Mystery On The Path - Simsbury, Connecticut

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Are you poorly? - Sorry, Deadwood references. So it's all clear the lungs here, arms to the sky. And let's all shout. ♪ Shout out and kill me murder ♪ - Let's do this everybody. - Oh, hey. - Well, let's go on a trip, shall we? Let's do it. We are going to Connecticut this week. - Hey. - Here it is, going to Connecticut. We've had a bunch of Northeast states lately. We're going to Simsbury, Connecticut. - Where the hell is that? - I think it's a town in the Sims game. I think it's where you build your house in the Sims game. Your PlayStation. Oh, I'm going to Simsbury and I'm gonna build a house in the real terrible things. - That's what it seems like. This is in North Central, Connecticut. It's outside of Hartford. That's the area here. It's about 25 minutes from Hartford, right? - So you got in Hartford? - I think so. - Or is it in Yale's in New Haven, right? - Yeah, Yale's in New Haven. - I think you cons in Hartford. - Bridgeport. Why do I want to say bridgeport? - I can't remember. No, 'cause that's trying to think of Aaron Hernandez when he did private sports where he was. So who knows, it really doesn't matter. But it's an interesting thing to think about though. There's also, it's about two and a half hours to New York City. If you wanna go down there. It's about an hour and 15 to Waterford, Connecticut. Our last Connecticut episode, episode 661 serial killer desires. - You bet. - That was, they were finding a bunch of women posed in a certain way all over the place and it was pretty gross stuff there. Very interesting too. This is in Hartford County, area codes 860 and 959. Can't hold these people back with one area code. Median household income here, more than double the national average, actually just about double the national average. It's 134,688 is the median household income. Median home cost here, also a little bit high. But not as high as some of these areas. No 392,400, that's not that terrible for. Incredibly affordable if you're making $177,000 a year. - Exactly, that's not bad at all. A little bit of history of this town. In 19, or in 1643, John Griffin and Michael Humphrey, they started a tar and turpentine business. Jesus. And then a few years later, an Indian guy named Manahana Nus started a fire, which destroyed all the tar that belonged to Griffin. Get outta here with your tar, God damn it. Another thing, on Tuesday, December 20th, 1859, the two story patent safety fuse factory located near the center of town exploded. - Yeah. - Just exploded. - Just gunpowder, yeah. - Killed seven women and one man. And the blast injured several other people, including the factory owner. The factory made cord fast burning fuses used for blasting. So like dynamite, that fuse for dynamite, yeah. Which resulted in the explosion, obviously. - Fast burning ones. - Fast burning. - Yeah, well, you know, you know, that's funny. Just people with no fingers by in those all the time. - Yeah. - I got nothing to lose, fuck it. - Built for the guy that doesn't have time for a speech after he lights the dynamite. - He's had no time for that horse shit. He doesn't want any hero coming in and putting it out. - This thing is going out. - Pouring water on her. - No, no, no. - Wicking her finger in it. (laughing) - Reviews of this town, 'cause I've never been here. I don't know what this is all about. Here's five stars. Feels like a hallmark movie sometimes here. - I believe that. - That's a lot of these little quaint towns kind of feel like that. - Some of the trees, it's so beautiful. - Trees they have little main streets, a little shops on them. - Shows a snow in the winter. - Totally, a quaint New England town that caters to families is safe, has great schools and beautiful parks, lots of recreation around. - Could be boring if you're single and looking for more nightlife. Yeah, this is a married with kids and a yard suburb. This isn't an out trolling for trim over here. That's not what's going on. - Sure. - So there's that love that New York city is close by for when you want that excitement. Two and a half hours isn't that close? - That's not close at all. - That's a pretty good track there. - That's all day round trip. - Jesus. - I mean, you could take a train I guess, but he's exhausted. - Here's two stars. I know a lot of under employed middle aged people, including myself, that have been unemployed and are having or have had to, or have had a very hard time finding employment in their field for what they're worth, which I don't think that's regional. I think that goes for-- - Yeah, I think that's just everywhere. - What's going on? - Yeah. - That's just America. - Also, what's your worth? Who's to say? - Doesn't the market determine that? - Well, yeah, what they're worth is, here's my mortgage payment. - Yeah. (laughs) - Here's my car payment, I got my kids school. I got worth whatever costs for all the shit they're on. That's what I'm worth. - That's what my talent is worth. - Absolutely. And then finally, two stars. There's no one-star reviews of this joint, by the way. Two-star, there are tons of restaurants, but the nightlife is awful. It's very family-oriented. So, if you're looking to settle down and take it down a notch, this is a great place to go, but otherwise it doesn't seem like it's real. - It's tough to pick 'em up at Chili's every week. - Not a party town. - Yeah, yeah, the Applebee's waitresses can only do so much. You know what I mean? They can only go out with so many people in this town, really. I mean, it's time. - We're gonna bang one a few times. - Things to do here, they have SimsBerry celebrates. This is their holiday affair here, where they have a whole town in all these different places, the library, churches, the scout hall, all these different events. They have the nutcracker. They have that, they're gonna put on a thing of that. They have a live naftivity scene, which is always creepy. It's scout hall, they're gonna have a show called Kinetic Yooks, like Yucolalis. Kinetic Yucolalis, I don't know how you would do that, but then there is selfies with Santa and Jingles the Elf. - Well, I like that better. Selfies, as long as Jingles is there, then it's fine. - I don't want it. Just to be like they're setting it up to rob the mall, right? Jingles the elf. That sounds like a harbored. We don't have a camera. You can take selfies with us and get lost. Take a fucking hike. He's trying anyway and trying to fucking check so that she shits sideways. What did he say? I can't even remember. You're not gonna shit right for a week. You're gonna shit right for a week. That's what it was. Yeah. There's also performances by faculty and staff from the falsetti school of music. All right. Oh boy. Family Cornhole games with cider and donuts. Smores and fire pits they have. An ice carving demonstration. Jesus sounds bleak. Let me tell you. This performance is here by Bryson Lang, the professional comedy juggler. Oh god, Jesus Christ killed me. I swear to God, I'd rather I would rather be I would rather be beaten to death by seven hundred five year olds than watch a comedy juggler for five minutes. In the 80s there was one guy that was pretty good. But it was I mean it wasn't just the normal dumb shit. You know, I mean where I mean it's normal dumb shit now. But he was like the originator of the normal dumb shit. I remember they were good. I forget his name. A couple of guys that did an act together. That was kind of a famous thing in the 80s. There's a guy that had like a bowling ball and an egg and he called it like the natural enemy of the egg. I remember this. It sounds familiar to me. And then he was like he then he juggled an apple with the bowling ball and an egg and he would take a bite out of the apple every time. Yeah. And then the grand finale is to smash the egg on his face. Yeah, he did like comedy shows. Like he was on like I don't know if it's evening at the improv, but stuff like that. He'd see him. He was probably on the show. He was great shit like that. But then that turned into this shit. Now we have this unfortunately here. That said, let's talk about some murder here because we have a crazy murder. Okay. Let's start out hot November 20th, 2014. It's 8 p.m. in Simsbury here. It's dark. It's yeah, it's dark out by night. It's November. It's cold and dark. It's dark. It's shit. Yeah. So and there's going to be a light that's missing in this area too. That'll contribute to the darkness. There's a car driving south on iron horse boulevard. Now the driver in their headlights sees a woman off to the side of the road lying on the road bleeding. Inter in that just caught it in the headlights. Yeah. So this driver calls 911. And calls 911. It says it looks like maybe this lady fell off a bicycle. She's in the road bleeding. So you know, maybe you can want to send somebody out for that possibly. Is she alert and everything? Is she talking? No, no, she fell hard. She fell hard. Yeah. So we don't know, but there's no bicycle right there that they can see, but he came to the conclusion that it was a bike. He'd said it looked like the, why this position and it's pitch black out and he just put his headlights over a body. So I don't think he searched for a bike either. I mean, if you fall off a bike, the bike might go off that way. Sure. I've watched far too many of those where they leave where the killer where a killer leaves a body and my first thing is watch out everybody's in danger. Yeah. So the first responder show up here. Yeah. And they said that when they first officer showed up, several people were standing over a woman who was lying on her left side covered in blood next to the footpath near the Rotary Park playground. So now several people have gathered now. It started out with just a driver. Everybody's getting a look. Yeah. The driver's still there. This where it is is a very common bike and jogging path. Okay. Also. So there's a lot of like pedestrian activity on that path off to the side. And it's like one of the main roads in town too. So there's a lot of car activity too. Now the officer finds the woman unresponsive laying on her left side. Like we said, bleeding from what looks bleeding. What looks like the chest. Okay. Which is an odd injury to have falling off a bike. Bicycle. Yeah. She still has a headlamp on her head. Oh. She was out, you know, jogging. Yeah. That's okay. I can see where you got it now. Still wearing a reflective vest. Okay. Her clothing law looks intact. She never pants around her ankles. Nobody tries tried to attack her or anything like that. There's no visible wounds on her hands or anything like that. It doesn't look like there's any kind of struggle. It looks like she must have just either fallen or they start thinking that possibly it's a hit and run at this point because they're should not mess in whether too much or waiting for the paramedics and everybody like that. So CPR has started. She's loaded into an ambulance, transported to a nearby hospital. She is from what we understand technically still alive when they load her into the hospital. I don't know how though. Might have been a fake heartbeat. Possible pulse, but she is pronounced dead at the hospital before 9 p.m. So within an hour of the call coming in, she's pronounced dead. So we find out who she was and her name is Melissa Joan Millen, my LLAN. She's born October 30, 1960 and she's a real go-getter, high-powered lady. Yeah. I mean, well, anybody who gets a headlamp and reflective vest and goes out in the cold and dark, they're pretty into working out or whatever she's concerned about her safety too. Exactly. She's all buttoned up. She has all the right equipment. She has everything she needs. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Her parents are oh, bunny and yeah, bunny is her mom's name and her dad's name is Tito. Nice. And she's raised in Simsbury. She has a couple of brothers. She went to Simsbury high school. She was secretary of her senior class co-captain of the cross-country team. She was in the orchestra. She did the string quartet. She's a very active lady here. Everybody says she's like a natural leader. She's always a leader of everything here. So she graduated from Simsbury and went to Middlebury College in Vermont and graduated in '84 with a Bachelor of Arts. She went into the insurance business right away. Entry level. She worked at Sun Life and she started her ascent in her career. And she does very well for herself as we'll find out here. In 1999, she gets married at some point in here. She finds a husband who then they have a son named Zachary here. And she ended up somewhere and going back to school, going to Harvard, though, where she gets an executive MBA, which is from Harvard, from Harvard, which is very impressive. Absolutely. But they take more people later in life like that, like in their 30s. I'm not sure if this was some sort of, like I said, I don't know if she was going five days a week and was there because she's working full-time and as kids while this is going on. She's probably doing some online shifts. Some kind of correspondence in '99, so that would be well. Oh, that wouldn't be online. Yeah. Probably not. So she's got kids. She also does triathlons. Like, wow. I don't know where she gets time in the day when we talk about her life. In 2001, she joined Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mass Mutual, in Springfield, Massachusetts. That's where their corporate headquarters are, I guess. In 2002, she has a daughter named Victoria as well. Now, she's a triathlete. She trains with certain different groups that all do the things here. She competes in events all around the Northeast. She's all running swimming, right? Yeah, I think so. That's triathlete. She volunteered at the Connecticut Family Theater in West Hartford, where her kids took classes. She volunteered. She was like one of the soccer coaches. I don't know where she has time in the day for this, too. It's crazy. In 2012, she gets a divorce. I don't know. Now, as part of the settlement, she is paying her husband monthly alimony. In the amount of, would you like to take a guess on the amount? Uh, 2000 a month, $8,000 a month in alimony. She is telling it. She's paying him that. She's, so she means she's making a fortune. Fortune number one. Number two, she's paying money like an NFL running back for alimony. Like, this is crazy. She is shooting guard or an insurance lady. What's happening? That's incredible. That's nuts. So, and by 2014, she was senior vice president of the company, a huge insurance company. So she's doing great. She was the eighth highest paid person at the company. I mean, yeah, it sounds like it. So her husband, her husband's the 12th highest paid. Yeah, he's too fantastic. She had a, um, she ran a retirement services portfolio. As you know, in life insurance has for corporate stuff as those kind of retirement things built into it. She's got over a billion dollars that she's managing. She's got a team of analysts and she does, you know, she's real important in this business here. So the night of that we found her in November 20 of 2014 at 8 p.m. She went out or a little before that. She went out to jog six miles as she does. Which again, that's really, really. That's very out three back. That's ambitious for me. Yeah. She's wearing all the reflective shit in the headlamp and she's safe and she does this all the time. So the police initial theory is hit and run. It's gotta be. They think she must have been hit by car, the position of her body in the road because her body went like over a guardrail in the middle and ended up on the side. So they're like, it went like over the jogging path into the road over the guardrail. So they're like, there's no obvious. There's no weapon anywhere. There's no signs of a struggle or anything like that. It looks like it had to be some kind of hit and run. Somebody hauling ass down the bike path though. Knock her off or something. I don't know. So they secured the area. They canvassed the road. They looked all up and down the road for evidence of vehicles with a collision, you know, any damage on them blood or anything like that. They got witness statements. Then though, they get everything back from the hospital and they find out it's not a hit and run at all. What is not even close to it? It's actually cause of death is determined to be a stab wound to the chest. One one single stab wound to the chest. That's a close penetrating wound that punctured her heart and lung. Oh, killed her pretty fast. No other injuries, no broken bones, no skull fractures, no blunt and her body tried to survive. Apparently, yeah, well, she's a very healthy woman. She's not, you know, she's in a prime of her life and healthy too. So it's one single stab wound right in the chest. So it's very efficient as far as murders go. It's almost hit man worthy. Yeah, to be able to do one shot and know the person's done and walk away and that's off. Yeah, that's a lot. So yeah, it's either somebody's real, you know, just has a horseshoe up their ass. They're very lucky or, you know, as a murderer as far as a lucky murderer would go, Hey, I got it one shot or this is a very concerted effort and someone knows what they're doing. So the news breaks here and it's a big deal because she's a senior senior vice president of a big company in the area and stabbed on a public bike path in a suburban town on a weeknight. Like this is crazy shit. It wasn't three in the morning. It was 8 p.m. And you usually suspect a husband or a significant other in a case like this, but the last person that you want to suspect is a guy that's getting paid eight grand a month. That's, that's the thing. It would make sense if he died, they'd look at her, but the other way around is kind of, no, I want her forever. Do you want her to keep work? I want her to rise and rise and rise. I want to make so much money. Mass mutual release is a statement saying Melissa was an incredible person at an outstanding leader. And we were fortunate to have her as part of our mass mutual family for more than a decade. We're encouraged to learn that there are developments in her case and continue to keep Melissa and her family and our thoughts. So now the developments are the fact that they found out she was stabbed and not, and not run over. Now the initial leads here. Okay. This is a town of, you know, we say 24,000 people or something here. You know, 24,000 people and not a lot of homicides. This was the first, you know, homicide since 2012. So it's a very efficient assassination style strike. That's what's so odd. So the Connecticut state police major crime squad comes in because especially because she's a high-powered executive. That's also a possibility that they're thinking of this could be a big deal. This could be some international, you know, this could be some assassin sent over from Sri Lanka to kill her and then get back on a plane. We have no idea where there could be a man sitting in a Al-Tuna McDonald's. Yes. With a big knife in his backpack. We don't know. So they come in the office of the state's attorneys general attorneys is briefed. You know, the FBI will end up on this. But the first place they look ex-husband just because that's the first one you have to look at. To anybody, maybe at mass mutual with a motive, maybe somebody that wanted her job, possibly somebody who she who got fired, somebody who didn't get what they needed out of it. It's very rare that an executive ascends to an executive office and didn't step on somebody's fucking head on the way up. Yeah, exactly. You never know. And also, they want to look at sex offenders in the area. Oh, just because it's a public thing. It's a woman and maybe, you know, she could have, they could have tried to sexually assault her in some way. And she, you know, wasn't having. Maybe this wasn't the plan. Right. So who knows now the ex-husband, he's paying her acre and or she's paying him acre and a month in sal and alimony. So, you know, they talked to him because they thought maybe obviously he wouldn't want her to stop paying the money, but maybe there's been friction because of this. Maybe they've been fighting over it. Maybe she gets mad at him and then whatever. So who knows. But he's quickly ruled out as a suspect. He has a rock solid alibi. Yeah. It is not the ex- And he's doing great there. So there's no evidence of anything. He cooperated with police that everything they wanted took polygraphs cleared him. Okay. So, the problem is though, as this investigation goes on and they find no other real suspects. Yeah. Basically, everyone in Simsbury just assumes he did it. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. There's a detective that says that he calls, he talks about the husband's experience after this. And he said that this poor guy basically had a shroud of suspicion. He said there are children who want to know what happened to their mother. And there's an ex-husband who had this shroud of suspicion hovering over his head the whole time. So they were like a kind of sucks because we cleared it. Like as far as the police, he was not even never thought about him again. What's that put out of press release to stop fuck with this man? Well, they did too. I mean, they said he's been cleared as a suspect. It doesn't matter. That's rumors are rumors. I mean, people whisper and they go, because he got away with it, because he makes a grand a month off of her. So he paid a guy, you know, that's all small town horseshit. Then there's the mass mutual theory. She manages a huge portfolio with a billion dollars in retirement service assets for mass mutual. She had access to information that maybe could have made her dangerous to somebody you never know. So they looked at every business contact she had, everybody that worked under her, every executive above her, her clients, the vendors, literally everybody that she has contact with at mass mutual. They even look at consultants, everybody, even people who work at other companies that may have talked to her once, five years ago. Right. What about you? So the state's deputy chief states attorney said, I hate to call anything a theory. Certainly, it's an aspect of her life that has to be examined because any person involved in any aspect of her life, personal or professional might have some information we need to pursue and we will pursue. Okay. But nothing comes of that avenue either. It's not the ex-husband. It's not anybody that work. Frustrating. Frustrating. They have a massive vigil for her, by the way. A hundred people, but a big vigil. This is a couple days after she's killed. She's described as a pillar of the community and her friends. One person said, "Regardless of her formidable responsibilities at home and work, she made every effort to mentor newbie triathletes and provide moral and other support to her team members year in and year out without fail." So they also set up the Melissa Millen Scholarship fund as well here at Middlebury College where she received her bachelor's degree. So yeah, the fund was established to support women with high financial needs here. So it's still going on, I believe. Yeah. Smart ladies that don't have money, basically. So the investigation now, they have nothing. So they say, "Back to basics, basically." Okay. A new theory that they have that's possible. They have to go back and look at the bike path itself. Maybe there's something there they miss because all these big theories are coming up shit. So maybe the killer was familiar with the bike path and the street lamps were out in this particular area of the bike path. So maybe they were familiar with the bike path and selected a stretch where it was dark, essentially. So they said whoever attacked her had to have positioned themselves to intercept her in motion and didn't leave a weapon or any trace. So November 2015, a year later, they have nothing still. Oh, no. Nothing. So the Simsbury police, this is when they wait a year to do this. They closed down iron horse boulevard and rotary park for four days. Like we got like now it's important. Like now, it's a priority that we really solved this thing where they couldn't shouldn't have done that. They could have done that back of end, you know, two days into it. Okay, we have nothing. Let's close everything down. There's going to be a knife and DNA out here. Just sitting there. We're no one seeing it for a year. And I'm sure the weather has had no effect on the Connecticut weather, the snowfall and the frost and the rains. They closed the dog park. They close everything. The FBI's evidence response team is there. And this is a serious operation. The chief of police said it's been almost a year since the death of Melissa on iron horse boulevard. The Simsbury police department has worked very closely with federal state municipal law enforcement agencies. Melissa's family, friends and acquaintances, community members, organizers and private companies to find the person or persons responsible for this crime. The investigation has let us back to iron horse boulevard. Jesus. I'm going to add where we should have fucking stayed in the first place because that's where this shit happened. Yeah. Wow, an outdoor crime scene a year later. gonna be great. All sorts of shit. Perfect. Everywhere. They do a four day search that produces who got zero zero zero big. I could have told them that big old zero on that one. There's also an anonymous donor offering a $40,000 reward, which is nice. It's a decent chunk of change. By 2017, three fucking years, three years. Finally, it's added to the Connecticut cold case unit's open file, which is crazy. The FBI still involved. Everybody's still working on this thing. In November of 2017, on the three year anniversary, NBC Connecticut's troubleshooters team reported that the investigators had identified a "suspicious vehicle" on surveillance video from the area on the night of the murder. They also said they collected more than 100 items of physical and digital evidence and have been provided to the state for reanalysis as well. Because by 2017, there's even more sophisticated ways of analysis. Every year it gets so much more for all this crime fighting shit here. So they're being retested, including the reflective wear and the headlamp that she was wearing. Now, one of the routes they went on was looking at registered sex offenders. Remember, we said that, but they kind of dismissed it. Well, number one, there's only like four sex offenders in the whole town. So right there, it goes quick. It's not like they had 100 people to talk to. It's 24,000-person town. Talk to one. You're almost done. Pretty upper-crusty. Yeah, they probably know the other. You know that other pervert that lives down the street? How many perverts do you know the name? We can probably just go to the meeting that you all go to once a week that's court order. Maybe that. Now, there is one guy who's a sex offender. He's a young man. And he has a sex offender registered living at his grandparents address, which is less than two miles from the bike path. Okay. So he's the one that they give the most creeps to just because he lives so close by. He lives closer than any of the other perverts. Yeah, it's a proximity pervert. That's what he is. That's how it goes. So this is William Winters Leverett with two T's and Noee, L-E-V-E-R-E-T. So that's him, Will, here. He was born in 1991. He was a pretty young guy. He grew up in Colorado Springs, actually. Oh, there he goes. In Colorado. Didn't graduate high school. He started a senior year. Realized he was failing and wasn't going to make it. So he just dropped out and took his GED, which we've said, who cares? That's fine. If he's not planning on going to some college, that'll work. So he completes his GED, Will, he's still 17. Now the cops had already talked to him. They interviewed him like day two of the investigation. Yeah. He said, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no physical evidence. He had no motive. He doesn't know where he's never met her. Yeah. What would he do this? And he was friendly in the interviews. And his Colorado offense, why he's a second registered sex offender, involved a child, which makes him a piece of shit and an awful person. But it doesn't project a like stranger adult woman attack. That doesn't predict that that behavior at all. Usually that guy would be afraid of adult women. Or you know, was he an adult when he did that? He was 18. So okay. On a child. And it's not like a 16 year old that he went to high school with. It's a child. It's an 11 year old. That he messed with. So not good at all. So they just moved on the detectives. They never, they were like, he did a decay. He's not going to go stab an adult woman. That's things don't go together. So a little bit about his history. In 2009, when he was 17, he sexually assaulted an 11 year old girl, who was a friend of his little sister. Yeah. Now right away, huge pile of shit. Any 17 year old boy that doesn't want two 11 year olds to get the fuck as far away from them as possible. So they can go smoke weed without someone telling their mom, I don't trust that 17. So I can try to figure another 17 year. Finger one, go jerk off somewhere. Yeah. Smoke weed, drink some of the fucking blackberry, schnapps mom has under the goddamn say, whatever it is, you're going to tell mom if I do it. So fuck off. That's, that's the healthy 17 year old. Yeah. Digging on that E and J Brandi that's in the back of the fridge for, for fucking agnogging to some for fuck man. Yep. That's the one. So that's what it goes. So anyway, I think the little girl would come over to the house to play and William inappropriately touched her on multiple occasions in a period of months. So this is this was a long thing here. They investigated him while he was still in high school. And according to his own statement during his confession later on or before that, he was investigated by the Colorado Springs to police department and was arrested in 2010. He pled guilty on May 23, 2011 to a single count of fourth degree sexual assault on a child. The degree doesn't matter there. That's just a bad charge. The degree is really irrelevant. I think when you put sexual assault on a child. I know what you did. Yeah. Um, Colorado sentences him to probation. Uh-huh. So no initial, no additional prison time beyond the pretrial county lockup. Plus he had to pay $431 in restitution. You get back. That'll make it all better. That should cover this. That should, that should cover the therapy for the next 25 years. Right. That should work. Good job. That's all had on down to Walmart and buy yourself a new innocence for 437. It's aisle 12 in case you're wondering. Uh, he also paid $6,000 in additional fees. And he was required to give a DNA sample and register as a sex offender. Um, he put it this way. He said, Colorado's, let me count them really, really, really, really, really, really, really weird with offenses. They don't have a, he said that. They don't have a graduated structure. So no matter what you've done, the sentence is always the same. And so he spent 16 months in county lockup awaiting trial. He said, I didn't serve, I didn't serve time, but I did. I was just in county lockup apparently rougher than real prison. And that you'll hear everywhere. Yeah. County jail way worse than prison. People in Arizona, that's, that's a, that's a strategy of the prosecutors as they try to delay the trial long enough to where the people will plead guilty because they're so sick and dying. And the heat and everything else from the county jail that they'll plead just to get to a prison that has food and air conditioning. They don't fuck that. Madison Street got overhauled because of that, I think. It's fucking disgusting. The way they treat people there. It's gross. So he, uh, he went on to explain the Colorado uses a 10 years to life probation for a framework, which means a minimum of 10 years of supervision with the possibility of lifetime probation depending on how you do in treatment. So they can let you off after 10 years or keep you on Colorado's really trying to rehabilitate people. So yeah. So in August of 2011, he got out of the legal system there and his grandparents took him in in Zim's Barry. So he moved there in August 2011 at 20 years old. Connecticut doesn't have the same thing. They don't have an equivalent of 10 years to life. So when it's transferred to Connecticut, they look at 10 years to life as 100 years of probation as what he said. Because Connecticut doesn't recognize the indefinite term of life. It's got to be a something. So it's 10 years doing 100 basically. So he had to offend a sex offender therapy group in Hartford on every week. And that's a condition of his ongoing probation under Connecticut's deal. So he had to notify the state of any address changes and all that kind of shit, sex offender shit. Yeah. Now his grandparents here, they live on Goodrich Road, which is less than two miles from the bike path here. And the grandfather is a poet and not just fucking around. Like he bought a house from poetry money. Like he's his living was made as a poet, which is very interesting. I don't know. I don't even know how you make money off poetry, but I guess published things back in the day. People buy books of poetry, right? Yeah, they must. So when William moves to Simmsbury in August 2011, his grandfather wrote a letter to all the neighbors on the block. A poetry. Yeah. The flowery language poetry is poor shit and hand delivered it to everybody. Very charming. Very charming sex offender notification. Terrible use of poetry. It's the most often. Yeah. The most charming sex offender notification that they've ever received. I'll say that much right now. I believe it. Don't soften the blow of my grandson lives with me now when he fucked in 11 or tried to. I picture him like hand in the letter over. And it's got like a, you know, one of those wax seals on it. It's fancy making it look nice. And then he does like a little song and dance out there about how his son won't rape your kid. He's got a right. He's doing better. Yeah. So he characterized his offense in Colorado as a mistake. There was a mistake. And he's that he's saying William is really harmless. You know, don't worry about it. Yeah. Whatever. There's a lot of crimes that are considered mistakes, but that one. Yeah. Well, he's saying he's saying the arrest was a mistake like the whole thing was a mistake. Not on the date of mistake. The whole thing was a mistake. He's actually. a good kid and he's harmless and just things got out of hand. - Everybody's made a bunch of mistakes out there. - Yeah, so the neighbors are pretty shocked by this. But nobody who got crazy, nobody said, started a petition or started freaking out or anything like that. They just went, well, we'll see what happens, I guess. We're gonna do, basically. And his history did not set off the red flags for cops because, like we said, an adult victim profiles wrong. They're profiling. - Yes, that's right. - Who would do this, and that's not the guy, usually. So, yeah, I guess generally, reoffence patterns, generally treats child sexual abuse offenders and stranger violence offenders as very different things that don't overlap hardly ever. So, when they ran down the list and they talked to him and let him go, they didn't even think twice about it. He had a job, he lived with his elderly grandparents. He went to church, he went to a sex offender groups every week. Nobody had a problem with him, so they moved on. When he first came, when he was 20 to Connecticut, his plan was to start a small business. He opened up a farm stand, selling organic fruits and vegetables. - Sure, that takes a lot of work. - Yeah, it also doesn't last because you probably have to know a lot about that shit to make it out of success. You can't just be seasonal. - Well, you can't just be some 20-year-old kid from Colorado. It was not a farmer, you know. It just starts selling. - Everybody in Colorado is fucking farmer. - Well, we're not selling fucking purple haze here, though. - There are so many, that's probably the farmer market capital of America apart from Portland. - Yeah, but everyone's not growing organic fruits and vegetables, especially 18-year-old sex offenders. - Yeah, I know, I'd be right, but that seems like everybody's growing something and selling it. - I would bet that that's not his, probably not his best thing. - Probably not the thing he knows how to do it in 20 and coming, just gotten out of jail for sex offenses. That's all good. - So he's gonna grow this shit in Connecticut, does he know how he's growing it? He's selling it irrelevant because it doesn't last long. - August 2013, he gets a job at Fresh Market in Avon, Connecticut. Fresh Market is a grocery store-type deal. So they had opened in 2012. So he starts in the produce department. He's very interested in fruits and vegetables. And then he moved up to front-end manager after a while. - Nice. - So he gets a job. - That's good money. - Now it's a good promotion. Now that coworker called him, quote, kind of a weird dude. - Yep. - Yeah, you got that right. Spring of 2014, he meets a woman at the Fresh Market named Kerry Bennett, Donald N. WT. She worked in the bakery, he was working in produce or the manager or whatever at the time. So they become friends. Now Bennett was a member of a very small evangelical church run out of somebody's house. - Oh. - Yeah, someday there's gonna be. (laughing) We're gonna hear about that someday. I'll tell you that much. It was called Open Gate Ministries. Starting in 2014, she invited William to attend church services with her. - Yeah. - So he went. He became a member of Open Gate Ministries starting in March of 2015. Now, Kerry and Will are not romantically involved. There's no romance here. - Oh, there's just friends. - Just friends. - Just friends. I don't think he's real interested in her. Put it that way. - No. - No, is she 11 to old? - Yeah. - Yeah. 11-year-olds, people who want to fuck 11-year-olds, usually don't want to fuck adult women. - It's general, yeah. - So according to what William said, he said that she made it clear that she just wanted to be friends. He said later, I was attracted to her, yes, but I was just very happy being her friend. He was just happy somebody was friends with him, basically. - Right. - So by the fall of 2014, he's 23 years old, working at the fresh market, living with his grandparents, attending his sex registry, sex offender therapy group in Hartford, hanging out with Carrie, he drives a shit car, he carries a flip phone, a shitty track phone he's got. - Oh. - This is 2014, my joke. - That's crazy. - Oh, that, yeah. There's that, basically, he's from all, if you look at him from the, you know, 30,000 feet here, he is doing everything that he was told to do. - Yep. - By the court. He got a job, he's not fucking kids, he's going to church, he's doing all the things that society says make you into a good person, basically. - Make you better, yeah. - So the therapy group, he attended, the group starts around four or five and runs roughly until about 6.30. So on the day of November 20th, he drove himself there to the meeting and then drove home in Hartford, Hartford rush hour, took about 45 minutes. - Yeah. - So like we said, the cops have already talked to him, didn't track. So as of 2018, here, William had registered, changed his registered address from his grandparents house to a place called the January Center, which is actually a Connecticut Department of Correction Facility located at the McDougal Walker Correctional Institute in Suffield. It provides sex offender treatment and reentry housing for offenders who are either near the end of their sentence or actively on probation. - And if they kick down? - We're not sure what's going on here. It's almost like a halfway house type deal. They can be housed there as a step down or as a transitional placement. So if you are moving and you don't have a place to go where you can't, whether, you know, sex offenders are allowed to be, they'll let you live there for a little while. So you're not like a homeless sex offender, which is worse, which nobody wants sex offenders just wandering his street. I want them inside behind closed doors. I don't need them ever being called. - Always be housing for them. - Absolutely. - Absolutely. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So that day he went to the therapy group. So Kerry here apparently in mid-September, 2018, Kerry Bennett asked William to take a walk with her. - Yeah. - She wanted to discuss with him some behaviors of his that had begun to bother her. - Then make her uncomfortable. Are you sucking my dick? - Yeah. - Okay, why are we talking about this then? You can just stop calling me back because we're not in a fucking relationship. You don't need to take a walk with me and tell me my shortcomings, thank you. Chick from work, you know what I mean? Like what are we talking about here? - Yeah. - Like we're not in a relationship. This is, you don't do this. I wouldn't tell a woman. - Yeah, let me tell you what's wrong with you. I got some things that I really need to discuss. - We're not talking. - You're cereal out, fuck you. - Yeah. - It's crazy, we're, other than when you're in the break room, you fill in the fucking blank, it's crazy. So here we go, according to this, she talks about small lies. Kerry was concerned about a few minor lies about will not, basically having said that he had not done the same thing. Most one thing is buying a book, which I told her I didn't buy, but I actually did buy and then telling her that the letter that came that had the order form that allowed me to get the book that I didn't know much about when, in fact, I did. So literally, little lies, he said he bought a book and he didn't buy a book and he did. And she's gonna sit him down and talk to him about it. - Depends on the task, but yeah. - What are we talking about? Mind your business. - Yeah, but it's an anarchist cookbook or some shit like that. - If it's hot young kids or some shit, that's the name of the book. Then yeah, that's a book we got to talk about. But otherwise-- - How did we do? - We're in children. Yeah, for dummies, then yeah, we'll talk about it. - Yeah, he bought a book he didn't tell her. When the mailing arrived with the order form, he told her he didn't know what it was and she caught it as a lie. Second, his driving. She was concerned about how he was driving. - I don't give a fuck what you think. - Mind your business, lady. - Unless you're in the past, just as much. - Eyes are closed, then shut the fuck up. - Yeah, that's right. If a wheel comes off or something, let me know. Give me a nudge. - Karen, stop making me defend a pedophile. - That's, isn't that sad? Isn't that sad? - Fuck. - But if you said hardcore living room, evangelical church member or pedophile, I'd have to think log and hard about that who I'd rather hang out with for five minutes. If I had to have a conversation with one of them, I'd go, "Fuck, that's hard." That's really hard. - This is gonna be nauseating either way. - At least the sex offender will pretend he doesn't want to fuck kids in my presence and maybe we can talk about baseball for 10 minutes whereas this person, there's gonna be a lot of Jesus. I don't wanna hear. - Carrie, I gotta feel, you don't got a lot of friends. - Yeah, he told her on the walk, he said, that he was not able to keep secrets and he said, "I told her there was something "that she did not know about and that she did not, "that I didn't think she would understand "or be able to forgive me for." - You think this book in this drive is a thing? - You think me making turn, left hand turns with no directionals fucking bad? Where did I tell you this? - Yeah. - So Carrie said, "I don't think so. "There's nothing you could say that'll make me not forgive you. "What are you talking about?" So he said, "Well, I committed a crime." And she said, "No, you didn't commit shit "because he's a real quiet and a normal guy." So she's like, "No, no." He told her, he told her, "No." She said, "Are you going crazy or something?" He said, "I'm not going crazy." He said, "You know, I've told you about my sex offense "and you know about that, but there's something worse." - What? - And she said, "Why would you do? "Kill somebody?" Like, what are we talking about here, you know? And he said, "Quote." I said, "Yeah." yeah. And she said, who was it? And I said, do you remember the murder along Iron Horse Boulevard? And she said, yes. And then I said, that was, I did that. And she's like, she kind of looked at me blankly. And she said, what, what do you mean? And I said, I killed that woman. Why should you need clarity? Are you sure? Because it's got a left field. Now she's literally like, I'm a little annoyed with you getting a book on her form saying you didn't know something about it. And he's like, I killed a bitch. You're like, what? What's the point? What do you mean you killed somebody? Yeah. This is crazy. She said, are you sure you're not going nuts here? And he said, I'm pretty positive. What I did. I know what I did. So they will, they get back to their cars and carry turns to him and says, and turns to William and said, what are we going to do now? And William said, well, I think you know what we have to do. I'd be afraid he's going to murder me right now. Well, you know, I think that's it. You've got to die. Yeah. I would come to it. He said, you know what we have to do. So Kerry said, I think we need to go talk first. Uh-huh. And she called her pastor Michael Trasinski, the co-paster of open gate ministries. And Michael and his wife and the other co-paster, Collette ran the church out of their home. And it's just a few people that would come to this church, not a huge congregation here. So Kerry called Collette, the one of the pastors. And according to William, quote, she called our pastor and she said, I need you. I need you to sit down with me. Uh-uh. I need you to sit down with me and said, I need you to sit down. Will and I have something. I forget exactly what she said with something along the lines of extremely important to talk about or extremely serious. I think was her exact wording. Yeah. So she took just started this to fucking sidestep taxes. And now she's got a yeah. That's um, yeah. So she agreed to meet with them. And according there was some time before the meeting. So he and Kerry, um, they had to kill some time on the way. So while I meet you at my house, but not for an hour. So they said, what do we do? So they stopped for ice cream. As a weird as lick in the cone. Well, you know, I need a normal conversation now with this person over ice cream. I don't know, child, child molesting murder or that he's over ice cream. Let's have some vanilla. What are you? Wow. Five, you know, double scoop rocky road, put it up there. He said, we had a little extra time. So we stopped to have a last ice cream together before we went to talk to our pastor. They got to the house. And um, here they are. Um, the pastor said she came over with Will asked if we could pray before we started. Then Will pretty much told us asked us if we remembered the case of the woman being stabbed in Simsbury. And I had a vague recollection of it. He pretty much told us that was him that he had done it. So he said, the collette, the pastor said, we were stunned. My first question to him was Will, are you sure you did this? And he said, yes, I'm sure. And then the collette's husband, the other pastor said, you know what we have to do? And he said, Will said, yes, I have to go to the police and turn myself in. Uh-huh. So Collette said he was very childlike, very trusting of others. He hope opened up to us about his life. His past, when he's gone through, we would have never expected this. Um, they said he's a very good member of the church, very helpful. This is very trusting type of guy. Um, so September 19th, 2018, 9 p.m. Michael Terzinski, uh, another member of the open gate ministries and Kerry Bennett all get into a car with Will. It drive to the police department. And at 915 on a Wednesday night, they walk into the lobby. He walks in and a blue shirt with three people stands at the dispatchers window and says I'm here to turn myself in for the murder on Iron Horse Boulevard almost four years ago. Whoa. Imagine you're the dispatcher. You're like, what's that? Holy shit. So he was like, okay, sure. Um, so the church people hug him. And then he goes back behind the glass there. Now here we go. This is what happened. And he's willing to talk. So he goes in. He said he woke up in his grandmother's house or grandparents house on Goodrich Road in Simsbury. Uh, he was scheduled to attend his weekly sex offender therapy group in Hartford that afternoon, group started at four or five ran for until about six 30. He said, um, he tried to text the woman he'd been hoping to spend time with. Now we don't know if this is Kerry or somebody else. Okay. That's the other thing. We think we think it might be somebody else because he mentioned something about a woman he met months before who was going to find out about his registry. And we knew Kerry knew about that. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Um, which is why she recruited him to the church because she's like, you're down pretty low. You need help. Yeah. When I have somebody tell you about Jesus in their living room. Well, I got the place for you. That's not crazy. So he said he tried to text this woman. He said that was simple text. Just how are you at normal greetings and she didn't respond. So he went to the therapy group, um, drove their attendant. He left with a headache. He said, he left around six 30 and they said, well, how are you feeling when he left and when you left? And he said, well, I had a headache and I felt quote unquote lonely lonely. So, um, he walked to his car in the lot, gotten the driver's seat and says he was holding his flip phone with the phone fell out of his hand and hit the pavement and the battery popped out of the back. Remember those that happened with flip phones. Now his story is why they don't have any cell phone data is because there's no. He said, well, he was just didn't feel like reassembling his phone. Didn't feel like, oh, pop. No, easy this to click. They click right there. And I was so defeated that day, the battery popped down and I said, fuck it. Fuck it. He said, I was just like, oh, well, I'm not going to deal with this now. So I put it in my car and forgot about it. All right. Um, he said most people get convicted. One of the cops later on said most people get convicted because of their cell phone. So this part right here is very, very strange question. Yeah. So no cell tower pinging. We'd have no idea where he is. He goes home. According to him, he goes home at 7 p.m. Um, gets there. He's alone in his grandparents house. He said he didn't know where they were, possibly visiting a neighbor or doing something. Even the dog, which he says he was looking to play with the dog, he's looking for some kind of interaction with people. Grandparents are gone. He doesn't have any friends. He said, so he was looking for the dog with the dog. They must have taken with them because the dog is not there either. He described the dog as sweet and fun. It sounds like, it sounds like he's going to molest it. Yeah. That's how you describe a fucking 11 year old sweet and fun. Sweet and fun. He was very kind. And he loved feeding a butter. But that, that means there's zero affection in this house to a man who's craving some right now. And that's horrifying. Yep. He said my grandparents were at home. So I was a little lonely there. Yeah. He stayed at the house for somewhere between five and 15 minutes. Didn't eat. Didn't make any phone calls. Didn't put his ship back together as phone. Nothing. Yeah. He said five, maybe 10 minutes, probably five to 10 at most. 15 minutes would be a lot as the way you put it. Got back in his car drove down into town. Um, so iron horse bull of art is a stretcher road that parallels the historic rail corridor through Simsbury. Yeah. The road with the rail trail next to it. And the bike path on runs alongside the road are called Simsbury greenway or iron horse bull of art. That's what it is. So it runs north and south through Simsbury. Uh, there's a post office at one end, small commercial buildings, all that kind of shit along the sides. You can picture it. Um, there's a rotary park. That's the name of it with a playground in the middle of this. The bike path runs along the east side of the road with a guard rail separating the path from the road. Yeah. Okay. So the street lamps in the path were at intervals. Some were blown out. So some were dark and stretches. But everybody does a safe path at a very upscale nice neighborhood. People walk their dogs. They bike. They jog. This is very common. He says I got back in the car and drove to the center of town. Then drove down iron horse bull of art. My intention was to be around people. Yeah. See people walking their dogs and hopefully have some kind of contact with a woman. That's what he said. He said the hope developed as the evening went on. They said he said with the ultimate hopes of maybe hey, I'll meet a woman and I could go somewhere. That's what the detective said. And he said that was not my ultimate hope. There was hope that developed over the course of the evening. That was a hope. So he didn't leave the house looking for to get laid. But as it develops, he's like, maybe I'll find a chick that'll talk to me. That's a fascinating fellow that leaves the house and hope gets bigger. Whereas yeah, actually hope just starts to dwindle. Yeah. We'll find out what he did first. Yeah. We'll see how it goes. So the first man on the path here, he parks at the Simmsbury Post Office, which is a free spot on a side street. He didn't want to pay for the meter. It's out of his car, walks down the bike path. So he starts walking up and down. He encountered one person because it's called out. It's getting late. So he ran into a man walking a white dog. He said the man was friendly. The dog was large and friendly. He asked the guy what kind of dog it was. He couldn't remember four years later what kind of dog it was. He just said it was a white guy with a white dog. That's all I can remember. But that's the only human contact he said he had in this path. A brief conversation with a guy in a dog. So he said he walked the boulevard for about 15 minutes, then went back to his car. He said, uh, He corrects himself in the interview about whether this was his first time on the path. He initially told detectives it was his first time. Then he said, "Actually, you know, I've told you, I told you I hadn't been there before. That's actually not true. I just remembered I had started riding my bike up and down that path early in the morning. I had just gotten a new bike earlier in the morning." So he was on that path earlier in the morning with his bike. So he talks about the route he would take and all that kind of shit. So he said he's been doing this route for a couple of months. So yeah, when he had the energy in the mornings. So he knew the path, he knew the parking, he knew where the lights were out. He knows the whole plan path. He's familiar. There's also a knife in his car. Why? They said, "Why is a knife in your glove compartment?" And he said, "Well, I bought the knife weeks earlier, intending it as a gift for my grandmother, but I just hadn't given it to her yet, just keeping it in my glove compartment as you do." He told detectives that the package had never been opened and the knife had been sitting in his car still in its retail packaging until that night, which is interesting. He said, "When I brought the knife with me, I do believe I was feeling maybe a slight bit of anger, not really sure why I don't know." They said, "Anger at who?" And he said, "I don't know. It was something I really can't explain, just a feeling." He goes back, pulls out of the post office parking lot in his car, starts driving south down Iron Horse Boulevard. He approached the intersection where the crosswalk crosses the Boulevard, got to a stop sign, started to turn. His headlight sweep across the bike path and he saw a woman running. Reflective vest headlamp on. He said, "As I was out driving, my headlight's caught a woman running in the path. She was very attractive, about 55, wearing tight pink and black running clothes. She had a headlamp on. I became mentally aroused." Wow. Anybody had a headlamp on. I'm like, "Yeah." And a fucking reflective vest. Those are always the hottest. And I see guys on the road, like, spread the tar. I almost jump out and fucking stick it right in their mouth. I can't help it. But I can't believe you have the restraint. I come right in my pants. It's the tar. Well, I know. I grip the steering wheel. The only reason I don't get out. Try squeezing the steering wheel as hard as you can to get some of it out. I'm just stopping. He said, "I drove a little further down, parked in a dark alley, passed people's choice and got out." He said, "She's wearing joggers clothes. I remember them being pink and black and either a polka dot at her stripe shape, just you know, athletic type of clothing as a runner would do." He said, "My headlights and her standing underneath a light busted over her head, and I saw her." So he drove past her, kept going south. He drove down a small alleyway off the main road. He'd used this parking spot before on earlier visits to the bike path, he said. He parked, turned the car off, and he said, "He couldn't remember if he took his keys or not." But he said, "At this point, he was sexually aroused, but not physically, mentally." He said, "I would say I was getting aroused, at least mentally aroused, you know, in my mind. I wasn't at the point of like getting hard or anything." He also was wearing cut, resistant gloves that like butchers wear, you know, so they don't stab yourself. Yeah. That's where he works at the fresh market, he uses those for produce or butcher departments to prevent injury when you're cutting fruit or boxing meat or whatever the fuck. He was wearing, he said he was wearing them when he was driving because his hands were cold. So he was wearing those gloves. Oh my God, he's giving so many reasons why he planned this. Yep. They said, "In the gloves you are wearing were coincidentally cut proof gloves because those are the kind you wear at work." And he said, "Those are the only ones I had in my car at the time. I use them for driving." Yeah. Yeah, driving gloves. That's normal. So ridiculous. So he crossed Iron Horse Boulevard, running east across the road, back toward the bike path, pretending to be a jogger. He's holding this sheath knife in one hand and walking. It's in a plastic sheath still that it comes in from the store, you know, those, the plastic ones. He said that he was running northbound in the opposite direction. He was running and he approached her from the front and most nights it's well lit. But they said there was lights for the businesses across the roads, but the street lamps and this exact stretch were out. So he timed it so they were, they came right in the darkness. Now we're not sure how that happened, by the way. We don't know if he put a street lamp out or, or what here, but there was just out. He said it was right in that pretty much directly across from my car where those dark and street lamps were. He positioned himself on the side, left side of the path near the woodline so that as Moralesa approached, he would, she would pass him on, on her right near the guardrail. She was about 15 feet away when he started running toward her. So he ran into, he bumped into her on purpose. He said, I bumped into her and they said, how? He said, I just kind of ran too close. He hit her with his left shoulder elbow to the broad side of the left side of his body and she stopped running. Now, she didn't say anything, he said, she didn't scream, she didn't say what the fuck's wrong with you. She was just like, oh, maybe she was zoned out and just like, oh, shit, ran into somebody. In his words, he just seemed like she was going to keep running, go, oh, so my bad and keep going. He said, he pulled the knife out of his sheath with its left hand, holding the sheath drawing the blade with his right and just stabbed her once in the chest for no reason. She didn't say anything, oh, stabbed her. Pretty much fatal on impact, punctures her heart and lung. He said that the blade was still in her body when she put both of her hands on his torso and pushed him, like to push away, basically. He said she was smaller than I was, so when she pushed me, the knife came out and stated my hand and she tumbled over the guardrail, which is how she ended up in the street. So there are like very interesting. He didn't move and she basically pushed herself off the knife and fell over. So wow, she fell in the road. It was still in his right hand, the knife. So he said at that point is the first time she said anything. He said he was trembling and shaking and his teeth were chattering and she said, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. And then that was the only thing she said when she fell over. That was it. She said, I had already figured out what I'd done and was regretting it instantly. Wow. So they said, so when you walked across the street, your intention was to either scare or harm her and he said, yes, they said, your intention about bringing the knife was related to your anger and he said, yes, they said, when you stepped out of that car, was your intention to harm this woman? And he said, harm or scare, I'm not sure which, maybe just scare. The knife would have successfully achieved that, but when I drew it, this is where my line of thinking and events gets a little fuzzy in my own mind. I drew it and I plunged it in and that was it. Yeah. And murder on his brain. He said, I would consider myself frenzy at that point. So he said, I don't know if I had the intention of killing necessarily, but I think I had the intention of stabbing. What in the fuck man? Then the cop who says to the camera in the room, it seems at least maybe the motivation for confessing has a little to do with has a little to do with impressing next girl that he likes. They're thinking, carry out in the fucking waiting room there. That's just my opinion. And you listen to the confession, he seems to waver in that of details, almost like confessing might totally not be his soul intention here, but I'll let everybody decide as you listen to it. Basically, that's the other thing too. He might think, well, church people love it when you fuck up because then they can pull you in further. I don't know what he's thinking. So is he saying this confession may be false just to impress her or is he saying just not to be true, but he's still trying to get laid and it's the other thing we don't know. So he drove away, by the way, through the knife out the window, he'll end up retrieving it at some point and destroying it in the trash compactor at work a few days later. So that's when the driver sees the body a few minutes later, calls 911, it was very fresh. They think it's a hit and run. Then they find letters, William had written two letters because they want proof. They're like, listen, you're saying all this, but you don't have a murder weapon. All you have is a story and some church people that you might be trying to impress with this story. So we're not positive. You did this. You might just be a whack job. That happens all the time. It's a problem. Yeah, crazy. So they found letters that were addressed to his friends and family dated November 20, 2014 confesses, confessing to the killings. They've been sitting at the grandparents house, ungiven for four years. They said, maybe he wrote the letters and predated them before when he, when he, before he came down to the station. Four years of, of, yeah. How about some solid proof? What do you call it? He said, I'll take you to the glove. They said, we love to see that. Okay. Yeah. So they follow him. They, he takes them to a barn on his grandparents property and there's a small accessory structure that sits in a lot, basically, it's a little outbuilding for storage. And there's a, in the wall, there's a crevice that he described and in there is the glove, where he said it was. So there seems to be blood on the glove, but it's been there for four years. So they don't have DNA results. They don't know shit. So they release him. They let him out of the police station. They send him home. They're not proof. They think he might be a whack job. So they said that mental health grounds, false confession, this could be terrible. And it would be terrible to announce that we arrested a guy and it turns out we look like assholes. So they sent him home, but they followed him everywhere he went. They just kept him under constant surveillance. They said he went to work, went home, went to his sex offender thing. he's watched him do all his normal shit, then Sunday, September 23rd, the DNA results come in from the glove showing a mixture of DNA, likely matching three sources. Okay. William, obviously, an unidentified third party and Melissa, uh-oh, he says no other reason to be in contact with her. So now that they have DNA, basically, now it's not what if he's lying. Now they're like, okay, he did it. So they arrest him, he's held on $2 million bond, yeah. One of the his co-workers said, yeah, he was kind of a weird dude, but nothing gave me the vibe that he was going to do something like that. He pleads not guilty here, um, then they start, they offer him a plea deal, 35 years in prison, plus 10 years of special parole. That's where somebody has to come finger your butthole like once a month just to make sure of the temperature. It's called special parole. It's really just a fuck. Yeah. Very special. He rejected the deal. Really? That's balsy. Um, then he turned it down then March 2022, he said, okay, fine, I'll take 35 years plus seven years of special parole. That's fine. And not instead of 10, they went down to seven. That's, that's what he got out of waiting two more years of sitting in jail. So in sentencing here, um, they said it's everyone's nightmare because there's no way to protect yourself against this kind of crime. Right. So the fact that the defendant confessed, at least the victim's family will have closure after eight years of waiting because this is now 2022 with their guard court. Never going to solve this. Yeah. They said she described it as a quote, sad, scary case and it could have happened to anyone. Oh my God. Um, yeah, her brother called her, Melissa's brother called her devoted and loving mother and Melissa's murder through our family into a triage and survival mode to deal with both our individual and collective grief and loss. They also said about her two kids, their childhood was torn away. They were forced to grow up faster than any teenager or preteen should have to. There's even a letter from her son saying, I've said little about my mom since she died. It's not that I've wanted to erase my mom, but her absence has been too painful to acknowledge. Right. Brutal. In mitigation, they say, well, he's mildly autistic and is immature in social interactions and has limited ability to regulate his emotions. Okay. We can murder people. That's crazy. Um, his lawyer called told the court that the act was impulsive and spontaneous. William says, I would like to say to all of you, I'm truly sorry I am for the pain I've caused your family over the last several years. I can never forgive myself, but hopefully this sentence brings you some amount of justice and closure. Again, truly sorry for the pain I've caused you. Okay. Judge says, nothing I can do with sentencing because you guys agreed to it, you sir may fuck off 35 years in prison, seven years of special parole upon release. He must serve the entire 35 before he's eligible for parole. Oh, fuck. They don't have parole eligibility for murder convictions and Connecticut. So he gets three years credit for time served projected release date September 23rd, the 53, so he's 62 and he's going to get out. Yes. And it's absolutely intentionally left the night. He left the house with a knife cut proof gloves and disassembled his fucking phone. You know what he was doing? The fuck out of here. Melissa is buried at St. Andrews Episcopal Church cemetery in Hartford County. By the way, the cold case unit, they didn't solve jack. They saw shit. They saw nothing. They said they had the FBI, everybody, nobody solved the case unless he walks in and confesses this case is still never solved. Oh, fuck. It's still just an unsolved, horrible thing if the church group doesn't tell him to, if some, if some chick doesn't go, why do you order that book when you told me you didn't? None of this happens. That's crazy. That book must have been horrible. Must have been really sexual better. So for two science based something, yeah, oh, Jesus. What's this about? Fucking science. I don't like that. So anyway, there you go. Everybody. That is Connecticut. Simmsbury, Connecticut. If you like that show, get on whatever app you're listening on and give us five stars. Netflix, give a thumbs up. Do all that good shit for us. Shut up and give me murder.com is where you get all your tickets for live shows. September 18th, Milwaukee, at the PAPS. Those are almost gone. Get those tickets while you can. September 19th in Minnesota in Minneapolis at the state theater. Get those tickets right now. Don't let me walk you embarrassing. Do that. Get in there. Shut up and give me murder.com. 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