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my wife's really hurt she's bleeding
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at 402 a.m 9-1-1 takes in a call from
bill noon
his wife phyllis has been shot once in
the head at close range
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the reporting party he was the husband
had supposedly left his house to get his
wife some medication and when he
returned to his home he found that
someone had broken into his home and
murdered his wife during the 30 minutes
that he was gone she was found deceased
lying in her bed
a close gunshot wound
to the back of her head
it appeared that she had been murdered
in her bed as she slept
the detective follows up with paramedics
who had responded to the scene four
minutes after mr news 9-1-1 call
arrived on scene
declared
phyllis knew deceased at the home
and noticed that the sherry showed signs
of liquidity and rigor mortis
it generally takes
a couple hours to be very visible so
that it could be seen at four in the
morning
suggested that she'd been dead you know
a couple hours
according to mr new however his wife was
killed by an intruder approximately 30
minutes before paramedics arrived
detective gardner finds time of death
isn't the only inconsistency at the
crime scene
president said the home was a very large
freestanding jewelry box it had
eight drawers total and then two
vertical drawers on the side
and basically only three of those
drawers had been disturbed and the very
top ones the rest were completely full
of jewelry and that appeared very
unusual
my gut telling me that there were some
serious problems from looking at that
home that it did not appear to be a
residential burglar slash murder
the shot basically appeared to be an
execution style shot that's something
you don't see normally in a home
invasion
we knew at that point he was the only
person that was in the house with her at
the time
or around the time that she died so he's
the one we need to start
and with said no i've taken too many of
those
i need something else
i said do you want me to go to the store
and she said yes
news says he doesn't know what time
phyllis woke him up or what time he
returned home
he said that it
probably took him he was guessing about
15 minutes to get there
maybe
as much as 15 minutes in the store he
wasn't sure and then maybe you know
another 15 minutes to get home that's
why i said we're looking at a time frame
maybe half hour to an outside of 45
minutes that he was gone
and i flipped the light switch on the
hall
and the dresser drawers were open
so i
moved a little quicker
and
she was on her side to put my hand on
her arm
i saw the blood fell off it just
came up
he exited the room and then proceeded to
use the phone in the other room
never gave her first date even when the
dispatcher came on the line and offered
assistance you know check her he didn't
check her never went back into that room
she had called apparently
the
agency that hired him the temp agency
and they had never heard of him
so then she confronted him and told him
that she was going to follow him to work
the next morning and he'd better produce
a pay stub
or a time card where she had had it
ten hours after confronting her husband
phyllis knew was dead
so yesterday
afternoon
you went to the temp agency
okay
now have you worked for them at all have
you done jobs for them no
that she was a little upset about him
not working and he had possibly been
lying about having jobs when he didn't
bill what happened when you got home and
you talked about that i
told her
that i wasn't working and she got upset
and she cried she doesn't get loud or
anything like that
and
what else happened
what happened bill
nothing happened
we talked and we talked and we talked
and she told you that she wasn't going
to put up with that anymore didn't she
no she said that she was gonna see that
i got some help
did something go wrong in that house
last night and did you wind up doing
something that you would never dream of
doing in a million years did something
happen did you hurt phillips phil no
no
no i told you
the only thing that i didn't tell you
was about
temptation
nobody broke into your house
you need to tell us what happened what
do you mean nothing broke into my house
why don't you tell me what happened
between you and fellas last night
i told you what happened
nancy friend has known phyllis new for
16 years a week after the murder friend
remembers a conversation she and phyllis
had years earlier about bill new
she says
his first wife
died when she was eight months pregnant
and that kind of threw me and i said
well what happened
she goes well
bill was cleaning the gun
it fell and discharged and hit her
across the room
and
the hair on my arm stood up i got i got
goosebumps all over my whole body
thinking you know
some this this didn't sound right
nancy phones san diego detectives and
tells them her story
i said my name's nancy friend i've known
phyllis a number of years and you do
know that he killed his first wife
there was dead silence on the other end
of the phone
and
he's the first thing he said to me was
how do you know this i said well phyllis
told me
san diego county sheriff's detective pat
gardner reviews mill news police
interview my first wife
passed away in my second life
if you don't mind me asking
just hours after the murder bill knew
had told police his first wife died in
an automobile accident a statement that
now appears to be a lie then i also
received additional information that uh
she died from a disposable accidental
shooting didn't that information never
get brought up to you an accidental
shooting no
absolutely not he was very clear that
this was an automobile accident nothing
more what was your first your first
livestream sir
her name was some siri
and
she passed away in an accident
what type of accident was that sir
i
really don't want to go into all that
i really don't i i'm just
i'm just beside myself here you can't
tell me what type of accident was no i
just i don't want to talk about that i
was told
that the accident was an auto accident
and then i was also told that the
accident was a accidental shooting
accident
can you just let me at least know that
okay
it was an accidental shooting
but we my mom and dad
um
decided that they were going to just
tell everybody that it was an auto
accident
i was
cleaning a rifle and i dropped it and i
grabbed it when it fell and it went off
and
she was struck
what type of a weapon what type of rifle
i don't remember
oh my gosh where did it hit her at
you know i don't know that you don't
know where she was before she was struck
at no well it's pretty unusual that if
you would shoot your wife you wouldn't
know the facts of the shooting i mean
this is your wife that you supposedly
had shot and so that seems suspicious
detectives find 26 old negatives from
the sums renew crime scene they are the
only remaining pieces of evidence in the
case
i look at this
and i saw that the blood spatter did not
match
with the trajectory of the bullet
blood spatter had traveled to the back
of the wall which was not consistent
with the bullet path the bullet path had
gone back out this way
and in fact everything was this way
according to dylan the photos show that
sams renew could not have been shot the
way mr new explained
based on my experience in homicide and
having spent so much time there
i thought and felt that this was in fact
a murder i just did not feel comfortable
saying this was a death investigation
it'd be awful hard to drop this gun
and get your finger in the trigger guard
and
put pressure on it
because you need not only for it to get
in but it's got to also
fire the weapon
on top of that if he's sitting down and
the weapon slips from him
the bullet would have to have traveled
in an upward direction to her head
however they were the
bullet after entering the head and
exiting the face
then went into the back of the couch and
into the wall behind it in a downward
trajectory so actually the overall
trajectory of the bullet was into the
head
through the face
through the back of the couch into the
wall
which
is not consistent with this account
where the bullet would have had to have
been going upward
it could not have occurred
the way he said it did in light of dr
demaio's findings assistant da's kurt
meckles and jill lindbergh review both
of detective gardner's cases i mean he
stood to gain and and ultimately his son
did get eight hundred thousand dollars
in life insurance from the 2004
murder of phyllis and back in 1973 he
collected fifteen thousand dollars which
doesn't sound like a lot now but if you
use present value of money that was more
than sixty six thousand dollars to a
young man back in 1973. a lot of money
back then right
in april of 2005 bill new is charged
with the murder of some serenu and the
murder of phyllis knew
the district attorney's office decides
to try both cases together
you can't separate these two cases even
if san bernardino had tried the 1973
case and we tried the 2004 case down
here in san diego the evidence would
have been cross-admissible
bill news trial opens in february of
2006.
after a month of testimony he is found
guilty of murdering both of his wives
one in 2004 the other 31 years earlier
mr newt is the the judgment of this
court that
probation be denied in this case of
course four weeks after the verdict bill
new is sentenced
and i'm not exactly sure even how to
describe this sentence when it gets down
to the total but it is life
plus five years
and a consecutive term of life without
the possibility of parole plus
25 years to life
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