Brian Lane - Mind Games with a Serial Killer

KEERS:I gave you the opportunity to tell the truth and you told some lies. This is your opportunity to clean it up now, Bill. Do you understand that?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Now tell me about the body you left there.

SUFF:I didn’t do it.

KEERS:Tell me about the

SUFF:I better get a lawyer now. I better get a lawyer ‘cause you think that I did it and I didn’t.

KEERS:Who did it?

SUFF:I don’t know but I didn’t do it. I swear to God I didn’t do it.

KEERS:Are you telling me that you don’t want to talk to me right now, Bill?

SUFF:I’m telling you the truth.

KEERS:I’ve given you the

SUFF:Trying to

KEERS:opportunity.

SUFF:I know.

KEERS:Okay, I’m giving you the opportunity to talk to me.

SUFF:I know.

KEERS:Do you wanna do that?

SUFF:Yes, I do, because

KEERS:If you want, okay.

SUFF:I do.

KEERS:Great. Do you want to tell the truth or do you wanna lie?

SUFF:I do not want to lie.

KEERS:Okay, now, we’ll start slow. Okay?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:I’ll take you through this alright?

SUFF:Okay.

KEERS:Will you feel better if I take you through that?

SUFF:Please.

KEERS:Okay. Well, I’ll take you through that, okay? I understand.

SUFF:00. Okay.

KEERS:You drove your van in there, didn’t you?

SUFF:Yes, I did.

KEERS:Tell me how you drove your van in there.

SUFF:I drove in backwards.

KEERS:Okay. What did you do when you drove in backwards?

SUFF:I went to look for some oranges.

KEERS:Okay. Tell me what you did. Tell me where you’re coming from in your van. What direction were you coming from?

SUFF:What do you mean what direction I

KEERS:Okay,

SUFF:was coming from?

KEERS:where were you driving on? What street?

SUFF:Victoria.

KEERS:Okay. Which way were you going on Victoria?

SUFF:I was going towards, uh, Riverside from Tyler.

KEERS:Okay. So you were going eastbound on Victoria…

(Knock on door)

KEERS:…is that correct?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Fine, just a minute.

(You have an emergency outside.)

KEERS:Hold on, please.

(Door closes)

SUFF:I didn’t kill her. Honest I didn’t. I swear to God I did not kill her. I found her body there. I did.

DAVIS:Bill, you wanna talk to us?

SUFF:Yes. I do.

DAVIS:Couple minutes ago

SUFF:Yes.

DAVIS:you said you wanted a lawyer, now you wanna talk to us about this?

SUFF:I think I’m, need a lawyer over here.

DAVIS:Did you want to talk to us?

SUFF:I wanna try to clear this up. I wanna make sure you end up knowing I didn’t kill her. I took the clothes because they were lying near by her and that’s it.

(Door Opens)

SUFF:Like I told you.

KEERS:Yes.

KEERS:Do you want to talk to me, Bill? I wanna make this perfectly clear to you, okay?

SUFF:I know.

KEERS:You know yourself that you don’t have to talk to us, you know that, don’t you?

SUFF:I know.

KEERS:I have asked you if you wanna talk to us, if you wanna tell us the truth. Do you understand that?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Do you wanna tell us the truth, Bill?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Do you wanna talk to us and tell us the truth?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Okay. Would you like me to help you get through this?

SUFF:Anyway you’re talking to me about the truth.

KEERS:Alright we’ll get you the truth. Is that what you wanna do here is just tell the truth?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Okay. That’s all you wanna do is tell the truth?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:So you wanna talk to us?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Okay.

SUFF:To clear up this stuff.

KEERS:Alright.

SUFF:Whole thing.

KEERS:Tell me what you were doing now. You were driving eastbound at Victoria. Is that correct?

SUFF:Yes.

KEERS:Okay, what did you do then?

SUFF:I saw an opening that I could park the van in so I could see if I could find some oranges.

KEERS:Okay, so what did you do?

SUFF:I backed in because I had already gone past it, backed up, and backed into it. Got out and started to walk around the van to hunt, hunt for oranges and I saw something lying on the ground. I walked over to it and it was a girl there. There was some clothing strung around her, I picked up the clothing and then I decided I’d better get out of there and I got out.

KEERS:And so what did you do with the clothing, Bill?

SUFF:I took the clothing home with me.

KEERS:You did?

SUFF:And I, I threw it in the van.

KEERS:Okay. Now.

(Throat Clearing)

KEERS:Okay, you took the clothing home with you, Bill.

SUFF:Because I picked it up and

KEERS:Okay.

SUFF:I thought I’d do something with it.

KEERS:Okay. What did you do with the clothing when you got it home?

SUFF:Uuuhhh.

KEERS:Tell me, what did you do with the clothing when you got it home?

SUFF:The sweater went into the clothes, into the dirty laundry.

KEERS:Did you wash it?

SUFF:Yes. Yes.

KEERS:Okay. Why did you wash it? Please tell me the truth.

SUFF:Because I was washing a bunch of dark clothes and I just grabbed it, too.

KEERS:Ahm. What else besides the sweater, Bill?

SUFF:There were some pants.

KEERS:What color pants?

SUFF:I don’t remember for sure.

KEERS:Okay. Well, take a guess and I’ll tell you if you’re right or wrong.

SUFF:Blue jeans, I think.

KEERS:Okay. What did you do with those blue jeans?

KEERS:I think I washed them and folded up and set it in the other, our bedroom.

KEERS:Okay.

SUFF:Second bedroom.

KEERS:What else?

SUFF:That’s all.

KEERS:Okay. Were there any shoes out there?

SUFF:I don’t know. I don’t remember.

KEERS:Okay. Let’s let’s stop for just a minute. Take a break. We just talked about the truth, okay?