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