00:00موسيقى
00:02مرحبا.
00:05The family of Martin Durham says that his pet bird Bud was home when he was killed,
00:11and that the Parrot can't stop talking about it.
00:1524 HOUR NEWS 8th, Ken Kolker is here with a story you'll only see on 8th.
00:19Yeah, I'm Brian Sue.
00:20Bud is an African gray Parrot that lived with Martin Durham and his wife Glenna when Martin
00:24was shot and killed in their home in May 2015.
00:27المترجم للقناة.
00:28The wife also suffered a gunshot wound to the head, which police now believe was self-inflicted.
00:35That bird picks up anything and everything.
00:37It's got the filthiest mouth around.
00:40The bird, they say, mimicked both Durham and his wife, Glenna, who was listed as a suspect
00:45in her husband's death.
00:46At least according to Michigan State Police reports obtained by 24-hour News 8.
00:52Durham's family says they took this video of Bud several weeks after Martin Durham was shot.
01:03It starts with sounds like an argument, with the bird changing voices.
01:07And all of a sudden, this came under the parrot's mouth.
01:13I personally think he was there and he remembers it and he's saying it.
01:17Police reports obtained by 24-hour News 8 show that a witness asked police whether they could use the bird
01:23as evidence.
01:24But they didn't show that the detective responded.
01:27Nuevo County Prosecutor Robert Springstead says he's aware the couple has a bird that talked, but said he had not
01:33seen that video.
01:36We took the video to Casa La Parrot in Grand Rapids.
01:40It's definitely an argument between a man and a woman.
01:42She says it's not unusual for African gray parrots to mimic male and female voices.
01:49Did you hear that?
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:51Don't F and shoot.
01:52In my mind, it's something that he's heard, definitely heard before.
01:56Okay.
01:57But could he have heard it the day that the shot was fired?
02:00Sure.
02:01Sure, absolutely.
02:02And if it's fresh in his mind, he might even say it more now.
02:06State police identified the wife as a suspect in a murder-attempted suicide, suggesting she shot him five times before
02:13turning the gun on herself.
02:15They say she left three suicide notes.
02:18And they say the gun belonged to the family.
02:21But in an interview with police after she recovered, she denied killing him, saying she remembered nothing until she was
02:28in the hospital.
02:28That's frustrating.
02:31I cry.
02:33Constantly.
02:34And the worst thing for a husband to do is to look over at his wife crying.
02:38And there's absolutely no way of comforting this woman because there's no settlement there at all.
02:45Now, we tried talking with the wife today, the victim's wife, but nobody would come to the door of her
02:50family's home.
02:51The prosecutor today told us he expects to make a decision in two or three weeks on whether to file
02:56charges.
02:57That is just uncanny, the ability of the bird to mimic whatever was happening there, if indeed that was what
03:03was happening.
03:03How do we know it's not the television or something like that?
03:05Well, that could very well be the case.
03:07But, you know, the person at the castle of Parrot was saying that that's an unusual.
03:12They can actually mimic voices and they can mimic arguments.
03:15And she said it's not unusual.
03:17All right.
03:20Ken Polker.
03:20Thank you, Ken.
03:21Thank you, Ken.
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