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[Len] Opened the kitchen door
and there he was.
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Blood everywhere.
It wasn't an accident.
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You could tell.
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[Morrison]
There wasn't a hell of a lot
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of forensic evidence
to be found.
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There was a lot
of restless nights, okay?
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[Sharon] Dad was supposed
to go meet my brother.
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He didn't show up.
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I didn't know
whether he was taken,
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whether he was
still alive.
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[Morrison] The guy
just phones and asks,
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"Listen, I hear there was
a murder out in Langdon.
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Was the guy shot?"
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[Nollind] Even though
I didn't see the guy do it,
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in my heart
I'm convinced he did it.
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And I have no mercy
for someone
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who would break into someone's
house and kill someone.
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In my eyes,
you'll be the coldest,
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bloodiest son of a bitch
I've ever met.
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Welcome to Crime Beat,
I'm Antony Robart.
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Tonight,
a beloved senior
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was found beaten to death
in his own home.
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This left a community shaken
and detectives puzzled
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who would commit
such a violent act and why.
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Now, despite
an exhaustive investigation,
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the case went cold.
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And that is
when another senior vanished.
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Here now is Nancy Hixt
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with "Golden Years Gone."
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[tense music playing]
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[Nancy]
Out in the country,
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away from the hustle
and bustle of the city
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in rural Alberta,
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neighbours can become
like family.
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And you keep an eye out
for each other.
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That's why what happened
back in the spring of 1994
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will stay with Len Moor
for the rest of his life.
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[engine rumbling]
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[Len]
It was such a shock.
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I can picture everything
just clear as day.
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It was just horrible.
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[Nancy] Len passed by his good
friend Ardie Turner's place
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every day
on his way to work.
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But on April 30th, 1994,
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Len remembers
that something seemed off.
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Get to work and...
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I don't know, nine o'clock
or so, I tried phoning him,
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I tried phoning him
a couple of times.
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And anyways,
he didn't answer.
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So on the way home, at--
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late--
I worked an extra hour.
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So it was, you know,
probably 7:30, eight o'clock
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when I was going by.
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And, uh...
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his car
was still not there.
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[Nancy]
Len decided to stop in
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and see
if Ardie left him a note.
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[Len] So I'm pulling
into Ardie's yard.
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And, you know, the house
was sitting right here.
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And his car sat right here
and it's gone.
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Get out of my truck...
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walk around to the house
and the porch door was closed.
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Very, you know, not good.
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Because he had a cat in there
that just had a kitten.
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He never closed that door.
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[Nancy]
There was no note.
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Len decided
to take a look inside.
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[Len]
Walked inside the porch
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and the inside plywood door
was closed.
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And it was never closed,
you know.
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The only door
that was ever closed
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was the kitchen door
which had glass panes in it.
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So I opened that one and then
I opened the kitchen door
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and there he was laying there
on the kitchen floor.
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I-- I leaned in
and I knew he was gone, so...
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It was panic.
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Blood everywhere.
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And it was-- I ran past him
through his living room
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and through his bedroom
and that's where the phone was.
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It was a rotary phone,
so I don't know what I did.
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I finally got a hold
of the police
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and I couldn't talk.
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I dropped the phone
16 times.
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Anyways, the lady said,
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"Hang on, stay on the phone,
stay on the phone."
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I said,
"I gotta get out of here."
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[Nancy]
Within just minutes,
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first responders from the RCMP
arrived at the property.
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[Len] He said, "You sure Ardie
just-- just didn't fall down
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and bang his head?"
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I said, "No,
it wasn't an accident."
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You could tell.
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Like, the way he was laying,
you know...
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and the blood everywhere.
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Like, you know,
it wasn't just a drop or two.
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There was blood
running down the floor.
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There's pools.
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Yeah, it was not
just an accident.
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[Morrison]
When we arrive,
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our forensic unit
is arriving at the same time.
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Now this would be
on April the 30th.
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There was obviously a situation
that happened in the kitchen
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and Mr. Turner
was struck several times
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and basically
went down face first
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and then was hit again
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and then subsequently bled out
there in the kitchen.
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So he was in the process
of going to bed
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when the perpetrator
showed up...
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struck him
and committed the murder.
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[leaves rustling]
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[Nancy] Investigators
videotaped the scene
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and gathered evidence
from Ardie's property.
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[Morrison] His vehicle,
which is a very distinctive,
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it was basically
a GMC El Camino.
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And that's in the old days,
he used to make these cars,
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you know,
you'd see the odd one around.
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It was a passenger car
on a passenger frame,
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but the back of the frame
was-- was basically open
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and you could
haul materials.
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So it was kind of like
a-- a miniature pickup,
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but only
in a car chassis.
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So, and it was apparently
mustard colored and brown.
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So it would be very distinct,
especially in those days
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because there weren't many
of those vehicles around.
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We see the vehicle
is sighted a couple of times,
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one on Glenmore Trail.
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So a farmer's out working
his fields while he's seeding
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and then looks and sees
his vehicle, which is Ardie's
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and said, "Holy Christ,
look at that thing go."
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[Nancy] As investigators
followed the trail
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of Ardie's missing car,
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an autopsy revealed
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he had died
from head injuries.
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Ardie had been struck
on the head at least 14 times
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with a rod shaped implement.
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[Morrison] Well,
it was a blunt force, you know,
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I mean, just what
he was struck with.
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And then
there was a couple of marks
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on the glass door,
the third door.
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There was a couple
from swinging.
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He had obviously hit the door
a couple of times
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with this-- this weapon.
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[Nancy] Police never recovered
a murder weapon.
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They asked me to go
and take a look
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to see
if I knew what was missing...
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and all Ardie's
prescription pills were gone.
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And, you know,
there was a few things
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that I remembered
that were gone.
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[Morrison]
You know, he didn't have
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a hell of a lot of stuff.
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And so we went through
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and then we found
Ardie's wallet
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and it had
his driver's license.
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And I think
Alberta Health...
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may have had
his birth certificate as well,
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but it was just laying empty,
just the wallet.
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And that was found in,
I think,
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on one of the cabinets
in the dining room.
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You know,
robbery would be the motive,
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you know,
basically a financial motive
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to steal his money,
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knowing full well
it was the end of the month
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and he would have cash.
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[Nancy] It's been more
than 30 years
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since Len Moor stopped in
to see Ardie Turner
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only to discover
his friend had been murdered.
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The side door
would have been right here...
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on the east side.
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As soon
as I opened that door,
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I saw him laying on the floor
in the kitchen.
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[Nancy] Memories of that day
continue to haunt him.
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He knew Ardie as a kind,
grandfatherly figure
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who loved
to visit with friends.
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[Len] He just
liked socializing.
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You know, he...
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he liked gardening,
he liked socializing.
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[indistinct] once in a while,
you know. [chuckles]
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[Nancy] Ardie Turner
wasn't a wealthy man.
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He had worked for both
Canadian National Rail
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and Canadian Pacific Rail,
then retired.
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Well, he probably lived
like a lot of people today,
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from cheque to cheque,
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you know,
from payday to payday.
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I think his pension
from-- from the railway
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was around maybe $1,200
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and then he would have got
Canada Pension, of course,
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and CPP,
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and probably, you know,
on a monthly basis,
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he-- if-- if it amounted
to $2,000,
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you know, that would be
pretty well it, so.
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His rent
for that residence,
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originally I was told
it was 150,
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and then
I was later told it was--
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it was, I think,
200 he was paying a month
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for this place.
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And basically,
he was there by himself.
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He-- he was a...
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single person.
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[Nancy] Ardie Turner's murder
topped local news headlines.
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The RCMP asked
for the public's help
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to find
his missing El Camino.
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It was later located
in the parking lot
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of a Calgary shopping mall.
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Police believe
it had been wiped down clean.
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With no forensic evidence
to point to a suspect,
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police turned
to Len Moor for help.
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[Len] He was interviewing me
in his police car.
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He's asked me
a bunch of questions.
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Who did I think
could have done it?
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I said,
"I have no idea.
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Like, Ardie
never had any enemies.
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You know,
he was a friendly guy."
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And I was sitting in the car,
and I had this--
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this is no word of a lie,
I had the worst shiver
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right from the top
of my neck,
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right in my sp--
through my spine.
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Like, blurred it out,
"Raymond Tudor."
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And-- and Paul, the cop,
looked at me and went, "What?"
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I said,
"I don't know why I said that.
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It was just like Ardie was,
you know,
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he always liked to poke me,
and I just sort of felt like.
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Ardie had said that...
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Raymond was a bad actor.
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Like, he'd-- he got
into trouble with the law.
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You know, he wasn't
a fan favourite by any means,
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but he was a...
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sk-- I guess
he was a sketchy person.
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Is that okay to say?
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[Nancy] The RCMP dug into
Raymond Tudor's background
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and learned
he lived at Alyth Lodge,
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a Southeast Calgary
apartment complex.
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He had recently finished
a jail term
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for convictions
of forcible confinement
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and firearms offenses.
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Everybody was leery
of Raymond John Tudor.
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He's one of those guys
that you grew up with
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and didn't really
want to know.
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So we ended-- ended up
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bringing him
into the office very early,
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I think probably
about the 3rd or 4th of May,
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and interviewed him there.
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And of course he gave us
a denial statement saying
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no, that he had gone up
to the Blackfoot truck stop,
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had dinner there
and did some laundry there
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and then came back
and he was at the Alyth Lodge
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the rest of the evening.
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So he wasn't
responsible for this.
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[Nancy]
Weeks went by
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and investigators struggled
to push the case forward.
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[Morrison]
It does slow down
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because now
we've interviewed everybody
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that we know
that's attached to that file.
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We don't have
any DNA evidence.
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We don't have the weapon
that was used to kill Ardie.
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[Nancy]
Then out of the blue,
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Len Moor received
a strange phone call
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from an unidentified man.
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He asked me all the information
about how Ardie was murdered.
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Was he stabbed
or was he, you know, shot or--
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And he said, "If you give me
any of that information,"
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he said, "I might know
the person that did it."
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I thought
it was totally crazy.
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I mean, why would somebody
phone you at work and ask you?
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And if you knew the person
that did the murdering,
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turn them in.
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[Nancy] The RCMP received
a similar anonymous tip.
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[Morrison] The guy
just phones and asks,
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"Listen, I hear there was
a murder out in Langdon.
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Was the guy shot?"
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[Nancy] Ardie Turner
had been bludgeoned to death,
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but the RCMP had never made
that information public.
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[Morrison] We know
that there's somebody out there
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that wants
to talk to us,
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but probably scared
for himself.
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And we just
got to find that guy.
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[Nancy] But more than
a year passed with no arrests.
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And then another senior
was targeted
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and the case
seemed eerily similar.
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Welcome back
to Crime Beat.
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In the spring of 1994,
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a 75 year old man
was found murdered
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in his rural home,
east of Calgary.
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Without forensic evidence,
the case went cold.
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Then 16 months later,
another senior vanished
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under suspicious circumstances.
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Here again is Nancy Hixt
with "Golden Years Gone."
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[heartfelt music playing]
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[Sharon] That was...
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us when we were
a little older.
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Jim and-- and I
and mom and dad.
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[Nancy] Bill Vomastic
was a hardworking man
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who wanted to spend his
golden years
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with his wife, Lee,
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only to lose the love
of his life to cancer.
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[Sharon]
And he was devastated.
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You know,
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he'd-- he'd say to me,
"I can handle daytime,"
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but he said, "Nighttime,
I can't cope."
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[Nancy] It had been a rough
year,
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but the 67 year old
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was finally
feeling like himself again.
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And in the summer of 1995,
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Bill had joined
a group of friends
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on an expedition
to Alaska.
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[Sharon] Dad caught
this 153 pound halibut,
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this huge--
and he was so excited.
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[Nancy]
Bill was a devout family man
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who visited his kids
and grandson almost every day
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and would frequently call
to catch up
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when they were apart.
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[Sharon] Three or four times
a day, easy, yeah.
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And he would usually
be waiting for me
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when I got home
from work.
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[tense music playing]
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[Nancy] On the evening
of August 24th, 1995,
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Bill called his daughter.
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[Sharon]
He phoned quarter to nine.
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And I-- I said,
"What's wrong?"
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And I could hear people
talking in the background.
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He sounded...
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a little off.
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And I said,
"Are you okay, Dad?"
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I said, "Do you want me
to come down?"
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And he goes,
"No, no, it's fine."
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He said,
"Your brother's here."
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And-- and I said,
"Well, okay."
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It was-- I don't know,
it was just like
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he wanted me to know
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what was going on.
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And I said,
"Well, if you decide
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you want me to come down,
I can drive over."
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I said,
"Just take me a minute.
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You know, and he goes,
"No, no, everything's okay."
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And we hung up.
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[Nancy] The next day,
Bill had planned
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to meet his son
at a Calgary tire shop.
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Jim went there
and dad didn't show up.
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And so Jim started
phoning the house
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going, "Well, where's Dad,
where's Dad?"
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And I said,
"Well, I don't know.
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If he said he was gonna
be there, he'll be there."
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But he didn't show.
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And so Jim said, "Well,
I'm gonna go up to Dad's
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and see if he's home."
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He wasn't answering
the phone either.
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[Nancy] But when Jim
arrived at the house,
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his dad wasn't there.
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[Sharon]
There was a note on the table
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that said,
"Gone fishing to Montana, Dad."
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[Nancy] Sharon immediately
went to meet her brother
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at her dad's home
and saw the note.
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[Sharon] It was written
in big, big letters.
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Well, Dad didn't print,
he wrote.
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And it was kind of
tiny writing that he had.
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So I knew it wasn't Dad
that had written it.
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You don't know what to think.
You don't...
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you don't want to believe
that something's wrong.
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But there were...
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things
that I knew were wrong.
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Well, the first thing I did
was look up in the cupboard.
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He kept a roll
of American money
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for when he did go down
to the States
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and it was still there.
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And then I went
in the closet.
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The suitcases
were all still there.
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His jacket and hat
were in the kitchen,
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the ones
that he always wore.
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And there was one shoe
by the back doorway, just one.
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And I couldn't
figure that out.
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I looked in the liquor cabinet,
it was empty.
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He always had
a good selection
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and it was all gone.
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Guns were missing.
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He had a lot
of black powder guns,
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but he also had a lot
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of collector rifles
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and pistols.
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The last room
that I looked in
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was kind of
a study room or-- that he had
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and he had a record player
set up in there
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and he'd like to go
sit in there on the couch
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and listen to music.
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That couch had been moved
to the middle of the floor
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and it was covered
with a bedspread.
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And I guess
when it's not your house,
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it's your parents' house,
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you don't want
to be touching things.
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Or-- I don't know, I just
sort of had that mentality.
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So I went home.
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[Nancy] But Sharon
couldn't shake the feeling
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that something was wrong.
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[Sharon]
We went back the next morning
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and I brought
my son along.
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I headed for that room.
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By then that bedspread
had started to seep
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and you could see
blood coming up.
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So I said,
"Move the couch."
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And it was just...
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this big,
huge pool of blood.
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[dramatic music playing]
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So I grabbed my son
and ran out of the house.
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I just tried
to collect my thoughts.
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I didn't know
whether he was taken,
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whether he was still alive,
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whether he was
laying somewhere injured.
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You don't-- you know,
don't know, right?
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[Nancy] Bill's family
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reported him missing
to police.
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[O'Brien]
They were able to provide
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the investigators
at the time
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some information,
some timelines,
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and-- and certainly
it looked suspicious.
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One of the things
that the family noticed
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is that their dad's Ford
Victoria vehicle was missing.
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And so one of the first things
that we did
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was push out an alert
with the vehicle description
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so that if it's spotted,
that we would know.
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And again, we're still not sure
what we have here.
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It-- it's very possible
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that-- that their dad
is in the vehicle.
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We don't know.
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[Nancy] Just hours later,
at about 10:00 p.m.
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on August 26th, 1995,
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the vehicle was spotted
by Calgary police officers.
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[O'Brien]
They see a vehicle
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driving on a flat tire.
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They run the license plate
and they see
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that it has been flagged
by our investigators
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as belonging
to a missing person.
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So the vehicle does pull over
and then right away,
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the driver gets out
and flees on foot.
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And so
there's a foot chase
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between the police officers
and that driver of the vehicle.
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Within a block, the driver
of that vehicle is arrested.
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[Nancy] Police confirmed
the driver
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was not Bill Vomastic.
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Upon search, they find
the car keys for that vehicle
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and they also find
Bill Vomastic's
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wallet on that driver.
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One of the other things
that they noted is that
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he was wearing
cowboy boots.
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00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:05,133
They noticed
in the stitching,
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there appeared to be
some blood in that stitching.
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00:23:07,266 --> 00:23:09,967
That driver was transported
to our headquarters.
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00:23:10,133 --> 00:23:11,667
Again, we don't know
what we have yet.
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00:23:11,834 --> 00:23:15,367
So we know we have what looks
like a crime scene, but again,
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is it a crime scene of somebody
being assaulted and bleeding?
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00:23:19,266 --> 00:23:20,200
Is it a murder scene?
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Like we're not sure
what we have yet.
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♪
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[ominous musi]
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[Nancy]
In September of 1995,
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Bill Vomastic's family
should have been celebrating
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his 68th birthday.
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00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,200
Instead, they searched.
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00:23:44,367 --> 00:23:47,867
He hadn't been seen
since August 24th.
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It was a really
unpleasant time.
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00:23:50,734 --> 00:23:52,133
It really was.
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00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:55,200
[Nancy] Bill's kids
told police about an incident
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00:23:55,367 --> 00:23:57,266
that occurred
earlier that summer
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when he attended
a friend's funeral.
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Apparently,
one of their adult children,
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named Raymond,
had approached him.
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00:24:06,266 --> 00:24:10,834
[Sharon] And I guess
he was outside of the church
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having a cigarette
after the service.
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00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:17,166
Raymond came up to him
and I guess
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started talking with him,
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00:24:19,467 --> 00:24:21,266
told him he was having
a hard time,
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borrowed $40 off of Dad
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and asked for Dad's address...
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to drop the money back off
the following week.
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So dad gave him the money,
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00:24:36,667 --> 00:24:41,433
apparently, and never thought
anything more of it.
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00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,800
[Nancy] But it turned out
that same man showed up
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at Bill's home the last night
he was seen alive.
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00:24:49,533 --> 00:24:52,567
Dad and my brother, Jim,
had supper together
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and there was a knock
at the door and it was...
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00:24:57,433 --> 00:24:59,033
Raymond.
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00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,734
And Raymond was drinking
and borrowing smokes off Dad.
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00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:05,700
And I think
my brother just...
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felt a bit agitated
maybe and left.
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00:25:09,567 --> 00:25:12,066
[Nancy] Sharon
and her brother told police
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they felt
this fellow Raymond
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was the last person
to see their father.
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So when police
recovered Bill's vehicle
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and it turned out to be a man
named Raymond driving it,
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investigators were extremely suspicious.
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I understand
you're Raymond Tudor?
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00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:31,767
- Yeah.
- Okay.
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00:25:31,934 --> 00:25:34,967
There's a connection
between you and a vehicle
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that belongs to this fellow
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00:25:36,433 --> 00:25:37,834
that we're looking into
his disappearance.
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His name is Bill Vomastic,
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I think is that
how you pronounce it, I think.
498
00:25:44,467 --> 00:25:47,800
At the current time,
you're under arrest
499
00:25:47,967 --> 00:25:51,734
because you fled
from Mr. Vomastic's car.
500
00:25:52,967 --> 00:25:54,734
And the circumstances
surrounding
501
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,867
Mr. Vomastic's disappearance
are suspicious.
502
00:25:58,033 --> 00:26:01,400
And we have reason to believe
there may be violence involved.
503
00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,767
So at the current time,
you're under arrest
504
00:26:04,934 --> 00:26:06,100
because in our eyes,
505
00:26:06,266 --> 00:26:09,266
you're a suspect
in the violence
506
00:26:09,433 --> 00:26:11,800
that we believe
happened to Mr. Vomastic.
507
00:26:11,967 --> 00:26:12,967
We're not sure what.
508
00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:19,433
Can you help us out at all
with where Bill Vomastic
509
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,033
might be or what happened?
510
00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:34,767
When did you borrow
Bill's car?
511
00:26:37,934 --> 00:26:39,667
So he gave you the car
that same night?
512
00:26:41,567 --> 00:26:43,333
And when are you
to return it?
513
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:48,066
When he gets back.
514
00:26:49,834 --> 00:26:51,834
- Did he lend you anything else?
- Mm-hmm.
515
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,033
What else did he lend you?
516
00:27:04,133 --> 00:27:06,867
So he lent you his wallet
and his credit card?
517
00:27:07,033 --> 00:27:08,133
- Yeah.
- All right.
518
00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:11,967
The investigators
were suspicious initially
519
00:27:12,133 --> 00:27:14,266
that he's not telling
the full story.
520
00:27:14,433 --> 00:27:15,433
Don't know
what the story is,
521
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,867
but certainly not telling
the full story.
522
00:27:18,033 --> 00:27:21,900
[Nancy] The detectives left
the room and Tudor slept.
523
00:27:22,066 --> 00:27:23,400
At the same time,
524
00:27:23,567 --> 00:27:26,900
a forensic examination
of Bill Vomastic's home
525
00:27:27,066 --> 00:27:28,834
was taking place.
526
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,800
[O'Brien] So when
the blood spatter expert
527
00:27:31,967 --> 00:27:35,200
arrived at the scene
and took a look at the scene,
528
00:27:35,367 --> 00:27:37,133
it was their expert opinion
529
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:38,867
that somebody
had tried to cover up,
530
00:27:39,033 --> 00:27:41,567
that somebody had tried
to clean up the scene.
531
00:27:41,734 --> 00:27:46,533
They found what appeared to be
a boot print that had,
532
00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,667
you know,
from blood essentially.
533
00:27:48,834 --> 00:27:51,200
And so the boot prints
looked like it had
534
00:27:51,367 --> 00:27:54,800
a pointier toe,
similar to a cowboy boot.
535
00:27:54,967 --> 00:27:57,700
They noticed
what appeared to be drag marks.
536
00:27:57,867 --> 00:28:01,667
The drag marks were from
essentially the garage
537
00:28:01,834 --> 00:28:05,533
to the door or perhaps
from the door to the garage.
538
00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:07,100
Difficult to tell.
539
00:28:07,266 --> 00:28:10,467
[Nancy] Police also examined
Bill Vomastic's vehicle
540
00:28:10,633 --> 00:28:13,333
and found
a large amount of blood.
541
00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:15,867
- Raymond.
- Hm?
542
00:28:16,033 --> 00:28:17,033
- Raymond.
- Uh-huh?
543
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,066
Wake up.
544
00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:25,166
It would appear that...
545
00:28:27,734 --> 00:28:30,133
someone bleeding very badly
546
00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:31,967
was placed
in the trunk of that car.
547
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,734
Well, there appears to be
a large quantity of blood
548
00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:41,033
in the trunk of that car.
549
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,734
Who's missing.
550
00:28:57,166 --> 00:28:58,967
But the note
that was written
551
00:28:59,133 --> 00:29:01,834
has been shown
to Bill's daughter.
552
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,133
And it's not
Bill's handwriting.
553
00:29:06,133 --> 00:29:07,633
The one that says,
"Gone fishing."
554
00:29:13,266 --> 00:29:15,367
Why is there blood
on your cowboy boots then?
555
00:29:18,266 --> 00:29:19,567
Whose blood
would that be?
556
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,266
Would that be Bill's blood?
557
00:29:29,166 --> 00:29:31,200
It appears to me
that you've killed Bill.
558
00:29:34,767 --> 00:29:36,066
Well, that's the way
it's looking.
559
00:29:37,934 --> 00:29:39,967
And that you put him
in the trunk of his car...
560
00:29:40,934 --> 00:29:44,233
and-- and have moved
his body somewhere.
561
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,433
[Nancy] That's when
investigators brought up
562
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,066
another unsolved homicide.
563
00:29:50,233 --> 00:29:53,166
You know
what bothers me is, is uh...
564
00:29:56,066 --> 00:29:58,633
is we did a little
checking tonight.
565
00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,633
Hmm.
566
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,467
There's an old fellow
that lived out of Langdon...
567
00:30:03,633 --> 00:30:04,700
Hmm.
568
00:30:05,867 --> 00:30:07,133
...that you were friends with.
569
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:08,467
Hmm.
570
00:30:08,633 --> 00:30:09,767
You know
who I'm referring to?
571
00:30:11,467 --> 00:30:12,500
Who am I talking?
572
00:30:16,333 --> 00:30:17,500
What's Artie's last name?
573
00:30:23,433 --> 00:30:25,734
But the circumstances
are so similar, aren't they?
574
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:29,900
You look me in the eye
and you tell me again
575
00:30:30,066 --> 00:30:31,300
that you didn't kill Bill.
576
00:30:33,567 --> 00:30:35,300
When's this nonsense
gonna stop?
577
00:30:35,467 --> 00:30:36,767
There's two men dead.
578
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,633
You killing people,
that's what nonsense.
579
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:41,867
There's two men dead.
580
00:30:43,133 --> 00:30:46,567
You can help the family
by putting Bill's body to rest
581
00:30:46,734 --> 00:30:48,734
and letting them
have a service.
582
00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,433
Now, you can sit here stubborn.
I'm still locking you up.
583
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,200
You are being locked up,
no joke, tonight.
584
00:30:55,367 --> 00:30:57,400
You can sit here
and you can make us look
585
00:30:57,567 --> 00:31:00,133
and we'll look for a day,
we'll look for three years.
586
00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:01,900
But we'll find him.
587
00:31:02,066 --> 00:31:03,834
And then at that
point in time...
588
00:31:07,166 --> 00:31:09,166
in my eyes,
you'll be the coldest,
589
00:31:09,333 --> 00:31:11,266
bloodiest son of a bitch
I've ever met.
590
00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:12,333
I'm telling you
that you're probably
591
00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:13,567
going to jail
for murder here.
592
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,500
I'm telling you that
you will be locked up tonight
593
00:31:19,667 --> 00:31:22,600
and charged with the murder
of Bill, tonight.
594
00:31:25,066 --> 00:31:26,233
Anytime you want.
595
00:31:28,433 --> 00:31:31,500
[Nancy] Police believed
Raymond Tudor was responsible
596
00:31:31,667 --> 00:31:34,500
for the disappearance
of Bill Vomastic
597
00:31:34,667 --> 00:31:37,934
and they charged him
with second degree murder.
598
00:31:38,934 --> 00:31:42,867
[Sharon] He refused
to disclose anything,
599
00:31:43,033 --> 00:31:44,333
refused to...
600
00:31:46,467 --> 00:31:48,400
admit doing anything,
601
00:31:48,567 --> 00:31:53,567
said he'd been and left
and that Dad was fine...
602
00:31:54,767 --> 00:31:58,300
when he left
and he knew nothing about it.
603
00:31:58,467 --> 00:32:03,333
Yet he was wearing
Dad's gold retirement watch
604
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,667
when he was apprehended
that night,
605
00:32:06,834 --> 00:32:09,100
you know,
driving Dad's car.
606
00:32:09,266 --> 00:32:14,533
I think it was one
of the first cases in Canada
607
00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:18,000
where charges were laid
608
00:32:18,166 --> 00:32:22,734
without a body
being recovered.
609
00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:26,700
Just the amount of blood
that was found.
610
00:32:26,867 --> 00:32:28,100
[Nancy] In the meantime,
611
00:32:28,266 --> 00:32:31,133
the search
for Bill's body continued.
612
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:35,433
[Sharon] I had posters
made up that we distributed
613
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,967
all throughout
Southern Alberta
614
00:32:38,133 --> 00:32:41,000
with pictures of things that
were missing from the house.
615
00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:42,700
There was a couch cushion,
616
00:32:42,867 --> 00:32:47,133
there was a bedspread that was
missing off another bed,
617
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,567
pictures of his car.
618
00:32:49,734 --> 00:32:52,300
The television
coverage died down
619
00:32:52,467 --> 00:32:54,033
and I wanted
to keep it alive.
620
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,667
I wanted people
to keep looking for him
621
00:32:58,834 --> 00:33:01,567
because I wasn't gonna rest
until he was found.
622
00:33:01,734 --> 00:33:06,000
♪
623
00:33:13,133 --> 00:33:14,266
Welcome back.
624
00:33:14,433 --> 00:33:16,700
After one senior
had been found murdered
625
00:33:16,867 --> 00:33:19,834
and another was missing
and presumed dead,
626
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,734
police discovered
an eerie connection.
627
00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,734
They believed the same person
killed both men.
628
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:30,233
The problem was finding
the evidence to prove it.
629
00:33:32,333 --> 00:33:35,333
Here now is Nancy Hicks
with a conclusion
630
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,600
of "Golden Years Gone."
631
00:33:38,834 --> 00:33:41,700
[suspenseful music playing]
632
00:33:45,333 --> 00:33:46,667
[Len] Yeah.
That was a smile.
633
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,066
[Nancy]
For more than a year,
634
00:33:49,233 --> 00:33:52,834
Ardie Turner's killer
had eluded arrest.
635
00:33:54,900 --> 00:34:00,400
The RCMP knew someone had
information about the homicide
636
00:34:00,567 --> 00:34:04,633
and finally
that witness came forward.
637
00:34:18,734 --> 00:34:20,266
[Nancy]
The witness told police
638
00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:22,567
he was watching the news
and learned
639
00:34:22,734 --> 00:34:27,367
Raymond Tudor was a suspect
in the death of Bill Vomastic.
640
00:34:55,967 --> 00:34:58,367
[Nancy] The man said
he had no idea
641
00:34:58,533 --> 00:35:01,734
Tudor was going to kill
Ardie Turner.
642
00:35:12,834 --> 00:35:15,066
[Nancy] Days later,
the witness provided
643
00:35:15,233 --> 00:35:19,467
a videotaped statement to
RCMP Corporal Doug Morrison.
644
00:35:20,567 --> 00:35:23,033
[Morrison] This is
the golden witness, yeah.
645
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,700
You know, because
we could never figure out
646
00:35:25,867 --> 00:35:29,400
how would Tudor
get out there.
647
00:35:29,567 --> 00:35:31,467
I could not see him
walking alongside the road
648
00:35:31,633 --> 00:35:34,100
- or in either ditch.
- Okay.
649
00:35:34,266 --> 00:35:35,900
Now when you dropped him off
and pulled away
650
00:35:36,066 --> 00:35:37,266
and you used
your rear view mirror,
651
00:35:37,433 --> 00:35:39,467
did you see which way
he went from there?
652
00:35:39,633 --> 00:35:41,266
- No.
- So this is the area
653
00:35:41,433 --> 00:35:43,867
where you made your turnaround
and then continued northbound.
654
00:35:44,033 --> 00:35:45,900
[Dodd] Yeah,
I turned around right here.
655
00:35:46,066 --> 00:35:49,066
And as I was facing
this house over here
656
00:35:49,233 --> 00:35:52,767
that's been told to me
that it's Ardie Turner's,
657
00:35:52,934 --> 00:35:55,033
I noticed there were
no lights on at that house.
658
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,900
[Nancy] As the RCMP
finalized their case
659
00:35:59,066 --> 00:36:02,767
against Tudor for the murder
of Ardie Turner,
660
00:36:02,934 --> 00:36:05,834
there was a development
in the investigation
661
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,867
into Bill Vomastic's homicide.
662
00:36:09,033 --> 00:36:11,667
We had a break
on September 2nd,
663
00:36:11,834 --> 00:36:14,834
and that's when somebody that
lives just east of Calgary,
664
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,367
just outside City Limits,
665
00:36:16,533 --> 00:36:19,734
located what appeared to be
some blood stained
666
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:23,767
shower curtain and a rod
and called the RCMP.
667
00:36:23,934 --> 00:36:26,300
There was in fact
a shower curtain
668
00:36:26,467 --> 00:36:29,433
and a shower rod that was
missing from the victim's house
669
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,767
and this description matched.
670
00:36:35,033 --> 00:36:39,100
[Nancy]
Then on September 22nd, 1995,
671
00:36:39,266 --> 00:36:42,567
four weeks after
Bill Vomastic disappeared,
672
00:36:42,734 --> 00:36:45,433
two pheasant hunters
on a rural property
673
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,600
south of Carseland
discovered a body
674
00:36:48,767 --> 00:36:50,900
near an old abandoned barn.
675
00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:54,000
When Calgary
homicide detectives
676
00:36:54,166 --> 00:36:55,600
arrived at the scene,
677
00:36:55,767 --> 00:36:59,867
located about an hour's drive
southeast of Bill's home,
678
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:04,166
they confirmed it was in fact
the missing senior.
679
00:37:06,033 --> 00:37:08,133
[O'Brien] Investigators
took the time to take
680
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:11,500
a really a beautiful
sunset photograph
681
00:37:11,667 --> 00:37:14,033
from the place
that Bill was located.
682
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,467
And, you know, it's, uh...
683
00:37:17,633 --> 00:37:20,100
like, it's heartfelt.
684
00:37:20,266 --> 00:37:22,233
It's the investigators
685
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,734
trying to provide closure
to the family.
686
00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:28,700
And yeah, I just thought
it was very kind
687
00:37:28,867 --> 00:37:30,800
what they did
and super impactful.
688
00:37:30,967 --> 00:37:32,133
[Sharon]
And they said, "This is..."
689
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:35,066
you know,
"...your Dad's view every day."
690
00:37:35,233 --> 00:37:39,567
And it was actually beautiful,
but yeah.
691
00:37:41,367 --> 00:37:43,033
[Nancy]
But any sense of peace
692
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,934
the family felt
was short-lived.
693
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,300
[Sharon] The autopsy report
gave me answers, you know,
694
00:37:50,467 --> 00:37:53,266
seven stab wounds
into the back,
695
00:37:53,433 --> 00:37:56,867
violent wounds
which busted rib bones.
696
00:37:58,934 --> 00:38:00,867
And they figured
that Dad was bent over,
697
00:38:01,033 --> 00:38:03,233
I think putting a record on
or something
698
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,600
when Tudor came up behind him
and just started stabbing him.
699
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,633
[Nancy]
The extreme violence
700
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,033
all for a few
hundred dollars.
701
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,033
Well, and I think he figured
702
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,000
that he'd got away
with Ardie's...
703
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,934
so do it again, right?
704
00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:23,200
That was easy.
705
00:38:26,467 --> 00:38:30,266
[Nancy] In December of 1995,
about a year and a half
706
00:38:30,433 --> 00:38:33,000
after Ardie Turner
was killed,
707
00:38:33,166 --> 00:38:36,000
the RCMP paid
Raymond Tudor a visit
708
00:38:36,166 --> 00:38:38,667
at the Calgary Remand Center.
709
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,433
[Nancy] Tudor was charged
with the second degree murder
710
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:10,867
of Ardie Turner,
711
00:39:11,033 --> 00:39:14,600
which was later upgraded
to first degree murder.
712
00:39:14,767 --> 00:39:16,600
Because our case went so long,
713
00:39:16,767 --> 00:39:19,767
our investigation went so long,
I think he figured
714
00:39:19,934 --> 00:39:22,066
that he was smart enough
to beat the system.
715
00:39:23,633 --> 00:39:26,934
[Nancy] Raymond Tudor
faced a series of trials.
716
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:29,066
In June of 1997,
717
00:39:29,233 --> 00:39:32,367
a jury convicted him
of the first degree murder
718
00:39:32,533 --> 00:39:34,000
of Ardie Turner.
719
00:39:34,166 --> 00:39:36,400
But he appealed
that conviction
720
00:39:36,567 --> 00:39:39,533
and Alberta's top court found
there was an error
721
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,600
in the original instructions
to the jury.
722
00:39:42,767 --> 00:39:44,800
A retrial was ordered.
723
00:39:46,433 --> 00:39:49,700
Months later
in December of 1997,
724
00:39:49,867 --> 00:39:52,900
Tudor was found guilty
of the second degree murder
725
00:39:53,066 --> 00:39:56,700
of Bill Vomastic and sentenced
to life in prison
726
00:39:56,867 --> 00:39:59,667
with no chance of parole
for 20 years.
727
00:40:01,166 --> 00:40:03,400
Then in June of 2000,
728
00:40:03,567 --> 00:40:07,000
following a retrial
for the death of Ardie Turner,
729
00:40:07,166 --> 00:40:08,934
a judge found him guilty
730
00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:12,300
of the lesser charge
of second degree murder.
731
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:15,967
Tudor was sentenced
to life in prison
732
00:40:16,133 --> 00:40:19,033
with no chance of parole
for 20 years.
733
00:40:19,934 --> 00:40:22,400
He figured
that he was smart
734
00:40:22,567 --> 00:40:26,200
and he would pick on
pensioners and people
735
00:40:26,367 --> 00:40:28,066
that were older and weaker.
736
00:40:28,233 --> 00:40:31,233
He would wait till the end
of the month to murder them
737
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,700
once they had
their pension checks, right?
738
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,033
[Nancy]
But less than two years
739
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,867
into his prison sentence,
740
00:40:40,033 --> 00:40:44,867
there was an unexpected and
very high profile development.
741
00:40:45,033 --> 00:40:50,467
On March 26th, 2002,
Raymond Tudor disappeared
742
00:40:50,633 --> 00:40:53,166
from Drumheller Institution.
743
00:40:53,333 --> 00:40:55,333
[reporter] Raymond Tudor
shouldn't be hard to spot
744
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,900
unless he has shaved off
his beard and hair.
745
00:40:58,066 --> 00:41:00,800
This is the first escape
from the medium security part
746
00:41:00,967 --> 00:41:03,433
of the institution
since 1994
747
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,500
and prison officials still
aren't sure how he got out.
748
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,667
[Nancy] A Canada-wide
warrant was issued
749
00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:12,133
and the convicted
double murderer
750
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:16,066
was even featured
on America's Most Wanted.
751
00:41:16,233 --> 00:41:18,367
There's been a lot of
speculation about,
752
00:41:18,533 --> 00:41:20,533
you know, like,
did he walk out the front gate
753
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:22,467
or did he climb a fence?
754
00:41:22,633 --> 00:41:23,900
We don't really know,
we do know that
755
00:41:24,066 --> 00:41:27,867
the fence alarms
were working at that time.
756
00:41:28,033 --> 00:41:31,533
[indistinct] Strathmore,
came down to my work...
757
00:41:32,967 --> 00:41:36,266
called me up to the office,
to the front.
758
00:41:38,867 --> 00:41:42,133
They said, "Yes,
we have some bad news.
759
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:46,734
Raymond Tudor
escaped Drumheller Jail...
760
00:41:48,367 --> 00:41:49,467
and we don't know
where he is.
761
00:41:50,433 --> 00:41:53,400
So this is just
a word of caution to you
762
00:41:53,567 --> 00:41:58,800
and your family
and your friends to be alert."
763
00:42:00,066 --> 00:42:02,300
There's a lot of
restless nights out there.
764
00:42:04,734 --> 00:42:06,867
Well, he did apparently
have a hit list
765
00:42:07,033 --> 00:42:09,633
that he left
in his jail cell.
766
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,767
The prosecutor was on it,
I was on it.
767
00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:19,133
It was quite
a lengthy list of people
768
00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,433
that he was gonna
get rid of.
769
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,100
So I phoned the detectives
770
00:42:26,266 --> 00:42:29,433
and they sent police cars
to circle the house.
771
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:30,767
They told me to go...
772
00:42:32,133 --> 00:42:34,900
and take a different route
to and from work.
773
00:42:35,066 --> 00:42:37,033
And even with my son,
you know,
774
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,133
I tell him,
"When you get home from school,
775
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:42,100
you lock the door,
you don't answer the door.
776
00:42:42,266 --> 00:42:44,533
Anybody comes, just don't."
777
00:42:45,467 --> 00:42:48,800
[Nancy] Tudor had disappeared
for seven weeks,
778
00:42:48,967 --> 00:42:52,333
but it turned out
he hadn't gone far.
779
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:54,467
The 48-year-old
had been hiding
780
00:42:54,633 --> 00:42:56,700
in the prison's duct system
781
00:42:56,867 --> 00:42:59,867
and the walls
of the institution's workshop.
782
00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:03,467
This is a hole
he created in the wall.
783
00:43:03,633 --> 00:43:07,400
You see from the size of it,
it's not a very large hole,
784
00:43:07,567 --> 00:43:10,967
approximately 12 inches square
to something that extent.
785
00:43:11,133 --> 00:43:12,834
He was able
to slide through there.
786
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,967
[Nancy] Officials believed
other inmates helped him
787
00:43:17,133 --> 00:43:20,834
as he had a box of cookies
with him when he was found.
788
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,633
But by then,
Tudor had lost 40 pounds.
789
00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:33,834
Decades later, family
and friends of the victims
790
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,133
still struggle
with the senseless murders.
791
00:43:38,867 --> 00:43:40,066
Why, for nothing.
792
00:43:43,333 --> 00:43:45,467
Car ride and murder.
793
00:43:45,633 --> 00:43:47,967
200 bucks,
400 bucks, whatever.
794
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:50,200
I think he's an animal
795
00:43:50,367 --> 00:43:52,667
and I think
he should stay locked up.
796
00:43:52,834 --> 00:43:55,633
I really do, regardless
of how old he is now,
797
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:56,834
I don't care.
798
00:43:57,900 --> 00:43:58,967
Don't let him out.
799
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,433
[Nancy] In Sharon's home,
800
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,166
there are a lot
of her father's treasures,
801
00:44:05,333 --> 00:44:07,967
mementos she holds onto,
802
00:44:08,133 --> 00:44:11,734
because she didn't have
the chance to hold onto him.
803
00:44:12,734 --> 00:44:17,734
We became very, very close
in later years, you know,
804
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:23,100
when he had retired and he had
a wicked sense of humor.
805
00:44:23,266 --> 00:44:25,333
He was a funny, funny guy.
806
00:44:26,333 --> 00:44:31,200
And I'm glad that
we can focus on Dad
807
00:44:31,367 --> 00:44:32,834
and who he was.
808
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,166
I think it's important.
809
00:44:37,834 --> 00:44:40,500
[Antony] Raymond Tudor
remains in prison.
810
00:44:40,667 --> 00:44:44,066
In 2021,
he was denied day parole.
811
00:44:44,233 --> 00:44:47,433
He's scheduled to have
another hearing in 2026.
812
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,500
Both the victim's families
and Tudor's own family
813
00:44:51,667 --> 00:44:54,000
have expressed fear
for their safety
814
00:44:54,166 --> 00:44:57,433
and the public's
if he is ever released.
815
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,000
Thank you for joining us
tonight on Crime Beat.
816
00:45:03,166 --> 00:45:04,567
I'm Antony Robart.
817
00:45:06,033 --> 00:45:07,834
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819
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