Rusty: When I opened the door,
It was like, "oh, my god, this is just unbelievable."
The family had been beaten seriously,
And even stabbed.
Joe: Was this a stranger just roaming in the area
Or was it connected to the family?
The sole person to get
Anything from mr. Kenney's estate
Would've been his son.
We found a nurse who worked for the victims.
He had been abusive to mrs. Kenney.
Rusty: He did have the violent tendency.
He could've committed this act.
Joe: We found out
That adrienne had a former boyfriend.
Rusty: Adrienne's friends, when asked directly
Was he capable of doing the murder,
Every one of them answered, "yes, definitely."
Joe: And we were notified by the lab
That they had lifted a print off the club
That had been used to kill the family.
Rusty: If this was our suspect's fingerprint,
He was the person that brutally beat
These people to death.
[sinister music playing]
Joe: Kerrville is a town about 60 miles
West of san antonio in the texas hill country.
Rusty: Kerrville's very friendly,
He knew most everybody in town.
Margaret: It's a very small-town personality
And so we have a lot of retirees
Who settle there to enjoy the weather
And get away from crime.
Joe: The crime in kerrville is very, very low.
We have minor things like burglaries,
Might have one a year,
It's that safe.
[sober music playing]
[phone ringing]
Man: 911, what is your emergency?
Man: My neighbor's maid came over
And said there are neighbors
Laying in the front hall like they're dead.
Man: And how many people are down?
Man: Three, one is about eighty-four.
A lady about seventy,
And, uh, young woman about fifty.
[suspense music playing]
Joe: On March 30th, 1992,
A call came in to the sheriff's office
That three people had been found in their residence
And it appeared to be three murders.
Rusty: We had officers dispatched,
Heard the call
So another officer and I went out there.
When we got there, we talked to margaret duran,
The maid that found the victims.
Joe: Mrs. Duran worked for the, uh, family
And she told us she had a master key into the house
And was able to open the front door
And immediately when she did...
She saw the bodies.
Rusty: After we talked to margaret duran,
We started to do a walk-through of the crime scene.
[suspense music playing]
Rusty: When I opened the door, it was like,
"oh, my god, this is just unbelievable."
There's blood splatter all over
Everywhere in that foyer.
It was an elderly male laying on the floor
And it was a middle-aged female also laying on the floor,
Both covered in blood,
It was obviously they have been beaten
Seriously and possibly even stabbed.
It was by far one of the most gruesome
Things that I had seen.
Joe: We noticed a knife
That was laying on a small table in the foyer,
Appeared to have blood on it.
We then walked into the living room area,
And I saw a deceased older woman
Sitting in a chair.
She had a tray on her lap and was eating a meal there.
She had a bowl of beans on the dinner tray.
She had a spoon still in her hand
And she was just sitting there and her throat had been cut
And her head bashed in
All the way down to the bridge of her nose.
So, we've had an elderly man,
A middle-aged female,
And then an elderly female
Were the three victims.
Joe: Going through the dining room,
It appeared that two people had been sitting
At the dining room table.
Rusty: Walking around through the rest of the house,
There's a large purse in the kitchen
That had been dumped out
And he had paperwork scattered all over the floor,
He had a drawer open
Where some knives were moved around
And we thought pretty sure the knife in the foyer
That was sitting on the table,
The bloody knife, probably came from there.
It was very odd that we did find
On the initial walkthrough
A lot of cedar barks laying around on the floor
And then we also found blood tracks on the carpet,
The shoe tracks went out the back of the house.
Joe: Going back further towards the driveway,
Some car tracks was found.
Rusty: So we thought, "well, maybe that's where
The suspect turned in and parked."
Joe: Near the car tracks was a couple of gloves,
One of the gloves appeared to have blood on it.
We also found a silver spoon
That was laying on the ground.
Rusty: Wasn't sure where that came from,
We didn't know about anything being stolen.
And just a little bit farther, I could see
What I'd describe now as a cedar club.
It was a cedar stick, about two inches in diameter
And about three feet long.
Appeared to have some blood and hair on it.
Rusty: So we felt that very well may have been
What was used in beating
The, uh, deceased people with.
Joe: As the, uh, suspect
Or suspects, were coming up to the house,
They probably picked up that piece of cedar
Out of the firewood pile that was next to the house.
Rusty: Cedar is a really unique wood up here.
It's got kind of a stringy bark
And that's what we were seeing in the living room,
In the foyer, was this bark coming off this club,
And when bark comes off cedars like that,
It leaves a real slick wood underneath.
So, I was hoping maybe we had a fingerprint on it.
Joe: Mrs. Duran, the, uh, maid
Who worked for the, uh, victims told us
That the older gentleman in the foyer
Who was clayton kenney, 83 years of age,
His wife, uh, the older woman that was in the chair
Was juliana kenney, she was 75.
And adrienne arnot,
The woman that was in the foyer, was 44
And she was, uh, mrs. Kenney's only daughter.
Ron: Mr. Kenney was a retired businessman.
Julian, his wife, was a retired school teacher,
And adrienne arnot had semi-retired
From being a real estate agent in houston.
Joe: Mr. And mrs. Kenney had lived a good life
And moved to kerrville to enjoy their retirement years.
Rusty: Mrs. Kenney had a stroke back in the '80s
And was paralyzed on the--on the left side
And we found she was in and out of the nursing homes.
Considering clayton's age,
It was difficult for him
To care for juliana.
Joe: Mrs. Kenney's daughter, adrienne arnot,
Actually moved from houston to kerrville
To help take care of her mother.
Margaret: Before she came to kerrville,
Adrienne had a career
And she gave it all up
So that she could come take care of her mother.
Rusty: Margaret duran told us
How nice and sweet you might say
That the couple was.
They kept to themselves.
Adrienne was a little more outspoken
And she might tell you what's on her mind
But mom and daddy were just very good people.
Ron: They were members of the episcopal church
Here in kerrville
And were well respected by everybody.
[sinister music playing]
Rusty: Once we got the scene secured,
We took the maid, margaret duran,
Back in the house to see if she could help us
Identify if anything was missing.
She was able to tell us
That mrs. Kenney had some spoon collections,
Those were missing
And supposedly the collections were
Worth quite a bit of money.
Joe: One of the silver spoons apparently
Was one of the spoons dropped outside
Near where the car tracks were found.
Rusty: And then she also pointed out
Some other small trinkets missing.
There was a brass horse and a brass egg.
Margaret also was able to tell us
That the knife we saw in the foyer area
Was missing out of the kitchen.
Margaret told us
That the purse that was in the kitchen area
Belonged to adrienne, the daughter,
And then we have a wallet missing from mr. Kenney.
So what is the motive?
If it was just robbery,
Why do you kill elderly people that viciously
Just to take some silver spoons and trinkets?
Was it just rage?
Were these people killed just to kill them?
What really struck us is the cedar club
Was from the scene,
The knife was from the scene,
If it was just murder, you would think
They would've brought weapons with them
To commit the murder.
Joe: To me, it appeared overkill,
And so you immediately start thinking
About somebody that had a grudge against them
And we knew that really we need to go at it hard, and fast
And finally solve this quickly as we could.
Rusty: Mr. Kenney had complained
About a nurse's aide, daniel diaz.
Diaz had come back to the house drunk one night
And knocked things off the table,
And broke mr. Kenney's hearing aid.
Joe: We discovered that clayton kenney had a son,
Bryan kenney.
Rusty: The thing that struck me about bryan
Was he was very calm, you know.
Here he lost his dad,
His stepmother, and his stepsister.
Joe: Then you get to wondering
If there might be a reason there
For bryan kenney to kill his family.
Nse music playing] rusty: Clayton kenney, juliana kenney,
And mrs. Kenney's daughter, adrienne arnot,
Had been brutally murdered.
You don't normally see
Three members of a family killed.
Rusty: And looking at the scene,
We felt the murders occurred Sunday evening,
Which was the day before,
Between 8:00 and 10:00.
It looked like some of them were still eating
When the suspect or suspects entered the house.
Rusty: Juliana kenney, she had had a stroke
And so she was paralyzed on the left side
So she could not even move.
And so it really looked like
She had to actually sit in that chair
And watch her husband and her daughter
Get brutally, brutally murdered
Right there in the foyer
And she couldn't do anything.
She couldn't even turn loose of the spoon in her hand
And then this brutal killer pushes her head back
And cuts her throat and bashes her in the head.
That probably sticks with me more than anything else,
What that lady went through
In the last minutes of her life.
Margaret: As a mother, I cannot even imagine
Watching your child being bludgeoned
And stabbed to death,
And not being able to do anything about it,
And then know
That eventually they were going to come for you.
[dramatic music playing]
Rusty: In looking at where mr. Kenney
And adrienne arnot were laying,
There was some blood spatter on the door,
But it did not appear
That there was any type of forced entry
And so it really looked like somebody knocked on the door
And then they were attacked as they opened the door.
Ron: It was one of the most horrendous
Murder cases you could imagine,
The family had been stabbed
And beat over the head with clubs
And it was a terrible, terrible scene.
It did not seem to be,
Uh, a burglary of any significance
Provided if somebody crazed went in there
And did this.
Based on the crime scene, you pretty well assume
One person would have a hard time doing all that
Because you're killing three people.
Adrienne arnot should possibly escape out the door
If there's one person.
Two persons, they could keep her under control.
Rusty: With three victims and that brutally beaten,
And then it appeared that the killer had overpowered
At least the two right there in the front foyer
At the same time,
We really felt we had more than one suspect
Involved in this.
Joe: That same day, we interviewed mr. Abernethy,
The, uh, neighbor of the kenneys,
We asked him if he--you have anything
Or anyone that the victims might have had a problem with.
Rusty: Mr. Abernethy told us that
Mr. Kenney had complained to him
About a nurse's aide that they had hired
To help take care of ms. Kenney in the house
Who ended up being a man by the name of daniel diaz.
Joe: Diaz was a live-in nurse.
Apparently, he had been abusive to mrs. Kenney.
And called her all kind of names,
Was very rough with her,
And that she would like to see him get fired.
And the daughter, adrienne arnot,
Was gonna fire him.
And she did.
And because of that, he was mad at the kenneys,
That he would have a grudge against them for being fired.
Rusty: He did have the violent tendency.
He could've committed this act.
And talking to the neighbor, mr. Abernathy,
We found out that there was even a time
That the sheriff's office had been called out
To their house
Few months before the murders
Because of mr. Diaz.
After adrienne fired him,
Diaz had come back to the house, drunk one night,
And knocked things off at the table,
And broke mr. Kenney's hearing aid.
And that's when the sheriff's officer got called,
Went out there,
Had to deal with the criminal mischief.
Joe: So at that point at the time,
We wanted to talk to daniel diaz
And to see if he might be a possible suspect
In the murders.
Rusty: So we send a couple people
To go find mr. Diaz.
Let's get started on that suspect
But leave as quick as we can.
[ominous music playing]
Rusty: Then we had margaret duran help us.
She found the appraisal paperwork on the house.
She found the wills that mr. Kenney had.
So, we're able to find out who the other relatives were.
Joe: We discovered that clayton kenney had a son
That lived in georgia,
Bryan kenney.
Sherriff kaiser located a phone number
And made that call to bryan kenney, the son.
She advised him of, uh, what had happened.
And he advised that he would fly down
And would, uh, contact us there.
Anytime you have something like this,
Three members of a family killed,
You cannot just automatically eliminate family members
As possible suspects.
Rusty: I'm looking at the wills and the paperwork
That we came up with in the house
And I found that, you know, just a few months before,
Mr. Kenney had redone his will
And the sole person to get anything
From mr. Kenney's estate
Would've been the son, bryan kenney.
Joe: Sine we learned that mr. Kenney had changed his will,
We decided to dig into their financial situation
A little more.
Rusty: The kenneys property was probably worth
Close to $250,300.
Of course now that's 30 years ago.
We found that they did have savings account
And safety deposit boxes,
They had stocks and bonds.
So, they were probably living pretty comfortably
At that time.
Joe: Sometimes a change in the will
Or some type of argument escalates,
Then you get to wondering
If there might be a reason there
For byran kenney to kill his family,
Motive might've been for financial gain.
Joe: This is crime wher
Murdered in their own home.
We had two suspects.
One was his son, bryan kenney.
Rusty: Byran would've been entitled to mr. Kenney's estate.
So now, it being a family murder
Could it be a family member that did this?
Joe: And the other suspect was danny diaz.
He had worked for the kenneys at one time.
And he was the one that was fired
And had been abusive apparently to mrs. Kenney.
With diaz, the motive could've been revenge.
There was one person close to the kenneys
We had to eliminate.
Margaret duran, the maid who's found them.
Her and her husband agreed to take a polygraph.
And they both passed it.
Joe: Then we check the tire tracks on their vehicle
Just to see if they match with the car tracks
At the murder scene.
And the tires were different.
Rusty: So we pretty well eliminated her and her husband.
Joe: We then located danny diaz
And did a background check on him.
Rusty: He did have a criminal history
That he abused women.
Joe: We then found out that diaz
Lived out south of kerrville in a mobile home.
Rusty hierholzer and myself interviewed him.
We had informed him of course
That the kenneys had been killed.
He stated he knew nothing about that.
Rusty: Diaz tried to say he left on good terms
With the kenneys, but adrienne fired him
Because of the abuse.
So we already knew right then he was lying to us.
Joe: As an alibi, diaz had told us he had worked
The day of the murders and he got off
And then went to a girlfriend's house
From 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
Rusty: Which would've given him an alibi
For the best we could come up with about the timeframe.
Joe: We then asked him if he would give us permission
To search his residence.
And he stated he would.
Of course we're looking for
A tennis shoe that might match
The track that was left at the scene
Or any of the missing items
That had been reported to us.
Rusty: He had a motorcycle, he didn't have a car.
So motorcycle tire tracks definitely weren't what--
We're made at the scene.
So we just didn't have anything right then
To be able to make an arrest or anything.
Joe: We went to kelly brown's residence
And interviewed her.
She was diaz's girlfriend.
We wanted to see if she would verify
What diaz had told us.
She pretty well confirmed his alibi
That he was with her that night,
But she gave us some interesting points
That, like, kind of made red flags go up.
She did say when he came into her house,
That he had washed his arms all the way up to his elbows,
That he didn't have his gloves on,
And he did normally wear them because he's on a motorcycle.
Joe: And so we went back to diaz
And asked him if he would be willing to take
A polygraph which he said he would agree to.
Rusty: A lot of times a polygraph
Is a very useful tool
Because once somebody does fail it,
A good majority of the time after that,
They will confess to the crime
And give you a good confession statement.
But a polygraph is not admissible in court either way.
So mr. Diaz was taken and given a polygraph.
We asked him, "did you commit the murder?"
He said, "no,"
And he failed the polygraph.
So we ended up polygraphing kelly brown, the girlfriend,
And lo and behold, she failed the polygraph, too.
Ron: Officers were ready to arrest him and I said no.
In this situation, uh, they both flunked the polygraph
But no other physical facts
Would indicate that danny diaz had anything to do with it.
Rusty: So at that time,
Bryan kenney, clayton kenney's son,
Had flown in from georgia.
The sole person to get anything from mr. Kenney estate
Would've been bryan.
Joe: He told us there was no major problems
Between him and his dad or his, uh, stepmother.
Rusty: It didn't appear him and his dad were real close,
And the thing that struck me about bryan
Was he was very calm, you know.
Here he lost his dad, his stepmother
And his stepsister,
That's three people in one family wiped out.
So I thought well, you know, I--I'm just not sure there.
He gave us a pretty good alibi.
He was in georgia, atlanta at the time and everything.
Joe: So at that time, bryan kenney agreed
That he would take a polygraph.
And he was cleared by the polygraph.
He had been in georgia that was verified.
And he was really eliminated at that time,
Unless other information showed up.
The next day or so, danny diaz's girlfriend,
Kelly brown, contacted us and advised that
She hadn't been completely truthful with us.
She was basically his alibi at the time.
She called us and said that he confessed to her.
That he told her he murdered three people.
Joe: She said that she had lied, and that danny diaz
Had told her that he had actually
Killed the kenneys and adrienne arnot.
Rusty: Now I'm thinking, "okay, we got it."
This possibly could be the break we needed
To arrest danny diaz for the three murders.
Usic plajoe: Danny diaz was our prime suspect
In the murder of clayton kenney,
His wife, juliana kenney, and adrienne arnot.
We interviewed him, but we didn't have any evidence
To put him at the crime scene.
So we'd release him,
And then we were shocked to learn
That danny diaz had confessed
To the crime to his girlfriend, kelly brown.
So we actually had kelly brown
Call diaz to see if he would admit
That he had killed the kenney family.
Rusty: She asked him during that conversation,
"you know, you told me about killing them."
And, at that point, he blew up at her.
Said she was a liar.
He never said all that kind of stuff.
And that conversation didn't get us anywhere.
Then she recanted again.
She said "no, he didn't actually tell me
That he murdered the kenneys."
And I'm going,
"where are we with this young lady?"
I mean, she's just all over the--the map on this thing,
And I had no earthly idea why kelly brown
Kept changing her stories or why she kept telling us
The things she told us.
Joe: When kelly brown admitted that she had lied
About the whole thing,
We pretty well eliminated
Kelly brown as a witness.
She couldn't really tell us anything
About who might have murdered that family.
Rusty: The funerals were conducted
For all three of the victims.
I wanted to say,
"who all else is attending that funeral?"
So, you know, I had officers out in the parking around the church
Actually go through the parking lot, look at tires.
Could we match that tire from the crime scene
To any vehicles in the parking lot
At the funeral?
But none of them matched the tire tracks.
So after the funeral, we sat and visited
With different relatives.
Adrienne's friends out of houston came up.
They said adrienne had been in a relationship
And actually have a fiancee in houston,
A mr. Thompson.
Joe: Adrienne and ronald thompson
Had been going together in houston,
And had a disagreement and were not getting along
And had broken up.
Rusty: Adrienne's friends said
That he was really jealous.
They said that he went through a lot of her money.
He took a lot of her money. There was alcohol.
There's all kinds-- I thought, "uh-oh.
Here comes another, you know, kind of red flag."
But could he murder three people in one family?
You know, the potential for violence
Was in that relationship.
And those friends when asked directly,
Do they think mr. Thompson
Was capable of doing the murders,
Every one of them answered yes, definitely.
And that was the first time we heard of mr. Thompson.
At that time, he became an immediate suspect
Because of his relationship with adrienne arnot.
Rusty: So we got to check in on him, and, sure enough,
He had actually been through kerrville
Several times before in the past,
So we wanted to interview mr. Thompson.
About a week later,
We found him in lubbock, texas.
We interviewed him.
And he had an alibi.
He had a girlfriend in lubbock.
He was with her on the night off the murder.
Said he didn't do it.
Joe: So, at that time, ronald thompson
Agreed that he would take a polygraph
At a later date.
Rusty: So we wanted him interviewed with the girlfriend
About his alibi.
Joe: The girlfriend was interviewed
And she stated that ronald thompson
Had been with her during this time period
That the victims were murdered.
Rusty: But then a couple days later,
Mr. Thompson called me
And said, nope, he changed his mind.
He's not gonna take a polygraph.
He said he had talked with an attorney
And the attorney told him, "don't take the polygraph."
So now that threw up more red flags.
If he had nothing to do with it,
Why won't he take the polygraph?
It was really getting frustrating at that point.
So now since we've gone down these
Kind of rabbit trails with mr. Thompson,
Brian kenney, and danny diaz,
We're kind of at a stalemate.
So let's start looking at some of the other evidence
And see if we can start tying another link into it.
We still had that bloody shoe track.
I ended up going to our local jcpenny store here
And just going through their tennis shoes.
Joe: Shoe print was identified as a nike air,
Size nine, nine and a half.
And we found that department store at kerville
Had sold that particular tennis shoe.
Rusty: Then we're about three weeks
Into the investigation itself.
I was talking to the head of the dps lab,
And he told me they were able to find a very small,
Almost the size of your little fingernail,
Identifiable print on that cedar club
That had been found at the scene.
I was ecstatic that we got that type of evidence now.
Joe: This was great news to us at the time
Because this was, hopefully, the break we needed
To solve these murders.
Rusty: We got all of our suspect's
Finger and palm prints,
And we had all those submitted to the dps lab
To compare them to the fingerprint
On that club.
And at that time we all got shocked.
And then we got two phone calls,
And they both identified a guy
That was at our kerrville state hospital
Saying that he was part of those murders.
What would have the connection been to kenneys?
Joe: We had three family members that were murdered,
And we were notified by the lab
That they had lifted a print off the club
That had been used to kill the kenney family.
Rusty: If this was our suspect's fingerprint,
He was the person that held that club
And so brutally beat these people to death.
Rusty: Then we went back to mr. Diaz,
And he did give us a copy of his finger and palm prints.
We got a copy of diaz's girlfriend,
Kelly's finger and palm prints.
We even got a copy of mr. Thompson's
Finger and palm print.
And we had all those submitted
To the dps lab to compare them
To the fingerprint on that club.
And they called me back the next day.
And at that time, we all got shocked
Because none of them matched what was on that club.
And that was extremely frustrating,
Kind of like that roller coaster.
Has been on a high, we got a fingerprint.
Now went on that low again.
So now where are we? Are we back at step one?
We were at a stalemate for months.
And it was torment.
Obsession just dragged out.
Our community going through a total hell.
Margaret: It left a cloud of insecurity.
We weren't sure if this person
Was going to strike again.
Ron: There was no sufficient evidence
To really point at any particular person
Or group of persons, and it was beginning
To kind of die on the vine, so to speak.
Rusty: When the case appeared to have stalled,
We're racking our brains trying to figure out,
"what else can we do?"
About a year after the murders, we reached out
To the san antonio police department,
And they actually stepped up
With their crime stoppers program.
Margaret: Crime stoppers is an organization
That works with law enforcement to gather information
About crimes and what the public might know
And offers a reward.
In March of '93,
Crime stoppers aired on texas tv,
Looking for information about the kenney murders.
Rusty: In July of '93,
We got two, actually, crime stoppers phone calls,
And they both identified a guy
That was at our kerville state hospital
Seeking drug and mental treatment,
Named james john steiner.
Jimmy steiner had told people at the state hospital
Where he was a patient
That he was part of those murders.
Joe: He admitted to one of the employees
That he killed three people at the kenney home.
Rusty: And I thought, "oh, wow.
Now, let's look into this. It's a new lead."
So I started digging on to jimmy steiner.
Well, I found jimmy steiner's sister,
And she told me how jimmy would check himself
Into the state hospital a lot of times
'cause of his drug addiction.
But that he did have the violent tendency.
He could have committed this act.
With three victims and that brutally beaten,
We really felt we had more than one suspect involved in this.
So I asked, "who did he run around with?"
Joe: James steiner's sister
Told us that james steiner
And a friend of his named sam gallamore
Were living there in kerville
During the time these murders occurred.
Rusty: I knew sam gallamore since he was probably
About eight or nine years old.
A little community east of us called center point,
Sam grew up in center point. I went to that school.
I had known him, his family.
We had a few assaults, a few drug charges,
But he was petty criminal.
It was really hard to believe to me
That sam would commit murder.
What would have the connection been between these two
And the kenneys? I needed to know.
So I asked jimmy's sister, if there was any connection.
Jimmy had told her that he worked at a nursing home
Here called edgewater.
And at that time, ms. Kenney was a patient
At that nursing home, and he helped take care of her
At the nursing home.
And that was the only connection
Between the kenneys and these two people.
The next day we found out through the employment records
At the nursing home that at one point,
Mr. Kenney hired jimmy to come to their house
And help take care of her.
One weekend a year before the murders.
Joe: This was a huge break
Because now we can put james steiner
At the kenney home.
Rusty: So what is the motive?
Why would they murder three people in one family?
We had one young man
Who had gone to that house
To help take care of this lady,
And they go back a year later
And commit one of the most brutal killings
This community has ever seen.
A man, his wife, and a daughter
Killed in their home.
To me that just didn't make sense.
But jimmy's sister said,
"well, sam had a girlfriend then."
And so she agreed to call sam's girlfriend
And have her come over to her house
Where I could visit with her too.
And so sam gallamore's girlfriend came
To jimmy steiner's sister's house.
And I sat and interviewed her.
And she told me back during the time period of the murder,
Jimmy steiner and gallamore would use her car.
We had good solid tracks at the crime scene.
And I walk over to her car,
And the first thing I saw was...
The tires we were looking for
On sam gallamore's girlfriend's car.
So I got a hold of the lab
And we told them to pull sam gallamore's fingerprint.
He had a criminal record
So we had fingerprints on file.
And compare them to the fingerprint
On that cedar club from the scene.
Joe: On July 20th, 1993,
I got the call we've been looking for.
Dps lab advised us
That that fingerprint on that club...
Matched sam gallamore's left index finger.
Rusty: I was on cloud nine.
We finally had the guy that held that club.
I was ecstatic.
I mean, I couldn't sit still.
It was just, "we got it.
Let's go find sam gallamore."
Rusty: Sam gallamore's girlfriend had told me
Sam gallamore was living with his aunt
In indianapolis.
Well, I found his aunt and interviewed her.
She told me, "yeah, sam was over in niles,
Suburb of chicago, right now
Doing work remodeling a hair salon."
Jimmy was in the state hospital
So we knew where he was gonna be.
So it was within a day joe and were on a plane
To see if we could find sam gallamore.
Joe: Rusty hierholzer and I proceeded to niles
And contacted the local police department,
And they said, "we'd be more than happy to help."
So the next morning we went to the beauty shop.
Rusty: We walked in.
And when I saw him and he saw me,
Everything went still for a minute.
Sam was up on a ladder, and he looked at me
And he said, "hi, rusty. How are you?"
And I said, "do you know why I'm here, sam?"
And he said, "yup."
And he came down and we arrested him
Without any incident.
I think he was tired of living with what he had done.
And we took him to the niles police department.
Rusty: And he gave a very detailed total confession.
Man: Okay.
Rusty: He said jimmy had thought about it.
They were going to rob somebody for drug money.
Joe: They thought they knew these people had money,
And they were willing to kill for it.
Rusty: They were drug-crazed,
And they decided that if they got in their way,
They were gonna kill them.
Rusty: Mr. Kenney started to close the door on them.
At that point, sam just pushed the door.
Jimmy who was hiding around the corner,
Came running in with the club,
And they started beating him right there.
Joe: Adrienne ran up there, saw what was happening,
And they knocked her down.
That's when she was attacked and beaten to death.
Rusty: Sam told us the gloves,
They only had one pair,
So they each wore one glove.
Rusty: Sam said he was the one that went around
To juliana kenney, the mother,
And killed her.
Joe: And then they started looking for various items,
Silver spoons and other items that they had taken.
Rusty: Sam also told me, I asked him,
"what did you all do with all the trinkets
And the spoons and that?"
He said, "well, we didn't wanna get caught with those
So I took them out to my parent's property,"
And he said, "I buried them."
And sam told me, "mr. Kenney's wallet may have had $25 cash,
And we bought a baggy of marijuana."
And I said, "so you killed three people
For a baggy of marijuana."
While we were coming back to kerville,
Other officers ended up going out
To the state hospital
And arrest jimmy steiner.
And jimmy also wanted to confess.
So we had two total confessions,
And they both told us the same story.
Joe: The next day, we took sam gallamore
To center point, where his parents lived,
To show us where they buried everything they had taken.
They were all in a plastic bag,
All the spoons, a brass horse,
Everything they had taken.
-Man: Just a bag. -Man: Yup. There it is.
Rusty: It was a good closure at that point.
Ron: To steal something and to kill whoever was there
Just for the hell of it,
Just like you'd kill a chicken or a rattlesnake,
In my opinion, they should be executed
And put to death for what they did.
And so I personally sought the death penalty.
Margaret: Sam gallamore was convicted
And he got the death penalty.
Ron: James steiner was convicted of capital murder.
He was given a life sentence.
Rusty: Being that he had been in and out of the state hospital,
His father had been killed at a young age
In a motorcycle wreck, so the jury, in that one,
Found that there were mitigating circumstance,
And jimmy got life in the penitentiary.
Margaret: I don't know if you can ever find closure
With a vicious triple murder
For the kenney family
And adrienne's friends.
It will never be over for them.
As long as jimmy steiner is eligible for parole,
There will be no resolution.