I Was On TV Last Week

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911

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It was on one of the crime shows on Discovery ID. I did that interview almost 2 years ago. It was about a missing child case I worked on and of course she was found dead. I never realized how much a person’s voice changes on TV. That was my third showing on a crime show. I turned down one other interview from People’s Magazine. I don’t like doing them, but the state police likes the publicity, so we try to accommodate them.

The Producer tries to goad you into making it sound worse than what it was. For example, the little girl was found under a pile of brush. They wanted her to be shown being found in a shallow grave with a hand sticking out. I had nothing to do with that part and in fact, I wasn’t even aware that the little girl lying in a shallow grave was going to be shown. When I saw it, I thought to myself “I don’t think that’s right.” So I called the person that I knew would know and he told me they did that to get the Hollywood effect.
 

I woke up this morning and after I got my first cup of coffee, I turned on the tube to watch my favorite detective channel Discovery ID. By luck, they were showing an old case I worked on, but no screen shots this time, so no money, which we can’t take anyway, but the money does go into a fund for state police troopers who were injured on the job.

The case was about a young man of 32 or 33 (as I remember it, but don’t quote me) who married a woman who had the intent on killing him from the start for money. This happened in 1991, but we didn’t arrest her until 1996 because we didn’t have the proof that she did it. He died of Thallium poisoning. The original thinking was he may have gotten it while on the job.

After exhumation and examining hair samples the scientists were able to determine when he first started receiving the poison. She was all but forced to admit that she intentionally poisoned Bobby Curley by starting out with trace doses of the Thallium, but it wasn’t working fast enough so she went to larger doses. He suffered greatly. She wanted his insurance money, plus she sued the lab where he was doing some electrical work. All together, she received over $500,000.

She asked for a plea deal and was given a sweetheart of a deal. They allowed her to plead guilty to third degree murder and sentenced to 20 years. She was eligible for parole after 10 years, but the family fought her release and she ended up serving all 20 years. She never shed a tear from start to finish. In this case, we all felt justice was not done, but the D.A. didn’t want to go to trial due to the costs of how much a trial would cost because of both sides having to hire witnesses to give professional testimony. He estimated the trial could cost $5 million plus. It made us all ill that money was a factor over justice.

The Thallium was put into his thermos of iced tea. This is not an original idea. A lot of people, mostly women that kill by poisoning use this method.

That was a very good case. My only involvement was serving the warrant to the cemetery company to exhume the body and then I also served the arrest warrant when she was arrested and put into cuffs. She never denied or accepted blame until she knew she could face the death penalty. It was also brought out that she tried to cover her involvement in the crime by serving her little daughter and herself a few small amounts of the poison. Who does that, except someone that is evil. She is also suspected of doing the same thing to her first husband, but too many years have passed by to get any forensics off of the body.
 
911 said:
It was on one of the crime shows on Discovery ID. I did that interview almost 2 years ago. It was about a missing child case I worked on and of course she was found dead. I never realized how much a person’s voice changes on TV. That was my third showing on a crime show. I turned down one other interview from People’s Magazine. I don’t like doing them, but the state police likes the publicity, so we try to accommodate them.

The Producer tries to goad you into making it sound worse than what it was. For example, the little girl was found under a pile of brush. They wanted her to be shown being found in a shallow grave with a hand sticking out. I had nothing to do with that part and in fact, I wasn’t even aware that the little girl lying in a shallow grave was going to be shown. When I saw it, I thought to myself “I don’t think that’s right.” So I called the person that I knew would know and he told me they did that to get the Hollywood effect.
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How interesting and cool 911! I think I have access to Discovery ID. Which season and episode was it?
 

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OneEyedDiva said:
How interesting and cool 911! I think I have access to Discovery ID. Which season and episode was it?
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When you sign the release of the contract, you don’t get any information other than the date that the video was shot. You aren’t even notified when your episode will be aired.
 
911 said:
When you sign the release of the contract, you don’t get any information other than the date that the video was shot. You aren’t even notified when your episode will be aired.
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Okay, thank you.
 

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