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