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journey through crime and memory That Shook Michigan known for a string of brutal murders dating back to the 1970s
Walker's past reads like the plot of a true crime novel one that twist through multiple confessions long delayed Court
hearings and The Haunting reopening of cold cases his belated admissions to decades old slangs shocked communities
and left families of his victims reeling while his story became a Flashpoint for
the Press Walker's life and the cases tied to him reveal the Frailty of of justice
and the Eerie endurance of Secrets hidden in small town America this is true crime
[Music] garage Adrien Michigan a small City in Lino County this is in Southern Michigan
not too far north of the Ohio State Line another city that we will be discussing
as well this week is Blissfield which is near Adrian Blissfield is southeast of Adrien so even closer to Ohio now in the
1970s early 1980s this was a community deeply rooted in its Agricultural and Industrial Heritage with a population of
around 20,000 at the time Adrien maintained a tight-knit atmosphere typical of many Midwestern towns the
economy in Adrien and surrounding lenoi County during this period was characterized by a mix of manufacturing
and agriculture factories such as those producing automotive and other heavy machinery this was a big part of the
Region's economy at the time now the city had a relatively modest yet active Social Scene community events like fairs
and local sporting events were Central to the social life of the Adrien residents at the time this is small town
America this is the Midwest and we're going to go way back to 1979 January 15th 1979 to a small
two-story home located on West Maple Avenue in Adrian Michigan it's dark out it's late when a young man named
Francisco Torres went to his sister's home his sister is 24-year-old Yolanda Torres Madison she lives there with her
10-month-old daughter Jess it is unclear why but he says that he went there to check on his sister he
knocks several times on the front door gets no response he says that he grew more
concerned once he arrived at the house because all of the curtains were closed so after getting no answer at the front
door he runs to the back door and he says he was pounding on the back door and again no answer he runs back to the
front porch as he was going to try the front door once again but this time he notices smoke coming from the second
floor of the home this prompted him to of course find a phone and call the fire department the fire department is able
to quickly extinguish the fire but the real horror of the story is when they go inside the house to try to find and
remove any of the occupants they locate three dead in a small bedroom on the second floor the deceased are
24-year-old Yolanda Torres Madison and her 10 month old daughter and another woman This Woman's name is Teresa KY 19
years old the women were found tied up badly injured and badly bruised the baby appeared to be untouched autopsy
findings are that the two women were beaten stabbed and shot the baby died from smoke inhilation the fire chief
determined that arson was the cause of the fire so we have a triple homicide case here the house appeared to be
ransacked and some more information here yolan Madison was shot once Teresa KY was shot twice all were found in an
upstairs bedroom with their hands tied behind their backs the lenoi medical examiner office spokesman said that the
women also bore knife wounds but died of the gunshot wounds their bodies were not
burned the baby in the crib died of smoke inhilation bearing no other wounds police quickly learned that the two
women worked together at se are jobs for Progress this is a Social Service Agency
both were longtime residents of Adrian and as said the police stated that the house was ransacked but there
doesn't appear to be any report of forced entry into the home and frankly on this one Captain as concerning as it
would be the Michigan State Police were quickly brought in on this one of course
they were hoping to learn more about the house and the movements of the people found inside however the suspect or
suspects who killed and set the fire and fled were a mystery none of the neighbors saw a thing that night in fact
the police told the papers quote we don't have any specific suspects now we are not looking for anyone in particular
end quote when they interview the folks that knew the two women best they do learn of some activity from the night
before police speak to one Deb Cary so this is no relation to the victim Teresa Carey but it is Teresa K's best friend
she tells police that the evening before the fire she went to she went with Teresa to a local Wendy's Teresa ordered
a Wendy's single with cheese and no tomato then they went to Yolanda's house the murder house but before the two went
inside Deb says that she's overcome with the sudden urge to go home to leave the
place and go home we've seen this before Captain some people seem to possess the
ability to sense evil this Deb Cary escaped whatever evil befell the two women inside that house on that dark and
cold January night so they end up stopping by the house earlier that night then they go out uh have a little get
together and then on the way home your friend is driving your home and she says oh there's there's somebody at my
friend's house I I see a car that I don't recognize in her driveway let's stop and check on her they pull into the
driveway your friend says to you hey I'm just going to be in there a minute and she says well how long well I don't know
maybe 30 minutes she goes to reach to open up the door handle and something hits her something is tells her this is
bad this is something's not right she doesn't tell her friend this she just says well if you're going to be that
long can you just take me home and then on the way home and when she's dropping you off in your driveway you're then
telling your friend hey I want to go back and check on her that it's too late but she never she never stops her and
says hey I have a funny feeling about this yeah she tells her friend at least recommends to her you know don't go back
there it's too late but then she exits the vehicle and notices that her friend even though she said that she would not
return to the home the direction that she takes out of there implies that she may be returning to that house and then
you probably thinking to yourself well she's a good friend she's a she's going to check on her it's probably nothing
it's very strange in this case we have two we have two people independently of one another we have Teresa car's best
friend Deb Cary who says I got this uneasy weird feeling and I just I wanted to go home I recommended to Teresa don't
go back to the house Teresa goes back to the house and sadly her and Yolanda are
found dead the following day after the fire is extinguished but we also have have Yolanda's brother who says that he
he decided to stop in check on his sister there's another set of eyewitnesses as well this other set of
eyewitnesses were just walking by the police station but because this house was so close to the police station they
could see the fire or smoke coming from the house and so they just walked into the police station and said hey uh we
want to report a fire and they said where across the street despite the severity of the crime and the outrage
from the local community there wasn't really a whole lot of evidence in this case back in 1979 to pursue any one
particular suspect and so the case goes cold now it's hard to say why and Captain I think you're going to be able
to fill us in here a little bit but there was a person of interest in this case and his name is Anthony Guy Walker
he's a man with a History of Violence who went by the name of Tony Walker and oftentimes called Red Walker well like
you said there was basically no evidence no leads they were not reporting to the
public that these women were raped and then murdered they were just saying we have murdered victims and I think some
of the people local people didn't know were these victims that were actually killed or were they killed because of
the fire because obviously the locals know about the fire but a couple days after the murders Anthony comes in with
his girlfriend SL bab Mama to the police station and she wants to report a missing gun she claims she bought a gun
3 days earlier she had it in her car the gun was loaded and somebody stole it when they were asking her questions
about it they ask her hey was the gun loaded her boyfriend Anthony says what good is a gun if it's not loaded and
they thought that was very strange but you also have to remember these Detectives know the murder weapon and
this triple homicide is a 22 that's correct a 22 caliber gun and that's the same caliber that the the lady with Tony
Walker at the police station is reporting to be missing or stolen so the problem with the detectives is Anthony
has a solid Alibi his girlfriend is saying he was with me all night so he's still somebody that they keep on their
radar but they can't even connect him to the Vic the murder weapon is not found this Tony
Walker who's interesting to detectives has a solid Alibi and they can't find any witnesses to put Tony Walker or
really anybody else any other good suspect at the scene of the crime around the time of the murders and you're right
they they did some of the hold back information here would be the sexual assault that took place inside that home
like we said this case goes cold and it was wasn't for a lack of effort here because this is a small community a town
of 20,000 people roughly and three of them were murdered and then somebody set this fire to try to cover their tracks
and potentially destroy any or all evidence that might be in that home the case goes cold but let's
investigate this guy a little bit further because this Anthony Walker does have A History of Violence and even
beyond that he is interesting because he was a person of interest in an earlier case so this dates back to September
20th 1975 when a farmer found a woman's body in his beanfield this is from the local news at the time woman's body
identified an autopsy performed at Sparrow Hospital in Lancing identified the body found in a beanfield as Arlene
Ruth Salo age 25 who lived at 615 dentist Street in Adrian Michigan so she's from the same city as this triple
homicide Miss Salo was reported missing about one month prior to her body being discovered State Police in Blissfield
stated that it will be a couple of days before the complete results of the autopsy would be available now later
what we're going to end up learning here Captain is not a whole lot in Arlene's murder because she had laid in that
field they believe for that entire month that one month that she was missing and
due to the time that took place and they couldn't really confirm exactly how she
was killed so they the only report that they put out there is that there was no obvious signs of a violent death and the
cause of death is actually never determined in that case but because of where she was found and how she was
found they do ultimately rule this a homicide well her hands were Bound by electric cord and the victims of the
triple homicide the two adults their hands were Bound by electrical cord as well and I imagine with like we saw in
the triple homicide we have probably a decent amount of hold back information in arleene Ruth cedo kicks right as said
this Tony Walker was a known person of interest in both of these cases at the end of 1975 Tony Walker is arrested in a
completely separate incident this is for kidnapping and raping a woman in Adrien
Michigan the kidnapping charge was eventually dropped but that was due to a plea deal he pleads guilty to sexual
assault he pleads guilty to Second deegree criminal sexual conduct he receives a prison sentence but he is
paroled an early January 1979 the women in the house fire were killed January 15th this is days after
he is paroled now just days into the investigation of this triple homicide Tony Walker picks up three high school
students who were skipping school in Adrien this was on January 27th 1979 he takes these three kids are
skipping school they're they're female students he takes Tak them back to his home so this is what they tell police
the students told police that a man approached them who claimed to be a truancy officer and ordered them into
his vehicle the one girl among the group testified later that the man tried to force himself on her at his home so he
doesn't take them to the police station he drives them back to his home tries to
force himself on her but for some reason backs off I think she she pled with him
and for some reason he he decd decides to not assault her and then drives them all to
downtown Adrien and just lets them go months later this mystery man is identified as paroi Tony Walker he's
convicted of this assault on September 11th 1979 so Walker is now sent back to prison he's convicted of assault with
intent to commit sexual penetration and he sentenced as a habitual offender so he's going to get a lengthier prison
sentence this time he's facing 10 to 15 in prison but think about that short period of time that we're talking about
that he was out as a parole Le he's paroled early January this triple homicide takes place on the 15th and
then on the 27th he's picking up three underage high school students and basically kidnapping them and taking
them to his home they're lucky that they made it out of their alive and we we talk about some of these killers having
these Black dead eyes one of the reasons that Anthony stuck out to anybody that ever talked to him anybody that ever met
him is he has these lizard green eyes he is a distinctive looking individual you
wouldn't confuse him for too many people too many other people in my humble opinion this case is is interesting but
strange it's a weird case where some of the information here is lacking as far as the general public goes but the angle
that is interesting to examine here is this guy how did he manage to fly under the radar and ultimately what we will
learn about Walker is not only is he a person of interest in this triple homicide and then this other kidnapping
and rape and murder that took place prior but this man ultimately will spend the overwhelming
majority of his adult life in prison Behind Bars and it looks like Captain you can't let this man out for more than
two or three days or a couple weeks and he starts to reoffend on all different kinds of levels yeah it makes you
question the level of evil that he is or maybe the level of just not giving a [ __ ] and kudos to the Adrian Michigan
Police department and those that assisted in this investigation because they never forgot about this triple
homicide they never gave up on trying to find ways to come up with a good suspect
one that they might even be able to take to trial to charge at some point but as
the captain said this Tony Walker while he said some things that they thought were a bit incriminating and he he
essentially puts himself on their radar by coming forward with this stolen gun that oh by the way the caliber matches
the gun that was never found never located that was used in the triple homicide case he's got that alibi they
can't put him at the murder scene they looked at a lot of people in this case and they went back time and time again
and reined persons that lived in the neighborhood people that knew the women and as the captain informed me they went
back and interviewed Tony Walker's Al multiple times throughout the years because it's
in 2002 that technology is going to catch up with Tony Walker and they're going to
find and be able to tell the state of Michigan comve and say we have Anthony Walker's DNA that puts him inside the
murder house at some point in time now we need to find a way to link him to being in that house on the of the
murders want to dive into that a little bit more this case like you said goes cold for a very long time I believe it
was in 2001 a new detective comes onto the scene now because he's a local he was curious I want to look into this
case myself and because it's now 2001 he's going well we have this Anthony guy what is he up to oh
he's in prison okay so even though he has an alibi and he was one of our suspects well let's test his
DNA but he was arrested and con and convicted and put in prison before the there was the law that you had to give
your DNA so they're only going to get his DNA when he leaves prison and I think he's set to be released in like five
years so they do have some time but not a lot of time because they know if you let this guy out he's going to murder
again what's fascinating because they can do a search of his cell so they they do a search of his cell and they don't
have to get a search warrant for that but to get his DNA they have to get a search warrant
well the information they have or the evidence they have against Anthony is not enough to demand that he gives a DNA
sample but there's a special law in Michigan that if you can prove multiple cases could be
connected then there's some loophole there so basically they go well we think he's responsible for this triple
homicide and we also think he's possibly responsible for this kidnapping and murder that happened years before that's
how they're able to get the search warrant to get his DNA and to get a hair sample from
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Captain like I said it wasn't due to a lack of effort that they had a cold case on their hands yeah now what we do know
is that over the years the case got extremely complicated because of all of the effort that went into working this
case because of the number of witnesses and the volumes of police reports written over the years they end up with
more than 300 witnesses that were spoken to and named in 3,000 pages of police reports and reports by police that made
their way to this giant police Cold Case homicide file in the early 2000s it's DNA that opened up the door for the
investigators to start really honing in on Anthony Guy Walker and as you said he's already in prison but detectives
have a problem though we have his DNA he he raped these victims mhm but because he has a solid Alibi if he's
smart enough all he has to say is well no I had sex with him and it was consensual and I have an alibi for the
time of the murders a little more on his timeline here so we know that Anthony Walker or Tony Walker was released from
prison in June of 1993 but of course he only remained free very briefly he was charged with a violent sexual assault
that occurred in December of 1994 in Wayne County Michigan eventually he's convicted of two counts of first-degree
criminal sexual conduct using a weapon and was sentenced to life in prison me with a concurrent 15 to 30e prison term
this is as said prior he's a habitual offender Michigan the state of Michigan has already labeled him as such and what
have we seen seen time and time again from this individual is if you let him out of prison he will reoffend on a long
enough timeline he will reoffend and this guy really doesn't even need that long of a timeline now DNA test put
walker at the scene of the 1979 carry Madison murders Adrian police detectives opened a new door to decide to take
these when they decided to take the victim's clothing and other evidence that they collected inside that home to
the Michigan State Police laboratory for DNA testing this is going to take a lot
of time here to break this man down and more importantly to break down his Alibi
that was maintained by his girlfriend for all of these years yeah I I believe this guy is a complete psycho because
not only was he raping and killing individuals outside of prison but during that search
of his prison cell like I was talking about they found a huge list of the different men that he was either
assaulting or that they were allowing him to do things to them in order for him to protect them Tony
Walker from my understanding Captain never threatened his girlfriend never told her to I I don't know that he
threatened her but she eventually changes her side of the story and says and admits the police no he wasn't with
me let's dive into that real quick cuz this is what's important there's all these little pieces that add up and
sometimes the hands of Justice move very slowly and in this case they move like quicksand slow right I don't know why
they call it quicksand when it when it's slow in the 80s it felt like every action TV show there was always the
threat of quicksand yeah here grab the stick grab the stick it's very very slow and and very slow in this case too so
like we said you have this triple homicide and then you have the kidnapping and homicide that happened a
couple years prior to the one in 1979 so by them connecting those two and saying
these are similar crimes we think these were the same offender they were able to
get his DNA so that puts him at the scene of the crime or puts them in contact with these victims but he has a
solid Alibi but during the search of his prison cell they find a list of men that
again they were trading sexual favors for his protection so they go find one of these guys and talk to him and say
did he ever talk to you about the uh like murders or crimes and he basically says oh yeah he kidnapped and killed
this one girl and left her on a farm and then there was this um you know what they called it double
homicide because he was just really talking about the the two adult victims correct but he told Anthony told this I
it wasn't his cellmate but he it was his mate if you know what I'm saying he said
to him you know I raped and killed these women and explained how he did it well because they never released that to the
public the detectives at that point now know our hunch and our evidence the DNA evidence is as good as gold but we still
have the problem of The Alibi so when they go back and then they present the information
to his ex-girlfriend or it might have been his wife at some point but it was his child's mother they can tell that
she's scared they eventually put pressure and say look we have enough evidence to put him away for the rest of
his life but the only thing that's holding this up is your Alibi but if that alibi holds up then he's going to
get out of prison in a couple years and then she changes her tune she says well look I bought this gun he took the gun
from me told me not to worry about it the murders took place he never told me he did the murders but he did say you're
going to have to cover for me on my whereabouts and we'll move a little faster than quicksand here in
this story and throughout this timeline here because it is an extensive timeline
we started 1975 and this thing goes decades long now one thing we need a clue here is
Daniel Stags age 40 was killed in prison he was incarcerated for armed robbery he
was stabbed to death and pronounced dead later at the wa foot Memorial Hospital the incident occurred in cell block 4 of
the prison of Southern Michigan where Tony Walker was serving his sentence at that time for the rape conviction I
couldn't find a list of suspects in this Daniel Stags prison murder but I'm guessing anybody serving time with him
or or access to cell block 4 would be considered a suspect by the corrections and by law enforcement at that time
right we go we go to 2010 after the 2002 detectives get the information about the DNA testing and
find his DNA and can prove that his DNA was at this murder house but it's going to take until 2010
to really start to try to wrap this nightmare up that had been just an open wound for this Adrian city of Adrian
Michigan for all of these years originally the way that this works is Tony Walker says yeah I know you guys
got evidence I know maybe you got my girlfriend or wife to flip on my alibi but I didn't do this he pleads not
guilty to the triple homicide he is going to fight this in court and in fact he says he's going to represent himself
well at some point he changes his strategy and eyes changes his tune yeah he takes on a public
defender who is going to represent him this process kind of drags on but what will ultimately end up happening is I
think the attorney convinced him like look they have a open and shut case on you my friend like you you are in big
trouble and you you might want to take kind of control of this situation by telling us all what happened eventually
he he's going to plead guilty to this homicide but he's also going to plead guilty to several other homicides some
in which he was not even a suspect in those investigations I think once he knew that his Goose was
cooked that it was just time for him to come clean but what's weird is you know before the sent ing they'll have the
victim's family and friends give statements yeah this guy old lizard eyes as he's getting handed down his sentence
all the detectives they're like you wouldn't have known if he was just getting a speeding ticket or getting put
it away for the rest of his life that's how nonchalant this guy is well and being
told that he's going back to prison is something that he's frankly used to right he it's not a big shocker to him
he's known all this time he's done these horrible things but he regularly getting
busted what what's bizarre here is that it feels like the crimes that he was able
to remain Elusive and go mostly undetected were the crimes that resulted in Murder the times that he kidnapped
and assaulted persons he he got event got picked up and got sentenced and sent off to prison for those crimes I think
that's because if you met this guy and you saw him and you saw those eyes you would never forget him so he would be an
easy person to identify and I don't know if this guy is a killer that just likeed to rape I
think he was a rapist that decided to cover up his Crimes by killing I agree agree and that's what I think was
missing from a lot of the public information regarding the triple homicide was it always read in the
reports that came out about it it always sounded like it was a robbery and and later when Walker ends up playing guilty
to this triple homicide he he describes it as such he says this was simply a robbery gone wrong and he lost control
of the two women and he had to kill them in fact the this is how terrible this guy is be even Beyond The Murders right
so even when he's admitting to all of his evil Deeds that he's carried out over the course of of any time that he's
let out of prison right he says yeah I killed the two women but I didn't kill the baby I didn't even set that house on
fire in fact he tell tries to tell police that no the brother that came to check on his sister that night he is
likely the one that set the fire that killed the baby ultimately he pleads guilty to these three murders even
though he says yeah I'll plead guilty to to the triple homicide but I I'm telling
you I didn't killed the baby didn't set the fire in a plea deal which I don't know what he got out of it may maybe but
what he ends up doing is Captain is he ends up ping guilty to The 1975 homicide that we discussed where
Arlene's body was found in the in the bean field right but he also pleads guilty to Daniel Stags now this is
confusing to me because there's there's several reports on this Daniel Stags murder some of the reports state that
Anthony Guy Walker plad guilty saying that he did that he committed the stabbing and then there's other reports
that state that he paid someone to kill Daniel Stacks right I'm thinking that it's likely that he like you said that
he was probably got some fa or somehow somebody paid him to kill Daniel Stags in prison but he also admits to killing
a guy named Floyd B who was found shot to death this so March of 1979 Floyd batty this man he lives in Manchester
Township he opens up his front door and he's gunned down what we end up learning
is that Walker said he was paid $2,000 to kill batty but would never reveal who paid him it's believed that it was a a
drug gang that paid him to kill this Floyd batty I'm wondering I couldn't find the information on what kind of
caliber was used to kill Floyd batty I was wondering if the murder weapon was the same from the January triple murder
because this guy's not out for very long how how much access did he have to we know he had access to this one
particular firearm yeah it seems like it's common knowledge that Anthony was a drug mule for a time period and then
eventually maybe became a Hitman for that same drug cartel if you will but supposedly when they go to this is
during the time period where he's just a drug mule and when he goes to the house
to buy the drugs the guy was kind of a old racist white guy and kept calling them boys or something and that pissed
off Anthony so after they made the drug deal he came back and shot him and I think he might have eventually confessed
to either a cellmate or maybe even to a detective because he said I came back to
shoot him because I thought screw this old racist white guy and when the guy opened up the door he starts shooting
him in the stomach I think he shot him multiple times and he said he enjoyed watching how his body flopped and danced
around his public defender was Robert Jameson who said that Walker decided to withdraw his earlier request to defend
himself in the case stating that he needed an attorney's expertise in dealing with the rules of evidence in
court procedures Jameson's the one that pointed out that this is an unusually complicated case well on top of that
they had to try to determine well is this man insane they ultimately determined that he is he's able to stand
trial but as said he pleads guilty after the guilty plea Walker is sentenced to three life sentences without the
possibility of parole for these murders but he was never even though he plad guilty or even though he confessed to
additional murders he was never charged so he's not charged for the saledo the batty or the Stags murders even though
he's confessed to committing these crimes over the years you see all this becomes complicated to me because
obviously those victims families and friends deserve answers yeah but as far as law enforcement goes you go well we
got the guy and and we see in in the triple homicide case you're talking about what 20 some years to put all the
pieces of the puzzle together so if in these other cases that he's saying well I I did it but if they
don't have enough of the pieces to put together it's like how much manour are you going to devote to those cases to
try to close them when you know that the guy is behind bars for the rest of his life plus the rest of his uh inner
demons life well they'll be able to clear those cases technically they're not going to continue to work them this
guy's in prison as you said for the rest of his life unless unless some really great evidence falls into their laps I I
don't think we're working these cases anymore now his public defender will go on to
say that this is this man's attorney who says I'm pretty sure he's murdered other
people right and and in fact Tony Walker and we look we do know that some of these serial killers are one thing that
they all have in common is they are liars they constantly lie they constantly make up stories and we do
know that some of them will become serial confessors right they'll start confessing to crimes that maybe they
didn't con actually commit because they want some kind of notoriety he does appear to want some kind of notoriety
this Tony Walker in fact yeah see I don't know if it's that he wants notoriety or if it's like I said earlier
his his goose is cooked so it's like might as well just tell people what happened and and his his kill count
could be could be really large because like I said I think his motivation is the rape to cover up the
rape he murders but if he was a drug mule for a time period Well was there any murders that took place during that
time he drug mule there's one that he talks about shooting the guy in the stomach and watching him flop around
like a fish and dance around but then then he's the one that tells cellmates and law enforcement
yeah well after I was a drug mule I became a Hitman for that group okay so how many murders took place because he
raped somebody and then tried to cover it up and how many murders were just because I was paid to kill that person
and then how many murders took place in prison because he was getting sexual favors in exchange for protecting those
individuals and he does kind of brag about his crimes in a way because he says yes I murdered a lot of people some
were for pay and some were for pleasure so his guilty plea and admissions in lenaway County effectively clear up six
homicides although Tony Walker according to his attorney Mr Jameson he says Tony
might be responsible for two dozen others and says that he was provided by Walker with dates places and
descriptions of people that he killed and as the captain said he said some of these were hired by drug dealers to to
kill and Drug gangs to kill or others that he chose to murder on his own Jameson goes on to say this person
Anthony Walker is more prolific of a murderer than Ted Bundy Walker killed seven people before he turned 18 is the
claim that Mr Jameson States now it was difficult one thing we hope to do when we set out to take a
good look at Tony Walker or Red Walker is to try to connect him to any other outstanding homicides I hope that police
have some information Jameson says that he's given this information to the proper authorities to see what they can
do with it my guess here Captain is that the information is lacking or maybe it's
similar to some of these cases that he confesses to but there simply was no evidence they just may not have any
evidence on some of these cases but let's talk about one here so there's one case that we might be able to connect
him to and I want to read this this is straight from the newspaper so it says Focus shifts to Star witness as suspect
and rape this is out of the Detroit News an article by an Sweeney and it says the
accused killer in a brutal Westside slaying has been freed on bond after a defense attorney convinced a judge that
a bite mark linking his client to the murder could have been made instead by the prosecution's star
witness before his release Rick Amal spent the last 10 months in Wayne County Jail he was awaiting trial for
the murder of his 34-year-old girlfriend Jane fry so investigators said that an imprint of teeth left by the as salent
on Frey's left cheek tied the boyfriend to The Killing but perhaps at trial the strongest evidence was or but perhaps
the strongest evidence to lead to arresting this man was a statement given to police by Anthony Guy Walker this is
Fry's next door neighbor he lives next door to them and according to reports Walker said that he
saw the boyfriend's car parked outside of Frey's home and heard an argument in the early morning
hours prior to to Frey's death and Walker notified Frey's family of possible trouble and accompanied her
mother inside when the mother found the body and this poor woman had been stabbed 22 times in her chest and neck
the killer left the knife jammed in her mouth later of course when they find out
really what this walker guy is capable of the horrific horrible sexual assaults rape murder kidnapping that this guy has
done time and time again all he makes a far better suspect in this homicide case
than the boyfriend does So eventually they they release the boyfriend because suddenly he doesn't look so good well
I'm going to get a little graphic here but in the triple homicide the first victim after he raped her and she's
bound he raped the victims and then put their clothes back on he has the victim bound and he places the gun inside of
her mouth before he pulls the trigger which I would say is exactly what you just
described with that knife just with a gun that is what some would describe as a special kind of evil I mean really a
unique level of evil and then in this case that this outstanding case here of Jane fry we have the defense
attorney for the boyfriend who outwardly says and tells the judge and the judge must agree because they let the
boyfriend out of jail and it's he says openly my client didn't do this murder Anthony Guy Walker the man who was
willing to testify against him is the perpetrator of this murder I don't know what else will come of this here Captain
I I don't know we we have an interesting situation because we have a man who will
never be let out of prison he doesn't seem to have any problem being in prison he seems to thrive there he's willing to
commit murder while behind bars if you let him out he's only out at periods of of his adult life the most it
appears that he was ever out at one time was maybe close to two years but he cannot stop himself from committing
horrific acts of evil when as soon as he's let out of prison he's paroled in early January he kills these three
people on the 15th of January and oh by the way guns down another man shortly after that yeah and then a couple weeks
after that he kidnaps three teenagers I mean this is a whole different level and
and I'm I think it's actually interesting that his attorney kind of Compares him to
Bundy because yes Bundy horrible evil individual but think about how psycho how evil how tough this
individual has to be if once he's put into a prison with other animals he becomes the protector of those animals
that's a psycho that is somebody you would not want to be alone with in a cell or in a
room we need more information on this guy because as his attorney pointed out that he may have killed a dozen more
people and I said he's provided as much information as he can to the proper channels regarding statements that his
client gave to him I I don't I can't get a good handle on this walker guy though
because while we have situations where he pleads guilty he even openly tells us about other murders that he may have had
a a connection to but but eventually says that he he did commit them he doesn't obviously admit to everything
and he's lacking in providing details in a lot of these cases so I I don't know how to Peg this dude because it's do I
believe that he committed these other murders maybe up to a dozen he's certainly evil enough he's certainly
capable of it but is he just trying to make a name for himself now that he knows that he's locked away for
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Anthony Guy Walker’s story is one of darkness and revelation, a haunting journey through crime and memory that shook Michigan. Known for a string of brutal murders dating back to the 1970s, Walker’s past reads like the plot of a true-crime novel—one that twists through multiple confessions, long-delayed court hearings, and the haunting reopening of cold cases.

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Brief Summary

Anthony Guy Walker, a serial killer, is linked to multiple murders in Michigan, including a triple homicide in 1979, through DNA evidence and confessions.

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Introducing the Podcast. Ted Danson shares details about his new podcast with Woody Harrelson.
A Triple Homicide. The story of a tragic fire reveals a shocking triple homicide in Adrian, Michigan.
The Mystery Deepens. Police struggle to find suspects in a brutal murder case with no clear leads.
The Return of Anthony Walker. A man with a violent past resurfaces as a person of interest in the case.
DNA Evidence Emerges. Years later, DNA evidence links Anthony Walker to the murder scene.
The Alibi Dilemma. Anthony Walker's solid alibi complicates the investigation despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime.

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