City Confidential Season 9 Episode 2

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00:00this was a neighborhood where people did not worry about bad things happening evil lurking

00:17around the corner they just didn't we went into the house that's when we saw the victim

00:25partially nude body of a of an adult female and just covered in blood this was one of the very most

00:32shocking and gruesome crime scenes i'd ever seen and it was just stab after stab after stab after

00:40stab whether you knew or not everybody said who could do this to another human being

00:46that kind of raised it to a new level because now you're thinking is there someone loose in

00:52georgetown that is preying on women it could be anybody and that kind of thing frightens people

01:00more by far than knowing the name of the person that did it from the pulsating streets of big cities

01:08to main street usa no neighborhood is safe from the unthinkable these are the stories of innocence lost

01:14of communities changed forever this is city confidential

01:22right in the heart of bluegrass country is a city of contradictions georgetown kentucky

01:33the home of ordinary people with a long history of doing the unexpected

01:39it dates back to when the town was founded according to local legend in 1789 a baptist minister

01:47conjured up his own spirits when he invented bourbon in his backyard

01:51then in the 1860s when the south seceded from the north georgetown the city named after george

02:01washington went against the grain and supported the union when the dust from the civil war settled

02:10residents went back to working the land transforming it into an agriculture hub

02:16complete with horse farms for breeding majestic kentucky thoroughbreds

02:21not much changed until the 1980s when the city built on visionary thinking welcomed a foreign auto

02:27manufacturer to set up shop today georgetown's toyota factory is the largest in the world with a

02:36workforce that more than tripled the city's population to 36 000 the influx of people and jobs improved

02:44the economy neighborhoods sprung up all around town new shopping became available and restaurants opened up

02:52although georgetown was always a nice place to live the extra income from toyota really helped

02:59today subdivisions built to accommodate all of the new residents sit alongside antebellum homes of families

03:07who've lived here for generations looks like a postcard that's what downtown georgetown looks like

03:15it's like something out of a storybook it really is georgetown's a beautiful community

03:21you feel as though you've probably walked back in time a hundred years in a good way but in the

03:28summer of 2002 the idyllic southern community that thrives on new ideas

03:35discovers there's a deadly line between the unexpected

03:42and the unthinkable

03:43on june 6th georgetown police get a call about an unresponsive female in the colony

03:55a subdivision where many of the area's toyota employees call home georgetown detective tom bell

04:03has just left his own home in the same neighborhood when he hears the call and so i've turned around

04:11and then when i got to the end of the street and turned left i was like oh my gosh this house is

04:15i'm right down the street

04:22bell arrives to find stephanie olsen the 17 year old who called 911 standing in the driveway

04:29she appears to be in shock she says she just returned from a sleepover at her friend mary's house

04:36to find her 41 year old mother diane snellen dead in stephanie's bedroom

04:47we went into the house we went up the steps and as soon as we turned left and looked into that bedroom

04:55that's when we saw the partially nude body of a of an adult female and just covered in blood

05:02i see the dried blood the pooling around her the lividity that had set in that it had probably been

05:12hours since this had happened she had her pajama shirt on there appeared to be a lot of trauma to the chest

05:21and trauma to the head there was blood in the carpet there was blood on her chest on her face and her hair

05:28it was everywhere there are also clumps of the victim's hair scattered on the floor i thought maybe

05:37the hair is part of a a struggle with the person that committed this crime then that kind of raised

05:42a concern because how did it get cut you know i know she stabbed in the chest and she had shoulder

05:49length hair as she's fighting for her life and this assault is going on she's getting cut hair's getting

05:57cut off and falling on the floor we could tell that she had put up some kind of fight you could see

06:06some contusions on her face you could see obviously some bruises and cutting on her on her knuckles and

06:13on her hands whoever had done this uh unleashed a lot of anger

06:20on the victim this was one of the very most shocking and gruesome crime crime scenes i'd ever seen

06:31either in person or through uh photographs or videos it was just something that stays with you

06:43police comb every inch of the house looking for clues

06:46in the upstairs bathroom it appears someone recently took a shower they wonder if the killer

06:54cleaned himself off before leaving they take samples from the drains hoping to find a trace of him

07:04downstairs they find more blood in the kitchen sink they take additional samples

07:09we notice there's no forced entry into this house you know there's nothing pride nothing broken um

07:16there's nothing kicked in uh so the victim either let this person in or answered the door and then the

07:26person barged in and and committed this crime you know when you start looking at the totality of

07:33everything there's a woman in her house she's confronted by someone she knows or doesn't know

07:39she flees upstairs she's assaulted is she raped she's murdered you've got all these concentrated

07:47knife wounds in her chest so what happened in this house and then you're thinking is there someone

07:55loose in georgetown that is preying on women and suddenly the little city known for contradictions

08:03adds another to its list beautiful georgetown is now the home of a very ugly crime

08:20before police can even finish processing the grisly crime scene

08:25a crowd of concerned friends and neighbors gathers in front of diane snellen's home

08:29they knew diane to be a very likable and liked person she had a great network of friends she was a good

08:41neighbor for this to have happened to her uh i think was a was a complete shock to the neighborhood

08:50i saw the police cars there the neighbors standing around and talking all kind of led me to

08:59understand that something was wrong with diane so i walked up to ask if diane was okay when the

09:08detective shook his head to affirm that diane was dead i couldn't even begin to start thinking about

09:19what happened to her they said diane has been killed they just brought diane's body out of the house

09:26i i i could have fell through the floor i would have never thought that diane would have never

09:35grew to be old you know she uh

09:41you know it's been 19 years

09:42you know it's been 19 years

09:47and it hurts

09:50now as much as

09:51i said i wasn't going to do this i thought after 19 years i would be okay

10:15diane lived in georgetown for 12 years but she grew up in a small town in northern michigan

10:32when she was 20 she married stephen olsen and started a family they had two kids stephen jr and

10:41stephanie diane's major concern was her children she wanted to make sure that they were on the right

10:49path doing the right things and that they were good people she loved her kids couldn't ask for a better

10:55mom diane's husband eventually moved the family to kentucky for work but the marriage fell apart

11:03diane stayed in georgetown and she knew she had to get a job to support her children and she applied

11:12at toyota in georgetown and was hired her supervisors and co-workers had nothing but praise

11:20for she was good at her job she had worked her way up uh through the ranks in toyota where she was no

11:26longer on the factory floor now she was you know quality assurance and she had potential to keep going

11:31farther at toyota had this not happened diane met her second husband danny snellen at toyota they fell in

11:41love quickly and married after dating only a short time what i found most attractive about diane was that

11:49smile it just lit up every room it walked into yeah speaking for myself yeah i knew right away that

12:03that was somebody i wanted to spend time with she never met a stranger she uh she always had something

12:14nice to say and with that smile but eight years into the marriage diane wasn't smiling when danny broke

12:27his wedding vows diane had learned that danny had fathered a child out of state she knew nothing about it

12:34until someone revealed that to her and for her that marked the end of the marriage

12:40we didn't fuss or fight or hate each other it was just agreeable uh we just went our separate ways there

12:51was uh yeah i i wouldn't call that amicable but neither was their animosity so it was just kind of

13:00for three years after the divorce diane juggled work and single motherhood by 2002 her son had flown the

13:15nest and moved out of state but stephanie was still at home diane decided to jump back into the dating scene

13:23she wanted a partner to go and do things with she loved traveling she loved playing ball she loved

13:32riding motorcycles she was very adventurous and she wanted somebody to share those times with

13:39diane's current boyfriend was robert jones who she had been dating for quite a few months at this point

13:47they spent a lot of time together they both were motorcycle riders they would ride together

13:53there was some indication that he maybe was more interested in her and more interested in a

13:59relationship or a long-term relationship than diane was we started to find out from friends that

14:06when they're out socially you know diane's wanting to dance and she's wanting to engage

14:10and robert wants to hug the wall and not get up and not interact with people they just you know didn't

14:16seem like they were meshing she thought he cared more about her than the feelings that

14:22she had for him that it wasn't fair for him for her to be in a relationship when she didn't love him

14:31as much as he loved her and police learn that the night before diane was murdered she told friends

14:39she was ready to move on diane said i think i need to get away for the weekend and i said what's going on

14:47and she said i think it's to my best interest to call the relationship off with robert

14:54she said i know he's going to be very upset and i don't want to be talking to him all weekend about

15:00this so would you mind if i come to your house and that way i don't have to answer his phone calls

15:06and i won't be in town well robert can just drop by and see me and i said sure that's that's a plan

15:12she's telling her best friend i don't want to see him anymore and i need to tell him

15:18and the friend tells us it was going to occur that night on the phone so now we're thinking wait

15:25a minute we need to find this guy and and talk to him and find out you know where were you when all

15:33this happened and someone comes to get me and tells me that there's this guy here named robert jones

15:39robert jones and he says he's you know the victim's boyfriend

15:55when detective tom bell talks to diane snellen's boyfriend robert jones

16:01he hears a completely different story than the one her friends are telling

16:05he told me that you know he had been dating diane for about six months or so six eight months

16:12that everything was great in their relationship that he had talked to her the night before about

16:16eight o'clock they had a brief maybe 15 minute conversation nothing of importance was said

16:22and uh he rang off if he's telling me that everything's great and the friend is saying no diane

16:28has confided to me that she's not happy in this relationship she's going to end it tonight

16:33that was the phone call at eight o'clock did he stew about it commit this crime she knows him she's

16:40going to let him in the house could he have done it i walked him through his alibi and he said i was on

16:48the internet looking up motorcycle parts and i went to bed i got up the next morning and i went to work

16:55he says he was off his computer by 11 p.m and clocked into work at 6 a.m from the dry blood found

17:04at the crime scene police believe diane was murdered sometime the night before

17:10and here's robert with several unaccounted for hours he is ticking a lot of boxes because he's really got

17:18no alibi from the time he logs off of the internet and the time he gets to work he's not living with

17:27anybody there's nobody in his home so you know could he be the one that committed this crime

17:36detectives fan out across diane's neighborhood to see if anything unusual happened the night before

17:41two of the teenagers who lived in the neighborhood said when they came home the previous night

17:49of june 5th that when their lights hit the front of diane's house as they were turning

17:54they saw someone crouch behind the bushes and they said you know we we don't know who that was

17:59the only thing the teens are sure of is that it was a man but since he didn't appear to be acting in

18:06a threatening manner they didn't give him a second thought and then we had another neighbor that said

18:11they heard what they thought was a motorcycle rev up and and leave of course they couldn't tell us

18:18where in the neighborhood they heard it from they just knew they heard a motorcycle this could be

18:24evidence that robert jones went to diane's house snuck up on her and then took off on his motorcycle

18:32but a shaky relationship a revving motorcycle and a shadowy figure in the bushes isn't exactly proof of

18:39murder hoping to gather more information police talk to diane's daughter stephanie

18:47what about this guy your mom's like is he very possessive of him he's jealous

18:56that they've never fought or that you've seen her that your mom has told you that my mom has told

19:01me would she tell you yeah we were really close like she would tell me everything that would happen

19:08between him and i stephanie insists that robert would never harm her mother we questioned stephanie

19:16about other men that might have come to the house to do any kind of service work anything of that

19:21nature and stephanie could not offer anybody that would have a motive for doing this to her mother

19:28police asked stephanie when she last talked to her mother

19:31she says they spoke on the phone around 10 o'clock the night before what was the nature of the phone

19:37conversation um me working full time you know being responsible getting ready was there any other

19:46topics been discussed okay how was the call the call ended um eight hours in and the investigation is

19:59going nowhere by all accounts diane is a great mother a wonderful friend and a caring partner

20:16but when the autopsy results come in it's clear that someone out there didn't think so highly of her

20:22her 16 wounds to her chest you come to realize through the medical examiner that the knife just

20:32didn't go in a little that the knife went in a lot and you know you're starting to see as you roll her

20:39over there's exit wounds in her back so someone is is driving a knife with enough force to go into her

20:46chest through her vital organs and then come out her back multiple times it was just stab after stab

20:54after stab after stab and then you've got the cuts in the back of the head and they're jagged and there's

21:00no really rhyme or reason to them so you start to wonder are they trying to stab her in the head are

21:08they trying to scalp her the medical examiner determines the murder weapon is a serrated knife

21:16at least seven to eight inches long police never found one at the scene that fit that description

21:22that means the killer took it after the savage attack so you start to wonder you know based on

21:30what you know at the scene and now what you're seeing at the autopsy how does all this fit

21:38while detectives dig deeper into diane's life

21:41her friends and family honor her as they try to understand how something like this could happen

21:48in georgetown she knew all her neighbors they got together and done things as a neighborhood

21:58she would never think it wouldn't a safe place or she wouldn't have moved there she wouldn't have had

22:02her children there if she thought it was unsafe i can say the world was robbed of a very special person

22:14when diane was gone when diane was taken from us

22:24and members of the distraught georgetown community refused to believe that someone

22:28here could be behind such a monstrous attack that means they need to look outside diane's friends

22:37and co-workers put their heads together trying to think of anyone who might have been a threat to diane

22:44someone quickly comes to mind

22:45diane snellen's friends and co-workers tell police there's someone in diane's recent past

23:00they should pay attention to a man she met on a business trip just days before she was murdered

23:07diane went to detroit for the weekend and there were several toyota workers that went with her

23:13and she had called me and she said nancy you wouldn't believe i've done the dumbest thing

23:18i said what she said i've lost my wallet well it wasn't very long after that that she called me and

23:24she said a guy found it and he's wanting me to meet him somewhere and i said well diane you're not

23:31gonna go by yourself i know take some of the people that are with you at work and she said that's

23:35a good idea i'll do that so when she met him in person over the wallet he was very seemed like

23:42he was kind of upset because she had somebody else with her of course this person had access to

23:47her wallet so he could see her driver's license he could see where she lived so he had a lot of

23:51information they tracked the man to a chicago suburb then enlist the help of local police to go to the

24:00man's home to talk to him and of course at that point you know he was like oh no i just found the

24:06wallet i didn't do this i didn't do that so he gave them a detailed statement about where he had

24:12been about his business trip and where he was on june 5th and june 6 of 2002. he was very cooperative

24:20this gentleman was willing to provide a fingerprint sample for the police uh for comparison against

24:27prints found at the scene they were able to confirm uh his story and as a result he was eliminated as a

24:35potential suspect but it doesn't take long for the police to get another lead friends and neighbors

24:42tell them if they're looking for someone who might have had it out for diane they should look a little

24:47closer to home it was no secret that diane and stephanie's relationship was volatile lately

24:55and most of the arguments were over stephanie's first serious boyfriend

24:58and 18 year old david dressman stephanie was a good kid when she was younger when she started dating

25:08david dressman her personality changed her grades were failing and she was very combative when it came to

25:18anything that she wanted to do that diane would not allow her to do she didn't want to follow rules

25:23anymore diane had made some mistakes in her life early with men and david struck her as

25:32the type of person that was not going to be a good mate for stephanie diane told me she called david

25:40dressman's stepmom and diane said that she was told that they were having problems with him

25:48and that if diane knew what was good for her daughter she would get her away from david

25:56diane's friends tell detectives that the tension was on full display when david was disinvited to

26:02stephanie's graduation party a few weeks ago we were all excited stephanie had graduated actually a year

26:10early and we watched her open her gifts and and then there diane had a cake for stephanie

26:18stephanie had the knife and she kind of made like a stabbing gesture over diane's head you know

26:26kind of like a chucky thing diane kind of like leaned back and looked at her like what are you doing

26:35the rest of us were kind of thinking the same thing why are you doing that

26:39but we thought she was just awkwardly trying to be funny

26:42we all just kind of laughed it off and went on but now diane's dead with 16 stab wounds to the chest

26:55police take another look at where stephanie was when her mother was being murdered her initial

27:01statement was pretty simple i stayed the night at my friend mary's house i talked to my mom that night

27:07but when police tracked down mary at her georgetown apartment they hear a much different story mary

27:15says it wasn't a typical teenage girl sleepover both her and stephanie planned to have their

27:21boyfriend spend the night and diane knew it and was angry with stephanie the phone call between her

27:28mom and her was not i love you i love you too have a nice day good night sweet dreams it was i'm staying

27:36at mary's house no you're not you're coming home no i'm staying here slam the phone down and i wish

27:43you would just go ahead and die shortly after that according to mary and mary's boyfriend stephanie

27:51and david leave which is not what she told us the first time obviously stephanie is hiding things

28:00so detectives call her in again this time they play hardball

28:05you told me that you stayed there the whole night i did stay there really the whole night you never

28:11left no i really where did i go because the only time i remember is when we went to lexington

28:19she gave us a story about going to lexington which is the next city over to buy marijuana and then come

28:26back stephanie says after the call with her mother ended she left with david for about an hour when

28:35police check out her story phone records verify the call with her mother ended at 10 30 pm and then her

28:42cell pinged in lexington a half hour later we found the person she allegedly went and bought drugs from

28:50and talked to him and he put the time frame in such that it would have given them over an hour or so

28:59unaccounted for after they bought the marijuana and came back to georgetown when the interview was

29:05concluded i still had sort of an uneasy feeling about the way that interview had gone and her demeanor i was

29:12still trying to gauge her reaction to this and figure out if that was her normal personality or if i was

29:18seeing something out of the ordinary but there's nothing to concretely prove stephanie was at her

29:23mother's house during the murder she becomes just another potential suspect police can't rule out

29:39the sunday morning after diane's murder 200 of her friends gather for a memorial ride

29:48i was amazed at how many people were there people that i hadn't seen in years showed up people that

29:57didn't work with her that we met over the years as a couple they all showed up it was very endearing so

30:10it ends with the motorcycle process through georgetown i had diane's urn in my car

30:23and they had a big poster on an easel of diane and i had that poster in the back seat and i was following

30:33her brother and sister-in-law to their home and i'm driving and i look in my review mirror and i see her

30:41picture in my review mirror and i said well this is the last ride you're taking with me come on girl

30:48weeks past with no new developments

31:01the evidence collected leads nowhere

31:05all the blood found at the crime scene on the floor and in the drains was diane's the clumps of hair all

31:13diane's and every fingerprint belonged to someone known to have been in the house from stephanie to

31:19her boyfriend david to diane's boyfriend robert you find all this stuff and you think i'm going to send

31:26all this off to the lab and they're just going to come back with this ta-da and here's your person and

31:32it just doesn't work that way where do you go you know you just i mean it becomes a waiting game at that

31:39point for three long months the case lies dormant then detectives get a phone call from a prisoner in

31:49the county jail he says he wants to talk to cops turns out he has a lot to say

31:58just about the time georgetown detectives are fearing they might never solve diane snellen's murder

32:10they get a call we had gotten information that there was an inmate at the scott county jail

32:16named david smith who wanted to speak with us he had information that was important to our

32:22investigation and he started to tell us about him being in jail with a young man by the name of

32:31timothy crabtree and he said one night they were in a pod just the two of them that crabtree started

32:37crying he was upset and when smith asked him what the problem was he said that he had been involved

32:45in a murder and he was afraid that he was going to get ratted out crab chief started to tell smith

32:51about how he'd gone with these people to this house to commit this crime that he was supposed

32:56to be standing guard and he said he was standing out in front of the house crouched behind some bushes

33:03when a car drove by and he tried to hide but he was afraid that they might have seen him and he

33:08afraid he's gonna get caught well that was a game changer for us because we had not told anybody

33:18about what we were told about the person crouching in the bushes and if that's not damning enough

33:2621 year old tim crabtree tells smith his co-conspirators are david dressman and stephanie olson

33:34since crabtree is now out of jail detective bell rounds him up for questioning his story was you

33:44know he didn't know anything about anything and he wasn't with them and i'm done you know call my lawyer

33:52but when detectives ask around about crabtree they discovered david dressman and tim run in the same

33:58circles and it's well known that tim fancies himself an expert on murder because his father

34:05is in prison for killing someone the friends also say dressman was impressed with tim's reputation and

34:12asked him for advice there was a night where david and tim and three or four more friends

34:23had gone out to a house it's supposedly a haunted house and while they were at the house david posed a

34:32question how do you kill someone in a crowded area i don't know like a neighborhood and no one can hear

34:42him scream and timothy volunteered well you stab him in the lungs that way they can't scream

34:49so that now is like well wait a minute diane was stabbed to death in a neighborhood lots of times

35:00in the lungs and as for the murder weapon police learned that david dressman stole a knife from the

35:07restaurant where he worked we were able to talk to the restaurant manager and he told us that yes i had

35:16a knife go missing the first week of june we had two of them but one of them's gone here's the second

35:20one it's the twin brother of the one that's missing so now we've got timothy's story to the inmate we've

35:28got the knife that's missing we've got them together we've got someone crouched in the bushes we've got

35:34all this stuff starting to come together and we felt we had enough to make three arrests but detectives

35:41realize that proving that a 17 year old girl would orchestrate the brutal killing of her own mother

35:48just so she could be with her off-limits boyfriend will be a tough sell in this kind-hearted town

35:56so before going public with the arrests police want to make sure they have a rock-solid case

36:03david dressman was 18 years old he was he was in school at scott county high school he was just

36:08your typical student i mean he he didn't excel he didn't stand out he was just kind of there

36:17stephanie she wore the pants in that relationship she led the charge she was in control and he was

36:25somebody who would go along with what she wanted to do stephanie wanted to leave and be free to live

36:31with david they wanted to go off in the sunset and have their little life and be free of their parents

36:36but seeing is believing that's when detectives true to their georgetown roots try an unexpected

36:45approach they get a court order and demand all local newspapers turn over any photos taken outside

36:52diane's house the morning stephanie called 9-1-1 and what they see isn't pretty

36:5910 months after diane snellen's gruesome murder photos from local newspapers are in the hands of

37:12georgetown police stephanie did not appear to be in shock in any normal sense i've dealt with

37:17hundreds of victims over the years and her reaction was more or less aloof stephanie is

37:25unique she comes across as a demure teenager but she could flip herself on and off

37:39like nothing i've ever seen

37:43she could cry and then shut him off in a heartbeat

37:48i view her as like a sociopath i would characterize her as almost completely disassociated

37:58from normal emotion with this particular crime it's not typical of victims and frankly it's not

38:05even typical of most suspects diane said sometimes when she would talk to stephanie it was almost like

38:13she was talking to somebody else she said it was like my stephanie wasn't there anymore she said it

38:21looks like her you know and dressed like her but emotionally it was she wasn't there

38:31certain that detectives have what they need on april 7 2003 david dressman and timothy crabtree are

38:38arrested for the murder of diane snellen after cutting through a lot of red tape due to stephanie's

38:45minor status she is also arrested for complicity to commit murder

38:53and when the residents of lovely little georgetown hear the news and the gory details they're horrified

39:00police believe it all started after diane said david was not invited to stephanie's graduation party

39:11that's when stephanie asked david to find a way to get diane out of the picture on the night of june 5th

39:19things exploded there was a hideous argument on the phone i believe that this was the moment when

39:26she realized she's not going to get what she wants she has to go another way i think that's when she

39:32decided to put this in motion after leaving mary's house to go buy marijuana cops theorized stephanie

39:40and david stopped to pick up the self-professed murder expert timothy crabtree and head to diane's house

39:49when they get there stephanie goes in while david and tim wait outside

39:53diane is in on the living room couch because she's waiting for stephanie to come home because she's

40:01been told to come home when she sees stephanie stephanie storms up the steps diane follows her up

40:09there to confront her about the phone call and the disrespect and everything else that's going on

40:15and then david comes in now she's trapped that's when we think that the assault happens

40:23when it's done they position the body to stage it like it's a rape homicide

40:37and as if to wash themselves clean of what they've done stephanie and david shower and then leave the

40:43house to embark on their new parent-free life

40:46it was horrible i couldn't imagine anybody doing that to anything let alone a person somebody that

40:59loved them

41:02i felt relieved i felt for diane you know that that there'd been closure and um

41:10um at the same time i just couldn't help but grieve like diane would be grieving that it was her daughter

41:25on may 27 2006 stephanie olsen is convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison

41:33you could hear her yell out gasp here's this person who showed basically no emotion during the entire

41:40trial and when the jury found her guilty she acted like she was totally shocked by it

41:47like as if she thought she could get away with this

41:52for the actual murder of diane snellen david dressman is convicted and sentenced to 20 years

41:58timothy crabtree takes an alfred plea neither admitting nor denying his involvement

42:07but for testifying against david and stephanie he gets only six years for conspiracy to commit murder

42:18as for georgetown the murder definitely left its mark

42:22in this place where people are known for doing the unexpected no one ever imagined that teenage

42:30lovers were capable of butchering a devoted mother who stood in their way

42:36yet it happened and this is one devastating contradiction that will haunt this beautiful city forever

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