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[Music] personally I could sort of relate to Kathy Blair and just thinking about what
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that would be like as a woman to be home alone that is the Boogeyman story for every woman right
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awful an intruder is in your house yeah someone is stabbing you [Music] what's happening my mom is dead
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BR my mom this is a case that sticks with you throughout your life my name is Derek
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Israel I was working in the homicide unit when this case uh occurred uh my name is Carrie scandin
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and I was the lead investigator on the Kathy Blair [Music] murder Kathy was a larger than life
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she's my big sister I have always thought everything Kathy did was amazing how would you describe her from a
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students's perspective she was so kind um just believed in me wholeheartedly it still makes no
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sense who kills a choir director who does that a monster uh I get notified that there's
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been another murderer the victims are an elderly couple they were the best parents you could ever
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wantong they were just sweet people like anybody's grandmother and grandfather right from the get-go it started
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sounding really familiar it's so violent and it's eerily similar to Kathy Blair's and when we saw the connection
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we just continue to work the investigations together you know Carrie and I both kind
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of came to the conclusion that there was a serial killer working here in Austin I was uh out testing a thermal
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scope I needed to get some video of some deer Rob Leaf has this thermal imaging scope it's been night vision rifle scope
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so I saw the car pull up and park I zoomed in with the scope and by the time I had zoomed in someone had gotten out
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walked over the sidewalk that is just unbelievable CH the last thing they were expecting was
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high resolution thermal video this video showed the murderer walking towards Kathy but's house the actual killer the
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actual killer [Music] [Music] these days in Texas it seems like all roads lead to
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Austin the Sleek skyline of the Lone Star Capital glittering a Boom Town that welcomes
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newcomers chasing dreams it's a city charged with life an unlikely place to find tragedy as dark
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as the death of a dreamer like Kathy Blair she loved life you loved being around her what were the things that
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were important to her she had I think a sense of justice right and wrong Kiren mat is Kathy's younger sister um she was
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bossy and even as kids in California it was clear Kathy had a passion she was always singing she had a god-given
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talent which was her voice it was music that led Kathy to Austin Kathy went to UT Austin to get
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her master's degree in vocal performance she loved Austin but love didn't always
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work out for Kathy she divorced twice still her affair with Austin held firm and by 2013 Kathy was renting a
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house on a quiet street here on tamarak trail it was home she loved the people here she loved the
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vibe in a city known around the world for music Kathy Blair fit right in she had Melody and rhythm in her soul but
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you wouldn't find her singing the blues here on Austin's famed Sixth Street instead she chose a more spiritual stage
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for her talents Christian Coral Society was a positive social setting the kids were kind to
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each other Barbara Sally's daughter was one of hundreds of students touched by Cathy's Talent as a choir director and
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teacher I think she lived breathe ate slept music Barbara along with Kathy student Kristen deg Groot met with us to
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share their memories of Kathy she was so kind um just believed in me wholeheartedly which uh was something I
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really needed and for Kristen Kathy was a role model she and I were the same music needed to be in our lives or we
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would die she was their teacher and their Mentor one of her friends called it the Cathy Nation the Cathy Nation the
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Cathy Nation it was December 6th 2014 Kathy's son Joe was staying with her while waiting for his assignment
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from the Navy after a night out he came home to tamarak Trail what he found was shattering and echoed across that Cathy
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Nation think my mom is dead there's a lot of blood broke in and killed my mom Joe what's your mom's name her name is
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Cathy [Music] Blair this case was clearly different really right from the right from the get- go starting with
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the location oh this is a nice neighborhood this is a place where people I think feel safe a l up until
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this case which would frighten and chill Austin and shock veteran detectives scandin and Israel one of the first
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things I thought of I'm like why this house why this house there's nothing that uh makes this house stand out from
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all the other ones this is the living room right here then in Kathy Blair's bedroom there's a
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full-size jewelry case right here large drawers all the drawers have been pulled
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out and they're stacked up so it's like someone dumped them out and then put them in a pile right here someone who
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had time to do that correct a jewel thief who had time because Kathy Blair was already
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dead this martyr started right here on the bed 53-year-old Kathy Blair lay alone
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asleep in her own bed she awoke to the Ultimate Nightmare yeah Kathy Blair fought like
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hell choked stabbed and finally slashed across the neck the wound is a fatal wound but she still has time you know to
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put up that fight she she fought for her life Kathy's here and there's blood all
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around her so much blood that it formed the timeline of a Murder there's a light switch and on that light
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switch we saw blood like a a blood swipe that told us that the perpetrator had come in here after the murder and and
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switch that light on there are more blood swipes on these drawers that tells me the murder of Kathy Blair occurs
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before these drawers were removed words soon spread across Austin and across Kathy Nation I just said no that's not
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what happened that cannot possibly be what happened was Kathy the kind of woman who might have an enemy who would
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do that no she didn't have a malicious bone in her body why does someone come in here and
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and murder someone in order to steal a little bit of jewelry you know it doesn't make
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sense it would be the first in a hideous series of Senseless events it's just one
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of those moments where you're in disbelief you think you're living in a dream this does not
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happen but it did happen and the killer left almost no evidence no DNA no fingerprints no fingerprint and no blood
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from the killer no Israel and scandin would need all their street smarts and then some because just nine days later I
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get notified that there's been another murderer for Austin detectives Israel and
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scanland images of Kathy Blair's death were harrowing attacked in the middle of the night and it was a really horrific
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scene but there was no physical evidence from a a killer who made virtually no mistakes and that meant there was no
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clear suspect then suddenly the search for a suspect changed in a way no one could
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imagine it was around 1:30 a.m. on the night that Kathy Blair died and one of her neighbors was out for a late night
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walk what he saw and what he did would give the detectives their first big break in the case
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I was out testing a thermoscope I needed to get some video of some deer and we've
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got some deer up and down the street Rob Leaf lived a few short blocks from Kathy
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Blair so this a thermal scope so it picks up a heat signature wow it's like daytime except it was the dead of night
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and Rob was only looking for deer I saw the headlights of a car coming up I saw the car pull up and park and on this
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street on this street Rob kept recording this is video he recorded that night with a scope like this one I
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zoomed in with the scope and by the time I had zoomed in someone had gotten out and walked over to the sidewalk you can
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flip the setting to Red to see the image more clearly did you focus in on the card I first focused in on the person
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and turns left on tamok Kathy Blair Street the next day Rob flew to Las Vegas on a planned trip with old friends
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reading the news on my phone and saw a murder story I clicked on it I saw the address Rob raced back to Austin he
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checked the video of that stranger on his street and I called Austin Police how important does the video end up
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being in Kathy Blair's case very very important the video was tantalizing but blank on images that did
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not give off heat so you couldn't actually identify the man a license plate number or even if there was anyone
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else inside the vehicle still there was one important clue it gave us an idea of
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what kind of vehicle our murder suspect arrived at the crime scene with and it was a sedan of some
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sort these cops needed much more evidence then nine days after Cathy Blair's murder in another peaceful
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Austin neighborhood just 15 minutes from Cathy's home they would get it the victims are an elderly couple
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murdered overnight viciously viciously Sydney Jr Johnny and Brenda want their parents to be remembered as the
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outstanding people they were not the Grim headlines they became Billy and Sydney Shelton were hardworking and
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happily married for 64 years we were never rich but not once did daddy ever complain about it not once did Mama ever
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complain about it a life well- lived and peacefully slowing down Billy was 83 her husband
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Sydney 85 these are sweet people that'll you know send you on the road with some
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cookies home nurse Dao catola was making her scheduled visit on December 15th 2014 I knocked nobody answered front
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door was splintered it was clearly had been busted open down nerous ly headed to the Shelton's modest bedroom and
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their room had been ransacked and then to the left I saw him on the bed and I I ran I just turned around and I ran
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Sydney and Billy Shelton had been beaten and stabbed the knife is still present yes in one of the victims that's correct
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is it clear that it's also a burglary yeah I was seeing some of the same things the same things found it Kathy
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Blair's murder scene starting with an empty jewelry box and again the drawers were pulled out they had been emptied
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and stacked three people had been slaughtered in their own beds the crime scenes were eerily similar and
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investigators were privately wondering was there a serial killer loose on the streets of
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Austin if word gives out that there's a serial killer it kicks it to an entirely
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different level so investigators kept their worst fear to themselves but why would any killer Target Kathy or Billy
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and Sydney who cops determined didn't even know each other none of these people had any enemies that we could
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figure out what is it that connects these people together besides the killer every lead was chased down then almost 3
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weeks after Kathy was killed the name of a stranger surfest Tim Parlin he done yard work at Cathy's house and a friend
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reported Parlin was weird and rude I go to our computer system it was a simple and easy search Tim Parlin had spent
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decades in prison and he sto jewelry and he stole jewelry specifically jewelry at
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night are you hopeful at this point yeah I [Music] am so this is the in town suits Tim
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Parlin where here is living at the time the murders happened Israel and scandin went to look
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up the lifelong convict the detectives snapped these photos of Tim Parlin told him we're
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homicide detectives so he asked us a few questions as well about the murder well
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yeah like so how'd she die wow you know stuff like that he's susing it out to see what we know cat Mouse it is parand
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spoke to the cops in the hotel's parking lot but when they asked to see his room
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he refused claiming his his wife was inside and asleep and you drive away and what's the conversation I said this is
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our guy you did yeah and Dereck says I don't know yet a return trip to the in town suits
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just a few days later pays off Parlin wasn't home but his wife was explain what we were investigating and she knew
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the Shelton his wife knew the Shelton Tim parlan's wife knew the Shelton from church and Tim Parlin had worked in
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Kathy Blair's yard it was tenuous but it was a connection she gave us permission
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to search the apartment did you find anything we did a pawn receipt this is that pawn receipt for a piece of jewelry
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a nugget pendant and it turns out that pendant belonged to Kathy Blair it was pawned on the same night that Kathy
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Blair was murdered we found out that his sister had a green Toyota harl had been using his sister's
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car a green Toyota its outline appeared similar to the car in Rob Leaf's video and one caught on security footage
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approaching that Austin pawn shop less than 24 hours after Kathy was murdered we took it we had it towed towed and
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tested on the passenger seat traces of dried blood blood belonged to Kathy Blair that
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was in that car a Austin was on edge Kathy Blair was found dead inside her home hoping for an
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arrest the wait for justice has been troubling for her students family and friends my name is ha Muller and I'm an
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anchor at CBS Austin news it was very very shocking in the community and it was really unsettling but now Justice
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was closing in on one man Tim Parlin but you're thinking one guy still oh yeah do you believe Rob Leaf's video can
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help ID Kathy Blair's killer see more of what Leaf captured that night on Facebook at 48
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Hours when Kathy Blair's blood was found in Tim parlan's car detectives Israel and scanland were convinced that he had
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killed her at that point we're all jubilant we're super excited we got our gu Parlin fit the bill perfectly he had
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done yard work for Kathy Blair and was a career criminal with a long rap sheet of
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burglaries now I just need to question him confront him hopefully he'll confess but if he doesn't we have hard physical
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evidence to tie this guy to the murder Israel had Parlin arrested for an unrelated parole violation and brought
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in for questioning seemed like a pretty short and straight road to charging parl
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with murder it turned out it wasn't a short road and it certainly wasn't a straight
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road the first step was to get Parlin to corroborate some of the details of Cathy's murder I just straight up told
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him that you know we knew that he had killed uh Kathy Blair what's his response I didn't do it and this was the
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thing he really liked to say these hands didn't kill anyone so the detectives asked him who
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did but Parlin wasn't giving up that information so easily so after hours of this conversation he finally says okay
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I'll tell you who it was and that's when he said Sean Gant Ben alkazar who is that that's what I said who is that did
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you think he was stalling oh yeah yeah yeah this sounded completely made up and I knew as soon as he said it that he had
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screwed us cuz now he had to now we got to go hunt some mystery guy down and prove that he didn't commit a murder
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their lead suspect behind bars for now the detectives reluctantly contacted parlan's mystery man sha Gant benel
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Kazar had never been in trouble with the law he had a degree in microbiology was
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once a high school science teacher and seemed an unlikely acquaintance of a serial jewel thief this guy lived in
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galvaston he didn't cause any trouble gamp and elgazar readily agreed to meet with them that night at the galvaston
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police department all right we're investigating a murder in Austin and in particular we're
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looking at Tim Parlin as the person that we we believe committed the murder I'm completely in the dark on this um who
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was murdered he tells the detectives he barely knows Parlin that he just met him
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a few months earlier when his sister began dating parlan's nephew so we started talking okay when was the last
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time you're in Austin well I've been in Austin a few times the last month he was
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in town during the the weekends of both of those murders and on top of it he was staying
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with Tim Parlin the thing is honestly I want to help you guys out because this guy wolf and chep's clothing basically
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didn't tell me anything about his his past and I'm starting to feel like he set me up like a py or something the
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detectives knew from parlan's criminal record that he did have a history of being a master manipulator did Tim ever
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approach you about doing burglaries and before long the mystery man who initially said he knew nothing slowly
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started to crack Gant velkazar now says he was sitting in the car when Parlin went into Kathy Blair's house so where
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are you sitting in the car passenger seat Well if he's sitting in the passenger seat then why is there blood
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in the passenger seat but gel Kazar had an explanation he says Parlin came back to the car clutching a bloody pillowcase
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came back with the sack had blood on it threw it in the passenger floorboard and I took a peek at it had
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jewelry in it and I didn't want anything to do with it when did you figure out that it had something to do with the
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murder the fact that it had blood on it was not a good sign then about 4 hours into the
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interview no I'm just one rest as he walked down a hallway and he was walking in front of me I looked up and it just I
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mean I got to chill because I was like that's the same walk as the guy in the video remember that spooky thermal video
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that the cops think accidentally caught Kathy Blair's killer ambling down the sidewalk you know it's just the
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broadness the deliberate steps I thought it was him I definitely believed it could be him was it actually
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gamp benel Kazar and not Parlin who had gone into Cathy's house we started pursuing you know the line of
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questioning along the lines of maybe he was in the house he bully you into going into the
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house or I was scared and you know he he was taking a threatening tone he told me
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to go in the house and get the stuff and finally he admitted I did go into the house and I did steal the jewelry came
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in through where the back door you said yeah it was open okay open unlocked unlocked yeah I looked around and kind
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of prowled and snuck through quietly and I turned on a couple lights um in rooms
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where I didn't see her and I found the room where she was and she was fast asleep that was the room where jewelry
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box was in okay and so I I opened the jewelry box took the stuff out put it in the the thing maybe he went back I don't
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know but I didn't kill her I told him that's that's impossible everything you said is true except that
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it's not possible she was still alive when you left and I explained that the person who turned on those light
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switches you talked about turning on the person who removed that pillowcase you talked about removing the person who
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removed those drawers you talked about removing that person had Kathy Blair's blood on his
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hands so the person who did all that killed Kathy Blair I kept pushing him for the reason something happened in
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that room when you were there what happened and that's when he said I was standing there I was looking at
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her with no room left to lie he breaks down she woke up she lunged at me grabbed the knife started trying to
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wrestle it out of my hand and then it was a struggle and I stabbed her in the neck
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the confession came unexpectedly the witness was now the prime suspect we had gone to clear the
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guy and instead he confessed to capital murder gamp and El Kazar kept talking and claimed that after murdering Kathy
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Blair he handed off her jewelry to Parlin you get to keep any of it no he didn't give me anything I got nothing
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you're going to have to ask him where he fenced it sha gan elazar appears to have gained
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absolutely nothing from this senseless murder I've never met anyone who would go into someone's house and sneak in a
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night and and murder them in their bed for what reason none for their own gratification that's it we're going to
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place you under arrest for capital murder detectives immediately read Gant benel Kazar his rights but they still
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wanted to learn what he knew about the murder of the Shelton we started talking again asking about the Shelton
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try as they might gamp benel gazar wasn't talking anymore well I wasn't there for that one
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I don't know anything about that one by this point everyone is exhausted So eventually he just he terminated the
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interview he said I'm done done wish this all had never happened after the arrest detective scandin made
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this video of Gant benel Kazar on his cell phone his hunch seemed right that's the
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moment that you think that's when I thought it was him two men are in jail in connection with the
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murder of a beloved choir teacher 4 days later Austin Police announced that they
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had made two arrests 30-year-old sha Gan Ben Al Kazar of Galveston is charged with capital murder 49-year-old Timothy
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Parlin is also expected to face charges related to Blair's murder Sean Gant Ben alkazar he was a UT graduate he had no
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criminal record of any kind how did he get involved with a crime like this Tim parland had an answer later
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while in custody parlan admitted to the cops that he had driven gampa alkazar to
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Kathy Blair's house and to the Shelton residents on the nights they were murdered and parlan says he knew all
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along that gamp and alkazar had killed all three of them investigators now thought they understood what had
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happened Shawn murdered the Shelton Tim parand was a party to that murder and he
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planned it he facilitated it he profited from it he assisted in it but you are 100% convinced that it was Shawn who
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murdered that couple yes will he ever be brought to trial for it it seems unlikely unlikely because there was no
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direct evidence linking gamp and alkazar to the Shelton murders and he would always deny he had killed them
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prosecutors would focus instead on building their strongest case using gampa alcazar's confession to convict
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him of killing Kathy Blair but when Sean gamp benel Kazar finally gets his day in court no one
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could have anticipated what would happen next makes you worry because this guy cannot be out on the streets
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[Music] okay good morning ladies and gentlemen we're here to start the trial in state
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of Texas versus Sean Gant benar three years after sha Gant benel Kazar confessed to the murder of Kathy Blair
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his trial begins did then and there intentionally commit murder By causing the death you never know what a jury's
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going to do but it was a very very strong case you're all here today assistant DA's Andrea Austin and David
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Livingston present the state's case the man who sits Among Us in this courtroom the defendant Shan Gant P
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Alazar is Kathy Blair's killer how hard was it to be there during that trial it was really
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hard there were some pictures throughout that that I saw that I can't unsee there was a car that parked while
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I was out of my walk Kathy's neighbor Rob Leaf testifies about the video he recorded on the night she was murdered
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by the time I zoomed and zoomed back in someone was already out of the car and was crossing onto the sidewalk that
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someone the prosecutor tells the jury was Shan Gan elazer on his way to murder Kathy Blair I just kind of looked
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through the rooms you know and I I turned on a couple lights um in rooms where I didn't see her the prosecution's
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case hinges on Gant benel czar's rambling five-hour confession where he describes breaking into Cathy's
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house she woke up she lunged at me he had a knife out they fought over the knife and I stabbed her in the
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neck he didn't just kind of confess he straight up confessed to all the details of of killing Kathy Blair sign right
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here that confession was vital to the prosecution's case he gave enough details in this confession that were
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kept out of the media so we could show the confession was from the actual killer and that he knew enough about
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this crime to have either been there or done it himself there is no question that this is a horrible horrible crime
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but gampa alcazar's defense lawyer Ariel Pion makes a bold accusation right off the top that damning video she just was
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trying to fight the knife away from me and I was it was all a lie a false confession coerced by detectives Israel
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and scanland no I'm just wondering AR the defense tells the jury that during that
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5-minute bathroom break in the hallway when Gant benel Kazar was not being recorded detectives threatened him law
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enforcement went down there we believe the evidence will show with the express idea plan purpose and
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intent to try to get him to confess to something he didn't do they have to come up with something they have to argue
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that it's a involuntary statement but we obviously knew that wasn't true the exact words were this is important and
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we're not you're not going anywhere until we finish gamp benel gazar takes the stand to blame the cops for his
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confession that if I I didn't explain a reason for having done it even though I Didn't Do It um would get the death
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penalty and he maintains that it was actually Tim parland who killed Kathy Blair on that chilly December evening
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back in 2014 were you worried the jury might you always have to worry with juries you don't get blood on your hands
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and put it on a jewelry chest at closing arguments prosecutors insist Gat benel cazar voluntarily confessed and offered
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details about the crime only the killer could have known I think it comes down to credibility mhm and hopefully are
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sitting there thinking this guy confess why are we here the case goes to the jury when the hours started ticking away
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2 3 5 6 7 8 nine you feel you feel awful were you worried yes the idea that he would get out it was just Unthinkable I
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mean Sean is going to kill somebody else if he got out after 19 hours of jury deliberations this time I'll declare a
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mistrial a mistrial the jury cannot reach a verdict if one person held out she didn't want to consider the
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confession I mean look that's what the system is about we we're required to get a unanimous verdict we didn't get a
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unanimous verdict how hard was it to hear that there was a mistrial and you would have to go through it all over
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again really hard yeah that was that was tough with a retrial in the works and Tim parlan's trial less than a month
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away prosecutors were worried could they get any jury to convict either of these
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men good morning this man Timothy parlon knew that sea Gant would go in and murder
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Captain Blair with sha Gant benel cassar's mistrial still fresh in her mind prosecutor Andrea Austin is
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determined to put Tim parland away for life he stands trial for both the murders of Kathy Blair and the
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Shelton in Texas if you were part of the crime then you were also guil of that crime you can convict him even if you
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don't believe he stepped foot inside that house because he was there and he participated correct I'm going to ask
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you to find him guilty of capital murder detectives were convinced gamp benel Kazar had killed the Shelton but
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had no evidence to charge him with their murders so Tim Parlin would prove to be
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an easier Target for prosecutors parlan admitted he drove Gan alkazar to both murder scenes
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and the car Parlin was driving had Kathy Blair's blood in it oh he did much more than sit in the
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car he's the one who targeted Kathy he's the one for whatever reason said hey you know what this would be a
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good person for you to murder morning ladies and gentlemen parlan's lawyer Keith Lowman argues that
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despite his client having confessed to driving gamp benel Kazar to both murders there is no evidence placing Parlin
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inside the two houses he never set foot in either one of these hes and at the very end you're going to realize that
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this man in those hands never participated in any murders after a 9-day trial the jury
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doesn't take long to reach a verdict we the jury find the defendant Timothy Pary
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guilty of the defense of capital murder guilty Parlin is sent to mandatory life in prison without the possibility of
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parole for his role in the murders of Kathy Blair and Sydney and Billy Shelton five months later gamp and
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elazar went to trial a second time for the murder of Kathy Blair the nerves were much higher the second round well
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there's a lot at stake there's a lot at stake the vehicle parked on the side of the street that it wasn't in front of a
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house again Rob Leaf's testimony is critical for the prosecution and uh did at some point did
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you see an individual get out of that car yes sir I did want you to watch this it was a
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struggle and I stabbed her in the neck I I didn't look what he does with his hands he's retrieving a memory right
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involuntarily he's doing this he remembers doing because he's the one who murdered her the police wouldn't let me
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go is my once more gampa elazar swears the cops coerced his confession and I come out of the bathroom they keep
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saying oh we we know you did it there's no doubt you did it and they keep saying
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it keep saying it and I just got worn down this time out the jury deliberates less than three
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hours we the jury find the defendant Sean Gant Ben Alazar guilty of the offensive capital
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murder we poured our emotions out into this case it was Justice delayed [Music] and yeah but delivered but
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delivered like Tim Parlin before him Shan gamp Ben elazar was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
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of parole we're pleased um we miss Kathy this isn't going to bring her back our hearts are never going to completely
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heal a few months after the verdict I spoke with gamp benel Kazar via a prison video phone I wanted to ask why why
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would a guy who'd never been in trouble with the law suddenly turned into a vicious killer instead with no evidence
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of any remorse he repeated what he told the jury that he was innocent the cops had forced him to confess and that Tim
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Parlin was the one who had killed Kathy Blair when I went to go see him at 4 4:00 a.m. um
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he said well we're going to go get breakfast and uh drove me out to the place and then said that he had killed
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her and told me about it Tim Parlin confessed to you that he killed Kathy Blair yeah that's right how could you
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have known the movements of the killer anything that um I said was something that either uh you know Tim told me or I
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just made up and and not surprisingly when I visited Parlin at a prison in Northeast
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Texas hello hello how you doing he pointed the finger at gamp in elazar and claimed he knew absolutely nothing about
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the murder of Kathy Blair after sha viciously kills Kathy Blair gets back in your car and drives away and he goes
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back to gal he never said a thing never said a thing he never said Stone Cold individual actually right you've been
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described as the master manipulator that you talked him into doing it my IQ is very low and I have a big heart I
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believe that it is it's very low actually and I have a big heart so I'm Not The Mastermind behind anything
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you're just a big teddy Bearer Behind Bars yeah pretty much were Rob Leaf is The Accidental Hero of
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this story someone who never knew he'd be called upon to help solve a murder and you ended up leaving the
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neighborhood I did needed a change I did absolutely I would not be where I am as
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a a professional actor and musician without her influence Kathy Blair's student Christen deut is moving to New
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York to pursue her dream of a career in music one of my greatest regrets is that
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I never was able to tell her that she did this for me how proud do you think she would be of
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you I I hope she'd be really proud of me they're just evil people in the end there's just
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two this broken human beings who you know basically put a path of Destruction through you know two
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[Music] families two families who will forever share the same tragedy they were the
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best parents you could ever want I just miss her and at the end of the day she's gone
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and I can't call her [Music] tonight what do you think really happened watch more of marinees
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interviews with the two convicts at 48 hours.com this is terrifying this is a senseless murder this is not a minor
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point this is really a who done it this is a heavy gun this is hate this is real this is crazy this is the Moment of
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Truth this is terrifying this is exactly what I tried to stop CBS News original reporting
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