't felt that surveillance video was
07:18needed at that location there was some guests that were at the hotel it's important maybe not
07:25necessarily to call everybody a suspect but everybody needs to be spoken with everyone needs to be vetted
07:30and everyone needs to be clear there were three consecutive rooms that were being rented number 10
07:36number 11 number 12. these individuals were from out of town they were doing some work in the city
07:39but they were not home at the time of the location of the body the registered guests that we encountered
07:44we're all spoken to we're all vetted and we're all ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing or being
07:51involved in this case by anything there wasn't a whole lot of information to really kind of build
07:56upon at that time there were no witnesses that ever came forward to say that they had heard any
08:00screaming anything amiss we really didn't know what had transpired up until that point
08:06ultimately what really led to the break in this case was that her car was taken
08:09really early on in the investigation we realized that the car was missing from the location you know
08:18and that's obviously from talking to people it was obvious that the most probable reason was that the
08:24vehicle was stolen with the motel not having surveillance on the property kind of put us behind
08:30the eight ball a little bit but we did have a witness saying that they saw the vehicle leaving the
08:35property individuals who often waved to linda and beeped at her noticed the car pulling out in a
08:40very strange fashion it was slow it was meandering the individual never acknowledged their presence
08:45so that kind of felt odd to them when we spoke to them later so we put a file one in the new york
08:50state criminal justice system file one is a stolen vehicle report so we put as much information as
08:55possible about that vehicle into it so anybody that flags that car runs that plate pulls it over will
09:01automatically know that that car was stolen and it's wanted in in reference to a homicide investigation
09:11what we did also is do safety checks of all the rooms on the property to see if there was
09:16any evidence in any of those rooms while doing those checks we did come across a room that
09:22had a key broken off into the door lock when we went into the location we found that some strange
09:28things like the tv was on without volume it appears that somebody's been living in one of these rooms
09:35and it doesn't appear that that person is a registered guest
09:41we did locate a wallet an id in it underneath the bed
09:48once we looked at the id a lot of red flags started to show
09:51we had a pretty good indication that he would be our primary suspect in this case
10:12utica's a town of about 70 000 people it's very diverse we average between six and ten homicides
10:18of a variety capacity usually kind of street level shooting related homicides but some stabbings things
10:23like that some domestics a homicide of this nature is certainly an aberration we don't often get
10:28stranger on stranger homicides in a situation where we locate the body later and the suspect is not on scene
10:36it's kind of the difficult part of the davis motel is that it's on herkimer road herkimer road is a
10:40two-lane thoroughfare that's primarily commercial traffic traversing from one side of the city to herkimer
10:46county and it's often very backed up with traffic so in an emergency response it takes quite a bit
10:52of time just due to the nature of the traffic and the fact that it we can't really get around too easily
10:57every murder is horrendous in its own nature right but a lot of the murders we see
11:02are kind of street level killings over various disputes and things of that nature when you have
11:05a case such as this it really resonates it resonates with the investigators it resonates with the
11:10forensic individuals who spend a lot of time at the crime scene and most importantly it certainly
11:14resonates with the family we had a very close relationship you know she was always willing to
11:29have me with her no matter what we were doing she was great about teaching me responsibility and you
11:34know letting me run her cash drawer and check people in at the motel to this day i can't make a bed without
11:40sharp corners and you know fold my laundry to a tee but she also was the first one to you know teach
11:46me how to hustle a game of pool and throw darts so yes she was my grandmother but she was my friend
11:58her nickname was hats she had a variety of hats and she wore them all the time from understand from
12:02ball caps the fedoras to cowboy hats it was really kind of her thing to wear a hat wherever she went
12:06she loved adventuring the outdoors she loved gardening and planting her flowers she loved her motel
12:15i mean it was a one-woman show she cleaned the rooms by hand made all the beds she did all the laundry
12:22by hand it was all wine dried she took very great pride in how she ran the place the cleanliness the
12:28decorations down to every lamp and painting in the place was her
12:36she had the motel before i was born it was part of the family and uh my dad had spent time down
12:41there she had help from her sister barbara and her mother would come down and she was there for
12:46about 30 almost 35 years the whole property it was a beautiful wooded i mean
12:54something you would imagine that in the 50s you'd see people out lounging and under the pine trees and
12:59there's you know swing sets for the kids and little barbecue areas it was a place where you know
13:04it was our family's place it wasn't just the motel you know the dogs of the family there we had the
13:09cemetery for the dogs in the back and it's a place that i i loved enough i mean i i have the the
13:14the motel sign tattooed on my arm because it's such a big part of my life we spoke to numerous
13:28people that either stayed at the hotel or are currently staying at the time and at no point
13:31did linda really ever have any concerns for her safety she kind of just ran the place on her own
13:36took care of everything on her own and really felt at home there so it's really tragic that this
13:40happened to her in the place that she felt most safe the name on the id found in room 17 at linda's
13:48motel is robert blaney a dangerous individual with a violent past he was a registered sex offender
13:58he was on new york state parole for crimes that he had previously committed uh and it was also actively
14:04wanted um with a parole warrant uh for violating the parole and his conditions that he was on release
14:10for robert blaney had actually only been out of prison for two years after serving 20 years for two
14:20accounts of rape on some older women and also attempted rape on an eight-year-old girl
14:27certainly in a pro status you have regular check-ins with your parole officer however when you are on a
14:32sex offender status we also internally at the utica police department have a sex offender unit
14:36especially what level you are you have to make regular check-ins with respect to your location
14:41your new address any updated photos anything of that nature that really we do in an effort
14:45to keep the community safe but blaney was having difficulty reintegrating into society
14:52so we know that he was a caretaker at a local cemetery called saint joseph cemetery
14:56he wasn't really doing a great job there we know he had some problems with his bosses and certainly
15:00as a result was having some problems in the community and thus went on an absconding role on parole
15:07with the locating of the id of mr blaney with his history with his active warrant um
15:15gave us a solid prime suspect in this case
15:21the victim's vehicle is gone and he's gone so we had to rely on police officers and community members to
15:27help us locate the vehicle and hopefully locate the vehicle with the suspect with it
15:33so we put up what's called a bolo a be on the lookout for robert blaney so initially a photograph
15:38was circulated with respect to his wanted status for being a parole scholar this photograph showed him
15:43to be a relatively clean-cut individual obviously that was put out nationwide as we did not know where
15:47he could be he was in a vehicle that was not his we knew he was trying to flee so as far of a net as we
15:52could cast we tried to locate him it really weighs on you to make sure that you try to locate that
15:58suspect as soon as possible particularly in this case where the horrific nature of the crimes that
16:02were committed was definitely somebody that could re-offend really quickly to satisfy an urge he was a
16:10very dangerous individual an individual that at no point do we want running the streets especially
16:14on absconding on a parole status as far as movements for mr blaney we really didn't have anything
16:20solid to go on there was not an easy pass for the vehicle we did not have any plate reader hits or
16:26anything to kind of help us kind of track where this vehicle may have gone believing that mr blaney
16:31was driving him i think it's probably fair to say that you had a nationwide manhunt happening because
16:37um we didn't know where he was and ultimately was located outside the state in the neighboring
16:42state of pennsylvania a state trooper is preparing to conduct a traffic stop i was a patrol trooper
16:50assigned in lycoming county that night and i was just running routine patrol
16:55saw a vehicle in front of me and did not use his turn signal so i started following on the vehicle
17:02started crossing over the fog line the center median line and i ran the tag presumably thinking it
17:10potentially could have been a dui driving under the influence arrest so when the tag came back it came
17:16back and it said that the vehicle had been stolen and in the notes of that hit that came back from new
17:23york state it said that the vehicle was wanted in conjunction with a possible homicide so at that
17:30point i got on the radio and ascertained where the next available or nearest unit to me would be so we
17:36could conduct a felony stop on the vehicle the search wouldn't just reveal more incriminating evidence
17:43it would expose a dangerous predator
17:53the pennsylvania state police called and said hey we have this vehicle we have eyes on it there's an
17:58individual in it would you like him at that point obviously we gave an affirmative that we would like
18:03to talk to him they approached the vehicle and located mr blaney occupying the vehicle of linda turner
18:08trooper matt mcdermott and myself went up to the driver's side of the vehicle and then trooper cole
18:14mcgee went up to the passenger side of the vehicle and ordered mr blaney out of the vehicle making sure
18:20that we could see his hands the entire time we were doing the stop we ended up taking him back to the
18:26the back of the vehicle we did a pat down search on him when doing a search he had women's underwear
18:32uh in his sweatpants pant leg so we collected those and then ultimately put him into handcuffs then he
18:40was placed in the back of my car to be transported back to the psp montoursville barracks
18:48from where the traffic stop occurred to the barracks was only a five minute drive uh so we had a very
18:54short conversation uh in the back of my patrol car which at that point he said you know my time's up uh
19:01utica is going to be looking for me uh i committed a rape uh he said about a week ago up in new york
19:07state that was his attitude from the get-go and i think he realized that he had reached the pinnacle
19:15of horrible behavior uh and knew that uh his life uh his free life was no longer going to be his
19:24i mean he wasn't hostile aggressive or anything like that i'd say if anything he was just sort of
19:29emotionless i guess he really didn't have any uh emotions he wasn't you know worked up that he was
19:35being arrested uh or angry he wasn't trying to fight or or anything of that nature once the suspect was
19:43located and we were able to obtain a photograph of him it was obvious that his appearance had changed
19:50from what we were looking at as a parole photo to where his hair was grown out he had facial hair
19:58a little bit more disheveled the pictures were very off of his appearance and could be deceiving as far
20:05as an attempting to locate him we'd actually sent tattoo photos to his parole agent and they positively
20:12identified him through a tattoo as well so it posed a little bit of a challenge but we were able to make a
20:17positive confirm that this is robert blaney he was arrested here for arrest prior to requisition
20:25charge which is basically a fugitive from justice charge that we use and it was on the parole the
20:30fact that he was wanted for parole so he wasn't charged with any crime associated with the homicide
20:35or the sexual assault in pennsylvania or in new york at that point while blaney is held at the pennsylvania
20:42state police barracks a more thorough search of linda turner's vehicle is conducted while we were
20:49looking through the vehicle inside the driver's side door console there was additional women's
20:54underwear located in that door and then also in the glove box there was also women's underwear in there
21:04on top of the women's underwear he had some children's underwear in the vehicle we don't know where
21:08that came from but to have the possession of children's underwear in the vehicle is really
21:13really concerning for someone who is willing to perpetrate the crime we're speaking about
21:17as well as perpetrate the crimes that we know he had committed which placed them on parole in the
21:20first place you have to wonder whether there's other victims we did what we could to put out
21:27information to the law enforcement communities and we never got any returns or any information from
21:32many other departments on that may have had a similar case i think it's a great possibility that
21:39there are other victims out there that haven't been identified or are scared to come forward with
21:44information that are associated with crimes committed against them
21:56we sent two investigators at that time investigator edward smith and investigator stanley fernald
22:01i know rob no we're from the utica police yeah i guess you were expecting us at one point
22:23yeah so we come down here to talk to you about the incident and take it from there yeah whatever
22:35i'll do whatever you gotta do i don't care i don't care no more just do what you gotta do rob what do you
22:40prefer to be called robert rob no matter just so you come back i really don't care all right well just
22:49here where uh the conversation is recorded audio and video you're okay with that yeah okay can you uh
22:58give us a little information on what happened over at the davis motel yeah crazy woman just like that just like
23:06that
23:12yeah life that's all first i'm gonna be miserable
23:19somebody else gonna be miserable with me
23:32is there any way you can back us up a little bit and tell us how you started this with her
23:53it's a straight rate that's it whatever else you want put in there go ahead it's just that's just the
23:57warriors we're just hoping to get some details even up to it
24:05ultimately what we see here in this person is the evil and the coldness in him basically doesn't care
24:12that makes it even harder um for a victim's family to deal with knowing that
24:17this type of person exists and that the last person their loved one was encountered with was this person
24:22robert was just very matter of fact he seemed to have given up on himself and i think this might
24:31stem from his childhood since he did have a hard childhood he was the victim of physical and emotional
24:38abuse he even said in his own words he felt like a throwaway he felt like his parents didn't want him
24:45so he had a very rough start in his childhood and it's it's not an excuse because a lot of people
24:52have a bad childhood it doesn't mean you can go out and rape and you know do whatever it is that you
24:57want that doesn't give you the right but when people feel like they're throwaways it's hard to make them
25:05want to be a better person and i don't know if he ever wanted to be a better person i think he knew who he was
25:13and he's stuck with that let me ask you this why did you run for parole in the first place what
25:21what started all this well my ex-friend randy's got everything going on for himself right now
25:32i'm thinking oh that's never gonna happen for me you know that nice apartment nice vehicle he's got
25:36a girlfriend now and he's got his odd jobs that he does he's got a good life
25:40and you talk to him he'll tell you a couple months ago i told him my life sucks actually two or three
25:47months ago i told him i think he said what do you mean by that listen you got a vehicle you got a
25:54girlfriend you got a nice apartment what what the hell more could you want you know and you got all
26:01these odd jobs lined up you're doing good he says well give it time to have a few of us it's not gonna
26:07happen for me trust me he said no it'll happen it's not gonna happen for me oh well and it didn't so
26:17because he was so jealous of another parolee he abandoned the life that he tried so hard to create
26:26recreate for those two years and went on the run he was actually living in an abandoned house
26:35in the basement but in the community the kids would hang out there and they kept daring each other to
26:41go downstairs so he knew it was only a matter of time before somebody brought a flashlight and they
26:47found him so everything that he had on him his sweatpants his boots everything and all the other
26:54clothes was all from that abandoned house and that's what he had with him
27:01he had heard police sirens whether it was an emergency from an ambulance or maybe a police
27:05siren but he actually tried to commit suicide he wrapped the rope around his neck and the the tree
27:11actually had the branch had broke so he wasn't able to successfully commit suicide but that kind of
27:15gives you a mindset of how he lived i guess he was always looking over his shoulder worried about
27:21what was coming up next as he was absconding from parole he knew there was a good likelihood that he
27:26was going back to prison for a very long time if he was ever found that was halloween night actually
27:32and when that failed that is when he went to the davis motel and started pulling on doors and found one
27:40that was open he was trying to find a place to stay he said no during the day he would allow himself to
27:51watch tv at night everything was off in the room he kept all of his belongings under the bed in case
27:57anyone ever came in he was always ready to dive under the bed because he would hear voices going up and down the hall
28:05he just felt like his time was running out and he was looking for money so he figured
28:15the office probably has money did you knock or was the door open i think she thinks she locked it all
28:23the way when she must be when she pulled it didn't latch i just almost pushed down i said i just pushed
28:33down and it opened up i was actually surprised it opened up
28:40so what happens at this point well at this point i'm making haste i'm going in there i said i gotta get
28:46money gotta get money gotta get money i went in there looking for them little freaking green things with
28:50the zipper on them little money bags yeah oh no when you pushed the door open where is she she was
28:59out showing somebody a room oh so she wasn't even in no she wasn't no she wasn't in there oh that's
29:04why the door was unlocked yeah she came in the house and scared the out of yourself i had nowhere else to
29:11go i couldn't go back towards the door because it means she opens that door i'm gonna be right there
29:16go ahead so i went to the darkest place in the house okay now where was that right around the
29:21corner i raped her in the bedroom or whatever he had hidden behind a what i would call like a room
29:31divider it was like an accordion plastic type door and linda turner actually had a phone call and that's
29:36when he took the opportunity to surprise her and come out from behind the partition that he was hiding
29:42behind does she come into the bedroom yeah that's when she sees you she didn't even see me when she
29:48came through that's when i grabbed her now when you grabbed her how did you grab her around the throat
30:03did you grab with your hands or no i had a piece of rope was maybe um what two foot long three foot long
30:11actually might be might have been a little longer than that what color was it white well it was kind
30:17of dirty at the time i was gonna say is it a little bit yeah it was gray maybe yeah that's more the color
30:22it was you check you check you probably find some of my skin in there too was it weathered a little older
30:28like well by the time i got done with it yeah all right but the tree episode probably it yeah so getting
30:37back when when you grabbed her did you put it around her chest did you get it right around the neck
30:41right away or no it's kind of like more around i was trying for the neck right away yes but i got like
30:47here scuffle probably lasted ten five ten minutes maybe five or ten minutes really that long yeah it was
30:58there was a good look out we didn't i didn't have full force on the rope it was just enough to
31:05all right you know to uh uh take the fight out of her so to speak is that all that was around her neck
31:12no because you never mentioned anything else yeah i was waiting for you to tell us i think i'm an idiot
31:20no no i mean it doesn't matter i mean i don't care what you think of me i really don't
31:23yeah i actually had to take the the felt out of the loose over pants okay that's where that came
31:30from yeah all right yeah so when did you know that you were a raper
31:40that was the split-second decision that was nothing that was planned i listen i'm asking you
31:45no i know i know i know like i said when she was in there i'm like i'm looking for an out
31:50i don't can't get the money i'm looking for an out but we're just he was just asking yeah i know
31:54i did i know i know i had no chances of doing that man fighting fighting with us yeah come on
31:59this is just yeah i'm already going back anyway so i'm screwed what the hell let's point blank cut
32:20mr blaney admitted with very flat effect with no emotion with not a care in the world that he in
32:27fact had committed the crime didn't care that we had him in custody just a really really bad and cold
32:33individual it actually came out that after assaulting two women and trying to assault an eight-year-old
32:44girl he didn't even serve his full sentence they let him out early for good behavior during his parole
32:51hearing he told them that he was going to hurt somebody and that he should stay there because
32:58he's broken and he doesn't want to hurt anybody but he's going to do it he said himself society is
33:03safer with me in prison and if if that isn't enough to keep him in there i'm not sure
33:08what else could be done i say how can i put this um
33:15it's like it's like reverse it's like in prison i did 20 years two misbehavior reports in 20 years
33:24okay it's like i can live in there a lot better than i can out here out here i got
33:30two counseling sessions a week or a month that i have to go to i have reported to uh
33:36detective selenna once every it was every three months or two months or whatever it is for the
33:41registry purposes i had uh i had a bunch of did like monday through friday i was always busy i was
33:47always going somewhere always doing something so now i get to go back and i got all the time in
33:52the world for myself i ain't gotta worry about nothing i mean i tried living i can't live out here
33:57it was just this is living proof there's no way i can make it on her no way
34:05perpetrators like this they don't change their patterns and it it happens time and time again
34:13we've seen this in so many other cases they get out they re-offend and even in this case and a lot of
34:21other ones then they escalate he had never murdered anyone before now it's escalated to murder
34:30what'd you throw him who was that i'm mostly to get him up off the floor so i wouldn't trip over him
34:35again of course and then like i said the other reason was in case she got cold i'm not going to put
34:41her clothes back on i'm trying to get the hell out of her listen rob you make me understand this you
34:46just broke into the girl's house you robbed her you raped her you tell me you're worried if she's going
34:54to get cold in her yeah pretty much rob i think you know that she was lifeless when you left and i think
35:09that's why you put the clothes on her no
35:12no
35:18stomach was going up and down
35:22could be your last grasp there was there was enough room you could put your pinky i can put my
35:28pinky up in between there so there wasn't there was but but you're still being rough like that because
35:33it looked rough i'm giving it to you straight yeah you want it straight i'm giving it to you straight
35:37that belt was wrapped around her and wrapped around her tight and wrapped around her hair
35:44and that's that's good enough for me okay that's what you're saying i mean i'm just i know i know you
35:50were straight with me and i want to be straight you know that's why yeah i have a problem with that
35:55okay that's good enough to leave it at that it's not one of those situations where you know somebody
36:01made a poor decision to drive drunk and killed somebody and they regret this decision for the rest
36:05of their life this is somebody who knew what they were doing or calculated what they were doing
36:10did what they did know they did it and just don't care or if they do they don't know how to offer any
36:17condolences or sympathies or remorse
36:22okay i don't know i don't know what else to say all right hang loose to these troopers uh come in
36:27i think in your room they'll never take you out thank you it's hard for me to even say thank you believe me
36:48you
36:57utica new york 2011. police have secured robert blaney's confession to the murder of linda turner
37:07in the davis motel preparations are made for robert blaney to be extradited back to oneida county to
37:14face the consequences for his heinous actions in order for him to be charged in county court it had to
37:21go by way of a grand jury indictment so we had to bring forth evidence to the grand jury to to prove
37:28uh the case and so when you're getting a case prepared for grand jury you're looking for what
37:34evidence do we have uh certainly uh confession helped but we could go beyond that so there are
37:41some really crucial pieces of evidence that we located within the crime scene certainly the belt
37:46that we tested for dna you know the ropes things of that nature things he may have touched fingerprints
37:50that nature however one really crucial piece of evidence was the sex assault kit that was performed
37:55on the deceased individual that had the dna of mr blaney on it we believed it was going to be a very
38:01strong case uh regardless of the confession so in this instance if there's other charges that that
38:08follow the indictment unless they plead to the entire indictment we recommend what we feel the
38:13sentence should be and what would be appropriate in this case murder in the first degree carried
38:19with it a sentence of life without the possibility of parole and so that was our position was if he
38:25wants to admit to that fine we'll let him do that but otherwise we will prove the case because we
38:30believe the sentence should be life without parole and the judge agreed with us i told what the sentence
38:38is going to be it's like you're not getting out you understand that let's do it right all right anybody
38:42else promise you anything to get you to plead guilty anyone threaten you to get you to plead guilty
38:47so you're ending this plea here this morning voluntarily yes sir
38:52he knew he was such a danger that even facing life without parole his response is bring it on
38:57he he he he was more comfortable in the system and being incarcerated where he was not only not a danger
39:07to others but to himself mr blaney uh when this happened you were on a parole then correct
39:18now it's for another rape right you've had how many rapes in the past
39:22yes i'm sorry too many too many sort of sort of can't help yourself with that right
39:32didn't in fact the last time you were released did you tell
39:35parole board or someone that you they shouldn't let you out
39:41all right you know you're satisfied yeah all right how do you plead then mr blaney to the first
39:46count murder in the first degree guilty or not guilty
39:49mr mcdemore that's free to satisfy all counsel the indictment would be satisfied with the
39:54understanding he would be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole yes
40:01a young kid another woman and now linda turner were brutally violated at the hands of robert blaney
40:07no amount of time in prison is enough for him there's a chill in the air here mr blaney you're the
40:12coldest person i've ever seen in this courtroom thank you for a compliment
40:15compliment you think that's a compliment that didn't mean it to be a compliment
40:20okay we'll see you on the 16th march thank you
40:34robert blaney was convicted of murder in the first degree for the murder of linda turner and
40:46was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole
40:51this sentence was the max the maximum sentence that's that's allowed in new york state so we
40:57couldn't have gotten more time even if we had a trial
41:04i grew up in that area and you know i know that area very well and i do recall you know seeing
41:10a picture of mr blaney as a parole absconder and again that the picture that they had was
41:18not up to date and so you know that sticks with me um and i think that's a that's something that i
41:24think this community and parole learned from this is to ensure that they are quick with alerting the
41:31community if they do lose sight or they do have an absconder on parole and they get that out to the
41:38community and that they have an updated picture so that we can try to bring that person to justice
41:47it took me quite some time and i've come to terms with pretty much everything to the point where
41:54i really don't hold any animosity uh or or anger or hatred or ill will towards blaney it's a name that
42:02is etched in my mind i almost feel sympathy for him somebody who recognized their danger who alerted
42:11the people that needed to be alerted that he was a danger and was put in a position to take a life
42:19and now has to live with that when he knew he didn't want to when he knew it was a real threat
42:25and it's unfortunate and the place i hold ill will is for those responsible for not heeding his warning
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