1 00:00:19,021 --> 00:00:21,021 - DONALD: Little by little, 2 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:23,021 you're formulating the true picture 3 00:00:23,021 --> 00:00:24,021 of what occurred here. 4 00:00:24,021 --> 00:00:27,021 - VAL: Evidence told us the suspect knew the victim. 5 00:00:27,021 --> 00:00:30,021 The two of them may have had a relationship. 6 00:00:30,021 --> 00:00:32,021 - SUSAN: I can't picture how a human being could 7 00:00:32,021 --> 00:00:35,021 point a weapon at another person. 8 00:00:35,021 --> 00:00:36,021 - BRENDA: Once someone hits the mainland, 9 00:00:36,021 --> 00:00:37,021 they can be anywhere. 10 00:00:37,021 --> 00:00:41,021 It can turn into almost a countrywide manhunt. 11 00:00:41,021 --> 00:00:43,021 - DONALD: All of a sudden, somebody calls and says, 12 00:00:43,021 --> 00:00:46,021 "We have your guy." 13 00:00:46,021 --> 00:00:47,021 - MALE NARRATOR: Five unique perspectives, 14 00:00:47,021 --> 00:00:51,021 five points of view, one murder. 15 00:00:51,021 --> 00:00:54,021 - ROSI: My name is Rosi Ware. - BRENDA: I was the lead 16 00:00:54,021 --> 00:00:55,021 detective assigned to investigate-- 17 00:00:55,021 --> 00:00:57,021 DONALD: --scene investigator. - VAL: My name is Val Winter. 18 00:00:57,021 --> 00:00:58,021 - SUSAN: Sister of Rodger-- 19 00:00:58,021 --> 00:00:59,021 - VAL: I was a major crimes attorney. 20 00:00:59,021 --> 00:01:02,021 - ♪ 21 00:01:08,021 --> 00:01:13,021 - My name is Susan Dieckmann and I'm sister of Rodger Keller. 22 00:01:13,021 --> 00:01:18,021 Rodger was born in Grayling, Michigan. 23 00:01:18,021 --> 00:01:23,021 My parents were working a restaurant 24 00:01:23,021 --> 00:01:24,021 with my aunt and uncle. 25 00:01:24,021 --> 00:01:27,021 And it was a tourist community right across from, uh, 26 00:01:27,021 --> 00:01:30,021 beautiful Holton Lake. 27 00:01:30,021 --> 00:01:33,021 We stayed there until he was probably five or six, 28 00:01:33,021 --> 00:01:37,021 and then they moved outside of Detroit, Michigan. 29 00:01:38,021 --> 00:01:41,021 Some of my earliest memories of Rodger are... 30 00:01:41,021 --> 00:01:43,021 he was very loving and caring 31 00:01:43,021 --> 00:01:46,021 and inquisitive and smart. 32 00:01:48,021 --> 00:01:53,021 We lived in front of a field, by a Catholic school. 33 00:01:53,021 --> 00:01:55,021 And he would frequently be out in the field 34 00:01:56,021 --> 00:01:58,021 with his butterfly net and catching butterflies and moths, 35 00:01:58,021 --> 00:02:00,021 and he'd bring them back to the house, 36 00:02:01,021 --> 00:02:04,021 and he categorized different butterflies, 37 00:02:05,021 --> 00:02:07,021 you know, he'd-- he'd wanna know the origin 38 00:02:07,021 --> 00:02:11,021 of each different butterfly and their Latin name. 39 00:02:11,021 --> 00:02:12,021 He was a student all-- all his life. 40 00:02:12,021 --> 00:02:16,021 He wanted to know more and more. 41 00:02:19,021 --> 00:02:21,021 Wayne State was his first university 42 00:02:21,021 --> 00:02:23,021 when he first left home. 43 00:02:23,021 --> 00:02:24,021 It was kind of a big thing. 44 00:02:24,021 --> 00:02:27,021 He was the first one to leave the household. 45 00:02:28,021 --> 00:02:33,021 My brother even got a part-time job where the management 46 00:02:33,021 --> 00:02:35,021 noticed that he was gay, 47 00:02:35,021 --> 00:02:38,021 and that started to cause some problems for him. 48 00:02:43,021 --> 00:02:44,021 It didn't hold him back. 49 00:02:44,021 --> 00:02:47,021 He was just becoming more aware 50 00:02:47,021 --> 00:02:52,021 of the problems in society, that this...wasn't... 51 00:02:52,021 --> 00:02:55,021 as accepting as he would like it. 52 00:02:57,021 --> 00:03:00,021 He started marches, 53 00:03:00,021 --> 00:03:02,021 and he started to stand up for himself, 54 00:03:02,021 --> 00:03:06,021 and he wanted other people to stand up for themselves. 55 00:03:06,021 --> 00:03:08,021 He knew in his heart that this is who he always was, 56 00:03:08,021 --> 00:03:11,021 and there was nothing else he was gonna be, 57 00:03:11,021 --> 00:03:14,021 he wasn't going to be changed or deterred or-- 58 00:03:14,021 --> 00:03:17,021 and he was gonna help anyone who needed help. 59 00:03:19,021 --> 00:03:20,021 He ended up transferring 60 00:03:20,021 --> 00:03:23,021 from Wayne State to Michigan State. 61 00:03:23,021 --> 00:03:27,021 Then things went better. 62 00:03:27,021 --> 00:03:30,021 His love of flowers developed from there. 63 00:03:31,021 --> 00:03:32,021 He bought a beautiful house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 64 00:03:32,021 --> 00:03:35,021 and it had a gorgeous garden. 65 00:03:35,021 --> 00:03:38,021 He felt more at home, he had more friends. 66 00:03:40,021 --> 00:03:43,021 However, he was having problems walking. 67 00:03:43,021 --> 00:03:47,021 You could tell from far away that there was something wrong 68 00:03:47,021 --> 00:03:49,021 with his feet. 69 00:03:49,021 --> 00:03:52,021 One doctor actually had told him he might have 70 00:03:52,021 --> 00:03:55,021 a disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth. 71 00:03:56,021 --> 00:04:01,021 It's a disease that affects the nerves in your body. 72 00:04:01,021 --> 00:04:04,021 It was slow progressing in him. 73 00:04:04,021 --> 00:04:07,021 However, he did get some leg braces 74 00:04:07,021 --> 00:04:12,021 to help him walk better and to be more stable. 75 00:04:12,021 --> 00:04:16,021 But leg braces are not conducive to getting up and down a ladder 76 00:04:16,021 --> 00:04:19,021 in--in the, uh, greenhouse. 77 00:04:19,021 --> 00:04:23,021 So, he thought about it and he retired early. 78 00:04:23,021 --> 00:04:25,021 He sold his house in Ann Arbor 79 00:04:25,021 --> 00:04:28,021 and he decided to move down to Key West. 80 00:04:32,021 --> 00:04:34,021 - [seagull cawing] 81 00:04:34,021 --> 00:04:37,021 - SUSAN: He loved, loved, loved Key West. 82 00:04:37,021 --> 00:04:40,021 It was more than just feeling at home 83 00:04:41,021 --> 00:04:43,021 in--in the gay population. 84 00:04:44,021 --> 00:04:48,021 He said glowingly that anything could grow in Key West. 85 00:04:48,021 --> 00:04:52,021 He had a beautiful garden, he bought a little house. 86 00:04:52,021 --> 00:04:55,021 He joined the Key West Garden Club. 87 00:04:56,021 --> 00:04:58,021 He just--he loved the people. 88 00:05:04,021 --> 00:05:07,021 - [birds chirping] 89 00:05:09,021 --> 00:05:14,021 - SUSAN: I was in a staff meeting from school. 90 00:05:14,021 --> 00:05:18,021 And I got a phone call from my brother Jeff in Atlanta. 91 00:05:18,021 --> 00:05:23,021 Jeff had said that he was standing with a detective 92 00:05:23,021 --> 00:05:27,021 and that Rodger...was dead. 93 00:05:29,021 --> 00:05:32,021 I didn't believe him. 94 00:05:32,021 --> 00:05:35,021 And I didn't think he was really telling me the truth. 95 00:05:35,021 --> 00:05:36,021 I thought it couldn't be. 96 00:05:37,021 --> 00:05:43,021 He said he doesn't know how long he had been dead for. 97 00:05:43,021 --> 00:05:46,021 But that I needed to come down. 98 00:05:51,021 --> 00:05:56,021 I'd never seen Rodger's house before this happened. 99 00:05:59,021 --> 00:06:02,021 And when I first walked into his house, 100 00:06:02,021 --> 00:06:03,021 it was two things. 101 00:06:04,021 --> 00:06:07,021 It was beautiful, and it was horrible. 102 00:06:07,021 --> 00:06:10,021 Mostly it was horrible. 103 00:06:10,021 --> 00:06:14,021 It was covered in black because of the fingerprints. 104 00:06:14,021 --> 00:06:18,021 There were horrible traces of what had happened there. 105 00:06:19,021 --> 00:06:20,021 A rug strewn out, 106 00:06:20,021 --> 00:06:24,021 a couple of bloody footprints still there. 107 00:06:24,021 --> 00:06:27,021 And all the while that-- that one resounding question 108 00:06:27,021 --> 00:06:30,021 keep--in your head, keeps thinking, 109 00:06:30,021 --> 00:06:33,021 "How could somebody do that?" 110 00:06:33,021 --> 00:06:38,021 I wondered if it was some random person that just broke in 111 00:06:38,021 --> 00:06:40,021 and...and did this. 112 00:06:40,021 --> 00:06:43,021 He didn't have anything of value. 113 00:06:43,021 --> 00:06:46,021 He had an old little Honda that he drove around, 114 00:06:46,021 --> 00:06:48,021 full of dirt because he sold plants. 115 00:06:52,021 --> 00:06:54,021 When we got back to the police department, 116 00:06:54,021 --> 00:06:56,021 they were pursuing other leads. 117 00:06:56,021 --> 00:07:01,021 They were looking into someone that Rodger had taken in 118 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:04,021 in his house--Michael Sox. 119 00:07:05,021 --> 00:07:08,021 Rodger took in a lot of people over his lifetime. 120 00:07:08,021 --> 00:07:10,021 Sometimes it was a homeless person. 121 00:07:10,021 --> 00:07:12,021 Sometimes they would be handicapped. 122 00:07:14,021 --> 00:07:19,021 It was Michael Sox that had alerted the police department 123 00:07:19,021 --> 00:07:23,021 that, uh, something was amiss. 124 00:07:29,021 --> 00:07:32,021 - SUSAN: I couldn't imagine who would do this. 125 00:07:32,021 --> 00:07:37,021 Who could point a weapon at another person 126 00:07:37,021 --> 00:07:40,021 and just do that? 127 00:07:40,021 --> 00:07:42,021 It just doesn't make sense. 128 00:07:46,021 --> 00:07:49,021 - ♪ 129 00:07:50,021 --> 00:07:51,021 - DONALD: My name is Donald L. Guevremont 130 00:07:51,021 --> 00:07:52,021 and I'm crime scene investigator for the Key West 131 00:07:53,021 --> 00:07:54,021 Police Department. 132 00:07:58,021 --> 00:07:59,021 It was an early morning, 133 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:02,021 and I got a telephone call at my residence 134 00:08:02,021 --> 00:08:04,021 that the officers had arrived to a scene, they found 135 00:08:04,021 --> 00:08:06,021 a--a deceased person. 136 00:08:08,021 --> 00:08:12,021 The information at that time was that one of the local 137 00:08:12,021 --> 00:08:16,021 characters in town, Mr. Sox, had known Rodger Keller 138 00:08:16,021 --> 00:08:18,021 for some time, was familiar with his routines. 139 00:08:18,021 --> 00:08:22,021 He had gone to the house and found that things were not 140 00:08:22,021 --> 00:08:24,021 quite right in his mind. 141 00:08:24,021 --> 00:08:26,021 He saw a stranger in Rodger's car, 142 00:08:26,021 --> 00:08:28,021 and he knew that was never anything 143 00:08:28,021 --> 00:08:31,021 that Rodger would allow. 144 00:08:31,021 --> 00:08:34,021 When he was walking away, when he heard what he thought 145 00:08:34,021 --> 00:08:36,021 may have been a gunshot. 146 00:08:36,021 --> 00:08:40,021 So, from there, Mr. Sox makes the 911 telephone call. 147 00:08:43,021 --> 00:08:46,021 - [seagull cawing] 148 00:08:47,021 --> 00:08:50,021 - DONALD: When I arrive at-- at Mr. Keller's residence, 149 00:08:50,021 --> 00:08:53,021 I go into inspection mode. 150 00:08:53,021 --> 00:08:55,021 When I first get into this house, 151 00:08:55,021 --> 00:08:56,021 I'm looking at the doors and the windows. 152 00:08:56,021 --> 00:08:59,021 I'm not noticing any damage. 153 00:09:00,021 --> 00:09:02,021 No sign of even attempted forced entry. 154 00:09:02,021 --> 00:09:05,021 The interior was spotlessly clean. 155 00:09:07,021 --> 00:09:10,021 Neat, tidy, organized. 156 00:09:12,021 --> 00:09:13,021 But when you looked at that bedroom door, 157 00:09:13,021 --> 00:09:15,021 which was closed, you'll notice some staining. 158 00:09:15,021 --> 00:09:20,021 That is the inconsistency that you've been waiting to see, 159 00:09:20,021 --> 00:09:22,021 and there it is. 160 00:09:23,021 --> 00:09:25,021 There's a piece of carpet and there's what appears to be 161 00:09:25,021 --> 00:09:29,021 blood spatter emanating from the bottom of that rug, 162 00:09:29,021 --> 00:09:31,021 and then, you know, your eyes start looking 163 00:09:31,021 --> 00:09:32,021 towards the walls and you're noticing 164 00:09:33,021 --> 00:09:35,021 there's going to be some directional blood spatter 165 00:09:35,021 --> 00:09:36,021 off to the left. 166 00:09:36,021 --> 00:09:39,021 Also at this point, we're noticing there's some 167 00:09:39,021 --> 00:09:42,021 bloody footwear impressions on the tile floor 168 00:09:43,021 --> 00:09:45,021 that appear to be leaving from the bedroom. 169 00:09:46,021 --> 00:09:49,021 Now based on what I'm seeing just looking at the door, 170 00:09:50,021 --> 00:09:52,021 you know this is going to be a tremendously violent scene. 171 00:09:52,021 --> 00:09:55,021 This is high speed blood spatter, 172 00:09:56,021 --> 00:09:58,021 and the only way to get that is by a gunshot wound. 173 00:10:01,021 --> 00:10:03,021 - ♪ 174 00:10:03,021 --> 00:10:07,021 - DONALD: Upon making entry into the bedroom, 175 00:10:07,021 --> 00:10:09,021 we found the victim on the floor. 176 00:10:09,021 --> 00:10:14,021 At this point, all you can see is a flowered bedspread, 177 00:10:15,021 --> 00:10:16,021 uh, covering most of the body, 178 00:10:16,021 --> 00:10:20,021 but you can also see a pair of leg braces 179 00:10:20,021 --> 00:10:23,021 coming out from underneath. 180 00:10:23,021 --> 00:10:24,021 We had a pretty good idea it was going to be 181 00:10:24,021 --> 00:10:27,021 the resident, Mr. Keller. 182 00:10:27,021 --> 00:10:27,021 - [shutter clicks] 183 00:10:35,021 --> 00:10:38,021 - DONALD: Once the sheet is removed from the victim, 184 00:10:38,021 --> 00:10:42,021 a clearer picture is--is--is shown. 185 00:10:42,021 --> 00:10:46,021 It is obvious that this is going to be some sort of trauma 186 00:10:46,021 --> 00:10:47,021 to the face or head area. 187 00:10:47,021 --> 00:10:51,021 That's the biggest concentration of blood. 188 00:10:51,021 --> 00:10:56,021 The victim is picked up from the waist 189 00:10:56,021 --> 00:10:59,021 so his back can be examined, 190 00:10:59,021 --> 00:11:01,021 and that is the first time that we've noticed 191 00:11:01,021 --> 00:11:05,021 that there was a-- a wound in the back. 192 00:11:05,021 --> 00:11:08,021 Now we know we are looking at a gunshot wound. 193 00:11:10,021 --> 00:11:10,021 - ♪ 194 00:11:10,021 --> 00:11:14,021 - DONALD: We assume at that point 195 00:11:14,021 --> 00:11:17,021 that the projectile that killed Mr. Keller 196 00:11:17,021 --> 00:11:20,021 was going to be found and recovered at autopsy. 197 00:11:20,021 --> 00:11:22,021 Just made sense. 198 00:11:23,021 --> 00:11:25,021 We found no cartridge casings. 199 00:11:25,021 --> 00:11:27,021 If Mr. Keller had been shot with a semi-automatic, 200 00:11:27,021 --> 00:11:31,021 there would have been an ejected cartridge casing. 201 00:11:31,021 --> 00:11:34,021 Unless, the suspect picked it up and took it with him. 202 00:11:34,021 --> 00:11:37,021 It could also indicate that a revolver were used. 203 00:11:39,021 --> 00:11:40,021 - ♪ 204 00:11:40,021 --> 00:11:45,021 - DONALD: Turns out that on day two at autopsy, 205 00:11:45,021 --> 00:11:48,021 we establish that he had been shot in the face. 206 00:11:48,021 --> 00:11:52,021 What we saw on the back on the scene was an exit wound. 207 00:11:52,021 --> 00:11:55,021 There was no projectile in the victim. 208 00:11:55,021 --> 00:11:58,021 After learning this, a second inspection 209 00:11:58,021 --> 00:12:01,021 of this residence is going to take place. 210 00:12:03,021 --> 00:12:04,021 - ♪ 211 00:12:04,021 --> 00:12:10,021 - DONALD: In the course of trying to find the projectile 212 00:12:10,021 --> 00:12:12,021 inside of the residence, 213 00:12:12,021 --> 00:12:16,021 another officer had noted some wood chips behind the dresser. 214 00:12:17,021 --> 00:12:20,021 Moving the dresser over just a little, 215 00:12:20,021 --> 00:12:23,021 you could see behind the mirror, a hole in the wall. 216 00:12:23,021 --> 00:12:27,021 Sure enough, there was our projectile. 217 00:12:27,021 --> 00:12:30,021 It was in such a good condition that when I took it out, 218 00:12:30,021 --> 00:12:33,021 I was able to measure the base of it 219 00:12:33,021 --> 00:12:36,021 to determine the possible caliber. 220 00:12:36,021 --> 00:12:37,021 We're not looking for a .22, we're not looking for a rifle. 221 00:12:37,021 --> 00:12:40,021 We're looking something that is gonna be able to carry 222 00:12:40,021 --> 00:12:45,021 a .40, .44, or .45 caliber. 223 00:12:45,021 --> 00:12:48,021 Leaving that house with the projectile in hand, 224 00:12:48,021 --> 00:12:51,021 Holy Grail for me. That's a big win. 225 00:12:57,021 --> 00:13:00,021 Now, as in any investigation, every few minutes, 226 00:13:00,021 --> 00:13:02,021 new information is being learned. 227 00:13:02,021 --> 00:13:04,021 We received notification that an officer had found 228 00:13:05,021 --> 00:13:07,021 the victim's car not too far from the house, 229 00:13:08,021 --> 00:13:10,021 and had secured it, so we immediately sent another 230 00:13:10,021 --> 00:13:14,021 evidence technician to go look at that vehicle. 231 00:13:14,021 --> 00:13:16,021 There were footwear impressions in the sand 232 00:13:16,021 --> 00:13:18,021 outside of the driver's door. 233 00:13:18,021 --> 00:13:23,021 It just happened to be the ball of his foot hit some dirt 234 00:13:23,021 --> 00:13:26,021 that was conducive to holding a pattern. 235 00:13:26,021 --> 00:13:28,021 Just enough to distinguish it 236 00:13:28,021 --> 00:13:31,021 to the three that were in the house. 237 00:13:31,021 --> 00:13:34,021 It is better to be lucky sometimes than good, 238 00:13:34,021 --> 00:13:36,021 and I'll take luck any day. 239 00:13:40,021 --> 00:13:41,021 - ♪ 240 00:13:41,021 --> 00:13:43,021 - ROSI: My name is Rosi Ware, 241 00:13:43,021 --> 00:13:45,021 and I was a good friend of Rodger Keller. 242 00:13:47,021 --> 00:13:50,021 I first met Rodger when he came to the, uh, Garden Club. 243 00:13:50,021 --> 00:13:54,021 I was President at that time, and I was awed by his knowledge. 244 00:13:55,021 --> 00:14:00,021 He was such a lovely, talented, intelligent man, 245 00:14:00,021 --> 00:14:03,021 and he gave so freely. 246 00:14:03,021 --> 00:14:05,021 And so, for Rodger, this was a perfect place 247 00:14:05,021 --> 00:14:07,021 for him to retire to. 248 00:14:07,021 --> 00:14:12,021 We had a lovely garden club, a thriving gay community 249 00:14:12,021 --> 00:14:16,021 where you could really be whoever you wanted to be. 250 00:14:16,021 --> 00:14:19,021 - Even in January, today earlier I got up to 80 degrees, 251 00:14:19,021 --> 00:14:21,021 and it's a nice breeze off the ocean. 252 00:14:21,021 --> 00:14:25,021 It's just a paradise as far as climate goes. 253 00:14:30,021 --> 00:14:33,021 - ROSI: The day that he was killed... 254 00:14:33,021 --> 00:14:35,021 Rodger was absolutely on top form. 255 00:14:36,021 --> 00:14:37,021 And I remember--I mean, I really do--I remember that. 256 00:14:37,021 --> 00:14:42,021 He was in a really good mood, he was happy and sunny. 257 00:14:42,021 --> 00:14:43,021 I remember he had a lovely little smile, 258 00:14:43,021 --> 00:14:47,021 he looked like a little cherub. 259 00:14:47,021 --> 00:14:50,021 And I said, "Bye-bye Rodger, see you next Monday." 260 00:14:56,021 --> 00:14:58,021 And I can just see him drive-- it's like two minutes 261 00:14:58,021 --> 00:15:00,021 from the Garden Club to his house. 262 00:15:02,021 --> 00:15:04,021 He'd be happy, he'd be getting out of the car humming. 263 00:15:06,021 --> 00:15:10,021 Opening his-- the door to his house. 264 00:15:10,021 --> 00:15:11,021 And then, wham. 265 00:15:14,021 --> 00:15:17,021 Rodger really didn't know what had hit him. 266 00:15:18,021 --> 00:15:22,021 - ♪ 267 00:15:22,021 --> 00:15:25,021 - ROSI: The police realized that the last people probably 268 00:15:26,021 --> 00:15:29,021 that saw Rodger alive besides the guy that killed him, 269 00:15:29,021 --> 00:15:30,021 um, were his friends at the Garden Club. 270 00:15:31,021 --> 00:15:35,021 So, they came and interviewed a whole bunch of us. 271 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:38,021 The whole of the Key West community was shocked. 272 00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,021 We don't have murders in Key West. 273 00:15:40,021 --> 00:15:43,021 People come here to be safe. It's one human family. 274 00:15:43,021 --> 00:15:44,021 Everybody looks after each other, 275 00:15:44,021 --> 00:15:48,021 and particularly in the gay community. 276 00:15:48,021 --> 00:15:51,021 We knew that he had had many different, um, guys there. 277 00:15:52,021 --> 00:15:54,021 Um, there was a few that we knew the names, like Michael Sox, 278 00:15:55,021 --> 00:15:57,021 who was a fairly well-known homeless man. 279 00:15:58,021 --> 00:16:01,021 He seemed really very sad, actually. 280 00:16:01,021 --> 00:16:04,021 I mean, strange, but sad more than anything else. 281 00:16:14,021 --> 00:16:18,021 - ♪ 282 00:16:18,021 --> 00:16:21,021 - ROSI: Rodger picked up many, many guys 283 00:16:21,021 --> 00:16:24,021 during the couple of years he was in Key West. 284 00:16:24,021 --> 00:16:28,021 But he always tended to pick up the guys who were trouble. 285 00:16:28,021 --> 00:16:30,021 And I think that's what worried us the most. 286 00:16:30,021 --> 00:16:32,021 He wasn't quite disabled, 287 00:16:32,021 --> 00:16:34,021 but he wouldn't be able to fend for himself. 288 00:16:36,021 --> 00:16:39,021 Most of these guys were homeless or down-and-out. 289 00:16:39,021 --> 00:16:41,021 He felt he was giving them a hand up. 290 00:16:42,021 --> 00:16:44,021 You can't get a job without an address, 291 00:16:44,021 --> 00:16:45,021 so Rodger provided that for them. 292 00:16:45,021 --> 00:16:48,021 And some stayed for quite a while. 293 00:16:54,021 --> 00:16:56,021 There was an awful incident when one of these guys-- 294 00:16:56,021 --> 00:16:59,021 I won't say attacked him, but put a knife to his throat. 295 00:17:03,021 --> 00:17:07,021 And again, Rodger was not a physically strong guy. 296 00:17:07,021 --> 00:17:09,021 I just felt terrible, 297 00:17:09,021 --> 00:17:11,021 he was so vulnerable in that situation. 298 00:17:14,021 --> 00:17:16,021 - ♪ 299 00:17:16,021 --> 00:17:18,021 - ROSI: It's about that time when a lot of his friends 300 00:17:18,021 --> 00:17:21,021 at the Garden Club sort of gathered 'round him and said, 301 00:17:21,021 --> 00:17:23,021 "Rodger, we're really concerned, you live on your own, 302 00:17:23,021 --> 00:17:26,021 "um, you're not physically very fit. 303 00:17:26,021 --> 00:17:28,021 "Um, what happens if one of these guys does more 304 00:17:28,021 --> 00:17:30,021 than just put a knife to your throat?" 305 00:17:31,021 --> 00:17:33,021 We were like, "Rodger, you really shouldn't do this, 306 00:17:33,021 --> 00:17:38,021 because anything could happen, and now you know anything can." 307 00:17:38,021 --> 00:17:42,021 And he was, again, too sweet, too kind. 308 00:17:46,021 --> 00:17:47,021 That really was a bit of a wake-up call. 309 00:17:48,021 --> 00:17:50,021 I think Rodger was being terribly free and easy 310 00:17:50,021 --> 00:17:52,021 up until then, and then he really did realize 311 00:17:52,021 --> 00:17:53,021 that he was vulnerable. 312 00:17:53,021 --> 00:17:57,021 So, when the police told us what had happened, 313 00:17:57,021 --> 00:17:59,021 we absolutely believed it was one of the guys 314 00:17:59,021 --> 00:18:02,021 that he'd taken in, and our first thoughts were 315 00:18:02,021 --> 00:18:03,021 of the guy who held a knife to him, 316 00:18:03,021 --> 00:18:05,021 because he'd already shown he was violent, 317 00:18:05,021 --> 00:18:08,021 he'd already done this. 318 00:18:08,021 --> 00:18:10,021 Everybody around who knew Rodger, 319 00:18:10,021 --> 00:18:12,021 that was the guy that we all 320 00:18:12,021 --> 00:18:14,021 automatically thought it would be. 321 00:18:18,021 --> 00:18:21,021 - ♪ 322 00:18:21,021 --> 00:18:24,021 - I'm Brenda Sellers. 323 00:18:24,021 --> 00:18:26,021 I was the lead detective assigned to investigate 324 00:18:26,021 --> 00:18:29,021 the homicide of Rodger Keller here in Key West, Florida. 325 00:18:33,021 --> 00:18:36,021 - ♪ 326 00:18:36,021 --> 00:18:41,021 - On the early morning of March 23, 2006, 327 00:18:41,021 --> 00:18:45,021 I was called to the scene of a suspected homicide. 328 00:18:45,021 --> 00:18:48,021 A deceased male was found inside, 329 00:18:48,021 --> 00:18:49,021 and it looked like it was possibly gonna be 330 00:18:49,021 --> 00:18:52,021 a homicide by gunshot. 331 00:18:52,021 --> 00:18:55,021 So, when compiling a list of possible suspects, 332 00:18:55,021 --> 00:18:56,021 a name that came up was 333 00:18:57,021 --> 00:19:00,021 a gentleman by the name of Don Hosmer. 334 00:19:01,021 --> 00:19:03,021 So, we discovered that Don Hosmer got arrested 335 00:19:03,021 --> 00:19:07,021 for basically assaulting, uh, Mr. Keller with a knife. 336 00:19:07,021 --> 00:19:10,021 That's one violent act, could there be another one? 337 00:19:10,021 --> 00:19:14,021 Was there any animosity carrying over from that incident? 338 00:19:20,021 --> 00:19:22,021 Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent 339 00:19:23,021 --> 00:19:25,021 Dennis Haley assisted with the interviews, 340 00:19:25,021 --> 00:19:27,021 especially the ones out of state. 341 00:19:27,021 --> 00:19:30,021 He was able to speak with Hosmer 342 00:19:30,021 --> 00:19:34,021 and Hosmer's partner, James Lapinski, in Michigan. 343 00:19:36,021 --> 00:19:38,021 According to Lapinski and Hosmer, 344 00:19:38,021 --> 00:19:40,021 Keller had asked them to move down here and stay with him. 345 00:19:40,021 --> 00:19:44,021 And they did, I believe it was near the end of 2004. 346 00:19:44,021 --> 00:19:49,021 They stayed with him through 2005 and there was some friction 347 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:52,021 that started to occur because 348 00:19:52,021 --> 00:19:54,021 Mr. Keller would bring people home. 349 00:19:54,021 --> 00:19:56,021 He would bring homeless guys home from the beach. 350 00:19:59,021 --> 00:20:02,021 It eventually led, I guess, to an eruption one night, 351 00:20:02,021 --> 00:20:07,021 in which Mr. Hosmer threatened Keller with a knife, allegedly. 352 00:20:07,021 --> 00:20:09,021 But those charges were eventually dropped, 353 00:20:09,021 --> 00:20:13,021 and they were actually very devastated to learn 354 00:20:13,021 --> 00:20:15,021 what had happened to their friend Rodger Keller. 355 00:20:17,021 --> 00:20:20,021 Florida Department of Law Enforcement was able 356 00:20:20,021 --> 00:20:22,021 to alibi them. 357 00:20:22,021 --> 00:20:24,021 They definitely could not have done it based on 358 00:20:24,021 --> 00:20:29,021 verifying their location during the timeframe of the crime. 359 00:20:29,021 --> 00:20:32,021 James Lapinski and Don Hosmer had mentioned that there was 360 00:20:32,021 --> 00:20:36,021 another person that had lived with Rodger and been arrested 361 00:20:37,021 --> 00:20:38,021 for, I believe, stealing something from him 362 00:20:38,021 --> 00:20:40,021 or stealing checks from him. 363 00:20:42,021 --> 00:20:47,021 - ♪ 364 00:20:48,021 --> 00:20:50,021 - BRENDA: While those interviews are going on, 365 00:20:50,021 --> 00:20:54,021 I'm going through the house and I'm going through his files. 366 00:20:54,021 --> 00:21:00,021 And in his personal files, he kept copies of those cases. 367 00:21:00,021 --> 00:21:03,021 And I found the file case labeled "Johnny Ray Holt." 368 00:21:03,021 --> 00:21:07,021 There was also the paperwork from the criminal case 369 00:21:07,021 --> 00:21:13,021 that kind of documented how Holt had stolen checks from him. 370 00:21:13,021 --> 00:21:16,021 Totaled over $8,000. 371 00:21:16,021 --> 00:21:19,021 And it actually resulted in... 372 00:21:19,021 --> 00:21:22,021 that whole account being shut down. 373 00:21:26,021 --> 00:21:27,021 When we looked into it, we found out that 374 00:21:27,021 --> 00:21:30,021 there was actually an active warrant. 375 00:21:30,021 --> 00:21:33,021 Tennessee had a warrant for him for a parole violation 376 00:21:33,021 --> 00:21:38,021 and he had also just committed a crime in Danville, Alabama. 377 00:21:38,021 --> 00:21:43,021 His girlfriend, Jennifer Long-- her father's truck was stolen, 378 00:21:43,021 --> 00:21:45,021 and his house was burglarized. 379 00:21:46,021 --> 00:21:50,021 When I look through the files, 380 00:21:50,021 --> 00:21:53,021 there were pictures of Johnny Ray Holt. 381 00:21:53,021 --> 00:21:55,021 Him in the house, partially nude, 382 00:21:55,021 --> 00:21:57,021 with him covering his genitals. 383 00:21:59,021 --> 00:22:04,021 The pictures are very consistent with what Michael Sox described 384 00:22:04,021 --> 00:22:06,021 as the guy driving the car. 385 00:22:06,021 --> 00:22:08,021 In this point in the investigation, 386 00:22:08,021 --> 00:22:10,021 a lot of things are starting to come together. 387 00:22:11,021 --> 00:22:14,021 We have Johnny Ray Holt being involved in a fraud case 388 00:22:14,021 --> 00:22:18,021 and previously living with Keller in his house. 389 00:22:21,021 --> 00:22:24,021 - ♪ 390 00:22:24,021 --> 00:22:25,021 - BRENDA: The same time, 391 00:22:25,021 --> 00:22:28,021 I'm finding Mr. Keller's other accounts. 392 00:22:28,021 --> 00:22:30,021 And there was one card in particular 393 00:22:30,021 --> 00:22:34,021 at Keys Federal Credit Union that did show activity 394 00:22:34,021 --> 00:22:39,021 the date of the homicide, which was March 20. 395 00:22:39,021 --> 00:22:42,021 There's one at a gas station on Summerland Key. 396 00:22:42,021 --> 00:22:46,021 Later in the day, there's one at a gas station in Titusville. 397 00:22:46,021 --> 00:22:50,021 The last transaction showed a gas fill 398 00:22:50,021 --> 00:22:56,021 at Lake Park, Georgia, at 2:32 a.m. in the morning. 399 00:22:56,021 --> 00:22:57,021 So, it makes it very difficult, 400 00:22:58,021 --> 00:23:01,021 once someone hits the mainland, they can be anywhere. 401 00:23:01,021 --> 00:23:05,021 Homicide cases can turn into 402 00:23:05,021 --> 00:23:07,021 almost a countrywide manhunt sometimes. 403 00:23:14,021 --> 00:23:16,021 - ♪ 404 00:23:16,021 --> 00:23:17,021 - BRENDA: One of the-- the detectives I asked 405 00:23:17,021 --> 00:23:19,021 to track down that lead, 406 00:23:19,021 --> 00:23:23,021 discovered that that was actually a phone sex line. 407 00:23:23,021 --> 00:23:27,021 The interesting thing about those payments is that, 408 00:23:27,021 --> 00:23:29,021 evidently when you call-- at least this phone sex line-- 409 00:23:29,021 --> 00:23:33,021 they track you by your phone number. 410 00:23:33,021 --> 00:23:36,021 They were able to determine that this same number had made 411 00:23:36,021 --> 00:23:39,021 another call back on the 3rd, and that they were 412 00:23:39,021 --> 00:23:41,021 having trouble with the payment on that 413 00:23:41,021 --> 00:23:45,021 because there was a check that had bounced on it 414 00:23:45,021 --> 00:23:50,021 that belonged to a Johnny Ray Holt of Alabama. 415 00:23:50,021 --> 00:23:54,021 Now we've got his name popping up a third time. 416 00:23:54,021 --> 00:23:55,021 So, everything is starting to triangulate 417 00:23:55,021 --> 00:23:58,021 and look really good that he's a pretty good suspect. 418 00:23:58,021 --> 00:24:00,021 We need to find out where he's at. 419 00:24:03,021 --> 00:24:05,021 - ♪ 420 00:24:05,021 --> 00:24:06,021 - BRENDA: Once we had the phone number, 421 00:24:07,021 --> 00:24:11,021 we could then ask for the--the pings. 422 00:24:11,021 --> 00:24:13,021 The tower that it was communicating with 423 00:24:13,021 --> 00:24:16,021 was over at Key West By the Sea, 424 00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:19,021 which if you were to stand on, um, Mr. Keller's roof, 425 00:24:19,021 --> 00:24:22,021 you'd probably be able to see that tower. 426 00:24:22,021 --> 00:24:25,021 So, it placed him on that phone 427 00:24:25,021 --> 00:24:27,021 the same timeframe as the homicide. 428 00:24:27,021 --> 00:24:30,021 I immediately get on the phone and call up there, 429 00:24:30,021 --> 00:24:32,021 I talk with, uh, investigator Sears, 430 00:24:32,021 --> 00:24:34,021 she works with the Crisp County Sheriff's Department. 431 00:24:39,021 --> 00:24:45,021 - ♪ 432 00:24:47,021 --> 00:24:50,021 - BRENDA: He was the active suspect in that case 433 00:24:50,021 --> 00:24:52,021 and there was also a BOLO out for the stolen vehicle. 434 00:24:54,021 --> 00:24:57,021 Evidently, his girlfriend, Jennifer Long, 435 00:24:57,021 --> 00:24:59,021 cooperated with the police department 436 00:24:59,021 --> 00:25:01,021 and the detectives in Alabama 437 00:25:01,021 --> 00:25:04,021 in helping to track him down. 438 00:25:04,021 --> 00:25:07,021 She was getting texts from him on the same phone 439 00:25:07,021 --> 00:25:11,021 that--that we had pinged and he wanted her to come meet him. 440 00:25:11,021 --> 00:25:14,021 He was going to send her a hundred bucks, 441 00:25:14,021 --> 00:25:17,021 and he was gonna do it through Western Union. 442 00:25:17,021 --> 00:25:20,021 She's able to get him to pinpoint where he's at 443 00:25:20,021 --> 00:25:24,021 close enough for the detectives and the state police in Georgia 444 00:25:24,021 --> 00:25:26,021 to go and do a traffic stop on him. 445 00:25:28,021 --> 00:25:32,021 - ♪ 446 00:25:32,021 --> 00:25:35,021 - BRENDA: And at the time of that traffic stop, 447 00:25:35,021 --> 00:25:39,021 he's driving the stolen Chevy. 448 00:25:39,021 --> 00:25:42,021 So, they take that vehicle and they secure it. 449 00:25:42,021 --> 00:25:47,021 They lock him up-- and that's back on the 21st. 450 00:25:47,021 --> 00:25:51,021 So, we're talking probably within 24 hours or so 451 00:25:51,021 --> 00:25:53,021 of the homicide itself. 452 00:25:53,021 --> 00:25:56,021 He is in custody, but we don't know that. 453 00:25:59,021 --> 00:26:02,021 - ♪ 454 00:26:02,021 --> 00:26:04,021 - My name is Val Winter. 455 00:26:04,021 --> 00:26:07,021 I was the second chair during the prosecution 456 00:26:07,021 --> 00:26:09,021 of the case versus Johnny Ray Holt. 457 00:26:11,021 --> 00:26:12,021 After the homicide, 458 00:26:12,021 --> 00:26:15,021 we were able to piece together a story that began 459 00:26:15,021 --> 00:26:18,021 from a burglary in Georgia, 460 00:26:18,021 --> 00:26:24,021 in which he stole his girlfriend's father's truck, 461 00:26:24,021 --> 00:26:27,021 in addition to a number of firearms. 462 00:26:27,021 --> 00:26:30,021 Johnny Ray Holt's girlfriend assisted law enforcement 463 00:26:30,021 --> 00:26:35,021 in trying to lure Johnny Ray 464 00:26:35,021 --> 00:26:40,021 back into Crisp County, Georgia, where he could be apprehended. 465 00:26:40,021 --> 00:26:43,021 From there, it was backtracking 466 00:26:43,021 --> 00:26:47,021 and telling a--a story 467 00:26:47,021 --> 00:26:52,021 about how it came to be that he traveled here 468 00:26:52,021 --> 00:26:55,021 and, uh, committed the crime. 469 00:27:01,021 --> 00:27:03,021 We were able to track him 470 00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:07,021 through cellphone towers and usage 471 00:27:07,021 --> 00:27:10,021 from Georgia into Northern Florida, 472 00:27:10,021 --> 00:27:13,021 then ultimately the entire way to the Keys. 473 00:27:13,021 --> 00:27:16,021 And then, we were additionally able to establish that 474 00:27:16,021 --> 00:27:20,021 after the time of the homicide, that he fled the Keys. 475 00:27:20,021 --> 00:27:24,021 He had returned to Georgia, uh, 476 00:27:24,021 --> 00:27:26,021 there was an outstanding warrant. 477 00:27:29,021 --> 00:27:31,021 - ♪ 478 00:27:31,021 --> 00:27:35,021 - VAL: When the vehicle that Johnny Ray Holt had stolen 479 00:27:35,021 --> 00:27:40,021 was seized along with a wallet 480 00:27:40,021 --> 00:27:45,021 and credit cards belonging to Rodger Keller, uh, 481 00:27:45,021 --> 00:27:48,021 they were also able to locate shorts with-- 482 00:27:48,021 --> 00:27:51,021 that had blood on them, a T-shirt, 483 00:27:51,021 --> 00:27:57,021 and shoes that had blood on them, as well. 484 00:27:59,021 --> 00:28:03,021 The sneakers, while they weren't rare, 485 00:28:03,021 --> 00:28:07,021 had a unique tread pattern on them. 486 00:28:07,021 --> 00:28:11,021 It was a tread pattern that was consistent with what was seen 487 00:28:11,021 --> 00:28:14,021 at Rodger Keller's car. 488 00:28:17,021 --> 00:28:20,021 In the stolen pickup truck, 489 00:28:20,021 --> 00:28:25,021 a .44 caliber revolver was recovered. 490 00:28:25,021 --> 00:28:29,021 It had a total of five rounds of ammunition, 491 00:28:29,021 --> 00:28:30,021 but one of them was spent. 492 00:28:30,021 --> 00:28:34,021 By this time, we learned that, uh, Rodger Keller 493 00:28:34,021 --> 00:28:36,021 died of a single gunshot wound. 494 00:28:38,021 --> 00:28:41,021 That was obviously the most significant piece of evidence. 495 00:28:41,021 --> 00:28:45,021 He's found with the firearm that was used 496 00:28:45,021 --> 00:28:48,021 to kill Rodger Keller. 497 00:28:50,021 --> 00:28:56,021 - [seagulls cawing] 498 00:28:56,021 --> 00:28:59,021 - VAL: During Mr. Holt's initial interview, 499 00:28:59,021 --> 00:29:02,021 he denied ever entering Florida. 500 00:29:02,021 --> 00:29:05,021 We had already had information by that time 501 00:29:05,021 --> 00:29:06,021 that placed him here. 502 00:29:06,021 --> 00:29:10,021 And so, that was an immediate contradiction 503 00:29:10,021 --> 00:29:14,021 that could be proved with, uh, documentary evidence. 504 00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:34,021 - VAL: During the course of the investigation, 505 00:29:35,021 --> 00:29:38,021 it was learned that Johnny Ray Holt conducted 506 00:29:38,021 --> 00:29:43,021 a Western Union transaction at a local grocery store. 507 00:29:43,021 --> 00:29:45,021 The transaction was conducted 508 00:29:45,021 --> 00:29:50,021 before the time that the homicide occurred. 509 00:29:50,021 --> 00:29:56,021 And it showed that Johnny Ray Holt was in Key West 510 00:29:56,021 --> 00:29:58,021 on the day of the homicide. 511 00:30:01,021 --> 00:30:02,021 - ♪ 512 00:30:02,021 --> 00:30:04,021 - VAL: It was crucial to our case 513 00:30:05,021 --> 00:30:09,021 because he's captured on video, he's wearing a baseball cap, 514 00:30:09,021 --> 00:30:14,021 he's wearing a maroon T-shirt and khaki shorts. 515 00:30:14,021 --> 00:30:17,021 It was also consistent with the eyewitness testimony, 516 00:30:17,021 --> 00:30:20,021 who described the person who drove away 517 00:30:20,021 --> 00:30:22,021 from Rodger Keller's home. 518 00:30:22,021 --> 00:30:26,021 After he was confronted with some of that evidence, 519 00:30:26,021 --> 00:30:29,021 he then claimed to have entered Northern Florida, 520 00:30:29,021 --> 00:30:31,021 but returned. 521 00:30:31,021 --> 00:30:34,021 And, as the interview went on, 522 00:30:34,021 --> 00:30:38,021 Mr. Holt ultimately came farther and farther south in Florida, 523 00:30:38,021 --> 00:30:42,021 uh, to the point where he admitted, uh, 524 00:30:42,021 --> 00:30:44,021 coming the whole way to Key West. 525 00:30:47,021 --> 00:30:50,021 The evidence at--at--at a point became overwhelming 526 00:30:50,021 --> 00:30:54,021 and he just had to at least address why he was in Key West. 527 00:31:09,021 --> 00:31:14,021 - Johnny Ray Holt came up with a story, uh, 528 00:31:14,021 --> 00:31:18,021 because he had to explain how Rodger Keller's wallet 529 00:31:18,021 --> 00:31:20,021 was in his truck. 530 00:31:20,021 --> 00:31:23,021 At some point, he picked up a hitchhiker 531 00:31:23,021 --> 00:31:27,021 who left behind personal items that were later determined 532 00:31:27,021 --> 00:31:30,021 to belong to Rodger Keller. 533 00:31:30,021 --> 00:31:32,021 He denied knowing Rodger Keller. 534 00:31:32,021 --> 00:31:36,021 He denied staying at, uh, Rodger Keller's home. 535 00:31:36,021 --> 00:31:41,021 He denied having ever stolen anything from Rodger Keller. 536 00:31:41,021 --> 00:31:47,021 We were aware that he had lived in Key West for a period of time 537 00:31:47,021 --> 00:31:50,021 and believed that he lived at the same house 538 00:31:50,021 --> 00:31:51,021 where Rodger Keller was killed. 539 00:31:52,021 --> 00:31:58,021 - ♪ 540 00:32:17,021 --> 00:32:20,021 - He'd already contradicted himself so many times 541 00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:23,021 and had been caught in lies that they were left 542 00:32:23,021 --> 00:32:25,021 with their own, uh, investigative techniques 543 00:32:25,021 --> 00:32:27,021 to complete the story. 544 00:32:28,021 --> 00:32:33,021 Johnny Ray Holt at the time didn't even attempt to claim 545 00:32:33,021 --> 00:32:36,021 that it was a self-defense case or anything like that. 546 00:32:36,021 --> 00:32:40,021 There were three charges. 547 00:32:40,021 --> 00:32:43,021 Uh, the first of which was felony murder. 548 00:32:44,021 --> 00:32:48,021 The two other charges were robbery, and then burglary 549 00:32:48,021 --> 00:32:52,021 for the entering a home without permission with the intent 550 00:32:52,021 --> 00:32:55,021 to commit a crime therein. 551 00:32:55,021 --> 00:32:57,021 The stakes were very high for this trial 552 00:32:58,021 --> 00:33:02,021 and our office prides itself in making sure that no homicide 553 00:33:02,021 --> 00:33:04,021 goes unsolved. 554 00:33:08,021 --> 00:33:11,021 - ♪ 555 00:33:12,021 --> 00:33:14,021 - I've been through a lot of crazy things, 556 00:33:14,021 --> 00:33:17,021 but it was one of the toughest. 557 00:33:17,021 --> 00:33:21,021 The absolute toughest. 558 00:33:21,021 --> 00:33:23,021 When they finally did pin it down 559 00:33:23,021 --> 00:33:28,021 and they were pretty sure that it was Johnny Ray Holt, 560 00:33:28,021 --> 00:33:31,021 things started to-- to come together a little bit. 561 00:33:37,021 --> 00:33:42,021 - VAL: We were not satisfied with only the defendant 562 00:33:42,021 --> 00:33:46,021 having the murder weapon in his possession. 563 00:33:46,021 --> 00:33:50,021 Our intent was to establish the entire story, 564 00:33:50,021 --> 00:33:54,021 to document in every possible way each and every step 565 00:33:54,021 --> 00:33:56,021 that Johnny Ray Holt took, uh, 566 00:33:57,021 --> 00:34:01,021 from the moment he, uh, left Alabama to the time 567 00:34:02,021 --> 00:34:06,021 that he returned to Georgia and was arrested. 568 00:34:10,021 --> 00:34:14,021 - Mr. Long's house was burglarized on March 17. 569 00:34:14,021 --> 00:34:18,021 There were a rifle, a shotgun, 570 00:34:18,021 --> 00:34:22,021 and a .44-caliber revolver handgun stolen, 571 00:34:22,021 --> 00:34:25,021 along with some other loose cash, antique coins, 572 00:34:25,021 --> 00:34:28,021 and--and things like that. 573 00:34:30,021 --> 00:34:34,021 - The defendant was in need of money and, uh, 574 00:34:34,021 --> 00:34:39,021 came to Key West, looked up a, uh, former friend of his-- 575 00:34:39,021 --> 00:34:41,021 Rodger Keller. 576 00:34:44,021 --> 00:34:49,021 Holt was aware of Mr. Keller's financial situation, 577 00:34:50,021 --> 00:34:55,021 where he kept his checks, um, and that if he needed money, 578 00:34:55,021 --> 00:34:58,021 he could return at a later time. 579 00:34:58,021 --> 00:35:03,021 We don't believe and never believed that Johnny Ray Holt 580 00:35:03,021 --> 00:35:07,021 entered with the intent to kill Rodger Keller. 581 00:35:09,021 --> 00:35:12,021 The evidence was consistent with Johnny Ray Holt 582 00:35:12,021 --> 00:35:14,021 being in Rodger Keller's residence initially, 583 00:35:14,021 --> 00:35:17,021 when Rodger Keller was not there, 584 00:35:18,021 --> 00:35:22,021 and then being surprised when Rodger Keller returned home. 585 00:35:23,021 --> 00:35:26,021 We used photographs from the crime scene 586 00:35:26,021 --> 00:35:31,021 as a very important part of establishing 587 00:35:31,021 --> 00:35:33,021 how the homicide happened. 588 00:35:33,021 --> 00:35:37,021 And why it would be consistent with someone 589 00:35:37,021 --> 00:35:41,021 who had previously known Rodger Keller. 590 00:35:41,021 --> 00:35:42,021 - [muffled gunshot] 591 00:35:50,021 --> 00:35:54,021 - It is quite unusual for a person to cover 592 00:35:54,021 --> 00:35:56,021 the victim of a homicide, 593 00:35:57,021 --> 00:36:01,021 unless you have a feeling for that person. 594 00:36:07,021 --> 00:36:08,021 - Next, we wanna look at Mr. Holt's shoes. 595 00:36:09,021 --> 00:36:11,021 The shoe treads look very consistent 596 00:36:11,021 --> 00:36:14,021 with those we have found. 597 00:36:16,021 --> 00:36:19,021 - DONALD: You've looked at those so many times, 598 00:36:19,021 --> 00:36:22,021 you recognize those patterns on that shoe 599 00:36:22,021 --> 00:36:25,021 like a familiar face. There's your case. 600 00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:32,021 - VAL: Johnny Ray Holt took the stand 601 00:36:32,021 --> 00:36:36,021 and initially claimed a consensual encounter 602 00:36:36,021 --> 00:36:39,021 with Rodger Keller; 603 00:36:39,021 --> 00:36:41,021 that he had been invited down there. 604 00:36:57,021 --> 00:37:00,021 - According to Johnny Ray Holt's testimony, 605 00:37:00,021 --> 00:37:04,021 Rodger Keller had a strict rule against his guests having 606 00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:09,021 firearms in the premises, and that at some point, 607 00:37:09,021 --> 00:37:13,021 Rodger Keller learned, uh, that Johnny Ray Holt 608 00:37:13,021 --> 00:37:15,021 had a firearm in his possession. 609 00:37:44,021 --> 00:37:46,021 - There was a scuffle over the gun 610 00:37:47,021 --> 00:37:50,021 and it accidentally discharged. 611 00:37:50,021 --> 00:37:51,021 That's the version that Johnny Ray Holt 612 00:37:51,021 --> 00:37:54,021 came up with at trial. 613 00:38:12,021 --> 00:38:16,021 - VAL: We had to eliminate self-defense as a possibility, 614 00:38:16,021 --> 00:38:19,021 to show the physical limitations, 615 00:38:19,021 --> 00:38:21,021 the inability to resist, move quickly, 616 00:38:21,021 --> 00:38:25,021 uh, respond to a situation. 617 00:38:25,021 --> 00:38:28,021 Rodger was heavy-set, diabetic, 618 00:38:28,021 --> 00:38:33,021 and had problems even in walking. 619 00:38:33,021 --> 00:38:37,021 He was not a healthy person, could certainly not engage 620 00:38:37,021 --> 00:38:42,021 in hand to hand combat and be successful with anybody. 621 00:38:42,021 --> 00:38:46,021 - I've seen on numerous homicides where the assailant 622 00:38:46,021 --> 00:38:50,021 will accuse the--the victim. 623 00:38:50,021 --> 00:38:56,021 That was such a--an iffy self-defense type excuse. 624 00:38:59,021 --> 00:39:01,021 - ♪ 625 00:39:02,021 --> 00:39:05,021 - VAL: After an eight-day trial, 626 00:39:05,021 --> 00:39:08,021 the jury started their deliberations, 627 00:39:08,021 --> 00:39:11,021 and after two hours of deliberating, 628 00:39:11,021 --> 00:39:14,021 they returned their verdicts. 629 00:39:14,021 --> 00:39:18,021 - He was convicted at trial on all counts. 630 00:39:18,021 --> 00:39:20,021 - VAL: Johnny Ray Holt was ultimately sentenced 631 00:39:20,021 --> 00:39:24,021 to life without the possibility of parole. 632 00:39:28,021 --> 00:39:30,021 - ROSI: The community was very shocked. 633 00:39:30,021 --> 00:39:32,021 We don't have violence like this in Key West. 634 00:39:32,021 --> 00:39:35,021 - ♪ 635 00:39:36,021 --> 00:39:37,021 - SUSAN: I truly wish that we could roll back the clock 636 00:39:37,021 --> 00:39:43,021 and that he could continue doing his life the way 637 00:39:43,021 --> 00:39:44,021 only Rodger could do it. 638 00:39:44,021 --> 00:39:49,021 He deserved to--to live more and help more people 639 00:39:49,021 --> 00:39:51,021 and enjoy a little bit more. 640 00:39:54,021 --> 00:40:01,021 - ♪ 641 00:40:07,021 --> 00:40:10,021 ♪♪