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