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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] He liked to party, and he liked to get in trouble. KAREN WARNICK: I don't think in the beginning,
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the disappearance of Ricky, and the disappearance of Daniel Achten, or the death of Stoney, the murder of Stoney
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was related. STEVE WEST: Did you like guns? WILLY INMON: Yes, I do. I've got a Walther P22, I've got an M14.
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I've got three shotguns. STEVE WEST: I've worked tons of murder cases, that's all
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I've done in my whole career. You've got to get this off your back and tell us what the hell happened.
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[SHOT FIRED] [DRAMATIC MUSIC] NARRATOR: 20th August, 2009. The tiny city of St. John's in Northeast Arizona.
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Police Sergeant Lucas Rodriguez, gets a call. I was just coming from duty and I was called by dispatch,
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asking me to meet [INAUDIBLE] Flores. And I knew who she was. Kind of knew what it was because I had previously
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been briefed a little bit on the disappearance of Ricky Flores. Ricky Flores, I know, he is a good kid.
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A little bit rebellious. He has been in trouble. Mostly I would say, a lot of it mostly,
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that juvenile, only juveniles can get in trouble with. Curfews, smoking, and maybe a little drinking.
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He has done a little bit of drugs. Plus some fighting with his mom verbally, and stuff like wanting to be his own man and stuff like that.
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NICK FLORES: Oh, my brother just got out of juvenile. And instead of staying in there longer,
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he decided to take one year probation for some minor drug charges and stuff. NARRATOR: Sergeant Rodriguez told a senior colleague
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about the missing teen. He said not to put much attention to it, not to worry too much about it
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because of Ricky's past. And that Ricky probably was doing drugs and was too high to come home.
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And really didn't want to come home and stuff like that. A lot of the people in the police department
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didn't want to believe my mom that he was missing and something bad was going on.
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BRIAN HARRIS: He's a young father. He was in love. He had this young teenage girlfriend that he was in love
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with and they had this child. And so Ricky wants to change his life. NICK FLORES: He wanted to do good
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and he wanted to take care of his newborn baby. And he wanted to be a good example
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to his three younger brothers. And so it was unusual for him to take off and not come home
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after he said all of these things. And he told my mom he wasn't making promises anymore.
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He just wanted to show her that he wanted to do better. [PIANO MUSIC] These two towns are like many towns across the United States.
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9:00 to 5:00, working class, blue collar people. This whole mountain area, the white Mountains
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of Arizona, St. John's, Springerville, Eagar, rural people, ranchers, construction workers,
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forest workers. Friendly people, and we help each other. We've been through several large wildfires, the two largest
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in state history. And the towns of Springerville, Eagar, and St. John's opened up their communities to the evacuees from
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Pinetop-Lakeside and Show Low. But also in these two towns, they had crime, but small town crime, a theft here,
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sure alcoholic here, some drugs. Just like any other small town in America. But the average American living in those towns, when they
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lock their doors at night-- probably most didn't even feel that they had to lock their doors.
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It was a safe town. They knew their neighbor. They would knew the police officers by name.
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They would feel comfortable speaking to the police chief. LOUIS L'HEUREUX: I was selling real estate in St. John's,
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and one of the things I had to explain to people when they said, well, we closed escrow.
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Do we get the keys? Well, there aren't any keys to the house. Most people, they don't have a key to their home.
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LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: It's a great place to raise a kid, great place for kids to go to school and stuff
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like that. And everybody knows everybody. Children still walk to the stores. They still go to the movie theater by themselves.
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The town is a typical small town in Arizona. NARRATOR: Ricky had last been seen with a 21-year-old
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called Willy Inmon Willy Inmon picked up Ricky Flores, and they were friends. And he took them out to his property out East of St. John.
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William Inmon was just another person that hung around my house, his friends, my brother.
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My mom fed him, she gave him food. She gave him clothes if she needed him. She gave him money if he had needed some money.
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Willy did hang out with Ricky a lot, and they would go out. Willy referred to [INAUDIBLE] as mom.
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So hey, mom. I'm taking Ricky out to the ranch for a shoot or something, go shooting or something like that.
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And Ricky said, hey, mom, I'll be back in a little while. [INAUDIBLE] Ricky and said, yeah, no problem, son.
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And saw them jump in the Jeep and take off. NARRATOR: Officer Rodriguez interviewed Willy
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who confirmed that he and Ricky, along with Willy's girlfriend Stormy Williams, had driven out to Willy's remote ranch,
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15 miles from Springerville. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: Willy told me that he had taken-- they indeed Ricky was at the ranch with him.
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And that they had gone, talked about-- he talked to him about drugs, and to stay away from drugs and stuff
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like that. WILLY INMON: I was born about [INAUDIBLE] pound. STEVE WEST: So you were born addicted?
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WILLY INMON: Oh, yeah, I was jonesing hardcore when I came out, I was told. They destroyed almost half my family,
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my aunt and uncle using that. I ended up telling my grandpa as a result. Because they were there--
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his caretakers. They end up stealing money from his bank account. They were using his needle to shoot heroin.
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Willy is somebody whose parents were virtually absent, into drugs and alcohol. I know that he claimed that he was
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abused and molested as a child. And I know that his mom wasn't around for a lot of his life.
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I know that his dad was with him from everything. You know his dad went through being broke poor with him
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to having a little bit of change in his pocket and just living out east of the railroad tracks.
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NARRATOR: Willy grew up surrounded by guns. His father introduced him to target shooting.
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Guns became a passion. STEVE WEST: Do you like guns? WILLY INMON: Yes, I do. I've got a Walther P22, I got an M14.
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I've got three shotguns. Just a little odd. Dresses mostly in camouflage, army fatigues, carries a knife.
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Likes hunting, the army, likes his guns. That's pretty much Willy. That type of kid, mostly outdoors [INAUDIBLE]
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type that you would see. STEVE WEST: [INAUDIBLE] 14 WILLY INMON: Yeah. There's little bit of little difference, not much.
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STEVE WEST: For the M14, you know, government was, you know, it's pretty hefty weapons.
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Yeah. WILLY INMON: I love that M14, it's almost like the one I had in service. [INAUDIBLE] But, yeah, I've got an anti-aircraft gun.
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We do know that he had a fascination with the military. Inmon claims that he had served time in the military,
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that he did a brief stint in the Middle East. That he saw action. STEVE WEST: When you were in the military,
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were you ever dispatched overseas? WILLY INMON: Yes sir. STEVE WEST: Oh, is that right?
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Where did you fight? WILLY INMON: Iraq. STEVE WEST: Oh, did ya? WILLY INMON: Yes, sir.
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He had this affinity to talk about Nazism. And the way he did that, is he did the Nazism and the way
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it came out was on his baseball cap. He had some Nazi insignias, some little medals on there.
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He dressed in fatigues, he wore Nazi insignias. Was this discouraged? It doesn't appear to be.
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And I started asking him about it. He said, that he had gotten those, that those were his grandfathers.
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And that his grandfather was an SS officer. WILLY INMON: My grandpa was the greatest Luftwaffe pilot,
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any pilot ever existed. Only one to receive over 1,200 kills. STEVE WEST: Good grief.
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WILLY INMON: The most any pilot has ever done was an American pilot with 45 kills.
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NARRATOR: Willy Inmon, the young man that the 16-year-old Ricky Flores had last been
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seen with on August 13, 2009. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: He said that was the last time he
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saw Ricky and heard from Ricky. And he said he took him back into town, dropped him off on forth North and 13th West.
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He said that Ricky had received a phone call and says, hey, just drop me off here, I got a bounce.
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Says Ricky pulled the car over and Ricky jumped out and took off. And that was the end of that.
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Well, I knew it wasn't good. He didn't hang out with the best crowd of people. NARRATOR: The disappearance of Ricky Flores
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was the third troubling occurrence in two years in a town which had previously seen little violent crime.
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Nobody had been murdered in St. John's in decades and decades. I had been out of town during that day.
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I'd been up in Pinetop. And a couple of people had contacted me and say, hey, we've been needing to get a hold of Stoney,
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he's not responding, he's not getting back with us. We're concerned about him. And so had been talking about committing suicide.
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He'd had some traumatic things happen and he was just ready to die at that point.
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He was trying to drink himself to death. He'd had a stroke. And I went into Stoney's bedroom to see what was going on.
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To see if he was just sound asleep, or he passed out because he'd been drinking an extremely
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large amount of alcohol. So I went in there and I found him. He was laying on his right side, like he always
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slept with his arm up above the blanket. And then, when I got over to him, he was-- he was kind of gray color and cold and stiff.
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I realized he was dead. I didn't suspect any foul play or anything. There was a little bit of blood that was outside of his mouth.
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And some blood pooled up in his left ear. I went outside where I could get a signal on my cell phone.
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And then called the Sheriff's Department and said, you know, I want to report a dead body, and who it was,
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and where it was. And all of a sudden one thing started leading to another. And there was dozens of cars, and here and there.
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And all the other stuff. And that's when I found out he'd been murdered. Stoney McCarragher was shot in his bed while he was sleeping.
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They Cut holes into the blinds on the screen at Stoney McCarragher's house, while he was sleeping.
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Now, the use of a weapon with a scope is reminiscent of hunting. But it's also reminiscent of that sort
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of sniper style assassination. NARRATOR: Stoney's friends, like the local police,
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searched for motives in his murder. LOUIS L'HEUREUX: Stoney irritated a lot of people.
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If he told you be here at 8 o'clock and you were there at 8:02, he was gone. He made sure that he left at 8, and this and that.
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He was real pushy, and really required people to perform to what they said they were going to do.
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And I'd say, he was not shy about his response. NARRATOR: Stoney who had moved to Northeast Arizona
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around the turn of the new Millennium, hired local teens to do odd jobs around his ranch.
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He was reported to have molested or messed with some of the boys in town. He had been murdered, had been shot.
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And this homicide had gone unsolved since 2007. Everybody feels safe in these communities.
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And, I think, that sense of safeness evaporated. Yes, that somebody killed Stoney was
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probably on everybody's mind. We have a killer loose in the community. NARRATOR: Two years later, Steve West,
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chief of police in neighboring Springerville, wondered what one of Stoney's former ranch hands,
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Willy Inmon, might know about the murder. WILLY INMON: I had no idea on that at all.
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I do not I knew Daniel, as best as anybody did. But Daniel was a nice guy. He was pleasant.
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He used to like to come down to a restaurant that was in St. John's at that time called Joe's Good To Go.
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Daniel was totally deaf. Once in a while, he'd hear a word, but he read lips. He's the guy that everybody knew.
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He's the man who rode his Harley into town with a loud muffler and everybody knew it was Daniel.
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LOUIS L'HEUREUX: His appearance was-- he was older, he was retired. He was always nice and people who
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liked to interact with him because of his Harley and his Corvette. I knew that he had not been around
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and people were asking about him and things. I hadn't seen him. WOMAN: I don't think it was connected.
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I don't think in the beginning, the disappearance of Ricky and the disappearance of Daniel Achten, or the death of Stoney,
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the murder of Stoney was related. NARRATOR: Sergeant Rodriguez investigating the disappearance
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of Ricky Flores remembered a motoring offense that occurred around March 2009. Willy had been stopped in a Camaro, a really nice Camaro.
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Him and Roberts, Joseph Roberts had been stopped in a Camaro. No plates and the car had been impounded.
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I believe the car was still in impound and nobody-- nobody had taken it out. That had been months prior to this,
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prior to Ricky being missing. I remember deputy Morales says, yeah, you know it's been a while.
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I used to see this guy. And I think, his name is Daniel, used to drive it all the time
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and I haven't seen him in a while. NARRATOR: Two men missing, a third shot dead in his bed,
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all known in one way or another to Willy Inmon. What did he know? St. John's police department wanted answers
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but Willy refused to offer any. WILLY INMON: I should not talk to St. John's PD anymore without getting really violent.
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NARRATOR: Missing for over two weeks with no trace, St. John's PD set up the investigation into Ricky
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Flores's whereabouts. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: During this I got in contact with Willy again, and asked him if he would meet me in the Springerville
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police station so we can talk. Willy said yeah, absolutely. Detective [INAUDIBLE] and I drove up to the Springerville
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police department. Willy came in. I spend about two hours talking, interviewing Willy.
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During that time I asked him-- I questioned him again on the story. Willy stuck to his gun saying that he had dropped Ricky off.
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I kind of pressured him a little bit more and asking him what's going on, Willy, come on,
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tell me where Ricky is. As the interview progressed I can see a lot of deception signs on Willy.
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His carotid artery, never seen, but his carotid artery was literally bouncing. He started sweating and he started getting hot, fidgeting.
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He actually took his shirt off saying it was too hot in there. I just could not get him to tell me what had happened to Ricky.
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I remember asking him if I was going to find Ricky alive and Willy said, he hoped so.
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Deputy Morales and I left. And on our way back into town, me and him were talking
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and we both had the same feeling that Ricky was hurt, or that he was dead. We secured a search warrant based on the interview
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and stuff like that. We went to Springerville and executed a search warrant. So they go to Willy's house, and Willy's living
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with a 44-year-old woman named Stormy. This 44-year-old woman, she's functional.
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She can provide for herself. But in layman's terms, she's probably not the sharpest tack in the box.
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And they knock on the door, and they're knocking, and they're knocking. And Willy's panicking, why are the police back.
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And so Stormy calls the Springerville police chief. You got to get these police off of our porch.
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What are they doing in this town? STEVE WEST: The way that I met Mr. Inmon was through a telephone call.
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That telephone call was from his girlfriend who stated that the cops were watching the place
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because Mr. Inmon was there. I asked them why were they watching him, she said she didn't know.
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But that, you know, they were afraid to come out of their house. And the police chief very cleverly
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and skillfully convinces Willy through Stormy, come on down. STEVE WEST: So what I did is, I called up this young lady,
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his girlfriend. And I told her that they needed to let these guys, you know, come over.
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And Mr. Inmon had threatened that he had a gun. So I asked them if they'd feel safer,
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you know, leaving the house and coming up to the police department. And she said, Yes.
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And I said, well, then you leave your house and come straight up to the police department.
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BRIAN HARRIS: I can't really control what St. John's does, but perhaps if I can tell them,
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you're going to come on down and speak to me, why don't we try to work this out amongst friends,
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amongst us as well. Remember, it's a small town, everybody knows everyone. And so Willy takes the bait.
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WILLY INMON: I can not talk to St. John's PD anymore without getting really violent.
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So they walked up to the police department and came in. I separated them. And I set Mr. Inmon in a room by himself.
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STEVE WEST: What St. John's PD is asking you, is they're asking you if you know the whereabouts of Ricky--
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and what's Ricky's last name? WILLY INMON: Flores. STEVE WEST: Flores. OK, so they're asking you if you know the whereabouts
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of Ricky Flores. They're saying what, that you were the last one to see him. WILLY INMON: Correct.
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And that's-- I didn't know something. And they keep pressuring me like I do know something, which
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if I did, I would tell them. Because I want them off my back, I'm tired of being harassed.
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They have no right to come into my girl's house, no right whatsoever. And the last time they came here,
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they came here without a Sheriff escort. They came in their St. John's police car
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without jurisdiction. NARRATOR: Inmon expects Springerville Police to protect him from St. John's PD.
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He tells them Ricky was involved in dealing drugs. BRIAN FREDERICK: Oh, those pesky police are, you
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know-- and might have thought that the Sheriff would have defended him, protected
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him from those evil outsiders. And so he goes to the Sheriff to, you know, to get the police off his back.
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STEVE WEST: Basically, you think if anything's happened here, it's a drug deal gone bad.
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WILLY INMON: I'm thinking so. I really am. But I'm just really tired of being harassed because if I knew any more, I would be telling them.
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Because I don't want to be around them anymore, I really don't. STEVE WEST: So you mean around--
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WILLY INMON: St. John's police. Willy did not want to have anything to do with me.
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He did not want to see me, he did not want me to interview him. WILLY INMON: I used to have respect, my wife did,
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Officer Rodriguez. And I'm getting to a point where I'm about ready-- STEVE WEST: [INAUDIBLE] though, he's a good guy.
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Since he's already struck a rapport with Willy, we allowed to continue-- Steve to continue talking to Willy.
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As Willy is in the interview room and he's speaking to this police chief, the chief very skillfully listens.
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Doesn't have to say much. Willy's building up the Springerville police department.
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But then the police chief, instead of talking about the case at hand asks Willy a simple question.
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Tell me a little bit about who you are, where-- who is this Willy? Who are you Willy?
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And Willy starts to talk. And he starts to describe his childhood. And how he's overcome parents who
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shunned their responsibilities of parents. He described how his only companion was his dog.
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STEVE WEST: He talked a lot about, he didn't like drugs. And that he was more than willing to take drugs
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off the street, whatever it took. He was more than willing to do what was necessary to make sure that the kids on the street
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didn't receive drugs. He describes how he views himself as a hero, almost. But he describes how he looks at the dredges of society,
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the drug users, criminals. He is trying to convince the police chief that they're mano a mano.
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That they're brothers. That they both are crime fighters. That they both view the world in the same way and that
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they are like one. And Willy just keeps talking. And the police chief skillfully keeps saying,
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and then, what else. Tell me more. And so Willy is just spilling his guts. His disgust at anybody who would be
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involved in any kind of crime. His love for soldiers and war and fascination with that.
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And sometimes perhaps, even a disgust with other races. NARRATOR: Inmon was beginning to paint a picture of himself
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as a vigilante. The kind of man who might kill someone for being the wrong kind of person.
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West decided to try something new and it involved Inmon's girlfriend, Stormy Williams.
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We decided that a female detective Debbie Nicole to talk to Stormy. They're going to play each other against one another.
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It was decided for Detective [INAUDIBLE] to tell Stormy that Willy had confessed to homicide.
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They're going to lie, ultimately lie to Stormy. And they're going to say that Willy has
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already confessed to the crime. Stormy actually started talking and said, yes, they had killed Ricky.
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And went into detail and how they killed him, and how they had taken him back to town.
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And how they had buried him. When you have multiple people involved in a crime, it's easy to pit them against each other.
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He said, she said, kind of routine. So they go in there and they reveal to Willy what Stormy said.
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We finally got him to admit that he indeed did shoot this kid. STEVE WEST: Just tell us what happened, Willy.
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That's the biggest thing. I mean stuff happens, we know this. WILLY INMON: And I'm telling you,
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I did not want to kill the kid. It was just-- it was not murder, I can tell you that much.
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STEVE WEST: OK. WILLY INMON: I can't believe-- STEVE WEST: Yeah, just tell us the story.
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NARRATOR: According to Inmon something had gone very wrong the day that Willy, Stormy, and Ricky had gone to the ranch for target practice.
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WILLY INMON: This ended up as self-defense, something happened. Now, the way he said he shot him was this.
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He said they were both out at the site, East of St. John's. And that they're out there and they were target practicing.
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And they started shooting cans and whatnot. And Ricky wanted to shoot the rifle.
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And so he let him shoot the rifle. And Mr. Inmon said that he was standing by his car
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and a bullet hit the window next to him. He said that he took that as an aggressive move.
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And he got his rifle and started firing at Ricky. WILLY INMON: He shot at me and hit my dad's truck.
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And I fired back. I didn't want to hit him. He shot at me, I shot back. Willy did disclose that the homicide had
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actually occurred at his ranch. And that he had shot Willy at the ranch. I believe he shot him in the head.
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By then he was in tears, you know, he was-- he was acting semi remorseful. And the way that we got that interview out of him,
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was basically saying, hey, you know, people do bad things. You know, please, you know, we know that you know if you've
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done something bad, the worst thing in the world is for you to have to carry it the rest of your life.
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You know, you need to come clean on that so that your conscience will be clear. And we went on and on and on.
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And finally, that's when he admitted that. STEVE WEST: Willy, you need to settle down.
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We need to get all the facts so that we can determine what's happened here, OK? We need you to stay together for us.
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We're not your enemies. WILLY INMON: I need to [INAUDIBLE] please. STEVE WEST: Well, that's OK.
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I mean, you know, the big thing here is. DETECTIVE: We need to settle it. STEVE WEST: Yeah, we need to figure it out.
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NARRATOR: At first, Inmon stuck to his story of self-defense. STEVE WEST: Is there's somebody else involved?
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WILLY INMON: There is nobody involved, sir. Nobody. STEVE WEST: The responsibility would be with that person
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as well. [INTERPOSING VOICES] STEVE WEST: --all on you. WILLY INMON: There's no other responsibility, it's all on me.
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NARRATOR: As the detectives kept digging, it became clear there was more to the story than the death
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of a 16-year-old boy. Ricky had just become a father, and the mother of his child
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had an interesting father herself. It would not look good to Mr. Johnson that since he's a white supremacist that his daughter
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had a kid from an Hispanic kid. NARRATOR: As Willy opened up in the interrogation room,
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the riddle of what had been happening in this corner of Arizona was getting more complex.
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WILLY INMON: We'd drive over now find a spot and I say it looks good enough. STEVE WEST: And what happened?
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WILLY INMON: We dug the hole, we buried him. Burned them. NARRATOR: Willy Inmon, describing
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how he and his girlfriend had buried Ricky Flores after a shooting. Though Inmon was still insisting was self-defense.
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Took the body and they drove down to the blue. And at the blue, they had dug a shallow grave,
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and had placed the body in it, and covered it up. And there was still parts of the body
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showing from outside the ground cover that they had put on it. And they went ahead and stacked wood on it
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and tried to burn the body at that point. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: Willy did a drawing as to where
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they had buried the body. And how they had taken the body into town. And then taking him to the blue, or, I think,
00:31:33
that's what it's called, up in-- almost by the mountains, by pass Alpine, and stuff like that.
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NARRATOR: Inmon appeared to be cooperating. But there was a detail that didn't make sense to detectives.
00:31:45
Why had he brought Ricky's body into St. John's before driving it 52 miles South to the remote Hamlet
00:31:52
of blue Arizona. BRIAN HARRIS: He had to move the body to St. John's because that is where he was going to get paid.
00:32:00
That was where the payoff was. You see, Ricky's girlfriend, her parents loved her,
00:32:08
they hated Ricky. And so they hired Willy. It would not look good to Mr. Johnson
00:32:24
that since he's a white supremacist, that his daughter had a kid from a Hispanic kid.
00:32:30
And basically, he wanted Ricky gone and had offered to pay money for that. STEVE WEST: I understand the white supremacist
00:32:40
[INAUDIBLE],, swastikas, and the tattoo on the guy's body. I know about this guy right now.
00:32:45
And I've known about him for a long time. Quit taking care of him and take care of yourself.
00:32:51
He knew you were going to murder and he was supposed to pay you, I know that. Tell me the truth, please.
00:32:58
Please, tell me the truth-- WILLY INMON: Listen, he wanted me to beat his ass, yes.
00:33:02
He didn't want no death, no killing. And I thought about it, but, no. He drove his body through the town of St. John's
00:33:14
to Jeffrey Johnson's house. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: The whole reason for Willy bringing
00:33:18
the body over into town, in the beginning of just-- instead of just going through the back roads and going away from town,
00:33:24
was that he came over and showed proof to Mr. Johnson that he had actually taken care of the job and killed Ricky.
00:33:32
My niece was probably sitting there, you know, just a couple of months old. And, you know, her dad's bodies in the back of a Suzuki
00:33:39
samurai, and her biological grandfather is going out there to look at it, to go pay the guy for killing my brother.
00:33:49
STEVE WEST: Why did you take the body to Jeff's house? WILLY INMON: Because I was scared.
00:33:52
I wanted to know-- STEVE WEST: Tell me exactly what you told Jeff, when you got to his house.
00:33:56
WILLY INMON: I told Jeff, dude, I-- in my car, you want to come look. Dude, I need some help, what the hell am I going [BLEEP] do?
00:34:03
His words were exactly, get the [BLEEP] out of here, and I don't want to see you again.
00:34:07
That was his words. William said that Mr. Johnson gave him a bunch of-- got mad at him for bringing the body.
00:34:15
And that-- got $20 from him for gas. And that was all and he took off. NARRATOR: Inmon left Johnson's place
00:34:23
and drove the body over an hour South to blue, where he dug a shallow grave in a deserted spot,
00:34:29
and set Ricky's body alight. Stormy Williams tipped off detectives about where they would find the remains.
00:34:37
His body was burned so bad, and his head was blown off from the 12 gauge shotgun.
00:34:43
So there wasn't too much to be looking at. So they had to identify him by a crappy homemade
00:34:50
tattoo he had on his ankle. And he also had broken his arm pretty severely. And got some pins and plates in it.
00:34:58
So that's how they identified his body because there wasn't too much to say that this person was
00:35:05
who he was. STEVE WEST: Why are you so afraid of Jeff? What do you know about him that scares you so bad, Willy?
00:35:19
WILLY INMON: I know the Aryan Brotherhood. There are so many out there. He gives one message through to anybody, I will be dead.
00:35:26
That's guaranteed, I know how they roll. If he goes down, I will go down. STEVE WEST: So you have to admit that you are covering his ass
00:35:36
because you're afraid of death? Tell me that and I-- WILLY INMON: I'm afraid of death, period.
00:35:51
So I think his charges were correct because he had knowledge and he did nothing to try to slow that down.
00:35:57
But also I think that by sheer virtue of taking place, I think, that was a shock to him also.
00:36:16
NICK FLORES: She wasn't a person who could think on her own. That she-- she would make a decision to do something.
00:36:24
And if she felt like it, you know, made Willy happy, or Willy wanted her to do it, she'd do it.
00:36:32
You know, she wasn't a crazy person, she was just really gullible and would do anything
00:36:39
to make William Inmon happy. And, you know, she proved that by helping him burn a body
00:36:46
and bury it. NARRATOR: The case of 16-year-old Ricky Flores had been solved. But two mysteries remained.
00:36:55
The death two years earlier of Stony McCarragher, and the disappearance of Daniel Achten,
00:37:00
the man whose car Inmon had been caught driving five months earlier. Both men were Inmon's neighbors.
00:37:08
Was Inmon a serial killer? Those two victims lived right next to him and just across from him there at that ranch.
00:37:18
Need to still get Stony, and we still have-- you still guys have a missing person that
00:37:23
the car is still in impound. And that needs to be solved and we need to find out where the person is,
00:37:29
that they were driving the car. I tell him, well, that's where you got to go and that's kind of where this needs to be.
00:37:36
He did give up his rights to an attorney in order for us to talk to him the second time.
00:37:41
And it was almost like something you'd see in prison and the fact that he was willing to give up information for stuff
00:37:50
on the second interview. If we got him cigarettes he would talk to us. If we got him a hamburger he would talk to us.
00:37:56
So during that discussion it was like, well, yeah, you know, lunchtime is coming up,
00:38:00
we'll get you a hamburger. We'll talk to you about it, you know, yada, yada, yada,
00:38:04
and he did. So what does Willy tell the police? He reveals to them, yes, I'm the one responsible,
00:38:15
who killed Ricky Flores. And he goes on with the story, again, his superhero story.
00:38:21
He doesn't like people who uses drugs. He was trying to help out the town, he was ridding society of somebody
00:38:29
who wasn't worth anything. And he just-- that was his whole motivating purpose. He said that, you know, he was selling dope in the community.
00:38:38
As the detectives interview is coming to a close, Willy likes this attention. He doesn't want it to end.
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So he throws it out there. And he tells the police officers, I'm a serial killer.
00:39:01
William Inmon told the police department that he killed my brother, and Stoney McCarragher,
00:39:06
and Daniel Achten. STEVE WEST: He Wasn't remorseful at all. He stood his ground.
00:39:15
He had a defense for every one of them. He cuts a hole in the screen. He has his rifle.
00:39:24
He readies the rifle and sticks the barrel through the hole in the screen. Bam, one time.
00:39:32
Bam, two times. 12 times he pulls the trigger. You talk about a coward, Stoney is asleep
00:39:42
and he shoots him in the darkness of the night on the outside, shooting inside the house.
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NARRATOR: Willy then ransacked the property and stole money that he knew McCarragher kept hidden.
00:39:56
Why? Because claimed Inmon, Stoney was a pervert and an abuser. The guy in the trailer, he said was a child molester.
00:40:07
He actually said that they deserve to die. And he talks about Daniel, and why he had to kill Daniel.
00:40:23
And all the reasons why. And that Daniel, society was better off without somebody
00:40:29
like Daniel. He says Daniel's a drug user, he's another drag on his society, another one
00:40:37
that society won't miss. He's cleaning up the town. He didn't like Daniel because he was a drug user.
00:40:45
So he shot him. He didn't like Daniel because he was humming, humming Dan. Got tired of the humming.
00:40:53
But as he kept talking, he then reveals the real reason why he killed humming Dan.
00:41:01
You see in Willy's mind, he truly believed that humming Dan killed his beloved dog.
00:41:06
The one thing that loved him. BRIAN FREDERICK: He used drugs, which is not uncommon for Vietnam vets.
00:41:15
But you imagine that Inmon had this fascination with order, with discipline. And maybe saw that as being--
00:41:25
not keeping up with the ideal image of a soldier, right. This was unbecoming of a soldier.
00:41:34
Went over to settle the dispute, this ends up in the death of Achten. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: Willy ended up taking us--
00:41:42
I remember going with Willy. He agreed that it was OK for me to go, and follow him as he took us to the ranch
00:41:48
where he had killed Ricky. He took us to the place where Daniel Achten had been killed,
00:41:55
and then he took us to where Stoney had been killed, and how he killed Stoney. He was branded a serial killer, a vigilante killer.
00:42:03
The youngest serial killer in the country. He did this with malice. He knew where he was going, he knew what he was doing.
00:42:11
He knew how he was going to do it. He planned it, staged it, and completed it. So if that isn't vigilantism, nothing is.
00:42:19
And he's doing it for a cause that he thinks is right. LUCAS RODRIGUEZ: I think he would just do it again.
00:42:26
He was nonchalant about the whole thing and how he went around and-- almost with a smile.
00:42:33
NARRATOR: When Inmon was finally sentenced in September 2011, the community was shocked.
00:42:39
Some had expected the death sentence. Others life without parole. In fact, he was given 24 years for all three murders
00:42:47
to be served without parole. To Ricky's younger brother Nick, Willy Inmon would be a tragic case, a figure of pity,
00:43:05
if it weren't for the heartbreak his actions had caused. NICK FLORES: He wanted to feel some sort of power.
00:43:13
There's some messed up part in his head that, you know, said, if I can kill these people
00:43:21
and, you know, people can't figure out about it. Then I'm obviously doing something right.
00:43:27
You know, I'm taking bad people off the street. That's what he claimed his thought process was.
00:43:33
But really, you know, he was just a skinny frail boy who lived out East to St. John's Arizona
00:43:40
that everyone, you know, just knew as the skinny poor boy. That it's kind of hard to make your name for yourself
00:43:48
when you start there. [SAD MUSIC]