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talk some true crime. But it's apparent to us through the physical descriptions, the mannerisms,
the clothing worn, that there is a high probability that the same suspect from the Chevron
is the same suspect for the Barberitos homicide and robbery. So, if you can tell, I'm kind of being
careful with my words. I don't want to put something out there that's not true, something that we don't know. So, I am
being careful, but please understand we have warrants for one individual for Tanglewood Apartments homicide.
Is there a likelihood that he's also involved with the homicide down the road at the Chevron?
Yes. And we believe that the homicide from the Chevron and that suspect is related
to Barbara Ritas based on physical descriptions, clothing, mannerisms, weapons, we believe the possibility exists that
those are also related. Okay? We have um a lot of resources out right now that are looking for Dana France.
His warrants are put in the system. He's in the inlets, which is a national database.
Um any information that we're getting is being put out to law enforcement just as
quickly as we receive it. And also, we have uh the Marshal Service working with us because they have some
technologies and abilities to get outside of our boundaries and help us in locating suspects.
That's one of the things the marshals do with the Fugitive Task Force and all is
help us to actually [snorts] serve warrants on individuals that we are looking for.
So, we have pulled in all the resources. We've pulled in everything that we could
get our hands on. Um we've been um working multiple scenes. Takes a lot of manpower to work the
scenes the way we have. All the detectives who are working these particular cases, our crime scene guys
have been spread pretty thin. We're working multiple scenes as well. Um one of our instruments that we use
for crime scenes is a 3D scanner. It actually scans the the and scans the scene.
Ours has been sent off to be um worked on and calibrated. Houston County Sheriff's Department stepped up with
theirs, sent out one of their investigators with their scanning machine, was able to do the
Barberitos scene first yesterday. So, law enforcement's definitely come together in this case.
Uh to my knowledge, there's not any resources that we haven't tapped into. Uh the public is hugely supportive right
now. And uh one of the things that we have in Houston County is a strong public support.
>> [music] >> What we are left with here, Captain, we have two other cases still outstanding
for Franz, our bad man, our already convicted bad man. These two cases are going to go
to the grand jury. After they present their case, the Houston County gets a grand jury
indictment to officially charge Franz or Franz with the two additional murders, that of Patel,
the Chevron gas station employee, and that of Parker Killian Moore at the Barberitos.
So, the grand jury found probable cause to charge the accused, Franz, with two counts of malice murder,
four counts of felony murder, two counts of armed robbery, a count of aggravated
assault, a count of criminal attempt to commit malice murder. Shortly after announcing those charges,
we get another announcement that the prosecutor will seek the death penalty against the
suspect Daniel Bruce Frantz in the killings that shook the Warner Robins community in 2018.
This from an article Houston Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Hartwig III signed a notice of intention to seek
the death penalty against Frantz on December 11, 2019 court records said. This is in large part and rightfully so
regarding a chilling detail released by the police. This detail was that the victims in both cases, the Barberitos
murder and the Chevron slayings, did not put up any resistance. They both victims
were complying with the demands of the robber when they were shot. In fact, in both scenarios,
the victim handed over the money, did what the robber said at gunpoint, handed over the money and in both cases, we
know this from surveillance footage and then at Barberitos, we know it from surveillance footage and from witnesses,
he shot the victims in the head anyway. Yeah, what a real piece of [ __ ] >> That is I mean that's absolutely the
coldest of cold-blooded murder. So, the court filing stated the murder of Jack Patel and Parker Moore committed by
the accused Daniel Bruce Frantz II was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible, or inhumane
in that it involved depravity of mind. I think that's absolutely spot on here. Absolutely. This person is concealing
their identity with a disguise, face completely covered, dressed in black, gun pointed to these victims, gets the
money, gets what he came in there for. Nobody fights back. Nobody puts up any problems. Nobody is caught on a phone
calling the police, and he shoots and kills anyway. So, where this [snorts] case sits,
we have the man in in prison for the previous murder, charged in the the other two murders,
now facing the death penalty, and now this is the time that we are also aware of, the most annoying time in any of
these types of cases, where it drags out and we wait for the murder trial to start. And of course, with this being a
capital punishment, death penalty case, there's often a longer lag time here before we get to
trial. Now, this is so critical to this case, and not in a good way. This has hurt this case tremendously.
Five years go by. Now, part of that, we had that COVID year that everybody remembers,
mostly everything shut down. This probably delayed this to going to trial. It probably delayed a lot of the work on
this case. So, almost 5 years to the date of the indictments, this is on October 4th, 2024,
to everyone's shock and surprise, the charges were dropped. So, we have such a good
case, we're going after the death penalty, but nope, now we decided we're dropping the charges against this guy.
Change their mind. They say, quote, "Based on the need for further investigation," end quote, the cases and
charges were dismissed. But the guy sat in prison for 5 years. No, he's going to
serve. He's absolutely guilty of the murder that he's convicted of. Right. They're dropping the additional murder
charges, the ones that they were seeking the death penalty on. So, you're absolutely right. Sitting in prison for
5 years by this time, he's going to have to carry out the rest of this sentence, which he got 25
years for that murder. But, there has to be something that it can't just be we just don't have a good enough case.
Well, here's what we end up getting. This is the public record on it. Okay, so the document
meant that France could have faced the death penalty if convicted in the two offenses that they dropped the charges
on. Now, according to the Telegraph, this is the local newspaper, in late 2024, Warner Robins Police Department found
evidence that showed France might not be the suspect after all, which is why the
cases involving Parker, Moore, and Patel's deaths were dismissed. According to Warner Robins Police Department,
quote, "It is believed that a second person committed both of those crimes." End quote. Here's another quote.
"Exculpatory evidence came out and it was located in someone else's possession." End quote. Mhm.
Now, we don't know what that evidence is. That has never been publicly stated. And the police department at the time
declined to comment whether France was still a person of interest at all in the case. We do know that the FBI and the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating forensic evidence connected to the Parker, Moore, and
Patel's deaths. We know that Warner Robins Police Department has about a dozen cold cases
as of late 2024, but the police department will not refer to Parker Moore and Jack Patel's deaths
as cold cases because they say quote they're actively being investigated and quote. Now, that's a lot of quotes.
A lot of quotes. You know a quote that I love to spout off here in the garage, said it a
dozen times, I'll say it a dozen more before we close the garage for good. An error doesn't become a mistake until
you refuse to correct it. A famous quote by Orlando Batista and John F. Kennedy.
And we need Warner Robins Police Department to correct this because it appears to me that they
had this investigation moving in the wrong direction very quickly in the very early stages and it took a long time for
them to see that they had got it wrong. Yeah, so part of it is they feel like they have egg on their face. And you
know, my one of my favorite quotes is egg on the face is better than egg on the butt. Also a famous quote. Yeah.
I'll read the start of this article. Three fatal shootings days apart, a string of violence in the area at the
time has only partially been resolved in the courts. The first of three fatal shootings
happened between two friends after a dispute over marijuana on January 13th, 2018.
Remember we talked about the details of that murder and we know the details of the murder that took place at the
apartment because there were a lot of witnesses there. Yeah. These two individuals, friends, our bad guy and
the person he killed, they knew each other. And the people there knew both of them.
This appears to me to be something very different than what took place at the gas station
and at the Barbaritos. Those appear to me to be stranger on stranger crimes. A guy goes in there disguised
looking to commit a robbery, looking to get away with money, and decides for whatever reason to just shoot the people
anyway. Where this apartment case is something completely different. It looks like this is a couple of idiots who have
a disagreement and they're so quick to pull and flash guns Yeah. and somebody ends up getting
killed. Okay, so we know that Daniel Bruce France was convicted in the July 2019 voluntary manslaughter case and
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the killing of his friend, 28-year-old Vincent Junior. He was
sentenced to 20 years in prison. He fatally shot Vincent Junior in the Tanglewood Apartments at 1005
Alberta Road. Now, to follow the timeline here and to see where things went astray, we need to go
down this road. Uh-huh. Around 3 hours after that incident, a man an unidentified man killed 25-year-old
Warner Robins resident Jack Patel, a store clerk at a Chevron gas station at 806 Alberta Road, the same road.
We talked about this earlier, the very short distance both in proximity and time to the
Tanglewood Apartments murder that same day. Officers, based off of surveillance footage, described that suspect as a
slim man, African-American, and a dark-hooded shirt and blue jeans. Now, keep that description in mind because
we're going to have a better description when it gets to the Barberitos portion of this, and we're going to zoom
in, hyper-focus on the Barberitos murder. 8 days later, on January 1st, 2018, Parker Moore was killed at
Barberitos at 3123 Watson Boulevard. A masked man entered through a back door, demanded money, and fired shots,
which killed Moore and injured another employee, police said. The Warner Robins Police Department had
named Franz as a suspect in the armed robbery, and people at the scene told officers he was 6-ft tall, wearing dark
clothing and a face covering. Okay, but as we know, there are issues with evidence.
And in the end, there was not enough evidence to seek warrants to charge Franz in the Chevron and Barbarito
shootings. Even though they originally got the indictment, they learned and figured out
And I'm glad that they did. Right. Right? Because as said, they're already trying to start to correct this. And
that is a good thing. It's a little late, a little late in the goings, and that is going to be very hurt full and
harmful to this investigation in this case to find the right guy. But also, it becomes a a sticking point
for the defense of a new suspect. Mhm. Hey, the cops, they they came out and said this other guy did it.
They were trying to bring charges against him. They were going to take him to court. You know, we talked so much
about legendary FBI agents and profilers, people like Robert Ressler, John Douglas on the show. And one thing
that they were fighting against, when they would talk to local law enforcement, police chiefs, sheriffs,
detectives, and they would review a batch of cases, they would say, "You know, in the '70s
and in the early '80s, we were seeing something that they called linkage blindness,
where the investigating agency did not recognize a connection between multiple murders. Here, we have the exact
opposite. It looks like Warner Robins Police Department screwed the pooch. And they jumped to the conclusion that
all of this was connected. Okay, so we know what the police's theory was at the time and how they were working it
because they told us when they announced the manhunt for France. Now, announcing
the manhunt, good strategy. They caught the guy. It was through tips that located him.
They found him. Good police procedure there. But their theory, it might have sounded
good to some at the time, but not did not convince everyone. So, the theory is rough. The theory law enforcement had
pushed was Danny France committed the apartment murder, which we know he did, there's witnesses there that identify
him, and then a few hours later committed the Chevron murder to get money to leave town. Right? He had to
get out because of the murder. There were people there at the scene that were going to identify him by name. So, he
had to flee. But he would need provisions to get out of town and get to a safe location where
he could hide out. He needed money. So, the Chevron station was across the street from the apartments. Easy enough
target, right? Close by. France commits a robbery homicide at the Chevron. Per their theory, the proximity and the
time make the police theory sound very nice and tidy. Now, maybe he didn't get enough money or
something happens to slow France from running, so he waits 8 days, goes to the other side of town
and commits a robbery homicide at the Barbaritos. Then he flees, but we now know that he only goes about
4 miles. 4 miles from the first two homicide locations where he is caught hiding out 3 days after the murder at
Barbaritos. So, when you tell me your theory is all based around this man who committed the
first murder committing additional murders so he could rob and flee there's instant problems with your theory.
Fleeing after the first murder makes a lot of sense. I get that. A lot of people flee after committing a violent
crime for which they there are witnesses that can identify them. Yeah. But a fleeing theory doesn't compute if the
guy doesn't flee. All right. I feel like garage True Crime Garage is True Crime Flea Market. I've said that word too
many times. So he doesn't leave. I have a lot of used comic books if you want to check
them out. To the left. So again to me this theory while it sign it sounded nice in the beginning was truly
extremely flawed it from the start and police had to have been aware of it. Where was the person in the room? I'm
sure there was somebody in the room was saying guys wait, hold on pump the brakes. I think we might have this
wrong. Maybe we shouldn't announce this to the public. Yeah, it's it look it seems like something that you sit in a
room and you go hey not a not a ton of murders around here and so we have this one murder at this apartment complex.
Now we have this murder at this gas station. Are they linked? Maybe. But we need we need to find some proof
of that whether they're linked or not linked. Let's let's find proof of that. It's not something that I would think
you would run to the newspapers with or to go hey call the local news. We think they're connected. Do you have any
proof of that? Well, similar location. I worry Captain that the police department was feeling a lot
of pressure. There's three murders in eight days. It's January. Three murders in the month
of January puts this city in 1 month's time at half the murders they had for the entire year prior.
Yeah, but let's pump the brakes for a second. It's not >> a crazy theory. True. It's not something
that you shouldn't explore. You just might not want to tell people about your investigation.
>> Don't Yes, don't tell the public right away. You can say, "Hey, we're looking
into if they're connected, but we don't you know, we've not found evidence." In fact, they're actually they found
evidence to suggest early on that they weren't connected. Right. >> Okay. One, the gun, and two, the suspect
description, both do not match the apartment murder case. Right. That France absolutely did. So,
it's not inconceivable that bad guy goes and gets another gun or has a second gun, and then uses that one to commit
the Chevron murder. But, when you have surveillance footage footage from the Chevron, and when you have surveillance
footage from Barberitos, and you have witnesses who saw the man at Barberitos, saw him pull the trigger,
the cameras and those people are telling you, even though his face is covered, he
doesn't look like the guy you've arrested. Right. France, to put it simply, France, a younger
dude, about the same build as the individual seen in Chevron and Barberitos, he's a
lighter-skinned black man. The person that committed these murders is a dark-skinned black man. So, so much
obviously so that several of the witnesses at Barberitos said, after the fact, when they showed the picture of
the man that they arrested for the apartment murders, their immediate reaction was, "That's not the same guy."
And they only saw this man's eyes and the bridge of his nose. Right. >> But it was enough
that little was enough to tell them it wasn't the same guy. So, these contradictions undermined the story
authorities were telling. The timing didn't align. It wasn't immediate and clean, right? It was messy. Parker Moore
was killed a whole week later after the other two murders. Right. >> So, so so to tell me
that the the person was attempting to flee he just sat on his hands for eight days, didn't go anywhere, and then when
you do ultimately find him three days after Parker is killed, he's only 4 miles away? Yeah, and like you said,
where where is the detective or police officer going? They're not the same guy. One is
light-skinned, one is dark-skinned. That's all you need to know. Absolutely. That's absolutely correct.
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True crime flea market [music] season 1 starts June 1st. >> Very very 2:00 a.m. Look, I want to zoom in and focus on one
of the victims here and one of the crime scenes because this is where police can
learn the most about their investigation and the man that they're looking for. Parker Killian Moore was the young man
who was working and killed at Barburrito's in Warner Robins on January 21st, 2018.
He's just 23 years old. Yeah. Now, a little bit about Barberitos. This is a franchise restaurant. There are about 19
locations in the great state of Georgia and about 41 scattered throughout the American Southeast.
This is a burrito place. Southwestern Grill experience. I want to give a shout out to Leo Mason
her husband and also Andy Moore. They are fighting for justice for their son Parker Killion Moore and also for
the Chevron victim Jack Betel. >> And and just to be clear, those two cases the the identity of the suspect
is the same. Mhm. Same gun. And it appears to be the same individual and the dress, the disguise appears to
be very very similar or exactly the same. Well, what they should have done is they
should have took all these detectives and showed them a navy blue color swatch and a light blue color swatch and ask
them, are these the same color? And if you say no, you are on bike patrol for 2 weeks.
No, we're going to put you at the the library. I mean, sorry. If you say yes, you are [snorts] on bike patrol for
>> Yeah, if you say yes, guess what? You're going to be working the local True Crime
Garage flea market sale. Parker was born in 1994. When he was just 3 years old, the parents split up.
Leo was the parent who raised Parker, but Parker would visit with his father often.
They stayed out of touch, Parker's parents, for many years and didn't always see eye to eye on things,
didn't get along very well, and didn't talk about anything that wasn't necessary to discuss. You know, you you
talk about as much as you need to when you are raising a child together. But, what ultimately
brought them back into contact together wasn't just the peace pipe being passed or the olive branch being extended. It
was actually the grinding continuation of what felt like a lack of justice in their son's
case. What was happening here, Captain, was information was being handled in a way that was splitting the family. The
district attorney's office and the police department gave Parker's father details that Leah wasn't given, and then
also gave Leah details that Parker's father wasn't given. So, there was a breakdown in communication, and they
decided, "Look, we neither of us should have uneven access to what's going on in our son's murder
investigation." So, they decided, "Look, their love for Parker much, much bigger
than their for each other. their disagreements that they had over the years. And they didn't live in even in the same
city. So, that's also a bit of a complication here. Now, Leah remarried. She moved to Florida,
eventually moves to Georgia. Yeah. She raised Parker in the greater Atlanta area of Georgia.
Later, once Parker was much older, Leah moved to Warner Robins. There's an Air Force base there, and her
husband, her current husband, worked at the was a government worker at the base.
So, she moves to Warner Robins in May of 2015. At that time, Parker had just turned 21 in March of 2015.
He had already been in the Atlanta area for 10-plus years. His friends were there. His life was there, he had a
girlfriend there. Everything he knew was there. And so of course this young man didn't
want to follow his mother to Warner Robins. In fact, Leah said his words were he'd rather live in his car than in
Warner Robins. So she moves and Parker stayed. He was on his own, he did well for a
while, but hit a couple of hard patches and needed a soft place to land. So Parker
eventually does move to Warner Robins. This is in March of 2017. And he was killed in January of 2018. He
never saw his 24th birthday. This meant Parker lived in Warner Robins for only about 9 months.
But in that short time Leah said Parker made an impact that stunned her. People who hadn't known him long were moved by
him. I spoke with Leah, Parker's mother, and we spoke with Andy, Parker's father, Right. and learned a
lot about the area, learned a lot about the the time period. We were told that one of the questions we had, what was
going on with this uptick in violence? So we were told that Warner Robins is a military town that exists only because
of the base. Basically it it it exists because of the base. They say it's not a small town that naturally grew into
something else. It only exists because of the base. And they tell us it's become crime-riddled.
About 25 minutes north is Macon, Georgia. An area with a history also crime-riddled. People, locals,
describe Warner Robins as becoming a mini Macon. And what has been said is that gang activity possibly traced
back toward the Atlanta area had moved south over the years. In January 2018, there were reportedly
three homicides, about half of what the entire year had in 2017. We wanted to know what what was this
uptick in violence? Andy Parker's dad said he wouldn't describe it that simply, saying based on what they had looked
into, some of the men being focused on in these three cases had histories that included violent crimes.
They also said that they were following the Warner Robins police page, naturally, and saw daily posts about
arrests, drugs, guns, and all kinds of other concerning things. Now, Parker had worked at Barberitos in
Atlanta. He worked there for a couple of years, and he knew the owners, brothers
Phil and Martin. The brothers owned a couple of Barberitos locations, including the Warner Robins
store. So, when Parker moved down to Warner Robins in March of 2017, he needs a job. Right. And his mother, Leah, told
us a sentence that feels like she's been carrying this sentence around like a daily bruise.
This is something that she told us that she would never forgive herself for what
she said to her son. She told Parker, "Why don't you just go to Barberitos and tell them
you live here now, and they'll give you a job." Yeah, but she has to let that go. So, Parker goes into the store,
says, "Hey, my name is Parker." Tells the manager, "Why don't you call Phil and Martin and let them know I want a
job here." Right? The manager's like, "Who the hell do you think you are?" [laughter]
Right. But he calls one of the owners anyway, telling him that look, some joker just walked in the
store acting like a badass telling me to call and tell you that he needs a job. I
like it. I would have hired him. The ow- the owner says, "Well, who is it? What's
the guy's name?" And when the manager tells the owner the guy's name is Parker, the owner says immediately, "Oh my god,
tell him okay. Yes, give him a job right now." So, he had a great working relationship
with the owners at the previous Barberitos that he worked at in Atlanta. And of course,
they were very happy to welcome into the Warner Robins store. Leah and Andy both
said Parker loved music and soccer. He loved skateboarding, video games. He will most be remembered for how much he
simply loved people and how he treated people around him. And he was always eager to help friends,
loved ones, and even just acquaintances. Yeah. People from Barberitos told Leah that when they saw Parker was
working, they knew it was going to be a great night. That he just made the place
all better. But on the night of the robbery and the shooting, Parker wasn't supposed to be there. He wasn't going to
be working that night. In fact, he wasn't going to be working at Barberitos for much longer at all.
Parker had career plans. The Air Force. Yeah. He had student loans and other financial
responsibilities that he needed to handle first. He was trying to work as many hours as possible to pay things
down so he could just move forward. He was He was going to the Air Force. The night he was working, again, he wasn't
even supposed to be there. Parker's car had been out of commission. He was in the process of getting it fixed.
So, that evening, a friend called, the person fixing the car calls, says, "The car's fixed. The car is ready."
Parker and his stepfather go to pick up the vehicle. They picked it up early that evening. Leah believes that this
was around 5-ish, [snorts] sometime in the 5:00 hour. And Parker started driving his car back home. In that
stretch of time. A call came in from work. Someone there felt terrible, needed to leave, and asked Parker if
they would come in and finish the shift. Now, we were told Parker is kind of known as the yes man, always willing to
help, and he liked his time at Barburrito. So, people knew if they asked, he would say yes, he would help. Plus,
he wanted to get extra money. Absolutely. Parker's last Snapchat was a photo of the sun setting behind trees,
to which Parker wrote, "Got a new job. The Infiniti is fixed. Tis a good day." This Snapchat was sent out at
the 5:00 hour. He was killed that night. We also spoke with somebody that we're going to call witness A. So,
there is good reason to criticize the police and the prosecution for the prosecuting the prosecutor's
office in this case. There's also good reason to defend them. But, it's details like
this that give me great concern for the case. And where the case sits today, we know the FBI is involved, we know the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation is involved. That's the right move here. But, this murder happened 8 years ago.
Witness A and is an absolutely great witness. And there were possibly six or seven very good witnesses here at the
Barburrito's that night. Our friend witness A has been interviewed over the course of
8 years a total of three times. Twice by Warner Robins Police Department and once
by True Crime Garage. That's it. So, that's another rather big mistake in my humble garage opinion here in this case.
Well, let's be honest with people. We run a flea market. We're no We're not law enforcement.
Well, and if you only >> used coffee mugs. If you only conduct the interview twice,
that also I would like to see the transcripts for that because I wonder how thorough of those those interviews
were. So, witness A started working at Barberitos about a year or so before the robbery
and knew Parker for about 6 months their time together at the Barberitos. Witness A says,
"Parker was super friendly and described as someone who just got along with everyone."
Saying, "I mean there was some definite characters coming in and out that worked
with us, so I guess there was at least maybe one person who didn't get along with him, but you had to be crazy not to
get along with him." Parker's position, he was the shift lead. The night of the murder was a Sunday. We have four people
working in total that night, and that's typical the typical number of staff. Right. You have
a bartender. You have the shift lead, which is Parker, who was also the line cook. You have a
cashier, and you have a dishwasher. So, if you could picture this restaurant, and there are several restaurants
throughout this country, franchise restaurants, that are very similar to Barberitos. Up in up in my neck of the
woods, it's Yabo's Tacos. And you go in and it's usually a staff of four. You have a bar that is well separated from
the kitchen area. You have your in-house dining area, and you usually have a little patio area.
So, that's what you have here. Four people working that night. We were told by witness A that Sundays were usually
slower, especially toward the end of the day, telling us that the morning times, you would get the
church crowd, and they would get very busy, but toward the evening, it was always kind of slow. We asked witness A
what their opinion was on why the robber would choose to pick a slow day and because there's
some suspicion here Captain and I know you share the suspicion that possibly most of these
businesses, especially the smaller sized ones is usually some kind of inside job
and it doesn't usually that doesn't always mean it's somebody that's currently working there, but it's
usually somebody that has some kind of knowledge of that business, the way that it's run or
has worked at that specific business at one time. Well, and what's tough is one there's multiple locations. So, the
individual could have worked at any of the [clears throat] locations. But also these
types of these types of jobs have high turnover rate. So, could this be somebody that worked there for a week or
two and said, "I don't want to work here anymore, but now I have some details about this, so I'm going to
rob them one day." Our question was, "Well, why wouldn't if the person had a general understanding of the business,
let's pretend that for a moment." Why wouldn't this man have robbed the place on
Saturday night with the opportunity to make off with a lot more cash? And witness A just simply said, "Well, if
they knew the business, they would have known that we would be slow on a Sunday night and it would be less
witnesses, less people in the store." Right. We're also assuming that this was highly planned out and it probably
wasn't. Witness A says that Parker showed up that evening at 6:00 to 6:30-ish and back to Parker's family, one thing
they expressed to us is that they seem to think that the perpetrator had moved pretty easily in and out and through the
restaurant and it's been their suspicion that maybe he had prior working knowledge of this store. Now, at the
time of the robbery, there were anywhere from about six to eight persons in the store depending on who you talked to.
This is at the time that the robber entered. And I would say there's three very good witnesses
to the events because some of the people in the store were able to flee or to hide to find a location to hide in the
store. Witness A says that as soon as the robber came into the Barberitos, he came in through the back door,
through the back door, and went into the office area immediately. And Witness A says, "I'm not sure how he
knew to just go in there. I don't know if the office door was open so that he could see that it was an office,
but I do know that the back door had issues with it not locking properly while we were working. You could just
push the door and it would open." I told Witness A about the family suspicions, and Witness A confirmed
saying, "Yeah, this was always very suspicious to us. We were always wondering why he knew to immediately go
into the office." Yeah. Witness A continues. That's suspicious. Saying, "Well, okay,
so uh let me give you the layout. You have four doors that get you to the outside.
You have the main entrance, which is in the front of the house. That's where the customers will
typically go in and out of. You have the back door, which is often utilized by the employees, and you also
have an emergency exit, uh which is also near the rear of the restaurant. When we asked Witness A if there was an
alarm, if that would sound an alarm on the emergency exit, we were told they don't think that it would because one of
the people that one of the customers fled out that door during the course of that robbery, and there was no
alarm that went off. Witness A continues saying, "We close at 10:00. So, he came in around 9:30.
He came in right before closing. We were starting to clean up and get ready to go
and it was about 30 minutes before closing. We asked what general operations were like,
especially around closing time and we were told we would try and clean up everything as much as we can. We have to
take orders if someone comes in at the last minute, but usually yes, we are cleaning up everything. And once we
lock the doors at closing time, then Parker, who was the shift lead, would take the money out of the register,
taking it back to the office to go count it. That So, let's paint a little bit of a
picture here as far as our suspicions about our robber. He very well could have just come in
that back door, saw the office was open and ducked in there for cover briefly or did he think it was a little
later than what it was and that the money would already be in there and he could just grab it and go? Right.
Witness A says that they had been in the restroom, so they were coming out of the
restroom from the hallway saying, "I walked up to the register and worker number one and Parker are
standing close to where you enter into the kitchen. Worker one says to Parker and Witness A,
"Somebody dressed in all black just went into the office. I don't think he's supposed to be back there."
So, Parker starts to walk back. Worker number one tells Witness A, "Don't go back there." But, basically what you get
here is all three of them are making their way back toward the office area. Now, we're talking about This is not a
big restaurant. This is not a not a large business, so it's just a matter of a few feet. Witness A says before they
could get to the office door, the robber comes barging out of the office with a gun pointing at all three
of them. We wanted to confirm 100% did this guy come in the back door? You know, did he
Did he come in the You sure he didn't come in the front door? You sure he didn't come in the emergency exit? Are
you sure he wasn't hiding in one of the restrooms? Right. And we were told by witness A absolutely
we know he came in the back door because worker number one saw him come in the back door and said that immediately to
Parker and witness A. Witness A says, "I immediately put my hands up to show that
I'm not a threat." The robber starts telling us to get the money out. We wanted to know what was the first thing
that you saw? His face, his outfit, his feet, his gun? What was the first thing that you see?
Witness A says, "The first thing I saw is the gun." We asked, "What did it look like?"
It was described as a long-barreled silver revolver, which you can see that in the surveillance picture, and you can
also see that same gun as witness A describes it in the Chevron picture as well.
When asked what was the first thing that he said, we were told, "I don't remember his exact wording. He
told us to get the money out of the register." So we have the three of our workers are
now standing near the register, and we wanted to know, "Do all three of you have access to the register?" We
were told yes. So they're behind the counter, the robber is just to the left of them.
And he's yelling at them that they are taking too long. We wanted to know a description, a very
good description of this man. What What does he look like? What is he wearing? We already got the description of the
gun. We're told he was wearing all black and the words were and I remember he had
like a black beanie on and a bandana around his face. So, all I could see was his eyes.
What color are his eyes? They were dark, dark brown and he's a dark-skinned man.
What was his build? Is he tall, short, thin, fat, medium, what? We asked. We were told he was thin and
he wasn't very tall, possibly 5 ft 9 to 5 ft 10 in tall. Mhm. The part that I mean, it's
just horrific that they hand over the money and I'm going to be brief on this part of it because I
don't want to linger on these details too much as we know the family and persons that worked at the Barburrito's
will be working that that were working there that night will be listening to this. But, he got what he wanted. And
then he shoots worker number one in the head and then shoots Parker in the head and then flees.
Almost as like, oh, I've one or two more things to do before I leave here. Even though he got what he wanted. Yeah.
Police have footage of this individual working his way to the Barburrito's so he can be seen. He's
seen on surveillance footage making his way to that back door. What I am curious about is if they have
that because witness A says he then fled out the back door the best that they can
remember. Because by this time witness A has has ducked for cover and eventually will be
one of the people calling 911 as well will be a customer. And remember the other customers plus the bartender had
fled during the once the commotion started. Right. So, surveillance, do you see him getting into any vehicle? That's
what I want to know. That's the part that is not available online. We can see pictures of him going into the store,
and without the description of hey, here's some pictures of him leaving, we don't have that. And I would like to
know what do they know about him leaving? And again, this outfit described just the same as
the Chevron, and the description of the man what could be seen of the man, same description, gun is the same.
This is a cold cold-blooded person. You can't have somebody this violent. He's a
homicidal maniac on the streets. I hope he's been picked up for something else. There were
a slew of other armed robberies around this same time period in the Warner Robins area. Are those connected? I
can't say. It's difficult to say because in those scenarios, the persons working were left unharmed. They
were left alive. In our case, worker number one survives somehow. Parker Killion Moore did not.
Now, the other thing too, given the suspected age of the suspect, and given the gang activity in the area at the time,
my suspicions would be that this person is too dumb not to talk. Yeah, but he's probably also talking to
other dumbasses. Right. I hope he is. Right. I hope that he is. You know, but there's not many
gang members that just decide to go into the police department and go, "Hey, we True. But we can agree that one thing
that gets you caught is stupid. Stupid will get you caught every day. Well, not when law enforcement doesn't
even understand simple colors. So, it spends 5 years trying to pin the crime on somebody that
wasn't involved in the crime. A quick reminder here, if somebody needs to get in touch with
law enforcement about this case, the Warner Robins Police Department number is 478-302-5378.
We have been checking in on this case and we'll continue to to check in and keep tabs on this case.
We're hearing good things as of late. We're hearing that there is a little smoke around this
investigation. We're hoping that that's going to be followed with some fire. We know that this is a multi-agency
investigation at this point. We also know that there's an ongoing reward for information
in Parker Killion Moore's case. Even more reason for somebody that's overheard something to come forward.
But, this is a case that's dragged on for too long. And it's a case that many are surprised
it wasn't solved rather quickly. Now, again, they were going down the wrong path.
They figured that out at some point. A little late, but they figured it out at some point.
So, I would rather you be rather late than never. Yeah. Number one. And number two, my
other suggestion would be when we talk to people, when True Crime Garage talks to people about this case,
and talks to people that are very good witnesses, and they tell us they've been talked to
twice in the course of 8 years, you need to interview, interview, interview, interview everyone multiple
times, multiple, multiple times in very thorough, thorough interviews. I went through
what was about 10 minutes of our discussion with this witness. We He every question under
the sun. One thing to our surprise, we said, "Hey, did this did the robber have an accent? Did they sound like you know,
this is Georgia." I said, "Did he sound like me, like a Yankee?" Yeah, was he a Georgia peach?
>> Did he sound like somebody from the south? Did he sound like uh like he's putting on an accent. To which
the witness said, "He sounded like he created, you know, a learned accent of inner-city kind of thug talk." Was
the vibe that this person got. When this person expressed that to police, they were told,
"That's not important. You're probably misremembering because it was so stressful, you've been traumatized, the
PTSD, you're probably not remembering correctly." Well, I'll tell you what, let's not start dying diagnosing things
that we don't understand. And let's not dismiss something as being misremembered
until we can prove that it was misremembered. When you have the man's eyes, bridge of his nose, his height,
his weight, the gun, his outfit, and that's about it for the description, it might be important how the individual
talks. Right, but if you have tunnel vision and for 5 years or more, you're trying to make the shoe fit,
where the shoe doesn't fit, you you're not going to [clears throat] want to keep talking to individuals that
basically is giving you information that's trying to deter you from what your tunnel vision is. Well,
the other thing that's crazy is on that tunnel vision, the guy you arrested for the first murder is a thug, an
inner-city thug. And don't call me racist because I use the word thug. That doesn't describe somebody's color. That
describes somebody how they act and the actions that they do in the way that they move throughout society. Yeah, and
he he murdered somebody. >> This person is is a um there's no difference between this
guy who killed Jack Patel at Chevron and then 8 days later kills Parker Moore in
Barberitos and attempts to kill the other worker by shooting him in the head as well. There's no difference between
him and the I-70 killer that walked into five different stores and murdered six different people in cold blood. There's
no difference between that serial killer and this individual. Right. That's the evil that we're talking about here. And
I hope and pray that they have somebody in their sights and not just have them in their sights, but he's locked up for
something else. Because he couldn't stop. I don't know where to take this case but to say that
we will continue to keep an eye on it. It's a multi-agency case where it stands today. I think that's the right move.
And Warner Robins Police Department, go back and talk to all these witnesses. Go
back back and talk to everybody. And guess what? Go talk to the individual that was convicted and sentenced to 25
years for murder at the apartments because these people talk. These people might move in the same circles. That guy
stands to win a little bit if he knows something and can communicate that to you.
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with no explanation or resolution on the horizon. 20 years later, now a journalist in New York City, Kate
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In an eight day span in January of 2018, the city of Warner Robins, Georgia experienced three homicides. Warner Robins Police mistakenly believed all three homicides were committed by one perpetrator. When the suspect was arrested, eventually a long list of charges were dropped against the suspect. The murders of Janak Kumar Patel and Parker Killman Moore are still unsolved. Police have a lot of evidence but still need the public’s help. Any information is good information. Warner Robins Police Department (478) 302-5378

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the flawed investigation of two murders in Warner Robins, focusing on suspect Daniel Bruce Frantz and the victims' stories.

Key points

Death Penalty Sought. The prosecutor seeks the death penalty against Daniel Bruce Frantz for multiple murders.
Charges Dropped. In a shocking turn, charges against Frantz are dropped after five years in prison.
The Wrong Suspect. Witnesses confirm the arrested man doesn't match the shooter's description.
Family Communication Breakdown. Parker's parents faced challenges in communication during the investigation.
Parker's Last Day. Parker was not supposed to work that night but ended up helping a friend.
Suspicious Entry. Witness A notes the robber's unusual knowledge of the office layout.

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Episode quotes

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Discussing the police investigation errors.

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Tension

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