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00:07a senseless double homicide is this killing for revenge is it out of jealousy a disturbing
00:14manner of death they were innocent ladies and the world got turned upside down and a young
00:22child as the only witness after everything's exhausted there was just nothing every violent
00:34crime leaves a trace a forensic trail that can lead to the truth and justice for the wronged there
00:40could be potential victims out there we've got to have done it we cannot discount this is the start
00:46of a killing spree every crime scene tells a story it begins in Sumter County inland Florida with a
01:01distraught 911 call the caller is worried about his wife Esperanza Hope Wells and her mother Margarita
01:10Ruiz who are at home babysitting the husband would call every day from work to talk to his
01:16wife and on that day the little girl answered the phone not his wife the little girl is Hope's
01:24three-year-old niece Paige the children were not allowed to answer he told he asked Paige where's
01:30Hope she said they're laying down and they're bleeding he knows something is bad wrong he just
01:42obviously doesn't know what it is it could have been an accident in the home but he was very concerned
01:48and agitated so he got off the phone with her dial 911 and started heading towards home we sent two
01:55deputies out there to respond and see what the problem was I got a call that the deputies had arrived
02:02at this
02:02scene and found two women dead of homicidal violence so I responded to the scene this is the crime scene
02:13video
02:14that was taking the day of the murders when I got there a crowd had gathered from the community we
02:21had
02:22the crime scene blocked off we made a cursory walk through very gently to not disturb any evidence just to
02:33get an idea of what possibly might have happened now you're walking up the steps to the back door there
02:41it
02:43is I noticed that the eye hook had been snatched out of the wood frame you had the two shots
02:49through the screen
02:49door these are nine millimeter shell casings from the shots fired into the house from the porch I
03:01walked in the back door I noticed there was a bullet hole then I moved into the dining room area
03:10from the
03:11kitchen and in the front bedroom that faced state room 50 that's where the two bodies were it's
03:18margarita and hope hope was crumpled at the foot of the bed on the ground and margarita was to the
03:26left
03:27of the bed laying flat towards the window they were not only shot they were also stabbed I could see
03:36the
03:36stab wounds in both the ladies necks CSI's are immediately called in from the Florida Department
03:43of Law Enforcement they called for our laboratory crime lab services and also our criminal investigation
03:50services it was a double murder high-profile and we frequently assist local agencies and investigations
03:59as they wait for the CSI's police interview the only witnesses the two children Paige and her little
04:07brother were in police cars with some of our crimes against children detectives when you're interviewing
04:15children it's easy to leave them if you're not careful the boy is too young to provide a statement
04:22but Paige Ruiz is three going on four a young witness just doesn't understand the details you must
04:31assume she's frightened to death which can affect her observations I remember being dropped off like
04:39normal as my parents went to work that day and it was shortly after that I heard a knock at
04:45the back
04:46door when I heard the big boom from the gunshot I also heard my grandma screaming so I ran underneath
04:54the dining room table to hide we do not know if he saw the children because Paige had taken her
05:01brother
05:01under the dining room table Paige really showed a great deal of good common sense to snatch her brother
05:09up get under there so did the suspect not see them or did he just for whatever reason not want
05:16to kill
05:17them thank God I remember running to the window and seeing the green car back out of the driveway
05:25and I remember my uncle showing up and he was trying to run through the cops arms to get to
05:29the house
05:30and I just remember him dropping immediately and like crying that interview resulted in basically her
05:37telling us it was a black man in a green car based on Paige's story and his careful walkthrough of
05:47the
05:47scene detective Brannon thinks he knows what happened when the perpetrator met Margarita at the back door of
05:54the house he shot her twice there she ran into the back of the house he snatched open the back
06:03door which
06:04was held shut by just a little eye hook you could tell what path she had taken because there was
06:11the
06:11trail of evidence right at the scene she was running to the bedroom for help so he chased her Margarita
06:19into
06:20that bedroom and the third shot hit her in the spine which killed her instantly and Esperanza Hope was
06:30in bed sick with the flu she came off the foot of that bed and he shot her then he
06:38got his knife out and
06:39proceeded to stab both of them in the neck it's uncommon to shoot and stab the person normally shooting them
06:46gets their job done CSI's then arrive on the scene when we got to the scene and were briefed the
06:56only
06:56thing they really knew at the time was that they had two dead women in a house and no suspects
07:02it was not a
07:05large crime scene at all so it didn't take very long to process and search we're seeing here now money
07:13laid out
07:14so we did not believe that robbery was the motive CSI's collect nine millimeter shell casings from the
07:22house and porch but no weapons are found anywhere he brought his instruments to kill with him a handgun
07:32and a knife so we knew there was a gun somewhere a fire alarm a nine millimeter pistol somewhere if
07:38we
07:38could get the handgun or get the knife one or the other and link it to a specific person then
07:44we
07:45would really have a good chance of getting somewhere with this CSI's then examined the blood most of it's
07:52concentrated in the bedroom but there's a tiny amount on the living room floor it was between the
07:59back door where the perpetrator entered and the bedroom where he eventually killed both the ladies
08:06it's carefully swabbed for DNA we thought that the suspect sustained some sort of an injury
08:13and left that blood that dripped off of that knife it isn't much to go on there was the blood
08:20drop
08:20and that was essentially it it was not going to be good forensic evidence until we had something to
08:26compare it with there was no evidence of any crimes being committed no evidence of any illegal activity
08:35inside the house whatsoever there was no evidence of sexual assault it was just the gunshot wounds and
08:44the stab wounds my first impression is there was no reason for this to have happened here it was vicious
08:53it was unprovoked it was obvious that whoever came there went there to kill no robbery no sexual assault
09:01just to kill
09:09this was the all-american squeaky clean family that tragedy came to their doorstep and never should
09:18have been there people in the community were disturbed there was a double murder but that it
09:24was two very innocent women this very well could be somebody driving by on highway 50 and just got
09:32some message out of the universe to pull in here and do this this was unheard of in supper county
09:38things like
09:39this just didn't happen there's no evidence of emotive here this was random and random crimes scared the
09:48public and he should secure the public for the ruiz family fear is compounded by grief they should have
09:57been getting ready for a double birthday party for page and her brother that week instead they're planning a
10:03double funeral for hope and margarita my grandma and my aunt hope were like the glue to the family they
10:10kind of just got everybody together and they were very loving towards us being older now I think it
10:18hits me harder knowing that like being so young I went through something so tragic and even what my
10:24parents went through knowing this happened while we were there as police wait for the DNA results from the
10:34blood in the living room the investigation begins family members were interviewed friends were
10:42interviewed once we were satisfied that they weren't involved we started looking elsewhere with no obvious
10:49motive or reason for the killings investigators cast a wide net we went to crime line for crime line tips
10:57we
10:58had a huge billboard with the ladies pictures with a reward of up to five thousand dollars we got some
11:05of
11:06the weird tips that you always get when you go for reward as the tips pour in the DNA results
11:13from the
11:14single drop of blood arrive the droplet yields three different DNA profiles the two victims and a third
11:22unidentified male and it was a mixture of three persons DNA back then we definitely couldn't search mixtures
11:31in CODIS CODIS is the national DNA database that has all convicted felons DNA in it so we got DNA
11:42samples from
11:43every male person that ever visited that house including us and it was not a match so we were confident
11:54that
11:54that third unknown person in that mixture was the killer police use the sample to compare against any and all
12:04persons of interest we received a lot of tips regarding drugs and specifically this house the victim's house
12:13was located here at the intersection of state road 50 and county road 737 down the same road that this
12:22house is on the corner of there's a place junkyard jim he was a meth dealer several tipsters claim
12:30junkyard jim owes money to drug cartels who were out to get him so if this had been somebody that
12:37had
12:37ordered a drug hit killed junkyard jimmy they might have got their directions messed up because
12:42the victim's house the victim's house was the first one on the left jim's house was first one on the
12:47right it could be anybody that's got upset with the dealer they got ripped off didn't get the drugs they
12:55thought they should have another tip is that junkyard jim might be the killer himself so we sent our special
13:02investigation squad to focus on junkyard jim and then we hit the place with a search warrant got his
13:09drugs got his guns tested the nine millimeters that were there they were not used in this crime
13:19junkyard jim is cleared as a suspect
13:26over six years sumter county police receive hundreds of tips we probably interviewed 200 people or better
13:34and we traveled a great deal we never really got to the point of being able to call somebody a
13:41suspect
13:43margarita and hope's family doesn't give up we had a billboard in tarrytown it was on the news we always
13:50wanted to keep it in the public's eye we wanted to know why and we wanted to put the person
13:56that did this
13:57behind bars for what they did i was dejected it was bad it was a bad time because i saw
14:07these family
14:08up at the grocery store and also the community was looking to us to solve this and we weren't solving
14:17it
14:18not being able to solve a murder case is the most frustrating feeling you can get
14:23there's no more miserable feeling in the world than a homicide detective standing at a homicide scene
14:29knowing there's nothing to go on other than you got dead bodies as far as the circumstances of this
14:37murder we didn't have a reason for this crime that's what makes it random makes it dangerous makes it
14:43difficult to solve this it was a long hard six years and i kept thinking i don't want to retire
14:51having never saw ruiz wells i did not want that to be my legacy
15:02so i was again reviewing the case as i did often thinking back what more could we have done and
15:09i did
15:10a web search and came up with a man named marks howe marks howe is a retired inspector with the
15:17texas
15:18department of public safety he was criminal profiler for them he's very prominent in their cold case
15:23unit and their cold case review team so i called out there to marks the initial phone call that i
15:31received from captain brownland advised me that this is the only unsolved homicide cases in sumter county
15:39he indicated to me that he thought they'd run out of leads
15:44so we went out there and we presented the case to the texas cold case review team
15:50we looked at the autopsy reports we looked at the crime scene photographs
15:55and of course brandon told us that the victim one and victim two had been shot and then they had
16:01been
16:01stabbed they just sit there and tear apart your investigation
16:10now we had one person that thought it was satanic worship but there was no pentagrams there didn't
16:17appear to be any ritualism or any symbolism the team also considers the cartel theory
16:25i didn't think it was cartel killing because cartel killings are a lot more brutal than this
16:32a lot more brutal a cartel hit generally is not going to leave any witnesses and obviously we had a
16:40three-year-old witness
16:45to create a profile of the killer howell and the cold case review team then analyze both the
16:52circumstances of the killing and the location based on what i observed from crime scene photographs and
16:58everything i was thinking what is the mental behavior what is the drivers behind this killing
17:07and we looked at the house and we looked at the intersection highway 50 runs right in front of this
17:13house and that is a heavily heavily traveled highway that runs all the way across the state of florida
17:20from the gulf to the atlantic so i was under the belief that he is driving down highway 50 and
17:26margarita went outside when he was driving back hope's husband told us that early in the morning
17:34margarita would go outside and turn on sprinklers for her flowers and i think he saw her and he is
17:42experiencing a command hallucination where he's hearing voices that tells him to kill this person
17:48so he turns on that county road and goes in to the back door he does not know these two
17:56people
17:57but he is mission oriented and he is calm and cool and collective when he's doing this
18:04he shot them
18:07and kneels down and stabbed them in their neck
18:13because stabbing them in the neck was a part of the ritual that he enjoyed
18:18he didn't kill the children because he was experiencing tunnel vision
18:25he was focused right in on margarita if he had seen the children i think he would have killed them
18:32this was certainly a senseless crime but the thing you have to ask yourself is what was the purpose for
18:39the
18:39perpetrator and the victim being together there was no purpose for them to be together
18:49and so i'm beginning to think that this person may be a paranoid schizophrenic
18:55and that he is delusional
18:59i told brandon that it was my belief that the person who did this was right around 25 years of
19:06age
19:0925 is the peak age for schizophrenia in men mark's house profile of the killer was a schizophrenic
19:18male white male most probably
19:22statistically speaking serial killers are mostly white males and most of the time statistically they
19:29kill within their own race i agreed with that theory i mentioned that that day at the crime scene
19:37which is somebody driving by gets a message from wherever or however that's where i need to go and do
19:45this this profile of the killer prompts police to go back to the very beginning
19:51with page their only eyewitness i came up with the idea that we hypnotize page and at that time in
20:02texas
20:03pharizic hypnosis was very prominent so i called out there to marks asking would you be willing to come
20:11out here and hypnotize this child see if we could get some more from her
20:39i was 10 at the time of this interview so on the left is marks howell
20:45and then me in the chair to the right and my mom is in the back i want to show
20:49you something
20:51sometimes we forget how to relax i developed rapport with paige and she was a squirmy little girl
20:59the first thing that i had to do was get her to relax because when we're relaxed we can recall
21:05more information and i may have you to imagine that you're sitting in a beauty shop chair he was
21:11very very welcoming it made me feel like i was in a safe place just take a real deep breath
21:17and
21:17hold it and let it out i had her just exhale and allow that relaxation to move up your arm
21:24the gauges that he used to tell if i was under hypnosis or not was touching my arms and making
21:30sure
21:30that they're limp and relaxed i want to have you to imagine that there's a television right here in
21:36front of you and that there is a dvd player and then the second thing i'm gonna ask her to
21:43imagine a tv
21:44player in her mind you will be able to rewind this dvd in here back to to a specific area
21:54and then you'll be
21:56able to let it play again the tv vcr technique is to have a person disassociate the trauma that's
22:04attached to the event and i want you to go ahead and take that dvd and i want you to
22:09place it in
22:09that dvd player if you will she is hypnotized right now she is in hypnosis you can see their hand
22:17moving
22:17as if she is actually putting the dvd and she actually turned the television on and you can let me
22:24know when the dvd is at the end there until you think the person has left the house by raising
22:35your
22:36thumb on your left hand i remember i heard the knock and that's when i ran to go behind the
22:52curtain
22:53because i was going to scare my uncle coming home but then all of a sudden i hear a boom
23:01i realized something was wrong when i heard the big boom
23:06well after they went by the table i hear like i hear him screaming in the bedroom and trying to
23:13close the
23:13door and then i knew the person leaving because there wasn't no one in the house okay i want you
23:23to run the dvd right up to where you're standing in the window there looking at that car
23:42it's crazy to think how much attention to detail i had at such a young age i think
23:47i was able to get that out from rewinding my mind and going back there okay i want you to
23:55slow the
23:55tape down i want you to back it up just a little bit reverse it rewind it just where their
24:00grandmother's
24:01running right by the table and just taking your time describe what you're seeing
24:10i could see my brown boots and dark jeans there was a tablecloth so you couldn't really see nothing
24:19but like the knee down and a blur of like you know them running
24:28the only thing that she saw of the killer were the legs
24:33there was a gasp in the room when she said it was his trouser legs that were black
24:38not the killer we had been looking for a black man for green car for six years
24:46really we should have been looking for a white man in a green car
24:51even with page's description of the killer and a new criminal profile the case doesn't move
24:59no one in sumter county fits i knew we had done everything we could do at some point in time
25:05you
25:05just have to sit and wait on a phone call and that's exactly what happened i was doing a crossword
25:12puzzle that day during lunch hour and my secretary comes down and says there's a prosecutor from
25:17wisconsin wants to talk to you on the phone he said did you have a murder where two related females
25:24a mother and daughter were killed and i said yes i did and then he asked were they shot first
25:33and
25:33then stabbed i said yes he said were they shot with a nine millimeter pistol i said yes
25:40and he said well he came upon one of our flyers that we had submitted on law enforcement sites and
25:48cold case sites and he said this fits perfectly i've got this case up here with commonalities
25:56between the two cases the case in wisconsin concerns mary jane marquardt who was shot then
26:03stabbed in her home two days before hope and margarita were killed and i said to the guy look
26:10somebody put you up to this you're playing a joke on me it's not funny he said no no i'm
26:15serious i'm
26:16serious sumter county authorities immediately traveled to wisconsin to determine if the two
26:22cases are in fact related several of us went to wisconsin met with the police and prosecutor up there
26:29they told us all about their case they learn mary jane marquardt was murdered in chippewa county
26:35in her garage there's blood all over she's cold and it's covered up with a blanket it's off my bed
26:41do you know if she's breathing at all i don't know she's not do you know if she has a
26:45pulse no she
26:47don't okay investigator richard price was one of the first on the scene on arrival the sheriff's
26:55patrol vehicle was there along with alfred marquardt alfred stated that when he got home after work
27:02he entered the garage from the back side he noticed a comforter the blanket's over the top of
27:08the head was covered up it was covering his wife mary jane price was joined at the scene by forensic
27:17scientist nick stalke of the wisconsin state crime lab my first impressions were that this is a very
27:23straightforward scene a body cartridge cases some blood spatter one of the things that we found rather
27:31quickly was a nine millimeter shell casing underneath the parked car the coroner informed me that the
27:39woman had a gunshot wound to the side of the head and her throat was cut what all three murders
27:46had in
27:46common were that they were attacked initially at the back door of the house that they were shot first and
27:55then stabbed this is a photograph of the crime scene the blanket is important in that it's covering her
28:03body well when i saw the blanket on mary marquardt one of the first things i thought of is well
28:08this
28:09individual that killed her likely knew her when a body is covered with a blanket especially when the face is
28:17covered typically the suspect is somebody that knew the victim and they don't want to see the face of that
28:24individual after they've killed that individual whoever committed the crime was familiar with the house
28:31because the person got a comforter from mary's bedroom back in 2000 chippewa county police investigated
28:42the family first as they would have been the most familiar with the house husband alfred was immediately
28:49ruled out because he was at work that day police then moved on to the couple's three adult children
28:56we were able to make contact with one son and the daughter the daughter was home with her kids and
29:03husband and the other son was also married and his wife indicated he was home but the third bill marquardt
29:13was nowhere to be found the son bill became a person of interest because of the body being covered with
29:20a blanket they had a family cabin in eau claire county the next morning we decided to drive down and
29:31find the cabin and see if we could locate bill we found on arrival at the cabin that it blinds
29:39were all
29:40drawn in both windows doors were locked padlock on the outside no bill no bill's car either
29:48investigators walked the perimeter with alfred's permission and found an unlocked outhouse they
29:54looked in that pit and found that there were three dogs that had been recently killed
30:00the animals were shot and stabbed in the neck again so he became a very strong suspect at that time
30:11there's only one question where is bill
30:17five days after the murder of mary jane in wisconsin
30:21and three days after the double homicide of margarita and hope in florida wisconsin police received a tip
30:29the wisconsin police found that he had a green car at the time which is the green car the little
30:35girl
30:35who's only three years old talked about eau claire county advised us that the neighbors saw
30:41the green thunderbird return to the cabin
30:47we drove to the cabin the eau claire swap team was already in place
30:53and we could hear their megaphone yelling at the house for bill to come out marquard refused so the
31:03swat team smoked him out it took a while but he came out and the eau claire swap team promptly
31:09put the
31:10grab on him and put him in cuffs of course the swat team patted him down for weapons and in
31:16his front
31:17pants pocket was an old-timers arrayed knife which is a folding blade about four inches long with a red
31:24stain on it
31:26we weren't sure what it was but we suspected it could have been blood
31:32marquardt was taken into custody while the folding knife was sent to the lab
31:36and search warrants were obtained for the cabin
31:39my section of the search was the kitchenette and the kitchen area with all of these dirty dishes in it
31:49and with flashlight i looked under the refrigerator and sure enough there was a box of bullets a bunch
31:56of loose rounds and a nine millimeter pistol there's the handgun and some unfired cartridges
32:05all nine millimeter and we always knew there was a gun a nine millimeter pistol and come to find out
32:12the pistol that was recovered in wisconsin was a nine millimeter pistol
32:17the same caliber as the casings found in margarita and hope's deaths and at mary jane's wisconsin home
32:25that was amazing but the similarities between the two cases don't stop there
32:32florida then learns about the dead animals sent to the lab each of these animals were killed the same
32:37way as mary was shot and then stabbed in the neck which showed his propensity for
32:43stabbing in the neck his fantasy for doing that or his compulsion or whatever during the wisconsin
32:50investigation dna analyst john erdle examined the blood evidence on bill marquardt's folding knife
32:57to see if it was the same weapon that mary jane was stabbed with i could see that there was
33:03blood
33:03on the knife and i swabbed that and i could see there was a lot more blood down in the
33:09hinge area of
33:10the knife and so i drilled out the pivot pin and was able to access the dried blood that had
33:18collected in
33:19the hinge area mr erdle called me direct and stated that they found dna in the locking device and it
33:27indeed belonged to mary jane marquard and now deeper down in the hinge area we're finding two other
33:35people's dna we could see that they were genetically related and very closely and since
33:43are both female we're looking for a mother and a daughter in florida hope and margarita were the
33:51mother daughter it's like what's he doing with this knife the assumption was these could be additional
33:58victims mary mark work was shot and stabbed in the neck and the two victims in florida were shot and
34:06stabbed in the neck and for it to occur within a few days of each other is pretty significant
34:13and i'm thinking to myself if this ain't it it's never gonna be it two months after mary jane was
34:20found dead chippewa county filed murder charges against bill marquardt
34:28six years later as investigators in florida received results from the texas cold case team
34:34bill marquardt went to trial in wisconsin a series of defense lawyers had tried to argue he was not
34:41mentally competent but ultimately he was deemed fit to take the stand he is not insane under the
34:49definition of the law he knows the difference between right and wrong he knew to conceal evidence
34:55he knows that this was a crime he was committing we thought initially that it was a slam dunk case
35:02there
35:02were guns that were found in the cabin that matched not only bullets in the dogs but also the bullet
35:10that
35:10killed mary marquardt the knife that he was carrying on his person at the time had dna from his mother
35:19i had no doubt in my mind that we would have a guilty verdict and it didn't work out that
35:26way a person
35:28unknown to us materialized stating that he had seen someone in the marquardt yard the day of the
35:36homicide hearsay description of this other potential suspect was all that it took for an acquittal
35:43the jury found him not guilty that's that wisconsin investigators were shocked disbelief it's like
35:50what happened there knowing what i know about the dna evidence i don't know what's worse having no idea
35:57who did it and the case going unsolved or knowing who did it and not having enough evidence to prosecute
36:03them bill marquardt was acquitted nine days after investigators in florida hypnotized page
36:10well the prosecutor in wisconsin got that not guilty verdict up there and it really tore him up
36:17which led them to think back to this unknown dna they had the prosecutor knew that that knife
36:24killed two other women he believed that in his heart wisconsin investigators also learned
36:30that marquardt traveled to florida shortly after his mother was murdered we collected all of the receipts
36:36we could find and we were able to piece exactly timing on where he went from where to where
36:43the wisconsin police showed marquardt had driven from wisconsin all the way to the florida keys
36:51and back those receipts put him in florida during the time of the murders of course we did not know
36:58what was going on in wisconsin at the time it's all blowing down to the telephone call from wisconsin
37:04that's the bottom line the telephone call was probably the best day of my professional life
37:13bill marquardt is now the only suspect in the double homicide of margarita and hope
37:19but before he can be charged the evidence in the two cases must be analyzed side by side
37:25the blood droplet that was found that was the combination of the two victims and an unknown
37:31male we wanted to compare that with the dna of bill paul marquardt while in wisconsin sumter county
37:38police go to see him we went to mendota mental hospital he was in a mental health facility committed
37:46to that for killing dogs and rabbits the part i saw at mendota was like it was out of silence
37:54of
37:54the lambs they were serious about keeping them in there 75 years in a mental institution that seemed
38:02like a lot of punishment for cruelty to animals i believe that he had a stiff sentence for the cruelty
38:11to animals because i believe everybody really did feel that he was guilty for the murder of his mother
38:20my first impression of him he didn't look like somebody that would be capable of doing this he looked
38:24very mild-mannered he just did not give off an impression of a evil serial killer he would not answer
38:32any of our questions but we had to search warrant in order to seize his hair and dna samples
38:39they test his dna against the mixture from the blood drop in margarita's living room
38:45that was the combination of the two victims and an unknown male and they were able to identify him
38:51as a possible contributor of that dna sample meaning it's probably marquardt but it can't be confirmed with
38:59100 certainty investigators then turned to the gun found in marquardt's cabin now we needed to compare
39:08the nine millimeter handgun to our projectiles and casings well they matched the same gun killed mary
39:18jane margarita and hope the two unknown dna profiles found on bill marquardt's knife are also compared
39:27against hope and margarita and i still get chills when i say this the dna matches on those were to
39:34the
39:34exclusion of anybody else on earth and we knew we had him then it felt like a ton of weight
39:43was taken
39:43off my shoulder when they said all that evidence matched it was incredible that those blood stains
39:49were now determined to be two victims that were killed in florida investigators in wisconsin and in
39:59florida fill in the rest of the blanks about what happened to mary jane margarita and hope
40:06i believe that bill marquardt started with the smaller animals first rabbits small dogs larger dogs
40:14he was just learning how to do it learning how to kill and once he had figured that out then
40:19he went
40:20out and started killing people mary jane was murdered in chippewa county
40:26most likely by marquardt well he killed his mother allegedly and stabbed her in the neck allegedly
40:37he drove from wisconsin towards georgia and on to florida the only thing we could think of is
40:44he's providing himself an alibi i couldn't have killed my mother i was in florida
40:51on his way through sumter county he happened to pass the homestead where margarita and hope were
40:56babysitting he killed them in the same manner by shooting him in the head and cutting their throat
41:05it was almost like he was trying to mimic or do that crime again it takes an evil person very
41:15evil
41:15person not just to kill his mother but to go and kill two total strangers i truly believe that if
41:23he
41:23hadn't been arrested and incarcerated that he would have killed again bill marquardt is charged with the
41:31double homicide of margarita and hope nearly 12 years after their deaths the case finally goes to trial
41:42he's found guilty and is sentenced to death it was an incredible case in that an unknown blood stain
41:50that had two related female blood profiles could be linked to an unsolved double homicide in a state
41:57that's a thousand miles away finally solving this case was a huge relief off of me i did not want
42:06to
42:06go to my retirement saying i regret that i didn't solve rue as wells justice has been served here in
42:15florida
42:16as far as wisconsin that's travesty that he was not convicted of killing his mother
42:26i think justice was served when he was put on death row
42:30but it's always a question that we wish we had answered why this house why my grandma my aunt
42:42and we're never going to get that answer
42:48i think that's the hardest problem i'm going to cry about
43:00they're very missed by all of us
43:15so
43:22yeah
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