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The day after the accident,
there was an autopsy done.
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The expectation was that the
crash was the cause of her death.
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That wasn't just
a traditional car crash.
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She didn't deserve that.
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18 year old Bianca Roberson
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is celebrating her
high school graduation.
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Bianca was a social butterfly,
she loved to socialize.
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If you were her friend...
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you were a friend for life.
She was just so caring.
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I can't believe we're all gonna be in
different states! I'm gonna miss y'all so much.
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We had a nice graduation
party for her and all her friends
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and family showed up for her
and you know, she got a lot of gifts.
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Bianca was accepted to
Jacksonville University in Florida.
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She was going for criminal
justice and psychology.
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She wanted to be an FBI agent.
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She wanted to go out here and try
to save the world from bad people.
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She was extremely excited,
she couldn't wait, I mean
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this girl was walking on air.
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Watch out Florida, here I come!
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I think at the graduation
party I could just see
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the difference in her,
that she's just growing up now
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she's not
Mommy's little girl any more.
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June 28, 2017, it
was just like any other day.
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We were going to the mall
to get school supplies
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and we ended up in different cars
because I was at work, my mom was at work
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and Bianca went and
got her hair done earlier.
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We got outside and we put
all the bags in Bianca's car.
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I wanted her to go straight
home because I had ordered
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a college dorm box which
I was surprising her with.
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What is it?
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- You have to wait until you get home.
- Okay.
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- Drive safe, sweetheart.
- You too.
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- I love you.
- Love you.
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I told her I loved her.
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And then she got in her car
and she left.
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When an accident
is reported serious...
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officers respond out, lights
and sirens as quickly as they can
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to run to anybody
in the vehicle.
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The car had gone off of the
road lay down in an embankment
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and then up a hill and then struck
a number of trees in that area.
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The responding officers
described a fairly substantial
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amount of blood in the
interior of the vehicle.
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The crash victim appeared
to have a an injury to her head.
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The thought
was that the driv er's head
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either struck the A-frame
of the vehicle
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or as she was traveling through the brush,
a branch or tree came and struck her head.
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It was apparent that the driver
of the vehicle was deceased.
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There were personal belongings in
the vehicle, including her driver's license
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and she was identified
as Bianca Roberson.
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I left the store
and going home...
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they were detouring you off the
road, there was like this major accident
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and I remember saying to myself...
God, I hope that's not Bianca.
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And then when
I get into the driveway...
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there's a cop.
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We don't have cops
in our neighborhood.
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What in the world is going on?
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Can I help you?
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And he says to me...
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"Are you Michelle Roberson?"
I said "No, I'm her mother".
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Then he says "We need
to speak to her".
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- Hello?
- My mom, she was crying.
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And I'm like "What's wrong?"
and she says
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"I don't know, the police are
here and are asking for you".
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And then when
I got to the house...
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The police officer comes to me and he
asks me "Did I own a green Chevy Malibu"?
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And he asked me
who would be driving it.
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I said, "My daughter."
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And he said "Would that be
Bianca Roberson?" and I said yes.
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And he said "I'm sorry
to inform you..."
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I couldn't even let him say
anything else after that.
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The whole thing was like a
haze, like it was somebody else's life.
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I couldn't believe we were
going through this again.
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Just four years earlier,
Michelle lost her eldest son,
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22 year old Michael,
to heart disease.
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How can this be happening again?
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How is my daughter dead?
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And I remember just sitting in
the house just crying, just crying.
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At the crash site,
investigators take witness statements.
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One of the 911 callers saw
Bianca Roberson's
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vehicle traveling South
on the 100 Spur
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and a red pick-up truck
traveling next to her vehicle.
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She believes she saw the red pick-up
truck impact Bianca Roberson's vehicle
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right before the merger caused
Bianca's vehicle to travel
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off the roadway into the brush.
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After she saw Bianca's vehicle
go off the roadway and crash,
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this red pick-up truck just
took off at an accelerated speed.
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It's clear to us that the
reason this vehicle took off
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is because somehow or another
they were involved.
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Detective Torres
arrives on scene.
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When you arrive
at a scene like this...
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tensions are high
and people are distraught.
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We have to conduct
an investigation...
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and sometimes it's difficult.
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PennDOT which is the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation
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has cameras that show roadways throughout
the entire state of Pennsylvania.
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Investigators request footage
from highway surveillance cameras.
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We wanted to look at that
video to determine
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if we can see
Bianca Roberson's vehicle
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and this red pick-up truck
that witnesses were describing
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and what, if anything, that
video would capture
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with regard to their
interactions with each other.
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The day after the crash there was
an autopsy done on Bianca's body.
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Everybody thought
it was a car crash.
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Bianca's car had swerved
off the road and hit a tree
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and the expectation was that
was the cause of her death.
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But during the course of the autopsy...
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There was a bullet found
in Bianca's skull.
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The bullet is from a 40 caliber pistol.
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Wasn't just a car
crash, this is a homicide.
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She was shot?
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We were stunned.
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Somebody in our community shot
a gun, killed another driver on the road.
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We didn't know if that was an individual
who was going to harm other people.
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Thanks for letting me know.
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We have to do
everything we can...
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to find the person who
committed this murder.
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After the autopsy...
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Myself and Detective Ben Martin
went down to Bianca Roberson's home...
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Hi, may we come in?
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It was like, what else could be any
worse than what we're already dealing with?
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You might wanna sit down.
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They told me that
Bianca wasn't in a car accident.
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She had been shot
in the back of the head.
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From being in a car accident
to being murdered...
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In less than a day and a half
was way too much for me.
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I lost it, I just started
screaming.
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After we broke the news...
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it was important to get information from
them to help us with our investigation.
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In many homicides the offender
is known to the victim.
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We need to find out if someone
had something against Bianca.
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Do you know anyone who would
have wanted to hurt her?
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We didn't think Bianca knew
anybody who owned a gun,
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you know and so we never thought
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that it was somebody that
knew us or even knew Bianca.
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So this becomes a
really difficult investigation.
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We have to look
into Bianca's life.
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What she was doing
prior to the incident.
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Can you take us through
Bianca's movements yesterday?
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Once we learned
that Bianca had just
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come from shopping,
we went to the Walmart,
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to look for video
from inside the store.
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We're trying to determine if
this all initiated at the Walmart,
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which was the last
place she was seen alive.
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Queue up the entrance camera
for June 28th, around 4.20 PM.
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Was there somebody
following her? Was there an altercation?
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Had something occurred during
that time that would give us
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insight into why
she was murdered?
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Pause it right there.
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- That's Bianca.
- We're able to identify Bianca by her clothing.
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She was wearing the clothing she
was wearing at the time of her murder.
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And I'm also able to identify
Michelle Roberson
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and Bianca's grandmother
Josie, as I see them on the video.
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Switch the interior camera around
5:20 PM, just before they left the store.
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Whoa, play that again.
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Are they being followed?
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We noticed that as Bianca and
her family were leaving the Walmart
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there was a male with a red shirt
who was walking next to them...
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This is something that
we look at to determine
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if this individual
was somehow involved or
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had an issue with Bianca
and/or her family.
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Let's see where he goes.
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Rewind.
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- False alarm.
- As Bianca and her family were leaving the Walmart
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the man with the red shirt actually
passed them and left ahead of them
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which led us to believe that he was not
involved with what was about to occur.
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Sometimes the most innocent encounters
we tend to put under the microscope.
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Pull up the exterior camera.
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There's no interactions
that are seen on video
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that would lead us to believe that
the shooting had anything to do with
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anything that had occurred
inside of the Walmart.
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This looks like a normal day.
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When we're watching the video...
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it's sad, it's very sad.
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They had no idea that their world was
going to change so drastically as it did.
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Back at the police department,
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ootage from the highway
surveillance cameras is in.
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We start to look at the
Penn DOT live feeds to see if we can
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locate any video with Bianca
Roberson's vehicle.
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What've we got?
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Unfortunately,
the location of the murder,
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that part of the roadway
was not depicted on any video.
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Bring up the video of the camera just
North of the scenes, before the merge.
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So what we then had to do was
look at video from just prior to the scene.
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Wait, pause it there.
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That's the red truck
and the green Chevy.
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We were able to isolate video of the red
pick-up truck and Bianca Roberson's vehicle.
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They were both in their
respective travel lanes,
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but they were both
approaching the merge
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where it turns into one lane
pretty quickly.
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When we see those
vehicles driving side by side,
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we have to wonder is there was some sort of
encounter between the operators of the vehicles.
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We're not able to get anything specific
about the vehicle to make it identifiable.
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Detectives check the next
available camera just after the crash site.
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Rewind.
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Pause it there.
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We were able to isolate
a red pick-up truck
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now traveling Southbound
on 202. The vehicles
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not even traveling
in the lane of travel.
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It's on the shoulder as it's passing
cars in the right lane of travel.
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We believe the vehicle's
fleeing the scene.
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There is no doubt in our minds
that this red pick-up truck
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is being driven by the person
who murdered Bianca Roberson.
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The fact of the matter is, there's
tons of red pick-up trucks in the region.
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So unless we get more clear
video which helps us
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to specifically identify
a particular truck,
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we are looking for
a needle in a haystack.
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We then went to the next camera
which would have been Westchester Pike
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and we started looking
at that surveillance video.
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We were able to determine that the red pick-up
truck never made it to Westchester Pike.
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So it was apparent to us that the driver
of that vehicle got off of Route 202...
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at Paoli Pike.
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We start knocking on every
door to every house
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and business along that exit.
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In the hopes that we could find video that
would be more clear, which would allow us
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to at least get a make or
model if not more information
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relative to the
red pick-up truck.
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We also handed out fliers to
the public about this red truck...
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We were hoping that this
would generate some information from
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people who may know something
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regarding the operator
of this vehicle.
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While officers
canvas for further leads...
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Detective Torres turns
back to the 911 calls.
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One of the witnesses who called
911 said that there was an Aqua vehicle
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between this pick-up truck
and Bianca Roberson's vehicle.
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It's not uncommon that people
who witness crashes just don't stop.
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Aqua's a public utility water
service company in this region.
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So it would have been an employee of the
company who would have witnessed the crash
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so it was important for us to
identify the operator of the vehicle.
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We made phone calls
to the Aqua corporation.
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They've determined what driver was
in the area and I reached out to him.
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He was willing to come in
for a recorded interview.
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We were hoping, best case
scenario, maybe he would
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be able to recall a
registration plate, a tag number.
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We were excited
that we had the possibility
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of getting information that
would help us solve this case.
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Bianca Roberson's vehicle passed
his vehicle on the right hand side
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and then made a lane change
to come back into the left
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He did not realize it was
as serious as it was.
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We were not further along in the
investigation after speaking with him.
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It was very frustrating
because without finding out
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who owned this red pick-up
truck there's no way we were
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gonna be able
to solve this case.
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- Hi.
- Hi detectives, come on in.
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Thank you.
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Myself and Detective Martin
sat down with the Roberson family
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I remember them saying that they
had no license plate, no anything.
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And I just knew that this case
was just gonna be a cold case,
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that they were never
gonna find... the murderer.
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I said, I promise you
I will do everything I can
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to find the person
who did this...
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To Bianca.
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Detectives try to pick
up the red truck on surveillance
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cameras East of Paoli Pike.
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The ultimate goal in trying to get as
much surveillance videos as possible is
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hoping we get lucky. Hope that we
come across a surveillance system
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that is clear enough to where
you're able to get a registration.
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Or you're able to see the
operator of the vehicle.
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We came across a business
called Jersey Mike's
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and when we found that
surveillance video, we were excited.
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We actually see a red pick-up coming down
Paoli Pike towards Westchester borough.
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This red pick-up truck passes Jersey
Mike's about 5:31 PM, which is consistent
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with everything else we know
because the distance between
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the scene of the murder and
Jersey Mike's is not that far.
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So we have what we think
is the suspect's truck
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at the right time heading West. We
feel like we're closing in on something.
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Finding that video was
important because
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that established a direction
of travel for the vehicle.
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We could now start tracking where
the vehicle ultimately ended up.
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Trying to get clear enough
shots to get a tag off of it.
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What's the next business along
this stretch we have surveillance for?
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Uh, Chestnutsquare Apartments.
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There it is.
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In reviewing the video we see
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this red pick-up truck pass
Chestnutsquare Apartments.
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We now know, okay, the red truck is
heading towards Westchester and so it helps
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limit the area that
we have to look into.
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Having narrowed down
the red truck's potential location,
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investigators study it
closely for identifying features.
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Zoom in.
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Was there anything unique
about the trim package,
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the rims, the bumpers, the
windows... anything like that.
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We think we have
an older model, four door,
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or at least extended cab
pick-up truck.
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Potentially a GMC, Chevrolet
type of vehicle.
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But beyond that, we couldn't
come up with anything specific.
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Let's get this video enhanced.
Might be something we're not seeing.
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We believe that if we take our efforts
and focus in the Westchester borough area
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that we may have success
finding the operator of the vehicle.
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On June 30th, two days after
the murder of Bianca Roberson
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- A witness comes forward.
- Thank you for coming in.
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And tells us that she was
traveling South on Route 202
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when this red pick-up truck
passed her on the shoulder
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and got off at Paoli Pike.
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She then told us that the red
pick-up truck went Eastbound.
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Not Westbound.
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Are you sure?
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Detectives have
been following the wrong truck.
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Whenever you're following a lead and it
fizzles out it could be a bit frustrating
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but that's put aside by the
excitement of having
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more accurate, better
information to follow up on.
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- Did you happen to see license tag?
- No, I didn't.
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- I did see the driver.
- You did?
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Can you describe them?
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She described the driver
of the red pick-up truck
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as white male having
blondish, brownish hair,
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some stubble, facial hair
and specifically described
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his eyes as being bugged eyes.
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We asked her if she'd be
willing to do a composite sketch.
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Of course.
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We release the images of the
composite sketch to the media
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in the hopes, that again, we
get someone to come forward
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to say they know who
this person may be.
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We know now that the operator
of the vehicle is a white male.
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We know that Bianca Roberson
is an African-American female.
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It's important for us to do
everything we can to determine
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if whether or not this was a
racially-motivated murder,
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because it then leads you to believe
that this isn't an isolated incident.
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This individual is capable of targeting
any person who may have a minority status
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which makes him even
more dangerous.
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They showed us the sketch and knowing that
it was a white man that killed my daughter...
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The motive I believe was due to
the fact that my daughter was... black.
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It's really painful because
Bianca had no hate in her heart.
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Knowing that he was
still out there...
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it was slowly killing me.
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Detectives now turn
their focus to finding surveillance
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footage East of Paoli Pike.
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We start tasking investigators
with knocking on every single door.
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For every home
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and every business along Paoli
Pike heading in an Eastbound direction.
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Hi there, West Goshen PD.
We're investigating a homicide.
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We found a resident that was several hundred
yards from the exit that had video footage.
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Can you queue it up
to June 28th, around 5:30 PM?
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That was exciting for us because we were
hoping to get better images of this truck...
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and confirm that in fact,
it was traveling Eastbound.
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00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:49,486
There.
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That's our red truck.
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00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:01,131
At 5:31 we see the red truck
passing the residence on Paoli Pike.
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This fit in with the timeline of the
truck traveling from the crime scene.
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00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,474
Pause it there.
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00:30:11,042 --> 00:30:13,310
Can you zoom in on the wheels?
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We were able to determine that the
red pick-up truck had after market rims.
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It was an extended cab.
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00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:30,594
What we are unable to see in
the video is the driver of the vehicle.
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00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,166
We're not able to see
the registration plate.
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So we still need to continue our
search in hopes that each video...
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reveals some additional
information.
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00:30:55,153 --> 00:30:56,713
I think you need to
have a look at this.
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Footage from a
residential security system
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down on Middletown road in Delaware
County that was in high definition.
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00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:20,544
We're excited because the cameras
themselves are closer to the roadway.
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The pick-up truck
that we're looking for
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passes through the video.
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00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:35,492
Zoom in on the window.
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There was a decal on the
window of the rear part
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00:31:42,902 --> 00:31:45,569
of the passenger compartment
on the extended cab.
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00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:50,841
We see damage to the hood,
where the hood
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00:31:50,843 --> 00:31:56,580
is slightly buckled, above
the front right fender...
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00:31:56,582 --> 00:32:02,920
and we see a vertical dent
on the passenger side door.
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00:32:02,922 --> 00:32:08,926
Those characteristics make this a very
specific vehicle that we are looking for.
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00:32:08,928 --> 00:32:12,129
We felt like okay, finally
we are getting a break.
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00:32:12,131 --> 00:32:15,198
Detectives release
the new pictures to the media
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00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,402
with a 5000 dollar reward
for information.
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00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:23,707
We were confident that when
people see these images
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00:32:23,709 --> 00:32:27,144
from this video, someone's
going to know
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00:32:27,146 --> 00:32:29,313
who that particular vehicle
belonged to.
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00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:43,894
The community really rallied
around me and my family.
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00:32:43,896 --> 00:32:50,534
Someone threw a vigil in our backyard
and it was just filled with so many people.
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00:32:53,571 --> 00:32:57,140
Seeing all those
people were like...
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00:32:58,776 --> 00:33:03,947
letting me know how much
people really did love Bianca.
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00:33:03,949 --> 00:33:05,549
How much her friends
really did love her.
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00:33:07,285 --> 00:33:10,087
It showed how important she was.
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00:33:11,189 --> 00:33:14,091
Not only to me but
to the community.
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00:33:17,462 --> 00:33:20,263
I think it touched
so many mothers
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00:33:23,334 --> 00:33:28,505
because Bianca was so young it
could have been anybody's child.
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00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:38,115
On July 1st...
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00:33:38,117 --> 00:33:41,885
around 11 o'clock at night...
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00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:47,657
I ended up leaving work and...
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00:33:47,659 --> 00:33:50,794
I get a phone call
from my lieutenant
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00:33:50,796 --> 00:33:54,197
who says you need
to get back to work.
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00:33:57,335 --> 00:34:03,440
When I arrived at work I was told that
we received a phone call from an attorney
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00:34:05,309 --> 00:34:08,845
who said he had a client...
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00:34:08,847 --> 00:34:11,982
who wanted to turn himself in.
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00:34:18,923 --> 00:34:24,961
There was a sense of relief to a
certain point, and a sense of curiosity.
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00:34:27,832 --> 00:34:31,468
Who is this guy? What caused him
to do this? What is he gonna tell us?
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00:34:31,470 --> 00:34:34,805
What is he gonna be like?
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00:34:34,807 --> 00:34:39,009
There was also a part of me
that's worried... is this going to be
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00:34:39,011 --> 00:34:43,246
somebody who's making
something up or trying to get
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00:34:43,248 --> 00:34:46,383
attention because this was so
talked about in the community.
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00:34:48,553 --> 00:34:51,088
His name was David Desper.
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00:34:54,058 --> 00:34:58,061
His attorney told us that his
client was going to invoke
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00:34:58,063 --> 00:35:00,197
his right and not
provide a statement.
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00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:04,568
But told us that his client
owned a red pick-up truck,
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00:35:04,570 --> 00:35:07,037
told us where
the pick-up truck was
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00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:12,109
and gave us consent to search
David Desper's bedroom.
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00:35:14,545 --> 00:35:16,746
That information's great.
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00:35:16,748 --> 00:35:21,585
But we still have the burden of proving
that David Desper committed this murder.
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00:35:24,822 --> 00:35:28,892
We sent a team of
investigators to where
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00:35:28,894 --> 00:35:32,562
we were told we would find
the red pick-up truck.
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00:35:35,032 --> 00:35:37,767
When we looked
at the red pick-up truck...
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00:35:37,769 --> 00:35:41,004
we could see the stickers
on the windows.
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00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,509
We were able to confirm
the after-market rims.
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00:35:49,780 --> 00:35:52,582
We saw the damage
to the vehicle.
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00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:59,823
There was no doubt that
this was the vehicle
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00:35:59,825 --> 00:36:01,324
we were tracking.
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00:36:04,028 --> 00:36:07,797
When we look at the
registration plate on the vehicle,
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00:36:07,799 --> 00:36:10,700
the vehicle's registered
to David Desper.
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00:36:10,702 --> 00:36:15,438
So there's no doubt the owner of the vehicle
is the person who is turning himself in.
408
00:36:17,742 --> 00:36:20,577
As our investigators searched
David Desper's room...
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00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:28,285
they found a Smith&Wesson
40 caliber pistol.
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00:36:28,287 --> 00:36:33,223
That's important because the bullet
that was recovered during the autopsy
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00:36:33,225 --> 00:36:37,460
was a 40 caliber bullet fired
from a Smith&Wesson handgun.
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00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:45,302
We found him.
We found him.
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00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:48,405
We were gonna
get justice for Bianca.
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00:36:50,641 --> 00:36:53,143
On July 2nd, 2017,
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00:36:53,145 --> 00:36:57,614
David Desper was charged
with first degree murder,
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00:36:57,616 --> 00:37:00,150
third degree murder,
possessing an instrument
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00:37:00,152 --> 00:37:03,453
of crime and reckless
endangerment to another person.
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00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:13,163
We know who the murderer
of Bianca Roberson is, but
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00:37:13,165 --> 00:37:17,934
we still aren't clear about
what his motive was.
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00:37:17,936 --> 00:37:21,738
One thing we had to explore
is that David Desper is a white male
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00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:24,975
and Bianca is an
African-American female
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00:37:24,977 --> 00:37:27,911
and so we had to look into,
is this racially motivated?
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00:37:27,913 --> 00:37:33,049
Can that be a explanation
for why he did this?
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00:37:33,051 --> 00:37:37,887
We left no stone unturned when
it came to talking to people,
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00:37:37,889 --> 00:37:42,792
and digging through
social media platforms...
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00:37:42,794 --> 00:37:46,096
We weren't able to
find any social media activity
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00:37:46,098 --> 00:37:51,534
or individual to testify that
David Desper was a racist.
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00:37:51,536 --> 00:37:55,939
It meant that we were not
allowed to present it in trial.
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00:37:55,941 --> 00:38:01,544
Hi, can we get a
search warrant on Desper's cellphone?
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00:38:01,546 --> 00:38:06,449
One thing we were able to determine in the
analysis of David Desper's phone records
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00:38:06,451 --> 00:38:09,919
was that within minutes
of murdering someone
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00:38:09,921 --> 00:38:12,088
he made a phone call
to his best friend.
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00:38:13,891 --> 00:38:16,159
We asked him if he'd
be willing to talk to us.
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00:38:24,702 --> 00:38:30,440
It was a conversation about
car racing and vehicle parts.
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00:38:45,923 --> 00:38:50,960
David Desper did nothing or said nothing
that would lead his best friend of many years
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00:38:50,962 --> 00:38:53,897
to believe that he just
committed a murder.
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00:38:53,899 --> 00:38:59,102
It was amazing that he was
able to murder someone
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00:38:59,104 --> 00:39:05,742
and show no remorse,
no concern and ultimately
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00:39:05,744 --> 00:39:09,479
didn't surrender himself
until he knew
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00:39:09,481 --> 00:39:13,149
we were about to knock
on his door.
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00:39:13,151 --> 00:39:17,821
With Desper refusing to
offer an explanation why he shot Bianca
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00:39:17,823 --> 00:39:20,223
the prosecution can
only speculate.
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00:39:22,927 --> 00:39:28,498
On June 28th, 2017 David
Desper was driving on Route 100
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00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,033
in his red pick-up truck.
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00:39:32,636 --> 00:39:34,971
Something happened
with Bianca's car.
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00:39:38,542 --> 00:39:43,713
She tried to merge...
and he got angry.
447
00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:46,349
Instead of simply
letting her pass...
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00:39:50,020 --> 00:39:54,557
David Desper decided
to grab his handgun
449
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:59,295
pointed out his passenger window at
Bianca Roberson and pulled the trigger.
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00:40:09,373 --> 00:40:13,009
He was mad about his place
and line in traffic
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00:40:13,011 --> 00:40:18,014
and that's something that
I can't imagine accepting
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00:40:18,016 --> 00:40:21,985
as the explanation for why
your daughter's dead.
453
00:40:23,621 --> 00:40:26,689
David Desper pleads
guilty to third degree murder
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00:40:26,691 --> 00:40:31,027
and is sentenced to a minimum
of 20 years behind bars.
455
00:40:33,164 --> 00:40:39,269
It's a tragedy... and it is one of the saddest
cases I've ever had in my entire career.
456
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,643
I never met Bianca but I got
to know her so well through
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00:40:46,645 --> 00:40:49,546
all the people who cared
about her and loved her.
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00:40:51,549 --> 00:40:56,252
To hold Desper accountable,
it doesn't bring Bianca back.
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00:40:56,254 --> 00:40:58,455
But it feels like it was the
only thing we could do.
460
00:41:03,561 --> 00:41:08,064
This has truly destroyed me.
461
00:41:11,735 --> 00:41:16,406
I was already
grieving the loss of my son...
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00:41:19,076 --> 00:41:22,545
and she was
the last thing that I had...
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00:41:25,549 --> 00:41:27,150
to keep me going.
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00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,556
Michelle started
a foundation in Bianca's name.
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00:41:33,558 --> 00:41:35,758
It's called Merge With Mercy.
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And every year she
gives a scholarship to a child
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that is graduating from their
Boston high school.
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We also help families that have
been impacted by gun violence.
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It was important that
I created this foundation...
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for me to have
a purpose in life and
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a way to keep Bianca alive.
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00:42:07,091 --> 00:42:10,960
Sometimes I feel both her
and Michael's presence with me.
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That's where
my strength comes from.
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I feel like they're my angels...
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that keep saying
"Go Mom, keep going Mom".
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00:42:25,399 --> 00:42:27,399
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