NIGHT
NIGHT ON
NIGHT ON CHANNEL SIX NEWS AT TEN -- FOR THE LAST FEW
MONTHS I'VE BEEN
RESEARCHING AND
REPORTING ON THE
JOE BRYAN CASE--
HE'S THE FORMER
CLIFTON HIGH
SCHOOL PRINICPAL
CONVICTED OF
KILLING HIS WIFE
MICKEY BACK IN 1985--
THE MURDER
SHOCKED THIS SMALL
TOWN-- BUT WHAT
MADE IT EVEN MORE
SHOCKING IS JUST A
FEW MONTHS
EARLIER-- ANOTHER
PERSON WAS
MURDERED-- 17 YEAR
OLD JUDY WHITLEY--
JUDY WAS FOUND
BOUND AND NEARLY
NAKED IN A FIELD
JUST OUTSIDE TOWN--
TONIGHT--I SIT DOWN
WITH JUDY'S SISTER
PATRICIA-- WHO FOR
THE FIRST TIME IS
EXPLAINING WHY SHE
BELIEVES JUDY'S
MURDER-- AND
MICKEY BRYAN'S
MURDER-- ARE
CONNECTED--
CONNECTED--
SHE
SHE WAS
SHE WAS AN INTERESTING LITTLE CHARACTER, UM JUDY
WAS ALWAYS LIKE A
LITTLE CLOWN SHE
LOVED ANIMALS SHE
HAD A CAT SHE
ALWAYS MADE HER
SMILE"--
JUDY WHITLEY WAS
BORN THE YOUNGEST
OF FOUR CHILDREN--
AND ALTHOUGH THEY
WERE ALMOST TEN
YEARS APART-- SHE
WAS CLOSEST WITH
HER OLDEST SISTER
PATRICIA--
"I WOULD NEVER
LEAVE THE HOUSE
UNELESS I SAID LOVE
YOU JUDY AND I
WOULD TEASE HER
AND SHE'D SAY STOP
IT"
AND THAT'S HOW SHE
SAID GOODBYE-- ON
THE DAY JUDY DIED--
"THE LAST TIME I SAW
JUDY ALIVE SHE WAS
ON THE PORCH AND
SHE WAS STANDING
THERE AND I SAID BYE
JUDY LOVE YOU
KISSES KISSES AND IT
JUST DROVE HER
NUTS"
PATRICIA SAYS ON
THAT JUNE DAY-- JUDY
WALKED TO THE
STORE TO GET A
COKE-- AND THEN
WENT MISSING--
WENT MISSING--
"I
"I GO
"I GO HOME AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I'M HEARING JUDY'S
GONE WHAT ARE YOU
TALKING ABOUT WE'RE
LOOKING
EVERYWHERE
LOOKING EVERYWHERE CALLING HER FRIENDS
EVERYBODY"
"I CAN'T EVEN TELL
YOU THE EMOTIONS
GOING THROUGH
THAT ROOM MY
MOTHER ENDED UP
ON
ON TRAUQUILIERS I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL GETTING SHOTS
BECAUSE MY BLOOD
PRESSURE WENT UP
SO
SO HIGH
SO HIGH MY WHOLE FAMILY WAS JUST TORN APART THAT
DAY, LITERALLY."
DENIS DUNLAP-- A
CLIFTON POLICE
OFFICER PATRICIA
ONCE WENT ON A
DATE WITH--
IMMERSED HIMSELF IN
THE CASE--
"HE WAS ALL OVER
WITH MY FAMILY
TRYING TO CONSOLE
US AND TRYING TO
HELP FIND HER ETC
ETC.
"
ETC. "
ETC. " BUT DUNLAP WASN'T
WHO THEY THOUGHT
HE WAS--
"HE WAS ALWAYS
THERE IT SEEMED
LIKE HE WOULD JUST
SHOW UP OUT OF
NOWHERE ALL THE
TIME"
"I FELT LIKE NOW THAT
I LOOK BACK ON IT I
JUST FEEL LIKE HE
WAS WATCHING"
A FEW WEEK'S AFTER
JUDY'S DEATH--
PATRICIA SAW DUNLAP
IN TOWN--
HE SAID HE'D TAKEN A
LIE DETECTOR TEST IN
JUDY'S MURDER-- AND
WOULD SOON BE
MOVING--
" I THOUGHT IT WAS
WEIRD I THOUGHT
WHY ARE YOU MOVING
NOW, WHY ARE YOU
LEAVING THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT "
BEFORE HE COULD-- A
RUMOR STARTED
ABOUT A DIARY JUDY
ALLEGEDLY
ALLEGEDLY WROTE EVERYTHING IN-- ALTHOUGH PATRICIA
DOESN'T THINK IT
EVER EXISTED--
"NOPE NOPE MY
SISTER DID NOTHING
AS FAR AS WRITING IN
A DIARY SHE WOULD
WRITE KEVIN PLUS
JUDY AND LITTLE
HEARTS SHE WOULD
READ A LOT BUT SHE
NEVER WROTE."
WHEN POLICE
COULDN'T FIND IT--
THEY DECIDED TO
SEARCH JUDY AND
PATRICIA'S
GRANDMOTHER'S
PATRICIA'S GRANDMOTHER'S HOME-- BUT BEFORE
THE SEARCH COULD
HAPPEN-- THAT
HOUSE-- BLEW UP!
"YOU COULD HEAR
THAT IT WOKE ME UP
OUT OF MY BED YOU
COULD HEAR IT AND
SEE IT EVERYWHERE
IT
IT WAS
IT WAS A
IT WAS A BIG BANG THE HOUSE BLEW UP IT WAS
UNBELIEVABLE"
WHEN THE SMOKE
CLEARED-- THE CASE
WENT COLD-- UNTIL
ALMOST TEN YEARS
LATER-- WHEN
DUNLAP COMMITTED
SUICIDE--
AND THEN THE
CLIFTON POLICE
DEPARTMENT
ANNOUNCED HE'D
BEEN THE ONE-- WHO
MURDERED JUDY--
"IT ALMOST FELT A
LITTLE RELIEF BUT I
WAS ANGRY AND WE
WERE ANGRY THAT
THEY COULDN'T SAY
THAT WHEN HE WAS
ALIVE"
PATRICIA SAYS SHE
ALWAYS SUSPECTED
DUNLAP HAD
SOMETHING TO DO
WITH HER SISTER'S
MURDER--
SHE ALSO BELIEVES
HE KILLED MICKEY
BRYAN--
"I JUST FELT IN MY
HEART I KNEW HE HAD
MURDERED MY SISTER
AND HE HAD
MURDERED MICKEY
BRYAN"
THAT'S WHY SHE AND
SEVERAL OTHER
WOMEN TESTIFIED
DURING JOE BRYAN'S
EVIDENTARY HEARING
THIS SUMMER--
THEY ALL CLAIMED
DUNLAP HAD A
HISTORY OF STALKING
WOMEN--
ONE EVEN TRIED
FILING A POLICE
REPORT AGAINST
HIM-- BUT NOTHING
WAS DONE--
AFTER HIS SUICIDE --
DUNLAP'S EX WIFE
WAS INTERVIEWED BY
THE TEXAS
RANGERS--
IN COURT
DOCUMENTS
PRESENTED IN
BRYAN'S HEARING--
DUNLAP'S EX WIFE
ADMITTED TO TALKING
WITH HIM ABOUT
JUDY'S DEATH--
SHE ALSO CLAIMED
ONE OF DUNLAP'S
FRIEND'S TOLD HER
AFTER HIS DEATH--
THAT HE'D ADMITTED
TO HAVING SEX WITH
JUDY-- AND KILLING
HER --
SHE SAID DUNLAP
ALSO CLAIMED HE'D
BEEN DATING MICKEY
BRYAN-- AND HAD
BEEN WITH HER THE
NIGHT SHE DIED--
JAN ZUEHLKE AND
HER DAUGHTER LARA
LIVED IN CLIFTON
WHEN JUDY AND
MICKEY WERE
MURDERED-- LIKE
MANY IN THE SMALL
TOWN --- THEY WERE
MESMERIZED BY THE
KILLINGS--
"IT WAS SHOCKING
THAT THIS YOUNG
GIRL WAS KILLED
BECAUSE NOBODY
COULD FIGURE OUT
WHY?
THAT QUESTION-- IS
WHY THE MOTHER
DAUGHTER DUO
DECIDED TO WRITE A
BOOK BASED ON THE
MURDERS--
"WE FELT LIKE THOSE
WOMEN DIED BEFORE
THEIR TIME AND THEY
WERE INNOCENT
BYSTANDERS OF
WHAT WAS GOING ON
AND WE DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT WAS GOING ON"
EARLIER THIS YEAR--
THEY PUBLISHED NO
MOTIVE IN MURDOCH--
LOOSELY BASED ON
THE 1985 KILLINGS--
"MY HOPE MY PRAYER
IS THAT THE TRUTH
WILL COME OUT IT
NEEDS TO COME OUT
SO THAT CLIFTON CAN
PUT IT TO REST"
AS FOR PATRICIA--
SHE HOPES FOR
JUSTICE-- NOT FOR
HERSELF-- BUT FOR
JOE BRYAN--
"MY SISTER'S DEAD
THEY COULD NEVER
TAKE CARE OF THE
PRESON THAT DID
THAT TO HER...
IF I CAN'T GET ANY
JUSTICE FOR MY
SISTER AT LEAST I
CAN GET SOMETHING
FOR JOE BRYAN.
JOE
JOE BRYAN'S ATTORNEYS MEET WITH JUDGE DOUG
SHAVER AND THE
BOSQUE COUNTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
TODAY TO SUBMIT
THEIR FINAL FINDINGS
IN BRYAN'S
EVIDENTIARY
HEARING--
EVIDENTIARY HEARING-- NOW IT'S UP TO
JUDGE SHAVER TO
MAKE A
RECOMMENDATION TO
THE TEXAS COURT OF
CRIMINAL APPEALS
ABOUT THE CASE--
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