LOOK AT THE THANK GIVING
HOLIDAY WEATHER AND WHAT IS
AHEAD FOR THE WEEKEND.
HE STABBED A TEEN
REPEATEDLY UNTIL HE THOUGHT
SHE WAS DEAD.
14 YEARS LATER HE CANNED A
BECOME AND DUMB HERVE BODY
IN THE WOODS.
HOW IS THAT JOHN DOUGLAS
WHITE WAS FREE TO FULFILL A
SICK FANTASY AND KILL YET
AGAIN INTO TARGET 8
INVESTIGATOR KEN KOLKER HAS
WORKED THIS STORY SINCE THE
SHOCKING MURDER OF REBEKAH
GAY IN MOUNT PLEASANT.
A KILLING THAT LEFT A LITTLE
BOY WITHOUT HIS MOM.
TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST
TIME, KEN HAS ANSWERS ABOUT
WHAT HAP PEND HERE.
Reporter: WAY, PRAYIAN,
SUE.
WHAT WE DISCOVERED WAS
COURTROOM MISTAKE PLEA
DEALS, OLD LAWS THAT FAILED
TO PROTECT RICK TIM AND
TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS NOT
ADVANCED ENOUGH TO KEEP JOHN
WHITE PEE HEEN BARS.
ALERT FOR THAT LITTLE BOY.
I REALLY HURT FOR HER
FAMILY.
THEY TRUSTED HIM.
I KNOW EXACTLY THEY ARE
GOING THROUGH.
TERESA WAS JOHN WHITE'S
FIRST KNOWN VICTIM 32 YEARS
AGO AND SHE ALSO TRUSTED
HIM.
UNTIL HE STABBED HER 15
TIMES.
SHE WAS JUST 17.
FOR THAT, HE SPENT TWO YEARS
IN PRISON.
I AM REALLY UPSET WITH
THE SYSTEM.
SO ARE THE RELATIVES OF
WHITE'S SECOND KNOWN VICTIM
WHO HAD PREDICTED HE WOULD
KILL AGAIN.
OH, GOD.
IT TORE MY HEART OUT BECAUSE
I KNEW THAT GIRL WOULDN'T
HAVE DIED IF HE WAS IN
PRISON.
HOW DOES A MAN SERVE JUST
14 YEARS IN PRISON FOR
KILLING ONE WOMAN NEARLY
KILLING ANOTHER?
TARGET 8 FOUND THOSE ANSWERS
IN OLD POLICE AND COURT
RECORDS AND IN INTERVIEWS
WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN
PEOPLE.
IN 1980, JOHN WHITE WAS 22,
MARRIED, LIVING IN BATTLE
CREEK WHEN HE INVITED HIS
17-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOR HIS
BASEMENT TO LOOK AT THE
RACETRACK.
THE FIRST JAB WAS UNDER HER
RIGHT SHOULDER BRID AND HE
KEPT STABBING AND SMILING.
HE WIPED MY MOUTH OFF AND
HE KISSED ME AND HELD MY
HAND AND SAID, YOU ARE GOING
TO GO NOW.
HE SAYS, I AM SORRY YOU HAD
TO GO LIKE THIS.
HE SAID, BUT YOU ARE JUST
WOMAN.
A JURY CONVICTED WHITE OF
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND HE GOT
FIVE TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
THEY SENT HIM AWAY AND
LEFT ME ALONE.
BUT HE WAS NOT GONE FOR
LONG.
WHAT THERESA DIDN'T KNOW
THAT WHITE APPEALED AND WON.
CLAIMING THAT HIS ATTORNEY
MADE A MISTAKE BY NOT
RAISING AN INSANITY DEFENSE.
WHITE HAD CLAIMED AMNESIA.
INSTEAD AVENUE TRIAL, WHITE
GAT DEAL.
TWO YEARS PROBATION, NO MORE
JAIL TIME, AS LONG'S GOT
MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.
THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHOSE
MISTAKE LED TO THAT APPEAL
DIED RECENTLY SO DID THE
JUDGE.
THE PROSECUTOR WHO APPROVED
THE PLEA DEAL CONRAD IS NOW
A CALHOUN COUNTY JUDGE.
HE DECLINED TO GO ON CRAM
BUT TOLD TARGET 8 HE HAS
VAGUE MEMORY OF THE
32-YEAR-OLD CASE.
HE SAID IT IS POSSIBLE THEY
AGREED TO A PLEA DEAL OUT OF
FEAR THAT WHITE MIGHT
ACTUALLY WIN INSANITY
DEFENSE.
HE SAID WHITE LIKELY WOULD
GET MORE PRISON TIME IF THIS
HAD HAPPENED UNDER TODAY'S
SENTENCING GUIDELINES.
JUDGESSED INTO GUIDELINES
BACK THEN.
THEY PROMISED ME WAS NOT
GOING TO EVER HURT ANYONE
AGAIN.
NINE YEARS AFTER WHITE'S
PROBATION WAS UP,
26-YEAR-OLD VICKY SUE WALT
DISAPPEARED NEAR KALAMAZOO.
SHE IS A GOOD GIRL.
A NORMAL GIRL.
WENT TO SCHOOL, GRADUATED.
SHE GOT A JOB.
WHITE WAS STILL MARRIED
TWO KIDS AND ONE ON THE WAY.
HE HAD MIT VICKY AT WORK AND
THEY WERE HAVING AN AFFAIR.
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWING
HAVE CAN I GETTING IN A
BLACK PICKUP WITH A BEARDED
MAN IN A MEIJER PARKING LOT
AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING.
DEPUTY ERIC'S FIRST
QUESTIONED WHAT IT AND WHITE
WAS EVASIVE.
I KNEW HE HAD KILLED HER.
WHITE LATER TOLD THE
POLICE.
HE MAY HAVE HURTING HAVE TY
DURING ONE OF THE BLACKOUTS.
HIS WIFE TOLD THE POLICE
ABOUT HIS MULTIPLE
PERSONALITIES.
AND POLICE FOUND POSSIBLE
TRACE OF BLOOD IN HIS
PICKUP.
HE HAD DONE A GOOD JOB OF
CLEANING IT MOVEMENT IS NOT
CLEAR WHAT BECAME OF THAT.
DNA TESTING WAS IN THE
INFANCY.
A STATE POLICE DNA EXPERT
TOLD TARGET 8 THEY NEEDED A
LOT MORE BLOOD FOR TEST BACK
THEN.
NOW THEY NEED JUST A SPECK.
A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE 1994
INVESTIGATION SAYS A
POSITIVE HIT COULD HAVE
LOCKED UP A MURDER
CONVICTION.
RELATIVES IN THE MEANTIME
KEPT SEARCHING FORKING HAVE
CAN I'S BODY.
TWO MILES FROM THE MEIJER
PARKING LOT.
A NEIGHBOR STUMBLED ACROSS
THE REMAINS OF VICKY'S SUE
WALL, ACROSS THE STREET THE
NATURE TRAIL.
BUT THAT WAS SIX WEEKS AFTER
SHE DISAPPEARED.
HER BODY WAS SO BADLY
DECOMPOSED THAT POLICE COULD
NEVER FIGURE OUT HOW SHE
DIED.
NOTICED TWO DRG MARKS.
EFOLLOWED THE MARK DONE THE
TWO TRACK.
AS I GOT FURTHER, I SEEN
WHITE TENNIS SHOE.
A TRAIL OF BENTOVER WEEDS
LED TO A PAIR OF WOMAN'S
UNDERWEAR.
RIGHT THEN, WHEN THE ODOR
HIT ME, AND I NOTICED THE
SKULL WAS SHOWING, THAT IS
WHEN I TURNED WERE A AND
HIGHTAILED IT OUT OF HERE.
PROSECUTORS CHARGED WHITE
WITH OPEN MURDER.
IN A JAIL LETTER WRITTEN TO
HIS WHICH HAVE AND OBTAIN BY
TARGET 8.
EVEN WHITE WAS PREPARING FOR
LIFE IN PRISON.
BUT HE REFUSED TO TALK OR
LIE DETECTOR TEST WITHOUT
EVIDENCE, WHITE PLEADED
GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY
MANSLAUGHTER.
THEY FELT THEY WERE LUCKY TO
GET A.
IT TOOK SO LONG TO FIND THE
BODY.
SHE WAS SO DECOMPOSED THAT
THEY COULD NOT FIGURE OUT A
CAUSE OF DEATH.
WHITE GOT THE MOST TIME
HE COULD GET.
8 TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON BUT
HE CALLED IT A TRAGIC
ACCIDENT.
HE SAID "I LOVING HAVE CAN I
VERY MUCH."
HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM
GO AWAY FOR LIFE.
YOU KNOW?
YOU GET WHAT YOU CAN GET.
SOURCES TELL TARGET 8
THAT WHITE LATER TOLD THE
PRISON SEE YOU CONTROL GIST
ABOUT HIS FANTASIES.
TO KILL THE PROSECUTOR AND
DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND HAVE
SEX WITH THEIR BODIES.
THE PRISON WARNED BOTH
WOMEN.
BOTH DE:ED TO COMMENT.
IN 2007 AFTER SERVING 13
YERS FOR HER DEATH, WHITE
WAS FREE MAN.
HE KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY
SICK.
BUT HE REFUSED TO ENGAGE IT
AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT AND
SEEK HELP FOR IT.
MOVED TO MOUNT PLEASANT
AND BECAME PASTOR OF A SMALL
CHURCH AND GOT ENGAGED.
HE WAS CRAZY, COMPLETELY
CRAZY MILLION THE END.
ON HALLOWEEN DAY, HE
KILLED HIS FIANCE'S DAUGHTER
24-YEAR-OLD REBEKAH GAY AND
DUMPED HER BODY IN A DITCH.
HE TOLD POLICE IT WAS PART
OF A SEXUAL FANTASY
INVOLVING DEAD WOMAN.
THE DEATH HAS LEFT AT
RETIRED DEPUTY SHAKING HIS
HEATED.
WERE YOU SHOCKED OR SURPRISE
SNOOD NO.
NO?
EYE KNEW WEE DO AGAIN.
IT WAS INEVITABLE.
BOY.
REALLY DISTURBING.
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF
CHANGES IN THE COURT SYSTEM.
OF COURSE YOU THINK
SOMETHING LIKE THIS COULD
HAPPEN TOMORROW?
TALKING TO THE EXPERTS,
IT SOUNDS UNLIKELY.
I MEAN, FIRST OFF YOU HAVE
SENTENCING GUIDELINES BACK
IN 1980 THERE WERE NO
GUIDELINES.
NOWADAYS STABBING A WOMAN 15
TIMES AND LEAVING FOR DEAD
YOU WOULD NOT JUST SERVE TWO
YEARS THEN A VICTIM'S
RIGHT'S ACT WHICH IS NEW AND
THAT VICTIM FROM 1980 WOULD
HAVE BEEN KEPT APPRAISED OF
EVERYTHING ALL DONE THE LINE
AND THEN OF COURSE THERE IS
DNA WOULD BE INCREDIBLE
ADVANCE IN DNA.
SURE.
THEY ARE PUTTING THE DNA
INTO THE NATIONAL DATABASE
TO SEE IF THEY CAN LINK HIM