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00:00Unresponsive female. You find a deceased female naked on a bed under a pile of
00:05clothes with a belt wrapped around her throat. It's a very harrowing situation.
00:10Does she come into the bedroom? Yeah, that's right. And that's when she sees you?
00:14She didn't even see me. When she came through, that's when I grabbed her. To know, like,
00:18your mother and your grandmother was murdered by their own belt, it's
00:24heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking.
00:27The murder was such a shock to that community that I know of at least one
00:40family that actually moved as a result of the incident. It really weighs on you to
00:45make sure that you try to locate that suspect as soon as possible. The
00:49possession of children's underwear in the vehicle is really, really concerning.
00:57He knows he's a monster. He was just a scary-looking individual who just had no
01:03emotion and really could care less of the heinous crimes that he just committed.
01:06She's gone and gone violently and brutally and painfully. The place I hold ill will is
01:13for those responsible for not heeding his warning.
01:20惑 project member 4 until 5 ap kann in the law
01:36On November 3rd, 2011, police respond to a motel in Utica, New York, after receiving
01:49reports 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,
02:02lights were on that typically weren't on, there were candles burning, there were doors
02:05open, things like that, and as she's bending down, she puts her hand on the bed and unfortunately
02:09at that point, feels a cold leg.
02:13We're arriving on scene, it was somewhat eerie because you're pulling into a property that's
02:18a little bit out of the way as far as the city goes, a hotel sits back on some land, so it
02:25could be a little bit eerie when you pull up.
02:29This is potentially somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's aunt, somebody's
02:35relative, friend, you know that you're walking into that, and then you know the recourse
02:41that that has on all those people.
02:46Police entered the crime scene, located in the main office of the motel.
02:52The room was in disarray.
02:53There were lights on, there were candles still burning, there were doors open, there were
02:57things thrown everywhere.
02:58Obviously we didn't know, you know, the circumstances of it.
03:01It would appear that a struggle had ensued.
03:05Unfortunately, the victim was naked, on a bed, under a pile of clothes.
03:09She had a belt wrapped around her neck a couple of times and her hands appeared to be tied
03:12behind her back.
03:13So certainly there appeared to be some sort of robbery and likely sexual motivation to
03:18be involved in this crime.
03:20The scene itself definitely showed that there was evidence that the victim had fought for
03:25her life.
03:29We were able to identify the victim in this case relatively quickly.
03:32She was confirmed as Linda Turner.
03:40Linda Turner was 68 years old and she owned Davis Motel, but she also lived there.
03:46That was her residence as well.
03:49Linda Turner was a staple in the Utica community.
03:51She ran the Davis Motel flawlessly.
03:53She really had the desire to keep it as a family run place, somewhere that people felt
03:57safe to come, somewhere people felt longing to come to Utica and really enjoy their stay.
04:01And we really appreciated her for that.
04:04The individuals that she had renting those rooms were very peaceful, very respectful.
04:08Everybody we 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.
04:18So the community was shocked and they were even more shocked in the manner of death, how
04:23she died.
04:24It was very tragic.
04:26It could be your mother.
04:27It could be your loved one.
04:28They're in the safety of their home and a stranger comes in and commits such a horrendous
04:31crime.
04:32It really strikes the court and everyone feels it.
04:34The murder was such a shock to that community in North Utica that I know of at least one family
04:40that that actually moved as a result of the incident.
04:45Nobody ever wants to think of anyone dying that way.
04:50It was just brutal.
04:54The hardest day was going to the crime scene.
05:00To this day, I mean, I feel like I've really tried to grieve and process it well.
05:03But seeing her her fingernails on the floor from fighting, seeing the dinner that she was
05:09trying to enjoy still sitting on 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.
05:25When it is something so violent and so brutal and out of nowhere, it is a different level
05:36of processing grief.
05:39Sensing the terror that she went through, the last few minutes of her life was sheer terror,
05:45you know?
05:46And fighting for her life and the struggle and the, you know, there's no goodbyes.
05:52There'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.
05:59It's just, she's gone and gone violently and brutally and, 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
06:26the first people to kind of enter the crime scene, secure the crime scene, kind of observe
06:31the crime scene, and then be able to escort the investigators into the crime scene so that
06:37we don't disturb any type of evidence.
06:39For our evidence technicians to be able to collect the evidence needed, especially when you're
06:45talking about DNA and physical evidence of that nature.
06:51We don't know what happened.
06:53You find a unfortunately deceased Linda Turner naked on a bed under a pile of clothes with
06:58a belt wrapped around her throat.
06:59It's a very harrowing situation.
07:01And at that time, we have no idea who the suspect is.
07:04So at the time, 2011, the Davis Mortel had no surveillance, unfortunately.
07:08It's a very small place.
07:10You kind of know everybody, or you have a really good familiarity of the people that
07:13stay there.
07:14A lot of the people are repeat tenants.
07:15So there really probably wasn't felt that surveillance video was needed at that location.
07:21There was some guests that were at the hotel.
07:24It's important, maybe not necessarily to call everybody a suspect, but everybody needs to
07:28be spoken with.
07:29Everyone needs to be vetted and everyone needs to be cleared.
07:33There were three consecutive rooms that were being rented, number 10, number 11, number
07:3712.
07:38These individuals were from out of town, they were doing some work in the city, but they
07:40were not home at the time of the location of the body.
07:43The registered guests that we encountered were all spoken to, were all vetted, and were
07:47all ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing or being involved in this case by anything.
07:53There wasn't a whole lot of information to really kind of build upon at that time.
07:58There were no witnesses that ever came forward to say that they had heard any screaming, anything
08:01amiss.
08:02They 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.
08:13Really early on in the investigation, we realized that the car was missing from the location,
08:18you know, and that's obviously from talking to people.
08:21It was obvious that the most probable reason was that the vehicle was stolen.
08:27With the motel not having surveillance on the property, kind of put us behind the eight
08:31ball a little bit, but we did have a witness saying that they saw the vehicle leaving the
08:35property.
08:36Individuals who often waved to Linda and beeped at her noticed the car pulling out
08:40in a very strange fashion.
08:41It was slow.
08:42It was meandering.
08:43The individual never acknowledged their presence.
08:45So that kind of felt odd to them when we spoke to them later.
08:47So we put a file one in the New York state criminal justice system.
08:51A file one is a stolen vehicle report.
08:53So we put as much information as possible about that vehicle into it.
08:57So anybody that flags that car, runs that plate, pulls it over, will automatically know that
09:03that car was stolen and it's wanted in reference to a homicide investigation.
09:09What we did also is do safety checks of all the rooms on the property to see if there was
09:17any evidence in any of those rooms.
09:20While doing those checks, we did come across a room that had a key broken off into the door
09:24lock.
09:26When we went into the location, we found that some strange things like the TV was on without
09:30volume.
09:32It appears that somebody's been living in one of these rooms and it doesn't appear
09:36that that person is a registered guest.
09:42We 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.
09:54We had a pretty good indication that he would be our primary suspect in this case.
09:59It's a town of about 70,000 people.
10:02It's very diverse.
10:03We average between 6 and 10 homicides in a variety of capacity, usually kind of street-level shooting-related
10:09homicides.
10:10But some stabbings, things like that, some domestics.
10:13A homicide of this nature is certainly an aberration.
10:15We don't often get stranger-on-stranger homicides in a situation where we locate the body later and the suspect is not on scene.
10:21So kind of the difficult part of the Davis Motel is that it's on Herkimer Road, Herkimer Road is a two-lane thoroughfare that's primarily commercial traffic traversing from one side of the city to Herkimer County, and it's often very backed up with traffic.
10:33So in an emergency response, it takes quite a bit of time just due to the nature of the traffic and the fact that we can't really get around too easily.
10:49Every murder is horrendous in its own nature, right, but a lot of the murders we see are kind of street-level killings over various disputes and things of that nature.
11:04When you have a case such as this, it really resonates.
11:07It resonates with the investigators.
11:08It resonates with the forensic individuals who spend a lot of time at the crime scene.
11:13And most importantly, it certainly resonates with the family.
11:19We had a very close relationship.
11:26You know, she was always willing to have me with her no matter what we were doing.
11:31She was great about teaching me responsibility and, you know, letting me run her cash drawer and check people in at the motel.
11:38To this day, I can't make a bed without sharp corners and, you know, fold my laundry to a T.
11:44But she also was the first one to, you know, teach me how to hustle a game of pool and throw darts.
11:48So, yes, she was my grandmother, but she was my friend.
11:58Her nickname was Hats.
11:59She had a variety of hats and she wore them all the time.
12:01From what we understand, from ball caps to fedoras to cowboy hats.
12:04It was really kind of her thing to wear a hat wherever she went.
12:07She loved adventuring the outdoors.
12:10She loved gardening and planting her flowers.
12:13She loved her motel.
12:14I mean, it was a one-woman show.
12:16She cleaned the rooms by hand, made all the beds.
12:20She did all the laundry by hand.
12:22It was all wine dried.
12:23She took very great pride in how she ran the place, the cleanliness, the decorations.
12:29Down to every lamp and painting in the place was her.
12:32She had the motel before I was born.
12:37It was part of the family and my dad had spent time down there.
12:41She had help from her sister, Barbara, and her mother would come down.
12:44And she was there for about 30, almost 35 years.
12:50The whole property, it was a beautiful wooded, I mean, something you would imagine that in the 50s you'd see people out lounging and under the pine trees.
12:59And there's, you know, swing sets for the kids and little barbecue areas.
13:02It was a place where, you know, it was our family's place.
13:06It wasn't just the motel, you know, the dogs of the family.
13:08We had the cemetery for the dogs in the back.
13:11And it's a place that I loved enough.
13:13I mean, I have the motel sign tattooed on my arm because it's such a big part of my life.
13:19We spoke to numerous people that either stayed at the hotel or are currently staying at the hotel at the time.
13:30And at no point did Linda really ever have any concerns for her safety.
13:34She kind of just ran the place on her own, took care of everything on her own, and really felt at home there.
13:38So it's really tragic that this happened to her in the place that she felt most safe.
13:42The name of the ID found in room 17 at Linda's Motel is Robert Blaney, a dangerous individual with a violent past.
13:55He was a registered sex offender.
13:58He was on New York state parole for crimes that he had previously committed.
14:02And it was also actively wanted with a parole warrant for violating the parole and his conditions that he was on release for.
14:11Robert Blaney had actually only been out of prison for two years after serving 20 years for two accounts of rape on some older women and also attempted rape on an eight year old girl.
14:26Certainly in a parole status, you have regular check-ins with your parole officer.
14:30However, when you are on a sex offender status, we also internally at the Utica Police Department have a sex offender unit, especially what level you are.
14:37You have to make regular check-ins with respect to your location, your new address, any updated photos, anything of that nature that really we do in an effort to keep the community safe.
14:47But Blaney was having difficulty reintegrating into society.
14:52So we know that he was a caretaker at a local cemetery called St. Joseph's Cemetery.
14:56He wasn't really doing a great job there.
14:58We know he had some problems with his bosses and certainly as 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, gave us a solid prime suspect in this case.
15:20The victim's vehicle is gone and he's gone.
15:23So we had to rely on police officers and community members to help us locate the vehicle and hopefully locate the vehicle with the suspect with it.
15:32So we put up what's called a bolo, a be on the lookout for Robert Blaney.
15:37So initially a photograph was circulated with respect to his wanted status for being a parole of scotter.
15:42This photograph showed him to be a relatively clean cut individual.
15:45Obviously that was put out nationwide as we did not know where he could be.
15:48He was in a vehicle that was not his. We knew he was trying to flee.
15:51So as far of a net as we could cast, we tried to locate him.
15:54It really weighs on you to make sure that you try to locate that suspect as soon as possible.
15:59Particularly in this case where the horrific nature of the crimes that were committed was definitely somebody that could re-offend really quickly to satisfy an urge.
16:09He was a very dangerous individual, an individual that at no point do we want running the streets, especially on absconding on a parole status.
16:17As far as movements for Mr. Blaney, we really didn't have anything solid to go on.
16:21There was not an easy pass for the vehicle.
16:24We did not have any plate reader hits or anything to kind of help us kind of track where this vehicle may have gone.
16:30Believing that Mr. Blaney was driving him.
16:32I think it's probably fair to say that you had a Nationline manhunt happening because we didn't know where he was and ultimately was located outside the state.
16:40In the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, a state trooper is preparing to conduct a traffic stop.
16:47I was a patrol trooper assigned in Lycoming County that night and I was just running routine patrol.
16:54Saw a vehicle in front of me and did not use his turn signal.
16:59So I started following him.
17:01The vehicle started crossing over the fog line, the center median line.
17:06And I ran the tag, presumably thinking it potentially could have been a DUI driving under the influence arrest.
17:13So when the tag came back, it came back and it said that the vehicle had been stolen.
17:19And in the notes of that hit that came back from New York State, it said that the vehicle was wanted in conjunction with a possible homicide.
17:27So at that point, I got on the radio and ascertained where the next available or nearest unit to me would be so we could conduct a felony stop on the vehicle.
17:40The 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.
17:57We have eyes on it.
17:58There's an individual in it.
17:59Would you like him?
18:00At that point, obviously, we gave an affirmative that we would like to talk to him.
18:03They 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.
18:13And then Trooper Paul McGee went up to the passenger side of the vehicle and ordered Mr. Blaney out of the vehicle,
18:19making sure that we could see his hands the entire time we were doing the stop.
18:23We ended up taking him back to the back of the vehicle.
18:26We did a pat down search on him.
18:29When doing a search, he had women's underwear in his sweatpants pant leg.
18:35So we collected those and then ultimately put him into handcuffs.
18:39Then he was placed in the back of my car to be transported back to the PSP Montoursville Barracks.
18:45From where the traffic stop occurred to the barracks was only a five minute drive.
18:52So we had a very short conversation in the back of my patrol car, which at that point he said, you know,
18:59my time's up. Utica is going to be looking for me.
19:02I committed a rape, he said, about a week ago up in New York State.
19:07That was his attitude from the get go.
19:12I think he realized that he had reached the pinnacle of horrible behavior and knew that his life, his free life was no longer going to be his.
19:23I mean, he wasn't hostile, aggressive or anything like that.
19:27I'd say if anything, he was just sort of emotionless.
19:30I guess he really didn't have any emotions.
19:33He wasn't, you know, worked up that he was being arrested or angry.
19:38He wasn't trying to fight or anything of that nature.
19:41Once the suspect was located and we were able to obtain a photograph of him, it was obvious that his appearance had changed from what we were looking at as a parole photo to where his hair was grown out.
19:57He had facial hair, a little bit more disheveled.
19:59The pictures were very off of his appearance and could be deceiving as far as an attempting to locate him.
20:08We actually sent tattoo photos to his parole agent and they positively identified him through a tattoo as well.
20:14So it posed a little bit of a challenge, but we were able to make a positive confirm that this is Robert Blaney.
20:20He was arrested here for arrest prior to requisition charge, which is basically a fugitive from justice charge that we use.
20:28And it was on the parole, the fact that he was wanted for parole.
20:31So he wasn't charged with any crime associated with the homicide or the sexual assault in Pennsylvania or in New York at that point.
20:39While Blaney is held at the Pennsylvania State Police barracks, a more thorough search of Linda Turner's vehicle is conducted.
20:48While we were looking through the vehicle inside the driver's side door console, there was additional women's underwear located in that door.
20:56And 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.
21:07We don't know where that came from, but to have the possession of children's underwear in the vehicle is really, really concerning.
21:14For someone who is willing to perpetrate the crime we're speaking about, as well as perpetrate the crimes that we know he had committed, which placed them on parole in the first place, you have to wonder whether there's other victims.
21:24We did what we could to put out information to the law enforcement communities, and we never got any returns or any information from any other departments that may have had a similar case.
21:36I think it's a great possibility that there are other victims out there that haven't been identified or are scared to come forward with information that are associated with crimes committed against them.
21:49We sent two investigators. At that time, investigator Edward Smith and investigator Stanley Fernald to Pennsylvania to interview Mr. Blaney.
22:02Hi, Robert.
22:03Yeah?
22:04Investigator Smith here.
22:05Investigator Fernald?
22:06How you doing, Rob?
22:07No.
22:08We're from the Utica police?
22:09Yeah.
22:10I guess you were expecting us at one point?
22:11Yeah.
22:12So we come down here to talk to you about the incident and we're going to talk to you about the
22:31incident and take you from there.
22:33Yeah.
22:34Whatever.
22:35I'll do whatever you got to do.
22:36I don't care no more.
22:37Just do what you got to do.
22:39Rob, what do you prefer to be called?
22:41Robert?
22:42Rob?
22:43It doesn't matter.
22:44Bob, Bob, Bob, your head .
22:46Come back.
22:47I really don't care.
22:48Well, just be aware of the conversation here is recorded.
22:52Yeah.
22:53Audio and video.
22:54You're okay with that?
22:55Yeah.
22:56Okay.
22:57Can you give us a little information on what happened over at the Davis Motel?
23:02Yeah.
23:03I raped a woman.
23:04Just like that?
23:06Just like that.
23:07Man, s*** in life, that's all.
23:13If I'm going to be miserable, somebody else is going to be miserable with me.
23:20Is there any way you can back us up a little bit and tell us how you started this with her?
23:43Oh!
23:44It's a straight rape.
23:45That's it.
23:46Whatever else you want to put in there, go ahead.
23:47That's just the way it is.
23:48We're just hoping to get some details in love to her.
24:04Ultimately, what we see here in this person is the evil and the coldness in him basically doesn't care.
24:11That 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.
24:23Robert was just very matter of fact.
24:27He seemed to have given up on himself.
24:30And I think this might stem from his childhood.
24:33Since he did have a hard childhood, he was the victim of physical and emotional abuse.
24:39He even said in his own words, he felt like a throwaway.
24:43He felt like his parents didn't want him.
24:45So he had a very rough start in his childhood.
24:49And it's not an excuse because a lot of people have a bad childhood.
24:53It doesn't mean you can go out and rape and, you know, do whatever it is that you want.
24:57That doesn't give you the right.
24:59But when people feel like they're throwaways, it's hard to make them want to be a better person.
25:07And I don't know if he ever wanted to be a better person.
25:11I think he knew who he was and he stuck with that.
25:17Let me ask you this.
25:19Why did you run for parole in the first place?
25:21What started all this?
25:23Well, my ex-friend Randy has got everything going on for himself right now.
25:29I'm thinking, oh, that's never going to happen for me.
25:34You know, he's got a nice apartment, nice vehicle.
25:36He's got a girlfriend now and he's got his odd jobs that he does.
25:39He's got a good life.
25:40And you talk to him, he'll tell you, yeah, a couple months ago I told him my life sucks.
25:46Actually, two or three months ago I told him, I think.
25:49He said, what do you mean by that?
25:51I said, listen, you've got a vehicle, you've got a girlfriend, you've got a nice apartment.
25:57What the hell more could you want?
26:00You know, and you've got all these odd jobs lined up.
26:02You're doing good.
26:03He says, well, give it time.
26:05It could happen for you.
26:06I said, Randy, it's not going to happen for me.
26:07Trust me.
26:08He said, no, it'll happen.
26:09It's not going to happen for me.
26:12Oh, well.
26:14And it didn't, so.
26:17Because he was so jealous of another parolee, he abandoned the life that he tried so hard
26:25to create or recreate for those two years and went on the run.
26:32He was actually living in an abandoned house in the basement.
26:36But in the community, the kids would hang out there and they kept daring each other to go
26:41downstairs.
26:42So he knew it was only a matter of time before somebody brought a flashlight and they found him.
26:48So everything that he had on him, his sweatpants, his boots, everything and all the other clothes was all from that abandoned house.
26:57And that's what he had with him.
27:00He had heard police sirens, whether it was an emergency from an ambulance or maybe a police siren.
27:06But he actually tried to commit suicide.
27:08He wrapped the rope around his neck and the tree actually, the branch had broke.
27:13So he wasn't able to successfully commit suicide.
27:15But that's kind of gives you a mindset of how he lived.
27:19I guess he was always looking over his shoulder, worried about what was coming up next as he was absconding from parole.
27:24He knew there was a good likelihood that he was going back to prison for a very long time if he was ever found.
27:29That 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 that was open.
27:45He was trying to find a place to stay.
27:47He said, you know, during the day he would allow himself to watch TV at night.
27:52Everything was off in the room.
27:54He kept all of his belongings under the bed in case anyone ever came in.
27:58He was always ready to dive under the bed because he would hear voices going up and down the hall.
28:08He just felt like his time was running out and he was looking for money.
28:13So he figured the office probably has money.
28:18Did you knock or was the door open?
28:21I think she thinks she locked it all the way.
28:24When she pulled it, it didn't latch.
28:27I just pushed down.
28:31I just pushed down and it opened up.
28:34I was actually surprised that it opened up.
28:36So what happens at this point?
28:40Well, at this point I'm making haste.
28:44I'm going in there.
28:45I said, I got to get money, got to get money, got to get money.
28:47I went in there looking for them little freaking green things with the zipper on them.
28:51Little money bags.
28:52Yeah.
28:53When you pushed the door open, where is she?
28:57She was out showing somebody a room.
29:00Oh, so she wasn't even in there anymore.
29:02No, she wasn't in there.
29:03Oh, that's why the door was unlocked.
29:06Yeah, she came in the house and scared the out of me.
29:08So I had nowhere else to go.
29:11I couldn't go back towards the door because it means she opens that door.
29:14I'm going to be right there.
29:16Oh.
29:17So I went to the darkest place in the house.
29:19Okay, now where was that?
29:20Right around the corner where I raped her in the bedroom or whatever that room was.
29:28He had hidden behind what I would call a room divider.
29:31It was like an accordion, plastic type door.
29:34And Linda Turner actually had a phone call.
29:36And that's when he took the opportunity to surprise her
29:39and come out from behind the partition that he was hiding behind.
29:43Does she come into the bedroom?
29:45Yeah, that's right.
29:46And that's when she sees you?
29:47She didn't even see me.
29:48When she came through, that's when I grabbed her.
30:00Now when you grabbed her, how did you grab her?
30:02Around the throat.
30:03Did you grab her with your hands?
30:04No, I had a piece of rope that was maybe, what, two foot long, three foot long.
30:11Actually, it might have been a little longer than that.
30:14What color was it?
30:15White.
30:16White.
30:17Well, it was kind of dirty at the time.
30:18I was going to say, was it a little bit gray maybe?
30:21Yeah, that's more the color it was.
30:23You check it, you probably find some of my skin in there too.
30:26Was it weathered?
30:27A little older like?
30:29Well, by the time I got done with it, yeah.
30:32But the tree episode probably, yeah.
30:37So getting back, when you grabbed her, did you put it around her chest?
30:40Did you get it right around the neck right away or?
30:42Well, it was kind of like more around, I was trying for the neck right away, yes.
30:46But I got like here, the scuffle probably lasted ten, five, ten minutes maybe.
30:54Five or ten minutes?
30:55Yeah.
30:56Really?
30:57That long?
30:58Yeah, there was a gumbo cowboy that didn't have full force on the rope.
31:02It was just enough to take the fight out of her, so to speak.
31:09Is that all that was around her neck?
31:12No.
31:13Because you never mentioned anything else?
31:15No.
31:16Yeah, I was waiting for you to tell us.
31:18You think I'm an idiot?
31:19No, no, no.
31:20Well, I mean, it doesn't matter.
31:21I mean, I don't care what you think of me, I really don't.
31:24Yeah, I actually had to take the belt out of it, loose over my pants.
31:28Okay, that's where that came from.
31:30Yeah.
31:31Alright.
31:32Yeah.
31:33So, when did you know that you were a raper?
31:38That was the split second decision.
31:42That was nothing that was planned.
31:44Listen, I'm asking you.
31:45No, I know, I know, I know.
31:47Like I said, when she was in there, I'm looking for an out.
31:50I don't, can't get the money, I'm looking for an out.
31:53He was just asking.
31:54Yeah, I know, I did, I know, I know.
31:56I had no chances of doing that, man.
31:57Fighting with us at all.
31:59Yeah, come on, just, just.
32:01I said, well, meh.
32:03Yeah, I'm already going back anyway, so.
32:06I'm screwed.
32:07What the hell?
32:08Let's point blank cut the driver, hmm?
32:21Mr. Blaney admitted with very flat effect, with no emotion, with not a care in the world,
32:26that he, in fact, had committed the crime.
32:28Didn't care that we had him in custody.
32:30Just a really, really bad and cold individual.
32:33It actually came out that after assaulting two women and trying to assault an eight-year-old girl,
32:44he didn't even serve his full sentence.
32:47They let him out early for good behavior.
32:50During his parole hearing, he told them that he was going to hurt somebody and that he should stay there,
32:57because he's broken and he doesn't want to hurt anybody, but he's going to do it.
33:01He said himself, society is safer with me in prison.
33:04And if, if that isn't enough to keep him in there, I'm not sure what else could be done.
33:11I say, how can I put this, um, it's like, it's like reversed.
33:17It's like, in prison, I did 20 years, two misbehavior reports in 20 years.
33:23Okay.
33:24It's like, I can live in there a lot better than I can out here.
33:27Out here, I got two counseling sessions a week or a month that I have to go to.
33:34I have to report to, uh, Detective Salerno once every, what's it, every three months or two months
33:40or whatever it is for the registry purposes.
33:42I had, uh, I had a bunch of s**t that, like, Monday through Friday, I was always busy.
33:47I was always going somewhere, always doing something.
33:49So now I get to go back and I got all the time in the world for myself.
33:53I ain't got to worry about nothing.
33:55I mean, I tried living, I can't live out here.
33:57It was just, there's, this is living proof.
34:00There's no way I can make it out here, no way.
34:03Perpetrators like this, they don't change their patterns.
34:11And it, it happens time and time again.
34:13We've seen this in so many other cases.
34:16They get out, they re-offend.
34:18And even in this case, and a lot of other ones, then they escalate.
34:23He had never murdered anyone before.
34:25Now it's escalated to murder.
34:28What'd you throw him? What was that?
34:32Well, mostly to get him up off the floor so I wouldn't trip over him again, of course.
34:36And then, like I said, the other reason was in case she got cold.
34:40I'm not going to put her clothes back in.
34:42I'm trying to get the hell out of her.
34:44Listen, Rob.
34:45You make me understand this.
34:46You just, you broke into the girl's house.
34:50You robbed her. You raped her.
34:52You tell me you're worried if she's going to get cold in it.
34:55Yeah, pretty much.
35:03Rob, I think you know that she was lifeless when you left.
35:07And I think that's why you put the clothes on her.
35:11No.
35:16Huh?
35:18Stomach was going up and down.
35:20What do you mean?
35:21Could be your last grasp.
35:24There was, there was enough room.
35:26You could put your pinky.
35:27I could put my pinky up in between there.
35:29So there was enough room.
35:30Yeah, but, but still being rough like that.
35:32Cause it looked rough.
35:33I'm giving it to you straight.
35:34Well, yeah, I know.
35:35You want it straight?
35:36I'm giving it to you straight.
35:37And that belt was wrapped around her.
35:39And it was wrapped around her tight.
35:40And it was wrapped around her hair.
35:42And it's, that's good enough for me.
35:46Okay, that's what you're saying.
35:48I mean, I'm just saying.
35:49I know, I know, I know.
35:50You were straight with me and I want to be straight with you.
35:52We're asking you, that's why.
35:53Yeah.
35:54I have a problem with that.
35:55Okay.
35:56That's good enough to leave it at that.
35:59It's not one of those situations where, you know, somebody made a poor decision to drive drunk and killed somebody and they regret this decision for the rest of their life.
36:06This is somebody who knew what they were doing, or calculated what they were doing, did what they did, know they did it, and just don't care.
36:15Or if they do, they don't know how to offer any condolences or sympathies or remorse.
36:21I can't, I don't know, I don't know what else to say.
36:25All right, hang loose to these troopers coming up in here and they're gonna take you out.
36:29All right.
36:32It's hard for me to even say thank you.
36:34Believe me.
36:35all right.
36:45You took on New York 2011, police have secured Robert Blaney's account.
37:022011, police have secured Robert Blaney's confession to the murder of Linda Turner in
37:07the Davis Motel. Preparations are made for Robert Blaney to be extradited back to Oneida
37:13County to face the consequences for his heinous actions. In order for him to be charged in
37:20county court, it had to go by way of a grand jury indictment. So we had to bring forth
37:25evidence to the grand jury to prove the case. And so when you're getting a case prepared
37:31for grand jury, you're looking for what evidence do we have. Certainly confession helped, but we
37:38could go beyond that. So there are some really crucial pieces of evidence that we located within
37:44the crime scene. Certainly the belt that we tested for DNA, you know, the ropes, things of that nature,
37:49things he may have touched, fingerprints of that nature. However, one really crucial piece of
37:53evidence was a sex assault kit that was performed on the deceased individual that had the DNA of
37:58Mr. Blaney on it. We believed it was going to be a very strong case, regardless of the confession.
38:05So in this instance, if there's other charges that that follow the indictment, unless they plead to
38:10the entire indictment, we recommend what we feel the sentence should be and what would be appropriate.
38:16In this case, murder in the first degree carried with it a sentence of life without the possibility of
38:22parole. And so that was our position was if he wants to admit to that, fine, we'll let him do that.
38:28But otherwise, we will prove the case because we believe the sentence should be life without
38:33parole. And the judge agreed with us.
38:36I told you what the sentence is going to be. Like you're not getting out. Do you understand that?
38:41Let's do it.
38:41All right. All right. Anybody else promise you anything to get you to plea guilty?
38:45Anyone threaten you to get you to plea guilty?
38:46Nope.
38:47So you're ending this plea here this morning voluntarily?
38:49Yes, sir.
38:50He knew he was such a danger that even facing life without parole, his response is bring it
38:57on. He was more comfortable in the system and being incarcerated where he was not only not
39:07a danger to others, but to himself.
39:14Mr. Blaney, when this happened, you were out on parole, correct?
39:18Yep.
39:18That was for another rape, right?
39:20Yep.
39:20You've had how many rapes in the past?
39:22Yeah.
39:23Too many.
39:24I'm sorry?
39:25Too many.
39:26Too many.
39:27Sort of can't help yourself. Is that right?
39:29Did, in fact, the last time you were released, did you tell parole or someone that they shouldn't
39:37let you out?
39:39Yep.
39:41All right. You all, you're satisfied?
39:43Yeah.
39:44All right.
39:44How do you plead, then, Mr. Blaney, to the first count of murder in the first degree guilty
39:48or not guilty?
39:49No, sir.
39:50Mr. McNamara, would that plea to satisfy all counts of the indictment would be satisfied
39:53for the people?
39:54With the understanding he would be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, yes, sir.
39:59A young kid, another woman, and now Linda Turner were brutally violated at the hands of
40:06Robert Blaney. No amount of time in prison is enough for him.
40:10There's a chill in the air here, Mr. Blaney. You're the coldest person I've ever seen in
40:13this courtroom.
40:14Thank you for a compliment.
40:16A compliment?
40:17Yeah.
40:17You think that's a compliment?
40:18That didn't mean it to be a compliment.
40:20All right, I agree.
40:20Okay, we'll see you on the 16th March.
40:22Thank you, Rob.
40:23You're welcome.
41:04I grew up in that area.
41:05I know that area very well.
41:08I do recall seeing a picture of Mr. Blaney as a parole absconder.
41:15Again, the picture that they had was not up to date.
41:19And so, you know, that sticks with me.
41:21And I think that's something that I think this community and parole learned from this
41:27is to ensure that they are quick with alerting the community if they do lose sight
41:34or they do have an absconder on parole and they get that out to the community
41:38and that they have an updated picture so that we can try to bring that person to justice.
41:43It took me quite some time and I've come to terms with pretty much everything
41:53to the point where I really don't hold any animosity or anger or hatred or ill will towards Blaney.
42:01It's a name that is etched in my mind.
42:04I almost feel sympathy for him.
42:06Somebody who recognized their danger,
42:10who alerted the people that needed to be alerted that he was a danger,
42:13and was put in a position to take a life
42:18and now has to live with that when he knew he didn't want to,
42:23when he knew it was a real threat.
42:26And it's unfortunate.
42:28And the place I hold ill will is for those responsible for not heeding his warning.
42:43I've had some concern that he wants to tell you guys about how he was trying to kill him.
42:48I hope that he couldn't he'll be in a position of his bad party.
42:52I can't prove that he could see that he wouldn't have to notice,
42:55and I can't do it anymore.
42:56And I don't think about them now.
42:57I definitely want to move his mind.
42:58But I think about this as a real threat.
43:00And I think about this we have to say,
43:01I've been trying to understand that in the place where we can learn how to fight
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