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[Music] Simpsonville is a tit neck Community it's got that small town southern charm this is a place where you bake a
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cake and take it to your neighbor next door it was a great place to be a police officer and murders and serious assaults
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were a few and far [Music] between my name is Patty piver and Katie blel is my daughter
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Katie was 5'1 she was a teeny little thing she was just a free spirit she made friends so easily she
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loved animals that was her biggest thing she loved animals she touched a lot of people's
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lives she did John blav Bel was working over there at the Armed Forces Center he was a recruiter for the
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military he was someone that was respected by the community somebody's in military you can
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rely on them and I think she wanted that somebody's stable and dependable John was a catch for Katie
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she married him was happy wanted to have kids and get their life started they were moving into their new
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house so everything was really cool what did John and Katie seem like as a couple to you at first they were
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really great honestly they had a little honeymoon after they got married and once they got
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back things were no longer as good as they were it seemed like ever since then just
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everything went downhill their marriage had fallen apart Hannah Thompson and John were
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hanging out a lot he started dating Hannah Thompson who I believe was 17 and was Hannah in love with him 100%
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she loved John and she wanted to be with him and Katie was a problem for her and
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if they got Katie out of the way she could have John to herself on October 24th of 2016 Katie Blauvelt went
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missing she disappeared she disappeared off the face of the Earth yes and now nobody can get in touch with
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her her phone's cut off we don't know what's going on shortly after midnight I got a phone
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call from our chief of police at the time and he advised me that they'd found a body at an abandoned
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house very dilapidated house how had she died has she been stabbed in the neck John did it I know John did it oh
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yeah I immediately thought John we did our first interview with him several days after her body was
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located I'm just going to ask you point blank did you kill Katie no do you know he killed her no shortly after that
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interview is when he fled the state John disappears and he is on the Run John blel Goes On The Run where's
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Hannah with him I contacted the United States Marshals this is their bread and butter
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what they do best I'm a deputy US Marshal we go after fugitives violent offenses he's been
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trained on how to defend himself he's been trained on how to kill does that make him a unique fugitive it does so we
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don't know where he's going to go we don't know what he could be doing next and when you heard that he was on the
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run what' you think I was like oh my God you're never going to find him