it took three years, but in 2008, the state was ready to try rick gagnon for the murders of charlie and diane parker. a camera was rolling as prosecutor fran humphries began his case. this is purely evidence, which establishes a motive. rick gagnon ended the lives of these two people. as humphries recalls, the case against rick was always motivation, strong, evidence, week. not much more than a drop of charlie parker s blood on a shoe, when that came right down to it. even so, humphries told the court, the blood put rick at the murder scene. he had a story about it, it was not water, he had a story. humphries recited rick s version of how blood it gone into the shoe, how he went into the house to get a set of car keys, sometime after the crime scene had wrapped up. he looked to his right, which was the window, leading in to the bathroom, where charlie died.
the one who had replaced humphries, could refile charges if he wanted. the senator said, he did not. so, in 2013, after eight years inside, rick gagnon walked out of prison. he settled on the carolina coast now. married with children. just the smell of the ocean. it s like freedom. it was a terrible thing that i went to prison for something i didn t do. it s changed my life. his old girlfriend believes her life was upended, too. bambi says she s cut ties with most of the people she grew up with. the tobacco fields she still owns, are pretty much her only connection to the place. i didn t want to be there anymore. that was my home, but my home that i had known just falsely accused me and destroyed me. but there is something she would like for the people of
i said, y all have lost your mind. i said, this doesn t make any sense. i didn t do anything wrong. but to prosecutor fran humphries, it made perfect sense. the motive is unavoidable in this case. bambi needed her step father and mother dead so she could get her property back. property valued at north of 1 million dollars. the classic question that people in your line of work pose as well, who benefited? bambi. as far bambi s boyfriend, rick, humphries believed she persuaded him to carry out the deed. but they said the prosecutor had it all wrong. they insisted they would never do anything to harm diane and charlie. bambi downplayed the family drama over the land, despite calling it a feud during her interrogation. she wants the land. that is the most ludicrous thing ever.
left her purse with her phone and car case in the detectives cruiser. she decided she would take her mother s vehicle to get home. we didn t have any way to get in touch with anybody. we didn t have anything. and i told rick, i said, see if you can find mama s purse. herself phone. so, he went in the house. police had hadn released the crime scene, but it still looked like one. detectives told the family they would have to clean it up. so, when rick says he went into fetch diane s car keys, he found himself tiptoeing through a bloody mess. what were you seeing? all the blood and just one of the most horrible things i had ever seen. rick approached the bathroom were charlie had been killed. he said he noticed bambi, through the window, pacing in the backyard. she was calling out, mama, mama. she was crying, screaming. i stepped into the bathroom, trying to step around the mess