SUFF: A dead body.
KEERS: Yes, and something else that belonged to you. Did you leave your shoe prints there, Bill?
SUFF: Yes.
KEERS: Yes, you did. Now, the truth, you see? You’re coming out with the truth. Do you think we didn’t know this?
SUFF: Yes.
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?