a rather surprising end to a murder mystery in manatee county investigators say this man
walked into the sheriff's office and revealed a secret he'd been holding on to for nearly 10 years
they say benjamin moulton was consumed with guilt when he walked in and confessed
to killing a young woman back in 2011. and as fox 13's kevin lee quizon reports
tonight he cleared his conscience and gave a family some much-needed closure
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number one virginia hannon
this state police crime scene video brings you back to the west street home in pembroke where
someone's gotten away with murder this is a quiet neighborhood the newest family has been here 10
years while neighbors continue to wonder why the police investigation continues it's february 1984
the body of 59-year-old virginia hannon is found in her bed under the covers first
responders initially think she's died of natural causes but nothing is further from the truth
in 1984 virginia hannan was settling into retired life after working for
years as a cook and lunch lady at bryantville elementary school in pembroke massachusetts
the 59 year old widow had recently come into some inheritance money and lived alone in her apartment
then on february 12 1984 the unthinkable happened someone broke into virginia's
home where she was beaten stabbed and strangled with a pair of her own stockings
i think it was the most brutal murder that i think we've had in the history of
pembroke she was assaulted she was kicked she was punched she was stabbed and then
strangled the census murder shocked her family and stumped police who interviewed more than
50 people during their investigation but since they couldn't establish any leads or suspects
the case went unsolved for years virginia's family wondered what led to that night some speculated
that her recent inheritance was a motivator for the crime as she recently collected 380 000
from an aunt according to her nephew virginia had never flaunted the money but did tell a few
friends about it do you think that could have made her a target i think it absolutely could have made
her a target her family tried to keep the story alive and in the public eye in 2019 they held
a vigil on the 35th anniversary of her death that same year investigators discovered the dna samples
taken from the crime scene all belonged to the same man they just didn't know who he was yet
they tried to use forensic genealogy to identify the suspect but it was unsuccessful her killer
remained unknown until one day in february 2020 when a man walked into the pembroke
police department the man told police that in 2019 his friend jesse ellward had confessed to
killing a woman in pembroke years prior then they learned that elword had just died the day before
though this investigation has spanned more than 37 years we have identified virginia hannan's killer
and that is it is jesse aylward we have exhausted all the evidence that we currently have and it all
points in the direction of jesse ellwood with this tip the police were able to obtain
a search warrant and retrieve a blood sample from elwood's body at brockton hospital they
then compared his dna to three pieces of evidence from the crime scene and confirmed it was a match
though virginia's murderer had been identified her family and the police are still troubled
by the lack of motive which was never established police have no reason to believe
virginia and elword knew each other though he lived close to her home at the time of the murder
elword had a criminal past which included some assault of behavior but the police did
not suspect him during their initial investigation her family though feeling somewhat relieved from
the revelation believes there are more people out there with information it's nice to have a name
just to see that the effort that they put in wasn't wasted um and like i said maybe
uh it'll jar somebody's memory they can come forward say something former police chief rick
wall said there's a lot of questions that we still would like to answer and we may never
get all of the answers but we're never going to you know stop looking for exactly what happened
virginia is remembered by her family as a woman who took care of stray animals loved bingo family
cookouts and ice cubes in her beer glass she was a great woman said her nephew richard hannon
she was a very family oriented and loved the area loved the people around her and was very generous
number 2 nicole rose scott
on december 11 2011 a motorist pulled over next to the woods near the university parkway
in manatee county florida when he came across a body it was 29 year old nicole rose scott
she was partially clothed and had visible trauma to her face from an apparent beating
an autopsy later revealed nicole was strangled to death and that her body had been left in a
heavily wooded area for a few days before it was discovered for the next 10 years detectives tried
to solve nicole's murder but made no arrests one suspect on their radar though was benjamin moulton
nicole was a sex worker and they suspected moulton of being one of her customers
they questioned moulton during their investigation but he denied being involved in nicole's murder
and without any evidence to link him to the crime they let him go
a few days prior to nicole's murder a pregnant sex worker accused moulton of trying to kill her
he was arrested for the crime in february 2012 and was charged with attempted murder sexual
battery and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman the charges were later dropped though it is not
clear why around the same time in 2012 moulton had criminal charges pending against him for breaking
into a woman's home the woman woke up at around 3 a.m to find moulton standing next to her bed
she jumped out of bed and moulton ran out of the home but was found soon after
the police later determined he'd removed at least one knife from the woman's kitchen drawer
he pleaded no contest to armed trespassing and was sentenced to probation
then ten years later on september 29 2021 43 year old molten walked into the manatee county
sheriff's office and confessed to nicole's murder really out of the blue it's an average afternoon
and this guy walks into our lobby and walks up to a deputy and says he wants to confess to a crime
that it happened 10 years ago when he came in and started talking about details of the case that we
had never released to the general public we knew who he was and it started to really make sense
that he was there at the scene and had something to do with her being killed when asked why he was
admitting to the crime now he told police he found jehovah and couldn't live with the guilt anymore
a spokesperson for the manatee sheriff's office said moulton appeared to have had a major change
in his life that he seemed remorseful and ready to face the consequences of his actions
moulton was arrested and charged with the first degree murder of nicole rose scott randy warren
of the manatee county sheriff's office said it's a good day for the sheriff's office it's
an even better day for nicole's family because they can find some comfort in knowing that the
guy that killed her was being eaten up with guilt and couldn't live with himself anymore
and it took tremendous courage for him to walk into our lobby and confess and turn himself in
number three christopher alvin daly on november 18 2020 decatur police department sean mcadam
received one of the strangest calls of his 15-year career i want to confess to a murder
i did years ago said the man on the other end of the phone the man was identified as
53 year old johnny dwight whited but detective mcadam was skeptical of whited's confession
especially because he couldn't pinpoint what year he committed the murder he was confessing to
confessions take a lot of time to get to that point he said you don't start with the confession
and work backwards and yet that's exactly what they did after whitted provided police with a
description of the crime scene they reviewed every homicide in the city dating back to the 1980s
then they found a match the april 1995 murder of christopher alvin daly detective mcadam and
other officers met with whited to retrace the steps of the crime from the back of a patrol
car he guided the officers to a remote gravelly area where he reenacted the murder it was there
that christopher's body was found with a single gunshot wound to the head his 1983 toyota tercel
was found partially submerged in the tennessee river approximately four miles away from his body
christopher was last seen attending an employee meeting at the huntsville hilton hotel
where he worked as a server he was reported missing the next day on april 26 1995. just prior
to the police receiving the missing person report two 17 year olds discovered christopher's body
during their initial investigation detectives came up empty on suspects witnesses weapons
and motives at the time decatur police sergeant john bradford called the case a real whodunit
25 years later at the scene of the crime white had provided officers with specific details that
legitimized his confession he was then arrested and charged with the death of christopher alvin
daly police declined to discuss a potential motive for the murder but confirmed that whited
and christopher didn't know each other beforehand according to detective mcadam white had wanted to
get the confession off his chest while he still had time as he was terminally ill from stage 4
lung cancer white was reportedly remorseful of the crime and apologized multiple times
detective mcadam credits the original detectives for their work in the case saying
they're the ones who did all the hard work i just closed the last page of the book they wrote
number 4. chris roddy
on march 21 2016 22 year old dontrell burks was shot and killed while riding his bicycle on the
sidewalk in houston green's bayou neighborhood the murder stunned his family who described dontrell
as a good kid who always brought people together at the time the police didn't have any witnesses
to the crime and few leads to go off of but dontrell's family determined to find his murderer
and wouldn't give up they followed up on the leads and rumors and although they never gave up hope
they also never found the closure they were after his aunt angela burks described it as feeling like
a wild goose chase she assumed the police would throw duntrell's case to the side with the other
cold cases never to be solved but then in october of 2021 a surprise confession changed everything
chris roddy was already in jail for a sexual assault charge when police approached him about
a different cold case the 2017 murder of kithy padgett who lived on the same block as duntrell
34 year old kithy was murdered on april 24th 2017 while home in her apartment with her daughter
who was two years old at the time her daughter was left unharmed but kithy was found dead with
severe head trauma neighbors say that they saw kithy and roddy arguing the day she was murdered
allegedly roddy believed that kithy was bringing prostitution customers to her apartment
and he didn't approve of it he reportedly prayed before killing her
believing god was leading him to kill her on behalf of her child
at the time police linked roddy to kithy's murder after they found a soda can with his dna on it but
they didn't have enough evidence to arrest him in 2020 the police were re-examining kithy's murder
and decided to interview roddy again during their meeting roddy immediately confessed to the
murder of kitthy paget and then he said there's another one do you want to hear about that one
roddy then told detectives that he was driving along northborough drive when he saw dontrell
on his bike he claims that dentrell flashed a gang symbol to roddy when he passed by and that
roddy believed dontrell was falsely claiming to be part of a gang so he shot and killed him
my prayers has been answered because i really wanted to know why why would he do that to my son
i am so happy that he had it in his heart took on and confess to god and just tell the truth
police had not previously considered roddy as a suspect in dontrell's murder
sergeant michael burrow who was the one interviewing roddy said that the confession caught
him completely off guard he also said that roddy had experienced a religious conversion and wanted
to get the confession off of his chest brody has also been linked to other crimes including
a robbery a sexual assault of a female jogger he is also claimed to have attacked other women in a
similar manner thirty-year-old roddy is currently in jail on five charges including the murder of
dontrell burks and the murder of kitthy paget with his bond set at over one million dollars
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