WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:06.480 You with the tongue out. 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.960 You gotta say your name, Garlie what. 3 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:21.640 Generally nothing underwood right. 4 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.520 Charlie was born January ninth, nineteen eighty two. She is 5 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.159 the second child to us, and she came five weeks early. 6 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.880 I wonder sometimes if she maybe knew her time here 7 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.039 would be short, and so she was anxious to get here. 8 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.880 Jarlie was always happy and always had a small on 9 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:10.680 her face. The last time I saw Jerily was at 10 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.120 the evening meal. I probably told her I love her 11 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.359 and that I see her in a little bit. 12 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:18.959 And that's last time. 13 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:27.439 We saw her. Joyce and I were outside doing stuff. 14 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.680 Somebody had tried to get ahold of us. She saw 15 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:35.120 Jarily get in a car. We immediately called the police. 16 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.000 We dispatched a patrol officer. We realized that we were 17 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.319 ideally with an abduction. 18 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.000 At least two witnesses say they saw man jump out 19 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.280 of the car, grabbed Jerily, shut her back in the car, 20 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.200 and took off. 21 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.920 As time went on, the hours and days went on, 22 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.799 and we became more concerned that this would be not 23 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:57.959 just an abduction, but probably a murderer. 24 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.560 The police never really told me they were looking for 25 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:04.319 a stranger. 26 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.479 He saw how Jerly carried herself, how confident that Jarley was, 27 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.400 and he took that told stranger. 28 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.159 He used his handgun and shot her twice in the head, 29 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.199 which caused her to die almost instantly. He was a 30 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.639 sexual psychopath, a sadistic rapist, kind of murderer. 31 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.879 Jerley was very loving, love to take care of people 32 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:50.879 and be kind. 33 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.599 Took care of her siblings really well. 34 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:57.919 Always had a smile on her face. 35 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:01.520 I remember her doing that. 36 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.479 It was summertime, so Charley was out of school. She 37 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:13.360 was eleven years old. Jerlie and her brother Jamen started 38 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:18.360 a newspaper route in September of ninety two. The route 39 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.520 was real close to our home, so her and her 40 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.960 brother could walk. We talked a lot about safety and 41 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.199 not talking to strangers, and we knew a lot of 42 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.479 the people in the neighborhood, a lot of their customers, 43 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:33.439 we knew who they were. 44 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.800 Earlier that day, we had a little bit of a rain, 45 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.080 but at five point thirty in the evening, it was clear, 46 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.719 sun was shining, nice and warm, just a beautiful day. 47 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.520 She had an orthodonist appointment, and then after that appointment 48 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.960 came home and got ready to deliver their papers. They'd 49 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.960 roll them and then put an elastic band around them 50 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:07.120 put them in their newspaper bags. She expressed that she 51 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.240 wanted to take her bike. I had a flat tire, 52 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.000 so I went outside to fix her tire so that 53 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.439 she could take her bike. And when I came back 54 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.879 in to tell her as ready, she had already left 55 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.160 go deliver her papers. Our neighbor came over. We were 56 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.160 outside working in the garden and so she couldn't call us, 57 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.319 so she came over to our house and told us 58 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:37.399 that Gurley had gotten into a car with somebody. 59 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.879 Well, at first we thought that Gurley maybe had gotten 60 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:43.560 a ride home because there was another neighbor that would 61 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:44.360 give her a ride. 62 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.639 Since she wasn't home, we went looking for her, went 63 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.959 around trying to find out where she had been, which 64 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:51.879 houses she'd been to. 65 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.560 When we found out that she had been pushed into 66 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:01.240 the car, that's when we become really really concerned that okay, 67 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.639 well if she got pushed in the car, then somebody's 68 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:05.240 taken her. 69 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:13.879 Immediately found the police. 70 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.120 We sent out two detectives to respond to the call. 71 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.600 Because it was called in not as my kid's missing, 72 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.600 it was we believe we've had an abduction of a 73 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.480 young girl. I was assigned as a lieutenant in the 74 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:34.360 detective Division. I was immediately very concerned. My heart sank. 75 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.040 It put me into panic mode, basically because I wondered, 76 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:41.000 if this is real, this doesn't sound good. We've got 77 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.160 in touch with the Chief of Police, Jim Denham, and 78 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:47.319 explained what was going on. We got a location where 79 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.639 Jury Lee was allegedly abducted from, which was on the 80 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.079 west side of town. That's a residential area. 81 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.240 As a parent, I was always praying that I could 82 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.120 be guided and directed where I needed to go to 83 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.199 try to find Jery had no idea of what to do. 84 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.800 We had an elderly lady that lived on the corner 85 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.800 that had just paid Jerily for her newspaper subscription, and 86 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:17.800 as she moved about the inside of her house, she 87 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:19.600 had to look out the window to the side of 88 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.360 her home. She observed the mail from the car suddenly 89 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.040 grabbed Gerily and forced her into the driver's side of 90 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.319 the car to the passenger side that he then quickly 91 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:35.480 jumped in the car and sped from the area. 92 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:39.920 The detectives obtained the description of the vehicle and a 93 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:45.759 partial description of the individual, white male, approximately five seven 94 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.920 to five foot eight, wearing a plaid shirt and a cap. 95 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.879 The detective phoned the information into dispatch, and that's what 96 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.399 we put out to the patrol units and immediately dispatched 97 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:04.199 it to air units. We got a description from the 98 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.959 parents of what she was wearing, and that she had 99 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.800 her newspaper bag, a canvas newspaper bag that fits over 100 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:13.120 the shoulders, and a little bag that she carried her 101 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:13.519 money in. 102 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.319 Jeff went looking for her. I stayed at home. I 103 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.560 expected her to just come around the corner anytime and say, Hey, Mom, 104 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.319 what tip I got? Look how much tip I got today, 105 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.399 or whatever. I just kind of stood out the front window, 106 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.120 just kind of waiting or waiting for a phone call, 107 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.079 hoping that she'd be home quickly. 108 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.120 I was at a boy scout camp and I was 109 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.920 contacted by one of my counselors. 110 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:45.800 I was horrified. 111 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.160 I knew the Underwood, I knew Jeri Lee, and my 112 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:54.399 first thoughts were, what can we do to help. We 113 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:56.959 knew that the sooner that we could get the word out, 114 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:57.639 the better. 115 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:03.199 Everyone on that department was looking at every corner we 116 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.639 could find, trying to find a car, trying to find 117 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:10.319 anything that looked unusual, anybody or a car that was 118 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.120 out of place. I mean, there were eighty sets of 119 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:14.279 eyes looking ever at work. 120 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.279 A few hours later, we ended up getting a modified 121 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.480 description from another witnessed. This gentleman was pretty sure it 122 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.360 was a General Motors product, five or ten years old, 123 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:29.000 medium sized sedan with a darker roof and a yellowish 124 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:34.240 or light beige or cream colored body. And a typical 125 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.159 abduction if it's a young girl that's involved. Usually the 126 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.639 perpetrator they're thinking something devious involving the young lady, and 127 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.279 usually they want to go somewhere fairly close but remote 128 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.279 to do any kind of a sexual attack or anything 129 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:54.519 like that. We covered those areas outside of town ten 130 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.039 miles south east and west of Pocatello to see if 131 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.919 we could find anything. We didn't see any vehicles anywhere 132 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.440 near close to matching that description that we could stop 133 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.559 and investigate further. We had no luck. 134 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.600 That first night was just so hard. 135 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:22.000 Joyce and I held each other, cried tears in her eyes. 136 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.039 It was just really really hard. 137 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:32.159 We worked through the night strategizing and try to come 138 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:33.600 up with a game plan of what we're going to 139 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.360 do and how we're going to find her as quickly 140 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.000 as we could. Time was of the essence. 141 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.120 The decision to assign the investigation to Scott Shaw was 142 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.639 made by myself, Captain Lenn Harris, said Lieutenant Kirk Nelson. 143 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.080 The Department had sent him to a number of specialized 144 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.879 training schools dealing with violent crimes and he took a 145 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.480 great interest in that, so it was decided that he 146 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.360 was to be the lead on this. 147 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.720 Over the years, we've learned that, unfortunately, one of the 148 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:08.879 first things you always look at is family. 149 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:15.320 Statistically, nationwide abductions, in this manner, the perpetrator knows the victim, 150 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.320 and you always want to look closely at the family 151 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.600 dynamic and see if anything sticks out there that we 152 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.080 need to pay additional attention to. 153 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.120 That was really disheartening to think that, you know that 154 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:30.840 we would be the ones that would try and hurt 155 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:35.279 her or do something to her. It's not a pleasant experience. 156 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.879 How are they? How? 157 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:41.960 May I think? 158 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.080 Have a wonderful happy bandna. 159 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.639 Everybody knew that Jeff and Joyce Underwood were very very 160 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.559 involved in their church. Members of their church begin to 161 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:59.000 appear from nowhere to assist them. Becomes fairly obvious that 162 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:05.279 they're pretty well respected. We kept looking. We interviewed neighbors, 163 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:08.240 We interviewed everybody we could find that knew anything about 164 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:12.919 the family, what the relationship was, and that decision was 165 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.120 made that the family was not involved. 166 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.639 The police had to rule out that she didn't have 167 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.080 a boyfriend, or that she hadn't run away from home 168 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.759 because of trouble here at home. Charlie didn't have a boyfriend. 169 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.320 She was eleven years old. You know, not many eleven 170 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:42.639 year olds have boyfriends, So that was not even a possibility. 171 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:50.320 Okay, okay, probably the most important of. 172 00:11:54.799 --> 00:12:00.600 Everything that you're gonna be when you get older. She 173 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.840 had no grief with the family, no discipline issues, had 174 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.279 done well in the school year, She was excited about 175 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.279 going on the family picnic and that they were going 176 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.240 to go on that weekend. There were just nothing that 177 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:13.480 led us to believe that it was anything other than 178 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.679 it probably a stranger abduction for an extended acquaintance. 179 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.480 They were really looking for a needle in a haystack, 180 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:25.399 particularly with a child. Every single minute that passes, the 181 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.960 odds of the police safely finding them go down, so 182 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.000 within a few hours they could be local or still 183 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.840 within the state. Within a day, they could be anywhere 184 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.480 within the country, and within two or three days they 185 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:39.759 could be anywhere in the world. So it makes searching 186 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.720 for that young person that much harder. 187 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.799 We thought, oh, she'll be back. Whoever took her, we'll 188 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.480 let her go and let her come back home. We 189 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:52.840 still had hope that she would come back home. 190 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.879 Okay, that's the ruly old. 191 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.840 Woa fine, Okay. 192 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:21.440 I always wanted a large family so that when we 193 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:24.720 went places, we could, you know, always have somebody to 194 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.840 be with. There wasn't somebody left out. So I wanted 195 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.639 even number of children. So that's why we had six children. 196 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:53.320 Jeff wanted twelve, and six was enough. She was so little. 197 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:54.440 I couldn't believe. 198 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.120 What was it? Four pounds nine four pounds twelve ounces? 199 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.120 You know? Well, the fellas are The day we brought 200 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:02.440 her home. 201 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:10.840 Jarley was born five weeks early and so ended up 202 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:14.320 spending nine days or ten days in the hospital. 203 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.600 Because she came early. She was very small, but she 204 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.679 caught up really quick. When she was probably three and 205 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:22.399 her brother was. 206 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:34.879 Four, Jery really loved to dance. She developed a tone 207 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:35.600 of the clogging. 208 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:44.039 She loved to read and just loved being outdoors and 209 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.840 very active and just being with her friends. 210 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.919 She was never could stay mad for very long, always 211 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.559 had a great smile. Every picture you see there was 212 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:07.840 a big smile on her face. We've always had a 213 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:12.480 strong belief in God, and we've taught our children that, 214 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.320 you know, we always continue to being an example to 215 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:17.679 them of the importance of having faith. 216 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.480 On the thirtieth, we as a department, including the investigators, 217 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.519 all felt that we were still looking for a live 218 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.240 victim that generally was still alive. 219 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.559 At the beginning of this investigation. 220 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.919 The biggest thing that Scott Shaw was wanting to push 221 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:04.120 was media attention, because he felt with enough media attention 222 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.519 on this situation that somebody would come forward. 223 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.120 Media plays a critical role in getting the word out 224 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.720 and being an amplifier for what police are doing with 225 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:18.759 the family of the missing person is doing, and if 226 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.639 the media is not sufficiently covering a case, it actually 227 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.159 has a lower likelihood of being successfully resolved. Where that 228 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.159 child is found and found safely. 229 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.879 Within just about a day, we had as many of 230 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.559 our people going door to door, particularly on the newspaper 231 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.279 route that you really had and other neighboring newspaper routes 232 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.320 to see if there had been any potential witnesses or 233 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.120 sightings of suspicious persons or the vehicle. 234 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:51.200 City of Pocatello has at that time, roughly speaking, eighty 235 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.519 trained police personnel that were available to do searches. We 236 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:59.039 needed three times that many, so we took advantage of 237 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.039 what was offered to by the community. 238 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.480 The police organized a search. Just a lot of people 239 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:12.559 got involved. People met at the church and then we're 240 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.960 given assignments of where to go look. 241 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.720 When we gathered at the church house, Shaw looked over 242 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.799 the parking lot of the vehicles of people that showed 243 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.559 up in the event that our suspect may show up 244 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.000 with the suspect vehicle. 245 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.240 This is something that a lot of narcissistic killers loved 246 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.960 to see when they show up at a scene, whether 247 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.400 it's a funeral a search party, and they're thinking, all 248 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.119 of these people are here because of me, and they 249 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:42.160 feel a sense of pride for them. Seeing newspaper reports 250 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.000 people coming out and they think in their minds it's 251 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:46.200 because of their work. 252 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.960 We looked the people over very closely that were helping 253 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.000 us with the search, and we didn't really see anybody 254 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 that matched the description or profile, and we didn't see 255 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.720 any vehicles that matched closely. 256 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.920 We received information from the Federal Year of Investigation stating, 257 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:08.920 this is the individual that you're probably looking for. 258 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:12.960 The FBI believed that he would plan his steps and 259 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.240 his moves, and he was an organized offender. 260 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:21.480 As it turned out, Sergeant Shaw did not agree with that. 261 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.039 Shaw believed that the fact that it was in the 262 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:30.240 middle of the afternoon, broad daylight, busy street people out 263 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.559 in their yards, and so forth, it was more likely 264 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:41.759 stranger abduction than someone that knew her. Both of our 265 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:46.359 witnesses observed geral Lee interacting with the man near the car, 266 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:50.319 indicated that she appeared to be comfortable, not on edge 267 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.200 or scared or anything like that. That was a little 268 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.000 confusing to us. Shawn was able to come up with 269 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.480 the hypothesis that maybe it was someone that she briefly 270 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.759 knew or had briefly met, that was why she appeared 271 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.799 so calm. At this point, we were looking more likely 272 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.440 towards us being a stranger and that somehow this individual 273 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.039 had tricked her into feeling like she wasn't in immediate 274 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.599 danger when he was talking to her. 275 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.519 We came to the conclusion that this was a member 276 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:29.960 of our own community. 277 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.119 November of ninety two, on the opposite end of town, 278 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.559 we had a stranger abduction of a young lady middle 279 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:42.200 aged teen, where she was taken from a restaurant parking 280 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.279 lot by a stranger and was taken up into the 281 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.039 outskirts on the west side of town and sexually assaulted. 282 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.279 She was released and she got a good look at 283 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.240 the individual, and she gave us a good description that 284 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.160 allowed us to get what's called a kompya sketch what 285 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.240 the individual would look like. Charle began to see some 286 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.559 similarities and the possibility that this crime and the abduction 287 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.279 of jural Lee Underwood could possibly have been done by 288 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:10.200 the same individual. 289 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:16.160 All offenses are pre planned to some degree. They are 290 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:21.799 rehearsed in somebody's mind, they are fantasized about. But nevertheless, 291 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.359 somebody needs to have an opportunity to offend. They need 292 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:29.319 to have access to a victim, and they can either 293 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.559 plan to do this, so you can lure a victim 294 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.839 to you, or you can be very opportunistic and you 295 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.000 can see an opportunity such as a little girl on 296 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:43.599 a paper round and seize it and the people who 297 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:47.039 are more likely to do that are far more impulsive, 298 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:50.440 and also they are far more likely to be people 299 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.240 who have done it in the past. 300 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.759 It just so happened that about the third day after 301 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.200 the abduction, we got a call from an individual who 302 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.519 indicated that we needed to look more closely at someone 303 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.000 she knew. She indicated he was a relative he closely 304 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:20.680 matched the description. She also indicated that he looked quite 305 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.799 similar to the Kompia sketch image that we had obtained 306 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.039 from the young lady that had been abducted. She believed 307 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.559 that he drove a vehicle that closely matched the description 308 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.119 that we'd put out through the media and in the flyers. 309 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:36.279 That it was possible that he also had some friends 310 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:39.359 that he spent time with down on the South Main area, 311 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:42.079 in the same block that Jerilee had come up missing 312 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:48.240 from three days earlier. The relative of this man as 313 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:50.079 James or Jimmy Wood. 314 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.720 Three days in the disappearance of live a year old 315 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:06.000 early Underwood, an individual made a phone call and gave 316 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.519 the departments some information which we considered to be critical. 317 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:16.359 An individual named James Wood. He was staying with relatives 318 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:20.000 at that point. He and this relative some time between 319 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:22.960 the third and the fifth day after Jeroli disappeared and 320 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.240 went on a camping trip. 321 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:27.319 She believed that the vehicle that we may be looking 322 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.880 for that was owned and driven by this individual would 323 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.200 have possibly been out on the property, which is in 324 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.359 a rural area several miles north of Poctello. We were 325 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.400 able to send a couple of people out and looked 326 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.119 over the property and they were able to find a 327 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:46.240 vehicle that closely matched the description that we were looking for. 328 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:51.519 We got a hold of our witness and showed it 329 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.279 to him and he indicated that look very close, but 330 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:57.519 he couldn't give us an exact definite Yes, this is 331 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:03.960 the vehicle. By that Monday, we were contacted at the 332 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:06.599 police station by the man who was a relative of 333 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:09.519 James and had been putting him up in his basement 334 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:14.079 for the previous eight months. Roughly came to the department 335 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:17.519 and indicated he wanted to report what information he had, 336 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.720 the fact that he was suspicious because James didn't come 337 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:24.759 home that night of the abduction, that he had shaved 338 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:27.960 his mustache, that he no longer wore any of the 339 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.039 clothing that he was wearing when he came back that 340 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.759 morning of the thirtieth of June. He also knew that 341 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:36.599 James owned a handgun. He knew that he was a 342 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.680 convicted felon had served time in prison. 343 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:44.079 When this information was received, it was determined that it 344 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.640 was credible from the standpoint of there were specifics involved, 345 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:54.839 came extremely close to matching the profile that Sergeant Shaw 346 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.079 had developed. He became our primary suspect. 347 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:05.799 We were trying to determine more accurately who he was 348 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:08.680 and what his past involved, to see if he had 349 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.440 any kind of possible alibi. We went out and did 350 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:14.359 some more interviews with the people that lived on the 351 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:17.279 route where jery Lee had been just moments before she 352 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.960 was adducted, and we learned that would have actually been 353 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.960 at the house at the time jeral Lee had come 354 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:27.720 to collect for the newspaper. He left the home almost 355 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:31.440 immediately after jery Lee walked out of the house and 356 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:34.279 had indicated he was going to the store to buy 357 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.799 beer and that he would be back shortly, and that 358 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:38.759 he never came back. 359 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.640 On July sixth, James Wood was arrested by the book 360 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.279 to tell the police department when we knocked on the door. 361 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:54.720 We advised him that we had a warrant for his 362 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:58.119 arrest for first degree kidnapping and to turn around to 363 00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.519 place his hands behind his back, which was has it 364 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.839 to do, which means I placed him on the ground 365 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.039 and we hand cafty and removed him from residency. 366 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.039 Now there was a degree of psychology involved in the arrest. 367 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:14.319 Shaw suggested that we have a number of personnel there 368 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.880 that would look him in the eye and file past 369 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:19.599 him as he was sitting in the police car handcuff. 370 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:21.279 It was carefully staged. 371 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:25.359 Shaw wanted to use the psychology to the community, this 372 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.599 very tight knit community against him and show that there 373 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.160 were so many people that were disappointed and so upset 374 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.000 at what James had done that one of the only 375 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:39.200 ways he could find redemption was by telling the truth 376 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.440 and letting the community know what really happened so they 377 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:43.480 could find some peace. 378 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:48.799 Once he got into the police station, Chaw took what 379 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.359 into his office and closed the door. He didn't want 380 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:54.319 any other personnel in there with him as a distraction. 381 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.480 We just didn't know at the time where garri Lee was, 382 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:00.640 and he needed to establish a connection with would to 383 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.000 convince him to tell us what had happened with her. 384 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:10.400 Where he'd taken her. He told Shaw that he had 385 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:15.279 driven her down towards the Utah Idaho border after abducting her, 386 00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:20.039 and they had slept the night in the car. He'd 387 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:25.960 attempted to sexually assault her, but nearly chastising for that, 388 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:27.920 told him to knock it off, and so he claimed 389 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:31.319 he did. After they slept the night in the car, 390 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:36.000 he led her out outside of the town. We didn't 391 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:40.240 believe that, so Shaw kept working on him, and within 392 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:43.319 an hour or two Would finally said, there's more to 393 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:50.000 the story. I lied to you. He'd driven back through 394 00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:54.319 Pocatello and decided to take her to Idaho Falls, about 395 00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:56.000 forty miles north of Pocatello. 396 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:04.640 Eventually described to Sergeant Shaw how he had told Jurlie 397 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:09.720 she could go some bushes to go to the bathroom, 398 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:11.640 and he walked up and shot her at the back 399 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:19.359 of the head. Would dismembered her and threw the remains 400 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:20.720 into the Snake River. 401 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:32.400