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00:00Few details are being released in what deputies are now calling a homicide.
00:04Several women are ripped from their loved ones by an unknown suspect.
00:09He wrapped a belt around her neck and submerged her in a half-filled tub.
00:16Did she see whoever it was?
00:18No.
00:19Somebody waited for the right opportunity to make their move.
00:22The subject was trying to not leave any DNA behind.
00:26Who do you think did this?
00:28I have no idea.
00:30Officials are now working together to see if any links exist between the deaths of an elderly couple in North
00:35Carolina and a woman in Florida.
00:37There were similarities between these cases.
00:40She was dating this man.
00:42I was very concerned.
00:44He had said, I got away with it once before I could get away with it again.
00:48Nobody else has a history of attacking older women.
00:52Could he possibly be the one that did this?
00:55Is it an accident?
00:56Did you mean to kill her?
00:57いうこと?
01:24You don't know.
01:28This story hits close to home for me because I grew up in Florida.
01:33I think about my grandmother and my mother who could have been targeted by this killer.
01:38And that is especially haunting.
01:50This picture does mean a lot.
01:52I believe I was around 30, so that makes for almost 50 in this picture.
01:57She wanted to get her high school diploma because she had never done that.
02:02And so she went to night school.
02:05She felt like she succeeded at something.
02:08We were really proud of her that she was able to do that.
02:12My name is Jacqueline Byrd. I'm the daughter of Judith Osteen.
02:17I've never spoken publicly about my mom on television.
02:23It was, I guess, kind of a traumatic experience.
02:28My mom was 17 when she had me.
02:31We kind of grew up together, I believe, because my mother was a young mother.
02:38I did not know my real father.
02:40So she was extremely close to me.
02:43She loved with all of her heart the people that she really cared about.
02:48My mom would give you the shirt off of her back.
02:52Still as close as ever, in the early 2000s, Jackie is 36 years old and living in Jacksonville,
02:58while her mom, Judith, lives a couple hours away in remote Dixie County.
03:10Dixie County is a very rural part of Florida.
03:12It's about 800 square miles.
03:14A lot of it is not habited by people.
03:17It's a lot of waterways, swampy woods.
03:24In the 2000s, my mom met Charles Carr, and he owned his own business, Carr's Furniture.
03:31They started dating, and it wasn't long before she ended up moving with him right there where the furniture store
03:39was.
03:40So she helped him with his business, and she was very happy with him.
03:46He always looked out for her.
03:48He wanted to make sure that she was okay.
03:51In 2004, she was his fiancée.
03:55Even though they had not gotten married, Charles felt as if she was his spouse.
04:03That was before everything happened.
04:11The Halloween night of 2004, the dispatch called me at home and said we had a homicide at Carr's Furniture.
04:20A male by the name of Jimmy Lawrence was burglarizing Carr's Furniture.
04:26Charles Carr, he had some kind of alarm, so he knew that there was activity going on in the store.
04:32And when he went in, he was gunned down.
04:40Judith Osteen, his fiancée, called the sheriff's office.
04:50Jimmy Lawrence, he jumps in his truck, leaves Mr. Carr's body laying dead in the road bench.
04:55One of the deputies pursued Jimmy, ran him down, and put him in jail.
05:02The next morning, I turned on my phone.
05:05I had a ton of messages from my mother, very upset, telling me what had happened.
05:13Driving as fast as I could to get to Old Town to be with her.
05:19It was a really tough situation.
05:22It was traumatic for her.
05:26It was hard to even acknowledge that that had just happened.
05:33My mother stayed with me for a little while in Jacksonville, and she was trying to get through the trauma
05:41of it.
05:41And then she wanted to move back.
05:46I was very concerned, but she felt safe.
05:51Once she was settled in, she had her older sister, Catherine, come move in with her.
05:58My Aunt Catherine was the oldest.
06:01She was a little developmentally delayed.
06:04My mom knew that her older sister needed a place to stay, and she wanted to help her with her
06:11health needs.
06:13It takes years, but by December 2007, 60-year-old Judith has gotten into a routine, taking care of her
06:21sister and focusing on her business, buying and selling antiques at local flea markets.
06:26She even starts dating again.
06:29I talked to her on the phone.
06:31I just remember that she was excited because the guy that she was dating was coming to see her.
06:37I mean, that's the last time I remember talking to her.
06:45In the early morning hours of December 16, 2007, one of our deputies responded to a gas station in reference
06:53to an abduction.
06:54When deputies arrived, they find Catherine, who was terrified and has a head injury.
07:02She's with a woman Judith had hired to come and clean the house, who had arrived at the home, and
07:09she found Catherine in her room, hiding.
07:18She took Catherine to the gas station down the street from their house to call for help.
07:25Catherine reported that a man came into their house and took Judith the night before.
07:32Catherine said she was laying in bed asleep, and Judith was in her bedroom next door.
07:43Catherine said she was awoken to this man that she did not know pulling on her leg.
07:52He drug her out of bed, and she hit her head on the table.
07:59Catherine screamed for help, and Judith came into the room and told the intruder to leave Catherine alone.
08:08The intruder picked her up and carried Judith out the door, just walked right out with her.
08:16Catherine said she heard him, put her in the car and drive off, and that's the last she's seen of
08:23Judith.
08:27Catherine said the man told her that he'd be back for her, he would kill her and feed her to
08:32the gators.
08:34Catherine was terrified. She didn't know what to do. Her sister took care of her.
08:39So she hid for the rest of the night until the early morning when the housekeeper arrived.
08:46Detectives press Catherine for a description of her attacker, but still in shock, she is only able to give a
08:52general description of the man.
08:54He's white, middle-aged, and with a large build, and she's never seen him before.
09:01I'm driving, and there's a phone call from Scott Hardin, Dixie County Sheriff's Department.
09:08He told me that my mother had been abducted.
09:14It was hard for me to grasp.
09:20I went to see my Aunt Catherine, and she was devastated because of what had happened, and she was scared.
09:28The investigators had a statement, and that's it.
09:32When you don't have a lot to go off of, the best thing to do is to go to where
09:37the crime happened.
09:40Scott, back in 07, was this the Judith's driveway?
09:43Yeah, none of this growth was here.
09:49So you could see their house from the road?
09:51Plain as day, yeah.
09:53You could sit out there on the highway and probably see what was going on through the windows.
09:57There was no forced entry or anything?
09:59No forced entry, no breakage, nothing.
10:01Of course, it's been left abandoned and unattended.
10:04So that was the living area.
10:06Okay.
10:06The kitchen.
10:07There was furniture and stuff.
10:08Yep.
10:09That was Judith's bedroom.
10:12And that's where Catherine was, in that bedroom.
10:16All this stuff wasn't in here back then.
10:18Somebody else has lived here.
10:20Yeah, I mean, it was just a straight shot from coming in the door straight to the bedroom.
10:25It really is.
10:26Any evidence that something took place?
10:28None, other than the abrasion to her head when he drug her off the bed.
10:33Other than that, it was just in and out.
10:37She's just completely disappeared.
10:39We don't know what happened to her, where she went when she left the house, who she went with.
10:45She just was here one minute and gone the next.
10:56There was a lot of evidence recovered from Judith's home.
11:00They collected light switches, cigarette butts, soda cans.
11:05All of those were sent to the lab to see if we get any DNA matches.
11:10Investigators also take Judith's computer to look into her recent communications.
11:15Nothing in the house immediately points to who could have abducted Judith.
11:19They looked around the yard.
11:21There were no tire tracks.
11:22There were no footprints.
11:25The next step was a grid search of the local area.
11:28There's always a chance that you might find Judith injured in the woods.
11:33We got a bunch of officers, bloodhounds.
11:37We stomped the woods out, you know, all behind the property, all around the property.
11:42I was frantic, very upset.
11:45Some of the family members had all come to that house to help look for her.
11:50We walked the property.
11:52We went near the lakes to see if we could find anything.
11:57But we didn't see anything or hear anything of her whereabouts.
12:02She was just gone.
12:07Now police really start to take a deep look at what is on Judith's computer.
12:14The investigators, they went through her online history, emails, phone calls,
12:21and discovered that she had been going to a website called Adult Friend Finder and meeting men online.
12:31And she lost her fiancé.
12:33She was lonely.
12:34And Dixie County just doesn't have, you know, a lot to do here.
12:38The Internet brought a whole new world to Judith's.
12:42We're talking 07, so I don't know how much attention was back then to Internet safety
12:47and probably telling your kids to, you know, be careful.
12:51But how many people are worrying about adults on the Internet?
12:54The investigators ended up with over a dozen names of people she had recently been in contact with.
13:01And these people weren't in Dixie County.
13:05With the clock ticking and a potential pool of suspects extending far beyond the Dixie County line,
13:11investigators need to narrow their gaze.
13:15They show the list of names to Judith's family, and one of the men stands out.
13:20I met with the police and told them that she was dating this man,
13:25and he was actually supposed to come and see my mom on the 17th, the day after.
13:31She was abducted.
13:33The man come from Pennsylvania.
13:37We want to know if this guy flew into Jacksonville at any point in time.
13:40Surrounding those days of the abduction, that check, I called the airport.
13:45And he hadn't, still didn't rule him out completely because he could have driven down here.
13:50He could have flown into Orlander or anywhere else.
13:53So one of the agents reached out to the FBI.
13:56They were able to confirm through his phone records and other resources
14:00that he wasn't in the area at the time Judith disappeared.
14:05He's ruled out.
14:07So where do we start now on this list of females and acquaintances?
14:12The investigators would determine where these men lived.
14:15They got their bank records to see if they had been traveling.
14:18And then they would contact law enforcement in the jurisdiction where these men lived
14:23and asked them if local law enforcement could place them at home
14:27at the time Judith's crime occurred.
14:30They were able to clear all of them.
14:39As the days pass and investigators are able to rule out all of Judith's recent contacts,
14:44detectives turn their attention to Judith's past
14:47to see if she has any possible enemies.
14:50Jimmy Lawrence had been put away in prison.
14:55My mother had to testify against him.
14:59The investigators looked at, could this be a retaliation against Judith for her part in his conviction?
15:06The investigators looked at Jimmy Lawrence's phone records and who all met him
15:11during the time that he was in prison
15:13to see if any of these people that he'd been in communication with
15:17had anything to do with the Judith Osteen case.
15:21And there's nothing tying him to this.
15:27The investigators worked really hard, but they weren't able to find any connection.
15:33At that point, they were left with basically a blank canvas.
15:39But you just do everything in your power to try to find out who did this to Judith.
15:49But then there's a twist in the case on New Year's Day 2008.
15:54400 miles north in a state park in Georgia, a woman disappears while she's out for a hike,
15:59and a man named Gary Hilton is arrested for her murder several days later.
16:04Shortly after his arrest, he's linked to several other crimes in the region.
16:09Officials from Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina are now working together
16:13to see if any links exist between the killing in Georgia
16:16and the deaths of both an elderly couple in North Carolina and a woman in Florida.
16:21Gary Hilton at the time was a suspected serial killer
16:25who had committed a homicide in Leon County in December 2007
16:31and then traveled to Columbia County, Florida, where he had been camping.
16:37Dixie County is between those two areas.
16:40So at the time that Judith went missing,
16:44he would have been in our area and possibly in our county.
16:47The investigators went out to his campsite,
16:51which was an hour drive from Dixie County.
16:54They collected everything that was left behind.
16:58Police scour Gary Hilton's campsite for any clue
17:02that he had anything to do with Judith Osteen.
17:05They find nothing.
17:09His attacks were taking place there on the trail.
17:12So nobody thought that he follows people home,
17:16and so it didn't fit.
17:18Hilton generally won't talk with law enforcement
17:21unless there's a plea deal on the table,
17:24so they don't get anywhere with him.
17:26Unfortunately, they could never link Gary Hilton
17:30to Judith Osteen's disappearance.
17:33I actually called Scott and asked him
17:37had there been any updated information on my mom,
17:41but there was no new information.
17:44So it was devastating for me,
17:46thinking that my mom was gone.
17:51My Aunt Catherine was eventually moved to a nursing home
17:55where she would be safe if the man came looking for her.
17:59But she was very scared and nervous about the whole situation
18:04because her sister was taken in front of her
18:08and never came back.
18:11Weeks later, detectives get all of that evidence back
18:15from the crime lab,
18:16and they're really dismayed to find there are no hits.
18:19The case is at a standstill.
18:23So now police are thinking,
18:25OK, let's go back to Catherine, our only eyewitness,
18:29and let's do something maybe out of the box.
18:32When the investigations absolutely ran out of Leeds,
18:36the investigators took Judith's sister Catherine
18:38to see an agent in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
18:43that had a specialty in hypnosis.
18:46While she was under a partial hypnosis,
18:49she was able to provide enough information
18:52for the FDLE agent
18:53to sketch out a drawing of the suspect.
18:57The completed sketch was of a heavyset man in his 40s
19:01with bushy eyebrows and a round face.
19:05Once we had the sketch,
19:07we were able to take it to the family and friends,
19:10really the entire county.
19:12Can someone ID this guy?
19:16Unfortunately, we weren't able to identify anybody
19:20just based on the drawing.
19:23Detectives send out the sketch
19:25to other sheriff's offices across Florida,
19:28but no one recognizes him.
19:34I had dreams for a few months that my mom was shot.
19:39I would go out by myself,
19:42sit by the lake,
19:43trying to just stay calm.
19:46It was a very tough thing for me to deal with,
19:50but over time,
19:51I realized that she probably was murdered
19:54and that, you know,
19:56we may never see her again.
20:10Years pass with no further leads in the case,
20:14but then in 2018,
20:16Major Scott Hardin gets a call from an agent
20:19at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
20:21with a new potential lead.
20:25An FDLE agent out of Jacksonville,
20:27he said,
20:28hey, I'm sitting here looking at a copy of y'all's sketch.
20:33He said,
20:34if you looked at Michael Porter on your junior posting deal,
20:37I'm like, who's Michael Porter?
20:39Now, 58-year-old Michael Porter
20:41was arrested after a Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office investigation
20:44in August of 2013
20:46for a murder, sexual battery,
20:48and burglary in Bell.
20:50Out of all the people that's been looked at,
20:52he is the one that's like,
20:55damn, the shoe fits.
20:57Nobody else on that list of suspects
20:59has a history of attacking older women
21:02except Michael Porter.
21:11When I heard about Michael Porter,
21:14I did pull his picture
21:16of what he looked like in 2007,
21:18and he did resemble the sketch
21:21that was made with FDLE.
21:25Just the fuller face,
21:27you know, the full chin here,
21:29kind of tucked away ears.
21:30When Hardin gets the tip,
21:3258-year-old Michael Porter
21:34is awaiting trial for a 2013 crime.
21:36It was the home invasion
21:38and murder of 55-year-old Joyce Burrow
21:41in nearby Gilchrist County, Florida.
21:44You know, Catherine was snot well,
21:46so we couldn't show her a photo of Porter.
21:49But as the crow flies,
21:51it's probably less than 10 miles distance
21:54between Judith Osteen and Joyce Burrow.
21:57It's just like a ray of hope.
21:59Here we go.
22:00And I thought,
22:01could he possibly be the one that did this?
22:10This is probably the last picture
22:12of all three of us girls together.
22:14It's Joyce, myself, and Diane.
22:17She was so happy to finally get a grandchild.
22:22Diane was the oldest sister,
22:24and then Joyce was seven years older than me.
22:26She was the responsible one.
22:28And I was probably the wild child.
22:32We were a very close family.
22:34We did everything together.
22:36Joyce was a big West Virginia fan.
22:38They were all big West Virginia fans.
22:42When I met my husband John's family,
22:44I right away noticed the closeness.
22:48When they were together, they were hysterical.
22:51I mean, all they did was laugh.
22:53Joyce was John's aunt,
22:55and she was just the most kind-hearted person I had ever met.
22:59She wanted to always give back,
23:01give back to the community,
23:03give back to her family.
23:05Joyce and I, we always had a closeness.
23:09In 2013, we found out that we were going to have another baby.
23:13Joyce decided that she was just going to move right next door
23:16to John and I to help us with the baby.
23:18She was filling that void of both mother,
23:22mother-in-law, you know, aunt as well.
23:29When I was actually awoken
23:31to what sounded like someone doing donuts,
23:36there was just something about that noise
23:38that I knew something wasn't right.
23:40I patted John and I said,
23:42something's going on outside.
23:46He quickly jumped up and he grabbed his pistol.
23:50I remember holding the house phone
23:52and my hand just waiting.
23:57John came to the door and he said,
24:00call 911, Joyce has been raped.
24:05So I immediately dialed 911
24:07and continued to run outside.
24:11She was laying in the middle of the road.
24:17So I approached her
24:19and laid in the road with her.
24:24The ogre's getting out one.
24:26What's going on?
24:27Our aunt was just great.
24:30Oh, my God.
24:32She said she can't really breathe.
24:36She didn't have any clothing on
24:38except for a nightgown around her neck
24:41and it was tied tight.
24:43I pulled that article away from her neck
24:46as much as I could
24:47to allow her to continue to talk and breathe.
24:49Were they hitting you?
24:52No.
24:54Oh, my God.
24:56Oh, my God.
24:58They're going to have to worry.
25:00All right.
25:01Did she see whoever it was?
25:03Did you see who it was, Joyce?
25:05No.
25:07They just drug you out here?
25:09I ran.
25:11You ran from him?
25:13Yes.
25:14And then he came out here and ran you over?
25:16Yes.
25:17Oh, my God.
25:18She broke in and then what'd they do?
25:20They erased you in your room?
25:23Yes.
25:24And you don't remember anything that they look like?
25:27Nothing?
25:28Oh, my God.
25:31Joyce, they're coming, honey.
25:32I can hear them.
25:35At that point, you couldn't really understand what she was saying.
25:38But it wasn't long after that, EMS had arrived.
25:41They took over from there.
25:44I arrived at the hospital
25:46and they immediately took me into a family counseling room.
25:49I sat there waiting on someone to come and talk to me
25:53and tell me what was going on.
25:55As doctors do everything they can to save Joyce's life,
25:59deputies from the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office
26:02and agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
26:06arrive at her house.
26:09When you're looking at the crime scene,
26:11you're listening to what she has said on the 911 call.
26:14You're trying to piece together what happened.
26:17It was apparent that Joyce was trying to get to John and Heather,
26:22her family, to get help.
26:24And the suspect had seen what was going on
26:27and hit her with a vehicle.
26:30There was tire tracks in the yard of her residence.
26:33Some of the tire tracks showed down the dirt road.
26:36Then into the yard, almost like it was turning around.
26:40And after hitting her, come back and hit her again.
26:46Seeing the tire tracks,
26:47we noticed that the tires on the suspect's vehicle
26:51did not match each other.
26:53These tire tracks wouldn't be just any type of vehicle.
26:56We were looking for a vehicle that had some distinguishing tread
27:00and mismatching tires.
27:02So we knew what we was looking for.
27:05Just south of the residence,
27:07there was evidence of a vehicle being parked there
27:09with some fresh cigarette butts,
27:11which led investigators to believe
27:12that somebody was watching her
27:15and waited for the right opportunity to make their move.
27:20Inside, all matched what she was saying.
27:22But whatever happened in the residence at that point,
27:26somebody was trying to clean up the crime scene.
27:31The subject responsible was trying to not leave any DNA behind.
27:37The investigators found some sheets,
27:39some underwear, lingerie, and a sponge.
27:43That's all taken straight to be processed.
27:48At the hospital, I remember John was calling Denise
27:51and just telling them that something bad had happened.
27:54My husband answers his phone, and he says,
27:56it's Heather.
27:57Something's happened to Joyce, and it's bad.
28:00And then we started getting a little bit more details.
28:03When I finally realized that she had been raped,
28:06I just, you never think something like that's going to happen
28:09in your family, never.
28:11We waited for what felt like hours.
28:14Eventually, the doctors tell us that they had,
28:18they weren't able to save her.
28:22They told us that we couldn't leave the room,
28:24and then I was surrounded by investigators.
28:29They were asking us questions.
28:31Who do you think you did this?
28:32I couldn't even think of one person
28:34that would do this to Joyce.
28:38When I returned home that day,
28:41I was scared to death.
28:42I had a fear that this person was watching me.
28:47That this person was going to come back
28:49and harm one of us.
28:58Few details are being released
29:00in what deputies are now calling a homicide.
29:0255-year-old Joyce Burrow
29:04was found dead near her home early Wednesday.
29:07It's not a sprint, but it's a marathon,
29:09and we're going to exhaust any and all resources
29:12that are available.
29:14Just a week after the murder,
29:16investigators get a DNA hit
29:18on the yellow sponge they found in Joyce's home.
29:22The DNA came back to somebody
29:24who had previously had law enforcement interaction,
29:27and his name was Michael Porter.
29:29We found out that he had a sexual assault case
29:33in South Florida.
29:34Quickly, we're pulling up everything
29:36that they possibly can on this person.
29:39Michael Porter is a truck driver,
29:41and in 2013, he's 53 years old.
29:45As it turns out, he works 20 minutes
29:48from where Joyce Burrow lives.
29:51We drove to a trucking company
29:53outside of Brantford, Florida,
29:55where we had learned
29:56that Michael Porter's vehicle was parked at.
30:00As we arrived, we walked around to the back
30:03and identified Michael Porter's
30:05late model Ford truck.
30:07I walked over to the vehicle
30:09and noticed the tire tracks
30:11matched identical to the tire tracks
30:14that left at the crime scene.
30:16There was some mismatched tire tread
30:18from the crime scene.
30:20This had oddball tires on the truck as well.
30:23This is the vehicle.
30:25We were looking for it.
30:28With no sign of Porter
30:29near his personal vehicle,
30:31officers across Florida
30:33are on the hunt for a 16-wheeler.
30:37Finally, on the afternoon of August 3rd, 2013,
30:41agents from the Florida Department
30:42of Law Enforcement
30:43intercept Michael Porter
30:45at a truck stop
30:46near the Florida-Georgia state line.
30:49What do you want to say to our family?
30:52Was it an accident?
30:53Did you mean to kill her?
30:56Do you think you'd get caught?
31:00I remember my phone ringing,
31:02and it was the sheriff.
31:03They asked us
31:05if we knew a person
31:06by the name of Michael Porter.
31:08I have no idea.
31:10Never even heard that name
31:12ever in my life.
31:14Michael Porter is arrested
31:16for the murder of Joyce Burrow,
31:18but it turns out
31:19he had actually been arrested
31:20for a similar attack years before.
31:24An investigation
31:25into his criminal record
31:27revealed Michael Porter
31:28was convicted in 1988
31:29of several charges,
31:31including sexual battery
31:32in Pasco County.
31:34On June 26, 1987,
31:37a 50-year-old woman
31:38named Morton Young
31:40was watching TV
31:41in her bedroom
31:42at the La Rue Motel
31:44in Holiday, Florida.
31:46At about 11.30,
31:47when she heard a noise,
31:49she went to see
31:50what was going on,
31:51and she was shocked
31:52to find a man standing there.
31:54He wrapped a belt
31:56around her neck
31:58and raped her
31:59while he submerged her
32:01in a half-filled tub.
32:03When he's done,
32:05he orders her
32:06to wait 30 minutes.
32:07The man leaves,
32:09and then she runs for help
32:11to a nearby gas station.
32:13A deputy sheriff
32:15found a Marlboro cigarette
32:16on the floor
32:17where she had been attacked,
32:19and, as it turns out,
32:22Porter's DNA
32:23was found
32:24on that cigarette pot.
32:27Michael Porter,
32:28he got sentenced
32:28to life in prison,
32:29but 14 years later,
32:32he actually gets
32:33his conviction overturned
32:34and gets released.
32:36In 2002,
32:37Porter was set free
32:39when an appeals court
32:40found his due process
32:41rights were violated
32:42when several police reports
32:44were not given to him
32:45during the trial.
32:46In the decade
32:47after his release
32:48in 2002,
32:50Michael Porter
32:51faces domestic violence charges
32:53and pleads guilty
32:54to an assault
32:54and battery case.
32:56Porter does serve time
32:58in prison
32:58during this period,
32:59but he is out
33:00when Judith Osteen
33:01is abducted
33:02from her home.
33:03There were similarities
33:04between these cases.
33:07They were committed
33:08against women
33:08of a similar age,
33:10and there had been
33:13entry made
33:13into the woman's home.
33:16In the Judith Osteen case,
33:18the assailants
33:19probably thought
33:20they were going in
33:21on a single female,
33:24and then out pops Judith,
33:26which is like,
33:27now you've disrupted
33:28my plan.
33:29And his only reaction
33:30was to grab
33:31this petite little old lady,
33:33and off we go.
33:36We're two counties
33:37with a combined population
33:39back then
33:39of probably 30,000.
33:41What's the odds
33:42of having more than one
33:44serial rapist
33:45like to rape
33:45old women?
33:48Investigators
33:49don't have
33:49any physical evidence
33:50connecting him
33:51to the abduction
33:52of Judith Osteen,
33:53but prosecutors
33:54in Gilchrist County
33:55move forward
33:56to try him
33:57for the rape
33:57and murder
33:58of Joyce Burrow.
34:01It was five years
34:03after Joyce's murder.
34:05The time was coming
34:06that we were going
34:07to have a trial,
34:09and knowing what we know
34:11about his past,
34:12I was scared to death
34:14that he was going
34:15to get off.
34:16As the trial starts,
34:18the judge issues
34:19a decision.
34:20There should be
34:20no mention
34:21of the 1988 trial
34:23involving 50-year-old
34:24Morton Young
34:24before the jury
34:25as the case
34:26had been expunged.
34:29When I saw Porter
34:30the first time
34:31in court,
34:33my heart
34:33was pounding.
34:35All I could think of
34:36was what Joyce
34:37was thinking
34:38that night.
34:39I couldn't even
34:40hardly look at him.
34:42On the second day
34:43of testimony,
34:44the trial takes
34:45an unexpected turn.
34:47They put one
34:48of Michael Porter's
34:50cellmates
34:50on the stand,
34:52and he had said
34:53that Porter told him,
34:54I got away with it
34:55once before
34:56I could get away
34:57with it again.
34:58But he wasn't supposed
34:59to mention the first case
35:01because it had been
35:02a sponge that resulted
35:03in a mistrial.
35:06I was just heartbroken
35:08thinking that he's
35:10going to get off.
35:11Finally,
35:11a new trial
35:12for Michael Porter
35:13is scheduled for October.
35:17We went back
35:18for the trial,
35:19hopeful this time,
35:20that everything
35:21would go well.
35:22Porter would
35:23look at us,
35:25smile at us,
35:26wink at us.
35:27I think so.
35:31Made us
35:32very uncomfortable.
35:33He was so cocky
35:35sitting there.
35:37All right,
35:37what's going on?
35:38Our aunt
35:39was just great.
35:40Oh, my God.
35:42First time
35:43I heard the 911 call
35:44was at the trial.
35:47Heather asked
35:48Joyce questions,
35:48what happened,
35:50and you could hear
35:51Joyce say,
35:52he ran over me.
35:56Were they hitting you?
35:57No.
35:58No, no, no.
36:00Oh, my God.
36:02Oh, my God.
36:03I do remember
36:04the gasp
36:05in the room
36:06from the jury.
36:08She was a witness
36:09to her own murder
36:10and was able
36:11to speak
36:11at her own trial.
36:13That was huge.
36:24Testimony wraps
36:25and both sides
36:26rest their case
36:26and the jury
36:27begins deliberations.
36:29We were nervous
36:30that there wouldn't
36:31be justice
36:32for Joyce's murder.
36:34The jury,
36:35they deliberated
36:36for four hours
36:37and we got a call
36:39that they had
36:40a verdict.
36:4158-year-old
36:42Michael Porter
36:43was accused
36:43of killing
36:4455-year-old
36:45Joyce Burrow
36:46back in 2013
36:47and tonight
36:48a jury
36:49has found him guilty.
36:58I'm not going to say
36:59it's closure
36:59because there's
37:01no such thing
37:01as closure.
37:02I was so glad
37:03I didn't have to look
37:04at his face again
37:04and that none of us
37:06had to go through
37:06that again.
37:08It was a relief
37:09but not a closure.
37:12There's no such thing.
37:15Five years
37:16after Joyce Burrow's
37:17murder,
37:17Michael D. Porter
37:18is sentenced
37:19to life in prison
37:20on charges
37:20of first-degree murder,
37:22burglary assault,
37:23and sexual battery.
37:25There's always
37:26still that fear.
37:28He'll file for an appeal
37:29and get off
37:30but I think
37:31justice was served.
37:34I just hope
37:35everyone will remember
37:36Joyce as
37:37just the wonderful,
37:39kind-hearted
37:39person she was.
37:43I miss her.
37:45Life is not the same
37:46without her.
37:47Your family's stories,
37:49I've got no one
37:50to share them with
37:52because we thought
37:53we was going to grow
37:53the old ladies together.
37:57So I miss,
37:59I just miss her.
38:04police still
38:05don't have
38:06any evidence
38:07linking Michael Porter
38:08to Judith Osteen's
38:10disappearance
38:11so everything's
38:13still in question.
38:15I think Porter
38:16is a habitual rapist.
38:18I think he's done it
38:19before he did Joyce.
38:21I think it might be
38:22many people out there.
38:26The Judith Osteen case
38:27had never got solved
38:29and remains active
38:30but with Michael Porter
38:33it seems like
38:34the shoe sure fits.
38:37Michael Porter
38:38remains a person
38:39of interest
38:39and People Magazine
38:40Investigates
38:41has reached out
38:42for an interview
38:43but to date
38:44he has not yet
38:45responded.
38:47There's enough
38:48similarities between
38:48the two cases
38:49and the fact
38:50that he does
38:51resemble the sketch
38:53makes him
38:54someone that
38:55we want to talk
38:55to now.
38:57After almost
38:5814 years
38:59on the case
39:00I retired
39:01from the Dix County
39:01Sheriff's Office
39:02in 2021.
39:05Right now
39:06I'm the lead
39:07investigator on the case
39:08and with me
39:10coming in
39:1017 years later
39:11everybody's fresh
39:13to me.
39:15This is the evidence
39:16that was on file
39:17at the Sheriff's Office
39:18for the Judith Osteen case.
39:21There was DNA
39:22that was collected
39:22at the house
39:23from various locations.
39:25There's some
39:26doorknob swabs
39:27and cigarette butts
39:28that are all
39:29housed in here.
39:31They have already
39:32been sent
39:33and processed
39:33through the lab.
39:35So far
39:36none of the DNA
39:37from the scene
39:38has been matched
39:39to Michael Porter
39:39or any of the
39:40other suspects.
39:43Investigators
39:44never forget
39:45their previous cases
39:47and it's the same
39:48with the cold cases.
39:48Once you open
39:49that box
39:51it's your case.
39:52You don't ever
39:53let it really
39:53get too far
39:54out of your mind.
39:55I hope that people
39:57remember Judith
39:58and I hope
40:00we can find out
40:00what happened
40:01to Judith.
40:04My mom was
40:05a wonderful person
40:06a good person
40:07yet at the end
40:09of the day
40:09she saved
40:10her sister's life
40:11to give up
40:12her own.
40:13My Aunt Catherine
40:14she's no longer
40:15with us.
40:16She had Alzheimer's
40:18at the nursing home
40:19before she passed.
40:23There's so much
40:24that has been
40:24taken away
40:25from our family.
40:27How do you deal
40:28with the fact
40:29that your mom
40:30has been abducted
40:31and murdered
40:32and it's never
40:34going to leave
40:34your mind?
40:37after all of
40:38these years
40:39I wish I could
40:40find out
40:41exactly what
40:41happened to her
40:42because we don't
40:44have anything
40:44concrete.
40:46So I just pray
40:48that someone
40:48will come forward
40:49and give some
40:51information that
40:52can help solve
40:52this case.
41:20I just pray
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