even in the public mind? oh, they did. but truly at that time, law enforcement knew that he was physically in augusta. rather, humphries focused on the evidence coming from the parker crime scene. he quickly came to believe this was more than just a bungled home invasion. it was apparent that nothing had been taken, or at least nothing that you would suspect to be taken in a burglary. humphries thought back to some curious statements bambi had made in her interview with police when she said she had given willingly. you re sure you re okay to sit down i m not okay but i want to help you. soon after the interview started bambi, he said, began describing in detail a feud within her family. at issue was the land bambi owned and that her parents were living on. there s been a long, like, family feud. right. over the land? a long time. according to humphries, bambi
motive for richard gagnon to end the lives of these two people. as humphries recalls, the case against rick was always motivation strong, evidence weak. not much more than a drop of charlie parker s blood on a shoe when you came right down to it. even so, humphries told the court, the blood put rick at the murder scene. but he had a story for it, didn t he? he did. it didn t hold water, but he had a story about it. humphries recited rick s version of how blood had got on his shoe, how he had went into the parker house to get a set of car keys after the crime scene techs had finished up. he looked to his right which was the window leading in to the bathroom where big charlie had died and noticed the blood. rick said he worried bambi pacing outside might look in the window and freak out all over again. he went in and stepped through the bathroom and closed the blind. and, oops, i stepped in the blood. yeah. that s his story, though, right? yeah. but it didn t hold
were these slayings related, or was this double homicide about money, family, and the struggle to control both? or maybe this was about something else entirely. continuing with the deed, here s dennis murphy. the cold-blooded killing of big charlie and diane parker had a great many people in and around conway, south carolina, bolting their doors and locking their windows. had you had any trouble in that neighborhood in the countryside with break-ins? not that i know of. i mean, it s always been a wonderful place. it just doesn t make any sense. was this more of the murderous rampage of the notorious stephen stanko who was all over the news? no, said prosecutor fran humphries, who knew stanko had been sighted in georgia at the time of the murders 200 miles
away. so this awful thing at the farmhouse, you weren t associating that with stanko? i was not. not even in the public mind? oh, they did. but truly at that time, law enforcement knew that he was physically in augusta. rather, humphries focused on the evidence coming from the parker crime scene. he quickly came to believe this was more than just a bungled home invasion. it was apparent that nothing had been taken, or at least nothing that you would suspect to be taken in a burglary. humphries thought back to curious statements bambi had made in her interview with police when she said she had given it willingly. you re sure you re okay to sit down i want to help you. soon after the interview started, bambi, he said, began describing in detail a feud within her family. the issue was the land bambi owned and that her parents were living on. there was a family feud.
two people. as humphries recalls, the case against rick was always motivation strong, evidence weak. not much more than a drop of charlie parker s blood on a shoe when you came right down to it. even so, humphries told the court, the blood put rick at the murder scene. but he had a story for it, didn t he? he did. it didn t hold water, but he had a story about it. humphries recited rick s version of how the blood had gotten on his shoe, how he had went into the parker house to get a set of car keys after the crime scene techs had finished up. the window leading into the bathroom where big charlie had died, and noticed the blood. rick said he worried bambi pacing outside might look in the window and freak out all over again. he went in, and stepped through the bathroom, and closed the blind. and, oops, i stepped in the