The Babyface Killer Now on Death Row | Handsome Devils | Lesley Eugene Warren

foreign she was very attracted to him ask God fun to hang around with I felt that he had thoughts about females that were not healthy [Music] and and scared they told me I would be next it was just Agony to think about the body of somebody you loved being just dumped in a river like a dog still on First Avenue I wanted him dead [Music] May 1990 Asheville North Carolina population 62 000. it's the day before Memorial Day weekend and Jamie Hurley hasn't turned up for work [Music] that Friday night about six o'clock I got a call from Jamie's father hi Mr early how are you he asked me if I knew where Jamie was he said that her employer had been trying to call and all they could get was a busy signal foreign I would go over to the house and see what was going on [Music] cute little house and it was never locked and so people could just come and go [Music] Jamie the first thing I noticed was that the sofa was made up for someone to be sleeping there Jamie and there's a indention in the pillow obviously where someone had been lying I had this really really eerie feeling I went into the bedroom the bed was perfectly made up sheets were turned down and her answering machine was there right by the bed and something was wrong with it it was just clicking it was just over and over and over because the tape had been removed it was very chilling [Music] so I called Mr Hurley and I said this doesn't look good and I think maybe you should call the police the police are called but it's the start of the long weekend and not a priority case the policeman was very nice but he said she's an adult she's free to go where she wants him 99 times out of a hundred people will show up just give it some time [Music] we got the word out and all her friends came to the house I was out of town when the call came that Jamie was missing I was at my in-laws down east and immediately came back up here we were there Saturday Sunday and Monday we just hung out at the house all day Tuesday morning after the long weekend and there's still no sign of Jamie Asheville Police Department goes into action Sergeant Ted Lambert is assigned to this missing person case he's convinced that she's probably off on a long weekend with a boyfriend and that it'll turn out to be nothing we're all bewildered we didn't know where to turn or what to do next and I don't think anyone wanted to go thinking that she had been murdered hi I'm detective Ted Lambert I was the first one he interviewed what did I think had happened that kind of thing was there anything suspicious anything out of the ordinary Sarah tells the detective that just before Jamie disappeared she had a visit from someone from her past five years earlier Jaime worked at a juvenile correction center one of the boys she had helped there now a young man had reached out to her Jamie worked in the aggressive children's unit with the younger boys she met Leslie Warren there Lee Warren was in for kidnapping and assault Leslie's a troubled soul he was very quiet a loner just hit and have good feelings about Wesley felt that he had thoughts about females that were not healthy Leslie he was more responsive to her and she built a very good rapport with him what is it that you would like to do one of the things that she loved was reading I heard you like to read now and then he was special to her because she felt that she had made a real difference with him that he and she understood each other do you have a favorite author at all was she too trusting of Leslie yes I told her that I think what concerns me though is the behavior around the females such as yourself and others that are here that really concerns me our cautioned Jamie to be leery of Leslie to stay away from him but she believed that everyone had a good side everyone had a bad side but that good sign outweighed the bad five years but out of the blue he'd called and asked if he could drop by he told her that he was in some kind of trouble and he needed to talk and so she told him that he could come over to the house nothing would have delighted her more than to have one of her former clients turn to her for advice Leslie Warren is now 22. an ex-military man and married to Childhood sweetheart Tracy Leslie came back to visit the center one day he was in an area of visiting family I kind of took that face value that he had been doing well and we were talking Jamie called so it gate lasting the phone and they talked for a while after they hung up he said he would contact each other in the future this was a very different Leslie Warren he seemed more confident he seemed to have turned his life around and was married with two children she found herself beaming with pride foreign he took good care of himself and I think he maybe used that to his advantage four days after The Disappearance of Jamie Hurley detectives pulled Warren in for questioning Warren seemed very relaxed very straightforward Pleasant polite young man I'd like to thank you for coming in to talk to me today Mr Warren my pleasure detective Lambert yes thank you I wanted to talk to you because your name came up person's investigation she's missing so you know Jake of course she's my social worker when I was 15 and we go back for a while she really helped me out you see anybody else was there anybody else in her place no not not that I remember it was just myself and Jamie had dinner chatted around the past around eight o'clock do you think something happened he issued officers that yes he'd been there but he'd left the previous night so you didn't stay over at that place no no I had to go home I worked the next day you know he had such warm charm and seemed to them such a normal person that Warren was not detained by the corpse but ever the cautious investigator detective Lambert keeps Warren's van and orders a forensic examination from police custody and with his marriage to Tracy failing Warren heads over to see his new girlfriend branya owenby I'm at Leslie Warren at the community store where he had a job there we went out a couple times and he started coming to my house and sometimes he brought groceries and just hung out talking drinking it was fun to hang around with he was a nice guy women are attracted to the nice guy with a deceptive baby face good looks we went to the Asheville Mall one day and uh on our way back he just pulled a pistol out started shooting it out the window asking what are you crazy you know that's there's no telling where that bullet's going to come down it scared me because you know I didn't like stuff like that I was loud and like to party but leave the gun in the car has turned up a woman's purse they brought the purse over to my house for me to identify they said they'd also found a sheet in Leslie's van that matched a sheet at Jamie's house when I saw the purse it made me very fearful that he had done something with her [Music] one morning Leslie said that there was a detective coming to talk to him about some missing woman and I thought that was weird [Music] look back to the police station I know you've been lying to me this time the cops aren't Charmed stayed there didn't you Under Pressure Warren claimed that he'd taken cocaine with Jamie Hurley and that she'd overdose he said Johnny was shooting up cocaine which is something she would never ever have done that she OD'd and he had panicked and dunked her body in the French Broad River it was just agony to think about the body of somebody you loved being just dumped in a river like a dog it was just awful detectives are in a bind they don't buy a Warren's story but without a body they can't hold him for long they searched the river I guess maybe three days Jamie's friends join in the search they felt it would be good that if we did help it would give us something to do besides just stressing over what was happening we would have some way to be involved I'd like to thank you for joining our search today very much appreciated the excess Manpower some of us who were working were allowed to have the time off today to go and search for her it was just really heartwarming to see all the the community volunteers that came out I think basically with all of us coming together to try to support each other because Jamie had touched all our lives and for her to suddenly disappear like that we were just all I guess in a State of Shock mostly because body may get snagging some branches one thing to also gave special attention to is uh [Music] [Music] I can remember talking to Jamie's Aunt who was there and I said to her this must be what hell is like and she said I don't think it's this bad the police department had told us what type things to look for we knew she was somewhere but he couldn't find her despite a huge search there's no sign of Jaime I remember seeing Ted Lambert on the riverbank bent down and he looked so tired so discouraged it's a bitter blow for her friends and family and for detective Ted Lambert forced to let him walk Lambert believes he may be letting Jaime's killer slip through his fingers Warren's bond is set at one thousand dollars his grandfather coughs up the cash and he walks free it's like two or three o'clock in the morning blood all our room was wet it was raining outside [Music] he said I got caught stealing the pot plant so I had to stab the guy it was horrible that scared me Lizzy I can't deal with it what's going on with you he asked me if he could stay at my house please I let him clean up but I told him he had to go [Music] I wouldn't let him stay at my house the next day Warren turns up at a motorcycle dealership to test drive the Kawasaki he drives off on it and never comes back meanwhile detective Lambert reaches out to neighboring police forces do they have anything on Warren in Spartanburg South Carolina he catches a break one of the investigators there happens to remember the name last year Leslie Warren had been questioned about another homicide he walks over to a filing cabinet pulls out a fallen unsolved murder the file is less than one year old and it refers to the murder of Velma Gray 42-year-old Vilma fake Ray was a singer in a local dance band she disappeared while driving home after a gig in Asheville her body had been dumped in a lake her killer was never found my sister Velma Bay played in the band with me and my wife the band was reflections of Greenville she was a singer had a beautiful voice everybody loved her and she played keyboards and had one of the best Harmony voices of anyone that we ever sang with she could pick up a Harmony Part and actually she could teach us the harmony parts most of the time Thelma Faith wrote in the in the motor home or the van with us this particular evening she drove up that evening when we got through she left a little ahead of me we said her goodbyes and that was the last time I saw her thank you Greenville is right at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and there is a steep stretch and it tends to be foggy and she ran off the road into a ditch a car load of teenagers drove by and she explained to them she'd run into a ditch could could they help her um they were trying to figure out exactly what to do when they saw a semi a tractor-trailer pull up behind Velma Gray's car thanks they figured okay everything's fine the trucker's going to help this lady so they drove off when questioned later the teens remembered the truck's distinctive logo there was a logo on the cowling and it was amcan American Canadian Trucking and the company is based in Anderson South Carolina [Music] grocery store three miles down the way if you'd like to hop into my truck totally fine [Music] at 8 A.M the following morning velma's body was found by fishermen floating in Lake Bowen the autopsy revealed she'd been beaten and strangled we started looking for the truck driver as a witness it was amazing to me why he would not come forward and say I'm the one who was there at the scene it's deeper employment records from the time of Velma Gray's murder and finds the name Leslie Warren Lambert heads back to Asheville where he pulls together a small team to investigate one he strongly suspects that he's behind more than one murder first up detectives pull in Warren's ex-girlfriend Rania owenby North Carolina law enforcement came to my house and picked me up and told me that I needed to go to the Asheville Police Department that's when I learned that they were looking for him bronya mentions that she was with Warren in his truck on the same night of velma's murder I told them that Leslie Warren and I went to South Carolina and stolen the truck Warren was one of their regular drivers but he often stole trucks from amcan to go joyriding after hours I didn't know we were still in America he just walks right in grabs the keys and partied back up here in the truck [Music] we parked it up and he just said wouldn't come out I told him I said you know what's the matter with you come on out drink a beer he took me back to my house and evidently after he dropped me off that's when he went to South Carolina detectives tell bronya they suspect her ex murdered Velma gray and she needs to watch her back it was scary they told me I would be next that he would that he would hunt for me next I told them that I was going to go get a gun and if he came to my door that I would blow his head off and one of the guys said you got to do what you got to do is believed Leslie Warren murdered both Jamie Hurley and Velma Gray the trouble is they've got no proof and Warren has vanished with no new leads they delve into Warren's history behind the good looks and easy charm they discover a man with a dark past Leslie came from a childhood where the father was abusive that the father had burned down the the family trailer and that Leslie had witnessed a lot of this abuse [Music] as a teen Leslie flunked school and turned to alcohol and drugs at 15 he tried to rape his 30 year old next door neighbor he was at her house trying to help her out with some chores and she sent him down to the basement for something and while he was down there he called her and said come down here I need you to look at something she went down the steps and he was pointing to something she looked over at it and he wrapped a rope around her neck and started strangling her one of her relatives heard the commotion and came downstairs and socked him in the face that's the only thing that saved the poor lady and that's when he was sent to the juvenile Evaluation Center the juvenile evaluation center where Warren would meet counselor Jamie Hurley and now she's dead and detective Lambert knows he's responsible but can't prove it until the case is blown wide open unwittingly this vital piece of evidence comes from the one person who was trying to protect Warren his loyal mother Phyllis what were they uh Warren's mother reveals that three years ago he was a suspect and yet another murder [Music] she casually mentions that Warren had been interviewed three years earlier in Upstate New York about another missing girl with the upstate Police Department what were they talking to your son about her name is Patsy Vineyard and she went missing when Warren was serving in a nearby military base another unsolved salvader where Warren is the suspect another body found floating in a lake detective Lambert gets right on the phone to the New York State Police Department being investigator Bob cook tells Lambert that he had his suspicions about Warren at the time but he had an alibi for his movements and he didn't even come across as a bad guy in fact as cook said he had this baby face and looked so goddamn innocent gray murder detectives in New York had ruled worn out of the investigation but for North Carolina detectives the puzzle pieces are fitting perfectly they fear they've got a serial killer on their hands where still he's on the loose [Music] unbeknownst to police Warren has driven his stolen motorbike 200 miles east on Interstate 40. the legend Warren turned up in High Point North Carolina he came here to visit a friend she worked at a bar but she's not working that night so he kind of just hung around and he drank heavily hard liquor tequila my partner and I were dispatched to investigate a suspicious male who appeared to be intoxicated trying to push his motorcycle dropped it and seem to be having a hard time getting it moving again I asked him what he was doing and he answered even at the bar at the Radisson Hotel and they've been drinking just had too much to drink and instead of driving home he was going to walk his motorcycle back to a a motel where he was staying nearby my partner put him in the back of his car and took him to the the motel the local cops have no idea the man they've just assisted is wanted in connection with three homicides [Music] next day back at the same Downtown Bar in High Point smooth talking Warren is flirting with the bartender [Music] all depends Catherine Johnson also worked in High Point part-time as a bartender I saw you on the motorcycle outside I do wanna come for a ride I mean I'm done and about an hour I don't know what it is about some women in motorcycles and maybe it's the same thing about men with guns I don't know but she was very attracted to him cheers 21 year old Catherine has no idea of the danger she's in Legend Warren knew that they were going to be on the lookout for a stolen motorcycle but it sure didn't stop him riding around the streets of High Point she was on the seat there behind him swigging from a beer bottle having just a great time foreign they wound up going to a picnic together that was put on for the employees after Addison they played softball together they drank together as they were leaving Leslie Warren commented to one of the people drinking he says you know I'm going to have her tonight and then repeated I'm going to have her just wait and see they were in Catherine's car driving around [Music] they're turned down this little side road to this deserted Park [Applause] 200 miles away in Asheville North Carolina Warren is wanted by police detective Ted Lambert is building a case against him for the murders of Jane Hurley Velma Gray and Patsy Vineyard he fixes his hopes on Warren's wife Tracy will she do the right thing and spill the beans on a drug-taking womanizing husband he heads back down to Spartanburg where Tracy lives with their two children Leslie Warren and Tracy are estranged detective Lambert notices Tracy is wearing a ring stolen from murder victim Patsy Vineyard do you know why I asked her to come in today well uh I assume it's about Leslie your husband Leslie yes not my husband had any more were separated oh really we've been trying to find him because we think he might be messed up with something a little unpleasant we're wondering do you know where he might be oh perhaps visiting one of his dealers that's a love living you have there oh this whole thing it mind if I have a closer look at that sore God that is beautiful uh have you seen him recently he's not been around can I show you something sure you might find this curious he pulls out a photograph of Patsy Vineyard wearing the same ring Under Pressure Tracy admits it was a gift from Warren and there's more she revealed that Warren had confessed to killing Patsy Vineyard told me I mean you didn't want to see her suffer for detective Lambert it's no longer a supposition armed with Tracy's admission he's certain warns guilty now he needs to catch him foreign can we do that yes Asheville Police Department put together a plan they will tap Tracy's phone and wait for him to call her a wanted poster describing Warren as a highly dangerous serial killer his facts to Law Enforcement Officers all over the nation thank you a massive Manhunt swings into action across Three Counties [Music] and later that day Lambert gets an unexpected visit brother LaRon turns up at the police station tells officers that he knows what Jamie Hurley's body is hidden Warren had pitched up at his trailer a few months earlier and suggested they take a ride [Music] foreign [Music] 's help to dispose of the body [Music] [Applause] [Music] they stop in the mountains foreign drags Jamie's body down the side of a hill then Warren scrabbles out a shallow grave getting back into the car he tells Lauren to keep his mouth shut Warren's brother leads officers to a remote spot deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains I got a phone call from a friend of mine who had a police radio in her house and she said I think they found Jamie's body it was relatively steep a sloped down dropping down below us they had strung some ropes I climbed 250 feet down where the remains were located and we proceeded to uncover the body the law enforcement agencies had also brought dental records and confirmed that the remains were in fact Miss Hurley [Music] they did the autopsy of course and found out that she was strangled and that there was no cocaine in her body at all so much for a Warren's story about Jamie odan didn't happen finally detective Lambert knows he has the right man but the clock is ticking Warren could strike again at any moment they have little to go on as he seems to have disappeared Into Thin Air but they're about to get the biggest break in the entire case at 2PM that day Tracy takes a call from Warren [Music] get on that police need Warren to stay on the line long enough to make the trace where is that you know he's phoning his wife because he needs some money can you get a trace on that Tracy keeps him talking [Music] experts get a fix on a location 200 miles away in High Point North Carolina sure about that great work thank you [Music] the police response is Swift and decisive [Music] 20 minutes later High Point detectives Converge on a small wooden house the group of Patrol officers were uniformed people and detectives who went to the house [Music] we were concerned about covering all the exits in case you wanted to try to run for it police block off the street they tell residents to stay in their houses they're going to have to try and take one without violence they called the girl who looks right in the house and said is Leslie Warren there we have our surrounded you know come out here under arrest officers know Warren's inside but he refuses to come out they made their move while officers cinch across the yard a SWAT team takes aim at the front door the handle slowly turns from the inside [Music] and there's Warren didn't make an effort to run or struggle or anything [Music] he wasn't upset it was just like he expected his arrest would happen detectives have a strong case against Warren but it's mostly circumstantial they need a full confession [Music] and pull together an audacious ruse to make him crack Ted had talked to behavioral profilers at the FBI asking them how can we make it as uncomfortable as possible for Leslie Eugene Warren to make him talk and they had suggested making it look as big as possible so they had a whole room at the Asheville Police Department set up as the Leslie Warren task force [Music] they had pictures of each of the victims blown up all around the room they had fingerprint cards all around the room they had filing cabinets with drawers marked with the name of each victim the infant said boy we got a whole drawer full of evidence on each one of these cases we got your fingerprints on all these cases we know what you've done uh they had boxes of Pizza open like they were working 24 hours a day on this it was brilliant police work on Ted's Park now in actuality there was no evidence thank you [Music] cuffed and Shackled Warren is slowly walked right through the fake incident room he wasn't there more than a couple of minutes because they were looking for a shock value any longer and Warren might see through the fakery they had arranged for Ted Lambert to be the only person to talk to him in that room hey Leslie how you doing and Warren's eyes just hit the floor he didn't pick his head up again the interview room has been specially prepared as well the chair legs have been sewn down literally to keep Warren off balance Ted Lambert said Leslie you saw what was in that room the only thing you've got going for you is the truth you need to tell us the truth within minutes Warren is confessing yes he killed Jamie Hurley they're awesome yes he killed Velma Gray [Music] yes he killed Patsy Vineyard chillingly he said I'll just kill him no real reason there was one instance let's say now we're having sex and he just slipped his hand up around my throat he didn't put any pressure on it but I couldn't figure out what the hell that was about and then come to find out that's how he killed these women [Music] don't know why he didn't kill me I don't know the interview was all but over one more thing when Warren starts talking about a fourth victim oh by the way there's this woman down in High Point I killed [Music] everybody got real quiet their ears pricked up and he started to describe the murder of Catherine Johnson Catherine only last weekend in a bar and they went for a drive after he had sex with her he placed his hands around her throat and strangles her to death [Music] it takes more than a minute to strangle somebody to death just watch the clock it is a long intimate murder he was devoid of empathy I'm not so sure he even got a huge adrenaline rush out of it and if that moment he felt like it and he just strangled her to death right out there in the middle of that field picked her body up and loaded her into the trunk then he drove the car away and he wound up parking it into Madison parking lot first in he wanted the Trump to be back against the wall where nobody would be likely to smell or find the body for a while [Music] worn under armed escort is driven back to High Point to find Catherine's body they assembled a forensic Squad and they went over to the Radisson and they did find her vehicle reversed parked into a parking place they noticed the large number of flies around the truck and in the trunk Catherine's body there was a high degree of decomposition and it'll smell bad it was it was the awful remains of a beautiful young lady like many successful serial killers Leslie Warren had a an unassuming quality about him something that did not cause people to take alarm at his presence whether you call that charm or whether you call that manipulation it knocks a wall down and Warren possessed that Leslie warns trials for multiple murder open in September 1993 in Greenville South Carolina he came in he was not very big he was not imposing I'd always thought if somebody walked in the room you would know that that person was a serial killer the temperature of the room would drop 15 degrees nothing like that happened he just looked like somebody from down the street he did not look remarkable at all and and that to me was a was a huge surprise during the trial Warren just sat there I don't recall any any emotion at all he just stared Straight Ahead very emotionless no facial changes or anything he would answer the judge's questions directly but other than that he just sat very composed I think that kind of angered a lot of us how dare you just sit there knowing what you did not even to the family not even to the friends to say I'm sorry or anything it was just that same Blank Stare the whole time he was in there I was pushing for the death sentence I wanted him dead first time I saw him just instinctly I said let me have him I'll deal with them it was a nightmare they put guards in front of me and I guess they were afraid I might do an outburst to some some of the night nature when the death sentence for the murder of Jamie Hurley is announced her brother Lee stands up in the court as Leslie Warren as ushered past him Lee Hurley liked a match hey Leslie I was so sick of Harden and being scared and I just wanted to go on with my life I carried a gun with me for a long time until the day that they caught him a big hooray went through the whole house you know and I I was safe I felt relieved that no more women were going to get hurt by him [Music]

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Length: 47min 42sec (2862 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 22 2022