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My dad, he said, you know,
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the greatest satisfaction
that you can get
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is when you help someone
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who couldn't help themselves.
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Just knowing that that tremendous wrong
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had gone unchanged,
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tremendously influenced
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what I wanted to do with my life.
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To being able to find
some justice for folks
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who couldn't speak for themselves.
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Both cases have absolutely
different motives,
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different situations
and everything else.
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But in both cases...
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they revolve around an old well.
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Children learn what they live.
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I got whipped with a dog chain
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and a hosepipe.
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He found his mother, beaten senseless
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hiding under a house next door.
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To use your own kids
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to help you cover up what you did,
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makes you a snake.
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At some point in time,
there's supposed to be
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a better ending.
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In this case, there wasn't.
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There was no ending.
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It does haunt me.
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It changed my life.
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Hogansville in 1970,
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it was the picture of small
town life in the South.
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Was a place anybody would wanna grow up.
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Everybody knew everybody's kids
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and they helped
in raising them, you know.
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It was...
It was Mayberry.
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My dad was...
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He was a police chief in town.
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He was kind of a...
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An Andy Griffith
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with maybe a little bit
of Sherlock Holmes.
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Uh, he was a great investigator.
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Because of my dad,
nothing ever went unsolved
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in Hogansville, Georgia.
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Righting things that were wrong
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meant a lot to him.
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I think that being raised by him,
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I feel the same way.
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I'm a 15-year-old kid,
it's August the 3rd, 1970,
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I'm with my dad, which is the place
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I always wanted to be.
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He got a call
from the sheriff's office.
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That said that they had
discovered a lady in a well
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just outside the city limits
of Hogansville, Georgia.
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I was riding along with my dad
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when I was 10 or 12 years old.
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But this situation was different.
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A mysterious death in Hogansville
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was unheard of.
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My dad said, "Hey, you know, let's go."
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And we went out there
on Mobley Bridge Road,
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right at the corner
of South Lee Street,
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the Moore property.
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There were, of course,
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people in the community around
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that were around the old well,
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which was adjacent
right across the street
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from the Moore home.
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You could hear folks murmuring around,
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you know, about, you know,
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what they thought had happened,
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this and that.
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Today, it... You know,
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it just looks like a mound of dirt.
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But those 50 years ago,
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it was anything but a mound of dirt.
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I never will forget
peering down into that well
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and you could see the body of a woman,
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wasn't water in the bottom of it.
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She was like in a fetal position,
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like she was underneath like
as if she were praying
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and, uh, it was just...
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It was just an awful sight.
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Her name was Gwendolyn Moore.
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And my dad, he knew her
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and her husband Marshall.
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My dad knew everybody.
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I knew a couple of them, her children.
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They hadn't been in town that long
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but, uh, I knew Allen.
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We lived on the same side of town,
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we weren't close friends,
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but we were acquaintances,
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you know.
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My dad had called for a wrecker.
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Sitting there with that wrecker running
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and the mechanics
are bringing the lady up
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out of the hole,
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and then for just a few seconds,
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while they were taking the moment in
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of the spectacle of it all, it was just...
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silence.
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She was over that well,
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and as cables do, they...
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You know, they stretch and they spin.
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And she was turning around on that cable.
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I look at... Look back and...
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I can still see that wrecker.
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She had on a pair of yellow shorts
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and a white blouse
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and it was a...
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a sight that was burned in my memory
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that I'll never forget.
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That's somebody's mother, you know,
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what if it was my mother?
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As we were leaving and after we left,
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my biggest thought was,
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"What in the world's gonna happen
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to Allen and them, you know?
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What now?"
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The investigation of Ms. Moore's death
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was up to the Troup County
Sheriff's Department
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and under the direction
of Sheriff L.W. Lem Bailey.
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My dad was the chief of police
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in Hogansville, Georgia.
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His authority ended at city limits.
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Everything surrounding us
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was in Troup County, Georgia
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and it fell under the guise
of the sheriff's office.
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The sheriff of the county
is the most powerful
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law enforcement official in the county.
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And everything is subject
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to his authority.
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Everybody was waiting for the...
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What they felt was some type of answer
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for Gwendolyn Moore
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and that answer was gonna come
from Sheriff Bailey,
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and it just never came.
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My dad and I were talking one day
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and Ms. Moore came up,
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and he bluntly stated the fact
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that Gwendolyn Moore's case
had been closed.
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They had drew this death an accident.
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An accidental death.
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He said that it was absolutely obvious
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that they did not follow
the evidence in this case.
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All they did was look for a reason
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to throw the case out the door.
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My dad was disgusted about that.
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My father wanted more than anything
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just to be able to right this.
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And he didn't have
the ability to do that.
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It was a shame that it was...
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a few hundred yards
out of his jurisdiction.
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I think that was a very large
part of my taking
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the direction that I took in life.
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After I graduated high school,
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I immediately went to work
for the state patrol
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and as quick as I became of age,
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I was promoted to trooper
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and I spent time with my dad
all the time.
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My dad died August 18th, 1980.
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You know, and I was 25 at the time.
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After he passed away,
you know, life goes on.
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But it went on without him.
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After my dad died,
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I was offered his job.
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I wanted to be the Chief of Police
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in Hogansville, Georgia
because my daddy was.
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I drive by the well, by the houses,
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and I think about the situation
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of what had happened.
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It's out of my hands, I...
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You know, nothing I can do.
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It's outside the city
of Hogansville, and...
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it was frustrating.
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After 12 years in the city of Hogansville
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as a police chief,
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I just wanted to go
in another direction.
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And I resigned.
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I opened my own business.
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We did commercial tires.
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When I left police work,
I never was happy
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doing what I was doing, made...
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Actually made the best money
I ever made,
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but it wasn't me.
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The district attorney, Pete Skandalakis,
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he and I were friends
and he had an opening
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for an investigator.
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So I called Pete and I asked him
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about that, uh, position
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and he said, "Apply for it."
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And I did and I, uh, I got...
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Much to my joy, I got the position.
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So I've been there nine days in the job
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and I get a call
from the sheriff's office,
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an investigator named Larry Arrington.
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And Larry asked me,
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"Clay, you remember
an occasion of a lady
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that was found in a well
in Hogansville 30 years ago?"
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And I said, "Not only do I remember it,
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I was standing there when they got her
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out of the well."
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He went on to explain to me
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that, uh, a young lady had
found a death certificate.
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Larry sends me a fax over
with the death certificate.
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When you get a fax, you don't look
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at the top of the fax
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to look at the date and the time.
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But as for whatever reason,
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it's the first thing I looked at.
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And it says, "October the 24th, 2002."
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And it hit me
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like the old proverbial ton of brick.
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God, this is my daddy's birthday.
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And it was just like, "Oh, my God.
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There I was with my dad at the scene
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when this thing happened.
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And now on his birthday,
a case that I know
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that he absolutely felt
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was never set right on his birthday,
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here this falls in front of me."
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It was an epiphany.
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I learned about Gwendolyn
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when my grandmother died which was in
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February of 2002.
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My mom's related to Gwendolyn,
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um, that is her aunt.
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The first thing
that I heard about Gwendolyn
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was that she was found in a well.
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I was taken aback,
I didn't understand
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what that meant, so I wanted,
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uh, more answers to that question.
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It was after that, that I started looking
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into finding her death certificate.
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I was shocked because I expected it
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to say that it was an accident,
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but it was actually marked
as a homicide.
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So then I took that death certificate
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and I contacted the police department.
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At that point, I said,
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"This needs to be made right."
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Here I am, I'm in a position
maybe to do that.
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My dad couldn't.
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So, with that, we began.
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Clay, you know, began
starting at square one.
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He really had nothing.
He had...
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All he had was the death certificate.
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A death certificate is generally
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a very mundane document,
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but this one enumerated injuries.
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The death certificate was done
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by Dr. Krafka in 1970.
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A pathologist looks at a body
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that can tell him a story.
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Dr. Krafka was looking at this woman
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and in her, he saw evidence
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of repeated abuse.
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She had been hit in the head
with a liquor bottle.
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And when the sheriff's office got there,
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they made her go to the hospital.
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And they actually put
stitches in her head.
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I'm reading that six days
after she's hit with a bottle,
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that she's beaten
in the left eye and mouth
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with a fist.
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And that was the day
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before she was found in the well.
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It specifically says this was a homicide.
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My God.
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How in the world could this
not have been prosecuted?
269
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And Sheriff Bailey
just elected to ignore it.
270
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It's unfathomable.
271
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I told him from what my mother said,
272
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they tried to have,
273
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um, her death investigated back then
274
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but they didn't get anywhere with it.
275
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At the end of our conversation,
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I expressed to Leslie
that I'm gonna do all,
277
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everything in my power
278
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to find justice for her great-aunt.
279
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Marshall Moore continued
to live in the same house.
280
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We're gonna have to interview him.
281
00:15:51,184 --> 00:15:53,885
But I want to wait till I have acquired
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enough knowledge about the case
283
00:15:55,388 --> 00:15:58,156
that I know more than he thinks I know.
284
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At this point, no one since 1970
285
00:16:10,870 --> 00:16:13,371
has talked to Allen Moore.
286
00:16:13,373 --> 00:16:16,574
I've got to talk to Allen Moore.
287
00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:21,012
Allen's aunt, Miss Pat, told me
288
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that Allen had gotten out of the Navy
289
00:16:23,183 --> 00:16:26,317
and that she thought he lived
in Folkston, Georgia.
290
00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:28,119
He was a technical guy
291
00:16:28,121 --> 00:16:29,887
at a big state prison down there,
292
00:16:29,889 --> 00:16:31,656
and answered the phone.
293
00:16:37,129 --> 00:16:38,796
When he said Clay Bryant, I mean,
294
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I knew who it was.
I mean,
295
00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:42,100
I said, "Yeah, Clay, I remember you."
296
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And, uh, he said,
297
00:16:44,237 --> 00:16:45,937
"Well, I've been assigned a case."
298
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And we, uh, we talked a bit,
299
00:16:48,942 --> 00:16:51,943
talked about old times
and old folks, you know.
300
00:16:52,911 --> 00:16:55,113
And I got...
We got to the subject
301
00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:57,215
of his mother's death.
302
00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:00,218
And he became,
303
00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:03,021
as we talked about it, a bit emotional.
304
00:17:03,023 --> 00:17:05,123
And I said, "Look, I would like
305
00:17:05,125 --> 00:17:07,225
to talk to you about this.
306
00:17:07,227 --> 00:17:08,760
And this is something
we don't need to talk about
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00:17:08,762 --> 00:17:10,661
over the phone."
308
00:17:10,663 --> 00:17:13,965
So, uh, we agreed to meet each other.
309
00:17:18,303 --> 00:17:21,305
August the 3rd, 1970.
310
00:17:22,975 --> 00:17:25,043
That was probably the, uh...
311
00:17:27,913 --> 00:17:29,447
worst time of my life.
312
00:17:29,449 --> 00:17:34,585
Uh, that's when I found out
Mama was dead. Um...
313
00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:44,429
Um...
314
00:17:47,299 --> 00:17:49,000
It was pretty tough.
315
00:17:52,104 --> 00:17:56,107
My neighbors come
to the house that morning,
316
00:17:57,242 --> 00:17:59,177
when we see daddy and I heard him
317
00:18:00,245 --> 00:18:04,015
when he said, uh, "Gwen's in the well."
318
00:18:15,694 --> 00:18:17,628
That's a pretty tough pill
to swallow, uh,
319
00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:24,435
but I did go over there
and I did see her down there.
320
00:18:24,437 --> 00:18:26,504
So I knew it was her.
321
00:18:33,045 --> 00:18:35,313
She was, uh, a loving mother.
322
00:18:35,315 --> 00:18:40,318
Um, she had a heart as big as, good Lord,
323
00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,019
the whole city here.
324
00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:45,223
Um, and she was always caring.
325
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:50,995
He said that daddy came home
326
00:18:50,997 --> 00:18:53,431
and supper wasn't what he wanted.
327
00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:55,433
That was the reason to beat up on mom.
328
00:18:57,269 --> 00:18:59,337
Every day it was always a reason.
329
00:18:59,339 --> 00:19:02,173
His mama got slapped around
every day of her life.
330
00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:08,045
Mama got beat pretty good,
uh, that night.
331
00:19:08,847 --> 00:19:10,882
She couldn't even get out
of bed the next day.
332
00:19:10,884 --> 00:19:13,417
But I remember going in there
and telling her
333
00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:15,186
how much we loved her.
334
00:19:15,188 --> 00:19:17,088
We cried all night long.
335
00:19:17,090 --> 00:19:19,257
And then you start doubting yourself
336
00:19:19,259 --> 00:19:21,559
as a kid or maybe this is normal.
337
00:19:25,264 --> 00:19:27,165
It's unimaginable,
338
00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:28,366
it's unimaginable
339
00:19:28,368 --> 00:19:31,969
the sheer brutality
340
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:33,538
of what that poor woman lived under.
341
00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:36,541
And, you know, Allen too, for that matter.
342
00:19:40,646 --> 00:19:43,181
I mean,
343
00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:44,916
one time I got whipped with a dog chain
344
00:19:44,918 --> 00:19:46,417
and a hosepipe.
345
00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:53,658
Dad went over and took a piece
of swing chain
346
00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:55,660
off the porch
347
00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:57,862
and beat him with the swing chain
348
00:19:57,864 --> 00:19:59,564
till he was bloody.
349
00:20:02,401 --> 00:20:04,168
I remember when I'd come to,
350
00:20:04,170 --> 00:20:06,404
mama was sitting there with a,
351
00:20:07,472 --> 00:20:09,040
uh, bowl of water.
352
00:20:09,042 --> 00:20:12,143
She was soaking my back,
353
00:20:12,145 --> 00:20:14,445
getting the sheet
because it was stuck to me.
354
00:20:15,647 --> 00:20:19,550
Um...
From, you know,
355
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:22,954
from the time of being a small child,
356
00:20:22,956 --> 00:20:26,524
Allen's life was a living hell.
357
00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,133
Well, my brothers,
358
00:20:36,135 --> 00:20:37,735
I think they dealt with it,
359
00:20:37,737 --> 00:20:39,971
you know, the getting beat,
360
00:20:39,973 --> 00:20:43,174
I mean, by trying to shut it
out of their lives.
361
00:20:43,176 --> 00:20:46,110
Myself, I always expected it in a way.
362
00:20:46,112 --> 00:20:49,380
Um, the neighbors, they knew about it.
363
00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,884
The others, you know, whenever, um,
364
00:20:53,886 --> 00:20:56,287
mama was getting beat, I mean,
365
00:20:56,289 --> 00:21:00,758
Danny, um, and Mr. Turner
or Ms. Turner, his mother,
366
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,360
um, they lived over there.
367
00:21:06,298 --> 00:21:08,132
But they was aware of when Mama
368
00:21:08,134 --> 00:21:10,334
was getting beat one time,
369
00:21:10,336 --> 00:21:13,371
um, and Danny,
he wanted to call the police.
370
00:21:13,373 --> 00:21:15,406
Well, unfortunately,
371
00:21:15,408 --> 00:21:17,441
where we lived at in Hogansville,
372
00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,477
we were right outside the city limits.
373
00:21:20,345 --> 00:21:21,879
My dad's actually part
374
00:21:21,881 --> 00:21:23,147
of the Troup County Sheriff's Department,
375
00:21:23,149 --> 00:21:25,249
and Danny was told
376
00:21:25,251 --> 00:21:27,752
by one of the people there,
377
00:21:27,754 --> 00:21:30,187
uh, "No, that's none of our business.
378
00:21:30,189 --> 00:21:32,356
We just don't need
to pay attention to it."
379
00:21:35,927 --> 00:21:38,095
That's always stuck with me.
380
00:21:39,731 --> 00:21:42,566
And anybody who lived
around us, they knew.
381
00:21:45,037 --> 00:21:47,371
You know that there's a life
and death situation
382
00:21:47,373 --> 00:21:50,074
going on or a body...
Serious bodily injury...
383
00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:56,080
And you choose
384
00:21:56,082 --> 00:21:58,449
not to even call the law enforcement,
385
00:21:58,451 --> 00:22:02,286
uh, that... That's not right.
386
00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:08,626
She'd be alive today.
387
00:22:24,476 --> 00:22:28,012
The night before
she was found in the well,
388
00:22:28,014 --> 00:22:30,381
I remember seeing my mother.
389
00:22:30,383 --> 00:22:33,084
Uh, she was up underneath, uh,
390
00:22:33,086 --> 00:22:34,952
my next door neighbor's house, Miss Lewis,
391
00:22:34,954 --> 00:22:37,054
uh, under the porch.
392
00:22:37,056 --> 00:22:40,424
Both of her eyes pretty much swollen shut.
393
00:22:40,426 --> 00:22:42,159
Her face was black and blue.
394
00:22:43,095 --> 00:22:44,495
Hair was a mess.
395
00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:49,200
She was hurting.
She was in a lot of pain.
396
00:22:49,202 --> 00:22:53,070
Um, and I remember seeing blood
397
00:22:53,072 --> 00:22:54,672
looked like coming from her head.
398
00:22:57,042 --> 00:23:00,077
I tried to get her to go with me.
399
00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:01,912
Come out from underneath the porch.
400
00:23:01,914 --> 00:23:04,315
And I told her, I said, "We'll walk...
401
00:23:04,317 --> 00:23:07,284
We'll walk down Lee Street
402
00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:11,188
and, uh, we'd get away."
403
00:23:13,625 --> 00:23:17,395
And she said
"No, that wouldn't do." Um...
404
00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:21,465
She said I needed to go home
405
00:23:21,467 --> 00:23:24,301
and watch out for my brothers,
406
00:23:24,303 --> 00:23:26,270
and, uh, that she loved us very much
407
00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:28,406
and she'd be back to get us.
408
00:23:32,444 --> 00:23:34,211
It was bad enough that when I hugged her
409
00:23:34,213 --> 00:23:36,213
that, uh, it hurt her.
410
00:23:36,215 --> 00:23:39,183
And I told her, I said,
well, I need to go.
411
00:23:39,185 --> 00:23:41,051
Um...
412
00:23:49,127 --> 00:23:50,761
Talking with Allen,
413
00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:54,832
he bore guilt, you know.
414
00:23:54,834 --> 00:23:57,802
I... And we were sitting
on the side of the road,
415
00:23:57,804 --> 00:23:59,370
he's sitting there with tears
running down his eyes
416
00:23:59,372 --> 00:24:01,672
and he's telling me this,
at this point, you know,
417
00:24:01,674 --> 00:24:03,474
we're in our 40s.
418
00:24:04,409 --> 00:24:06,510
And he's sitting there crying
419
00:24:06,512 --> 00:24:08,345
and, you know,
420
00:24:08,347 --> 00:24:13,918
and he says if I had just
taken her by the hand
421
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,820
and took her toward town,
422
00:24:15,822 --> 00:24:18,189
toward the police department, you know.
423
00:24:18,191 --> 00:24:20,191
And he lived with that.
424
00:24:21,326 --> 00:24:22,526
And...
425
00:24:24,262 --> 00:24:28,065
I... You know, my heart bled for him.
426
00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:31,268
When the neighbors know that you hide
427
00:24:31,270 --> 00:24:32,603
under a damn house...
428
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,106
beaten...
429
00:24:38,376 --> 00:24:41,212
on more than several occasions,
430
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:45,583
it's unconscionable
431
00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:52,389
that not only that that could happen to her,
432
00:24:53,658 --> 00:24:55,259
but nobody did anything.
433
00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:58,963
It's heartbreaking.
434
00:25:00,198 --> 00:25:02,867
Now, I wanted so much
435
00:25:02,869 --> 00:25:06,570
to be able to make
something right about it.
436
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:11,642
I asked Allen about,
437
00:25:11,644 --> 00:25:13,210
"In the initial investigation,
438
00:25:13,212 --> 00:25:15,079
what did they do or say?"
And he said,
439
00:25:15,081 --> 00:25:18,048
they came, they talked to him
for about 10 minutes
440
00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:21,185
and never was asked another question.
441
00:25:25,624 --> 00:25:27,324
And I remember telling the GBI,
442
00:25:27,326 --> 00:25:28,792
"That's my daddy.
443
00:25:28,794 --> 00:25:30,461
I know what he's capable of."
444
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:35,099
But Allen said
that the first thing he told
445
00:25:35,101 --> 00:25:36,767
the GBI agent was he said,
446
00:25:36,769 --> 00:25:39,403
"Look, my dad killed my mom."
447
00:25:44,142 --> 00:25:46,076
And Allen told me that he knew
448
00:25:46,078 --> 00:25:49,346
that the violence against him
was never gonna end.
449
00:25:49,348 --> 00:25:52,082
He had to go. And he left.
450
00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:57,354
I wound up, uh, leaving
451
00:25:57,356 --> 00:25:59,657
and staying with my aunt,
452
00:25:59,659 --> 00:26:01,458
staying in LaGrange.
453
00:26:02,827 --> 00:26:05,362
Then the next thing I know,
454
00:26:05,364 --> 00:26:09,099
I was fixing to join the Navy.
455
00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:13,470
And that was probably the best thing
456
00:26:13,472 --> 00:26:17,908
that ever happened to me
in my entire life.
457
00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:20,544
Allen told me that,
you know, his brothers,
458
00:26:21,546 --> 00:26:22,980
because they were younger than him
459
00:26:22,982 --> 00:26:25,015
and, uh, they had little choice
460
00:26:25,017 --> 00:26:26,483
but they stayed with Marshall.
461
00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:29,253
I haven't talked...
462
00:26:31,189 --> 00:26:33,123
to my blood brothers
463
00:26:33,125 --> 00:26:34,959
in God knows how long.
464
00:26:34,961 --> 00:26:36,961
I don't even remember how long.
465
00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:40,130
I can feel the pain and the thing
466
00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:42,199
that he was reliving.
467
00:26:42,201 --> 00:26:44,335
And I promised him.
And I said, "I will do all,
468
00:26:44,337 --> 00:26:46,270
everything within my power
469
00:26:46,272 --> 00:26:48,105
to find justice for your mom."
470
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:57,948
We needed to know everything
471
00:26:57,950 --> 00:26:59,783
that was done back in the day.
472
00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:02,386
But Sheriff Bailey died in the early 1980s.
473
00:27:02,388 --> 00:27:04,888
Uh, he wasn't available for us to talk to.
474
00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:06,357
We couldn't interview him.
475
00:27:07,258 --> 00:27:08,993
I asked the Troup County Sheriff's Office
476
00:27:08,995 --> 00:27:11,829
for a case file and it's nonexistent.
477
00:27:11,831 --> 00:27:13,631
Since the GBI was involved,
478
00:27:13,633 --> 00:27:15,366
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,
479
00:27:15,368 --> 00:27:17,234
I started to research with them
480
00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:18,969
through their archive.
481
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:22,039
That time, the GBI worked
at what was known
482
00:27:22,041 --> 00:27:24,108
as the pleasure of the sheriff.
483
00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:28,112
So basically, the sheriff
had control of the outcome.
484
00:27:29,381 --> 00:27:33,217
Well, actually,
I expected a whole lot more
485
00:27:33,219 --> 00:27:34,818
than what was there.
486
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:37,254
There was, uh, maybe
487
00:27:37,256 --> 00:27:39,757
half a dozen interviews
488
00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:43,027
and they were just
extremely short in nature.
489
00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:47,564
The first thing I looked
at the top, it says...
490
00:27:47,566 --> 00:27:50,200
You know, it described
the crime and the line
491
00:27:50,202 --> 00:27:52,069
where it says the suspect
or the person arrested,
492
00:27:52,071 --> 00:27:54,238
and it's blank.
493
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,940
As I read the report,
I find that Troy Owen,
494
00:27:56,942 --> 00:27:58,976
a GBI investigator,
495
00:27:58,978 --> 00:28:03,180
in the statements themselves
that Owen took,
496
00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:06,083
Marshall Moore said he slapped her
497
00:28:06,085 --> 00:28:08,185
several times that night,
498
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:10,120
not counting the time
four nights before
499
00:28:10,122 --> 00:28:12,322
when he hit her in the head
with the bottle.
500
00:28:13,858 --> 00:28:16,660
In the GBI's case file
was a polygraph report
501
00:28:16,662 --> 00:28:18,429
where Marshall had taken a polygraph.
502
00:28:21,266 --> 00:28:23,233
On the polygraph report, it was indicated
503
00:28:23,235 --> 00:28:25,335
there was no evidence of deception.
504
00:28:26,971 --> 00:28:29,273
Based solely on that,
GBI closed the case
505
00:28:29,275 --> 00:28:30,941
into the death
of Gwendolyn Moore.
506
00:28:30,943 --> 00:28:33,077
Not to say, at that point,
507
00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:35,779
that there's more than
enough evidence
508
00:28:35,781 --> 00:28:37,281
to convict the man.
509
00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:39,316
But my God,
how could you just discard
510
00:28:39,318 --> 00:28:41,251
all those things?
511
00:28:41,253 --> 00:28:42,653
And they did.
512
00:28:43,922 --> 00:28:45,923
The report itself
reflected the fact
513
00:28:45,925 --> 00:28:48,659
that Allen Moore, in fact,
had found his mother
514
00:28:48,661 --> 00:28:51,495
beaten senseless hiding
under a house next door.
515
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:55,199
Allen told the GBI agent,
516
00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:59,036
you know,
"My father killed my mother.
517
00:28:59,038 --> 00:29:01,305
And if he finds out
I'm talking to you,
518
00:29:01,307 --> 00:29:03,173
he's... He will kill me too."
519
00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:09,913
As I researched
Marshall Moore's history,
520
00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:12,850
I came to realize that prior
to Gwendolyn's death,
521
00:29:12,852 --> 00:29:16,153
Marshall had an interest
in an attractive divorcee
522
00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:18,355
by the name
of Priscilla Shepherd.
523
00:29:19,624 --> 00:29:23,827
And three months
after Gwendolyn's death,
524
00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:26,163
Marshall was married
to Priscilla.
525
00:29:34,205 --> 00:29:38,008
After an event like this,
a man loses his wife
526
00:29:39,144 --> 00:29:40,144
and all of a sudden
three months later,
527
00:29:40,146 --> 00:29:41,512
he's remarried?
528
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:45,916
Priscilla Shepherd was the
daughter of Robert Shepherd.
529
00:29:45,918 --> 00:29:47,117
The Shepherd family,
530
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:48,986
their family ties
went all the way back
531
00:29:48,988 --> 00:29:52,189
to the old Dixie Mafia
in Phenix City, Alabama.
532
00:29:54,526 --> 00:29:57,661
Dixie Mafia
is a band of criminals
533
00:29:57,663 --> 00:29:59,329
that call upon each other
534
00:29:59,331 --> 00:30:01,365
to do certain crimes for them.
535
00:30:02,867 --> 00:30:06,069
So they were in control
of a lot of things.
536
00:30:06,071 --> 00:30:08,138
If they were
in a particular county,
537
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:09,873
especially rural Georgia,
538
00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:12,609
and they could get a hold
of the sheriff,
539
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:16,113
they ran that county.
540
00:30:17,015 --> 00:30:19,283
If you look at a sheriff's badge
541
00:30:19,285 --> 00:30:22,653
in the state of Georgia,
it has the Georgia seal
542
00:30:22,655 --> 00:30:25,255
in the center, not the county.
543
00:30:25,257 --> 00:30:28,192
The sheriff has a ton of power.
544
00:30:28,194 --> 00:30:31,195
And in the '70s, especially,
545
00:30:31,197 --> 00:30:34,097
he's elected and once
he's in there, he's in.
546
00:30:36,367 --> 00:30:39,970
He works and does as he pleases
547
00:30:39,972 --> 00:30:42,406
with virtually
no oversight at all.
548
00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:50,981
Priscilla Shepherd
is married to Mr. Moore.
549
00:30:50,983 --> 00:30:52,549
So if you look at the game,
550
00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:54,451
six degrees of separation,
551
00:30:54,453 --> 00:30:56,220
she's one.
552
00:30:56,222 --> 00:30:57,988
So as an investigator,
553
00:30:57,990 --> 00:31:00,991
you would have to start
with him,
554
00:31:00,993 --> 00:31:03,894
and then his connection to her.
555
00:31:03,896 --> 00:31:06,830
And then look at the people
connected to her
556
00:31:06,832 --> 00:31:09,933
that would want to keep him
out of prison,
557
00:31:09,935 --> 00:31:12,069
so that she could have
her husband at home.
558
00:31:12,071 --> 00:31:15,072
By proxy,
she's gonna be protected,
559
00:31:15,074 --> 00:31:16,740
she's gonna have power.
560
00:31:16,742 --> 00:31:18,642
So she doesn't even have to say,
561
00:31:18,644 --> 00:31:21,345
"Hey, I don't want my husband
going down for this."
562
00:31:21,347 --> 00:31:23,013
Somebody is gonna make sure
563
00:31:23,015 --> 00:31:25,182
that doesn't happen
on her behalf.
564
00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:28,285
That is absolutely a cover-up.
565
00:31:29,654 --> 00:31:32,289
It kind of explains why
this case never went anywhere.
566
00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:37,761
To me, it's obvious
that Robert Shepherd
567
00:31:37,763 --> 00:31:39,897
used his influence
with Sheriff Bailey
568
00:31:39,899 --> 00:31:42,065
to influence the outcome
of the investigation.
569
00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:46,370
To the powers that be
in Troup County in that time,
570
00:31:46,372 --> 00:31:49,740
Gwendolyn Moore
was insignificant.
571
00:31:49,742 --> 00:31:51,275
She didn't mean anything.
572
00:31:51,277 --> 00:31:53,310
She was just something
that needed to be...
573
00:31:55,947 --> 00:31:57,347
ignored.
574
00:32:06,191 --> 00:32:08,225
At this point,
I know that Marshall Moore
575
00:32:08,227 --> 00:32:10,027
killed Gwendolyn.
576
00:32:10,029 --> 00:32:11,395
But we're talking about a crime
577
00:32:11,397 --> 00:32:13,864
that's 33 years old,
578
00:32:13,866 --> 00:32:18,669
that you have a medical report
579
00:32:18,671 --> 00:32:21,038
with nobody
that can testify to it.
580
00:32:22,073 --> 00:32:23,707
Dr. Krafka had died.
581
00:32:23,709 --> 00:32:27,444
But he knew that there needed
to be documentation
582
00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:31,181
to lead down the road of what
truly caused her death.
583
00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:33,083
And he intentionally did that.
584
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:35,552
I get chills thinking about it.
585
00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:40,824
When he did that,
he gave us an outside chance
586
00:32:40,826 --> 00:32:44,227
on us being able
to solve the crime.
587
00:32:48,066 --> 00:32:50,200
We don't have
a prosecutable case
588
00:32:50,202 --> 00:32:53,103
unless we can get a medical
examiner to come in here
589
00:32:53,105 --> 00:32:55,138
and they can make
an independent determination
590
00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:57,607
that she died
as a result of a homicide.
591
00:32:59,344 --> 00:33:03,113
I had gone up
and spoke with Dr. Sperry.
592
00:33:03,115 --> 00:33:04,982
He's heralded as, you know,
one of the best
593
00:33:04,984 --> 00:33:07,317
forensic pathologists
in the country.
594
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,886
In 2003, I was the chief
medical examiner
595
00:33:09,888 --> 00:33:11,922
for the state of Georgia.
596
00:33:11,924 --> 00:33:13,757
Once I read
the death certificate
597
00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:17,060
and, you know,
it was the kind of thing
598
00:33:17,062 --> 00:33:19,329
that made the hair on my neck
stand up a little bit.
599
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:22,933
There's something wrong here.
600
00:33:22,935 --> 00:33:24,267
Something bad wrong.
601
00:33:26,804 --> 00:33:28,338
I mean the question is,
602
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:29,840
did the beating have
something to do
603
00:33:29,842 --> 00:33:31,008
with her death?
604
00:33:31,010 --> 00:33:32,809
We need to conclusively say
605
00:33:32,811 --> 00:33:34,211
that there's an injury
606
00:33:34,213 --> 00:33:38,248
that a pathologist
can testify to
607
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:41,651
that caused
Gwendolyn Moore's death.
608
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,225
There's not but one thing
we can do,
609
00:33:48,227 --> 00:33:50,193
and that's we're gonna
have to see
610
00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:52,496
if we can get this body exhumed.
611
00:33:55,967 --> 00:33:58,068
What I cautioned him about
612
00:33:58,070 --> 00:33:59,636
really regarding the exhumation
613
00:33:59,638 --> 00:34:02,906
was there is a huge chance
614
00:34:02,908 --> 00:34:05,976
that, um, I wouldn't be able
to find anything at all.
615
00:34:05,978 --> 00:34:09,379
And at that point, you know,
616
00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:13,417
we're talking about
33 years in the grave,
617
00:34:13,419 --> 00:34:15,085
and it's a...
618
00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:17,421
It's a long shot.
619
00:34:19,123 --> 00:34:22,392
Nevertheless,
you know, Clay and I,
620
00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:24,461
you know, we wanted
to make sure that we exhausted
621
00:34:24,463 --> 00:34:25,662
every single avenue.
622
00:34:29,867 --> 00:34:31,468
The family, over the years,
623
00:34:31,470 --> 00:34:33,336
had gone through so much trauma,
624
00:34:33,338 --> 00:34:35,172
we just wanted to make sure
625
00:34:35,174 --> 00:34:38,041
that they were on board with
what was fixing to happen,
626
00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:41,411
we were fixing to open
some old wounds.
627
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:45,182
And we wanted their blessing
to do so.
628
00:34:45,184 --> 00:34:48,618
So we had to get Allen
and Leslie
629
00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:50,287
and Ms. Pat Terry,
630
00:34:50,289 --> 00:34:51,988
the family members
to be on board
631
00:34:51,990 --> 00:34:54,057
with what we wanted to do.
632
00:34:54,059 --> 00:34:56,159
Marshall being a suspect
in the case,
633
00:34:56,161 --> 00:34:58,028
I don't wanna involve him,
634
00:34:58,030 --> 00:34:59,896
his opinion or even knowledge
635
00:34:59,898 --> 00:35:02,132
and knowing the fact
we're exhuming the body.
636
00:35:04,735 --> 00:35:07,137
I said, "Clay, if you think
637
00:35:07,139 --> 00:35:10,140
that this will get
to the bottom of it,
638
00:35:10,142 --> 00:35:13,777
then we got to do
what we got to do."
639
00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:16,146
To the person,
every one of them said,
640
00:35:16,148 --> 00:35:18,081
"We wanna know the truth
about what happened."
641
00:35:18,083 --> 00:35:20,183
Justice needs to be done
in this case.
642
00:35:22,854 --> 00:35:24,855
Everything about this case
hinged on the result
643
00:35:24,857 --> 00:35:27,324
of this exhumation.
644
00:35:27,326 --> 00:35:30,460
If the autopsy was unsuccessful
645
00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:32,996
as far as finding evidence
of her death,
646
00:35:32,998 --> 00:35:35,232
you know, all...
Everything that we've done
647
00:35:35,234 --> 00:35:37,667
was for naught and it...
We were fixing to know
648
00:35:37,669 --> 00:35:40,871
within just a few hours
where we stood,
649
00:35:40,873 --> 00:35:42,239
if we stood at all.
650
00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:54,184
As they start taking
her body out,
651
00:35:54,186 --> 00:35:58,922
the vault actually
generally fills with water,
652
00:35:58,924 --> 00:36:02,792
and because of the grass
clippings and the tannic acid,
653
00:36:02,794 --> 00:36:05,195
the skeletal remains
654
00:36:05,197 --> 00:36:07,664
turn just as dark
and black as ebony.
655
00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:16,139
Fortunately, because her body
656
00:36:16,141 --> 00:36:18,842
would have been laid
in the casket, the...
657
00:36:18,844 --> 00:36:23,480
All of the skeleton
was in the same position.
658
00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:28,151
Like one would see
in the, you know,
659
00:36:28,153 --> 00:36:30,287
bodies at Pompeii for instance,
660
00:36:30,289 --> 00:36:33,223
I was hoping in a sense
and so was Clay
661
00:36:33,225 --> 00:36:35,125
that there would be
skull fractures.
662
00:36:39,463 --> 00:36:42,365
He places the head down,
663
00:36:43,334 --> 00:36:45,835
when all of a sudden, he says
664
00:36:45,837 --> 00:36:48,071
her nose has been broke
more times than I can count.
665
00:36:50,975 --> 00:36:52,809
And all it does is make you say,
666
00:36:52,811 --> 00:36:54,377
"Thank God we're doing this.
667
00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,180
We're, you know,
we're on top of the mountain."
668
00:36:57,182 --> 00:36:59,749
And then the next sentence,
669
00:36:59,751 --> 00:37:01,484
"We're in the valley."
670
00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:05,989
I could not find
any skull fractures,
671
00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:09,226
especially any large injuries
that would,
672
00:37:09,228 --> 00:37:10,794
in and of themselves, be lethal.
673
00:37:10,796 --> 00:37:13,396
Lynda and I both sunk down
on the floor.
674
00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:16,399
We're sitting
in the autopsy room
675
00:37:16,401 --> 00:37:18,335
at the crime lab and, I mean,
676
00:37:18,337 --> 00:37:20,503
we're just devastated about it.
677
00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:25,642
Here we are, we disturbed
this woman from her rest.
678
00:37:25,644 --> 00:37:28,478
The family, God knows,
679
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,548
we dragged these people
through this for nothing.
680
00:37:32,450 --> 00:37:34,651
We've hit a dead end.
681
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,261
Oh, I was emotional about it.
682
00:37:44,263 --> 00:37:46,162
Lynda had tears
running out her eyes too.
683
00:37:46,164 --> 00:37:47,330
And she's, you know, we...
684
00:37:47,332 --> 00:37:49,065
Well, we did the best we could.
685
00:37:51,902 --> 00:37:54,904
It was just a situation
where no fracture,
686
00:37:54,906 --> 00:37:58,208
this is going nowhere.
It was a total devastation.
687
00:38:00,478 --> 00:38:02,112
As we're sitting there,
688
00:38:02,114 --> 00:38:04,147
feeling sorry for ourselves
689
00:38:04,149 --> 00:38:06,650
and for failing this family,
690
00:38:06,652 --> 00:38:08,084
putting them through this,
691
00:38:08,086 --> 00:38:11,454
Dr. Sperry is continuing
692
00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:13,990
to rebuild her body
693
00:38:13,992 --> 00:38:15,625
starting from the neck down.
694
00:38:17,928 --> 00:38:19,863
Although the larynx was gone,
695
00:38:19,865 --> 00:38:23,233
there still was a bone
that I had not looked at yet.
696
00:38:25,403 --> 00:38:29,439
All of a sudden,
Dr. Sperry said,
697
00:38:29,441 --> 00:38:33,977
"This woman
was violently strangled."
698
00:38:37,114 --> 00:38:39,282
And I couldn't believe it.
699
00:38:39,284 --> 00:38:41,051
Clay and I,
we looked at each other,
700
00:38:41,053 --> 00:38:43,053
our eyes got so big.
701
00:38:43,055 --> 00:38:45,755
We actually thought we hadn't
heard
702
00:38:45,757 --> 00:38:48,291
what Dr. Sperry had said and
he repeated it and he said,
703
00:38:48,293 --> 00:38:51,261
"This woman
was violently strangled."
704
00:38:53,864 --> 00:38:56,132
And Clay and I
because we had sunk
705
00:38:56,134 --> 00:38:58,034
to the floor, we jumped up.
706
00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:01,371
I had found the elements
707
00:39:01,373 --> 00:39:03,640
of the hyoid bone.
708
00:39:03,642 --> 00:39:07,310
The hyoid bone is, uh,
709
00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:10,180
deep in the tissues
of the tongue.
710
00:39:11,882 --> 00:39:14,517
Lo and behold,
they were fractured.
711
00:39:15,453 --> 00:39:17,921
And, uh, what it told me
712
00:39:17,923 --> 00:39:19,356
as soon as I saw those
713
00:39:19,358 --> 00:39:21,491
is that she had been strangled.
714
00:39:25,396 --> 00:39:30,200
Well, the medical examiner,
Dr. Joseph Krafka,
715
00:39:30,202 --> 00:39:34,337
he put the cause of death down
716
00:39:35,473 --> 00:39:38,208
as respiratory arrest
717
00:39:39,176 --> 00:39:41,411
and pulmonary edema.
718
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:46,149
I'd say you've just
went through...
719
00:39:46,151 --> 00:39:48,118
Other than the birth
of my children,
720
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,819
the biggest rollercoaster ride
721
00:39:49,821 --> 00:39:51,921
you've ever been on
of emotion in your life
722
00:39:51,923 --> 00:39:54,391
and that includes the death
of your parents, you know.
723
00:39:57,061 --> 00:40:01,064
Oh, God. I mean, I have chills
thinking about it now.
724
00:40:01,066 --> 00:40:04,801
It's just elation, you know,
725
00:40:04,803 --> 00:40:06,336
by God, we were right.
726
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,543
When her hyoid bone was crushed,
727
00:40:14,945 --> 00:40:17,180
she died
728
00:40:17,182 --> 00:40:22,285
within a matter
of just a few minutes.
729
00:40:22,287 --> 00:40:26,222
At that point, she...
730
00:40:27,825 --> 00:40:31,828
was placed in that well
by someone,
731
00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:35,165
and that same someone
that strangled her to death,
732
00:40:36,066 --> 00:40:38,168
I am 100% confident
733
00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,137
that it was Marshall Moore.
734
00:40:52,016 --> 00:40:56,019
Dr. Sperry's autopsy
made our case, quite frankly,
735
00:40:56,021 --> 00:40:59,989
because without that finding
of the fracture in her neck,
736
00:40:59,991 --> 00:41:03,193
we would not have been able
to pursue that case.
737
00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:07,297
It's now a homicide
at the hands of another.
738
00:41:07,299 --> 00:41:09,399
Had we just drawn a blank
from the exhumation
739
00:41:09,401 --> 00:41:11,267
and the autopsy,
740
00:41:11,269 --> 00:41:13,069
we would have stopped
741
00:41:13,071 --> 00:41:15,004
the investigation at that point.
742
00:41:15,006 --> 00:41:16,739
We would have been at a dead end
743
00:41:16,741 --> 00:41:18,675
and he would've gotten away
with murder.
744
00:41:21,412 --> 00:41:25,982
We knew what the preliminary
result of the autopsy was,
745
00:41:25,984 --> 00:41:27,917
so while we were waiting
746
00:41:27,919 --> 00:41:31,521
to get the official result
in writing,
747
00:41:32,756 --> 00:41:34,457
we called Marshall in.
748
00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:38,661
This situation
is something that, you know,
749
00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:42,999
I was connected with
from my childhood
750
00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,068
that it had come full circle
751
00:41:45,070 --> 00:41:48,271
and here I was,
heaven, you know,
752
00:41:48,273 --> 00:41:50,673
God giving me the opportunity
to make this right,
753
00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:54,110
to make it right for myself
and for my dad.
754
00:41:56,380 --> 00:41:59,182
My dad, God, he would've given
755
00:41:59,184 --> 00:42:01,084
anything in the world
756
00:42:01,086 --> 00:42:03,419
to have been able to have
the opportunity
757
00:42:03,421 --> 00:42:05,955
to do what I was doing
at this point.
758
00:42:07,591 --> 00:42:10,360
He would've been elated
759
00:42:10,362 --> 00:42:13,096
to have been able to ask
Marshall Moore the questions
760
00:42:13,098 --> 00:42:15,198
that I was about to ask,
you know,
761
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,500
to try to right the wrong
he knew so long ago
762
00:42:17,502 --> 00:42:21,204
that had been swept
under the rug, you know.
763
00:42:22,339 --> 00:42:24,607
I knew what he had done.
764
00:42:25,809 --> 00:42:28,978
And he knew that I knew
what he had done.
765
00:42:28,980 --> 00:42:32,315
It was... It was tremendous,
766
00:42:32,317 --> 00:42:35,251
tremendous amount
of self-satisfaction for me.
767
00:42:47,364 --> 00:42:49,499
When Marshall came
into the jail,
768
00:42:49,501 --> 00:42:51,200
he was rather stoic.
769
00:42:51,202 --> 00:42:53,202
You know, he didn't have
a lot to say.
770
00:42:53,204 --> 00:42:57,507
He knew that the train
was coming.
771
00:42:59,343 --> 00:43:01,911
Marshall and Priscilla
were still living
772
00:43:01,913 --> 00:43:04,213
in the same house that, uh,
773
00:43:04,215 --> 00:43:07,150
he and Gwendolyn lived in,
everything,
774
00:43:07,152 --> 00:43:08,985
all of the sons are there,
except Allen
775
00:43:08,987 --> 00:43:11,154
with his obvious absence.
776
00:43:11,156 --> 00:43:13,356
I don't understand
how a person can do that.
777
00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:18,561
In Marshall's interview,
778
00:43:18,563 --> 00:43:20,229
he went back over
779
00:43:20,231 --> 00:43:22,632
what he said
were the events of the night
780
00:43:24,234 --> 00:43:26,402
in which he admitted,
781
00:43:26,404 --> 00:43:29,372
um, slapping her to the ground
782
00:43:30,341 --> 00:43:32,041
because he was upset,
783
00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:33,509
because the kids
were at the swimming pool.
784
00:43:35,112 --> 00:43:37,180
And then, uh,
785
00:43:37,182 --> 00:43:39,148
he said that he went
to get the kids,
786
00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:41,451
and when he got back,
she was gone.
787
00:43:44,922 --> 00:43:48,091
As the interview progressed,
788
00:43:49,093 --> 00:43:52,762
he seemed like he gave the air
789
00:43:52,764 --> 00:43:54,964
of he was justifying
what he did.
790
00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:59,002
He said, "I don't see
what everybody's
791
00:43:59,004 --> 00:44:01,004
so upset about it.
She was just a drunk."
792
00:44:03,073 --> 00:44:04,941
How damn callous can you be?
793
00:44:04,943 --> 00:44:06,776
You got children
with this damn woman.
794
00:44:06,778 --> 00:44:09,212
You beat her like a dog
every day of her life.
795
00:44:09,214 --> 00:44:12,215
And you got... That's what
you got to say about her?
796
00:44:12,217 --> 00:44:13,983
After all these years
797
00:44:13,985 --> 00:44:15,985
and after everything
he had done,
798
00:44:15,987 --> 00:44:18,921
uh, I could not believe
that this man
799
00:44:18,923 --> 00:44:22,225
still had no remorse,
whatsoever.
800
00:44:26,463 --> 00:44:28,264
During the interview,
Marshall stated,
801
00:44:28,266 --> 00:44:30,733
Sheriff Bailey asked him,
802
00:44:30,735 --> 00:44:33,036
"Would you submit
to a polygraph test?"
803
00:44:33,038 --> 00:44:36,606
And on the 18th,
that test was administered.
804
00:44:38,942 --> 00:44:41,644
Marshall Moore said
that Sheriff Bailey told him,
805
00:44:41,646 --> 00:44:44,681
you know, "If anybody asked,
you passed the polygraph."
806
00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:49,018
The fact
that Marshall Moore said
807
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:50,420
that the sheriff told him,
808
00:44:50,422 --> 00:44:53,022
"Just tell everybody
you passed the polygraph",
809
00:44:53,024 --> 00:44:55,224
that absolutely supports
the theory
810
00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:56,659
that there was some cover-up.
811
00:45:01,231 --> 00:45:03,366
When dad got arrested,
812
00:45:03,368 --> 00:45:07,003
I was sad because he is my dad.
813
00:45:10,874 --> 00:45:12,542
I was mad...
814
00:45:15,946 --> 00:45:17,413
because I was thinking,
815
00:45:17,415 --> 00:45:19,982
"How in the heck
could you do this?
816
00:45:21,518 --> 00:45:23,052
When we're your... You're...
817
00:45:23,054 --> 00:45:26,055
You are the one that's
supposed to protect us."
818
00:45:33,831 --> 00:45:36,265
To see him
have to walk in that jail,
819
00:45:36,267 --> 00:45:39,202
it was gratifying to me.
820
00:45:39,204 --> 00:45:42,205
You know, I felt like
we were able to accomplish
821
00:45:42,207 --> 00:45:44,340
righting a tremendous wrong.
822
00:45:47,878 --> 00:45:50,179
And all of a sudden,
we learned, you know,
823
00:45:50,181 --> 00:45:52,315
Marshall had...
Did have throat cancer
824
00:45:52,317 --> 00:45:54,283
and he was currently
being treated for it.
825
00:46:01,225 --> 00:46:03,192
So he was released on bond
826
00:46:03,194 --> 00:46:06,929
and, you know,
you think,
827
00:46:06,931 --> 00:46:08,798
you know, surely to God,
828
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,333
we're not gonna lose the ability
829
00:46:10,335 --> 00:46:13,102
to find justice for her
because of this.
830
00:46:19,476 --> 00:46:21,878
But it was obvious
that our trial
831
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,013
was gonna be delayed.
832
00:46:24,882 --> 00:46:28,184
It was a disappointment.
I wanted the world to know
833
00:46:28,186 --> 00:46:30,086
the truth about
what had happened.
834
00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:40,496
And at this point,
all there is to do is wait.
835
00:46:55,546 --> 00:46:59,982
Several days after we had
arrested Marshall Moore,
836
00:46:59,984 --> 00:47:02,151
we had a large storm in town.
837
00:47:05,088 --> 00:47:07,490
And, um, it was a pretty
violent storm,
838
00:47:07,492 --> 00:47:10,126
a lot of wind damage
and so forth.
839
00:47:12,296 --> 00:47:16,666
Uh, I know it sounds crazy
and I've never believed
840
00:47:16,668 --> 00:47:19,602
in the supernatural, but...
841
00:47:21,738 --> 00:47:23,439
some things I can't explain.
842
00:47:27,077 --> 00:47:30,179
Next morning, I get up
and I look outside.
843
00:47:30,181 --> 00:47:32,081
And there's my, um,
844
00:47:32,083 --> 00:47:33,850
pickup truck that I just bought,
845
00:47:33,852 --> 00:47:37,153
and a pine tree
has literally broken off,
846
00:47:37,155 --> 00:47:40,456
and lands on top
of my pickup truck,
847
00:47:40,458 --> 00:47:45,394
and crushes the cab,
and crushes part of the roof.
848
00:47:45,396 --> 00:47:47,864
I got in my truck
even though it was crushed
849
00:47:47,866 --> 00:47:51,434
and I had to drive
with the roof on my head.
850
00:47:53,704 --> 00:47:55,905
And he had asked me
if I'd help him
851
00:47:55,907 --> 00:47:58,407
get it over
to West Georgia Paint & Body,
852
00:47:59,243 --> 00:48:01,444
which was in LaGrange.
853
00:48:03,146 --> 00:48:05,748
I met a young man
named Tim Wilkerson.
854
00:48:05,750 --> 00:48:09,552
And I asked for an estimate
on getting my truck fixed.
855
00:48:11,655 --> 00:48:13,656
While we were there,
we were talking to Tim.
856
00:48:13,658 --> 00:48:15,958
And it was, you know,
a small community.
857
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,493
Everybody knew what was going on
858
00:48:17,495 --> 00:48:19,795
because of what he had seen
859
00:48:19,797 --> 00:48:21,464
the work that we had done
in the Moore case.
860
00:48:21,466 --> 00:48:22,965
He said, "You know,
my father had disappeared
861
00:48:22,967 --> 00:48:25,668
in 1987 around Thanksgiving."
862
00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:30,106
It was filed
as a missing person case
863
00:48:30,108 --> 00:48:31,741
and it had gone cold.
864
00:48:31,743 --> 00:48:33,342
He said, we think
something happened to him,
865
00:48:33,344 --> 00:48:36,045
and do you think
you can look at that case?
866
00:48:42,886 --> 00:48:44,487
He was a good daddy.
He, uh,
867
00:48:45,322 --> 00:48:48,291
he didn't raise his voice
very much, you know.
868
00:48:49,826 --> 00:48:52,261
He put us in right direction,
you know.
869
00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:54,664
He was, uh, I guess you'd say,
870
00:48:54,666 --> 00:48:56,132
in my eyes, a perfect father.
871
00:48:57,301 --> 00:48:59,101
Our whole family was real close.
872
00:48:59,103 --> 00:49:01,037
Um, but he was always involved
873
00:49:01,039 --> 00:49:02,371
in Little League Baseball
874
00:49:02,373 --> 00:49:05,808
and the chief of the volunteer
fire station
875
00:49:05,810 --> 00:49:07,310
that's right down
the road from us.
876
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,048
When my father went missing,
877
00:49:12,050 --> 00:49:13,616
of course, we'd been
to the sheriff's department
878
00:49:13,618 --> 00:49:15,084
and talked to them and,
879
00:49:15,086 --> 00:49:18,187
you know, told them
everything we knew and, um,
880
00:49:18,189 --> 00:49:20,289
they were doing their
investigation, you know.
881
00:49:20,291 --> 00:49:23,626
Um, but it just seemed like
882
00:49:23,628 --> 00:49:25,962
everybody was coming up
with nothing, you know.
883
00:49:28,966 --> 00:49:30,299
It had been 16 years
884
00:49:30,301 --> 00:49:32,335
since Fred Wilkerson
disappeared.
885
00:49:32,337 --> 00:49:36,305
And Tim, of course,
he was searching for an answer
886
00:49:36,307 --> 00:49:39,008
and, um, thought that
there was an outside chance
887
00:49:39,010 --> 00:49:40,209
we might give it to him.
888
00:49:54,391 --> 00:49:57,827
I just feel
like my dad sitting up there,
889
00:49:57,829 --> 00:49:59,662
putting his hand on my shoulder,
890
00:50:00,998 --> 00:50:05,101
and pointing me
in the right direction.
891
00:50:10,073 --> 00:50:12,341
With the information
that Tim had given us,
892
00:50:12,343 --> 00:50:14,677
it was time to go
to work on this case.
893
00:50:17,814 --> 00:50:20,016
In reviewing the case file,
you know,
894
00:50:20,018 --> 00:50:21,484
it just made no sense.
895
00:50:22,319 --> 00:50:24,620
Fred Wilkerson's car
had been found
896
00:50:24,622 --> 00:50:27,356
at the Atlanta Airport
and it had been wiped clean
897
00:50:27,358 --> 00:50:29,825
of fingerprints.
898
00:50:29,827 --> 00:50:31,427
If I'm Fred and it's my car,
899
00:50:31,429 --> 00:50:33,295
there's no need
to be hiding the fact
900
00:50:33,297 --> 00:50:35,798
that I was driving it.
901
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:41,003
Also, there were two uncashed
payroll checks to the tune
902
00:50:41,005 --> 00:50:43,305
of well over $1,000
that were in the console
903
00:50:43,307 --> 00:50:45,307
of his car.
904
00:50:45,309 --> 00:50:47,343
The investigating agent
or the GBI's theory
905
00:50:47,345 --> 00:50:50,846
was that Fred had just left
to go start a new life.
906
00:50:50,848 --> 00:50:52,415
It didn't make any sense to me.
907
00:50:52,417 --> 00:50:54,183
Hell, if he was gonna do that,
he surely wouldn't have left
908
00:50:54,185 --> 00:50:56,485
$2,000 worth of paychecks
in the...
909
00:50:56,487 --> 00:50:58,954
In the console
of the car, uncashed.
910
00:50:58,956 --> 00:51:00,823
It made no sense.
911
00:51:00,825 --> 00:51:02,858
I think this is no longer
a missing person case.
912
00:51:02,860 --> 00:51:04,193
This is a murder case.
913
00:51:04,195 --> 00:51:06,262
Someone murdered Fred Wilkerson.
914
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:17,740
When I found the case,
915
00:51:17,742 --> 00:51:19,909
it got this kind of age on it.
916
00:51:19,911 --> 00:51:22,211
Well, first place to start
is with the victim.
917
00:51:24,014 --> 00:51:28,017
And try to find everything
that you can about anything
918
00:51:28,019 --> 00:51:31,087
that would lead anyone
to have a motive.
919
00:51:33,156 --> 00:51:35,257
One of the first people
I talked to was Tim.
920
00:51:38,895 --> 00:51:42,298
Investigators over the years,
921
00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:43,399
uh, you know, would tell me,
922
00:51:43,401 --> 00:51:44,934
"Hey, I'm helping
on your dad's case so far.
923
00:51:44,936 --> 00:51:46,302
I'm working on your dad's case,"
924
00:51:46,304 --> 00:51:48,838
of course you...
Your hopes get up high,
925
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,041
and it's like nothing
ever came out of it,
926
00:51:52,043 --> 00:51:54,076
you know, for whatever reason.
927
00:51:54,078 --> 00:51:56,779
Uh, but Clay is the first
investigator that came
928
00:51:56,781 --> 00:51:59,882
to our house
and he started from day one,
929
00:51:59,884 --> 00:52:01,383
he said, "You know,
I wanna know everything,"
930
00:52:01,385 --> 00:52:03,319
just so we filled him
in from the start.
931
00:52:07,525 --> 00:52:11,093
Fred was just,
you know, happy-go-lucky,
932
00:52:11,095 --> 00:52:13,162
just nice fella.
933
00:52:13,164 --> 00:52:15,397
He drove a delivery truck.
934
00:52:15,399 --> 00:52:17,366
He sold and delivered beer.
935
00:52:17,368 --> 00:52:19,969
And he would stock stores
in the area
936
00:52:19,971 --> 00:52:21,604
where I was the police chief.
937
00:52:23,907 --> 00:52:26,208
He had been a family man,
938
00:52:26,210 --> 00:52:28,944
but Fred also had a reputation
939
00:52:28,946 --> 00:52:31,147
for being a little bit
of a ladies' man.
940
00:52:34,851 --> 00:52:40,189
He had had a long marriage
with his wife, Carolyn.
941
00:52:41,091 --> 00:52:43,959
But he had got
into a relationship
942
00:52:43,961 --> 00:52:46,061
with a woman
that he worked with.
943
00:52:46,063 --> 00:52:47,963
Her name was Connie Quedens.
944
00:52:50,967 --> 00:52:52,268
We actually went to her house
945
00:52:52,270 --> 00:52:55,171
and did some work
around her house,
946
00:52:55,173 --> 00:52:59,175
uh, first time
I ever met her, you know,
947
00:52:59,177 --> 00:53:02,311
that was before I knew
anything was going on,
948
00:53:02,313 --> 00:53:03,913
you know,
between the two of them.
949
00:53:03,915 --> 00:53:06,282
But I just felt
like she was trouble
950
00:53:06,284 --> 00:53:08,217
from the start, you know.
951
00:53:08,219 --> 00:53:09,418
She didn't like me
and I didn't like her,
952
00:53:09,420 --> 00:53:10,519
you know.
953
00:53:14,759 --> 00:53:17,059
Fred ended up leaving his wife.
954
00:53:18,962 --> 00:53:20,329
Connie ended up
leaving her husband,
955
00:53:20,331 --> 00:53:22,331
Gary Quedens.
956
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:26,135
My parents
were married for 22 years,
957
00:53:26,137 --> 00:53:27,236
and I just couldn't understand
958
00:53:27,238 --> 00:53:29,271
why he'd give Connie the time
of day, you know.
959
00:53:29,273 --> 00:53:33,809
But I never understood
what the attraction was there,
960
00:53:33,811 --> 00:53:35,211
you know.
961
00:53:39,316 --> 00:53:42,017
Fred had purchased a piece
of property,
962
00:53:42,019 --> 00:53:46,188
and built a home that
he and Connie would move into,
963
00:53:46,190 --> 00:53:49,091
and then it would be
their residence.
964
00:53:51,394 --> 00:53:53,429
And he's got
the house built.
965
00:53:53,431 --> 00:53:55,397
Daddy put
all of his money in it,
966
00:53:55,399 --> 00:53:57,166
all of his time and labor.
967
00:53:57,168 --> 00:53:58,234
It was a very nice home.
968
00:53:58,236 --> 00:54:00,169
It was spacious.
969
00:54:00,171 --> 00:54:04,106
Uh, it rested I think
on about 23 acres of land.
970
00:54:06,142 --> 00:54:08,377
It was a dream home.
971
00:54:08,379 --> 00:54:10,913
Connie wanted
a swimming pool behind it
972
00:54:10,915 --> 00:54:16,252
and Fred doing everything
he could to please her,
973
00:54:16,254 --> 00:54:18,020
went and borrowed money
from a friend of his.
974
00:54:25,795 --> 00:54:28,063
At that point,
Fred was about out of...
975
00:54:28,065 --> 00:54:31,367
You know, his finances
were stretched.
976
00:54:33,870 --> 00:54:37,773
Everything he could muster
and scrape went
977
00:54:37,775 --> 00:54:40,309
into the house and the things
that she wanted.
978
00:54:41,711 --> 00:54:43,979
When the house was complete,
979
00:54:43,981 --> 00:54:48,150
Fred moved into the house
with Connie.
980
00:54:49,419 --> 00:54:51,787
Connie had her two children.
981
00:54:51,789 --> 00:54:53,455
Tim moved in with Fred.
982
00:54:54,791 --> 00:54:59,028
Shortly after Connie
convinced Fred
983
00:54:59,030 --> 00:55:01,230
that he needed to deed
the property
984
00:55:01,232 --> 00:55:05,634
over to her to help her
in her pending
985
00:55:05,636 --> 00:55:08,537
child custody case and divorce,
986
00:55:08,539 --> 00:55:11,206
so that way she would have
custody of the children.
987
00:55:14,277 --> 00:55:16,011
And he did.
988
00:55:17,113 --> 00:55:20,849
On October 14th, 1986,
after only a few months
989
00:55:20,851 --> 00:55:25,020
of dating, Fred deeds
the property to Connie.
990
00:55:25,689 --> 00:55:27,389
He didn't deed half
of it to Connie,
991
00:55:27,391 --> 00:55:30,092
he deeded it all to Connie.
992
00:55:32,095 --> 00:55:33,228
She had a pull on him.
993
00:55:33,230 --> 00:55:34,330
I don't really know
how to explain,
994
00:55:34,332 --> 00:55:36,365
but she's very manipulative.
995
00:55:40,203 --> 00:55:42,938
It was a few months
before Thanksgiving 1987,
996
00:55:42,940 --> 00:55:45,874
uh, when she picked
a fight with me,
997
00:55:45,876 --> 00:55:47,176
and then she called
the sheriff's department
998
00:55:47,178 --> 00:55:49,578
to have us removed
from the property.
999
00:55:52,949 --> 00:55:55,317
We hadn't touched her at all,
but it was...
1000
00:55:55,319 --> 00:55:57,353
Uh, she actually reported
that we were chasing her
1001
00:55:57,355 --> 00:55:59,888
with axes...
With an axe.
1002
00:55:59,890 --> 00:56:02,891
So, two sheriff cars came
in the driveway sideways
1003
00:56:02,893 --> 00:56:05,027
and, uh, they took us
down to the jail.
1004
00:56:05,029 --> 00:56:07,129
We had to sign papers
and everything to get bonded
1005
00:56:07,131 --> 00:56:08,831
out of jail but...
1006
00:56:08,833 --> 00:56:10,332
So after that,
she wouldn't let me back
1007
00:56:10,334 --> 00:56:13,235
on the property
and she gave my daddy
1008
00:56:13,237 --> 00:56:16,939
till midnight that night
to get his personal items
1009
00:56:16,941 --> 00:56:18,974
out of the house.
1010
00:56:21,144 --> 00:56:24,279
Shortly after Fred moved out,
she brings her ex-husband
1011
00:56:24,281 --> 00:56:26,181
back into picture.
1012
00:56:26,183 --> 00:56:29,651
She moves Gary Quedens back in.
1013
00:56:29,653 --> 00:56:34,823
And he assumes, uh,
Fred's place at the house.
1014
00:56:38,195 --> 00:56:41,897
Tim and his dad get
an apartment in LaGrange.
1015
00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:45,000
Two days after Thanksgiving,
Fred had to make a trip
1016
00:56:45,002 --> 00:56:47,636
into Tennessee the next morning.
1017
00:56:47,638 --> 00:56:50,339
He had gotten approval
from his boss to let me ride
1018
00:56:50,341 --> 00:56:53,275
in this big truck
with him the next day,
1019
00:56:53,277 --> 00:56:54,410
uh, Saturday morning.
1020
00:57:01,151 --> 00:57:04,019
He went to bed
to sleep and get up,
1021
00:57:04,021 --> 00:57:05,320
drive all day.
1022
00:57:05,322 --> 00:57:06,822
And when I got home that night,
1023
00:57:06,824 --> 00:57:08,390
it's probably around midnight,
you know,
1024
00:57:08,392 --> 00:57:11,360
that's when he was... I notice
he was missing, he was gone.
1025
00:57:20,403 --> 00:57:21,904
You know, there's no
cellphones back then,
1026
00:57:21,906 --> 00:57:23,205
of course.
1027
00:57:23,207 --> 00:57:24,773
But I knew something
wasn't right
1028
00:57:24,775 --> 00:57:27,042
because he always took
the pocket knife
1029
00:57:27,044 --> 00:57:28,777
and all that and all that
was laying on the dresser,
1030
00:57:28,779 --> 00:57:30,212
you know,
where it's like he'd left
1031
00:57:30,214 --> 00:57:31,947
in a hurry or maybe
just planned to go
1032
00:57:31,949 --> 00:57:34,316
for a few minutes somewhere but,
1033
00:57:34,318 --> 00:57:37,319
uh, he didn't...
Didn't show back up and,
1034
00:57:37,321 --> 00:57:40,989
uh, next morning, of course,
he didn't show up for work.
1035
00:57:47,297 --> 00:57:49,031
It was totally out of character
1036
00:57:49,033 --> 00:57:51,333
not to be at work
and or to be late,
1037
00:57:51,335 --> 00:57:56,238
it just...
That just didn't happen.
1038
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,906
Called everybody
that we knew to see
1039
00:57:57,908 --> 00:58:01,009
of anybody had seen him
and no one had.
1040
00:58:01,011 --> 00:58:04,646
So then Monday, I filed
a missing person report
1041
00:58:04,648 --> 00:58:06,715
and most of the deputies
knew my father.
1042
00:58:06,717 --> 00:58:10,919
They said, "Oh, Fred?
Fred's run off somewhere.
1043
00:58:10,921 --> 00:58:13,288
You know, he's off somewhere
having a good time," you know.
1044
00:58:17,093 --> 00:58:18,360
I knew
something bad had happened.
1045
00:58:18,362 --> 00:58:20,195
We left each other notes
everywhere...
1046
00:58:20,197 --> 00:58:22,831
Every time we left the house,
you know,
1047
00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:26,201
let each other know
where we were at.
1048
00:58:33,109 --> 00:58:35,043
We were searching,
we just gave everybody
1049
00:58:35,045 --> 00:58:36,378
stacks of flyers
and everybody went
1050
00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:40,048
and put them out everywhere.
1051
00:58:40,050 --> 00:58:44,419
In 1987, before
my involvement in the case,
1052
00:58:44,421 --> 00:58:46,788
I saw Fred Wilkerson's picture
1053
00:58:46,790 --> 00:58:51,126
in just about every store
I'd walk into.
1054
00:58:51,128 --> 00:58:53,095
And there it was, you know,
1055
00:58:53,097 --> 00:58:55,230
Fred Wilkerson,
missing person, you know,
1056
00:58:55,232 --> 00:58:56,965
the folks have a big interest
in it, you know,
1057
00:58:56,967 --> 00:59:02,371
they liked Fred, and nothing.
1058
00:59:06,977 --> 00:59:08,343
Anytime that you have
a situation
1059
00:59:08,345 --> 00:59:13,649
where someone disappears,
1060
00:59:13,651 --> 00:59:16,084
the person that has
an immediate relationship
1061
00:59:16,086 --> 00:59:19,988
with someone else,
you have to think
1062
00:59:19,990 --> 00:59:24,393
that they might surely
have had some involvement.
1063
00:59:24,395 --> 00:59:25,928
Mike Newsome
was the investigator
1064
00:59:25,930 --> 00:59:29,364
at the sheriff's office in 1987.
1065
00:59:29,366 --> 00:59:32,701
I interviewed Connie Quedens
and of course we asked her
1066
00:59:32,703 --> 00:59:35,003
about her relationship
with Fred Wilkerson,
1067
00:59:35,005 --> 00:59:37,639
which she said they had been
in a relationship,
1068
00:59:37,641 --> 00:59:41,310
that relationship had ended.
1069
00:59:41,312 --> 00:59:45,013
Asked her had she seen Fred
within the last two weeks,
1070
00:59:45,015 --> 00:59:48,850
called him or heard from him.
1071
00:59:48,852 --> 00:59:50,385
She said, no,
she had not seen him,
1072
00:59:50,387 --> 00:59:52,754
heard from him, talked to him.
1073
00:59:55,492 --> 00:59:57,192
Connie Quedens was a suspect,
1074
00:59:57,194 --> 00:59:58,894
but at that point,
1075
00:59:58,896 --> 01:00:01,029
I did never have
enough information
1076
01:00:01,031 --> 01:00:03,932
to arrest
Connie Quedens or anyone else.
1077
01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:05,801
She gave him all
the answers that, you know,
1078
01:00:05,803 --> 01:00:08,303
and she wanted
to give him and they,
1079
01:00:08,305 --> 01:00:11,139
you know, at that point,
they moved on.
1080
01:00:16,981 --> 01:00:18,880
A few after weeks after this,
1081
01:00:18,882 --> 01:00:21,383
around Christmas in 1987,
1082
01:00:21,385 --> 01:00:24,186
Fred's car
is located at the airport.
1083
01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:29,925
The path
followed by investigators
1084
01:00:29,927 --> 01:00:32,928
was that Fred up and left,
1085
01:00:32,930 --> 01:00:34,396
acquiring a new identity.
1086
01:00:34,398 --> 01:00:36,164
But it's easy to go back
1087
01:00:36,166 --> 01:00:37,966
in Monday morning quarter back,
1088
01:00:37,968 --> 01:00:41,069
but as far as I could see,
1089
01:00:41,071 --> 01:00:43,071
a blind man
with one eye and half sense
1090
01:00:43,073 --> 01:00:45,641
would immediately turn the focus
1091
01:00:45,643 --> 01:00:51,213
of the investigation
to the husband.
1092
01:00:51,215 --> 01:00:53,849
It appeared that Gary Quedens
1093
01:00:53,851 --> 01:00:56,385
had gained financially
from this thing.
1094
01:00:56,387 --> 01:00:57,819
You have to think, "Well, maybe
1095
01:00:57,821 --> 01:00:59,755
if this was all a plan,
1096
01:00:59,757 --> 01:01:03,025
that he may have
been part of that plan."
1097
01:01:03,027 --> 01:01:05,327
I believe that
Fred Wilkerson was killed
1098
01:01:05,329 --> 01:01:09,998
the weekend
of Thanksgiving 1987.
1099
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,967
What needed
to be established was,
1100
01:01:11,969 --> 01:01:14,670
"Where were you that weekend?"
1101
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,207
Well, Gary, we talked
to him and he had said,
1102
01:01:19,209 --> 01:01:22,911
he and the boys
had gone to South Florida.
1103
01:01:22,913 --> 01:01:25,080
He said that
they drove down there,
1104
01:01:25,082 --> 01:01:28,417
then the car
had a transmission problem,
1105
01:01:28,419 --> 01:01:30,852
and that they were
pretty much stuck
1106
01:01:30,854 --> 01:01:33,121
in Tampa the whole weekend.
1107
01:01:33,123 --> 01:01:38,093
Then Gary had purchased
a new vehicle.
1108
01:01:38,095 --> 01:01:42,798
I checked the dealership
in Tampa and it was true.
1109
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,933
When Fred disappeared,
he and the boys
1110
01:01:44,935 --> 01:01:49,671
were in Tampa, Florida.
1111
01:01:49,673 --> 01:01:51,873
He might be away
from what I think
1112
01:01:51,875 --> 01:01:54,376
was the time that Fred
Wilkerson was killed,
1113
01:01:54,378 --> 01:01:57,279
but I don't know how complicit
he might have been
1114
01:01:57,281 --> 01:02:01,516
in the total picture
of what happened to Fred.
1115
01:02:10,728 --> 01:02:14,796
At that point,
I sat down with Tim again.
1116
01:02:14,798 --> 01:02:16,765
I asked Tim, I said,
"Is there anything else
1117
01:02:16,767 --> 01:02:19,000
that would help us understand
1118
01:02:19,002 --> 01:02:21,703
anything else
about this case?"
1119
01:02:21,705 --> 01:02:25,474
Tim tells me that Connie
has stayed in the house
1120
01:02:25,476 --> 01:02:28,276
since his father
had deeded the house
1121
01:02:28,278 --> 01:02:31,146
over to her in 1987.
1122
01:02:31,148 --> 01:02:35,250
And he said that in 1994
1123
01:02:35,252 --> 01:02:37,219
seven years
after Fred disappeared,
1124
01:02:37,221 --> 01:02:40,088
Connie Quedens
had filed a petition
1125
01:02:40,090 --> 01:02:44,126
in the probate court
to have him declared dead.
1126
01:02:47,463 --> 01:02:49,765
She held a life
insurance policy on Fred
1127
01:02:49,767 --> 01:02:52,634
for over $30,000.
1128
01:02:52,636 --> 01:02:57,372
Tim had no idea
about this insurance policy,
1129
01:03:00,309 --> 01:03:04,279
until Connie filed
to have Fred declared dead.
1130
01:03:06,215 --> 01:03:08,784
She'd been paying
the premium on that policy
1131
01:03:08,786 --> 01:03:10,252
ever since Fred disappeared.
1132
01:03:10,254 --> 01:03:12,387
It's like putting money
in the bank.
1133
01:03:13,990 --> 01:03:16,625
She kept making
those monthly payments.
1134
01:03:16,627 --> 01:03:18,760
So, she was declaring
him dead, so she could...
1135
01:03:18,762 --> 01:03:20,896
she could collect that policy.
1136
01:03:20,898 --> 01:03:23,031
Um, some of the investigators
had said
1137
01:03:23,033 --> 01:03:24,633
that there's no motive there,
but I said,
1138
01:03:24,635 --> 01:03:26,635
"Well, that's enough
in my eyes."
1139
01:03:33,009 --> 01:03:36,344
In '94 when the action was taken
1140
01:03:36,346 --> 01:03:40,215
to have Fred declared deceased,
1141
01:03:40,217 --> 01:03:43,285
that became a news item.
1142
01:03:49,058 --> 01:03:52,394
And in the article,
it read that in 1987,
1143
01:03:52,396 --> 01:03:55,230
Fred's car had been found
at the Atlanta Airport
1144
01:03:55,232 --> 01:03:57,999
in the long-term parking.
1145
01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:02,971
Tim said in '94
that his lawyer got a call
1146
01:04:02,973 --> 01:04:04,940
from Lisa Hullderman
1147
01:04:04,942 --> 01:04:07,209
with a string
of new information.
1148
01:04:07,211 --> 01:04:11,112
And he called
the sheriff's office.
1149
01:04:11,114 --> 01:04:13,248
But for whatever reason,
1150
01:04:13,250 --> 01:04:15,083
the investigator
who had the case
1151
01:04:15,085 --> 01:04:17,752
never contacted this young lady.
1152
01:04:17,754 --> 01:04:19,955
And at this point,
after finding this out,
1153
01:04:19,957 --> 01:04:21,957
"Oh, my God, you know, this...
1154
01:04:21,959 --> 01:04:27,028
this could be the straw
that breaks the camel's back."
1155
01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:29,965
I said,
"You got to talk to her."
1156
01:04:29,967 --> 01:04:31,333
That next morning,
1157
01:04:31,335 --> 01:04:35,070
I'm on the way to Charleston.
1158
01:04:35,072 --> 01:04:38,874
I'd known Connie
Quedens my entire life.
1159
01:04:38,876 --> 01:04:42,377
Tim and I went
to school together
1160
01:04:42,379 --> 01:04:45,881
and Fred, uh,
he was such a sweetheart.
1161
01:04:45,883 --> 01:04:49,985
He would do anything
for anybody.
1162
01:04:49,987 --> 01:04:51,820
A few days after Thanksgiving,
1163
01:04:51,822 --> 01:04:55,290
we found out that Fred
was actually missing.
1164
01:04:55,292 --> 01:04:58,260
I believe
we read it in the paper.
1165
01:04:58,262 --> 01:05:00,795
He never not called his kids,
1166
01:05:00,797 --> 01:05:06,234
so we were all very concerned,
1167
01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:09,437
but Connie's reaction
was nonchalant.
1168
01:05:12,642 --> 01:05:17,879
So Saturday November 28, 1987,
1169
01:05:17,881 --> 01:05:21,016
I come in from work
to my parents' house
1170
01:05:21,018 --> 01:05:27,022
and my little sister Shelly
is on the phone with Connie.
1171
01:05:27,024 --> 01:05:29,891
And Connie is asking
a favor of her
1172
01:05:29,893 --> 01:05:32,260
and she told her
that she couldn't,
1173
01:05:32,262 --> 01:05:35,797
um, but I had just walked in.
1174
01:05:35,799 --> 01:05:39,567
Connie asked me
if I could drive her car
1175
01:05:39,569 --> 01:05:42,671
to the airport and pick her up.
1176
01:05:42,673 --> 01:05:44,706
So I was like,
"Okay, fine."
1177
01:05:44,708 --> 01:05:47,976
She's like, "Just go ahead
and head to the airport
1178
01:05:47,978 --> 01:05:51,913
and just pick me up
in front of the terminals."
1179
01:05:55,953 --> 01:05:57,385
When I got there,
1180
01:05:57,387 --> 01:05:59,654
she was standing out
in front of the terminals.
1181
01:06:01,657 --> 01:06:06,428
We drove back to LaGrange
and normal conversation,
1182
01:06:06,430 --> 01:06:08,797
nothing out of the ordinary,
1183
01:06:08,799 --> 01:06:12,067
just an average day.
1184
01:06:14,103 --> 01:06:19,307
Connie never seemed nervous,
um, at all.
1185
01:06:22,945 --> 01:06:24,846
She didn't even think anything
1186
01:06:24,848 --> 01:06:26,982
about picking Connie
up at the airport
1187
01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:30,318
until seven years later, 1994,
1188
01:06:30,353 --> 01:06:36,091
she learned that Fred's car
was left at the airport.
1189
01:06:40,096 --> 01:06:43,031
The newspaper article,
that's what made
1190
01:06:43,033 --> 01:06:47,669
the alarm bells
go off in my head.
1191
01:06:47,671 --> 01:06:50,271
At that point,
she thinks, "Oh, my God.
1192
01:06:50,273 --> 01:06:53,475
I very well
picked Connie Quedens up
1193
01:06:53,477 --> 01:06:58,847
when she delivered that car
to the airport."
1194
01:06:58,849 --> 01:07:01,216
This revelation
1195
01:07:01,218 --> 01:07:05,754
would absolutely
turn this case around.
1196
01:07:05,756 --> 01:07:07,322
And as we talked
about the time of the things
1197
01:07:07,324 --> 01:07:09,157
that were going on,
all of a sudden,
1198
01:07:09,159 --> 01:07:11,259
she does kind of gets
this look about her
1199
01:07:11,261 --> 01:07:15,330
and she said, "Oh, my God."
1200
01:07:15,332 --> 01:07:19,234
There had been a well
located on the 23 acres
1201
01:07:19,236 --> 01:07:22,670
that was Connie's home.
1202
01:07:22,672 --> 01:07:25,040
Connie had myself
1203
01:07:25,042 --> 01:07:30,045
and her sons clearing up brush,
1204
01:07:30,047 --> 01:07:33,014
and sticks, and rocks,
1205
01:07:33,016 --> 01:07:36,251
and she was closing up
this well.
1206
01:07:38,354 --> 01:07:41,022
She had us throw
all this stuff down
1207
01:07:41,024 --> 01:07:42,590
into the well
to help fill it in.
1208
01:07:50,266 --> 01:07:51,633
Okay.
1209
01:07:53,969 --> 01:07:56,871
I realized,
1210
01:07:56,873 --> 01:08:00,008
"Did I help cover him up,"
you know.
1211
01:08:02,645 --> 01:08:04,379
God, all this comes together,
1212
01:08:04,381 --> 01:08:06,214
and it's just,
1213
01:08:06,216 --> 01:08:10,418
"Oh, hell,
Fred is in that well."
1214
01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:21,596
There are times
1215
01:08:23,132 --> 01:08:25,600
when you are involved
1216
01:08:25,634 --> 01:08:27,969
in a case like this
1217
01:08:27,971 --> 01:08:31,639
when you know, it just
comes to you in your heart,
1218
01:08:31,641 --> 01:08:34,175
you know, I've got the answer,
1219
01:08:34,177 --> 01:08:36,644
I've got this.
1220
01:08:36,646 --> 01:08:40,181
You know... you know,
1221
01:08:40,183 --> 01:08:43,418
call it fate
1222
01:08:43,420 --> 01:08:48,590
or divine intervention
1223
01:08:48,592 --> 01:08:51,226
or just dumb luck, I don't know.
1224
01:08:51,228 --> 01:08:55,196
But here I am still waiting
for Marshall Moore's trial,
1225
01:08:55,198 --> 01:08:59,167
and now I might have
another body in a well.
1226
01:08:59,169 --> 01:09:01,069
What are the chances?
1227
01:09:02,338 --> 01:09:04,105
All of a sudden now, we've gone
1228
01:09:04,107 --> 01:09:06,007
from a case that's absolutely
1229
01:09:06,009 --> 01:09:10,345
going nowhere to having
a very strong suspicion
1230
01:09:10,347 --> 01:09:12,947
of the location
of Fred Wilkerson's body.
1231
01:09:16,785 --> 01:09:19,954
I told him,
her personality can change
1232
01:09:21,524 --> 01:09:24,192
to whatever she wants it to be.
1233
01:09:24,194 --> 01:09:27,362
Connie could be the nicest,
1234
01:09:27,364 --> 01:09:32,133
the sweetest,
the most giving person,
1235
01:09:32,135 --> 01:09:34,469
and then in the next time,
1236
01:09:34,471 --> 01:09:38,206
she is conniving and mean,
1237
01:09:38,208 --> 01:09:41,409
and I call her a snake.
1238
01:09:43,112 --> 01:09:46,080
She'll just
kind of slither in on you
1239
01:09:46,082 --> 01:09:48,183
before you even realize it.
1240
01:09:50,953 --> 01:09:52,820
Before I leave,
she says, you know,
1241
01:09:52,822 --> 01:09:58,393
"You do understand
that Connie is evil
1242
01:09:58,395 --> 01:10:02,397
and she's not above anything."
1243
01:10:02,399 --> 01:10:04,866
I assured her that I know that.
1244
01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:08,136
And, uh... But she's gonna pay
for the evil that she did.
1245
01:10:08,138 --> 01:10:09,938
I assured her of that.
1246
01:10:17,246 --> 01:10:18,880
Clay calls me up
and says,
1247
01:10:18,882 --> 01:10:19,981
"Pete,
you won't believe this."
1248
01:10:19,983 --> 01:10:21,849
And I said, "What?"
1249
01:10:21,851 --> 01:10:23,985
He goes, "Lisa Hullderman
picked Connie Quedens
1250
01:10:23,987 --> 01:10:27,055
up from the airport the night
Fred Wilkerson went missing."
1251
01:10:27,057 --> 01:10:28,656
And I remember saying,
"You are kidding me."
1252
01:10:28,658 --> 01:10:30,191
He goes,
"No, I'm not kidding."
1253
01:10:32,194 --> 01:10:34,062
And I said, "Clay,
get a search warrant.
1254
01:10:34,064 --> 01:10:35,363
That's what we need."
1255
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,068
You know, he called me
immediately because, I mean,
1256
01:10:40,070 --> 01:10:42,070
he was excited and he said
that he thought
1257
01:10:42,072 --> 01:10:43,438
that'd be enough for us
to get a search warrant
1258
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:45,873
to search the property.
1259
01:10:45,875 --> 01:10:47,542
That scared me to death
because I knew
1260
01:10:47,544 --> 01:10:49,210
if I didn't find the body there,
1261
01:10:49,212 --> 01:10:52,347
then that's probably
the last hope ever.
1262
01:11:06,795 --> 01:11:08,162
Troup County
Sheriff's Department,
1263
01:11:08,164 --> 01:11:09,897
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
1264
01:11:09,899 --> 01:11:12,166
and the District
Attorney's Office
1265
01:11:12,168 --> 01:11:14,836
were out there to execute
the search warrant.
1266
01:11:18,375 --> 01:11:20,308
Connie's not there.
1267
01:11:20,310 --> 01:11:21,276
Within those few minutes though,
1268
01:11:21,278 --> 01:11:22,777
however, she drives up.
1269
01:11:27,783 --> 01:11:29,250
You could tell
from her demeanor,
1270
01:11:29,252 --> 01:11:32,053
she knew that we were there
for business.
1271
01:11:40,996 --> 01:11:43,998
I knew that in her
initial interview in 1987,
1272
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,801
she denied having any contact
seeing Fred Wilkerson
1273
01:11:46,803 --> 01:11:49,504
at all the week of Thanksgiving.
1274
01:11:50,973 --> 01:11:53,474
Had she seen Fred
within the last two weeks,
1275
01:11:53,476 --> 01:11:55,376
called him, or heard from him,
1276
01:11:55,378 --> 01:11:57,178
or spoken to him anywhere.
1277
01:11:57,180 --> 01:11:58,780
She said, no,
she had not seen him,
1278
01:11:58,782 --> 01:12:00,348
heard from him, talked to him.
1279
01:12:02,918 --> 01:12:05,920
I asked her again and she said,
1280
01:12:05,922 --> 01:12:08,089
the Friday night
after Thanksgiving
1281
01:12:08,091 --> 01:12:09,624
that Fred's in her house,
1282
01:12:09,626 --> 01:12:11,125
that Fred came over.
1283
01:12:11,127 --> 01:12:16,531
We were going to discuss,
uh, our situation.
1284
01:12:18,133 --> 01:12:19,867
Everything that she's saying now
1285
01:12:19,869 --> 01:12:22,203
is totally 180 degrees
1286
01:12:22,205 --> 01:12:24,072
from what she said when she...
1287
01:12:24,074 --> 01:12:27,809
Anybody's originally
questioned her about anything.
1288
01:12:27,811 --> 01:12:30,745
Either she was lying then
or she's lying now.
1289
01:12:30,747 --> 01:12:33,147
And all that does
is strengthen our case.
1290
01:12:35,351 --> 01:12:37,985
I asked,
after Fred's disappearance,
1291
01:12:37,987 --> 01:12:40,321
there seemed to be an urgency
in filling up
1292
01:12:40,323 --> 01:12:42,423
an old well that had been used.
1293
01:12:43,659 --> 01:12:45,026
She... Of course,
she's very evasive
1294
01:12:45,028 --> 01:12:47,261
about anything about that.
1295
01:12:47,263 --> 01:12:49,364
I said, you know,
"We have a search warrant
1296
01:12:49,366 --> 01:12:53,267
and we're gonna search
the premises in your house."
1297
01:12:53,269 --> 01:12:55,370
I said, "And we're gonna start
at this location
1298
01:12:55,372 --> 01:12:57,939
on top of the hill
at the old well up there."
1299
01:13:00,008 --> 01:13:03,411
And at that point,
her demeanor changed.
1300
01:13:04,913 --> 01:13:10,952
We discussed the fact that
if we find Fred's remains,
1301
01:13:10,954 --> 01:13:12,954
we're gonna arrest her
right then and there.
1302
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:17,492
And Connie's reply to me,
1303
01:13:17,494 --> 01:13:19,560
"If he's in it, I don't know
anything about it."
1304
01:13:21,697 --> 01:13:23,364
I thought to myself,
1305
01:13:23,366 --> 01:13:26,000
"Yeah, you don't know
all about it," you know.
1306
01:13:34,343 --> 01:13:36,811
As we're conducting
an interview with Connie,
1307
01:13:36,813 --> 01:13:39,147
they start
the excavation on the well.
1308
01:13:44,219 --> 01:13:46,087
They couldn't find the well,
you know,
1309
01:13:46,089 --> 01:13:49,190
so I ran out there to,
you know, find it for them.
1310
01:13:49,192 --> 01:13:52,326
Well, I just stayed
back up toward the highway.
1311
01:13:58,167 --> 01:14:00,034
People in the community,
1312
01:14:00,036 --> 01:14:01,869
when everybody saw
what was going on there,
1313
01:14:01,871 --> 01:14:03,371
everybody was stopped,
lined... Cars lined up
1314
01:14:03,373 --> 01:14:05,406
down both sides
of the highway, you know.
1315
01:14:05,408 --> 01:14:08,242
Uh, all the close
immediate family was there.
1316
01:14:19,154 --> 01:14:21,289
At that point,
we start talking about,
1317
01:14:21,291 --> 01:14:24,659
well, you never did mention
the fact
1318
01:14:24,661 --> 01:14:27,895
that Lisa Hullderman
came over here
1319
01:14:27,897 --> 01:14:29,664
and you had her
go to the airport
1320
01:14:29,666 --> 01:14:30,665
and pick you up.
1321
01:14:35,437 --> 01:14:36,938
All of a sudden,
she starts coming up
1322
01:14:36,940 --> 01:14:38,339
with these bizarre stories
1323
01:14:38,341 --> 01:14:41,008
that she's never told
anybody before,
1324
01:14:41,010 --> 01:14:43,211
that a fella in
a police uniform drives up,
1325
01:14:43,213 --> 01:14:45,112
he's got a nurse with him
1326
01:14:45,114 --> 01:14:46,280
and it's somebody
that she think might...
1327
01:14:46,282 --> 01:14:47,782
Fred might have been involved
and Fred
1328
01:14:47,784 --> 01:14:49,917
got in the car
and left with them.
1329
01:14:49,919 --> 01:14:53,354
Then she had to make
some provisions for Fred's car,
1330
01:14:53,356 --> 01:14:55,990
so she said, she didn't
want it there because,
1331
01:14:55,992 --> 01:14:57,959
you know,
Gary would be back home.
1332
01:14:57,961 --> 01:14:59,894
And she said, the only place
she knew to take it would,
1333
01:14:59,896 --> 01:15:02,230
you know, she'd get rid of it
at the airport.
1334
01:15:05,033 --> 01:15:08,870
We've been there probably
two hours going over things.
1335
01:15:08,872 --> 01:15:10,404
And every word out of her mouth,
1336
01:15:10,406 --> 01:15:12,273
she's burying herself
deeper and deeper.
1337
01:15:13,442 --> 01:15:15,977
But we got to find Fred.
1338
01:15:15,979 --> 01:15:19,180
That's the key
to everything at this point.
1339
01:15:19,182 --> 01:15:21,415
We got everything that we need,
1340
01:15:21,417 --> 01:15:23,251
except Fred.
1341
01:15:33,262 --> 01:15:35,029
We're sitting there
with her, it's probably
1342
01:15:35,031 --> 01:15:37,164
a little after lunch by now.
1343
01:15:38,867 --> 01:15:41,235
All of a sudden, the radio
crackles a little bit.
1344
01:15:51,180 --> 01:15:57,051
GBI agent says,
"Hey, we found human remains."
1345
01:16:05,193 --> 01:16:08,329
Connie, you're under arrest
1346
01:16:10,299 --> 01:16:11,666
for the murder
of Fred Wilkerson.
1347
01:16:13,969 --> 01:16:15,937
The jig is up.
1348
01:16:19,841 --> 01:16:22,109
We put Connie
in the car, drive her out.
1349
01:16:24,947 --> 01:16:27,114
That was a good moment
to see that anyway.
1350
01:16:27,116 --> 01:16:31,085
We knew her life was gonna be
hell from there out, you know.
1351
01:16:31,087 --> 01:16:35,690
One of the days
you never forget.
1352
01:16:35,692 --> 01:16:39,060
The fact that we're dealing
with cases, both of them,
1353
01:16:39,062 --> 01:16:41,929
it's ridiculously old
and the bodies in the well,
1354
01:16:41,931 --> 01:16:43,931
it's just...
1355
01:16:43,933 --> 01:16:46,901
It was... It's unreal.
1356
01:16:46,903 --> 01:16:49,837
I swear...
1357
01:16:49,839 --> 01:16:54,408
I swear, uh,
old Buddy had a hand in it.
1358
01:16:59,382 --> 01:17:00,781
So here we are,
we're preparing
1359
01:17:00,783 --> 01:17:02,450
to go to trial on both cases,
1360
01:17:02,452 --> 01:17:05,052
Connie Quedens
and Marshall Moore.
1361
01:17:05,054 --> 01:17:07,355
And the county,
to our amazement,
1362
01:17:07,357 --> 01:17:10,358
would go to trial
on Connie first.
1363
01:17:13,128 --> 01:17:15,463
We had acquired
a mountain of evidence.
1364
01:17:18,333 --> 01:17:21,969
We asked Tim, uh,
not to plan a funeral,
1365
01:17:21,971 --> 01:17:24,639
so we could, uh,
bring the remains
1366
01:17:24,641 --> 01:17:27,041
of Fred Wilkerson
into a courtroom,
1367
01:17:27,043 --> 01:17:28,876
so we could show
the cause of death,
1368
01:17:28,878 --> 01:17:30,344
the manner of death,
1369
01:17:30,346 --> 01:17:34,081
and also how
we identified Fred Wilkerson.
1370
01:17:35,050 --> 01:17:38,319
We were able
to find DNA off of a,
1371
01:17:38,321 --> 01:17:40,321
um, femur bone.
1372
01:17:40,323 --> 01:17:42,757
Dr. Snow, he holds up
the skull and points
1373
01:17:42,759 --> 01:17:45,459
to a hole
in the back of the skull,
1374
01:17:45,461 --> 01:17:49,563
and he said, he was shot
in the head execution style.
1375
01:18:01,043 --> 01:18:02,877
Trial was over.
It only took three days.
1376
01:18:02,879 --> 01:18:04,512
At this point,
all there is to do
1377
01:18:04,514 --> 01:18:06,414
is see what the jury has to say.
1378
01:18:07,783 --> 01:18:10,384
It's the most nerve-racking
time of your life, you know.
1379
01:18:12,020 --> 01:18:13,988
I thought for sure
there's no way
1380
01:18:13,990 --> 01:18:18,192
they could find her innocent, but there's
always that chance that one or two jurors,
1381
01:18:18,194 --> 01:18:20,461
you know,
wouldn't see it that way.
1382
01:18:20,463 --> 01:18:23,664
You never know, you know,
until they actually say it.
1383
01:18:23,666 --> 01:18:26,901
And of course,
we were all nervous about it.
1384
01:18:26,903 --> 01:18:29,937
You could feel there was
a tension in the courtroom
1385
01:18:29,939 --> 01:18:31,972
while Judge Lee
was reviewing the verdict.
1386
01:18:33,909 --> 01:18:35,342
Do we have
the verdict, madam foreman?
1387
01:18:35,344 --> 01:18:37,178
Yes, Your Honor.
1388
01:18:39,314 --> 01:18:40,347
The State of Georgia
1389
01:18:40,349 --> 01:18:42,483
versus Connie King Quedens,
1390
01:18:44,653 --> 01:18:48,122
we the jury found
the defendant guilty.
1391
01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:57,331
Guilty.
1392
01:19:00,669 --> 01:19:02,536
It was...
it was a powerful moment.
1393
01:19:06,108 --> 01:19:07,942
They convicted Connie Quedens
1394
01:19:07,944 --> 01:19:10,010
of malice murder and possession
1395
01:19:10,012 --> 01:19:11,846
of a firearm during
a commission of a crime.
1396
01:19:11,848 --> 01:19:13,347
And on the same day of trial,
1397
01:19:13,349 --> 01:19:15,349
she was sentenced
to life in prison.
1398
01:19:18,687 --> 01:19:21,489
That was
a big relief for us.
1399
01:19:21,491 --> 01:19:24,859
Uh, it all fell into place
and I'm thankful for that,
1400
01:19:24,861 --> 01:19:27,862
you know, very much.
1401
01:19:27,864 --> 01:19:30,531
Um, Clay is a great guy,
you know,
1402
01:19:30,533 --> 01:19:32,633
and we got to be good
friends through all that.
1403
01:19:32,635 --> 01:19:34,702
We spent a lot
of time together but, uh,
1404
01:19:34,704 --> 01:19:36,837
I think he would...
he would do anything
1405
01:19:36,839 --> 01:19:39,039
in the world to help
somebody, you know.
1406
01:19:41,077 --> 01:19:44,211
No. You know you're not
supposed to ask me that,
1407
01:19:44,213 --> 01:19:45,613
because I really don't know
1408
01:19:45,615 --> 01:19:47,314
how to answer that
and be nice. I really don't.
1409
01:19:47,316 --> 01:19:49,750
Of course, you know, you hate
somebody who killed your father,
1410
01:19:49,752 --> 01:19:51,318
you know.
1411
01:19:52,921 --> 01:19:56,257
They say that people
don't live long in prison.
1412
01:19:56,259 --> 01:19:59,226
We've gotten letters
when she was
1413
01:19:59,228 --> 01:20:01,095
coming up for the...
her parole.
1414
01:20:01,097 --> 01:20:03,664
And, uh, all we can do
is just hope
1415
01:20:03,666 --> 01:20:06,000
that they keep denying it
and keep her in jail
1416
01:20:06,002 --> 01:20:07,568
until she does pass away.
1417
01:20:09,838 --> 01:20:11,438
I think if she would get out,
1418
01:20:11,440 --> 01:20:13,174
she would definitely come
looking for me.
1419
01:20:14,242 --> 01:20:16,043
If she would ever get out,
1420
01:20:16,045 --> 01:20:18,312
I'm going in hiding
underground really far.
1421
01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:20,281
Changing my name, everything.
1422
01:20:20,283 --> 01:20:22,349
I'm just gonna be
a completely different person.
1423
01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:26,921
Uh-huh. I'm not joking.
1424
01:20:26,923 --> 01:20:28,389
I think if she got out
1425
01:20:28,391 --> 01:20:30,457
that she would get revenge
somehow.
1426
01:20:38,267 --> 01:20:40,167
After Connie's convicted,
1427
01:20:40,169 --> 01:20:42,870
we turned our focus
to Marshall Moore.
1428
01:20:42,872 --> 01:20:44,972
We got another trial date.
1429
01:20:44,974 --> 01:20:47,641
And then we start
being delayed and delayed,
1430
01:20:48,910 --> 01:20:51,946
because he's being treated
for cancer.
1431
01:20:51,948 --> 01:20:54,081
This goes on
for a year and a half.
1432
01:20:57,152 --> 01:21:01,755
And Marshall goes back
into hospital and, you know,
1433
01:21:01,757 --> 01:21:04,458
his physical condition
goes downhill
1434
01:21:04,460 --> 01:21:08,462
and he passed away
before we get to trial.
1435
01:21:13,335 --> 01:21:16,170
Ultimately,
he never stood trial,
1436
01:21:18,006 --> 01:21:21,542
but everyone knew what he did.
1437
01:21:26,648 --> 01:21:28,349
After Marshall's death,
I was contacted
1438
01:21:28,351 --> 01:21:32,353
by a nurse that was treating
Marshall during his,
1439
01:21:32,355 --> 01:21:34,221
uh, stay in the hospital.
1440
01:21:34,223 --> 01:21:36,156
She told me some things.
1441
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:43,130
He asked her, he said,
"You're not scared of me?"
1442
01:21:43,132 --> 01:21:44,932
And she said,
"Why would I be, Mr. Moore?"
1443
01:21:44,934 --> 01:21:47,034
He said, "Well,
they call me the boogieman."
1444
01:21:47,036 --> 01:21:49,670
And she said,
"Why is that?" He said,
1445
01:21:49,672 --> 01:21:51,338
"Because I killed
my first wife."
1446
01:22:00,649 --> 01:22:04,051
You know, here he was
even in his dying day,
1447
01:22:04,053 --> 01:22:08,122
um, he pretty much believes
he got away with it and,
1448
01:22:08,124 --> 01:22:10,658
you know,
to a certain extent, he did.
1449
01:22:15,630 --> 01:22:17,331
He knew he's gonna be convicted
1450
01:22:17,333 --> 01:22:19,233
and I think
1451
01:22:19,235 --> 01:22:23,270
he put it off
as long as he could.
1452
01:22:23,272 --> 01:22:27,308
But, you know, in my mind,
1453
01:22:27,310 --> 01:22:30,144
he had to stand
to higher judgment.
1454
01:22:31,313 --> 01:22:34,248
When he passed,
I said, "Well, okay.
1455
01:22:34,250 --> 01:22:36,183
No, we didn't take you to court
1456
01:22:36,185 --> 01:22:39,153
and you didn't get
to be found guilty
1457
01:22:39,155 --> 01:22:41,355
in the court
of law with your peers,"
1458
01:22:41,357 --> 01:22:43,357
but he can't...
he can't dodge God.
1459
01:22:52,267 --> 01:22:57,004
I'll tell you this.
Clay Bryant, he was, um...
1460
01:22:58,974 --> 01:23:00,574
He's my hero.
1461
01:23:02,844 --> 01:23:04,979
He wasn't afraid
to rattle a tree.
1462
01:23:04,981 --> 01:23:07,081
You know, he's kind of
like an old bulldog.
1463
01:23:07,083 --> 01:23:10,184
When he gets his teeth on you,
you're got.
1464
01:23:10,186 --> 01:23:13,120
It's simple as that.
You were got.
1465
01:23:13,122 --> 01:23:18,359
Uh, I don't want him
on my bad side. Uh-uh.
1466
01:23:18,361 --> 01:23:20,260
I'm perfectly happy
1467
01:23:20,262 --> 01:23:24,832
with me and him
being close friends.
1468
01:23:24,834 --> 01:23:28,936
I'm glad
that he gave me some peace.
1469
01:23:34,876 --> 01:23:36,677
I know my mama's at peace.
1470
01:23:40,415 --> 01:23:43,017
It can't get no better.
1471
01:23:43,019 --> 01:23:45,252
And I don't know
how I'd ever thank him.
1472
01:23:49,758 --> 01:23:51,658
My dad, he said,
you know,
1473
01:23:51,660 --> 01:23:54,461
the greatest satisfaction
that you can get in life
1474
01:23:54,463 --> 01:23:58,132
is when you help someone
who couldn't help themselves.
1475
01:24:00,235 --> 01:24:02,136
Knowing his feelings about it
1476
01:24:02,138 --> 01:24:06,840
and what all transpired
back in the day,
1477
01:24:06,842 --> 01:24:09,076
it was just a...
1478
01:24:09,078 --> 01:24:13,180
an absolute blessing to me
1479
01:24:13,182 --> 01:24:16,250
to be able to go
and fix something
1480
01:24:16,252 --> 01:24:19,386
that my daddy always felt
like was left wrong.
1481
01:24:21,990 --> 01:24:25,392
And I hope the things
that he instilled in me,
1482
01:24:28,830 --> 01:24:31,665
well, I know that they led
to some things
1483
01:24:31,667 --> 01:24:35,836
that brought justice
to some folks
1484
01:24:35,838 --> 01:24:37,571
that wouldn't have gotten it.
1485
01:24:38,940 --> 01:24:41,575
And I thank him for it.
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