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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 that actually
00:46moved as a result of the incident. It really weighs on you to make sure that you try to locate that
00:51suspect as soon as possible. The possession of children's underwear in the vehicle is really,
00:57really concerning. He knows he's a monster. He was just a scary looking individual who just had no
01:08emotion and really could care less of the heinous crimes that he just committed. She's gone and gone
01:14violently and brutally and painfully. The place I hold ill will is for those responsible for not
01:19heeding his warning.
01:20On November 3rd, 2011,
01:50police respond to a motel in Utica, New York after receiving reports of a deceased female
01:56discovered in a room on the premises.
02:03We learn that from one of the caretakers, she's noticed some real aberrations. You know,
02:07lights were on that typically weren't on. There were candles burning. There were doors open,
02:10things like that. And as she's bending down, she puts her hand on the bed and unfortunately at that
02:14point feels a cold leg.
02:18We're arriving on scene. It was somewhat eerie because you're pulling into a property that's a little bit out of the way as far as the city goes.
02:26A hotel sits back on some land, so it could be a little bit eerie when you pull up.
02:31This is potentially somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's aunt, somebody's relative, friend. You know that you're walking into that and then you know the recourse that that has on all those people.
02:48Police enter the crime scene, located in the main office of the motel.
02:54The room was in disarray.
02:59There were lights on. There were candles still burning. There were doors open. There were things thrown everywhere. Obviously, we didn't know, you know, the circumstances of 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 her neck a couple of times and her hands appeared to be tied behind her back.
03:18So certainly there appeared to be some sort of robbery and likely sexual motivation to be involved in this crime.
03:24The scene itself definitely showed that there was evidence that the victim had fought for her life.
03:33We 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 the desire to keep it as a family-run place, somewhere that people felt safe to come, somewhere people felt longing to come to Utica and really enjoy their stay. And we really appreciated her for that.
04:07The individuals that she had renting those rooms were very peaceful, very respectful. Everybody 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 and they were even more shocked in the manner of death, how she died. It was very tragic.
04:28It could be your mother. It could be your loved one. They're in the safety of their home and a stranger comes in and commits such a horrendous crime. It really strikes the court and everyone feels it.
04:37The murder was such a shock to that community in North Utica that I know of at least one family that actually moved as a result of the incident.
04:47Nobody ever wants to think of anyone dying that way. It was just brutal.
04:54The hardest day was going to the crime scene.
04:59To this day, I mean, I feel like I've really tried to grieve and process it well, but seeing her fingernails on the floor from fighting, seeing the dinner that she was trying to enjoy still sitting on the tray or knocked onto the floor.
05:16It's one thing to grieve the loss of a loved one. And it's never easy, even when unexpected. But when it is something so violent and so brutal and out of nowhere, it is a different level of processing grief.
05:43Sensing the terror that she went through. The last few minutes of her life was sheer terror, you know, and fighting for her life and the struggle and, you know, there's no goodbyes.
05:56There's there's no, you know, prayers. There's no blessings. There's no priests. There's no, you know, last hug, last kiss. It's just she's gone and gone violently and brutally and painfully.
06:09I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
06:11I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's just she's gone and painfully.
06:16Utica Police launch a full-scale murder investigation into the death of Linda Turner.
06:26For us, it's important that our crime scene unit, outside of the responding officers,
06:31are the first people to kind of enter the crime scene, secure the crime scene, kind
06:35of observe the crime scene, and then be able to escort the investigators into the crime
06:40scene so that we don't disturb any type of evidence.
06:44For our evidence technicians to be able to collect the evidence needed, especially when
06:50you're talking about DNA and physical evidence of that nature.
06:56We don't know what happened.
06:58You find a unfortunately deceased Linda Turner naked on a bed under a pile of clothes with
07:03a belt wrapped around her throat.
07:04It's a very harrowing situation, and at that time, we have no idea who the suspect is.
07:09So at the time, 2011, the Davis Mortel had no surveillance, unfortunately.
07:13It's a very small place.
07:15You kind of know everybody, or you have a really good familiarity with the people that stay
07:18there.
07:19A lot of the people are repeat tenants.
07:20So there really probably wasn't felt that surveillance video was needed at that location.
07:26There was some guests that were at the hotel.
07:29It's important, maybe not necessarily to call everybody a suspect, but everybody needs to
07:32be spoken with.
07:34Everyone needs to be vetted, and everyone needs to be cleared.
07:36There were three consecutive rooms that were being rented.
07:40Number 10, number 11, and number 12.
07:42These individuals were from out of town, they were doing some work in the city, but they
07:45were 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
07:52all ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing or being involved in this case by anything.
07:58There wasn't a whole lot of information to really kind of build upon at that time.
08:03There were no witnesses that ever came forward to say that they had heard any screaming, anything
08:06amiss.
08:07We really didn't know what had transpired up until that point.
08:11Ultimately, what really led to the break in this case was that her car was taken.
08:18Really early on in the investigation, we realized that the car was missing from the location,
08:22you know, and that's obviously from talking to people.
08:26It was obvious that the most probable reason was that the vehicle was stolen.
08:32With the motel not having surveillance on the property kind of put us behind the eight
08:36ball a little bit, but we did have a witness saying that they saw the vehicle leaving the
08:40property.
08:41Individuals who often waved to Linda and beeped at her noticed the car pulling out in a very
08:45strange fashion.
08:46It was slow.
08:47It was meandering.
08:48The individual never acknowledged their presence.
08:50So 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.
08:56File one is a stolen vehicle report.
08:58So we put as much information as possible about that vehicle into it.
09:02So anybody that flags that car, runs that plate, pulls it over, will automatically know
09:08that that car was stolen and it's wanted in reference to a homicide investigation.
09:12What we did also is do safety checks of all the rooms on the property to see
09:20if there was any evidence in any of those rooms.
09:25While doing those checks, we did come across a room that had a key broken off into the door
09:29lock.
09:31When we went into the location, we found that some strange things like the TV was on without
09:35volume.
09:36It appears that somebody has been living in one of these rooms and it doesn't appear
09:41that that person is a registered guest.
09:47We 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.
09:57We had a pretty good indication that he would be our primary suspect in this case.
10:18Utica is a town of about 70,000 people.
10:20It's very diverse.
10:21The average between six and 10 homicides of a variety capacity, usually kind of street
10:26level shooting related homicides, but some stabbings, things like that.
10:28Some domestics.
10:29A homicide of this nature is certainly an aberration.
10:32We don't often get stranger on stranger homicides in a situation where we locate the body later
10:37and the suspect is not on scene.
10:39It's kind of the difficult part of the Davis Motel is that it's on Herkimer Road.
10:45Herkimer Road is a two lane thoroughfare that's primarily commercial traffic traversing from
10:50one side of the city to Herkimer County.
10:52And it's often very backed up with traffic.
10:54So in an emergency response, it takes quite a bit of time just due to the nature of the
10:58traffic and the fact that we can't really get around too easily.
11:03Every murder is horrendous in its own nature, right?
11:05But a lot of the murders we see are kind of street level killings over various disputes
11:09and things of that nature.
11:10When you have a case such as this, it really resonates.
11:13It resonates with the investigators.
11:14It resonates with the forensic individuals who spend a lot of time at the crime scene.
11:18And most importantly, it certainly resonates with the family.
11:20We had a very close relationship.
11:31You know, she was always willing to have me with her no matter what we were doing.
11:36She was great about teaching me responsibility and letting me run her cash drawer and check
11:42people in at the motel.
11:43To this day, I can't make a bed without sharp corners and, you know, fold my laundry to
11:48a tee.
11:49But she also was the first one to, you know, teach me how to hustle a game of pool and throw
11:53darts.
11:54Yes, she was my grandmother, but she was my friend.
12:03Her nickname was Hats.
12:04She had a variety of hats and she wore them all the time from what we understand from ball
12:07caps to fedoras to cowboy hats.
12:09It was really kind of her thing to wear a hat wherever she went.
12:14She loved adventuring the outdoors.
12:16She loved gardening and planting her flowers.
12:18She loved her motel.
12:19I mean, it was a one woman show.
12:23She cleaned the rooms by hand, made all the beds.
12:26She did all the laundry by hand.
12:27It was all wine dried.
12:28She took very great pride in how she ran the place, the cleanliness, the decorations down
12:34to every lamp and painting in the place was her.
12:41She had the motel before I was born, it was part of the family and my dad had spent time
12:45down there.
12:46She had help from her sister, Barbara, and her mother would come down and she was there
12:50for about 30, almost 35 years.
12:56The whole property, it was a beautiful wooded, I mean, something you would imagine that in
13:00the 50s you'd see people out lounging and under the pine trees and there's, you know,
13:04swing sets for the kids and little barbecue areas.
13:08It was a place where, you know, it was our family's place.
13:11It wasn't just the motel, you know, the dogs, the family, we had the cemetery for the dogs
13:15in the back.
13:16And it's a place that I loved enough.
13:18I mean, I have the motel sign tattooed on my arm because it's such a big part of my life.
13:32We spoke to numerous people that either stayed at the hotel or are currently staying at the
13:35hotel at the time.
13:36And at no point did Linda really ever have any concerns for her safety.
13:39She kind of just ran the place on her own, took care of everything on her own and really
13:43felt at home there.
13:44So it's really tragic that this happened to her in the place that she felt most safe.
13:50The name on the ID found in room 17 at Linda's Motel is Robert Blaney, a dangerous individual
13:57with a violent past.
14:00He was a registered sex offender.
14:03He was on New York state parole for crimes that he had previously committed.
14:07And it was also actively wanted with a parole warrant for violating the parole and his conditions
14:14that he was on release for.
14:17Robert Blaney had actually only been out of prison for two years after serving 20 years
14:24for two accounts of rape on some older women and also attempted rape on an eight year old
14:30girl.
14:32Certainly in a parole status, you have regular check ins with your parole officer.
14:36However, when you are on a sex offender status, we also internally at the Utica Police Department
14:40have a sex offender unit, especially what level you are.
14:43You have to make regular check ins with respect to your location, your new address, any updated
14:47photos, anything of that nature that really we do in an effort to keep the community safe.
14:53But Blaney was having difficulty reintegrating into society.
14:58So we know that he was a caretaker at a local cemetery called St. Joseph Cemetery.
15:01He wasn't really doing a great job there.
15:03You know, he had some problems with his bosses and certainly as a result was having some
15:07problems in the community and thus went on an absconding role on parole.
15:13With the locating of the ID of Mr. Blaney, with his history, with his active warrant, gave
15:21us a solid prime suspect in this case.
15:26The victim's vehicle is gone and he's gone.
15:28So we had to rely on police officers and community members to help us locate the vehicle and hopefully
15:34locate the vehicle with the suspect with it.
15:38We put up what's called a bolo, a be on the lookout for Robert Blaney.
15:42So initially a photograph was circulated with respect to his wanted status for being a parole
15:46of scotter.
15:47This 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.
15:53He was in a vehicle that was not his.
15:55We knew he was trying to flee.
15:56So 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.
16:22As far as movements for Mr. Blaney, we really didn't have anything solid to go on.
16:26There was not an easy pass for the vehicle.
16:30We did not have any plate reader hits or anything to kind of help us kind of track
16:33where this vehicle may have gone, believing that Mr. Blaney was driving him.
16:38I think it's probably fair to say that you had a nationwide manhunt happening because
16:42we didn't know where he was and ultimately was located outside the state.
16:46In 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,
17:06the vehicle started crossing over the fog line, the center median line. And I ran the tag,
17:14presumably thinking it potentially could have been a DUI driving under the influence arrest.
17:18So when the tag came back, it came back and it said that the vehicle had been stolen.
17:25And in the notes of that hit that came back from New York State, it said that the vehicle was wanted
17:30in conjunction with a possible homicide. So at that point, I got on the radio and ascertained where
17:39the next available or nearest unit to me would be so we could conduct a felony stop on the vehicle.
17:45The search wouldn't just reveal more 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 we
18:07would like to talk to him. They approached the vehicle and located Mr. Blaney occupying the vehicle
18:12of Linda Turner.
18:13Linda Turner, Trooper Matt McDermott and myself went up to the driver's side of the vehicle,
18:18and then 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.
18:28We ended up taking him back to the back of the vehicle. We did a pat down search on him.
18:35When 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
18:47to be transported back to the PSP Montoursville barracks.
18:50From where the traffic stop occurred to the barracks was only a five minute drive. So we had a very
18:59short conversation in the back of my patrol car, which at that point he said, you know,
19:04my time's up. Utica is going to be looking for me. I committed a rape, he said about a week ago,
19:11up in New York State.
19:12That was his attitude from the get go. I think he realized that he had
19:19reached the pinnacle of horrible behavior and knew that his life, his free life was no longer going
19:27to be 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,
19:39worked up that he was being arrested or angry. He wasn't trying to fight or anything of that nature.
19:47Once the suspect was located and we were able to obtain a photograph of him, it was obvious that
19:53his appearance had changed from what we were looking at as a parole photo to where his hair was
20:01grown out. He had facial hair, a little bit more disheveled. The pictures were very off of his
20:08appearance and could be deceiving as far as an attempting to locate him.
20:13We actually sent tattoo photos to his parole agent and they positively identified him through
20:18a tattoo as well. So it posed a little bit of a challenge, but we were able to make a positive
20:23confirm that this was Robert Blaney.
20:27He was arrested here for arrest prior to requisition charge, which is basically a fugitive from justice
20:32charge that we use. And it was on the parole, the fact that he was wanted for parole. So he wasn't
20:37charged with any crime associated with the homicide or the sexual assault in Pennsylvania or in New York
20:42at that point. While Blaney is held at the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks, a more thorough search of
20:49Linda Turner's vehicle is conducted. While we were looking through the vehicle inside the driver's side door
20:57console, there was additional women's underwear located in that door. And then also in the glove
21:03box, 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.
21:30We did what we could to put out information to the law enforcement communities,
21:34and we never got any returns or any information from any other departments that may have had a similar
21:41case. I think it's a great possibility that there are other victims out there that haven't been
21:46identified or are scared to come forward with information that are associated with crimes committed
21:52against them.
22:01We sent two investigators. At that time, Investigator Edward Smith and
22:04Investigator Stanley Fernald to Pennsylvania to interview Mr. Blaney.
22:15Hi, Robert. Investigator Smith here. This is Investigator Fernald.
22:21How you doing, Rob? No.
22:23We're from the Utica Police? Yeah.
22:26I guess you were expecting us at one point?
22:30Yeah. So we come down here to talk to you about the incident and take you from there.
22:38Yeah, whatever. I'll do whatever you gotta do.
22:41I don't care no more. Just do what you gotta do.
22:44Rob, what do you prefer to be called? Robert? Rob?
22:47It doesn't matter.
22:49Well, I'll talk to you about that.
22:51I'll come back. I really don't care.
22:52All right.
22:53Well, just be aware of the conversation here is recorded.
22:57Yeah.
22:58Audio and video. You okay with that?
23:00Yeah.
23:00Okay.
23:01Okay.
23:02Can you, uh, give us a little information on what happened over at the Davis Motel?
23:07Yeah. They raped a woman.
23:10Just like that?
23:11Just like that.
23:16Man, s*** in life, that's all.
23:19If I'm gonna be miserable,
23:24somebody else is gonna be miserable with me.
23:25Is there any way you can back us up a little bit and tell us how you started this with her?
23:47Oh, it's a straight rape. That's it. Whatever else you want to put in there, go ahead.
24:01It's just, that's just the way it is.
24:02We're just hoping to get some details in love 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, um, for a victim's family to deal with knowing that
24:22this type of person exists and that the last person their loved one was encountered with was this person.
24:28Robert was just very matter of fact.
24:32He seemed to have given up on himself.
24:35And I think this might stem from his childhood.
24:38Since he did have a hard childhood, he was the victim of physical and emotional abuse.
24:44He even said in his own words, he felt like a throwaway.
24:48He felt like his parents didn't want him.
24:50So he had a very rough start in his childhood.
24:54And it's, it's not an excuse because a lot of people have a bad childhood.
24:58It doesn't mean you can go out and rape and, you know, do whatever it is that you want.
25:02That doesn't give you the right.
25:04But when people feel like they're throwaways, it's hard to make them want to be a better person.
25:12And I don't know if he ever wanted to be a better person.
25:16I think he knew who he was and he stuck with that.
25:20Let me ask you this.
25:24Why did you run for parole in the first place?
25:26What started all this?
25:27Well, my ex-friend Randy has got everything going on for himself right now.
25:37I'm thinking, oh, that's never going to happen for me, you know.
25:39He's got a nice apartment, nice vehicle.
25:41He's got a girlfriend now and he's got as odd jobs as he does.
25:44He's got a good life.
25:45And you talk to him, he'll tell you, yeah, a couple of months ago, I told him my life sucks.
25:51Actually, two or three months ago, I told him, I think.
25:55He said, what do you mean by that?
25:56I said, listen, you got a vehicle, you got a girlfriend, you got a nice apartment.
26:04What the hell more could you want, you know?
26:05And you got all these odd jobs lined up.
26:07You're doing good.
26:09He says, well, give it time.
26:10It could happen for you.
26:11I said, Randy, it's not going to happen for me, trust me.
26:13He said, no, it'll happen.
26:14It's not going to happen for me.
26:17Oh, well.
26:19And it didn't, so.
26:22Because he was so jealous of another parolee, he abandoned the life that he tried so hard to
26:30create 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
26:43hang out there and they kept daring each other to go downstairs.
26:48So he knew it was only a matter of time before somebody brought a flashlight and they found him.
26:53So everything that he had on him, his sweatpants, his boots, everything, and all the other clothes was all from that abandoned house.
27:02And that's what he had with him.
27:03He had heard police sirens, whether it was an emergency from an ambulance or maybe a police siren.
27:11But he actually tried to commit suicide.
27:13He wrapped the rope around his neck and the tree actually, the branch had broke.
27:17So he wasn't able to successfully commit suicide.
27:20But that 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
27:28absconding 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.
27:53He said, you know, during the day, he would allow himself to watch TV at night.
27:58Everything was off in the room.
27:59He 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?
28:25I think she thinks she locked it all the way.
28:30When she pulled it, it didn't latch.
28:35I just pushed down and it opened up.
28:40I was actually surprised that it opened up.
28:45So what happens at this point?
28:47Well, at this point, I'm making haste.
28:49I'm going in there.
28:51I said, I got to get money, got to get money, got to get money.
28:52I went in there looking for them little freaking green things with the zipper on them.
28:57Little money bags?
28:58Yeah.
28:59When you pushed the door open, where is she?
29:03She was out showing somebody a room.
29:06Oh, so she wasn't even in there?
29:07No, she wasn't in there.
29:09Oh, that's why the door was unlocked.
29:11Yeah, 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.
29:20She said, I'm going to be right there.
29:22So I went to the darkest place in the house.
29:24Okay, now where was that?
29:25Right around the corner.
29:28I raped her in the bedroom or whatever.
29:33He had hidden behind a, what I would call like a room divider.
29:36It was like an accordion plastic type door.
29:39And Linda Turner actually had a phone call.
29:41And that's when he took the opportunity to surprise her
29:44and come out from behind the partition that he was hiding behind.
29:49Does 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.
29:55When you grabbed her, how did you grab her?
30:06Around the throat.
30:08Did you grab her with your hands or?
30:09No, I had a piece of rope.
30:11It was maybe, what, two foot long, three foot long.
30:16Actually, it might have been a little longer than that.
30:18How color was it?
30:20White.
30:20White.
30:21Well, it was kind of dirty at the time.
30:23Let's see.
30:24Is it a little bit gray maybe?
30:26Yeah, that's more the color it was.
30:28You check it, you probably find some of my skin in there too.
30:31Was it weathered?
30:32A little older like?
30:35Well, by the time I got done with it, yeah.
30:36Yeah.
30:37All right.
30:38The tree episode probably did, yeah.
30:42So getting back when, when you grabbed her,
30:44did you put it around her chest?
30:45Did you get it right around the neck right away or?
30:47Well, it was kind of like more around, I was trying for the neck right away, yes.
30:52But I got like here.
30:54Scuffle probably lasted 10, 5, 10 minutes maybe.
30:59Five or 10 minutes?
31:00Yeah.
31:01Really?
31:01That long?
31:02Yeah, it was, it was a good look I didn't, I didn't have full force on the rope.
31:07It was just enough to, to, uh, 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.
31:29Yeah, I actually had to take the, the belt out of the loose over pants.
31:33Okay, that's where that came from.
31:35Yeah.
31:35All right.
31:36Yeah.
31:36So, when did you know that you were a raper?
31:45That was the split second decision.
31:47That was nothing that was planned.
31:49Well, listen, I'm asking you.
31:50No, I know, I know, I know, I know.
31:52Like I said, when she was in there, I'm like, I'm looking for an out.
31:55I don't, can't get the money, I'm looking for an out.
31:57But we're just, he was just asking.
31:59Yeah, I know, I did, I know, I know.
32:00I had no chance in doing that, man.
32:02I'm fighting, I'm fighting with us in the arts.
32:04Yeah, come on.
32:04I just, I'm just, I said, well, yeah, I'm already going back anyway.
32:10So, well, 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,
32:29with not a care in the world, that he in fact had committed the crime.
32:33Didn't care that we had him in custody.
32:35Just a really, really bad and cold individual.
32:42It actually came out that after assaulting two women
32:47and trying to assault an eight-year-old girl,
32:49he didn't even serve his full sentence.
32:52They let him out early for good behavior.
32:55During his parole hearing, he told them
32:57that he was going to hurt somebody
33:01and that he should stay there
33:03because he's broken and he doesn't want to hurt anybody,
33:05but he's going to do it.
33:06He said himself, society is safer with me in prison.
33:10And if that isn't enough to keep him in there,
33:12I'm not sure what else could be done.
33:15I say, how can I put this?
33:20It's like, it's like reversed.
33:22It's like in prison, I did 20 years,
33:26two misbehavior reports in 20 years.
33:29Okay.
33:29It's like, I can live in there a lot better than I can out here.
33:32Out here, I got two counseling sessions a week
33:37or a month that I have to go to.
33:38I have to report to Detective Salerno once every three months
33:44or two months or whatever it is for the registry purposes.
33:47I had a bunch of , like Monday through Friday,
33:51I was always busy.
33:52I was always going somewhere, always doing something.
33:55So now I get to go back and I got all the time in the world for myself.
33:58I ain't got to worry about nothing.
34:00I mean, I tried living.
34:01I can't live out here.
34:04This is living proof.
34:05There's no way I can make it on her.
34:07No way.
34:10Perpetrators like this, they don't change their patterns.
34:16And it happens time and time again.
34:18We've seen this in so many other cases.
34:21They get out, they re-offend.
34:23And even in this case, and a lot of other ones, then they escalate.
34:28He had never murdered anyone before.
34:31Now it's escalated to murder.
34:35What'd you throw him?
34:36What was that?
34:38Mostly to get him up off the floor so I wouldn't trip over him again, of course.
34:41And then, like I said, the other reason was in case she got cold.
34:45I'm not going to put her clothes back on her.
34:47So, I'm trying to get the hell out of her.
34:48Listen, Rob, you make me understand this.
34:51You just broke into the girl's house.
34:55You robbed her.
34:56You raped her.
34:57You tell me you're worried if she's going to get cold or not.
34:59Yeah, pretty much.
35:09Rob, I think you know that she was lifeless when you left.
35:13And I think that's why you put the clothes on her.
35:15No.
35:21Huh?
35:23Stomach was going up and down.
35:25You know what you mean?
35:25Because of your last grasp.
35:28there was there was enough room you could put your pinky I can put my pinky up in between there
35:34so there wasn't doing but it's still being rough like that because it looked rough I'm giving it
35:39to you straight yeah you want it straight I'll give it to you straight and belt was wrapped
35:43around her and wrapped around her tight and wrapped around her hair and it's that's good
35:50enough for me okay that's what you say I mean I'm just I know I know you were straight with
35:56me and I want to be straight you know that's why yeah I have a problem with that okay that's good
36:01enough to leave it at that it's not one of those situations where you know somebody made a poor
36:07decision to drive drunk and killed somebody and they regret this decision for the rest of their
36:10life this is somebody who knew what they were doing were calculated what they were doing did
36:16what they did know they did it and just don't care or if they do they don't know how to offer any
36:21condolences or sympathies or remorse
36:25I can't I don't know I don't know what else to say all right hang loose to these troopers uh come in
36:32again here and they're they're gonna take you out thank you it's hard for me to even say thank you
36:39believe me
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39:27you've had how many rapes in the past
39:29i'm sorry too many
39:31too many sort of sort of can't help yourself is that right
39:37in fact the last time you were released did you tell
39:40parole board or someone that you they shouldn't let you out
39:46all right you're satisfied yeah all right how do you plead then mr blaney to the first
39:51first count murder in the first degree guilty or not guilty
39:54the first count murder in the first degree guilty or not guilty
39:56of the first one for a second half of the first one you can't do that I'm not guilty of the
39:59the first one who was going to help me out on the first of the first night
40:01of the first night and the first night of the first night of the first night of the
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. You're the coldest person I've ever seen in this courtroom.
40:19Thank you for a compliment.
40:21A compliment? You think that's a compliment?
40:23That didn't mean it to be a compliment.
40:25Okay, we'll see you on the 16th March.
40:27Thank you, Rob.
40:33Robert 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.
41:19And again, the picture that they had was not up to date.
41:24And so 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
41:58where I 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.
42:09I almost feel sympathy for him.
42:10Somebody 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 and now has to live with that
42:26when he knew he didn't want to, when he knew it was a real threat.
42:31And it's unfortunate.
42:32And the place I hold ill will is for those responsible for not heeding his warning.
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