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talk some true crime. But it's apparent to us through the physical descriptions, the mannerisms,
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the clothing worn, that there is a high probability that the same suspect from the Chevron
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is the same suspect for the Barberitos homicide and robbery. So, if you can tell, I'm kind of being
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careful with my words. I don't want to put something out there that's not true, something that we don't know. So, I am
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being careful, but please understand we have warrants for one individual for Tanglewood Apartments homicide.
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Is there a likelihood that he's also involved with the homicide down the road at the Chevron?
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Yes. And we believe that the homicide from the Chevron and that suspect is related
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to Barbara Ritas based on physical descriptions, clothing, mannerisms, weapons, we believe the possibility exists that
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those are also related. Okay? We have um a lot of resources out right now that are looking for Dana France.
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His warrants are put in the system. He's in the inlets, which is a national database.
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Um any information that we're getting is being put out to law enforcement just as
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quickly as we receive it. And also, we have uh the Marshal Service working with us because they have some
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technologies and abilities to get outside of our boundaries and help us in locating suspects.
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That's one of the things the marshals do with the Fugitive Task Force and all is
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help us to actually [snorts] serve warrants on individuals that we are looking for.
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So, we have pulled in all the resources. We've pulled in everything that we could
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get our hands on. Um we've been um working multiple scenes. Takes a lot of manpower to work the
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scenes the way we have. All the detectives who are working these particular cases, our crime scene guys
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have been spread pretty thin. We're working multiple scenes as well. Um one of our instruments that we use
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for crime scenes is a 3D scanner. It actually scans the the and scans the scene.
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Ours has been sent off to be um worked on and calibrated. Houston County Sheriff's Department stepped up with
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theirs, sent out one of their investigators with their scanning machine, was able to do the
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Barberitos scene first yesterday. So, law enforcement's definitely come together in this case.
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Uh to my knowledge, there's not any resources that we haven't tapped into. Uh the public is hugely supportive right
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now. And uh one of the things that we have in Houston County is a strong public support.
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>> [music] >> What we are left with here, Captain, we have two other cases still outstanding
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for Franz, our bad man, our already convicted bad man. These two cases are going to go
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to the grand jury. After they present their case, the Houston County gets a grand jury
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indictment to officially charge Franz or Franz with the two additional murders, that of Patel,
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the Chevron gas station employee, and that of Parker Killian Moore at the Barberitos.
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So, the grand jury found probable cause to charge the accused, Franz, with two counts of malice murder,
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four counts of felony murder, two counts of armed robbery, a count of aggravated
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assault, a count of criminal attempt to commit malice murder. Shortly after announcing those charges,
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we get another announcement that the prosecutor will seek the death penalty against the
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suspect Daniel Bruce Frantz in the killings that shook the Warner Robins community in 2018.
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This from an article Houston Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Hartwig III signed a notice of intention to seek
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the death penalty against Frantz on December 11, 2019 court records said. This is in large part and rightfully so
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regarding a chilling detail released by the police. This detail was that the victims in both cases, the Barberitos
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murder and the Chevron slayings, did not put up any resistance. They both victims
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were complying with the demands of the robber when they were shot. In fact, in both scenarios,
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the victim handed over the money, did what the robber said at gunpoint, handed over the money and in both cases, we
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know this from surveillance footage and then at Barberitos, we know it from surveillance footage and from witnesses,
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he shot the victims in the head anyway. Yeah, what a real piece of [ __ ] >> That is I mean that's absolutely the
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coldest of cold-blooded murder. So, the court filing stated the murder of Jack Patel and Parker Moore committed by
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the accused Daniel Bruce Frantz II was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible, or inhumane
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in that it involved depravity of mind. I think that's absolutely spot on here. Absolutely. This person is concealing
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their identity with a disguise, face completely covered, dressed in black, gun pointed to these victims, gets the
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money, gets what he came in there for. Nobody fights back. Nobody puts up any problems. Nobody is caught on a phone
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calling the police, and he shoots and kills anyway. So, where this [snorts] case sits,
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we have the man in in prison for the previous murder, charged in the the other two murders,
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now facing the death penalty, and now this is the time that we are also aware of, the most annoying time in any of
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these types of cases, where it drags out and we wait for the murder trial to start. And of course, with this being a
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capital punishment, death penalty case, there's often a longer lag time here before we get to
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trial. Now, this is so critical to this case, and not in a good way. This has hurt this case tremendously.
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Five years go by. Now, part of that, we had that COVID year that everybody remembers,
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mostly everything shut down. This probably delayed this to going to trial. It probably delayed a lot of the work on
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this case. So, almost 5 years to the date of the indictments, this is on October 4th, 2024,
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to everyone's shock and surprise, the charges were dropped. So, we have such a good
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case, we're going after the death penalty, but nope, now we decided we're dropping the charges against this guy.
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Change their mind. They say, quote, "Based on the need for further investigation," end quote, the cases and
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charges were dismissed. But the guy sat in prison for 5 years. No, he's going to
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serve. He's absolutely guilty of the murder that he's convicted of. Right. They're dropping the additional murder
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charges, the ones that they were seeking the death penalty on. So, you're absolutely right. Sitting in prison for
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5 years by this time, he's going to have to carry out the rest of this sentence, which he got 25
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years for that murder. But, there has to be something that it can't just be we just don't have a good enough case.
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Well, here's what we end up getting. This is the public record on it. Okay, so the document
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meant that France could have faced the death penalty if convicted in the two offenses that they dropped the charges
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on. Now, according to the Telegraph, this is the local newspaper, in late 2024, Warner Robins Police Department found
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evidence that showed France might not be the suspect after all, which is why the
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cases involving Parker, Moore, and Patel's deaths were dismissed. According to Warner Robins Police Department,
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quote, "It is believed that a second person committed both of those crimes." End quote. Here's another quote.
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"Exculpatory evidence came out and it was located in someone else's possession." End quote. Mhm.
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Now, we don't know what that evidence is. That has never been publicly stated. And the police department at the time
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declined to comment whether France was still a person of interest at all in the case. We do know that the FBI and the
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Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating forensic evidence connected to the Parker, Moore, and
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Patel's deaths. We know that Warner Robins Police Department has about a dozen cold cases
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as of late 2024, but the police department will not refer to Parker Moore and Jack Patel's deaths
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as cold cases because they say quote they're actively being investigated and quote. Now, that's a lot of quotes.
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A lot of quotes. You know a quote that I love to spout off here in the garage, said it a
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dozen times, I'll say it a dozen more before we close the garage for good. An error doesn't become a mistake until
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you refuse to correct it. A famous quote by Orlando Batista and John F. Kennedy.
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And we need Warner Robins Police Department to correct this because it appears to me that they
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had this investigation moving in the wrong direction very quickly in the very early stages and it took a long time for
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them to see that they had got it wrong. Yeah, so part of it is they feel like they have egg on their face. And you
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know, my one of my favorite quotes is egg on the face is better than egg on the butt. Also a famous quote. Yeah.
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I'll read the start of this article. Three fatal shootings days apart, a string of violence in the area at the
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time has only partially been resolved in the courts. The first of three fatal shootings
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happened between two friends after a dispute over marijuana on January 13th, 2018.
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Remember we talked about the details of that murder and we know the details of the murder that took place at the
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apartment because there were a lot of witnesses there. Yeah. These two individuals, friends, our bad guy and
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the person he killed, they knew each other. And the people there knew both of them.
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This appears to me to be something very different than what took place at the gas station
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and at the Barbaritos. Those appear to me to be stranger on stranger crimes. A guy goes in there disguised
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looking to commit a robbery, looking to get away with money, and decides for whatever reason to just shoot the people
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anyway. Where this apartment case is something completely different. It looks like this is a couple of idiots who have
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a disagreement and they're so quick to pull and flash guns Yeah. and somebody ends up getting
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killed. Okay, so we know that Daniel Bruce France was convicted in the July 2019 voluntary manslaughter case and
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possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the killing of his friend, 28-year-old Vincent Junior. He was
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sentenced to 20 years in prison. He fatally shot Vincent Junior in the Tanglewood Apartments at 1005
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Alberta Road. Now, to follow the timeline here and to see where things went astray, we need to go
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down this road. Uh-huh. Around 3 hours after that incident, a man an unidentified man killed 25-year-old
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Warner Robins resident Jack Patel, a store clerk at a Chevron gas station at 806 Alberta Road, the same road.
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We talked about this earlier, the very short distance both in proximity and time to the
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Tanglewood Apartments murder that same day. Officers, based off of surveillance footage, described that suspect as a
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slim man, African-American, and a dark-hooded shirt and blue jeans. Now, keep that description in mind because
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we're going to have a better description when it gets to the Barberitos portion of this, and we're going to zoom
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in, hyper-focus on the Barberitos murder. 8 days later, on January 1st, 2018, Parker Moore was killed at
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Barberitos at 3123 Watson Boulevard. A masked man entered through a back door, demanded money, and fired shots,
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which killed Moore and injured another employee, police said. The Warner Robins Police Department had
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named Franz as a suspect in the armed robbery, and people at the scene told officers he was 6-ft tall, wearing dark
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clothing and a face covering. Okay, but as we know, there are issues with evidence.
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And in the end, there was not enough evidence to seek warrants to charge Franz in the Chevron and Barbarito
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shootings. Even though they originally got the indictment, they learned and figured out
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And I'm glad that they did. Right. Right? Because as said, they're already trying to start to correct this. And
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that is a good thing. It's a little late, a little late in the goings, and that is going to be very hurt full and
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harmful to this investigation in this case to find the right guy. But also, it becomes a a sticking point
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for the defense of a new suspect. Mhm. Hey, the cops, they they came out and said this other guy did it.
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They were trying to bring charges against him. They were going to take him to court. You know, we talked so much
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about legendary FBI agents and profilers, people like Robert Ressler, John Douglas on the show. And one thing
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that they were fighting against, when they would talk to local law enforcement, police chiefs, sheriffs,
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detectives, and they would review a batch of cases, they would say, "You know, in the '70s
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and in the early '80s, we were seeing something that they called linkage blindness,
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where the investigating agency did not recognize a connection between multiple murders. Here, we have the exact
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opposite. It looks like Warner Robins Police Department screwed the pooch. And they jumped to the conclusion that
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all of this was connected. Okay, so we know what the police's theory was at the time and how they were working it
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because they told us when they announced the manhunt for France. Now, announcing
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the manhunt, good strategy. They caught the guy. It was through tips that located him.
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They found him. Good police procedure there. But their theory, it might have sounded
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good to some at the time, but not did not convince everyone. So, the theory is rough. The theory law enforcement had
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pushed was Danny France committed the apartment murder, which we know he did, there's witnesses there that identify
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him, and then a few hours later committed the Chevron murder to get money to leave town. Right? He had to
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get out because of the murder. There were people there at the scene that were going to identify him by name. So, he
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had to flee. But he would need provisions to get out of town and get to a safe location where
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he could hide out. He needed money. So, the Chevron station was across the street from the apartments. Easy enough
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target, right? Close by. France commits a robbery homicide at the Chevron. Per their theory, the proximity and the
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time make the police theory sound very nice and tidy. Now, maybe he didn't get enough money or
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something happens to slow France from running, so he waits 8 days, goes to the other side of town
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and commits a robbery homicide at the Barbaritos. Then he flees, but we now know that he only goes about
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4 miles. 4 miles from the first two homicide locations where he is caught hiding out 3 days after the murder at
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Barbaritos. So, when you tell me your theory is all based around this man who committed the
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first murder committing additional murders so he could rob and flee there's instant problems with your theory.
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Fleeing after the first murder makes a lot of sense. I get that. A lot of people flee after committing a violent
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crime for which they there are witnesses that can identify them. Yeah. But a fleeing theory doesn't compute if the
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guy doesn't flee. All right. I feel like garage True Crime Garage is True Crime Flea Market. I've said that word too
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many times. So he doesn't leave. I have a lot of used comic books if you want to check
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them out. To the left. So again to me this theory while it sign it sounded nice in the beginning was truly
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extremely flawed it from the start and police had to have been aware of it. Where was the person in the room? I'm
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sure there was somebody in the room was saying guys wait, hold on pump the brakes. I think we might have this
00:22:08
wrong. Maybe we shouldn't announce this to the public. Yeah, it's it look it seems like something that you sit in a
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room and you go hey not a not a ton of murders around here and so we have this one murder at this apartment complex.
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Now we have this murder at this gas station. Are they linked? Maybe. But we need we need to find some proof
00:22:29
of that whether they're linked or not linked. Let's let's find proof of that. It's not something that I would think
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you would run to the newspapers with or to go hey call the local news. We think they're connected. Do you have any
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proof of that? Well, similar location. I worry Captain that the police department was feeling a lot
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of pressure. There's three murders in eight days. It's January. Three murders in the month
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of January puts this city in 1 month's time at half the murders they had for the entire year prior.
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Yeah, but let's pump the brakes for a second. It's not >> a crazy theory. True. It's not something
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that you shouldn't explore. You just might not want to tell people about your investigation.
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>> Don't Yes, don't tell the public right away. You can say, "Hey, we're looking
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into if they're connected, but we don't you know, we've not found evidence." In fact, they're actually they found
00:23:33
evidence to suggest early on that they weren't connected. Right. >> Okay. One, the gun, and two, the suspect
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description, both do not match the apartment murder case. Right. That France absolutely did. So,
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it's not inconceivable that bad guy goes and gets another gun or has a second gun, and then uses that one to commit
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the Chevron murder. But, when you have surveillance footage footage from the Chevron, and when you have surveillance
00:24:05
footage from Barberitos, and you have witnesses who saw the man at Barberitos, saw him pull the trigger,
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the cameras and those people are telling you, even though his face is covered, he
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doesn't look like the guy you've arrested. Right. France, to put it simply, France, a younger
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dude, about the same build as the individual seen in Chevron and Barberitos, he's a
00:24:33
lighter-skinned black man. The person that committed these murders is a dark-skinned black man. So, so much
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obviously so that several of the witnesses at Barberitos said, after the fact, when they showed the picture of
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the man that they arrested for the apartment murders, their immediate reaction was, "That's not the same guy."
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And they only saw this man's eyes and the bridge of his nose. Right. >> But it was enough
00:25:02
that little was enough to tell them it wasn't the same guy. So, these contradictions undermined the story
00:25:09
authorities were telling. The timing didn't align. It wasn't immediate and clean, right? It was messy. Parker Moore
00:25:16
was killed a whole week later after the other two murders. Right. >> So, so so to tell me
00:25:22
that the the person was attempting to flee he just sat on his hands for eight days, didn't go anywhere, and then when
00:25:29
you do ultimately find him three days after Parker is killed, he's only 4 miles away? Yeah, and like you said,
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where where is the detective or police officer going? They're not the same guy. One is
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light-skinned, one is dark-skinned. That's all you need to know. Absolutely. That's absolutely correct.
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True crime flea market [music] season 1 starts June 1st. >> Very very 2:00 a.m. Look, I want to zoom in and focus on one
00:28:23
of the victims here and one of the crime scenes because this is where police can
00:28:29
learn the most about their investigation and the man that they're looking for. Parker Killian Moore was the young man
00:28:38
who was working and killed at Barburrito's in Warner Robins on January 21st, 2018.
00:28:45
He's just 23 years old. Yeah. Now, a little bit about Barberitos. This is a franchise restaurant. There are about 19
00:28:54
locations in the great state of Georgia and about 41 scattered throughout the American Southeast.
00:29:02
This is a burrito place. Southwestern Grill experience. I want to give a shout out to Leo Mason
00:29:11
her husband and also Andy Moore. They are fighting for justice for their son Parker Killion Moore and also for
00:29:19
the Chevron victim Jack Betel. >> And and just to be clear, those two cases the the identity of the suspect
00:29:29
is the same. Mhm. Same gun. And it appears to be the same individual and the dress, the disguise appears to
00:29:39
be very very similar or exactly the same. Well, what they should have done is they
00:29:45
should have took all these detectives and showed them a navy blue color swatch and a light blue color swatch and ask
00:29:55
them, are these the same color? And if you say no, you are on bike patrol for 2 weeks.
00:30:01
No, we're going to put you at the the library. I mean, sorry. If you say yes, you are [snorts] on bike patrol for
00:30:06
>> Yeah, if you say yes, guess what? You're going to be working the local True Crime
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Garage flea market sale. Parker was born in 1994. When he was just 3 years old, the parents split up.
00:30:20
Leo was the parent who raised Parker, but Parker would visit with his father often.
00:30:26
They stayed out of touch, Parker's parents, for many years and didn't always see eye to eye on things,
00:30:34
didn't get along very well, and didn't talk about anything that wasn't necessary to discuss. You know, you you
00:30:41
talk about as much as you need to when you are raising a child together. But, what ultimately
00:30:47
brought them back into contact together wasn't just the peace pipe being passed or the olive branch being extended. It
00:30:56
was actually the grinding continuation of what felt like a lack of justice in their son's
00:31:03
case. What was happening here, Captain, was information was being handled in a way that was splitting the family. The
00:31:11
district attorney's office and the police department gave Parker's father details that Leah wasn't given, and then
00:31:19
also gave Leah details that Parker's father wasn't given. So, there was a breakdown in communication, and they
00:31:25
decided, "Look, we neither of us should have uneven access to what's going on in our son's murder
00:31:31
investigation." So, they decided, "Look, their love for Parker much, much bigger
00:31:36
than their for each other. their disagreements that they had over the years. And they didn't live in even in the same
00:31:48
city. So, that's also a bit of a complication here. Now, Leah remarried. She moved to Florida,
00:31:56
eventually moves to Georgia. Yeah. She raised Parker in the greater Atlanta area of Georgia.
00:32:06
Later, once Parker was much older, Leah moved to Warner Robins. There's an Air Force base there, and her
00:32:15
husband, her current husband, worked at the was a government worker at the base.
00:32:22
So, she moves to Warner Robins in May of 2015. At that time, Parker had just turned 21 in March of 2015.
00:32:31
He had already been in the Atlanta area for 10-plus years. His friends were there. His life was there, he had a
00:32:37
girlfriend there. Everything he knew was there. And so of course this young man didn't
00:32:43
want to follow his mother to Warner Robins. In fact, Leah said his words were he'd rather live in his car than in
00:32:51
Warner Robins. So she moves and Parker stayed. He was on his own, he did well for a
00:32:57
while, but hit a couple of hard patches and needed a soft place to land. So Parker
00:33:03
eventually does move to Warner Robins. This is in March of 2017. And he was killed in January of 2018. He
00:33:11
never saw his 24th birthday. This meant Parker lived in Warner Robins for only about 9 months.
00:33:19
But in that short time Leah said Parker made an impact that stunned her. People who hadn't known him long were moved by
00:33:26
him. I spoke with Leah, Parker's mother, and we spoke with Andy, Parker's father, Right. and learned a
00:33:38
lot about the area, learned a lot about the the time period. We were told that one of the questions we had, what was
00:33:47
going on with this uptick in violence? So we were told that Warner Robins is a military town that exists only because
00:33:53
of the base. Basically it it it exists because of the base. They say it's not a small town that naturally grew into
00:34:00
something else. It only exists because of the base. And they tell us it's become crime-riddled.
00:34:07
About 25 minutes north is Macon, Georgia. An area with a history also crime-riddled. People, locals,
00:34:15
describe Warner Robins as becoming a mini Macon. And what has been said is that gang activity possibly traced
00:34:25
back toward the Atlanta area had moved south over the years. In January 2018, there were reportedly
00:34:34
three homicides, about half of what the entire year had in 2017. We wanted to know what what was this
00:34:42
uptick in violence? Andy Parker's dad said he wouldn't describe it that simply, saying based on what they had looked
00:34:50
into, some of the men being focused on in these three cases had histories that included violent crimes.
00:35:01
They also said that they were following the Warner Robins police page, naturally, and saw daily posts about
00:35:08
arrests, drugs, guns, and all kinds of other concerning things. Now, Parker had worked at Barberitos in
00:35:16
Atlanta. He worked there for a couple of years, and he knew the owners, brothers
00:35:21
Phil and Martin. The brothers owned a couple of Barberitos locations, including the Warner Robins
00:35:28
store. So, when Parker moved down to Warner Robins in March of 2017, he needs a job. Right. And his mother, Leah, told
00:35:35
us a sentence that feels like she's been carrying this sentence around like a daily bruise.
00:35:42
This is something that she told us that she would never forgive herself for what
00:35:47
she said to her son. She told Parker, "Why don't you just go to Barberitos and tell them
00:35:53
you live here now, and they'll give you a job." Yeah, but she has to let that go. So, Parker goes into the store,
00:36:00
says, "Hey, my name is Parker." Tells the manager, "Why don't you call Phil and Martin and let them know I want a
00:36:05
job here." Right? The manager's like, "Who the hell do you think you are?" [laughter]
00:36:12
Right. But he calls one of the owners anyway, telling him that look, some joker just walked in the
00:36:18
store acting like a badass telling me to call and tell you that he needs a job. I
00:36:23
like it. I would have hired him. The ow- the owner says, "Well, who is it? What's
00:36:28
the guy's name?" And when the manager tells the owner the guy's name is Parker, the owner says immediately, "Oh my god,
00:36:37
tell him okay. Yes, give him a job right now." So, he had a great working relationship
00:36:43
with the owners at the previous Barberitos that he worked at in Atlanta. And of course,
00:36:49
they were very happy to welcome into the Warner Robins store. Leah and Andy both
00:36:55
said Parker loved music and soccer. He loved skateboarding, video games. He will most be remembered for how much he
00:37:01
simply loved people and how he treated people around him. And he was always eager to help friends,
00:37:07
loved ones, and even just acquaintances. Yeah. People from Barberitos told Leah that when they saw Parker was
00:37:16
working, they knew it was going to be a great night. That he just made the place
00:37:20
all better. But on the night of the robbery and the shooting, Parker wasn't supposed to be there. He wasn't going to
00:37:28
be working that night. In fact, he wasn't going to be working at Barberitos for much longer at all.
00:37:33
Parker had career plans. The Air Force. Yeah. He had student loans and other financial
00:37:40
responsibilities that he needed to handle first. He was trying to work as many hours as possible to pay things
00:37:46
down so he could just move forward. He was He was going to the Air Force. The night he was working, again, he wasn't
00:37:52
even supposed to be there. Parker's car had been out of commission. He was in the process of getting it fixed.
00:37:59
So, that evening, a friend called, the person fixing the car calls, says, "The car's fixed. The car is ready."
00:38:07
Parker and his stepfather go to pick up the vehicle. They picked it up early that evening. Leah believes that this
00:38:15
was around 5-ish, [snorts] sometime in the 5:00 hour. And Parker started driving his car back home. In that
00:38:22
stretch of time. A call came in from work. Someone there felt terrible, needed to leave, and asked Parker if
00:38:30
they would come in and finish the shift. Now, we were told Parker is kind of known as the yes man, always willing to
00:38:36
help, and he liked his time at Barburrito. So, people knew if they asked, he would say yes, he would help. Plus,
00:38:44
he wanted to get extra money. Absolutely. Parker's last Snapchat was a photo of the sun setting behind trees,
00:38:53
to which Parker wrote, "Got a new job. The Infiniti is fixed. Tis a good day." This Snapchat was sent out at
00:39:03
the 5:00 hour. He was killed that night. We also spoke with somebody that we're going to call witness A. So,
00:39:13
there is good reason to criticize the police and the prosecution for the prosecuting the prosecutor's
00:39:20
office in this case. There's also good reason to defend them. But, it's details like
00:39:28
this that give me great concern for the case. And where the case sits today, we know the FBI is involved, we know the
00:39:36
Georgia Bureau of Investigation is involved. That's the right move here. But, this murder happened 8 years ago.
00:39:44
Witness A and is an absolutely great witness. And there were possibly six or seven very good witnesses here at the
00:39:51
Barburrito's that night. Our friend witness A has been interviewed over the course of
00:39:57
8 years a total of three times. Twice by Warner Robins Police Department and once
00:40:03
by True Crime Garage. That's it. So, that's another rather big mistake in my humble garage opinion here in this case.
00:40:11
Well, let's be honest with people. We run a flea market. We're no We're not law enforcement.
00:40:17
Well, and if you only >> used coffee mugs. If you only conduct the interview twice,
00:40:23
that also I would like to see the transcripts for that because I wonder how thorough of those those interviews
00:40:27
were. So, witness A started working at Barberitos about a year or so before the robbery
00:40:33
and knew Parker for about 6 months their time together at the Barberitos. Witness A says,
00:40:40
"Parker was super friendly and described as someone who just got along with everyone."
00:40:46
Saying, "I mean there was some definite characters coming in and out that worked
00:40:50
with us, so I guess there was at least maybe one person who didn't get along with him, but you had to be crazy not to
00:40:56
get along with him." Parker's position, he was the shift lead. The night of the murder was a Sunday. We have four people
00:41:03
working in total that night, and that's typical the typical number of staff. Right. You have
00:41:10
a bartender. You have the shift lead, which is Parker, who was also the line cook. You have a
00:41:17
cashier, and you have a dishwasher. So, if you could picture this restaurant, and there are several restaurants
00:41:25
throughout this country, franchise restaurants, that are very similar to Barberitos. Up in up in my neck of the
00:41:30
woods, it's Yabo's Tacos. And you go in and it's usually a staff of four. You have a bar that is well separated from
00:41:38
the kitchen area. You have your in-house dining area, and you usually have a little patio area.
00:41:47
So, that's what you have here. Four people working that night. We were told by witness A that Sundays were usually
00:41:53
slower, especially toward the end of the day, telling us that the morning times, you would get the
00:41:59
church crowd, and they would get very busy, but toward the evening, it was always kind of slow. We asked witness A
00:42:07
what their opinion was on why the robber would choose to pick a slow day and because there's
00:42:15
some suspicion here Captain and I know you share the suspicion that possibly most of these
00:42:21
businesses, especially the smaller sized ones is usually some kind of inside job
00:42:28
and it doesn't usually that doesn't always mean it's somebody that's currently working there, but it's
00:42:32
usually somebody that has some kind of knowledge of that business, the way that it's run or
00:42:37
has worked at that specific business at one time. Well, and what's tough is one there's multiple locations. So, the
00:42:45
individual could have worked at any of the [clears throat] locations. But also these
00:42:50
types of these types of jobs have high turnover rate. So, could this be somebody that worked there for a week or
00:42:57
two and said, "I don't want to work here anymore, but now I have some details about this, so I'm going to
00:43:03
rob them one day." Our question was, "Well, why wouldn't if the person had a general understanding of the business,
00:43:09
let's pretend that for a moment." Why wouldn't this man have robbed the place on
00:43:15
Saturday night with the opportunity to make off with a lot more cash? And witness A just simply said, "Well, if
00:43:23
they knew the business, they would have known that we would be slow on a Sunday night and it would be less
00:43:28
witnesses, less people in the store." Right. We're also assuming that this was highly planned out and it probably
00:43:35
wasn't. Witness A says that Parker showed up that evening at 6:00 to 6:30-ish and back to Parker's family, one thing
00:43:47
they expressed to us is that they seem to think that the perpetrator had moved pretty easily in and out and through the
00:43:56
restaurant and it's been their suspicion that maybe he had prior working knowledge of this store. Now, at the
00:44:04
time of the robbery, there were anywhere from about six to eight persons in the store depending on who you talked to.
00:44:11
This is at the time that the robber entered. And I would say there's three very good witnesses
00:44:18
to the events because some of the people in the store were able to flee or to hide to find a location to hide in the
00:44:27
store. Witness A says that as soon as the robber came into the Barberitos, he came in through the back door,
00:44:35
through the back door, and went into the office area immediately. And Witness A says, "I'm not sure how he
00:44:43
knew to just go in there. I don't know if the office door was open so that he could see that it was an office,
00:44:50
but I do know that the back door had issues with it not locking properly while we were working. You could just
00:44:56
push the door and it would open." I told Witness A about the family suspicions, and Witness A confirmed
00:45:07
saying, "Yeah, this was always very suspicious to us. We were always wondering why he knew to immediately go
00:45:14
into the office." Yeah. Witness A continues. That's suspicious. Saying, "Well, okay,
00:45:21
so uh let me give you the layout. You have four doors that get you to the outside.
00:45:27
You have the main entrance, which is in the front of the house. That's where the customers will
00:45:32
typically go in and out of. You have the back door, which is often utilized by the employees, and you also
00:45:39
have an emergency exit, uh which is also near the rear of the restaurant. When we asked Witness A if there was an
00:45:48
alarm, if that would sound an alarm on the emergency exit, we were told they don't think that it would because one of
00:45:55
the people that one of the customers fled out that door during the course of that robbery, and there was no
00:46:04
alarm that went off. Witness A continues saying, "We close at 10:00. So, he came in around 9:30.
00:46:13
He came in right before closing. We were starting to clean up and get ready to go
00:46:19
and it was about 30 minutes before closing. We asked what general operations were like,
00:46:26
especially around closing time and we were told we would try and clean up everything as much as we can. We have to
00:46:32
take orders if someone comes in at the last minute, but usually yes, we are cleaning up everything. And once we
00:46:40
lock the doors at closing time, then Parker, who was the shift lead, would take the money out of the register,
00:46:48
taking it back to the office to go count it. That So, let's paint a little bit of a
00:46:52
picture here as far as our suspicions about our robber. He very well could have just come in
00:46:58
that back door, saw the office was open and ducked in there for cover briefly or did he think it was a little
00:47:07
later than what it was and that the money would already be in there and he could just grab it and go? Right.
00:47:12
Witness A says that they had been in the restroom, so they were coming out of the
00:47:16
restroom from the hallway saying, "I walked up to the register and worker number one and Parker are
00:47:25
standing close to where you enter into the kitchen. Worker one says to Parker and Witness A,
00:47:33
"Somebody dressed in all black just went into the office. I don't think he's supposed to be back there."
00:47:40
So, Parker starts to walk back. Worker number one tells Witness A, "Don't go back there." But, basically what you get
00:47:47
here is all three of them are making their way back toward the office area. Now, we're talking about This is not a
00:47:55
big restaurant. This is not a not a large business, so it's just a matter of a few feet. Witness A says before they
00:48:02
could get to the office door, the robber comes barging out of the office with a gun pointing at all three
00:48:09
of them. We wanted to confirm 100% did this guy come in the back door? You know, did he
00:48:16
Did he come in the You sure he didn't come in the front door? You sure he didn't come in the emergency exit? Are
00:48:20
you sure he wasn't hiding in one of the restrooms? Right. And we were told by witness A absolutely
00:48:27
we know he came in the back door because worker number one saw him come in the back door and said that immediately to
00:48:35
Parker and witness A. Witness A says, "I immediately put my hands up to show that
00:48:41
I'm not a threat." The robber starts telling us to get the money out. We wanted to know what was the first thing
00:48:47
that you saw? His face, his outfit, his feet, his gun? What was the first thing that you see?
00:48:53
Witness A says, "The first thing I saw is the gun." We asked, "What did it look like?"
00:48:58
It was described as a long-barreled silver revolver, which you can see that in the surveillance picture, and you can
00:49:05
also see that same gun as witness A describes it in the Chevron picture as well.
00:49:12
When asked what was the first thing that he said, we were told, "I don't remember his exact wording. He
00:49:19
told us to get the money out of the register." So we have the three of our workers are
00:49:24
now standing near the register, and we wanted to know, "Do all three of you have access to the register?" We
00:49:30
were told yes. So they're behind the counter, the robber is just to the left of them.
00:49:37
And he's yelling at them that they are taking too long. We wanted to know a description, a very
00:49:45
good description of this man. What What does he look like? What is he wearing? We already got the description of the
00:49:50
gun. We're told he was wearing all black and the words were and I remember he had
00:49:57
like a black beanie on and a bandana around his face. So, all I could see was his eyes.
00:50:06
What color are his eyes? They were dark, dark brown and he's a dark-skinned man.
00:50:12
What was his build? Is he tall, short, thin, fat, medium, what? We asked. We were told he was thin and
00:50:20
he wasn't very tall, possibly 5 ft 9 to 5 ft 10 in tall. Mhm. The part that I mean, it's
00:50:29
just horrific that they hand over the money and I'm going to be brief on this part of it because I
00:50:37
don't want to linger on these details too much as we know the family and persons that worked at the Barburrito's
00:50:44
will be working that that were working there that night will be listening to this. But, he got what he wanted. And
00:50:50
then he shoots worker number one in the head and then shoots Parker in the head and then flees.
00:50:59
Almost as like, oh, I've one or two more things to do before I leave here. Even though he got what he wanted. Yeah.
00:51:07
Police have footage of this individual working his way to the Barburrito's so he can be seen. He's
00:51:15
seen on surveillance footage making his way to that back door. What I am curious about is if they have
00:51:22
that because witness A says he then fled out the back door the best that they can
00:51:27
remember. Because by this time witness A has has ducked for cover and eventually will be
00:51:34
one of the people calling 911 as well will be a customer. And remember the other customers plus the bartender had
00:51:43
fled during the once the commotion started. Right. So, surveillance, do you see him getting into any vehicle? That's
00:51:51
what I want to know. That's the part that is not available online. We can see pictures of him going into the store,
00:52:00
and without the description of hey, here's some pictures of him leaving, we don't have that. And I would like to
00:52:06
know what do they know about him leaving? And again, this outfit described just the same as
00:52:11
the Chevron, and the description of the man what could be seen of the man, same description, gun is the same.
00:52:18
This is a cold cold-blooded person. You can't have somebody this violent. He's a
00:52:26
homicidal maniac on the streets. I hope he's been picked up for something else. There were
00:52:33
a slew of other armed robberies around this same time period in the Warner Robins area. Are those connected? I
00:52:41
can't say. It's difficult to say because in those scenarios, the persons working were left unharmed. They
00:52:51
were left alive. In our case, worker number one survives somehow. Parker Killion Moore did not.
00:53:01
Now, the other thing too, given the suspected age of the suspect, and given the gang activity in the area at the time,
00:53:12
my suspicions would be that this person is too dumb not to talk. Yeah, but he's probably also talking to
00:53:20
other dumbasses. Right. I hope he is. Right. I hope that he is. You know, but there's not many
00:53:27
gang members that just decide to go into the police department and go, "Hey, we True. But we can agree that one thing
00:53:33
that gets you caught is stupid. Stupid will get you caught every day. Well, not when law enforcement doesn't
00:53:40
even understand simple colors. So, it spends 5 years trying to pin the crime on somebody that
00:53:47
wasn't involved in the crime. A quick reminder here, if somebody needs to get in touch with
00:53:52
law enforcement about this case, the Warner Robins Police Department number is 478-302-5378.
00:54:02
We have been checking in on this case and we'll continue to to check in and keep tabs on this case.
00:54:09
We're hearing good things as of late. We're hearing that there is a little smoke around this
00:54:17
investigation. We're hoping that that's going to be followed with some fire. We know that this is a multi-agency
00:54:23
investigation at this point. We also know that there's an ongoing reward for information
00:54:31
in Parker Killion Moore's case. Even more reason for somebody that's overheard something to come forward.
00:54:38
But, this is a case that's dragged on for too long. And it's a case that many are surprised
00:54:44
it wasn't solved rather quickly. Now, again, they were going down the wrong path.
00:54:51
They figured that out at some point. A little late, but they figured it out at some point.
00:54:57
So, I would rather you be rather late than never. Yeah. Number one. And number two, my
00:55:04
other suggestion would be when we talk to people, when True Crime Garage talks to people about this case,
00:55:10
and talks to people that are very good witnesses, and they tell us they've been talked to
00:55:14
twice in the course of 8 years, you need to interview, interview, interview, interview everyone multiple
00:55:21
times, multiple, multiple times in very thorough, thorough interviews. I went through
00:55:28
what was about 10 minutes of our discussion with this witness. We He every question under
00:55:37
the sun. One thing to our surprise, we said, "Hey, did this did the robber have an accent? Did they sound like you know,
00:55:46
this is Georgia." I said, "Did he sound like me, like a Yankee?" Yeah, was he a Georgia peach?
00:55:53
>> Did he sound like somebody from the south? Did he sound like uh like he's putting on an accent. To which
00:56:01
the witness said, "He sounded like he created, you know, a learned accent of inner-city kind of thug talk." Was
00:56:11
the vibe that this person got. When this person expressed that to police, they were told,
00:56:18
"That's not important. You're probably misremembering because it was so stressful, you've been traumatized, the
00:56:26
PTSD, you're probably not remembering correctly." Well, I'll tell you what, let's not start dying diagnosing things
00:56:33
that we don't understand. And let's not dismiss something as being misremembered
00:56:39
until we can prove that it was misremembered. When you have the man's eyes, bridge of his nose, his height,
00:56:46
his weight, the gun, his outfit, and that's about it for the description, it might be important how the individual
00:56:55
talks. Right, but if you have tunnel vision and for 5 years or more, you're trying to make the shoe fit,
00:57:05
where the shoe doesn't fit, you you're not going to [clears throat] want to keep talking to individuals that
00:57:11
basically is giving you information that's trying to deter you from what your tunnel vision is. Well,
00:57:20
the other thing that's crazy is on that tunnel vision, the guy you arrested for the first murder is a thug, an
00:57:28
inner-city thug. And don't call me racist because I use the word thug. That doesn't describe somebody's color. That
00:57:35
describes somebody how they act and the actions that they do in the way that they move throughout society. Yeah, and
00:57:42
he he murdered somebody. >> This person is is a um there's no difference between this
00:57:49
guy who killed Jack Patel at Chevron and then 8 days later kills Parker Moore in
00:57:56
Barberitos and attempts to kill the other worker by shooting him in the head as well. There's no difference between
00:58:02
him and the I-70 killer that walked into five different stores and murdered six different people in cold blood. There's
00:58:09
no difference between that serial killer and this individual. Right. That's the evil that we're talking about here. And
00:58:17
I hope and pray that they have somebody in their sights and not just have them in their sights, but he's locked up for
00:58:23
something else. Because he couldn't stop. I don't know where to take this case but to say that
00:58:29
we will continue to keep an eye on it. It's a multi-agency case where it stands today. I think that's the right move.
00:58:37
And Warner Robins Police Department, go back and talk to all these witnesses. Go
00:58:41
back back and talk to everybody. And guess what? Go talk to the individual that was convicted and sentenced to 25
00:58:48
years for murder at the apartments because these people talk. These people might move in the same circles. That guy
00:58:56
stands to win a little bit if he knows something and can communicate that to you.
00:59:06
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