- [narrator] a gruesome discovery.
- We were notified that a body had been found
Wrapped in a tarp.
- He had duct tape wrapped all the way around his face.
- [narrator] a neighbor could be the key witness.
- He seemed like your typical country boy.
- [narrator] or the sole suspect.
- The footprint was very visible to the eye.
Let me see the bottom of your boots.
This is the perfect time to call bs and say you are a liar.
- [narrator] investigators searching for answers.
- I didn't do it.
- But you were there.
- I wasn't there.
- [narrator] in the interrogation room.
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- [narrator] every suspect accused of a crime
Has the right to remain silent.
Many agree to be interrogated anyway,
But they can stop the interview at any moment,
Making it a race against time.
Justice hangs in the balance.
- Our dispatch had received a call of a possible body
That had been wrapped in a tarp.
A lady who lives in the neighborhood
Was out taking her dog for a walk as she always did.
And the dog started pulling to the wood line in this area
Called the clark sand pit.
- It used to be a pond where they mined sediment.
So there's this giant dead end.
A lot of people use that area for dumping just random stuff
Simply 'cause it's not an area where people live.
- The first thing you could notice
When you got down there was the smell.
Decomposition of a human body.
Once you smell it, it's something that you never forget.
Almost adjacent from the body and the roadway
Was a half sheet,
Like it had been broken in half of sheetrock,
And the sheetrock had a good tire impression
And there was also a visible footprint.
- There was also orange twine
That didn't appear to be weathered.
So if an object had been left out there for a long time,
There would've been weathering to it.
We kind of put two and two together
That determined that these objects probably
Or more likely all came together
During the time of the body dump.
We retrieved the body of the individual
Who was wrapped in the tarp
And brought it into the roadway.
Upon partially unwrapping the tarp,
We were able to determine that it was likely a white male.
There was light decomposition to his upper body,
His forehead down to his chest.
Given the circumstances,
The individual didn't appear to have been outside
In the woods very long.
- We initially observed this white male
That is bound with duct tape,
And not only on his body, his hands,
But what was very distinguishable
Was he had duct tape
Wrapped all the way around his face.
You could still see that the fingerprints were intact.
So we had crime scene take an inked impression.
We rushed it back to our fingerprint lab
And they were able to id him as a charles locke.
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He was 54 years old at the time.
It wasn't apparent what his cause of death was.
All we do know is, hey, this isn't natural to be duct taped
And bound and dumped in the woods.
So we knew we were dealing with more than likely a homicide.
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- Charlie was my brother.
He's the baby of the family.
As he got older,
He felt like charlie sounded too much like a kid.
So he started going by charles.
But I always told him,
"look, you're always gonna be charlie to me.
So you're just gonna have to deal with it."
(crystal laughs)
Growing up, charlie and I were very close.
As we got into our adult life,
We kind of went our separate ways.
He was married, I'm married,
And you know, work and life happens.
When his wife left him,
I think they were married about 17 years,
He was devastated that she had left.
And during that time, he had a stroke.
So it changed his life in a huge way.
He had some physical limitations,
Struggled with his words.
But the last time I spoke to him, charlie was,
I felt like getting in a much better place
Than he had been in for a long time.
I really felt like he was looking forward to the future
In a positive way.
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- When we arrived, we noticed it was basically unkept.
A lot of grown up shrub and bushes around there.
We go try to make contact.
We couldn't get anybody to come to the door.
- So after attempting contact at charles locke's residence,
We observed that teeter-tottering both properties
Of charles locke and his neighbor was a trashcan.
And in that trashcan, we observed some broken sheetrock
As well as those orange ties
That we had also seen at the scene.
- A light bulb came on at that time.
I mean, could this just be a coincidence?
Or are we kinda onto something?
- Our next step was to figure out who the neighbor was
And to get in contact with the neighbor.
- So we walk up to the door of this house
And we knock on the door.
Nobody is home.
But what we did notice up on the porch,
There were full size sheets of sheetrock
Laying against the house by the front door.
So that heightened our senses a little more,
That, okay, there's sheetrock over here,
Sheetrock at the crime scene, sheetrock in the trashcan.
So we start doing the things that we do to identify
Who lives next door to charles locke, who is our victim.
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- We don't know at this point
Whether kalvin allison's a witness or a suspect.
But given the fact that we do have items
That are at his residence, which are also at the scene,
There was a good possibility he was a suspect.
- Kalvin allison was a transplant
From oklahoma to pensacola.
He brought his wife and his two children down here.
He worked for the local utility company.
- He just seemed like your typical, good old country boy.
- Had some cowboy boots on, had his work clothes on,
Had a southern drawl.
- You know, he kind of comes across like a teddy bear,
If that makes sense.
He's like six foot five, you know.
We would call him corn-fed, you know, around these areas.
His demeanor seemed very friendly.
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My idea was that I was gonna have kalvin allison like me.
So we begin just by talking about him, his life,
Where he works, because you wanna build rapport with them.
And when you build that rapport, you build trust,
And they're more likely to confide in you.
- Mr. Allison's body language is non-confrontational.
He's sitting just as I am in the chair.
I think he's kind of kicked back with his leg up.
Just, you know, shooting the breeze with him, you know,
Just like two buddies would be talking.
- I did find it odd during the interview
That he was so calm.
A lot of times in murder cases,
People are immediately curious to why they're there
And they wanna provide an alibi.
I mean, we spent a tremendous amount of time
Before we even brought up charles locke for the most part.
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- Investigator alvarez does a great job
Of just getting that buy-in from him.
And the whole time this is going on,
I'm starting to receive text and phone calls from my guys
That are giving me bits of information from the scene.
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The first thing that investigators noticed
Was that there was a medium sized pool of blood there
In the living room area.
As they made their way throughout the house,
There was another area
That the carpet was saturated in blood,
And there appeared to be drag marks
That they had also located across the carpet.
So when that initial evidence is found,
Okay, we have the location where this crime occurred.
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- I was executing a search warrant at mr. Allison's house
And communicating with sergeant barnes through the process.
So if we found something, I would send him a text,
(cell phone alert tone)
'cause maybe that would come into play in their questioning.
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- Once they actually executed that search warrant
Over at mr. Allison's residence,
Evidence just kept pouring in.
Tim said that there was a truck that.
(cell phone notification)
I'm dying to know why his phone's going off so much.
(cell phone notification)
Just as much as kalvin allison probably is.
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- A man's body found wrapped in a tarp
In escambia county last night.
- This is a story we've been following all day.
Hannah mackenzie is there at the scene with the latest.
- When I got the phone call from the sheriff's office,
To be honest with you, it's really a blur.
They told me that he was found at a location
Away from his home, and I couldn't imagine why charlie
Would've been in that area.
I expected them to tell me that he'd had another stroke.
I didn't expect to hear that he had been murdered.
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(cell phone notification)
- We just stay there at the house.
- During the interview, sergeant barnes sitting next to me,
He has his cell phone on ring on purpose.
(cell phone notification) oh, okay.
He's receiving text messages at this time from investigators
Who are performing the search warrant
At kalvin allison's residence.
And as they come across items of evidentiary value,
They're taking pictures
And they're notifying him in real time.
And this was also used as a tactic by sergeant barnes,
That way, kalvin allison was getting nervous
Because it showed that the case is evolving
And that, you know, we're discovering new things.
- I basically want him, every time my phone would ring
Or if he heard the text chime, he's going, "oh, crap.
What is this?"
You know, are the texts that are coming in about him?
And that's what they were.
Of course we wasn't letting on at the beginning any of that.
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- While we're interviewing people,
We determine what we call emotional anchors.
And what that is is basically what's important to them,
Whether it's children, family, religion.
And why that's important to us
Is because it allows us to pull on their heartstrings
Whenever we're trying to get the truth out of somebody.
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- When we spoke to mr. Kalvin, allison,
It was very evident that what his emotional anchors were,
Were his children and his wife.
- [detective] yeah. Mm hmm.
- For lack of better words,
He would use his kids as a crutch.
I took the kids here.
I took the kids...
It's almost like he's putting that in our face that,
Hey, I'm this great dad.
I run my kids everywhere.
I pick 'em up.
I do all this.
Almost to deflect to take the focus off of him.
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- When we looked at that report,
It seemed kalvin allison had some behavioral issues,
That he was short to temper
And that he wasn't afraid to get involved in violence.
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- We noticed a shift now from just the rapport process
Of him wanting to talk about his family and his lifestyle
And what he does at his job,
To now we're getting into very specific questions.
And we're noticing that he went from long extensive answers
To very short and vague answers which is, to us, a red flag.
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(cell phone notification)
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(cell phone notification)
- I can buy the spare keys,
But then you go with he lost his wallet
So he wanted me to hold his checkbook.
That don't make any sense to me at all.
- You're starting to notice treble in his voice as well.
You can tell that he's starting to get
A little bit more nervous because
Now he knows we're prying
And we're digging to every aspect
And every detail of his life at this point.
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- At one point, one of the guys had called me and said,
"hey, sergeant, the sheetrock that was found there
At the scene,
Those pieces of the sheetrock match the sheetrock
That is at mr. Allison's house.
And that's a pretty damning moment right there.
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- The body was found behind me here in this wooded area,
And investigators tell me the actual crime scene
Is only about three miles away from here.
The victim is identified
As 54-year-old charles daniel locke.
He lived here at 303 frisco road.
It's also where deputies say he died.
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- When we left the sheriff's department,
We had no other information
Other than that charlie had been found murdered
And was found wrapped in a tarp and duct taped.
So that was really what we knew at that time.
And the next thing I had to do after that
Was go tell my mother.
It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
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- Now as investigator alvarez
Is getting a little more accusatory
And kalvin takes a long pause,
And then he's like, "no, no, I didn't."
And most people, if you get directly asked
If you were involved in something like that,
Your answers are not typically nonchalant.
Usually, you're more emphatic about it.
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One of the guys had called me and said,
"the sheetrock that is at mr. Allison's house
Has a sku number on it that was bought from the store.
And that lot number that is on those pieces of sheetrock
Match the lot number that is on the sheetrock
Found at the scene.
I'm like, "okay, this is the perfect time to call bs."
I had been kind of eyeballing his boots
As he sat like that with his leg crossed.
I had taken a photo of the boot print also
And I had that on my phone.
I'm no shoe impression expert,
But I knew we had the right guy in there at that time.
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- So as all this evidence is coming in so rapidly,
I remember specifically looking down at my work phone
And I had received a picture of a packaging for a tarp
That was consistent with the tarp
Charles locke was wrapped up in.
That was the moment where I was like,
"okay, there's no way you can explain your way
Out of this one." (suspenseful music)
- [hannah] sheriff's deputies line the block
Of frisco road Thursday afternoon.
- It's just sad.
It really is sad.
- [hannah] paul fletter has lived across from locke
For 16 years.
- He's the type of guy that if you need it,
He'd give the shirt off his back.
Really good neighbor.
I feel bad because he just had a stroke
About a month and a half ago, and he was disabled.
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- Kalvin allison never got angry,
Never was very emphatic about,
This was not me, sir.
I mean, he was very respectful, very cordial.
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As the investigators are going through the house,
There was evidence that indicated mr. Locke
Might be living an alternative lifestyle
And like to dress up as a female.
There were bras, panties, all types of women's clothes.
So then we start thinking,
"okay, what if when mr. Allison comes over to his house
To bring him food or something of that nature,
Does charles locke make a pass at him
Or say something ordinary?
You know, in a suggestive sexual way.
- When sergeant barnes presented that topic
Of charles locke's sexuality.
It was kind of a shot in the dark.
A lot of times we might throw out a theory
That, you know, we might not know it's 100% factual or not.
Because at this point, we have a body dump.
We know there's foul play
And we just needed to be able to place kalvin allison
As the individual who did it.
It didn't matter the circumstances behind it.
For the most part.
I'm utilizing those emotional anchors.
I know what's important to him is his children and his wife
Because he's mentioned them numerous times
Throughout the interview.
What I'm doing is taking those heartstrings
And I'm tearing at 'em
Because I want to use that to get the truth out of him.
And about that time, like I'm done with this crap, you know?
He's a liar and it's time to start calling bull crap
On his stuff.
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- They told us that the manner of death
Is blunt force trauma, coupled with asphyxiation.
The blunt force trauma on the victim's head
Was very superficial.
Not enough that would've killed him.
However, due to the victim being bound with duct tape
Around his face, he basically suffocated.
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So his body's starting to slump down.
Something we notice when we do interviews
Is that they have all this pent up energy.
They have this pent up anxiety.
And as they slowly get closer to telling the truth
Or confessing to something,
It's almost like that energy's slowly dumping
Out of their body, and it comes down almost into a slump.
He started to get lower and lower and drop down,
At which point I placed my hand onto his leg.
It was almost like saying it's okay to come off of this
And that by telling the truth,
All this stress and all this anxiety
And all this pent up negative energy you have
Is gonna go away.
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- Once I saw he started opening up, I packed my stuff up.
I knew that investigator alvarez had him.
There was no need for me to be in there.
I felt like just because I had been
A little more confrontational, that he might hold back some.
- It's important always to cover basis,
Whether they attempted first aid,
Whether they contacted emergency medical services,
Simply because it shows that they made an attempt
And that it was an accident.
That could be the difference between an accidental fall
Where charles locke was transported to a hospital
And treated for the injury to his head
To trying to cover up something else.
It showed that kalvin allison
Had a complete disregard for charles locke's life.
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- When kalvin allison stated
That he wrapped up charles locke's legs,
As well as his wrist behind his back, that would make sense
In terms of just trying to make charles locke more compact,
Especially if you're gonna wrap the individual up in a tarp
And later transport him.
What didn't make sense,
And again, he couldn't really clarify
Or even provide a reasonable explanation
For was why he covered his mouth up.
The medical examiner's report had informed us
That charles locke wasn't dead
When kalvin allison duct taped him and wrapped him up.
So the duct tape around his mouth led to asphyxiation.
It definitely painted a slightly different picture
Where it wasn't this spontaneous accident.
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- [hannah] the main suspect in this case
Is locke's next door neighbor,
44-year-old kalvin dwayne allison.
Investigators say evidence found in allison's garbage can
And on his front porch links him to the crime.
The incident reports states locke was pushed,
Causing him to fall and strike his head.
Greg vornholt lives a few houses away.
He says allison's family
Seemed to have a good relationship with locke.
- They'd take him food.
You know, they knew that he'd been recently been divorced,
And yeah, they'd take plates of food to him.
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(phone rings)
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- [man] put your hands behind your back.
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- In florida, it's called
The justifiable use of deadly force
And justifiable use of non-deadly force.
And it was a theory that the defense obviously went with
Because they said he tried to kiss him and made a move.
And maybe in his mind,
He was trying to come up with an excuse of what happened
And why it happened.
You know, personally, I don't believe him.
And just because sergeant barnes
Kind of gave him that story as an out.
And there was more evidence that was developed later on,
Which obviously made the case a lot stronger.
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I think he took out $800 one day,
And then $600 the other two days.
We may never know what happened.
I don't believe it was because he tried to kiss him.
I believe there was something more than that.
- I don't believe that story.
Kalvin allison did not just come up with that
And say, this is what happened.
I felt like the reason kalvin gave for what happened
Was really prompted by the information
That the detectives were giving him.
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- I always view any criminal case like a game of chess.
It's my job to put away the guilty, to beat them.
So there is a sense of reward whenever you get a confession.
- You know, sometimes cases are all circumstantial.
But that particular day,
The stars just aligned just right for law enforcement
On everything just happening so fast.
And once that train started, we just kept going.
When you got physical evidence, you got a verbal confession,
It doesn't get much better than that.
- Charlie was a good person
And I want him to be remembered that way.
It was very important to me and my family
To know that the person that did this to charlie
Was held accountable
And was not going to be able to do it to anyone else.
And that he got life without the possibility of parole.
You know, because charlie's life is over.
He doesn't get a second chance.
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