I have often wondered why they don't use Cold cases to teach these types of classes, So glad to see this work out. That is experience a normal classroom will never give you. And their minds aren't pre-programmed by years of other cases polluting fresh thoughts.
The first story, such a tragedy for Roxanne and her husband, such a triumph for science. I hope Terry Wood found some peace. All cold case murderers should be expecting that knock on the door.
He probably was never able to move on and live a normal life because everyone especially females were still spreading hate and blame to this man who lost the love of his life.
I know... I'm not usually one believing in all the afterlife connection and communication... most to me is either coincidence or nonsense... imo... but her describing that dream gave me a full body feeling I've never felt. It truly felt real. Not only from her sister's point of view but it truly feels like Roxanne came to her and gave her that peace and closure. It definitely had an effect on me❤
The Richardson guy was awful, he just want to blame Terry without looking at other evidences. That's why there many innocence people in prison. Like l pick you, now I'm going to find the evidence to put you in prison. I'm glad that the lady solved the case. Reminds me of the movie about the detective goes after the doctor forever because he believes that he killed his wife which is not true.
When my exe's house burned I freaked out and was yelling at the firefighters. I asked where the man who lives there was, they said I don't know I don't know, then kept asking what I was doing there, but they couldn't tell me where he was or if he was ok, so I just started screaming my answers and questions like a lunatic. I wasn't f'ing around. If I came in and found a family member murdered in my house, I imagine I would yell at the officers if I sensed any degree of f'ng around. Real or imagined. So I would probably be in similar shoes as the first woman's innocent husband. So you never know. I also think there's a lot of family members and spouses in jail who just got pinned with the crime. And there's a lot who should be in jail when suspicious deaths raise no suspicions. Things are not always as they seem.
You are actually right...There's so many emotions and feelings one can have on the deaths of a love one...Roxann husband reacted not as one of red flags but a grieving man who found his wife brutally murdered....The police was quick in judgements to make him a suspect...That is a true sign of their incompetence!!....They had many times to solved this case way earlier than it took this long... I am glad the real killer was found...He should never ever be released BACK INTO SOCIETY!!...A child would have no escape from his claws at 86 years old!!!!..
If I found a loved one murdered I’d feel both sadness and anger, probably be screaming, it would be impossible to fully control my feelings and my actions. No idea how I would sound in a SOS call… I didn’t think Terri’s reaction was a red flag at all. Police should definitely not see such reaction as a red flag!
When the Police put an eye on someone that’s it ! your it and no one it’s going to change their mind also never leave a friend alone you left together you come together easy as 123
I totally agree. In an incident where I feared for my partner's life I fought off and barged through 3 police officers whilst screaming and yelling like a crazy woman because they wouldn't say what was happening.
Thank you for sharing that! It made me so angry hearing that the husband’s anger and yelling was a red flag because it is NOT! Being angry, rude, demanding when you find your loved one murdered is normal and is not seen from someone who is the perpetrator. One of the red flags that show up in 911 calls when the caller is the perpetrator is actually politeness! Fortunately for me, the closest situation to this for me was finding my son unconscious from a seizure (the only one he has ever had). I thought he might be dying and I can tell you I was RUDE on that call!
Losing someone you love is hard enough but knowing that loved one was murdered & butchered? As a mother thats not something i could ever recover from. We grow our babies inside our wombs & thats a bond that should never be broken.Thank you for giving a voice for the voiceless.
They should’ve known it wasn’t Roxanne’s husband. How could he bowl a game, come home, slit her throat, change clothes, get rid of the weapon AND curse out a 911 operator in 45 minutes???
Your comment could be on a tshirt or a meme or something. Like the subject isn’t funny but stuff if just so obvious if you just think about it but it’s more so the cops are a joke. He basically did a citizen’s arrest on that guy and the cops never came, and they never investigated at all. WTF
I can’t either but for him he was likely trying to avoid the trauma / reliving it by not telling his story. It’s silly but trauma makes humans do weird things
I don't know what is worse, spending years in jail before being exonerated, or spending years where everyone around you thinks you're guilty. I don't know how Terry made it through all those years of people looking at him like he did it. I don't know if I could go through something like that
Gabriella your my hero and I think students should be allowed to work on more and more cold cases all over the Country .I watched a case that got solved over 40 years later the same way but it was two years to late for the young Ladies father ,he had pushed and fought for the killer of hus daughter to be caught and they had the sjills to do it ,they just had not tried but the DNA was in the system for years before they opened the case up again,that should never happen again anywhere.
There is almost nothing worse than publicly being accused of something you truly didn’t do. I think people should think about how they would feel if it were them, our society is so quick to judge & decide…
I hope Pink Haired Mom can stop referring to herself in any other way than her professional name. Her talent is huge, she deserves to be know for her genuis and kind work. Everyone has a look, it does not define us!
It's perfectly normal to be angry at the dispatcher. Those people are infuriating in an emergency situation. Some more so than others. The first thing they should say is, help is on the way, please tell me what you see so the officers can be prepared when they get there. Also it happens quite often that killers don't bring a weapon to the scene. These are most often home invasions and pepping toms. As for the rage killing, serial killers, and peppeing toms do this.
So many kids being put on antidepressants, unnecessarily & it coincides with the timing of school shootings becoming prominent but ofcourse, nobody questions big pharma
I don't understand miller's wife wanting "to be a good wife" AFTER he told her he'd murdered a girl! 😯 And another reason she said she stayed with him was because she didn't know if it was true or not. 🤔 Who in their right mind would not want to find out if there might be such an unresolved case in that area? Wouldn't most people want to know whether they're living with a murderer or not?!! And who in their right mind would want to live another minute with someone who just told them that; whether it's true or not?!!! 😯 Claiming to have murdered someone with all the gory details is just not normal conversation! I would be out of there real fast and taking that info to the cops! As for the 3rd story, the survivor/victim should have realized that 'muggers' do NOT lure their victims to an address the victim can identify later! Muggers operate out there on the streets. If you're lured to an address under false pretenses, the plan is you're not getting out alive. He was incredibly lucky to have escaped. He should have realized the seriousness of what he experienced, put his 'embarrassed' ego aside and reported it to police. It might have helped save a life.
I wish the guy had went to the police, he really could have potentially changed the events. Its not his fault but it doesn't make any sense why he didn't go to the police. And the lady who was friends with the Dexter wanna be if I were her ex I'd be cautious with her.
But, who would want to be with a person who insinuated it even if they didn’t, that’s not normal, if they didn’t, you could be the first victim. If someone jokingly even says it, red flag, runnnn.
I also don't believe his claim that his mother beat him & molested him. If that were the case, why did she want him to not return home? Why wouldn't she just beat him more? He created that fantasy, just like his zombie hunter fantasy. How did he remember his other attacks?
@aruglaempire2518 P.S Men and women ARE very different read a biology book. Also read some crime stats re child molesters, murderers etc as you seem clueless.
@@aruglaempire2518 I don't think anybody suggested women can't be evil, maybe read the post again nice and slowly...and take some meds for the shouty capitals
Shoutout to the tech who kept that sample and Gabriela. Samples degrade and can't be tested when they're stored improperly. Sometimes samples from these cold cases can no longer be tested because they've degraded so much. Somebody had the foresight to do it with just a hope that DNA technology would improve in the future. Also, with the trace amount of sample Gabriela had to work with... oh boy did she have her work cut out for her. She had to be very careful because she didn't have a lot to work with.
What I cannot understand and is very heartbreaking for me is with the final story, this sick man who cannot be rehabilitated, who killed and dismembered someone, who got such a short sentence for the life he took, is getting out and there is a book about his life, which has been sold to a movie company. This sick man who did these vile things, his life is being glorified in this book and now a possible movie about what he did....short sentence and now a celebrity, because the book and movie is about him...which is EXACTLY what he wants....exactly what will give him pleasure...how sick is this world that wicked people doing vile things and there evil work is commemorated in books and media for entertainment 😢😢😢how is this justice for those who lost their lives at the hands of such sick people. The killer will be glowing with delight if this becomes a movie...this is incredibly sad for me😢I don't understand😢
Dawnlaurens3983, I don't understand the light sentence, either...and I do hope no movie is made about him...as you say, it would not be a help to society to have the story commemorated!
The mistake that the cop made in seeing the Zombie dude being good to his daughter, beyond the fact that it could have been an act, is that there are plenty of men who see the women that are their victims as objects, playthings, worthless, but who are also great husbands &/or dads, because those women do matter to them. But then, when you get a look at his house, you realize that even being a decent dad when eating our, but forcing her to live in a dump, should make the cop lose that "gut" feeling.
My thing is if killers can’t remember killing someone how do they remember to hide from the police ??? Like that defense always pisses me off … you don’t remember killing anyone but you didn’t forget to make sure the police don’t catch you …..
Those detectives in Niles Michigan had very little experience in homicide. So when they say that his behavior was suspicious, compared to what? No matter how you react, the cops are going to claim that it was suspicious behavior.
Brian Miller blames his mother but how can anyone believe him. His mother was dead and could not defend herself. The judge said abuse was proven, but how?
The detectives need to keep investigating the first guy because I doubt that we know of all the violence he caused throughout his life. It seems everyone who really knew him was abused by him in some way all throughout his life so why would they think he stopped these horrible attacks after the 90's? He was clearly abusing his daughter just by having her live in such a horrible and filthy home. Did they investigate if he assaulted her? She was alone in the house with this man who was a deviant. Also, it's so sad that the other woman who was stabbed by him was not believed!!! The horrible double trauma she must have gone through to be stabbed by someone, take him to court, look into his face while testifying against this monster and then people deciding they couldn't tell who was telling the truth! Look at his history! By then he already had a history of stabbing people in the BACK. I believe his mom probably did beat him with the belt, that story sounds believable but who knows why she was doing it, she might have been finding signs he wasn't right all along and back then people would definitely try to beat the devil out of you. That's not right but, I could see that being a truthful detail of his story. She was afraid of him and didn't want him back in the house and probably had a lot more reasons than that note and his first known stabbing that made her fear as strong as it was. He looked just like his dad, and it seems he was her only child so, to cut ties with him completely took a lot for her to do, I imagine. Too bad his mother had passed by the time he was tried so we could not hear her side.
*PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO THIS POST!!! I couldn't believe that poor excuse for a detective would accuse Terry just because he lost his temper during a 911 call! Considering the condition he found his girlfriend in, and the stupid questions those operators ask, anyone would react the same way under such highly stressful circumstances! 🤬
How tf do you allow a self-admitted psychopath to apply for early parole?! I understand that it's Canada, and that they don't believe in the death penalty, but... damn!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2080">34:40</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1842">30:42</a> "Have you ever run faster in your life?" 🤣🤣 That Van Sant is a great bloke. The first story is a terrible mixture of gladness and sadness, but in the end justice was served. And how beautiful are all those people involved in solving the case.
The first story merely corroborates my disdain for the police and their investigators. They say that Terry lawyering up raised suspicion making him a suspect which is ridiculous. Only a fool talks to the police in a case like this sans lawyer. The cops are so eager to close a case that they will do and say anything to make the innocent appear guilty. They are unethical in their methods. And as usual, the inept police went for the lowest hanging fruit, even using Terry’s angry outbursts as a sign of his “guilt.” The man’s wife was just brutally murdered; of course he is going to freak out. They couldn’t find the true killer so they made Terry’s life hell for the next 20 years, branding him a killer even though they never arrested him. Pathetic and infuriating.
Everyone reacts differently, but our spidey sense went off because his reaction was abnormal? Is there a “normal” reaction when everyone reacts “differently”? Words matter, guys. Just admit Terry was unlikeable, and “the husband did it” would provide an easy solution. Easy solutions are more attractive than hard work.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="75">1:15</a>:48 I call bs on him blaming his mother! Why would she report what he wrote to the police? If she were like he said, she’d enjoy having her own evil minion who would do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted.
Oh my god! I love Niles! My fiance did some work at the nuclear plant there, and I got to take a road trip from our Texas home up there with him. Distilleries and cafes are everywhere, and the outdoors are beautiful. I'm so sad to see this happened in such a cute little town.
Damm ,I cant believe that trooper almost let that creep walk again 😯 Poir Terry ,all of those years living under the weight of that suspicion.Yes ,U r a monstwr ,a rapest and a killer ,thats a monster for sure.
If some $12/hr idiot 911 operator is asking me stupid questions instead of taking action I would be angry as well. That’s not suspicious behavior at all.
The Mark twitchell case makes me think of a young man that has entirely too much time on his hands living with Mommy and daddy should be on his own paying his own bills no time for all that crap
Such a tragedy .. what I can’t understand is with his criminal background and what his ex wife knew how is it his daughter was allowed to live with him ..
I seen this video and scrolled down and there is a different documentary by 48 hours. Different title but about the same victim. I wander why 48 hours would put it in 2 different documentaries? I will check it out and see what information is in this one that is not in the other and vice versa.' The title of the other one is ' The unsolvable case of Roxanne Wood' Thank you and God Bless
We owe a great debt of thanks to genetic genealogist Gabriela Vargas,, and all others at Western MU and in law enforcement who endeavored to solve a crime which was facilitated by the contemptible cutting of a 14 year sentence to a seven year sentence.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1557">25:57</a> - 👀 If you just saw _that_ mug, in _that_ photo, without _any_ context … the word “Guilty!” would dive off your tongue w a double-gainer. Q: “Guilty of WHAT?” 🤷♂️ A: “SUMPTHIN bad! … FOR - SHORE!” 😖
Props to Gabriela Vargas. She's a hero to these families 😎 Edit: Also to the Professor & those students who consolidated & streamlined massive amounts & years of casework
Any community having a resident who dresses up like a Zombie, has a car painted like a cop car that say’s Zombie Buster’s or Zombie Squad be alarmed. If they put on their Zombie outfit and bring their car to parade’s and community functions, Authorities should keep their finger prints and DNA on file.
Rox was a stunning bride. All her photos exude a radiant spirit. What an amazing family she had keeping her and her case alive for justice, not only for her but her innocent husband. Gabrielle is needed by the world for her spirt, tenacity and skills. God Bless all of them.
