ONE WINTER'S NIGHT, A FURY-FUELED ASSAULT.
THE CRIME SCENE'S REALLY BAFFLING.
MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.
TWO SIBLINGS ATTACKED, A THIRD MISSING.
A FAMILY WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
JUST TOTAL CONFUSION. I MEAN, HE FREAKED OUT LIKE ANY FATHER.
EVERYBODY WAS THINKING ABOUT THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
WE REALLY HAVE GOT TO PULL ALL THE STOPS HERE TO LOCATE HER.
HOPE TURNS TO DESPERATION.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE WAS ALIVE OR DEAD.
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH.
WHEN ANSWERS FINALLY COME,
THEY REVEAL A STUNNING TWIST.
IT IS AN EXTREME BOMBSHELL.
THAT WOULD LEAD DETECTIVES TO RETHINK THE WHOLE CASE.
IN OLATHE, KANSAS,
THE END OF THE YEAR GETS DANGEROUS.
THE WORST THING ABOUT KANSAS WINTERS
IS IT CAN BE BITTERLY COLD,
AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST 30 DEGREES.
I'M TALKING ZERO.
THERE ARE TIMES WHERE THE SNOW CAN BE AS DEEP AS 4 FEET.
I'VE SEEN 6-FOOT DRIFTS.
SO THE WINTERS CAN BE BRUTAL.
IT'S WHERE JOHN AND CAROLE DUFFIELD
CHOSE TO BUILD A LIFE.
JOHN AND CAROLE, THEY BOTH
WERE REALLY, REALLY HARD WORKERS.
CAROLE WAS A NURSE,
AND HAD BEEN FOR MANY YEARS.
READY? 10, 9...
UNCLE JOHNNY, AS I CALLED HIM,
HE WAS WORKING IN CAR SALES.
-3, 2, 1! -3, 2, 1!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
WHOO!
THEIR MAIN COMMITMENT IS THEIR KIDS --
KELLY, A HIGH-SCHOOL SENIOR
WHO WORKS AS A CAR HOP PART-TIME,
PAUL, THE MIDDLE CHILD, WHO ADORES HIS SISTERS,
AND JANELLE, WHO LOVES ACTING
AND PLAYING SOFTBALL.
THEY ALL HAVE EACH OTHERS' BACKS.
THEY ALL GENUINELY LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
THEY'RE VERY CLOSE-KNIT.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- HAPPY NEW YEAR, GUYS! - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
BUT ON JANUARY 28, 1983,
THEIR WORLD WILL BE TORN APART.
CAROLE WAS AT THE HOSPITAL AT WORK,
WHERE SHE WAS NORMALLY SCHEDULED.
THE THREE CHILDREN WERE IN THE HOUSE,
IN THEIR NORMAL ROOMS, THE GIRLS DOWNSTAIRS,
PAUL ON THE MAIN LEVEL.
AND JOHN WAS SLEEPING IN HIS ROOM.
AROUND 5:00 A.M...
JOHN WOKE UP.
HEARD THE NOISE DOWNSTAIRS.
- DAD! - PAUL!
FOUND HIS SON SAVAGELY BEATEN, ACTUALLY,
SEMICONSCIOUS.
PAUL'S HEAD HAS BEEN SMASHED.
HE FREAKED OUT LIKE ANY FATHER --
I MEAN, MY GOD, YOU KNOW?
IT'S OBVIOUSLY A VERY TRAUMATIC SITUATION.
HE IMMEDIATELY SEEKS HELP BY DIALING 911.
WHEN HE PICKS UP THE PHONE, THE PHONE LINES ARE --
THE PHONE'S DEAD.
FRANTIC, HE RUNS TO CALL FROM A NEIGHBORS'.
HELP! HELP! HELP!
911, what's your emergency?
It's my son, my son! Hurry!
BACK INSIDE, HE GOES TO CHECK ON HIS DAUGHTERS.
HE GETS TO JANELLE FIRST.
HE FOUND HIS 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
BADLY BEATEN ABOUT THE HEAD AND FACE...
AND PULLED OFF OF THE BED.
KELLY.
KELLY?
HIS ELDEST, KELLY, IS GONE.
JOHN WAS JUST IN TOTAL SHOCK
AND COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT --
COULDN'T ACTUALLY GRASP WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
"MY DAUGHTER'S MISSING, MY ONE DAUGHTER'S INJURED,
MY SON" THIS AND THAT,
JUST TOTAL CONFUSION.
EMTs AND POLICE OFFICERS
RACE THROUGH SNOWY STREETS TO RESPOND.
HE HAD TOLD US ABOUT WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE HOUSE,
JUST HE AND THE THREE CHILDREN.
THE MOTHER WAS AT WORK, WHERE SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.
PAUL HAS SEVERE WOUNDS TO HIS HEAD.
BUT HE'S ALIVE.
**
JANELLE HAS SIMILAR WOUNDS.
SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY DECEASED.
IT WAS CLEARLY NOT A KNIFE OR GUN WOUND.
IT WAS CLEARLY BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA.
I MEAN,
JANELLE'S SKULL WAS SHATTERED.
WHAT THE EXACT WEAPON OF THAT WAS,
WE DIDN'T KNOW AT THE TIME,
BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS HEAVY
AND WASN'T SHARP.
ALL OF THE OFFICERS, I THINK,
WERE TAKEN BACK BY THE INJURIES --
THE AMOUNT OF INJURIES ON THE TWO BODIES WE HAD.
MULTIPLE STRIKES ON THE FACE AND HEAD.
I WAS REALLY SURPRISED THAT PAUL WAS ALIVE.
EMTs RUSH PAUL TO THE HOSPITAL,
HOPING DOCTORS CAN SAVE HIM.
AUTHORITIES CHECK KELLY'S ROOM.
NO BLOOD. NO BODY.
OFFICERS WERE SEARCHING THE HOUSE,
THINKING THAT MAYBE KELLY
HAD INTERRUPTED THE ATTACKS
AND WAS HIDING IN A BEDROOM OUT OF FEAR.
SO THEY DID A ROOM-BY-ROOM,
CLOSET-BY-CLOSET SEARCH FOR KELLY.
THEY FIND NOTHING.
THE FACT THAT KELLY MIGHT HAVE RAN FROM THE HOUSE
IN HER NIGHT CLOTHES CREATED EVEN A BIGGER URGENCY
TO TRY TO LOCATE HER BECAUSE SHE COULD HAVE BEEN INJURED, TOO,
AND IN NEED OF EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE.
REALLY BAFFLING.
THERE ARE A LOT MORE QUESTIONS THAN THERE ARE ANSWERS.
THE GIRL'S MISSING. WE DON'T KNOW WHY SHE'S MISSING.
ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPENED.
KELLY VOLUNTARILY WENT WITH SOMEBODY,
OR SHE WAS ABDUCTED.
THEY SCRAMBLE TO FIND HER.
IN THIS WEATHER, SHE WON'T SURVIVE LONG.
WE DID AN IMMEDIATE AREA SEARCH.
ONE CHILD DEAD...
ANOTHER KNOCKING ON DEATH'S DOOR...
AND ONE VANISHED.
IT'S AN UNFATHOMABLE HORROR.
I JUST NEED TO GET A FEW THINGS FROM HERE,
AND THEN I'LL GET YOU BACK TO YOUR ROOM.
WORD REACHES THEIR MOTHER AT WORK.
CAROLE IS WORKING THE I.C.U. UNIT,
AND SCANNERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL.
AND SHE HEARD A CALL COME ACROSS.
O.M.C., WE'RE 10-97
AT 42 GLASTON ROAD.
42 GLASTON ROAD.
MULTIPLE CASUALTIES. CRANIAL DAMAGE.
WILL ADVISE WHEN WE'RE 10-76.
IT IDENTIFIED HER HOUSE
AS A HOUSE THAT NEEDED ASSISTANCE
BECAUSE OF SOME SERIOUS INJURIES AT THAT RESIDENCE.
SHE IS PROBABLY USED TO SEEING A LOT OF TRAUMA,
AND SHE'S HAD TO COPE WITH DEATH.
BUT WHEN IT'S LITERALLY INSIDE YOUR OWN HOME,
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW A PARENT COULD REACT.
SHE HAD TO HAVE HUNDREDS OF QUESTIONS
RUNNING THROUGH HER MIND AT THE TIME.
URGENT DOESN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT.
ONE COLD JANUARY IN KANSAS,
A GRUESOME NIGHTTIME ATTACK ON A FAMILY
WITH THREE KIDS.
PAUL HAD BEEN SEVERELY BEATEN.
**
JANELLE WAS KILLED.
KELLY WAS MISSING.
AND THIS IS A FLUID SITUATION,
AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE.
YOU LOOK FOR THE OBVIOUS, AND THERE WAS NO OBVIOUS THERE.
WHILE DOCTORS TRY TO SAVE PAUL'S LIFE...
...INVESTIGATORS WORK TO FIND KELLY.
THE NEED TO FIND KELLY IS BASED ON
NOT ONLY FOR PURPOSES
OF GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TERRIBLE CRIME,
BUT ALSO HER OWN SAFETY.
THEY JUST -- IT WAS AN ALL-OUT SEARCH.
WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY
TO TAKE A CONSCIOUS LOOK AROUND THEIR PROPERTIES
AND SEE IF THEY SAW ANYTHING UNUSUAL.
IF THEY DID, LEAVE IT ALONE AND CALL US.
THEY ASKED FOR ASSISTANCE FROM ATVs.
THEY HAD A COUPLE HELICOPTERS THAT SEARCHED THE AREA.
IT IS SO COLD.
IF KELLY'S OUT THERE,
SHE WON'T LAST LONG.
EVERYBODY WAS THINKING ABOUT THEIR OWN FAMILIES,
THEIR OWN CHILDREN, AND THINKING, YOU KNOW,
WE REALLY HAVE GOT TO PULL ALL THE STOPS HERE
TO SEE IF WE CAN LOCATE HER.
**
INVESTIGATORS BEGIN PROCESSING THE DUFFIELD HOUSE.
JANELLE HAD BEEN SICK THE DAY BEFORE
AND HAD THROWN UP IN BED.
SO CAROLE HAD PUT A RUBBER BABY SHEET
DOWN ON THE TOP OF THE BED
SO SHE'D HAVE A DRY BED TO SLEEP IN.
JANELLE MAY HAVE BEEN PULLED OFF THE BED
BY THE RUBBER SHEET AT THE TIME,
BECAUSE IT WAS COMPLETELY OFF OF THE BED.
IT'S A DETAIL THEY WON'T REVEAL TO THE PRESS.
IT APPEARED THAT WHOEVER KILLED JANELLE
HAD THE INTENTION OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HER.
HER LEGS HAD BEEN SPREAD APART,
AND THERE WERE BLOODY HAND PRINTS
ON HER BODY.
ON ONE WALL, A LARGE BLOOD SMEAR.
FIGURED IT WAS TRANSFER BLOOD FROM SOMEBODY COMING DOWNSTAIRS
THAT HAD STEADIED THEMSELVES ON THE WALL.
THE SHEETROCK WHERE IT WAS
WAS ULTIMATELY REMOVED FROM THE HOUSE.
WE WANTED TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THAT.
IN THE BLOOD, THEY'LL LOOK FOR FINGERPRINTS
AND OTHER EVIDENCE.
THERE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE ANY STRUGGLE.
THERE WAS NOTHING OVERTURNED.
THE HOUSE WAS JUST IN A NORMAL STATE,
WHICH LED OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY TO BELIEVE
THAT BOTH OF THE VICTIMS
WERE PROBABLY ATTACKED WHILE THEY WERE ASLEEP.
WE DIDN'T THINK THAT ROBBERY WAS THE MOTIVE.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T ELIMINATE IT COMPLETELY,
BUT THINGS WEREN'T DISTURBED
IN A WAY THAT SOMEBODY WAS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING.
THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF FORCED ENTRY.
THE BACK DOOR IS UNLOCKED.
TO ME, THAT MEANS ONE OF TWO THINGS.
THIS WAS A SMALL COMMUNITY,
AND PEOPLE LEFT THEIR DOORS UNLOCKED,
OR THE PERSON WHO COMMITTED THESE CRIMES
HAD ACCESS, WHETHER HE HAD A KEY
OR WAS LET IN BY SOMEBODY.
WHOEVER ENTERED... LEFT A SHOE PRINT.
OBVIOUSLY, THAT COULD BE A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE.
IF YOU COULD GET CASTS,
YOU COULD DETERMINE THE TYPE OF SHOE
AND WHETHER IT WAS A BOOT, A TENNIS SHOE,
YOU KNOW, A DRESS SHOE.
THE OFFICER THAT FOUND IT
TRIED TO GET PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PRINT
BECAUSE THE CASTING MATERIAL HAD TO BE BROUGHT FROM THE STATION,
BUT IT WAS RAPIDLY DETERIORATING
JUST BECAUSE OF THE TEMPERATURE THAT MORNING.
THEY HOPE TO PRESERVE IT WITH A CAST.
ONCE WE POURED THE PLASTER ON,
WHICH IS USUALLY A LITTLE WARMER,
THERE WAS NOTHING DISCERNABLE ON THE CAST.
INVESTIGATORS DETERMINE
WHY THE PHONE WASN'T WORKING.
SOMEONE DISABLED THE LINES.
IT CERTAINLY TELLS YOU THAT SOMEONE WANTED TO ELIMINATE
SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE MAKING A CALL FOR HELP.
SO, CERTAINLY, THERE'S AN ELEMENT OF PLANNING TO THIS.
THE LINES WERE NOT CUT.
THE FABRIC OF THE COPPER
HAD BEEN PULLED AND STRESSED TO WHERE IT FINALLY BROKE.
ONLY COMMENT WE MADE TO THE NEWS MEDIA
IS THAT LINES, THE TELEPHONE LINES
HAD BEEN DISABLED.
THEY IMMEDIATELY PRINTED THAT THE PHONE HAD BEEN CUT.
THE MISTAKEN REPORT MIGHT HELP LATER.
ONLY THE KILLER WOULD KNOW THEY WERE NOT ACTUALLY CUT.
THE BEST CHANCE AT IDENTIFYING THE SHADOWY ATTACKER
DEPENDS ON PAUL'S SURVIVAL,
BUT HE'S SUFFERED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES.
THERE WAS SOME SPECULATION HE WASN'T GONNA SURVIVE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, HE SURVIVED SURGERY, BUT HE WAS IN A COMA.
SO THEY COULDN'T REALLY TALK TO HIM ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
IF HE WAKES, THEY HOPE HE'LL HAVE ANSWERS
ABOUT WHO ATTACKED HIM
AND WHERE KELLY IS.
WORD OF THE CRIME SPREADS THROUGH THE AREA.
WHEN I FIRST HEARD WHO IT WAS AND WHERE IT WAS,
LIKE, "NO, THAT'S --
THIS NEWS REPORT HAS TO BE WRONG,
BECAUSE I KNOW THOSE PEOPLE."
JANELLE HAS BEEN MURDERED.
PAUL WAS INJURED, AND THEN KELLY WAS GONE.
SO IT WAS LIKE, "WELL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, SHE'S GONE?"
AND NOBODY KNEW WHERE SHE WAS.
I THINK IT WAS...
...BEYOND A NIGHTMARE FOR JOHNNY AND CAROLE.
TURNS OUT THEIR NIGHTMARE IS JUST BEGINNING.
ALL INVESTIGATORS, THEY WILL LOOK AT,
FIRST, THE FAMILY DYNAMICS. IT'S DETECTIVE 101.
THEY IMMEDIATELY CAN ELIMINATE ONLY ONE PERSON
IN THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY, AND THAT'S CAROLE DUFFIELD
BECAUSE SHE HAD AN AIR-TIGHT ALIBI.
SHE WAS AT WORK AS A NURSE.
BUT HER HUSBAND HAS NO ALIBI.
JOHN DUFFIELD WAS IN THE HOUSE WHEN THE CRIMES HAPPENED,
SO OF COURSE HE IS A SUSPECT.
YOU WOULD WONDER WHY HE DIDN'T HEAR SOMETHING.
YOU ACTUALLY EXPECT US TO BELIEVE
THAT YOU WERE JUST SOUND ASLEEP THE WHOLE TIME
ALL THIS WAS GOING ON IN YOUR HOME?
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT HE WAS TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS
TO THE MAYHEM THAT WENT ON
TWO FLOORS DOWN IN HIS OWN RESIDENCE.
SO, OF COURSE, THAT RAISES THE QUESTION IS HE INVOLVED.
IN OLATHE, KANSAS,
WHEN THE DUFFIELD CHILDREN ARE ATTACKED...
JANELLE IS KILLED,
PAUL IS CRITICALLY INJURED,
AND KELLY IS MISSING.
INVESTIGATORS CONSIDER THE TERRIBLE POSSIBILITY
THAT JOHN DUFFIELD MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE.
CASES OF PARENTS KILLING THEIR CHILDREN --
RARE, BUT QUITE FRANKLY,
THOSE CASES OCCUR IN THIS COUNTRY.
SO THAT WAS CERTAINLY NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION.
YOU AND CAROLE DOING OKAY? ANY PROBLEMS AT HOME?
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE MOTIVE
FOR JOHN DOING THIS TO HIS FAMILY?
IS HE ANGRY AT HIS WIFE? ARE THEY IN THE PROCESS
OF THE FAMILY BREAKING UP, DIVORCE?
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT COULD BE POSSIBLE.
THE POLICE ARE SAYING, "BUT YOU WERE THERE," YOU KNOW?
"WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE THAT IS UNTOUCHED?"
IT LOOKS BAD TO SOMEONE FROM THE OUTSIDE,
BUT TO THE FAMILY, THERE WAS JUST NO WAY,
JUST ABSOLUTELY NO WAY.
THEY GRILL HIM ABOUT THAT NIGHT.
DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO
WITH WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CHILDREN THAT NIGHT?
HE WAS ANGRY, AND IT'S HARD TO SORT THAT OUT.
WAS HIS ANGER BECAUSE OF HE KNEW WHO DID IT
OR WAS INVOLVED HIMSELF
AND WAS ANGRY THAT WE WERE HOUNDING HIM,
OR HE WAS ANGRY
BECAUSE HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN VICTIMIZED TO THAT EXTENT?
MY WIFE WORKS...
HE WALKS DETECTIVES THROUGH HIS STORY.
JOHN HAD GONE TO BED THE NORMAL TIME,
AS CAROLE LEFT FOR GOING TO WORK,
WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT.
THE REST OF THE FAMILY WAS
WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE NORMALLY BEEN.
**
HE LEFT THE TV ON, AS HE DID EVERY NIGHT.
SO IT WAS A VERY WEAK ALIBI
WITH NO REAL WAY TO CORROBORATE IT.
INVESTIGATORS WERE ASKING AMONGST THEMSELVES
AND EVEN ASKING HIM, YOU KNOW,
THAT WITH THE TYPE OF VIOLENCE
THAT WAS OBSERVED...
...HOW COULD YOU SLEEP THROUGH THAT?
JOHN SAYS NOISE FROM HIS TV
COULD HAVE MASKED SOUNDS OF THE ATTACK.
SO WE TURNED THE TV ON UPSTAIRS AS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN,
PUT AN OFFICER UP THERE, MADE NOISE ON THAT MAIN LEVEL.
THE OFFICERS WEREN'T ABLE TO HEAR ANYTHING,
ANY TRANSFER OF NOISE.
THEY SEARCHED THE UPSTAIRS AREA OF HIS ROOM.
THEY SEARCHED HIS CLOTHES. THEY FOUND NO BLOOD.
JOHN AGREES TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH TEST.
HE TOLD ME THAT I COULD DO ANYTHING I WANTED TO HIM
TO GET HIM CLEARED,
BUT GET IT DONE SO I CAN GET ON TO THE REAL SUSPECT.
WE DID RUN A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF HIM.
OUR EXAMINER, HE AND I BOTH AGREED THAT JOHN WAS TRUTHFUL.
THERE WAS NOTHING TO INDICATE
THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE MURDERS.
HE'S TOTALLY INNOCENT,
JUST A GRIEVING FATHER
WHOSE FAMILY HAS BEEN DESTROYED WITHOUT WARNING...
WHICH MEANS THEY'RE BACK TO SQUARE ONE.
WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING. NOBODY HAD ANY ANSWERS.
IN 30 YEARS OF COVERING CRIME,
THIS, I THINK, WAS IN THE TOP MOST BAFFLING CASES
THAT I'VE EVER COVERED.
THERE WAS JUST TOO MANY QUESTIONS
AND TOO MANY AVENUES TO GO DOWN.
KELLY!
AUTHORITIES ARE STILL DESPERATE
TO FIND THE MISSING TEENAGER, KELLY.
AND THEN WE HAD A MAJOR SNOWSTORM,
WHICH GREATLY HAMPERED
ATTEMPTS TO FIND KELLY.
THE MORE TIME THAT PASSED...
KELLY!
...THE MORE IT FELT LIKE
IT WASN'T GONNA TURN OUT GOOD.
I WAS REALLY AFRAID.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE WAS ALIVE OR DEAD.
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH.
WAS SHE EVEN AWARE
THAT HER SISTER HAD BEEN MURDERED
AND THAT HER BROTHER WAS INJURED?
POLICE BELIEVE THE ATTACKER
WAS SOMEONE WITH ACCESS.
AND KELLY MIGHT BE THE KEY.
WAS SHE INVOLVED OR NOT? WAS SHE A VICTIM OR NOT?
AND/OR WAS SHE A WILLING PARTICIPANT
AND THEN LEFT THE HOUSE WITH THE KILLER OR KILLERS?
IS SHE A SUSPECT,
OR IS SHE A PART OF THIS?
WAS SHE THE MOTIVE?
NO ONE KNOWS.
JOHN AND CAROLE WERE VERY ADAMANT
THAT KELLY WAS NOT INVOLVED AS A SUSPECT,
THAT SHE HAD TO BE A VICTIM IN THERE.
THE CRIME SCENE DIDN'T LEND ITSELF
TO KELLY HAVING BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS,
THAT THERE HAD TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE.
PERHAPS SOME SHADOWY FIGURE
GREW OBSESSED WITH THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL...
AND SNATCHED HER AWAY.
SO THEN THEY START MOVING OUT TO KELLY'S FRIENDS
AND ACQUAINTANCES, CO-WORKERS.
AND THEY FIND OUT SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND.
NATHANIEL AVERY.
KELLY'S BOYFRIEND WASN'T A BIG GUY.
SO HE JUST DIDN'T SEEM LIKE A SUSPECT TO ME.
BUT NOTHING MADE SENSE.
AND, I GUESS, IN A WAY, THAT MADE EVERYTHING SEEM POSSIBLE.
I MEAN, YOU WONDERED, DID THEY HAVE
SOME KIND OF A HORRIBLE FIGHT?
AVERY DENIES ANY INVOLVEMENT
AND CLAIMS HE HAS NO IDEA WHERE KELLY IS.
HE HAD NO ALIBI OTHER THAN GOING HOME AND GOING TO BED.
AND PEOPLE SAW HIM WHEN HE WENT TO BED
AND SAW HIM WHEN HE GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING.
THE PROBLEM WITH THAT ALIBI IS
IS HOW CAN YOU BE SURE
YOU WERE HOME ASLEEP? WHO CAN CONFIRM THAT?
WE REALLY NEVER WERE SATISFIED THAT HE WAS ELIMINATED,
BUT WE HAD NO PLACE ELSE TO GO WITH IT.
DETECTIVES ASK KELLY'S FRIENDS
ABOUT ANYONE WITH A HIGH-SCHOOL GRUDGE
THAT MIGHT HAVE TURNED DEADLY.
THERE WASN'T ANY SORT OF ENEMIES THAT SHE MADE.
THERE REALLY WASN'T ANYBODY THAT YOU COULD SAY,
"THIS WAS HER ARCH-NEMESIS, AND, YOU KNOW,
THIS PERSON WILL HATE HER UNTIL THE DAY THEY DIE."
SHE JUST DIDN'T CONDUCT HERSELF THAT WAY.
THEN INVESTIGATORS HEAR FROM A NEIGHBOR
WITH A NEW LEAD.
WHEN THE WITNESS CAME FORWARD AND SAID SHE SAW THIS PERSON
SHE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
WALKING AROUND IN THAT AREA,
THE POLICE EARS PERKED UP BIG-TIME
BECAUSE THIS MIGHT --
THIS COULD BE THE BREAK THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.
HE DID NOT FIT INTO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM.
WE HAD THE NEIGHBORS COME IN
AND DO A COMPOSITE SKETCH WITH THE POLICE ARTIST
AND GET A PICTURE OF WHAT THAT PERSON LOOKED LIKE.
THE COMPOSITE IS PUBLICIZED BY THE NEWS MEDIA.
HOPEFULLY, SOMEONE WILL RECOGNIZE HIM.
**
IN THE FIRST BIT OF GOOD NEWS
IN A TERRIBLE CASE,
DETECTIVES GET WORD
THAT PAUL HAS MIRACULOUSLY REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS.
WE WERE VERY HOPEFUL THAT PAUL HAD SOME INFORMATION
ABOUT WHO MIGHT HAVE DONE THIS BEFOREHAND
JUST FROM HIS RECOLLECTIONS.
WAS HE ABLE TO SEE THE SUSPECT THAT ATTACKED HIM BEFOREHAND?
DID HE KNOW WHO IT WAS?
DID HE KNOW WHERE KELLY WAS?
DO YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE NIGHT?
WHEN THE DUFFIELD FAMILY IS ATTACKED...
12-YEAR-OLD JANELLE IS SLAIN...
17-YEAR-OLD KELLY VANISHES...
...AND 15-YEAR-OLD PAUL
CLINGS TO LIFE BY A THREAD.
AFTER MORE THAN A WEEK, HE EMERGES FROM A COMA.
THE POLICE WERE VERY INTERESTED IN TALKING TO HIM.
THEY WERE JUST HOPING FOR ANYTHING OF VALUE FROM HIM,
FROM PAUL.
**
DO YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THAT NIGHT?
BUT THOSE HOPES CRASH.
IT'S KIND OF A BLUR.
HE COULDN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING. HE GAVE THEM VAGUE DETAILS,
BUT IT WAS ABOUT THE STUFF
LEADING UP TO HIM LAYING DOWN AND GOING TO BED.
HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE ATTACK
OR WHO DID IT.
AND HE HAS NO IDEA
WHERE KELLY MIGHT BE.
INVESTIGATORS' BEST BET,
A COMPOSITE SKETCH
OF A MAN SEEN NEAR THE DUFFIELD HOUSE.
AT THIS POINT IN TIME,
HE WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE PEOPLE
THAT THE POLICE WERE MOST INTERESTED IN TALKING TO.
WAS THE PERSON CASING THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
WAS HE SPECIFICALLY WATCHING THE DUFFIELD'S HOUSE?
SURPRISINGLY, THE MAN COMES FORWARD ON HIS OWN.
HE SAW THE SKETCH,
AND HE VOLUNTARILY CONTACTED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND WENT DOWN AND WAS QUESTIONED.
HIS STORY WAS THAT HE HAD HAD CAR PROBLEMS
AND WAS TRYING TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
TO GET HIS CAR FIXED.
THAT'S WHY HE WAS WALKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
HE HAD A GOOD ALIBI
AS TO WHERE HE WAS THAT EVENING AND STUFF,
AND COULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE PERSON THAT WAS INVOLVED.
NO NEW LEADS TO PURSUE.
AND A TEENAGE GIRL STILL OUT THERE,
SOMEWHERE IN THE COLD.
THEN A DEVASTATING DISCOVERY
OFF AN ACCESS ROAD NEAR A LAKE IN OLATHE.
IT WAS ABOUT 10 DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK
ON A COLD, BITTER AFTERNOON,
TWO KIDS PLAYING AFTER SCHOOL
DISCOVER WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A BODY.
SO THEY IMMEDIATELY RAN HOME AND TOLD THEIR PARENTS,
WHO IMMEDIATELY CALLED THE POLICE.
**
IT WAS IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT THAT IT WAS A FEMALE,
AND THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE WE HAD MISSING AT THE TIME
THAT MATCHED THAT DESCRIPTION.
SO WE WERE REASONABLY SURE THAT IT WAS KELLY.
SHE WAS PARTIALLY COVERED IN SNOW, COMPLETELY FROZEN.
NEARBY, A SMALL SLEDGEHAMMER.
IT LOOKED LIKE A TOOL THAT YOU WOULD FIND
IN A BODY SHOP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WELL, WITH THE TYPE OF WOUNDS THAT WE HAD HAD
FROM BOTH PAUL AND JANELLE,
WE ASSUMED THAT THAT MIGHT LIKELY BE THE MURDER WEAPON
BUT DIDN'T KNOW FOR SURE.
THE LOCATION OF THE BODY
SUGGESTS THE KILLER IS A LOCAL.
IT'S NOT A NORMAL PLACE
THAT SOMEONE THAT WASN'T FAMILIAR WITH OLATHE
WOULD HAVE GONE TO.
IT'S NOT A STRAIGHT DRIVE FROM THE DUFFIELD HOUSE.
IT'S, IN FACT, A LITTLE COMPLICATED TO GET THERE.
FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE THE SICKENING TASK
OF IDENTIFYING THE BODY AS KELLY DUFFIELD.
IT WAS A RELIEF,
'CAUSE THE SEARCH WAS OVER,
BUT BITTER SADNESS.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE A LITTLE FLICKER THAT IT WILL TURN OUT GOOD.
THE INNOCENT 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S INJURIES
ARE HAUNTINGLY FAMILIAR.
THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS WOUNDS TO THE HEAD...
...VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT PAUL AND JANELLE HAD RECEIVED.
BUT THEIR WOUNDS WERE MORE TO THE FRONT OF THE HEAD,
AND HERS WERE TO THE REAR OR TOP.
ACCORDING TO THE PATHOLOGIST
AND THE MEDICAL PEOPLE AT THE HOSPITAL
WHO EXAMINED -- WHO TREATED PAUL,
THE SAME WEAPON WAS USED IN ALL THREE ATTACKS.
I THINK THE CLEAR ASSUMPTION IS SHE WAS MURDERED THAT EVENING,
WITHIN PROBABLY HOURS OF THE KIDNAPPING.
THE PATHOLOGIST FINDS SOMETHING THAT STUNS EVERYONE.
ONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING AND SAD
THINGS THAT WAS DISCOVERED AT THE AUTOPSY
WAS THE FACT THAT KELLY WAS SIX WEEKS PREGNANT.
THAT WOULD LEAD DETECTIVES TO RETHINK THE WHOLE CASE.
IT WAS AN EXTREME BOMBSHELL.
IT APPEARED THEY HAD DISCOVERED A MAJOR BREAK
OR A MOTIVE FOR HER KILLING.
WHOEVER THE FATHER OF THAT CHILD WAS
COULD HAVE HAD A MOTIVE TO KILL HER.
WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE BOYFRIEND WAS TRYING TO COVER UP
ONCE HE WAS MADE AWARE OF IT?
WAS HE MADE AWARE OF IT?
DOES SHE HAVE ANOTHER BOYFRIEND?
POLICE START
BY RE-INTERVIEWING KELLY'S BOYFRIEND, NATHANIEL AVERY.
HE SWEARS HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE PREGNANCY.
IT DOESN'T REALLY MATCH HIS PERSONALITY,
BUT I GUESS EVERYBODY COULD BE DRIVEN TO A BOILING POINT
OR DO SOMETHING IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT.
**
AVERY AND HIS PARENTS
ALLOW POLICE TO SEARCH THEIR HOME.
WHOEVER HAD COMMITTED THE CRIME
HAD TO HAVE A LOT OF BLOOD ON THEM.
WE DID SEARCH HIS CLOTHING AND HOUSE.
THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY OBVIOUS THINGS
THAT YOU WOULD ASSOCIATE WITH THIS CRIME --
BLOODY CLOTHING,
ANYTHING RELATED TO KELLY
THAT WOULD BE OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
THERE WAS JUST NOTHING THERE
TO TIE HIM TO THIS CRIME.
HE WAS 100% COOPERATIVE,
AND I THINK BY HIM ALLOWING THEM TO SEARCH HIS HOUSE, YOU KNOW,
SHOWED THAT HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.
SAYING, "LOOK, I KNOW YOU THINK I SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING,
BUT I DON'T."
ANOTHER FRUSTRATING DEAD END.
THE CASE TURNS ICE COLD.
THE POLICE WERE REALLY UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE.
THEY'RE WORKING THEIR TAILS OFF,
BUT THERE'S JUST NO SUBSTANTIAL LEADS
TO FOLLOW AT THIS POINT.
THE COMMUNITY WAS EXTREMELY SCARED,
EXTREMELY SCARED.
THEY WERE WORRIED THAT THEIR HOUSE WAS GONNA BE NEXT.
I FELT LIKE A FAILURE TO THE FAMILY.
WHAT WAS I OVERLOOKING?
AND BEING IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION,
IT WAS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO FIND THIS GUY.
AND REALLY
BORE HARD ON ME AND, I THINK, ON MY FAMILY.
I WAS BEGINNING TO THINK
THAT PROBABLY OUR BEST CHANCE OF SOLVING THE CRIME
WAS WHEN HE COMMITTED THE NEXT ONE.
THAT MAY SOUND COLD, BUT...
I WAS EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN.
THREE WINTRY MONTHS PASS.
THEN OLATHE POLICE GET A CALL
ABOUT AN ASSAULT ON A WOMAN OUTSIDE A RESTAURANT.
SHE SAID A GUY TRIED TO GET HER TO GO WITH HIM,
AND SHE REFUSED, AND THEN HE GOT MORE PHYSICAL WITH HER.
HE FINALLY TOOK HER PURSE
AND LEFT WITH HER PURSE IN A CAR.
GIVE ME MY PURSE!
GIVE ME MY FREAKIN' PURSE!
- WE CAME OUTSIDE... - POLICE RESPOND.
AND I -- HE -- HE STOLE MY PURSE.
AND THEY WERE INTERVIEWING HER AND TRYING TO GET A DESCRIPTION
OF THE PERSON AND OF THE CAR...
THAT'S HIM!
...WHEN SHE SAW THE CAR GO BY IN FRONT OF HER.
AN AMAZING STROKE OF LUCK,
AND SEEMINGLY UNRELATED
TO THE HORRIFYING ATTACK ON THE DUFFIELD FAMILY.
BUT CATCHING THIS SHADOWY DRIVER
COULD SOLVE THIS DEADLY RIDDLE.
THREE MONTHS AFTER THE DEADLY HOME INVASION ATTACK
ON THE DUFFIELD FAMILY...
THAT'S HIM. THAT'S HIM!
...OLATHE, KANSAS, POLICE
CHASE DOWN A MAN SUSPECTED OF A PURSE-SNATCHING.
THERE WAS A SHORT PURSUIT
WHERE HE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE OFFICERS.
HANDS OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE!
HE'S 21-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL CADE.
**
THE PURSE WAS NOT WITH HIM AT THE TIME.
THE OFFICERS ASKED HIM ABOUT IT,
AND HE GAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCATION
THAT HE HAD TAKEN THE PURSE AND THROWN IT OUT OF THE CAR AT...
COME ON, MAN.
WHAT DID I DO?
...WHICH HAPPENED TO BE VERY CLOSE
TO WHERE KELLY'S BODY WAS FOUND.
COME ON!
IT SEEMS LIKE MORE THAN A COINCIDENCE.
IF YOU DIDN'T LIVE IN THE AREA OR KNOW ABOUT IT,
YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THAT ACCESS ROAD EXISTED.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, MICHAEL CADE
LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS LESS THAN A MILE FROM THAT LAKE.
AND HE WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT AREA.
POLICE HOLD HIM ON THE PURSE-SNATCHING CHARGE.
HE WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST
SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF WHERE THE PURSE WAS FOUND.
BUT THERE WAS NO CONNECTION TO KELLY OR JANELLE OR PAUL
OR ANY OF THE DUFFIELD FAMILY.
**
CHECKING THEIR FILES, THEY LEARN HAS A RECORD
FOR BREAKING INTO AN AREA SCHOOL.
AND ONE OF THE CLASSES HAD A PET RABBIT,
AND HE HAD KILLED THAT RABBIT.
OFTENTIMES, KILLERS START OUT THEIR CAREERS
BY MUTILATING ANIMALS
AND TAKING PERSONAL ENJOYMENT IN KILLING.
HE HAD ALSO ATTEMPTED HOME BURGLARIES
WITH AN EERILY SIMILAR CALLING CARD.
HE HAD DISABLED TELEPHONE LINES AT OTHER RESIDENCES IN THE PAST.
HE ADMITTED TO THAT.
WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THE RABBITS BEING KILLED
AND THE PHONE LINES...
LITERALLY, THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF MY NECK JUST STOOD UP
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW --
I KNOW IN MY MIND AT THIS TIME
THAT MICHAEL CADE IS THE GUY WHO COMMITTED THESE CRIMES.
CADE AGREES TO TALK.
WHEN I FIRST BROUGHT MICHAEL INTO THE ROOM,
I HAD ALREADY PREPPED THE ROOM,
AND I HAD A TAPE RECORDER ON THE DESK THAT WAS RUNNING.
I HAD PLACED THE HAMMER
THAT WE HAD FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE ON THE DESK.
I NEVER MENTIONED THE HAMMER. I JUST LEFT IT ON THE DESK.
AS WE GOT FARTHER INTO THE INTERVIEW,
HE BECAME MORE NERVOUS.
HE WAS CONTINUALLY LOOKING OVER AT THE HAMMER.
MICHAEL, I'M JUST GONNA ASK YOU
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND.
HIS DEMEANOR WAS HE WAS VERY QUIET
LISTENING TO MY CONVERSATION.
I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH GENERAL THINGS WITH HIM
TO BUILD ON HIM, TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PERSONALITY HE HAD.
DETECTIVE HERRMAN ASKS ABOUT THE NIGHT OF THE MURDERS.
CADE SAYS HE WAS DRIVING AROUND
AND ENDED UP AT THE DUFFIELD HOUSE.
**
I HAD THIS DREAM ABOUT GOING INSIDE THIS HOUSE.
HE BEGINS RECOUNTING A STRANGE STORY.
TELL ME WHAT YOU DID.
HERRMAN ENCOURAGES CADE
TO SHARE DETAILS OF THE ALLEGED VISION.
VERY OFTEN WHEN WE'RE DOING AN INTERVIEW
OR AN INTERROGATION, WE GIVE THE SUSPECT
A WAY TO EASE INTO THE EXPLANATION.
WHEN HE STARTED DESCRIBING A DREAM,
THAT WAS A PERFECT OUT FOR ME TO LET HIM DESCRIBE THINGS.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN THE DREAM?
**
HE MENTIONS DISABLING THE PHONE WIRE.
HE SAID THAT HE DREAMED
THAT HE PUT A SCREWDRIVER HE HAD WITH HIM
IN BEHIND THE WIRES ON THE PHONE AND HAD PULLED THEM LOOSE.
THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT TO ME
BECAUSE WE KNEW THE WIRES HADN'T BEEN CUT,
THAT THEY HAD A STRESS TEAR.
SO THAT WAS THE FIRST THING
THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT.
IN THIS DREAM,
CADE ENTERED THE HOUSE THROUGH THE UNLOCKED BACK DOOR.
INSIDE, HE SAW YOUNG MAN LYING ON THE SOFA.
WITHOUT WARNING, HE BLUDGEONED PAUL.
**
HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT PAUL
BEING BIG ENOUGH TO INTERFERE WITH HIM.
HE NEXT WENT INTO JANELLE'S ROOM.
HE REMEMBERED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF BLOOD,
AND THAT HE TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A RUBBER SHEET ON THE FLOOR.
AND THAT WAS A PIECE OF INFORMATION
THAT WE HADN'T RELEASED TO ANYBODY.
JANELLE?
FINALLY, HE FOUND KELLY.
**
DON'T MAKE A NOISE.
COME WITH ME, OR I KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY.
CADE DROVE HER TO REMOTE AREA.
HE RAPED HER.
AND THEN HE SAYS, "I'M GONNA LET YOU GO.
I'M NOT GONNA KILL YOU."
- I WON'T SAY A THING. - YOU BETTER NOT.
I WON'T. I PROMISE.
YOU CAN TRUST ME.
EITHER HE THOUGHT THE EASIEST WAY TO KILL HER
WOULD BE TO LET HER OUT OF THE CAR
AND RUN UP BEHIND HER AND HIT HER
AND KILL HER THAT WAY,
OR HE WAS GOING TO LET HER GO
AND DECIDED HE COULDN'T BECAUSE SHE WOULD I.D. HIM.
HIT HER SEVERAL TIMES AT THAT POINT,
DRAGS HER CLEAR BACK TO WHERE HIS CAR WAS
AND DROPS HER INTO THE DRAINAGE CULVERT
WHERE SHE WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND.
CLEARLY, THIS WAS NO DREAM,
RATHER A TWISTED WAY TO CONFESS.
YOU COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN THIS IN A DREAM.
YOU COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN THAT IN A DREAM.
THIS WASN'T A DREAM, WAS IT?
AND HE HAD TO FINALLY ADMIT THAT HE WAS THE PERSON THERE,
AND IT WASN'T A DREAM.
PROSECUTORS CHARGE MICHAEL CADE
WITH THE FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
OF JANELLE DUFFIELD...
THE AGGRAVATED BATTERY OF PAUL DUFFIELD,
AND THE AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING, RAPE, AND FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
OF KELLY DUFFIELD.
HE'S ALSO CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.
HE PLEADS GUILTY
AND IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
THOUGH CADE CLAIMS HE CHOSE THE HOUSE AT RANDOM,
MANY THINK HE HAD SEEN KELLY IN TOWN
AND BECAME FIXATED ON HER.
**
I BELIEVE THAT...
MICHAEL CADE FOLLOWED KELLY HOME
FROM HER JOB AND TARGETED HER HOUSE.
I DO THINK THAT HE...
HE HAD SOME KIND OF AN OBSESSION
OR FIXATION WITH HER, AND --
BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHY HE TOOK HER.
PAUL AND JANELLE WERE JUST COLLATERAL VICTIMS
OF MICHAEL CADE'S DESIRE
TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT KELLY.
HE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE COLD-BLOODED INDIVIDUALS
THAT I'VE MET.
I THINK THAT HE WOULD HAVE KILLED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
I DON'T THINK THAT HIS THIRST FOR THAT
WOULD HAVE BEEN QUENCHED AT THE END OF THE DAY
WHEN HE KILLED KELLY.
BOTH JOHN AND CAROLE DUFFIELD
HAVE SINCE PASSED AWAY.
UNCLE JOHNNY, HE DIED OF CANCER,
AND I JUST...
I THINK THIS...
ATE HIM ALIVE.
THE PAIN,
YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE FACT THAT HE WAS THERE
AND "WHY DIDN'T I PROTECT MY CHILDREN?"
THE "IF"s PROBABLY WERE ENDLESS IN HIS MIND.
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC STORIES
THAT I'VE EVER COVERED IN 35 YEARS OF BEING A JOURNALIST.
A FAMILY WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
CAROLE AND JOHN DUFFIELD
LOST TWO DAUGHTERS
AND HAD THEIR SON'S LIFE CHANGED FOREVER.
KELLY'S NOT HERE
TO SEE HOW THE REST OF HER LIFE WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT.
WE'RE NOT ABLE TO SEE THAT.
SOMEBODY THAT HAD SUCH PROMISE
AND A BRIGHT FUTURE...
YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST GETTING STARTED.