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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.
01:20So
01:21you
01:47on 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.
02:02We learn that from one of the caretakers, she's 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
02:14that point feels a cold leg.
02:15Arriving on scene, it was somewhat eerie because you're pulling into a property that's a little
02:24bit out of the way as far as the city goes. The hotel sits back on some land so it could be a little
02:30bit eerie when you pull up. This is potentially somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's
02:38aunt, somebody's relative, friend. You know that you're walking into that and then you know the
02:46recourse that that has on all those people.
02:50Police entered the crime scene, located in the main office of the motel.
02:56The room was in disarray. There were lights on, there were candles still burning, there were doors
03:02open, there were things thrown everywhere. Obviously, we didn't know, you know, the circumstances of it.
03:05It 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
03:15neck 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.
03:31We 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
03:52as well. Linda Turner was a staple in the Utica community. She ran the Davis Motel flawlessly.
03:58She really had the 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,
04:12very 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
04:25were 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
04:34stranger comes in and commits such a horrendous crime. It really strikes the court and everyone
04:38feels it. The murder was such a shock to that community in North Utica that I know of at least
04:45one family that actually moved as a result of the incident. Nobody ever wants to think
04:51of anyone dying 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
05:10her fingernails on the floor from fighting, seeing the dinner that she was trying to enjoy
05:15still sitting on the tray or knocked onto the floor.
05:22It's one thing to grieve the loss of a loved one, and it's never easy, even when unexpected.
05:28But when it is something so violent and so brutal and out of nowhere, it is a different
05:40level of processing grief.
05:42Sensing the terror that she went through, the last few minutes of her life was sheer terror,
05:50you know, and fighting for her life and the struggle and the, you know, there's no goodbyes.
05:57There's no, you know, prayers. There's no blessings. There's no priests. There's no, you know,
06:03last hug, last kiss. It's just, she's gone and gone violently and brutally and painfully.
06:12Utica 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,
06:30are the first people to kind of enter the crime scene, secure the crime scene, kind of observe
06:36the crime scene, and then be able to escort the investigators into the crime scene so that
06:42we don't disturb any type of evidence for our evidence technicians to be able to collect the
06:48evidence needed, especially when you're talking about DNA and physical evidence of that nature.
06:56We don't know what happened. You find a unfortunately deceased Linda Turner naked on a bed under a pile
07:02of clothes with a belt wrapped around her throat. It's a very harrowing situation. And at that time,
07:07we have no idea who the suspect is. So at the time, 2011, the Davis Mortel had no surveillance,
07:13unfortunately. It's a very small place. You kind of know everybody or you have a really good familiarity
07:17of the people that stay there. A lot of the people are repeat tenants. So there really probably wasn't felt
07:22that surveillance video was needed at that location.
07:26There was some guests that were at the hotel. It's important, maybe not necessarily to call everybody a suspect,
07:31but everybody needs to be spoken with, everyone needs to be vetted, and everyone needs to be cleared.
07:38There were three consecutive rooms that were being rented, number 10, number 11, and number 12. These
07:42individuals were from out of town. They were doing some work in the city, but they were not home at the
07:46time of the location of the body.
07:48The registered guests that we encountered were all spoken to, were all vetted, and were all ultimately
07:53cleared of any wrongdoing or being involved in this case by anything. There wasn't a whole lot of information
08:00to really kind of build upon at that time. There were no witnesses that ever came forward to say
08:05that they had heard any screaming, anything amiss. We really didn't know what had transpired up until
08:10that point. Ultimately, 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,
08:23you know, and that's obviously from talking to people. It was obvious that the most probable reason
08:28was that the vehicle was stolen. With the motel not having surveillance on the property kind of put
08:35us behind the heat ball a little bit, but we did have a witness saying that they saw the vehicle
08:39leaving the property. Individuals who often waved to Linda and beeped at her noticed the car pulling
08:45out in a very strange fashion. It was slow, it was meandering, the individual never acknowledged
08:50their presence, so that kind of felt at odd to them when we spoke to them later. So we put a file one in
08:54the New York State criminal justice system. File one is a stolen vehicle report. So we put as much
08:59information as possible about that vehicle into it. So anybody that flags that car, runs that plate,
09:05pulls it over, will automatically know that that car was stolen and it's wanted in reference to a
09:11homicide investigation. What 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. While doing those checks, we did come across a room
09:27that had a key broken off into the door lock. When we went into the location, we found that some strange
09:33things like the TV was on without volume. It appears that somebody's been living in one of these rooms
09:40and it doesn't appear that that person is a registered guests. We did locate a wallet, an ID in it,
09:49underneath the bed. Once we looked at the ID, a lot of red flags started to show.
09:58We had a pretty good indication that he would be our primary suspect in this case.
10:10Utica is a town of about 70,000 people. It's very diverse. We average between six and ten homicides
10:23in a variety of capacity, usually kind of street-level shooting-related homicides, but some
10:27stabbings, things like that, some domestics. A 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.
10:41It's 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, it takes quite
10:56a bit of time just due to the nature of the traffic and the fact that we can't really get around too easily.
11:02Every murder is horrendous in its own nature, right? But a lot of the murders we see
11:07are kind of street-level killings over various disputes and things of that nature.
11:10When you have a case such as this, it really resonates. It 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. You know, she was always willing to have me with her no matter
11:35what we 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,
11:46you 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.
11:56Her nickname was Hats. She had a variety of hats and she wore them all the time,
12:06from what we understand from ball caps to fedoras to cowboy hats. It was really kind of her thing
12:10to wear a hat wherever she went. She loved adventuring the outdoors. She loved gardening
12:17and planting her flowers. She loved her motel. I mean, it was a one-woman show.
12:21She cleaned the rooms by hand, made all the beds. She did all the laundry by hand. It was all wine
12:27dried. She took very great pride in how she ran the place, the cleanliness, the decorations,
12:34down to 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 down there.
12:46She had help from her sister, Barbara, and her mother would come down and she was there for about
12:5230, almost 35 years. The whole property, it was a beautiful wooded, I mean, something you would
12:59imagine that in the fifties, you'd see people out lounging and under the pine trees. And there's,
13:04you know, swing sets for the kids and little barbecue areas. It was a place where, you know,
13:09it was our family's place. It wasn't just the motel, you know, the dogs, the family,
13:13we had the cemetery for the dogs in the back. And it's a place that I loved enough. I mean,
13:18I 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 time.
13:35And at no point did Linda really ever have any concerns for her safety. She kind of just ran the
13:40place on her own, took care of everything on her own and really felt at home there. So it's really
13:44tragic 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 with a
13:57violent past. He was a registered sex offender. He was on New York state parole for crimes that he had
14:06previously committed. And it was also actively wanted with a parole warrant for violating the
14:12parole and his conditions that he was on release for. Robert Blaney had actually only been out of
14:20prison for two years after serving 20 years for two accounts of rape on some older women and also
14:27attempted rape on an eight year old girl. Certainly in a parole status, you have regular check-ins with your
14:35parole officer. However, when you are on a sex offender status, we also internally at the Utica
14:39Police 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.
15:00Joseph's Cemetery. He wasn't really doing a great job there. We know he had some problems with his
15:04bosses and certainly as a result was having some problems in the community and thus went on an
15:09absconding role on parole. With the locating of the ID of Mr. Blaney with his history, with his active
15:18warrant, it gave us a solid prime suspect in this case. The victim's vehicle is gone and he's gone. So we had
15:28to rely on police officers and community members to help us locate the vehicle and hopefully locate
15:35the vehicle 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 scotter. This photograph showed him to be a relatively clean-cut individual. Obviously that
15:50was put out nationwide as we did not know where he could be. He was in a vehicle that was not his.
15:55We 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 was
16:08definitely somebody that could re-offend really quickly to satisfy an urge. He was a very dangerous
16:15individual, an individual that at no point do we want running the streets, especially on absconding on
16:20a parole status. As far as movements for Mr. Blaney, we really didn't have anything solid to
16:25go on. There was not an easy pass for the vehicle. We did not have any plate reader hits or anything
16:32to kind of help us kind of track where this vehicle may have gone, believing that Mr. Blaney was driving
16:37it. I think it's probably fair to say that you had a Nationline manhunt happening because
16:42we didn't know where he was and ultimately was located outside the state.
16:45In the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, a state trooper is preparing to conduct a traffic stop.
16:53I 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, presumably
17:14thinking it potentially could have been a DUI driving under the influence arrest. So when the tag came
17:21back, it 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
18:11the vehicle of Linda Turner.
18:14Trooper 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
18:22and ordered Mr. Blaney out of the vehicle, making sure that we could see his hands the
18:26entire time we were doing the stop. We ended up taking him back to the back of the vehicle.
18:32We did a pat-down search on him. When doing a search, he had women's underwear in his sweatpants
18:39pant leg. So we collected those and then ultimately put him into handcuffs. Then he was placed in the
18:46back of my car to be transported back to the PSP Montoursville barracks.
18:53From where the traffic stop occurred to the barracks was only a five-minute drive,
18:58so we had a very short conversation in the back of my patrol car, which at that point he said,
19:04you know, my time's up. Utica's going to be looking for me.
19:08I'd committed a rape, he said, about a week ago up in New York State.
19:16That was his attitude from the get-go. I think he realized that he had reached the pinnacle of
19:21horrible behavior and knew that his life, his free life was no longer going to be his.
19:29I mean, he wasn't hostile, aggressive or anything like that. I'd say, if anything, he was just sort of
19:34emotionless, I guess. He really didn't have any emotions. He wasn't, you know, worked up that he was
19:40being arrested or angry. He wasn't trying to fight or anything of that nature.
19:45Once 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
20:01was grown 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.
20:12We'd 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
20:32from justice charge that we use. And it was on the parole, the fact that he was wanted for parole.
20:36So he wasn't charged with any crime associated with the homicide or the sexual assault in Pennsylvania
20:41or in New York at that point. While 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,
20:58there was additional women's underwear located in that door. And then also in the glove box,
21:03there 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
21:22about, as well as perpetrate the crimes that we know he had committed, which placed them on parole
21:25in the first 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
21:35any returns 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
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.
22:39Yeah, whatever. I'll do whatever you gotta do. I don't care. I don't care no more.
22:43Just do what you gotta do. Rob, what do you prefer to be called? Robert? Rob?
22:47It doesn't matter. Well, I'll come back. I really don't care.
22:52All right. Well, just be aware the conversation is recorded.
22:57Yeah. Audio and video. You okay with that?
23:00Yeah. Okay.
23:01Can you give us a little information on what happened over at the Davis Motel?
23:07Yeah. I raped a woman.
23:10Just like that? Just like that.
23:16Yeah, 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?
23:48Oh!
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 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 for a victim's family to deal with knowing that this type of person exists and
24:23that the last person their loved one was encountered with was this person.
24:28Robert, which is very matter of fact, he seemed to have given up on himself.
24:35And I think this might stem from his childhood. Since he did have a hard childhood,
24:40he 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. So he had a very rough start in his childhood.
24:54And it's not an excuse because a lot of people have a bad childhood. It doesn't mean you can go out
24:59and rape and, you know, do whatever it is that you want. That 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. I think he knew who he was and he stuck with that.
25:20Let me ask you this. Why did you run for parole in the first place? What started all this?
25:30Well, 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, he's got a nice apartment,
25:40nice vehicle. He's got a girlfriend now and he's got his odd jobs that he does. He's got a good life.
25:45And you talk to him, he'll tell you, yeah, a couple months ago, I told him my life sucks.
25:51Actually, two or three months ago, I told him, I think. He said, what do you mean by that? I said,
25:56listen, you've got a vehicle, you've got a girlfriend, you've got a nice apartment.
26:04What the hell more could you want? You know, and you've got all these odd jobs lined up,
26:07you're doing good. He says, well, give it time. It could happen to you. I said, Randy,
26:11it's not going to happen for me. Trust me. I said, no, it'll happen. It's not going to happen for me.
26:17Oh, 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,
26:31recreate for those two years and went on the run. He was actually living in an abandoned house
26:40in the basement. But in the community, the kids would hang out there and they kept daring each
26:45other to go downstairs. So he knew it was only a matter of time before somebody brought a flashlight
26:51and they found him. So everything that he had on him, his sweatpants, his boots, everything,
26:58and all the other clothes was all from that abandoned house. And 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
27:10siren. But he actually tried to commit suicide. He wrapped the rope around his neck and the tree
27:16actually had, the branch had broke. So he wasn't able to successfully commit suicide. But that's kind
27:20of gives you a mindset of how he lived. I guess he was always looking over his shoulder, worried about
27:26what was coming up next as he was absconding from parole. He knew there was a good likelihood that he was
27:31going back to prison for a very long time if he was ever found.
27:35That was Halloween night, actually. And when that failed, that is when he went to the Davis Motel
27:43and 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
27:56watch TV at night. Everything was off in the room. He kept all of his belongings under the bed in case
28:02anyone ever came in. He was always ready to dive under the bed because he would hear voices going up and
28:09down the hall.
28:13He just felt like his time was running out and he was looking for money. So he figured the office
28:21probably has money. Did you knock or was the door open? I think she thinks she locked it all the way.
28:30When she must be when she pulled it, it didn't latch.
28:35I just, you know, was pushed down. I said, I just pushed down and it opened up.
28:40I was actually surprised that it opened up.
28:41So what happens at this point?
28:47Well, at this point, I'm making haste. I'm going in there. I said, I got to get money,
28:51I got to get money, I got to get money. I went in there looking for them little
28:55freaking 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.
29:09Well, that's why the door was unlocked.
29:12Yeah, she came in the house and scared the out of me. So I had nowhere else to go.
29:17I couldn't go back towards the door because it means she opens that door. I'm going to be right
29:20there. So 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.
29:33He had hidden behind a, what I would call like a room divider. It was like an accordion,
29:37plastic type door. And Linda Turner actually had a phone call. And that's when he took the
29:42opportunity to surprise her and 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. When she came through, that's when I grabbed her.
29:55When you grabbed her, how did you grab her?
30:06Uh, around the throat.
30:08Did you grab her with your hands or?
30:09No, I had a piece of rope that was maybe, um, what, two foot long, three foot long?
30:16Actually, it might have been a little longer than that.
30:18What color was it?
30:19White.
30:20White.
30:21White.
30:21Well, it was kind of dirty at the time.
30:23I was going to say, was it a little bit gray maybe?
30:26Yeah, that's more of the color it was.
30:28You check, you check, you'll probably find some of my skin in there too.
30:31Was it weathered? A little older like?
30:33Well, by the time I got done with it, yeah.
30:36Yeah.
30:37All right.
30:37But the tree episode probably did, yeah.
30:41So getting back, when, when you grabbed her, did 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 ten, five, ten minutes, maybe.
30:59Five or ten minutes?
31:00Yeah.
31:01Really?
31:01That long?
31:02Yeah, it was, it was a good look out, but 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?
31:25No, 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 felt out of it, loose over my pants.
31:33Okay, that's where that came from.
31:35Yeah.
31:35All right.
31:36Yeah.
31:38So, when did you know that you were a raper?
31:45That was, uh, 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, fighting with us in the arts.
32:04Yeah, come on.
32:04Just, just, I said, well, 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 that he was going to hurt somebody
33:01and that he should stay there because he's broken and he doesn't want to hurt anybody,
33:05but he's going to do it.
33:06He, he said himself, society is safer with me in prison.
33:10And if, if that isn't enough to keep him in there, I'm not sure what else could be done.
33:15I say, how, how can I put this?
33:17Um, it's, it'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 or a month that I have to go to.
33:38I have reported to, uh, Detective Salerno once every,
33:43what was it, every three months or two months or whatever it is for the registry purposes.
33:47I had, uh, I 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.
33:59I mean, I tried living, I can't live on it.
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, it happens time and time again.
34:18We've seen this in so many other cases.
34:21They get out, they reoffend.
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 the clothes on?
34:38Mostly to get them up off the floor so I wouldn't trip over them again, of course.
34:41And then, like I said, the only reason was in case she got cold.
34:45I'm not going to put a clothes back on.
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're telling me you're worried if she's going to get cold in them.
35:02Yeah, pretty much.
35:09Rob, 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.
35:21Huh?
35:23My stomach was going up and down.
35:25What do you mean?
35:26Could be your last grasp.
35:28There was there was enough room you could put your pinky.
35:32I can put my pinky up in between there.
35:34But it's still being rough like that because it looked rough. I'm giving it to you straight.
35:40You want it straight? I'm giving it to you straight.
35:42That belt was wrapped around her and it was wrapped around her tight and it was wrapped around her hair.
35:49And that's good enough for me.
35:52Okay, that's what you're saying. I mean, I'm just saying.
35:54I know, I know. You were straight with me and I want to be straight with you.
35:57You were as in you, that's why.
35:58Yeah, I have a problem with that.
36:00Okay, that's good enough. We'll leave it at that.
36:04It'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.
36:11This is somebody who knew what they were doing, who were calculating what they were doing, did what they did, know they did it, and just don't care.
36:19Or if they do, they don't know how to offer any condolences or sympathies or remorse.
36:27I don't know what else to say.
36:30All right, hang loose to these troopers coming up in here and they're going to take you out.
36:34You're welcome.
36:36It's hard for me to even say thank you, believe me.
37:09Robert Blaney's confession to the murder of Linda Turner in the Davis Motel.
37:13Preparations 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.
37:44So 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 that follow the indictment, unless they plead to the entire indictment, we 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.
39:02And he was more comfortable in the system and being incarcerated, where he was not only not a danger to others, but to himself.
39:19Mr. Blaney, when this happened, you were on a parole, correct?
39:23Yeah.
39:23That was for another rape, right?
39:25Yeah.
39:25You've had how many rapes in the past?
39:27Yeah.
39:28I'm sorry?
39:30Too many.
39:31Too many.
39:31You sort of can't help yourself.
39:34Is that right?
39:37In fact, the last time you were released, did you tell parole or someone that they shouldn't let you help?
39:44Yeah.
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.
39:55Mr. McIlroy, would 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 against you.
40:05A 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 for a compliment.
40:21A compliment?
40:22You think that's a compliment?
40:23That didn't mean it to be a compliment.
40:25Okay, we'll see you on the 16th floor.
40:27Thank you, Rob.
40:28Robert 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.
41:05I grew up in that area, and, you know, I know that area very well.
41:13And I do recall, you know, seeing a picture of Mr. Blaney as a parole absconder.
41:19And, again, that 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
41:58to the point where 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.
42:11Somebody who recognized their danger,
42:15who 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
42:26when he knew he didn't want to,
42:28when he knew it was a real threat.
42:31And it's unfortunate.
42:33And the place I hold ill will is for those responsible for not heeding his warning.
42:48So I don't think of the things that he's going to kill me.
42:50So I don't remember that.
42:52Let's listen to that.
42:54Let's listen to that.
42:55Let's look at the clip.
42:57And let's just go to the clip.
42:59Let's go to the clip.
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