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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
01:22you
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.
02:18We're arriving on scene. It was somewhat eerie because you're pulling into a property that's
02:23a little bit out of the way as far as the city goes. The hotel sits back on some land,
02:29so it could be a little bit eerie when you pull up.
02:34This is potentially somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's aunt, somebody's relative,
02:41friend. You know that you're walking into that and then, you know, the recourse that that has
02:47on all those people." Police enter the crime scene, located in the main office of the motel.
02:55The room was in disarray. There were lights on, there were candles still burning, there
03:01were doors open, there were things thrown everywhere. Obviously, we didn't know, you
03:04know, 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
03:14wrapped around her neck a couple of times and her hands appeared to be tied behind her back. So
03:18certainly there appeared to be some sort of robbery and likely sexual motivation to be involved
03:23in the crime. The scene itself definitely showed that there was evidence that the victim had fought
03:30for her life. We were able to identify the victim in this case relatively quickly. She was confirmed as
03:38Linda Turner.
03:44Linda Turner was 68 years old and she owned Davis Motel, but she also lived there. That was her residence as well.
03:52Linda Turner was a staple in the Utica community. She ran the Davis Motel flawlessly. She really had
03:59the desire to keep it as a family-run place, somewhere that people felt safe to come,
04:03somewhere people felt longing to come to Utica and really enjoy their stay. And we really appreciated her
04:07for that. The individuals that she had renting those rooms were very peaceful, very respectful.
04:13Everybody we ever spoke to had nothing but the most glowing things to say about her.
04:16This was very big news, especially because she was well known. So the community was shocked 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 stranger
04:34comes in and commits such a horrendous crime. It really strikes the court and everyone feels it.
04:39The murder was such a shock to that community in North Utica that I know of at least one family
04:45that actually moved as a result of the incident. Nobody ever wants to think of anyone dying that way.
04:53It was just brutal.
04:59The hardest day was going to the crime scene.
05:04To this day, I mean, I feel like I've really tried to grieve and process it well, but seeing her
05:10fingernails on the floor from fighting, seeing the dinner that she was trying to enjoy still sitting
05:16on the tray or knocked onto the floor.
05:22It's one thing to grieve the loss of a loved one and it's never easy, even when unexpected.
05:29But when it is something so violent and so brutal and out of nowhere, it is a different level of
05:41processing grief, sensing the terror that she went through. The last few minutes of her life was
05:49sheer terror and fighting for her life and the struggle. There's no goodbyes. There's no
05:59prayers. There's no blessings. There's no priests. There's no last hug, last kiss. It's just,
06:05she's gone and gone violently and brutally and painfully.
06:19Utica 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 are the first
06:31people to kind of enter the crime scene, secure the crime scene, kind of observe the crime scene,
06:37and then be able to escort the investigators into the crime scene so that we don't disturb any type of
06:43evidence for our evidence technicians to be able to collect the evidence needed, especially when you're
06:50talking about DNA and physical evidence of that nature. We don't know what happened. You find a
06:58unfortunately deceased Linda Turner naked on a bed under a pile of clothes with a belt wrapped around
07:03her throat. It'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. It's a very small
07:14place. You kind of know everybody or you have a really good familiarity of the people that stay there.
07:18A lot of people are repeat tenants. So there really probably wasn't felt that surveillance video
07:23was needed at that location.
07:24There was some guests that were at the hotel. It's important, maybe not necessarily to call
07:30everybody a suspect, but everybody needs to be spoken with, everyone needs to be vetted,
07:35and everyone needs to be cleared. There were three consecutive rooms that were being rented,
07:40number 10, number 11, and number 12. These individuals were from out of town,
07:43they were doing some work in the city, but they were not home at the time of the location of the body.
07:48The registered guests that we encountered were all spoken to, were all vetted, and were all
07:53ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing or being involved in this case by anything. There wasn't
07:59a whole lot of information to really kind of build upon at that time. There were no witnesses that ever
08:04came forward to say that they had heard any screaming, anything amiss. We really didn't know what
08:08had transpired up until that point. Ultimately what really led to the break in this case was that her car was
08:14taken. Really 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. 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 us
08:35behind the eight ball a little bit, but we did have a witness saying that they saw the vehicle leaving
08:40the property. Individuals who often waved to Linda and beeped at her noticed the car pulling out in a
08:45very strange fashion. It was slow, it was meandering, the individual never acknowledged their presence,
08:50so that kind of felt an odd to them when we spoke to them later. So we put a file one in the New York
08:55State criminal justice system. A file one is a stolen vehicle report, so we put as much information
08:59as possible about that vehicle into it. So anybody that flags that car, runs that plate, pulls it over,
09:06will automatically know that that car was stolen and it's wanted in reference to a homicide investigation.
09:16What we did also is do safety checks of all the rooms on the property to see if there was
09:21any evidence in any of those rooms. While doing those checks we did come across a room that
09:27had a key broken off into the door lock. When we went into the location 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 guest. 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.
09:56We had a pretty good indication that he would be our primary suspect in this case.
10:17Utica is a town of about 70,000 people. It's very diverse.
10:20We average between six and ten homicides in a variety capacity, usually kind of street level
10:26shooting related homicides, but some stabbings, things like that, some domestics. A homicide of
10:30this nature is certainly an aberration. We don't often get stranger-on-stranger homicides
10:35in a situation where we locate the body later and the suspect is not on scene.
10:41So kind of the difficult part of the Davis Motel is that it's on Herkimer Road. Herkimer Road is a
10:45two-lane thoroughfare that's primarily commercial traffic traversing from one side of the city to
10:51Herkimer County and it's often very backed up with traffic. So in an emergency response,
10:56it takes quite a bit of time just due to the nature of the traffic and the fact that we can't really get
10:59around too easily. Every 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. When you have a case
11:11such as this, it really resonates. It resonates with the investigators. It resonates with the
11:15forensic individuals who spend a lot of time at the crime scene. And most importantly,
11:19it certainly resonates with the family.
11:30We had a very close relationship. You know, she was always willing to have me with her no matter what
11:35we were doing. She was great about teaching me responsibility and, you know, letting me run her
11:41cash drawer and check people in at the motel. To this day, I can't make a bed without sharp corners
11:46and, you know, fold my laundry to a tee. But she also was the first one to, you know, teach me how to
11:51hustle 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. From what we
12:07understand from ball caps to fedoras to cowboy hats, it was really kind of her thing to wear a hat
12:11wherever she went. She loved adventuring the outdoors. She loved gardening and planting her
12:18flowers. She loved her motel. I mean, it was a one woman show. She cleaned the rooms by hand,
12:25made all the beds. She did all the laundry by hand. It was all wine dried. She took very great pride in
12:30how she ran the place, the cleanliness, the decorations, down to every lamp and painting in
12:36the place was her. She had the motel before I was born. It was part of the family and my dad had spent
12:45time down there. She had help from her sister, Barbara, and her mother would come down and she was
12:50there for about 30, almost 35 years. The whole property, it was a beautiful wooded, I mean,
12:59something you would imagine that in the 50s you'd see people out lounging and under the pine trees
13:03and there's, you know, swing sets for the kids and little barbecue areas. It was a place where,
13:09you know, it was our family's place. It wasn't just the motel, you know, the dogs, the family,
13:13the cemetery for the dogs in the back and it's a place that I loved enough. I mean, I have the motel
13:20sign 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
14:35your parole 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 that
14:48nature 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 to
15:28rely on police officers and community members to help us locate the vehicle and hopefully locate the
15:35vehicle with the suspect with it. So we put up what's called a bolo, a be on the lookout for Robert
15:41Blaney. So initially a photograph was circulated with respect to his wanted status for being a
15:46parole scotter. This photograph showed him to be a relatively clean-cut individual. Obviously that was
15:50put out nationwide as we did not know where he could be. He was in a vehicle that was not his. We knew he was
15:55trying to flee so as far of a net as we could cast, we tried to locate him. It really weighs on you to
16:01make sure that you try to locate that suspect as soon as possible, particularly in this case where
16:06the horrific nature of the crimes that were committed was definitely somebody that could
16:09re-offend really quickly to satisfy an urge. He was a very dangerous individual, an individual that
16:17at no point do we want running the streets, especially on absconding on a parole status.
16:21As far as movements for Mr. Blaney, we really didn't have anything solid to go on. There was
16:26not an easy pass for the vehicle. We did not have any plate reader hits or anything to kind of help
16:33us kind of track where this vehicle may have gone, believing that Mr. Blaney was driving it. I think
16:38it's probably fair to say that you had a nationwide manhunt happening because we didn't know where he was
16:43and ultimately was located outside the state. In the neighboring state of Pennsylvania,
16:48a 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,
17:14presumably thinking it potentially could have been a DUI driving under the influence arrest.
17:19So 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,
17:29it said that the vehicle was wanted in conjunction with a possible homicide.
17:33So at that point, I got on the radio and ascertained where the next available or
17:39nearest 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,
18:00we have this vehicle, we have eyes on it, there's an individual in it, would you like him?
18:05At that point, obviously we gave an affirmative that we would like to talk to him. They approached
18:09the vehicle and located Mr. Blaney occupying the vehicle of Linda Turner.
18:14Trooper Matt McDermott and myself went up to the driver's side of the vehicle and then Trooper
18:19Paul McGee went up to the passenger side of the vehicle and ordered Mr. Blaney out of the vehicle,
18:25making sure that we could see his hands the entire time we were doing the stop.
18:29We ended up taking him back to the back of the vehicle. We did a pat down search on him.
18:35When 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.
18:53From where the traffic stop occurred to the barracks was only a five minute drive. So we had a very short
18:59conversation in the back of my patrol car, which at that point he said, you know, my time's up. Utica's
19:06going to be looking for me. I 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 is 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
19:40was being 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
20:41Pennsylvania or in New York at that point. While Blaney is held at the Pennsylvania State Police
20:47Barracks, a 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 about,
21:22as well as perpetrate the crimes that we know he had committed, which placed them on parole in the first
21:26place, you have to wonder whether there's other victims. We did what we could to put out information
21:32to the law enforcement communities, and we never got any returns or any information from any other
21:38departments on that may have had a similar case. I think it's a great possibility that there are other
21:45victims out there that haven't been identified or are scared to come forward with information that
21:50are associated with crimes committed against 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.
22:19That's Investigator Fernald. How you doing, Robert?
22:22No. We're from the Utica Police?
22:26Yeah. I 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. I 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. Rob, Rob, Rob.
22:50Just so you can f*** your head, s***. Come back, I really don't care.
22:52All right, well, just so you're aware, uh, the conversation is recorded.
22:57Yeah. Audio and video, you okay with that?
23:00Yeah. Okay.
23:01Can you, uh, give us a little information on what happened over at the Davis Motel?
23:07Yeah. I raped a woman.
23:10Just like that?
23:11Just like that.
23:16Yeah, s*** in life, that's all.
23:20I'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.
24:01It'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 for a victim's family to deal with knowing that this type of person exists
24:23and that 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, nice apartment, nice vehicle.
25:41He'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.
25:55He said, what do you mean by that? I said, listen, you got a vehicle, you got a girlfriend,
26:01you got a nice apartment. What the hell more could you want? You know,
26:05and you got all these odd jobs lined up. You're doing good.
26:09He says, well, give it time. It could happen to you. I said, Randy, it's not going to happen for me. Trust me.
26:13I said, no, it'll happen. It's not going to happen for me. Oh, well. And it didn't, so.
26:22Because he was so jealous of another parolee, he abandoned the life that he tried so hard to create,
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, the branch had broke. So he wasn't able to successfully commit suicide. But that's kind of
27:20gives 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. That was Halloween night, actually.
27:37And when that failed, that is when he went to the Davis Motel and started pulling on doors and found
27:45one that was open. He was trying to find a place to stay. He said, you know, during the day, he would
27:55allow himself to watch TV at night. Everything was off in the room. He kept all of his belongings under
28:01the bed in case anyone ever came in. He was always ready to dive under the bed because he would hear
28:07voices going up and down the hall. He 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?
28:27I think she thinks she locked it all the way. When 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.
28:45So what happens at this point?
28:47Well, at this point, I'm making haste. I'm going in there. I said, I gotta get money,
28:51gotta get money, gotta 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 anymore.
29:08No, she wasn't in there.
29:09Oh, 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 there.
29:22So I went to the darkest place in the house.
29:24Okay, now where was that?
29:25Right around the corner where I raped her in the bedroom or whatever.
29:30He had hidden behind a, what I would call like a room divider. It was like an accordion plastic type door.
29:39And Linda Turner actually had a phone call and that's when he took the opportunity to
29:43surprise 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.
29:55Yeah, that's right.
30:05Now, when 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.
30:21Well, it was kind of dirty at the time.
30:23I was going to say, is 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?
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, it, yeah.
30:42So 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?
30:47No, it was kind of like more around, I was trying for the neck right away, yes.
30:51But I got like here, a scufflepuffer that lasted ten, five, ten minutes maybe.
30:59Five or ten minutes?
31:00Yeah.
31:01Really?
31:01That long?
31:02Yeah, it was, it was a good look out, but 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?
31:25No, no, no.
31:25Well, I mean, it doesn't matter, I mean, I don't care what you think of me, I 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, I had no chance in doing that, man.
32:02I'm fighting, I'm fighting with us in the arts.
32:04Yeah, come on, I just, I just, I said, well, well, yeah, I'm already going back anyway,
32:10so, well, that's, I'm screwed.
32:12What the hell?
32:13Let's point blank cut and drive it, hmm?
32:26Mr. Blaney admitted with very flat effect, with no emotion, with not a care in the world,
32:31that he, in fact, had committed the crime.
32:33Didn't care that we had him in custody, just a really, really bad and cold individual.
32:42It actually came out that after assaulting two women and 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, um, it's, it's like, it's like reversed.
33:22It's like, in prison, I did 20 years, two misbehavior reports in 20 years.
33:29Okay.
33:29It's like, I can live in there a lot better than I can out here.
33:32Right.
33:33Out here, I got two counseling sessions a week, or a month that I have to go to.
33:38I have reported to, uh, Detective Salerno once every, there was, every three months or two months,
33:45or whatever it is for the registry purposes.
33:47I had, uh, I had a bunch of , like, Monday through Friday, I 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, 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 them?
34:36What was that?
34:38Well, mostly 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 her clothes back on.
34:47I'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 in it.
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.
35:25What do you mean?
35:27Could be your last grasp.
35:28There was enough room you could put your pinky.
35:32I could put my pinky up in between there.
35:34So there was enough room.
35:35But you're still being rough like that.
35:37Because it looked rough.
35:39I'm giving it to you straight.
35:40Well, yeah, I know.
35:40You want it straight?
35:41I'm giving it to you straight.
35:42And that belt was wrapped around her.
35:44And it was wrapped around her tight.
35:46And it was wrapped around her hair.
35:49And that's good enough for me.
35:51It's not one of those situations where somebody made a poor decision to drive drunk and killed
36:08somebody and they regret this decision for the rest of their life.
36:11This is somebody who knew what they were doing, were calculating what they were doing,
36:15did 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.
36:27Okay, I don't know what else to say.
36:30All right, hang loose to these troopers that come in.
36:32I came here and they're going to take you out.
36:37It's hard for me to even say thank you, believe me.
37:05Utica, New York, 2011.
37:08Police have secured Robert 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
37:19consequences for his heinous actions.
37:23In order for him to be charged in county court, it had to go by way of a grand jury indictment.
37:28So 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 the 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,
37:54things he may have touched, fingerprints of that nature.
37:56However, one really crucial piece of evidence was the sex assault kit that was performed
38:00on 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.
38:09So in this instance, if there's other charges that follow the indictment,
38:14unless they plead to the entire indictment, we recommend what we feel the sentence should be
38:19and what would be appropriate.
38:21In this case, murder in the first degree carried with it a sentence of life without the possibility of
38:27parole.
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
38:37life without parole.
38:39And the judge agreed with us.
38:41I told you what the sentence is going to be.
38:44But you're not getting out.
38:45Do you understand that?
38:45Let's do it.
38:46All right, all right.
38:47Anybody else promise you anything to get you to plead guilty?
38:49No.
38:50Anyone threaten you to get you to plead guilty?
38:51No.
38:52So you're ending this plea here this morning voluntarily?
38:54Yes, sir.
38:55He knew he was such a danger that even facing life without parole, his response is bring it on.
39:03He was more comfortable in the system and being incarcerated where he was not only not a danger
39:12to others but to himself.
39:18Mr. Blaney, when this happened, you were on a parole then, correct?
39:22Yep.
39:22That was for another rape, right?
39:24Yep.
39:24You've had how many rapes in the past?
39:27Yeah.
39:27I'm sorry?
39:31Too many.
39:31Too many.
39:32You sort of can't help yourself, is that right?
39:37In fact, the last time you were released, did you tell parole or someone that they shouldn't let you out?
39:43Yep.
39:44All right, you're satisfied?
39:48Yeah.
39:48All right.
39:49How do you plead then, Mr. Blaney, to the first cow murderer in the first degree guilty or not guilty?
39:53Okay.
39:54Mr. McEnroe, with that plea to satisfy all counsel, the indictment would be satisfactory.
39:59With the understanding, he would be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
40:02Yes, sir.
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.
40:20A compliment?
40:22You think that's a compliment?
40:23That didn't mean it to be a compliment.
40:24In fact, I agree.
40:25Okay, we'll see you on the 16th March.
40:27Thank you, Rob.
40:28You're welcome.
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, 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 to the point where
41:59I 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. I almost feel sympathy for him.
42:11Somebody who recognized their danger, who alerted the people that needed to be alerted that he was a
42:18danger, and was put in a position to take a life, and now has to live with that when he knew he didn't
42:28want to, when he knew it was a real threat. And it's unfortunate. And the place I hold ill will is
42:35for those responsible for not heeding his warning.
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