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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:25Insolidated dispatch operator 381.
00:27Yeah, thank you.
00:29So I'm the chief, I can get to the Canada outlet.
00:32We have a few buses that are here, this group of young,
00:35like, called 13-year-old girls, and they need to afford this bus.
00:39We have somebody, I don't know if they're alive,
00:42they, like, right next to the bus and on wood line,
00:46which is terrifying.
00:48My partners are defending the closest to all the units.
01:01There's a deceased female.
01:04Blunt for its trauma to the head.
01:06So around 7.53 this morning,
01:11patrol responded to a call for an unidentified body in the bushes.
01:17Initially, we thought it was potentially a hit and run.
01:20He's in almost full rigor.
01:23Looking at it, you can tell if she wasn't hit by a car,
01:25she would be beaten up.
01:27It looks like it's gonna be a homicide.
01:29Your daddy will be around.
01:39For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half
01:44if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours.
01:48North Charleston, South Carolina.
01:58I love North Charleston because it is a unique city.
02:03I mean, people flock here.
02:05100,000 people to, like, 200 and some thousand people during the day.
02:10North Charleston is a truly diverse city.
02:14The city of North Charleston, the police department and the community itself,
02:16it's just a big family.
02:18And, you know, our crime rate is steady dropping.
02:21You know, we're getting the bad guys off the street.
02:24We deal with a lot of high-end situations
02:26that perhaps a cop in a smaller town wouldn't get that kind of experience.
02:30I do like that about North Charleston, that you never know what's gonna happen.
02:35I feel that the community interacts very well with police.
02:38We've spent a long time building that trust.
02:42Well, I would say at least 50% of the people that we get in contact with
02:45I either know a family member or went to school with a family member
02:49or we actually grew up in the same neighborhood.
02:52And then be able to help these moms and dads and families members.
02:55I feel great about that.
02:57You have to have a servant's heart somewhere down inside of you.
03:00You have to come in here to say that I'm gonna serve people
03:02and that I'm going to be the one that's going to fight for those who can't fight for themselves.
03:07The team has a 73% solve rate, 20% higher than the national average.
03:13First thing that pops in my head when I think of the unit is unity.
03:17You know, friendship, family.
03:19We all work together, always have each other's back.
03:22We're always there to help each other to accomplish the same goal.
03:25We all come from different backgrounds of life.
03:30We all have different years of experience in law enforcement.
03:34Sergeant Bailey just told me this morning he's got a pair of socks that are older than I am.
03:39Unlike some departments, North Charleston doesn't immediately assign a lead detective,
03:44approaching each case as a team.
03:46When we have a homicide occur, it could be a day or two later that we'll assign a case agent to it.
03:53And a lot of things come into factor with that.
03:56The connections that could be made on scene, you'll see that one detective has a stronger connection with the family than another detective.
04:04If it's going to be solved relatively quick, you're going to want to assign that to somebody that's going to be able to get everything together in a timely fashion.
04:11We're here trying to do the right thing, get justice for people.
04:14So right now we're heading over to the Tanger outlet area.
04:26We've got a female that's deceased in the bushes over near one of the hotels in between.
04:31We have homeless population in the area.
04:34So, you know, vulnerable people in bad situations.
04:36She took one to her head, to her right eye.
04:52The cause of death is blunt force trauma.
04:54I'm not seeing a club or a bar.
04:58Might have just beat her with his hands, honestly.
05:01She looks pretty fragile.
05:04I'm trying to identify her.
05:07Detectives find no identification on the victim.
05:11The coroner will get all that information.
05:13Hopefully, if she's been in Charleston County, we'll get her identified by fingerprints.
05:22On this side, a lot of the bushes, you can tell they're broken.
05:26Very possible she was pulled in from this side.
05:32Bunch of fingernails.
05:33Bunch of fingernails.
05:37A possible struggle out here.
05:45I like about blood and drag marks.
05:49We really got to wait to find out who she is.
05:52If we really get further from there.
05:53Hey, go over here to see if they'll keep you a tenant.
05:59Now, it's the job of figuring out where we got a couple of witnesses.
06:02The team identifies two hotel residents who might have information about the victim.
06:27One of the gentlemen that's been saying that a girl named Kelly, he saw her wearing like a blue sweatshirt and like some blue sweatpants.
06:38And that clothing kind of matches what our victims wear.
06:41So, the lady I spoke to, she's not from here.
06:45She said her friend left and never returned last night.
06:48The two witnesses are taken to homicide for questioning.
06:53We have a name.
06:55We'll start going through the tenant list.
06:58Fire extinguisher over there.
07:00It's not in the right spot.
07:02Okay.
07:04CSI finds a fire extinguisher left near the hotel's front office.
07:07Maybe it's going to be related.
07:09Take photos and fingerprint where it's supposed to be.
07:12I'm trying to find her on camera, seeing who she was with.
07:16Corporal Tim Holley and Detective Cameron Miller break off to look for nearby businesses with surveillance cameras.
07:23All right, I'm going through the office.
07:24I'm going through the office.
07:36Okay, thanks.
07:40In the corner, we've got the fingerprints back.
07:43It's going to be Kelly Wingate.
07:44How's it going to be here?
07:4548-year-old Kelly Wallace Wingate was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina.
07:57She had three daughters, ages 29, 28, and 13, and a 16-year-old son who thought of her as the cool mom who loved to paint.
08:0613 years ago, she opened a carpentry store but struggled with drug addiction and ended up living on the street.
08:16Looks like the victim's daughter is local.
08:20The coroner will be making that notification.
08:26At least 30 plus arrests for drugs and shoplifting.
08:30We'll try to draw a link, try to figure out what the link is.
08:32He knew Kelly would start with him.
08:35He knew Kelly would start with him.
08:44Hi.
08:45Hi.
08:47So this is, I'm Desette Reeves.
08:49We met out here at the hotel.
08:50Mm-hmm.
08:51I appreciate you coming in and popping to me.
08:54Feels bad.
08:58It's Kelly.
09:01Tell me all about Kelly.
09:03Kelly is a homeless lady from here.
09:07Kelly does drugs.
09:10She has heroin.
09:12She told me she was in the parking lot.
09:15But Kelly told me she got trespassed from there.
09:18So I don't know where she stayed.
09:22Tell me what happened yesterday.
09:26Kelly .
09:27I've seen him probably 10 o'clock-ish.
09:31He says he saw the victim with the other resident who was brought to headquarters near a picnic table at the back of the hotel.
09:38How do you know her?
09:40I didn't remember her last night.
09:43So back at 10 p.m. last night, what happened?
09:47I went back inside and go to sleep.
09:50I woke up like 6.30.
09:52Right before I was getting right out.
09:54Mm-hmm.
09:55And I went outside and smoked a cigarette.
09:58And , which is the only one that's a picnic table now.
10:03I said, where's Kelly?
10:04You know?
10:05And she said, I don't know if she left.
10:07And she said she wanted some blankets or something.
10:09She never came back.
10:11I was like, okay, well.
10:15She said that she was worried about her.
10:17Because somebody was harassing her.
10:19And I said one thing about Kelly.
10:21You know?
10:22She's down here.
10:23She knows how to handle herself.
10:24You know?
10:25She's like, well, this cat is really...
10:28He was scaring me.
10:29So...
10:31And that's all that ever says.
10:33So it takes time.
10:35He said that there was a black male.
10:37Mm-hmm.
10:39Harassing Kelly.
10:41Did she tell you who it was?
10:42No.
10:56She didn't know the names.
10:59Did he...
11:00Did she tell you what the black male looked like?
11:02No.
11:04Did she tell you that she had ever seen him before?
11:08No.
11:09She never said that either.
11:11I'm gonna give you my number.
11:13That way you can catch me.
11:15Okay.
11:17And we'll get out of here.
11:27She mentioned to us that she was with Kelly last night.
11:34Follow you?
11:36The team turns to the woman who said her friend went missing last night.
11:40When did you get down?
11:42Uh, it'd be two weeks Monday.
11:44Okay.
11:46And how did you meet Kelly?
11:48I met her yesterday.
11:50I went to go sit down with her camp.
11:53Because I just got done walking.
11:56Where is her camp?
11:57It's kind of like where the site is.
11:59But a little bit further down.
12:01She says Kelly was staying in a tent near the hotel parking lot where she was found.
12:06What time yesterday did you meet her?
12:09Probably about one.
12:10In the afternoon?
12:11Uh huh.
12:13We started walking around.
12:15We're talking about our kids.
12:16We have kids around the same age.
12:18Um, and she just seemed like, you know, a sweet person.
12:22Like she had a good heart.
12:23And she's like, I'm going to take you in.
12:26And you stick with me.
12:28You know, this girl's going to stick together because there's a bunch of words I heard.
12:31So, we went to Circle K.
12:34Night time do you go to Circle K?
12:35I'm not sure.
12:37It was night time.
12:39And she's like, that guy over there searched home with me.
12:42She says she pointed to a man standing outside the convenience store.
12:46You know, like last week, he pulled me by my hair.
12:48It hit me.
12:50Is there any alteration in Circle K?
12:53No.
12:55What does this guy look like?
12:57He's black, big eyes, bald.
13:01He had dark black jacket on.
13:03I don't know if it was blue jeans or black jeans.
13:04He had two shoes on.
13:06And he had to like, he was like some tough guy.
13:08Like, he just ran his mouth to people.
13:12Then we walked back to the hotel.
13:14We're sitting outside chit-chatting.
13:16Where are you chit-chatting now?
13:17We're sitting at the picnic table at the hotel.
13:20And we're talking about our older kids and how we'd meet.
13:23Like, we got all the situation that we're in, that our kids would meet.
13:27She decided I'm going to get some blankets.
13:30Do you have anything to do with time this is?
13:32It's around 11, 11.30.
13:34It's just the studio?
13:35Yeah.
13:36He's just like, I'll be back around in two minutes.
13:3910 minutes went by.
13:40Nothing.
13:41I'm starting to worry.
13:43And he just happened to come by and he's safe.
13:48He being called me in black jacket?
13:49Yeah.
13:51Yeah.
13:52And he said something to me and it didn't make sense.
13:55And then he just comes running at me.
13:57So I got up.
13:59And I'm scared of .
14:01And I keep remembering.
14:02Well, Kelly keeps telling me that he's a hitter.
14:04What's he going to do to me?
14:06And I was running full speed because at that time, my adrenaline was rushing.
14:10I went across the street where there's lightning and I knew those people in case something happened.
14:16See, just the way his demeanor was, it just scared me.
14:19And then I heard him yelling.
14:21He was yelling at her.
14:22She says when she was across the street, she heard the man yelling at someone near the hotel.
14:27He was yelling, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you.
14:31Where does he go?
14:32I don't know.
14:33I didn't see where he went off to.
14:35This bald-headed blackmail, have you seen him at all today?
14:38No.
14:40I felt like something bad happened.
14:41I don't see him nodding back.
14:42He's nodding back all night.
14:43And I told him, I said, I wish I would have been to go sit for her, to live for her.
14:48Because if I would have lived for her, maybe she would be around.
14:53She's dead.
15:03Give me a seat.
15:08Oh, I can't.
15:10She's such a beautiful person.
15:13Blue, star, and gold.
15:16But I don't think anybody would be f***ing in it.
15:24Three hours in.
15:25They responded to an incident where the crazy guys were doing a fire extinguisher.
15:30Corporal Rob Van Tyn finds a police report about a recent disturbance at the hotel near the crime scene.
15:36So there's a call at some point last night involving somebody out there spraying people with a fire extinguisher.
15:45It's room 315.
15:47Robert Gardner.
15:48A hotel resident identified 42-year-old Robert Antonio Gardner as the alleged offender with the fire extinguisher.
15:57He wasn't caught.
15:59Matches the description of our suspect.
16:02Gardner was born and raised in Charleston.
16:05He has previous misdemeanor convictions for drug possession and shoplifting.
16:10Then, detectives get another lead.
16:14Female let us know that, hey, I have information about what happened last night.
16:18While canvassing for surveillance video, another resident of the hotel approached Corporal Tim Holley with possible information about the murder.
16:27There's somebody who will interview her.
16:30Hopefully she can tell us who did it.
16:36Okay.
16:38I appreciate you coming in.
16:40On the side of Hollywood.
16:42Did you see Kelly yesterday?
16:45No, I never saw her at all.
16:47When was the last time you'd seen her?
16:49Probably a week before.
16:51Okay.
16:52Kind of just run me through yesterday's events.
16:59She says she was at the convenience store last night.
17:03The dude robbed.
17:05That's all I know about.
17:07He was like, are you going to get a ride?
17:09I was like, no, I got too much stuff in my car.
17:12He had gotten in trouble at the store for stealing.
17:15Okay, he got in trouble at the store.
17:17So that's why you wanted to get a ride to get out of there.
17:18Okay.
17:19So, um, I guess I went to jail.
17:23I was sitting in my car because we were working with an argument.
17:26Okay.
17:27And, um, so I was sitting there good.
17:30Maybe 30, 40 minutes.
17:32And just Rob walked up to the car and, like, he was just pouring sweat.
17:37I've never seen nobody that way in my life.
17:39Okay.
17:41When he came to the car, he said, you know that bitch .
17:45She says Robert brought up the name of another woman.
17:49You know what I'm killing?
17:51He was like, I got that bitch good.
17:54It's good.
18:07I got that bitch.
18:08That's what he said?
18:09Yeah.
18:11He never really said anything that he did to her.
18:17Okay.
18:19And then where did he go?
18:20He went to the second floor and then he just disappeared.
18:24Have you seen Rob since his incident?
18:26No.
18:27He disappeared and then he came in.
18:31What does he look like?
18:33I don't even know what .
18:34Okay.
18:36She claims she doesn't know the other woman Robert was talking about.
18:39How long have you known Rob?
18:42Maybe eight months.
18:44Can you describe him to me?
18:46What does he look like?
18:49He's kind of dark.
18:51Five, eight, five months.
18:53All right.
18:55Do you remember what he was wearing yesterday?
18:57He had blue jeans, so red.
19:00He was a dark new shirt, but he had a jacket on.
19:04The grayish black looking color.
19:06All right.
19:08We want to show you one thing and then we'll get you out of here.
19:10All right.
19:13So the witnesses talked about Rob being upset with another female, but I believe he was referring to Kelly as being the individual that he got.
19:26He said, I got that bitch.
19:27A lot of times with a lot of these young ladies, they'll give us a little bit of information, but they won't always give us everything just because they don't want to be labeled as a rat or they don't want to get beat up or anything like that.
19:40So we can't push them too hard.
19:42Then they'll just shut down and then they'll walk out.
19:45So sometimes we have to kind of be careful.
19:49We want him in a lineup for Robert Gardner.
19:52We'll get a person who doesn't know anything about the case to create a lineup for us.
19:56You know, she identifies him as being the one who said, I just got that bitch.
20:08Hey, how's it going?
20:10I'm going to end up showing you one picture at a time.
20:13Yeah, sir.
20:14Okay.
20:19Okay.
20:21Okay.
20:22And what is his name?
20:23Rob.
20:25Awesome.
20:26All right, give it a second.
20:32Witness interviews definitely did help, but none of the witnesses we have so far saw the murder.
20:37Rob, he'll be on video footage with Kelly at the circle.
20:42That would be good.
20:51An hour later.
20:53Somebody's got a video.
20:58That's the victim.
21:00And the witness.
21:02We see her show up at 1125.
21:08She's friends with all the clerks.
21:121129.
21:15There he is.
21:16That's him.
21:20Yeah, she gets out of there immediately.
21:22She sees him.
21:27Just walk out.
21:42He's just raging.
21:47Pacing back and forth.
21:511206.
21:54Her car's pulling up.
21:56Just like she said.
21:57She does talk to her.
21:59Everything is matching up.
22:01I think we just got it over to get arrest warrants.
22:04The witness placed the suspect in the same area where the body and the victim's camp is at.
22:08With him yelling out, I'm going to kill you.
22:09Another witness identified him as being the guy who said, I just got that bitch.
22:11So her statement combined with that statement combined with the video that we got, we can piece it all together to say that the person who said, I just got that bitch is the same person who ran into the wood line saying, I'm going to kill you.
22:30Whose case is this?
22:32Cam's.
22:34With all signs pointing to Robert Gardner as their suspect, the case is assigned to rookie detective Cam Miller as lead.
22:41I feel really good about solving Cam's case for him.
22:46I think we have enough right now just trying to put all the pieces together because we have so many hands in it.
22:50So we're trying to put everything that we have together.
22:54But right now I'm going to try to type in warrants and then hopefully we're going to try to get out and locate this dude.
23:11I'm right around the Tanger area and see if I can see him.
23:15The team searches the area around the crime scene for Robert Gardner.
23:20We'll probably try to get this dude by the end of the night just because of how brutal it was.
23:28And he seems to be targeting multiple women.
23:32So the longer this dude died, the higher chance he does it to somebody else.
23:38We don't need that.
23:40Two hours into the search.
23:44Oh, yeah.
23:45I'm sorry.
23:46You're not suspect.
23:48You're a detective.
23:49Do a drive-by in Super 2.
23:51268's and they're out to you.
23:58Yeah, he's wearing the exact same .
24:03How you doing?
24:04I see you on your name.
24:06I know you.
24:07Yeah, it's him.
24:08North Austin, please.
24:09Stand up, face the wall.
24:13Just an investigation.
24:14That's all I can cite.
24:15Detectives want to talk to you.
24:16You just went down and brought him up.
24:17We're walking.
24:18Okay, I'm sorry.
24:19I'm sorry.
24:20You're so sorry.
24:21I killed you.
24:22I've been so sorry.
24:23You're a little bit scared.
24:24I'm sorry.
24:25I'm sorry.
24:26I'm sorry.
24:27I'm sorry.
24:28I'm sorry.
24:29I'm sorry.
24:30I'm sorry.
24:31I'm sorry.
24:32I'm sorry.
24:33I'm sorry.
24:35I'm sorry.
24:36I'm sorry.
24:37So I went down and brought him up while walking.
24:44I looked down at his shoes, and he has what appears to be blood on his shoes.
24:51Hopefully we can talk to him.
24:56What's up, man?
24:58I'm Detective Miller.
25:01You ever been in trouble before?
25:06Yeah.
25:07OK.
25:08Where are you from?
25:10Charleston.
25:11Charleston.
25:12What's the highest level of education you completed?
25:14Sixth.
25:15Sixth grade?
25:17Why am I here?
25:19I was sitting down in front of the restaurant eating.
25:23And the police brought up going, why am I here?
25:26What time today did you get to the restaurant?
25:29Then I'm leaving the club, 8am.
25:32What were you before that?
25:34I was nowhere.
25:37All right.
25:38So there was an incident with a female that happened probably between midnight and probably
25:42like 6 o'clock this morning.
25:44Right?
25:45I don't know what I got to do with me.
25:46I don't know if I don't keep my own friends.
25:50Can you walk me through what happened with you yesterday?
25:54No.
25:55No?
25:56What?
25:57What?
25:58That's that?
25:59I don't got an answer to nothing.
26:03I sleep very tired, bro.
26:06I know you're tired.
26:07I can tell you tired.
26:09So can you tell me where you were yesterday?
26:13Mr. Gardner?
26:15He's just trying to get in Cam's head.
26:28Mind game type of thing.
26:30Oh, for sure.
26:31I do something wrong.
26:32You're letting him get to you.
26:33He's a very smart criminal.
26:34You just go in there and be straight up honest with him.
26:51Like, you're in here right now because you're a person of interest.
26:55We have witnesses who are saying you murdered the girl.
26:59You just took all your clothes because you're a person of interest.
27:04We got a bunch of video from the area.
27:06You know, he's the one who's got to explain himself.
27:09He's the one who's got to try and justify what he did.
27:16Hey, Robert.
27:18You know who that is?
27:21She looks familiar?
27:24She always beat to death.
27:29She looks familiar?
27:31No?
27:34You were the last person in that area with that female.
27:39That's a lie because I ain't been with that lady.
27:41It's not a lie.
27:42It's on video.
27:43I have video surveillance from Circle K.
27:46You were there last night.
27:48I was not with that lady.
27:51You were at Circle K.
27:53I've been at Circle K, but I haven't been with no people.
27:55Yeah.
27:56After you left Circle K, you walked back towards the extended state, right?
28:01I went through the extended state.
28:03Did you see anybody as you were walking to the extended state?
28:08That was a girl by quality and extended sleeping on a bench.
28:14Well, where's that bench at?
28:16Right by Zaxby's.
28:18He says the woman he saw was near a neighboring hotel, 100 feet from where Kelly was found.
28:25Did you see that female?
28:27No, she was covered up.
28:30She had like a white blanket on.
28:33She was by herself?
28:34Mm-hmm.
28:35OK.
28:36Who else did you see there?
28:38I was talking to somebody over the fence.
28:41She got smart.
28:42I asked her if she had an extra pipe.
28:44Mine's broke.
28:45OK.
28:46What did she say to you?
28:47She was like, get the hell out of something.
28:49And then that's when I kept walking through the parking lot.
28:52OK.
28:53So when you walked through the parking lot, where did you go to?
28:56Well, y'all picked me up and I slept over there last night.
28:59But you never seen this female before?
29:03I see her around.
29:18Would you recall seeing her last night?
29:26I saw her at the circle key and that's it.
29:29She couldn't be with me.
29:31She'd be with some other dude with Drev.
29:35I don't think that's true, because she wasn't what I do with Drev.
29:39Yeah, what's blood on your shoes?
29:42Whose blood is on your shoes today?
29:47Yours?
29:48What happened?
29:49I cut my foot.
29:50When did you cut your foot?
29:53Antonio?
29:56What problem you got with her?
30:02You ain't got to hang with her to have a problem with her.
30:04You have an issue with something else could have happened.
30:07The reason why I'm asking, man, because you're facing a murder charge.
30:11I don't want you to be viewed as a woman beater or nothing like that.
30:13So that's why I'm trying to get to the side of the story
30:15and trying to figure out what happened.
30:25What's crazy?
30:35I can't hear you, bro.
30:37Antonio, man, come on.
30:38Talk to me.
30:40He said no.
30:41No.
30:44All right.
30:49He's shutting down.
30:50He said, I don't know her.
30:53Never seen her.
30:54Yeah.
30:55And then he says, well, I've seen her now.
30:57Y'all trying to say I was with her last night?
30:58I wasn't with her last night.
31:01He puts himself there.
31:04It can be frustrating.
31:05He didn't confess to what he did.
31:08The blood from Rob's shoes will be sent to SLED for further testing.
31:13Our witnesses, we don't know how reliable they'll be.
31:16Yeah, they came in and talked today.
31:18But a lot of times it's going to be very hard to try and get them in a court of law to testify.
31:22The chances of that, I'm going to say with this case, are pretty slim.
31:27I think with the DNA evidence, that's crucial.
31:30But there are several avenues we can take to help sure up this case for trial.
31:36It's not closed until it goes to court and we have a conviction, so we'll continue to do our investigation.
31:43I'll call the door.
31:47Hello?
31:48Hello, is this Ms. Devon Craig?
31:50Is this Ms. Devon Craig?
31:52Hey, this is Detective Hollywood North Charleston Police Department.
31:56Hey.
31:57Hey, so I'm just calling you to let you know that we just made an arrest in your mom's murder.
32:05You did?
32:07Yes, ma'am.
32:09Who killed her?
32:11Uh, a subject by the name of Robert Darkin.
32:15I'm sorry you're having to go through all this.
32:18Detective Miller is going to be the case agent on this.
32:22I will have him reach out at some point and make contact with you.
32:26Do you have any questions for me as of right this second?
32:29No.
32:30Again, I give you my condolences.
32:35Bye-bye.
32:37Yeah, I hate doing those, ma'am.
32:38Yes, ma'am.
32:4524 hours in.
32:47It's just my worst nightmare.
32:52It's just the worst thing that could happen.
32:56Devon and her boyfriend come into homicide to speak with detectives.
33:01Um, do you have any other siblings or anything you do?
33:06I have a full sibling.
33:09She's ten and a half months younger than me.
33:11I have two half-siblings from my mom's second marriage, and they're 16 and 13.
33:18The younger two have lived with me since August of last year.
33:22Can you remember the last time you talked to your mom?
33:28Thursday.
33:30About seven days ago.
33:32The last time you talked to her, everything seemed normal.
33:36Yeah.
33:38She wanted me to come and see her.
33:40Um, she said that she missed me.
33:43She said, you promise you'll come and see me?
33:45And I said, yes, I promise I'll come and see you.
33:48And I wasn't able to go see her.
33:51She ever mentioned any trouble with anyone?
33:56She told me that she gets raped and beaten out there all the time.
34:03And that I don't know what it's like to live out on the streets.
34:07And she wanted to live with me.
34:09And I told her that I had her kids and I couldn't, I couldn't let her live with me.
34:15Because she's lived with me before and she stole from me.
34:18Mm-hmm.
34:22How was your relationship like?
34:24I loved her.
34:27And she loved me and she loved all of her kids.
34:31And I loved being around her.
34:35She was just crippled by her addiction.
34:41She started doing drugs when I was like 10.
34:46I know she didn't want to do drugs.
34:50I know that's not the life she wanted.
34:51What questions did you have for me?
34:55Why was she murdered?
34:57That I don't know.
34:59There was an arrest that was made.
35:00Well, found him so quick and some people don't ever get justice.
35:11I'm just grateful for that.
35:13I know how they can have a kid can assist you.
35:17Would you like to speak to her?
35:19Yeah.
35:21Hi.
35:23Our job is to try to help you get through each phase of the process.
35:37We're going to continue to aggressively work the case, looking for video and other possible witnesses.
35:52I think a lot of people can relate to her mom's story.
35:56A lot of people will just look at, like, she's just a homeless person that's around here.
36:01She's a dirty person and she's not.
36:04She had this whole life and got addicted to stupid shit that she just couldn't get off of.
36:10I've been on the side of that, the family members that have the addictions and stuff like that.
36:15And you want to be angry with them and tell them to get their shit together and sometimes they just can't.
36:22The victim's daughter, she's going to think about, like, had she just sucked it up and had her mom living with her and stealing from her, then maybe she would still be here.
36:31She doesn't have to take care of everybody else right now.
36:33She needs to make sure she takes care of herself and let other people take care of her when she needs it.
36:46Still lacking any direct evidence that Robert Gardner killed Kelly.
36:51This is video of the wood line where the victim was found.
36:55The team gets video from another hotel facing the crime scene.
36:59This view is right here, out towards where the body is.
37:02Right on the other side of the bus.
37:03So that's the victim right there.
37:08Looks like she has a blanket over her shoulder.
37:12She walks pretty fast.
37:17A few seconds later.
37:18That's going to be the suspect behind her.
37:30We know just based off clothing descriptions, he was wearing a puffer jacket.
37:46Our victim is being followed by the suspect.
37:51It's her.
37:53That's him.
37:56138, they disappear in this area where the bus is.
38:04143, he pops out from the wood line.
38:08She was killed at 138, 139.
38:12He does go back to the hotel for killing her.
38:14I believe the video is great evidence for court.
38:20It's just frustrating not knowing exactly why this happened.
38:24But right now, I don't have a motive for why Rob did this to Kelly.
38:28She probably was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
38:31I don't think we'll ever know the exact reason of why someone would do something like this
38:37to someone who appears to be completely innocent and just be brutally beaten for no reason.
38:44With all the evidence and the witness statements that we have,
38:47I feel like we bring justice for Kelly.
39:01One time, for science class, she made slime.
39:20And she did it.
39:23And she came into the classroom dressed like a mad scientist.
39:35She had, like, wire hangers in her hair, braided it up into crazy little things,
39:41and then different colored socks and, like, a mad scientist trench coat.
39:46And was like, hey, kids, we're going to make slime today.
39:50And, like, everybody's like, man, your mom's so cool.
39:53When I was one years old, this was my birthday party,
39:58and my mom was helping me open all my birthday presents.
40:03And that's me.
40:05This was hers.
40:06She was a witch one year, and I put it on.
40:10I always wore her, like, shoes and hats and sunglasses.
40:15And she would catch me in her high heels sometimes,
40:18and she'd be like, better get those high heels up.
40:23I miss the way she laughed.
40:25Funniest woman on you.
40:28I miss her, like, before she got, like, back into drugs.
40:33I miss her, like, being happy.
40:35I miss the moments before that when she was trying to be a mom.
40:39She was very loving and caring.
40:42It does suck that she wasn't in our lives, like, as much.
40:47I really do miss my mom and, like, the woman that she could have been.
40:52I was hoping that she would get better eventually, and that we would get to see her and stuff, and that she would, like, be more of a mother figure for us.
41:05I don't have a lot of, like, early memories of her before she started doing drugs and stuff.
41:12When she was in jail, she used to draw us pictures and put them in letters and then mail them to us.
41:18Like, Philip got, like, a little Iron Man.
41:20You got a flower.
41:22I feel like I did.
41:24A big sunflower, maybe?
41:25Yeah.
41:36This is my mom's urn, and I put a beautiful plaque on it.
41:42It says, I love you to the moon and back, because that's something she would always say.
41:45And she kept pictures of us to try and remind herself to do right.
41:52Mom seemed so happy with all of us kids around her.
41:57That's when she was the happiest.
42:01Whatever had a hold of her, she wasn't strong enough to fight it.
42:05But, you know, I never got that opportunity to see if my mom would actually stop with the things that she was doing.
42:17And because he took her life, I'll never know.
42:21But I like to hope she would've.
42:26I love you, Mom.
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