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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grece. A dad literally bent over
- 0:15Speaker 1: in half, sobbing, wailing in grief at the discovery of
- 0:22Speaker 1: his five year old son dead, just crying out loud,
- 0:31Speaker 1: tears running down his face, wailing in grief.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Or was he.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
- 0:45Speaker 1: being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious
- 0:47Speaker 1: XEM one eleven.
- 0:50Speaker 2: First of all, take a listen to this.
- 0:52Speaker 3: A local TV crew is on hand on Sunday, March fifth,
- 0:55Speaker 3: as law enforcement and volunteers gathered a search for five
- 0:58Speaker 3: year old Justin Turner. A man from WCBD Films as
- 1:02Speaker 3: Justin Turner's father, Victor, looks into a pickup truck camper
- 1:05Speaker 3: on the property. The camper has been searched before to
- 1:08Speaker 3: no avail, but this time Victor Turner leans into the
- 1:12Speaker 3: camper on one knee, looks into one specific place and
- 1:16Speaker 3: the search is over.
- 1:17Speaker 4: A sun's in there, yeah yeah.
- 1:24Speaker 3: According to Sheriff Dwayne Lewis, Victor Turner doesn't check for
- 1:27Speaker 3: a pulse or signs of life. He doesn't touch his
- 1:30Speaker 3: son at all.
- 1:31Speaker 1: The horrible moment a five year old little boy is
- 1:35Speaker 1: found dead.
- 1:37Speaker 2: He's found dead in a camper and the first search
- 1:42Speaker 2: of the camper reveals nothing, but we're learning more.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Take a listen to Sheriff Dwayne Lewis with the Berkeley
- 1:49Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department.
- 1:51Speaker 5: Justin Turner.
- 1:53Speaker 6: Was reported missing on March third at three twelve pm
- 1:59Speaker 6: from his home here in Berkeley County.
- 2:02Speaker 5: Deputies arrived.
- 2:04Speaker 6: James Gather's first deputy on the scene, requested assistance and
- 2:10Speaker 6: got help from other deputies and members of the rescue squad.
- 2:15Speaker 6: DNR sled fire departments converged on the area searching for Justin.
- 2:22Speaker 5: He's five years old.
- 2:24Speaker 1: This case spans so many law enforcement departments. With me
- 2:30Speaker 1: and all start pandel to make sense of what we
- 2:32Speaker 1: know right now. But first straight out to Nick Reagan,
- 2:35Speaker 1: WCSC journalist and morning breaking news anchor.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Nick, thank you for being with us.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Tell me about the discovery of the little boy and
- 2:44Speaker 1: how does he go missing.
- 2:45Speaker 7: The situation was such that the law enforcement was called
- 2:51Speaker 7: out by Justin Turner's parents. They told him, They told
- 2:56Speaker 7: law enforcement that he had gotten on a school by,
- 3:00Speaker 7: went to school and never returned, and the Sheriff's office
- 3:04Speaker 7: came out and took statement, and then they began this search.
- 3:08Speaker 7: This two day long search. The first day revealed nothing.
- 3:13Speaker 7: The second day, as you heard, within honestly a few
- 3:17Speaker 7: minutes of that search happening, his father, Justin Turner's father, Victor,
- 3:23Speaker 7: goes into this camper shell and within seconds notices sees
- 3:30Speaker 7: his little boy in that camper shell dead. So that
- 3:35Speaker 7: is the scene that is the premise for how all
- 3:37Speaker 7: of this started. Of course, cracks in the case begin
- 3:41Speaker 7: from there.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So the little boy goes to school on the bus
- 3:47Speaker 1: and he's never seen again. That is eerily reminiscent of
- 3:52Speaker 1: another little boy. All of you legal eagles know very
- 3:56Speaker 1: well the name Kiren Horman.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Take a look. Listen to our cut one O four
- 4:01Speaker 2: to Chyron's bio.
- 4:03Speaker 8: Mom to the person or persons that have Kiren, I
- 4:08Speaker 8: miss my son so much that I can't breathe at times.
- 4:12Speaker 8: My heart aches every second of every day, and I
- 4:16Speaker 8: am afraid that I can't live without him. I know
- 4:20Speaker 8: that this situation has turned out much bigger than anyone
- 4:24Speaker 8: could have ever imagined. Please do the right thing here
- 4:28Speaker 8: and help us find him. Think about Kiren. He needs
- 4:33Speaker 8: me as well. There are so many things he hasn't
- 4:37Speaker 8: gotten to do yet.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Please let him go.
- 4:41Speaker 8: Just take him to a remote payphone and tell him
- 4:44Speaker 8: to call nine one one and then we can come
- 4:46Speaker 8: and get him.
- 4:47Speaker 1: You are hearing Desrae Young, Karen Horman's biological mother.
- 4:52Speaker 2: After the stepmom reportedly.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Takes him to school for a science fair that morning,
- 4:58Speaker 1: he wanders off and he's never seen alive again. But
- 5:03Speaker 1: in this case, we know that this little boy, justin
- 5:07Speaker 1: Lee Turner, was supposed to go get the school bus
- 5:11Speaker 1: the way he did every single morning.
- 5:14Speaker 2: You know what's extremely interesting.
- 5:16Speaker 1: To me, And let me throw this straight out to
- 5:20Speaker 1: James shel Nutt, high profile lawyer joining US out of
- 5:22Speaker 1: Alabama twenty seven years on Metro major case. James, did
- 5:28Speaker 1: you know, Oh gosh, it's a staggering number. Well over
- 5:32Speaker 1: thirty percent of missing children disappear related to the bus stop,
- 5:38Speaker 1: catching the bus.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Trying to get to school. That's a huge.
- 5:42Speaker 9: Number, it is, And you know that's the point in time.
- 5:45Speaker 9: A lot of people don't think about this. You know,
- 5:47Speaker 9: you think about your kid being safe getting on the
- 5:49Speaker 9: school bus, being around schools, But you know, when they're
- 5:52Speaker 9: at that bus stop and on the way to and
- 5:54Speaker 9: from that bus stop, they are vulnerable kids in a
- 5:57Speaker 9: vulnerable situation, often without supervision.
- 6:00Speaker 1: It's a huge a number of missing children that go
- 6:04Speaker 1: missing related to getting two or hong from school.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Now, in this case, this is what we know.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Take a listen to crime online dot Com investigative reporter
- 6:16Speaker 1: Nicole Parton in our cut three.
- 6:18Speaker 10: Friday, March third, Pamela Turner waits for her step son
- 6:21Speaker 10: to get off the school bus. When Justin Turner doesn't,
- 6:24Speaker 10: the stepmom calls the school staff there tells her that
- 6:27Speaker 10: Justin wasn't at school at all that day. He was
- 6:30Speaker 10: marked absent that day. The Sheriff's office is called and
- 6:33Speaker 10: deputies come to the Turner's home. Five year old Justin
- 6:36Speaker 10: Turner has been missing for hours.
- 6:38Speaker 1: But there's a little twist to that story. Listen to
- 6:41Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner Crime Online.
- 6:42Speaker 11: Pamela Turner tells deputies she wasn't feeling well that morning
- 6:46Speaker 11: and didn't walk Justin to his bus stop as she
- 6:48Speaker 11: normally did. Instead, she got in the shower as Justin
- 6:51Speaker 11: left the house. Justin was supposed to go next door
- 6:54Speaker 11: to catch the bus with the neighbor's grandson. The neighbor
- 6:57Speaker 11: tells investigator she waited outside with her grandson to catch
- 7:00Speaker 11: the bus but she didn't see justin.
- 7:02Speaker 1: So the stepmom does something different that one day. She
- 7:08Speaker 1: doesn't walk him to the bus stop the way she
- 7:12Speaker 1: always does, so somewhere between home and the bus stop
- 7:19Speaker 1: is allegedly where he goes missing, because the grandma of
- 7:23Speaker 1: a little friend says he.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Was never at the bus stop first thing in the morning.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Okay to Nick Reagan, joining us WCSSE journalist Breaking news anchor, Nick,
- 7:35Speaker 1: how far would their home be from the bus stop?
- 7:39Speaker 2: Well, not too far.
- 7:40Speaker 7: But you know, what we know specifically is that Pamela
- 7:45Speaker 7: Turner at the time is what she was going by.
- 7:49Speaker 7: She said that day was unusual. She said that she
- 7:51Speaker 7: was feeling thick, and that she was in the shower
- 7:55Speaker 7: at the time and didn't actually see her step son
- 7:59Speaker 7: headed out to that bus stop as she normally would.
- 8:05Speaker 7: So all of those things sort of painted a different
- 8:10Speaker 7: picture than maybe what would happen on the daily where
- 8:14Speaker 7: she would possibly or potentially usually she would say she
- 8:18Speaker 7: would go out to the bus stop with her son
- 8:21Speaker 7: on a normal day, So things were unusual.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Isn't it odd how just one tiny change in the
- 8:29Speaker 1: morning routine can have such devastating consequences. The one day
- 8:34Speaker 1: she doesn't walk the little boy, Justin Lee turn Her,
- 8:37Speaker 1: aged five, to the bus stop. Is the day that
- 8:41Speaker 1: he is kidnapped. Take a listen now to the sheriff.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Sheriff Dwayne Lewis in Berkeley County.
- 8:48Speaker 6: Justin never made it to school that morning. He never
- 8:51Speaker 6: got on the bus, he never arrived at school. That's
- 8:56Speaker 6: because he had been murdered than a camper. I can't
- 9:03Speaker 6: think of a more tragic, horrendous murder five year old boy.
- 9:12Speaker 1: So the sheriff's agreeing with the grandma who says he
- 9:15Speaker 1: was never at the bus stop. Unlike Karen Horman's case,
- 9:19Speaker 1: where the stepmom says she.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Got him to school.
- 9:22Speaker 1: She knows he was at school and she sees him
- 9:25Speaker 1: go into the school. This little boy never even made
- 9:28Speaker 1: it to the bus stop. And according to Nick Reagan
- 9:31Speaker 1: joining us WCSC, it's not far at all from the
- 9:35Speaker 1: home where Justin was living with his dad and the
- 9:38Speaker 1: bus stop. So what happened in that short short distance? Okay,
- 9:43Speaker 1: the search begins. Listen to Dave Mack.
- 9:46Speaker 3: The search for Justin Turner includes multiple agencies and volunteers
- 9:50Speaker 3: from the area. For two days, WCBD News video cameras
- 9:54Speaker 3: followed the searches. Videos show volunteers side by side with
- 9:57Speaker 3: police and sheriff's deputies walking nearly over his shoulder through fields,
- 10:01Speaker 3: checking under back decks and sheds. The Channel two cameraman
- 10:04Speaker 3: is filming as Victor Turner goes into a camper on
- 10:07Speaker 3: their property and quickly comes back out saying, my son's
- 10:10Speaker 3: in there.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Time stories with Nancy Grace.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Now, let me understand, Nick Reagan WCSC. Hadn't that camper
- 10:31Speaker 1: been searched before?
- 10:33Speaker 7: Yes, it had it at one point, but it was
- 10:36Speaker 7: again just on that second day where in the father
- 10:41Speaker 7: Victor Turner went in there. It was only in there
- 10:44Speaker 7: for a very limited amount of time. Somebody will say
- 10:46Speaker 7: it was a couple of minutes, a couple of seconds,
- 10:48Speaker 7: But the implication is that when he went in there,
- 10:51Speaker 7: he immediately was able to tell that his son's body
- 10:55Speaker 7: was in there. And then you heard from that report
- 10:58Speaker 7: earlier he kind of broke down, backed out of the camper.
- 11:01Speaker 7: It refused to I'm not going to touch the body.
- 11:04Speaker 7: I'm not going to touch the body, and really broke
- 11:07Speaker 7: down at that scene. And so the camper here is
- 11:13Speaker 7: crucial to all of this. Police have said that there
- 11:17Speaker 7: is limited access to this camper.
- 11:19Speaker 1: I wanted to take a listen very quickly to Nicole
- 11:22Speaker 1: Parton because it's my understanding the little boy wasn't just
- 11:25Speaker 1: lying there on the floor or on one of the
- 11:27Speaker 1: pullout soface in the camper. He actually had to be
- 11:30Speaker 1: folded up and stuffed inside of one of the cabinets.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Cabinets in campers in RV are very very small, So
- 11:40Speaker 1: how did the boy.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Get into a cabinet?
- 11:42Speaker 1: And how did police miss that the first time they
- 11:45Speaker 1: looked in the camper?
- 11:46Speaker 2: Listen.
- 11:47Speaker 10: Victor Turner discovers his own son in a camper on
- 11:50Speaker 10: their property. He goes in, but comes back out of
- 11:52Speaker 10: the camper without touching the five year old. The body
- 11:55Speaker 10: of Justin Turner is found hidden inside a cabinet in
- 11:59Speaker 10: the pickup truck camp part close to the family home.
- 12:02Speaker 10: Investigators said Victor Turner found the boy's body quote within
- 12:06Speaker 10: seconds of entering the camper end quote, moments after the
- 12:09Speaker 10: search party began at search that day.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I've got so many questions based on what I'm just hearing.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But joining me right now.
- 12:15Speaker 2: As a special guest, Amy Parsons, this.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Is five then five year old Justin Lee Turner's cousin,
- 12:24Speaker 1: and you can find her on Facebook at Justice for
- 12:28Speaker 1: Justin Lee Turner.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Amy, thank you for being with us.
- 12:31Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am, thank you.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Amy.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Do you remember when your cousin, Justin Lee Turner went missing.
- 12:38Speaker 12: I vaguely remember bits and pieces. I don't remember that
- 12:41Speaker 12: day or the surgery of that stuff. My family were
- 12:45Speaker 12: from more of the upstate of South Carolina. My mom
- 12:49Speaker 12: was involved that first day when he went missing.
- 12:53Speaker 2: In what way.
- 12:54Speaker 12: Actually, Justin's grandfather was up up here visiting with my
- 12:58Speaker 12: grandmother and he got the phone call that Justin was missing.
- 13:02Speaker 12: So my mom got in the vehicle with him and
- 13:06Speaker 12: went down to the low country. Our side of the family,
- 13:11Speaker 12: Justin's mom's side of the family was not allowed in
- 13:14Speaker 12: the actual search of Justin.
- 13:17Speaker 13: Why.
- 13:18Speaker 12: I really couldn't give you that. I really couldn't answer that.
- 13:21Speaker 2: That's very very odd.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Doctor John Delatori is joining us for now psychologists mediator
- 13:26Speaker 1: specializing in forensic psychology. You can find doctor delatoriat resolution
- 13:31Speaker 1: FCS dot com. Doctor delatory thank you for being with us.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Man.
- 13:35Speaker 1: I would take all the help I could get to
- 13:37Speaker 1: try to find if to try to find one of
- 13:39Speaker 1: the twins.
- 13:40Speaker 2: If they went missing. I don't care who you are.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean the only reason why you wouldn't
- 13:45Speaker 4: is because you already knew where the person what had
- 13:49Speaker 4: you gone.
- 13:49Speaker 2: I don't know if I agree with that.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Sometimes if there's a family feud, people are so angry
- 13:55Speaker 1: they won't let the other side of the family have
- 13:57Speaker 1: anything to do with anything. And here you see Amy's
- 14:00Speaker 1: mom and the grandfather job all the way down to
- 14:04Speaker 1: the low country to try to help search, and then
- 14:07Speaker 1: they're essentially banned from helping by the other side of
- 14:11Speaker 1: the family. It's amazing how feuse can run so deeply
- 14:15Speaker 1: that they interfere with finding a child.
- 14:20Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 14:21Speaker 4: Well, again, the feuds of the feud might be present,
- 14:25Speaker 4: but at that point, when you are in desperate, when
- 14:28Speaker 4: you are legitimately desperate, you will take any help that
- 14:31Speaker 4: you can get.
- 14:32Speaker 5: Feud or not.
- 14:33Speaker 4: And so it's important to understand that they if they
- 14:37Speaker 4: are still holding onto the feud, it's because they know
- 14:41Speaker 4: that that other person has something and can recognize something
- 14:45Speaker 4: that they don't want to be recognized.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Guys, the search goes on and then day two and
- 14:52Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Nick Reagan, the dad researches
- 14:57Speaker 1: the camper and finds.
- 15:00Speaker 2: The little boy stuffed in a cabinet. Is that right?
- 15:05Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. And one of the things that our
- 15:09Speaker 7: reporter at the time noted I went back and I
- 15:11Speaker 7: watched all of our our archived video, is that this
- 15:14Speaker 7: was not a cabinet that was easy necessarily one that
- 15:18Speaker 7: you could just open the camper and see. This was
- 15:20Speaker 7: something that is a small cabinet underneath a bed or
- 15:24Speaker 7: a couch, like a surface. It's something that you would
- 15:29Speaker 7: have to you know, you would have to sort of
- 15:31Speaker 7: know what're you're looking for. It's not something you scan
- 15:34Speaker 7: the camper and you just see. You have to open
- 15:37Speaker 7: things up and know how to get into these these cabinets. Specifically,
- 15:42Speaker 7: joining me.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Right now along with doctor Michelle Duprie is an expert
- 15:48Speaker 1: who shot to fame nationwide. Along with doctor Duprix during
- 15:51Speaker 1: the Alex and Murdock double murder trial, doctor Kenneth Cansei
- 15:56Speaker 1: and I sat in the courtroom and watched his testimony
- 16:00Speaker 1: the first.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Time in the state's case.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Since the opening statements, which were awesome, We're given the
- 16:05Speaker 1: case finally all fit together. When Kenzie was explaining things
- 16:11Speaker 1: on the stand, forensic expert. Former Orangeburg County Chief Deputy
- 16:16Speaker 1: Owner Operator Kenny Kinzie and Associates, LLC. Former South Carolina
- 16:22Speaker 1: Law Enforcement Divisions Special Agent doctor Kenzie. Thank you for
- 16:26Speaker 1: being with us. Now correct me if I'm wrong. But
- 16:28Speaker 1: on every search I ever attended and or supervised or
- 16:33Speaker 1: executed myself, you do not leave any drawer, any cabinet,
- 16:41Speaker 1: any surface.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Unturned. You look in everything.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Now you might look in a little bity drawer and think, well,
- 16:51Speaker 1: I'm not going to find.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Anything in there.
- 16:52Speaker 1: But if you don't look in there and then later
- 16:56Speaker 1: something is found in there.
- 16:58Speaker 2: Of course not a dead body, but it could be anything.
- 17:00Speaker 1: It could be a gun, it could be a bullet,
- 17:02Speaker 1: it could be a knife, it could be anything a
- 17:04Speaker 1: pair of gloves. If you don't search exhaustively, then you
- 17:10Speaker 1: will be attacked on cross examination, and it may be
- 17:13Speaker 1: a nook or Creenny.
- 17:14Speaker 2: You know you're not going to find anything, but you
- 17:17Speaker 2: have to do it.
- 17:18Speaker 1: So I find it very very odd that law enforcement
- 17:22Speaker 1: Elie goes in. Day one, searches the camper because it's
- 17:25Speaker 1: on the curtel, nche the premises. They find nothing. Day two,
- 17:31Speaker 1: Dad goes in, opens one cabinet. He comes out in
- 17:34Speaker 1: less than five minutes. He goes, my son's in there. Wow,
- 17:38Speaker 1: it's a miracle, isn't it, Kensey, It's just a miracle.
- 17:43Speaker 14: Great, great point, Nancy. You know, you check, you double check,
- 17:47Speaker 14: you triple check, you change groups, you change teams, and
- 17:51Speaker 14: get another perspective just in case you miss something that
- 17:55Speaker 14: is very, very important. But you don't give up on
- 17:58Speaker 14: it until that search is exhausted.
- 18:00Speaker 1: I mean, you're up s crete without a paddle if
- 18:04Speaker 1: you do not do an exhaustive search, Doctor Kenzie. I
- 18:08Speaker 1: mean you were in LA law enforcement for years as
- 18:11Speaker 1: a special agent. When you go and search its scene
- 18:14Speaker 1: and not look in the drawers or.
- 18:15Speaker 14: The cabinets, absolutely not. You can explain it away later.
- 18:19Speaker 14: And like you said, your efforts may not be you
- 18:24Speaker 14: may not find what you're looking for there, but you
- 18:27Speaker 14: can explain it away later.
- 18:28Speaker 1: Yes, you can explain what happened, because I find it very,
- 18:34Speaker 1: very disturbing on multiple levels.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Then on day one, Eli searches that camper and it's
- 18:43Speaker 2: not big at all.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Day two, the dad goes in and Bam, there's the
- 18:48Speaker 1: baby right there. Why didn't you guys see it? Why
- 18:52Speaker 1: didn't you look in the cabinet. I mean, somebody's gonna
- 18:55Speaker 1: get Oh gosh, how can I say this without cursing
- 18:59Speaker 1: a real dressing down, A real dressing down for not
- 19:02Speaker 1: searching that cabinet. Okay, but that said, let's move forward.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Obviously you find a dead body. What's the COO D
- 19:09Speaker 1: cause of death? Why is a five year old dead
- 19:12Speaker 1: and a cabinet? Did he wander in there? Did he
- 19:15Speaker 1: hide in there and maybe have positional asphyxiation? Where?
- 19:20Speaker 2: Well, how do I explain this?
- 19:21Speaker 1: You know, like a baby, if you put it asleep
- 19:23Speaker 1: in a car seat, it can tilt its head down
- 19:26Speaker 1: and then cut off its own airway because of the
- 19:29Speaker 1: position it's in, it asphyxiates and dies from lack of oxygen.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Could that have happened? What does the autopsy show? Take
- 19:39Speaker 1: a listen to Sidney Sumner cry online.
- 19:42Speaker 11: An autopsy in forensic analysis is done on the five
- 19:45Speaker 11: year old, and investigators determined that the boy had been
- 19:48Speaker 11: placed inside the camper shortly after his triangulation death. A
- 19:51Speaker 11: forensic pathologist report indicates the boy died a short time
- 19:54Speaker 11: after eating his last meal.
- 19:56Speaker 15: The Berkeley County Sheriff at the time mc cannon says
- 19:59Speaker 15: accident death is ruled out. The coroner's autopsy report reveals
- 20:03Speaker 15: the boy was sexually assaulted with some kind of cylindrical
- 20:06Speaker 15: object and strangled to death. The case is officially ruled
- 20:09Speaker 15: a homicide. Asked if any family members had been ruled
- 20:12Speaker 15: out as suspects, the sheriff says, quote, we haven't ruled
- 20:15Speaker 15: out anybody.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Okay.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Enter doctor Michelle Duprie, forensic pathologists, medical examiner, former detective,
- 20:23Speaker 1: author of Money, Mischief and Murder. The murdog saga the
- 20:28Speaker 1: rest of the story on Amazon. While that's all well
- 20:31Speaker 1: and good, my favorite book she's written is Homicide Investigation
- 20:36Speaker 1: Field Guide.
- 20:37Speaker 2: She actually wrote the book.
- 20:39Speaker 1: She also wrote Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide. You can
- 20:44Speaker 1: find her at d Michelle dupremd dot com. Doctor Duprix,
- 20:48Speaker 1: it's a real honor to have you at doctor Kinzie.
- 20:51Speaker 1: On the rest of the guests as well, Doctor Duprie,
- 20:54Speaker 1: explain something to me, how do they know? How would
- 20:58Speaker 1: they know?
- 21:00Speaker 2: Anybody on the palet that can figure this out? Tell
- 21:02Speaker 2: me that.
- 21:04Speaker 1: The boy was placed in the camper after his strangulation death.
- 21:13Speaker 2: How would they know that?
- 21:14Speaker 13: Nancy? We look at the body. The body has an
- 21:16Speaker 13: enormous amount of evidence and this is why we do
- 21:18Speaker 13: an autopsy could determine the cause and manner of death
- 21:21Speaker 13: and what happened.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Let me guess, does it have anything to do with
- 21:24Speaker 2: rigor or liver?
- 21:26Speaker 13: It does, and it also has to do with stomach hut.
- 21:28Speaker 2: So you taught me something.
- 21:29Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly the point I'm trying to make,
- 21:33Speaker 1: but I've got a feeling you're gonna explain. I just
- 21:35Speaker 1: wanted to credit in case I was right. Okay, just
- 21:37Speaker 1: in case, Okay, go ahead. How do they know the
- 21:40Speaker 1: boy was dead, little five year old Justin Lee Turner?
- 21:45Speaker 1: How would they possibly know who's dead before he was
- 21:48Speaker 1: put in the cabinet?
- 21:49Speaker 13: Nancy. We look at, as you said, rigor mortis, which
- 21:52Speaker 13: is the stiffening of the body, And we also look
- 21:55Speaker 13: at libra mortis, which is the settling of the blood
- 21:57Speaker 13: according to gravity. And when we look at the body,
- 22:00Speaker 13: those they have patterns on them like that, and so
- 22:03Speaker 13: we can tell approximately when he was put into the camper.
- 22:06Speaker 13: We can also look at stomach content.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Rigor mortis, the stiffening of the bones, live or mortis,
- 22:11Speaker 1: as I call it, where the blood settles. For instance,
- 22:14Speaker 1: if you die while lying, Supine lying on.
- 22:18Speaker 2: A bed, face up.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Your blood eventually, once the heart stops pumping, will all
- 22:24Speaker 1: settle down to your backside, your back, the back of
- 22:28Speaker 1: your legs, your rear end. The blood settled to the
- 22:31Speaker 1: lowest common point. So let's just think what she's saying,
- 22:37Speaker 1: Dr Dupree. If you can tell he was didn't die
- 22:42Speaker 1: in the cabinet based on the autopsy.
- 22:46Speaker 2: What if it's live or mortise.
- 22:48Speaker 1: What if all the blood in his body, Let's just
- 22:52Speaker 1: say he's folded over in half and put in their
- 22:55Speaker 1: face down, but all the blood has settled on his back,
- 23:01Speaker 1: then you know he dies somewhere else, not there, because
- 23:06Speaker 1: the blood had settled in reverse, which is impossible.
- 23:09Speaker 13: And that tells us that the body was moved after death.
- 23:12Speaker 2: How else can I tell the body was moved?
- 23:14Speaker 13: Rigor mortis again is the stiffening of the muscles, And
- 23:17Speaker 13: when a person is deceased and placed in a certain position,
- 23:21Speaker 13: the body will stiffen and it will remain in that
- 23:24Speaker 13: position until decomposition sets in. And so we can tell
- 23:28Speaker 13: basically how he was placed into that position. He will
- 23:32Speaker 13: remain stiff even when taken out from under the cabinet.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Now, after about twenty four hours of rigor mortis stiffening.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Doesn't your body loosen back up?
- 23:41Speaker 13: It tends to, yes, but it depends on many factors,
- 23:44Speaker 13: such as the temperature and other things.
- 23:45Speaker 1: You know, another thing, Well, there's so many things. It's
- 23:48Speaker 1: just really upsetting about this. But I also hear that
- 23:53Speaker 1: autopsy reveals the boy had been molested sex and molested
- 24:00Speaker 1: with a quote cylindrical tool, a cylindrical object. What do
- 24:07Speaker 1: they say, don't hold back, please just tell me like
- 24:11Speaker 1: it is.
- 24:12Speaker 13: Basically, they're saying that there was an object probably inserted
- 24:14Speaker 13: into his anus. That was a sexual assault.
- 24:18Speaker 1: So the boy was anally raped with a cylindrical object, strangled,
- 24:26Speaker 1: not necessarily in that order, but if there is bleeding
- 24:30Speaker 1: to the anus throer end, then we know who was
- 24:34Speaker 1: raped in life, not post mortem, then strangled then put
- 24:41Speaker 1: in the camper. Would you say, Dr Dupree, that that
- 24:46Speaker 1: is the correct order of events?
- 24:48Speaker 13: I would think, sir antsy yes, And how horrible that
- 24:51Speaker 13: is to have this done to you.
- 24:52Speaker 1: Well, my response to that, Doctor Kenneth Kinzie, is somebody
- 24:57Speaker 1: better get the death penalty. You've got a a five
- 25:00Speaker 1: year old little boy anally raped, strangled, and stuffed into
- 25:06Speaker 1: a cabinet in a camper. It's about the size of
- 25:09Speaker 1: a microwave at best.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Uh uh.
- 25:12Speaker 1: If you're gonna have the death penalty, this is the case.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Would you agree or disagree?
- 25:17Speaker 7: Uh?
- 25:18Speaker 14: You know, I'm pretty strong on a death penalty, Nancy.
- 25:21Speaker 14: And the question you've got to ask is is this
- 25:23Speaker 14: a taxonomy of staging this scene? And was it prior
- 25:28Speaker 14: to death or was it done after death?
- 25:31Speaker 5: Well?
- 25:31Speaker 1: Well, wait, you actually think there's a difference. Okay, yeah,
- 25:35Speaker 1: I think there's a difference too, because the child suffered
- 25:38Speaker 1: even more during an anal rape.
- 25:40Speaker 14: But well, there's no difference in the way we look
- 25:43Speaker 14: at it, but there's a difference in the psychology of
- 25:46Speaker 14: the killer.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Do I care if they kill the boy and staged
- 25:50Speaker 1: it or if they Well, of course, Wait are you
- 25:55Speaker 1: telling me you think the outcome of a DP would
- 25:58Speaker 1: turn on whether the boy was raped post mortem, after death,
- 26:02Speaker 1: or before death.
- 26:03Speaker 14: I think a successful prosecution depends on those applements.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Well, you know what, You stick to what you're doing,
- 26:10Speaker 1: and I'll stick to what I'm doing. Okay, I'll stay
- 26:12Speaker 1: in my lane if you stay in yours. Okay, I
- 26:14Speaker 1: can't guarantee you that's going to happen. Amy Parsons is
- 26:18Speaker 1: with us, and Amy, I want to apologize for reanalyzing
- 26:24Speaker 1: these facts because I know that they're hurtful. But when
- 26:28Speaker 1: did you learn, Amy Parsons, that your little cousin, Justin
- 26:33Speaker 1: Lety Turner H five had been anally raped and strangled
- 26:40Speaker 1: and then left in a scene that was clearly staged.
- 26:43Speaker 1: Any altering of a scene, such as placing the body
- 26:47Speaker 1: in a different location, is staging.
- 26:49Speaker 2: When did you learn all of those facts, Amy.
- 26:52Speaker 12: I personally didn't learn as far as the statial assault
- 26:56Speaker 12: part until I was older myself and started researching on
- 27:01Speaker 12: my own, because that's something that my family did not
- 27:03Speaker 12: actually put out to us as kids. The rest of it,
- 27:08Speaker 12: as far as him being strangled, faced in the in
- 27:13Speaker 12: the camper, of course I knew at when it happened.
- 27:17Speaker 12: As soon as everything came out, we knew all that information.
- 27:20Speaker 1: Then you know, that's a phenomena that I've seen and experienced.
- 27:26Speaker 1: What you're saying, doctor John Delatory, I think I need
- 27:28Speaker 1: a shrink in our culture. We can say, oh, the
- 27:34Speaker 1: little boy was strangled dead, then he was folded up
- 27:38Speaker 1: like laundry and stuffed into a cabinet.
- 27:41Speaker 2: But we can't say he was raped. She's right. No
- 27:45Speaker 2: one wants to touch that with a ten foot pole.
- 27:47Speaker 14: Why.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Well, I think there's a bunch of reasons why. But
- 27:51Speaker 4: some of it is derived from the very puritanical way
- 27:56Speaker 4: in which we view sex.
- 27:57Speaker 2: This is not sex, this is all.
- 28:01Speaker 4: We'd rather not discuss anything revolving around a sexual assault
- 28:07Speaker 4: at all, right, We'd rather just push it to the side.
- 28:11Speaker 4: We'd rather push victims to the side rather than actually
- 28:15Speaker 4: confronting the reality of what it means to be sexually assault.
- 28:19Speaker 2: You're right, You're absolutely right.
- 28:22Speaker 1: It's not just Amy's parents and relatives that didn't tell
- 28:25Speaker 1: her that her little cousin had been anally raped. This
- 28:29Speaker 1: is universal. I've seen it so many times. I remember
- 28:34Speaker 1: in a case I was helping on. I hadn't started
- 28:37Speaker 1: trying cases yet. There was a preschool teacher that was
- 28:42Speaker 1: kidnapped in Atlanta and murdered. I remember the defense name,
- 28:48Speaker 1: Emmanuel Hammond's. And as I recall, there was a woman
- 28:52Speaker 1: that turned out to be a similar transaction, and she
- 28:54Speaker 1: had been kidnapped and raped, and she had never told
- 28:58Speaker 1: her husband because she was ashamed. And she got up
- 29:04Speaker 1: on the stand and testify, but she never would mention
- 29:06Speaker 1: the rape, and I'm like, I couldn't understand. Being a
- 29:10Speaker 1: new prosecutor, I had never encountered that before.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Why won't she testify to the rape and point to
- 29:16Speaker 2: the defendant.
- 29:17Speaker 1: In her culture, it was taboo to even talk about it.
- 29:21Speaker 1: So it's very, very pervasive. Okay, let's move forward. Take
- 29:25Speaker 1: listen to Sheriff Dwayne Lewis, because I'm seeing a lot
- 29:29Speaker 1: of red flags here.
- 29:30Speaker 6: Listen, Pamblet changed her name, they moved to the Upstate,
- 29:34Speaker 6: and nobody that I'm aware of from any of the
- 29:37Speaker 6: family has ever heard from them again.
- 29:40Speaker 5: And that's strange. I never got.
- 29:42Speaker 6: One phone call, one phone call from his daddy or
- 29:48Speaker 6: his stepmother. What are y'all doing about my son's death?
- 29:54Speaker 5: Not one? What does that tell you?
- 29:59Speaker 3: Investigators ask the Turners to take a polygraph test, and
- 30:02Speaker 3: we're taking to SLED headquarters. The day after the couple
- 30:05Speaker 3: took the polygraph test, they hired at Charleston attorney Dale
- 30:08Speaker 3: Cobb to represent them. Cobb refused to let the Turners
- 30:12Speaker 3: speak with investigators.
- 30:13Speaker 1: You know, this reminds me of a colleague and a friend,
- 30:17Speaker 1: Mark Class, now a giant in crime fighting, when his
- 30:21Speaker 1: daughter Polly was kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered.
- 30:25Speaker 2: Of course, they came to his place and wanted to
- 30:27Speaker 2: search his home.
- 30:28Speaker 1: He's like, fine, do whatever you have to do. Take
- 30:31Speaker 1: my fingerprints, take my blood, take anything and my hair,
- 30:36Speaker 1: search my place, search my office, search my car, so you.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Can get on and find who took Polly. Right.
- 30:43Speaker 1: But these parents, let me understand this, Nick Reagan joining
- 30:46Speaker 1: is wcsc the parents. The stepmom changes her name, and
- 30:53Speaker 1: they move away, and they never check on this little
- 30:58Speaker 1: boy Justin Lee Turner's case. Did that happen?
- 31:01Speaker 7: That definitely happened, Nancy. It was such an important part
- 31:05Speaker 7: of that press conference to hear the sheriff reveal that
- 31:09Speaker 7: in those thirty four years he had never received a
- 31:13Speaker 7: phone call or an inquiry from now Megan Turner or
- 31:19Speaker 7: Victor Turner to get an update in the case of
- 31:22Speaker 7: their dead child. He did say, though, during that press
- 31:26Speaker 7: conference that when he was elected, when he was first elected,
- 31:30Speaker 7: he heard from Justin's family. They called and said, hey,
- 31:35Speaker 7: what's the update and what are you doing about this
- 31:39Speaker 7: cold case. Another thing I just want to mention really
- 31:42Speaker 7: quickly is that we talk about the Turner's silence in
- 31:46Speaker 7: this case. They did that polygraph, and then they were
- 31:49Speaker 7: silent to investigators for effectively thirty four years. One thing
- 31:55Speaker 7: that Dwayne Lewis, the sheriff, said again during that press conference,
- 31:58Speaker 7: a reporter had asked him, have you heard from them?
- 32:01Speaker 7: Have they spoken? Have you asked them questions? And he said,
- 32:06Speaker 7: once again, they are maintaining their silence. They took a
- 32:09Speaker 7: three hour car ride from Lauren down to Berkeley County,
- 32:14Speaker 7: didn't say a word to them.
- 32:15Speaker 1: I agree Nick Reagan, and also I believe that was
- 32:20Speaker 1: delatory speaking. But then a big forensic clue, as fishy
- 32:26Speaker 1: as the dad and stepmom are acting, that's not enough
- 32:30Speaker 1: to prosecute a case or even Brian acase.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Listen, the murder weapon.
- 32:35Speaker 15: A ligature was found inside the Turner's home, and according
- 32:38Speaker 15: to a report by WCSC, it matched the marks on
- 32:41Speaker 15: Justin Turner's body. Microscopic fibers on the ligature were consistent
- 32:46Speaker 15: with Justin's shirt collar material. According to a forenic pathologist,
- 32:50Speaker 15: Justin's body was hidden in a cabinet in the camper
- 32:53Speaker 15: a short time after his death, near the time he
- 32:55Speaker 15: was last seen alive.
- 32:56Speaker 1: So he's lasting alive by the stepmom, wh and takes
- 33:00Speaker 1: a shower instead of walking him to the bus stop.
- 33:03Speaker 1: He never makes it to the bus stop, and at autopsy,
- 33:07Speaker 1: the medical examiner can determine that he was murdered very
- 33:12Speaker 1: quickly after he was last seen alive, after stepmom saw him.
- 33:19Speaker 2: So what happened within the next thirty minutes?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Now we have the ligature found in the dad's the
- 33:26Speaker 1: bio dad and Stepmom's home, and I need to understand
- 33:30Speaker 1: doctor Kenneth Kinzie, forensic expert.
- 33:33Speaker 2: You can find them at Kenny Kenzie and Associates.
- 33:36Speaker 1: How is it that the ligature?
- 33:42Speaker 2: What did it have fibers from Justine's shirt on it?
- 33:46Speaker 14: Yeah, Nancy advancements and forensic testing. I just commend them
- 33:50Speaker 14: for holding on to that evidence. But from what I
- 33:54Speaker 14: from my research, they have, the fibers are consistent with
- 33:58Speaker 14: the collar on Justine's shirt. And hopefully they've got some
- 34:03Speaker 14: great impression documentation or they may even have the ligature itself,
- 34:08Speaker 14: which would be even better.
- 34:10Speaker 16: But that's wrong.
- 34:10Speaker 14: Strong friends of Kevin to.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Nick Reagan joining us at me see USA. What was
- 34:15Speaker 1: the ligature they're talking about? Was it a wrote, was
- 34:18Speaker 1: it pantyhose, a scarf?
- 34:19Speaker 2: What was it?
- 34:20Speaker 7: Right now? I'm not one hundred percent certain what that
- 34:23Speaker 7: literature was, but you can look at the evidence here
- 34:27Speaker 7: that the sheriff brought out. He pointed to to things.
- 34:30Speaker 7: He pointed to that that consistent marks on the neck
- 34:35Speaker 7: with the ligature and those fibers, which new technology was
- 34:40Speaker 7: able to bring out that evidence. And then the other
- 34:44Speaker 7: thing which was mentioned a little bit earlier, but again
- 34:46Speaker 7: attributed to modern technology in breaking the cold case, was
- 34:50Speaker 7: that stomach content. The forehand, the sheriff had suggested that
- 34:56Speaker 7: Justin could have been murdered twenty four to forty eight
- 34:58Speaker 7: hours beforehand, but now with that new technology, they looked
- 35:02Speaker 7: at the stomach contests and said, no, he was murdered
- 35:05Speaker 7: the morning that Pamela Turner says that he was getting
- 35:10Speaker 7: on the butt.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace to doctor John Delatory, James
- 35:32Speaker 1: shell Nutt, and doctor Kenzie. We know that the scene
- 35:36Speaker 1: was staged. Now that can mean anything. I had one
- 35:40Speaker 1: case where a woman was found dead on her bed
- 35:43Speaker 1: and the killer had taken.
- 35:45Speaker 2: Her bathroom wicker basket and put it over the victim's head.
- 35:50Speaker 1: I've seen in cases where a murder was staged to
- 35:53Speaker 1: look like a suicide. That's staged. It could be a
- 35:58Speaker 1: number of things. This scene was staged, And what I
- 36:02Speaker 1: have learned is just in my own experience practically speaking anecdotally.
- 36:08Speaker 2: This is not a.
- 36:08Speaker 1: Statistic that when someone takes the time to stage a scene,
- 36:15Speaker 1: they are known to the victim. In other words, a
- 36:19Speaker 1: guy breaks into your home to burgle, sees you, he
- 36:24Speaker 1: goes oh and shoots you, then runs. It doesn't take
- 36:29Speaker 1: the time to make it look like a suicide. No, No,
- 36:33Speaker 1: they just want to get away, all right. It's someone
- 36:37Speaker 1: that's connected to the victim that will take the times
- 36:41Speaker 1: to stage the scene, like Alex Murdock.
- 36:44Speaker 7: What about it, Kizzie, good point, Nancy, I mean, is that.
- 36:48Speaker 2: What you found?
- 36:49Speaker 1: She'll know you were twenty seven years on Metro major case.
- 36:52Speaker 2: Who takes the time to stage something when it's a random.
- 36:56Speaker 16: Killing, Well, the person who takes the time to do
- 36:58Speaker 16: is the person who knows that they don't stage it,
- 37:01Speaker 16: it's going to be very obvious that they were involved
- 37:03Speaker 16: with it, so they want to stage it to make
- 37:05Speaker 16: it a little like somebody else did. It's very simple,
- 37:07Speaker 16: dot a eleatory.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Can you explain it in psychology.
- 37:09Speaker 4: Talk, It's about recognizing the level of guilt that the
- 37:14Speaker 4: person knows is going to be reflected onto that and
- 37:18Speaker 4: because of that, they have to mask it. They have
- 37:20Speaker 4: to hide the behavior both for themselves but also to
- 37:24Speaker 4: other people, especially to other people because of the quickness
- 37:29Speaker 4: with which they would be fold found out. The only
- 37:32Speaker 4: person that has that ability is a person that has
- 37:34Speaker 4: time to do so and the wherewithal to do it.
- 37:39Speaker 13: Mm hmmm.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Take a listen at our cut twelve to the sheriff,
- 37:42Speaker 1: Sheriff Dwayne Lewis, Berkeley Sheriffs.
- 37:45Speaker 6: So there's been a lot of different things and statements
- 37:48Speaker 6: made when you when you look at the scene, you
- 37:54Speaker 6: can you can assume by looking at it that it
- 37:58Speaker 6: was somewhat of stage scene to make it look like
- 38:02Speaker 6: something that it wasn't, and all that will come out.
- 38:07Speaker 5: We'll get to all that.
- 38:08Speaker 6: But there's a lot of inconsistencies in the story and
- 38:12Speaker 6: the information and what the deputies, detective and SLED agents
- 38:18Speaker 6: d n R agents were told when they first got
- 38:21Speaker 6: there to try to piece the thing together.
- 38:23Speaker 1: We're told by the bio dad Victor Lee Turner, and
- 38:29Speaker 1: the stepmother Pamela Turner changed her name to Megan Renee Turner.
- 38:34Speaker 1: You know, to you Nick Reagan WCSC. Something very very
- 38:40Speaker 1: damning was learned from the contents of this little boy's stomach.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Tell me, and at the time of the murder.
- 38:50Speaker 1: That could not be analyzed in the way that it
- 38:53Speaker 1: can be analyzed. Now, tell me about the contents of
- 38:56Speaker 1: his stomach, right, Nancy.
- 38:58Speaker 7: You know, this is a thirty four year old cold case.
- 39:01Speaker 7: In nineteen eighty nine, the forensic evidence technology just wasn't
- 39:05Speaker 7: there to seal up the case. But what we've known
- 39:09Speaker 7: in the last couple of years. The sheriff came out,
- 39:13Speaker 7: he said, new technology is why we're able to break
- 39:17Speaker 7: this cold case.
- 39:18Speaker 2: The contents of the stomach.
- 39:20Speaker 7: The contents of the stomach here in this case, they
- 39:23Speaker 7: said they were able to look at the contents of
- 39:26Speaker 7: the stomach to determine time of death. And they compared
- 39:30Speaker 7: it to statements that they had collected from the scene
- 39:34Speaker 7: to nail down when they believed when Justin Turner had
- 39:39Speaker 7: been killed, and they determined that he had been killed
- 39:41Speaker 7: that morning that his stepmother said he got on the bus.
- 39:45Speaker 2: You know, that's amazing.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle Dupriy, I thought that trying to determine time
- 39:50Speaker 1: of death based on stomach contents was not that easy,
- 39:54Speaker 1: So how did they do it?
- 39:55Speaker 2: Doctor duprie h.
- 39:56Speaker 13: Nancy, You're right, it's not that easy because everybody metabolized
- 40:00Speaker 13: steps food differently. But when there are still stomach contents
- 40:04Speaker 13: available to analyze, then you do know that it is
- 40:07Speaker 13: within a range of time frames, and so you can
- 40:09Speaker 13: determine from that that it was relatively short.
- 40:12Speaker 1: In last hours a major development. Take a listen to
- 40:16Speaker 1: Sheriff Lewis.
- 40:16Speaker 6: I wanted to report to the citizens of Berkeley County
- 40:19Speaker 6: that yesterday, January ninth, at ten am, detectives from the
- 40:26Speaker 6: Berkeley County Sheriff's Office was able to arrest and take
- 40:31Speaker 6: into custody Victor Lee Turner and Pamela Turner also known
- 40:37Speaker 6: as Making Turner. They were taken into custody at their
- 40:43Speaker 6: home which is located in Cross Hills, South Carolina, which
- 40:47Speaker 6: is in Lawrence County. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office assisted us
- 40:50Speaker 6: with the arrest. They have been transported back to the
- 40:55Speaker 6: Berkeley County Jail.
- 40:56Speaker 5: They are incarcerated at this time.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Nick, has the death penalty been announced?
- 41:04Speaker 7: Not to my knowledge.
- 41:05Speaker 2: I want to go to Amy Parsons joining us. This
- 41:07Speaker 2: is then little five year old.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Justin Turner cousin, Amy, since the time of your little
- 41:16Speaker 1: cousin's murder, what toll has this taken on your family?
- 41:22Speaker 12: It's taking a tremendous toll. I mean, you guys think
- 41:26Speaker 12: his mom literally called the Sheriff's office every day that
- 41:33Speaker 12: she lived, beg and please, can you, you know, find
- 41:36Speaker 12: who killed my who killed my son. She passed away
- 41:39Speaker 12: in two thousand and four and never got that that
- 41:43Speaker 12: peace of mind. She felt, as everybody else did at
- 41:47Speaker 12: the time, who did it. But at the same time,
- 41:53Speaker 12: they were not prosecuted. I mean, they were still out there.
- 41:56Speaker 12: So for her it was it was something than that
- 42:00Speaker 12: affected her, you know, basically her whole life.
- 42:05Speaker 14: It was.
- 42:06Speaker 12: It was very traumatic, that feeling of.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Helplessness of injustice.
- 42:14Speaker 1: Knowing that the killer was walking free, and that this
- 42:17Speaker 1: little boy had been raped, mistreated and murdered and nothing
- 42:24Speaker 1: happened for all those years.
- 42:26Speaker 2: I mean, I can see that tearing a family apart. Amy.
- 42:30Speaker 12: Luckily, you know, our family is a strong family. We
- 42:33Speaker 12: held it together and we just wanted what was best
- 42:37Speaker 12: for our family, and that was to put the murderer
- 42:40Speaker 12: behind bars. It didn't matter who it was. I mean,
- 42:44Speaker 12: we just wanted them to serve time for what they
- 42:47Speaker 12: had done.
- 42:48Speaker 1: And what has the family reaction been with the arrest
- 42:52Speaker 1: of his own bio dad and stepmother.
- 42:55Speaker 12: Like I said before, our family felt like we knew
- 42:58Speaker 12: who had done it. There just wasn't enough evidence there
- 43:02Speaker 12: for them to be able to prosecute on it. I
- 43:06Speaker 12: knew that it would it would take something like being
- 43:12Speaker 12: able to forensically tie them. Of course, over the years,
- 43:18Speaker 12: I've stayed in touch with the Sheriff's office and and
- 43:21Speaker 12: they've sent different things to be analyzed, and it just
- 43:27Speaker 12: it was It's kind of bittersweet. It's one of those
- 43:30Speaker 12: moments where you know you're you're so happy and excited
- 43:34Speaker 12: that we finally got to this point. There's still a
- 43:36Speaker 12: long road ahead.
- 43:38Speaker 2: And this is what Sheriff Dwayne Lewis has to say.
- 43:42Speaker 5: I have to say, I'm hoping and I'm praying that
- 43:47Speaker 5: Justin is looking down from heaven rejoicing that today there's
- 43:55Speaker 5: some justice. There's still some justice in this country.
- 44:03Speaker 2: Sheriff Lewis. Truer words were never spoken. We wait as
- 44:09Speaker 2: justice unfolds. Good Bye friend,