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I was patrolling this County when I got a call it was March 5th 1993 when Alabama state trooper John Clark
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received a call from dispatch saying that a car had gone off this very Road and hit a fence and as my headlights
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take in the curve I see it looks like a young boy with a backpack that young boy
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was a 12 year old named Rick Ennis who admitted that he had been driving the car and let Clark search his backpack
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[Music] the first thing I pull out is a kitchen knife about that long there's some 12
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gauge and some 22 caliber loose ammunition the bottom of the bag he's sitting back there in that seat behind
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you and I said where are your parents he looks right back at me and he says I killed them both I killed them both I
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killed them both no tears no emotion nothing Clark then radioed for police to get over to ennis's home at ennis's
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house police found a horrifying crime scene on the floor of a bedroom there were two dead bodies
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Rick's mother Dolly flowers was shot in the face and then beaten to death with a
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baseball bat Rick's stepfather Eddie Joe flowers had been shot in the face with a
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shotgun investigators believe Rick had lived with their bodies for two days he was 12 years old
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and had murdered two people brutally murdered them at the time Ennis told investigators he killed his parents
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because he was angry that they planned to move but in a recent interview with Peter Van Sant
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Ennis said it was an excuse he latched on to he said he snapped because his mother had been abusing him 48 Hours
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could find no evidence to corroborate Rick's abuse allegation Anna spent nine years in a juvenile detention center and
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was released after he turned 21. several years after his release and this became
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the prime suspect in a different murder investigation the day that Lori disappeared June 10 2006 was anyone with
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Laurie that day Rick was at her house when Lori slosinski went missing Lori's best friend Lindsey Braun wasn't
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surprised that Rick Ennis was at her home because they often spent time together no one seemed to know about
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Rick's past Lori got to know Rick when she was still a student I didn't know much about him at all except he was her
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friend just before Christmas in 2005 Laurie asked her mother Arlene if Rick could join them
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she asked me she said mom he has no family can I invite him she kind of you know felt bad that he was going to spend
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Christmas alone he was friendly um it's very polite a few days after Lori went missing her
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car suddenly exploded into a fireball on a desolate cul-de-sac feelings were just
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unbelievable of fear and knowing something really bad has happened who would set her car on fire
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exactly and why now investigators started digging deeper into Rick Ennis did you have any sense as to why Rick
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Ennis didn't have a family no I had no idea why at all eventually you learned I did
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it's beyond shocking [Music]