Serial Killer Realizes Police Found His Body Collection | Forensic Files

[Music] totally cooperating just not doing anything Cooper sir I will be very Cooperative let's TR down please that's
not you on the 27th food line parking lot Travelers Rest I don't think so look where's that I don't know where is
yes you do it's not making sense so you're the last person to be in a vehicle you wipe out of a lady that's
missing that sound's really 28 years ago this man kidnapped a woman and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for it 3
decades later 80-year-old Edna subtles is spotted picking him up in a parking lot this would be the last time Edna was
ever seen alive Days Later detectives traced Edna's movement and discovered CCTV footage of the same man driving her
car she's missing right now yes Dan where is it I don't have a clue but that's when police found found out Edna
wasn't the only [Music] victim if you tell him to turn that off I will talk to you a little more
freely sometime around 9:00 a.m. on August 27th 80-year-old Edna leaves her home in traveler's rest to look after a
friend hours later 911 dispatchers receive a concerning call look kind of one was for your emergency a fitter was
supposed to show up to be with my mom today her name is Edna subtle and she didn't show up with this is not like her
she shows up like clockwork so something's wrong but this call was only the beginning of a long chain of
mysteries as officers arrived at Edna sule's home for a welfare check based on these reports they received no response
there were no signs of a Breakin and Edna was nowhere to be seen however when police asked Edna's son he pointed out
that $50,000 worth of jewelry was missing from the home more importantly though her car was missing too if the
cops could find that they might be able to figure out where she had gone this meant that finding Edna's vehicle would
be the most instrumental step in this investigation as it would give a clue about her last known whereabouts
immediately a haunt for Edna's car began and 6 days later it was found abandoned
in the parking lot of a hotel in traveler's rest this was odd as Edna lived close by and didn't need to stay
at a hotel a check with the staff also revealed that no one under the name of Edna was staying there so to get to the
bottom of this mystery the cops decided to try and Trace back Edna's movement using CCTV cameras starting from her
home at 9:30 a.m. a camera at a nearby pawn shop captures Edna leaving her home and driving towards a local Food Lion
grocery store 9 minutes later Edna arrives at the store to pick something up a man approaches the vehicle with two
bags in his hand and sits alongside Edna who then drives off back to her home 4 hours later at 1:43 p.m. Edna's car
leaves her home again and arrives at the same Food Lion once more but this time the person exiting the driver's seat
isn't Edna at all it's the same old white man she picked up earlier who immediately moves to his car and Parks
next to Edna's he then drags something out of her car placing it into his initially it was difficult to identify
what the man moved from the Jeep to the Chevrolet but after a frame by frame analysis it wasn't a question of what
was moved but who because in a chilling Discovery officers would realize the footage showed the unmistakable Golden
Hair of Edna subtles 4 minutes later at 1:47 p.m. the man drives Edna's car into
the hotel's parking lot and Parks it in the same spot that the detectives found the vehicle in he exits and begins
wiping down the door and seats trying to get rid of any evidence of his presence
by 2:14 p.m. the man returns to his vehicle at Food Lion and drives off marking the last that was seen of Edna
and the man the most crucial part of this investigation is to now figure out who exactly the man in the video is but
due to the grainy footage and his distance from most cameras this proved to be difficult and the investigation
seemed like it would come to a standstill but detectives had an idea since the man exited the store with bags
in his hand a purchase was made and this realization would be the most crucial breakthrough in the case immediately
officers began retrieving footage from inside the store and when they reviewed it they came to a harrowing realization
this was Daniel Prince a man who only 24 years prior to this got put in a federal
prison for kidnapping 24 years prior to this incident in 1997 Daniel was responsible
for the kidnapping of a woman in Michigan he had her tied up Shackled her hands it was by sheer luck that she
managed to free herself before escaping even though he was sentenced to a maximum of 30 years for this crime he
was released by 2009 on parole but the worst was Yet to Come d began working as a handyman for predominantly elderly
Single Ladies a demographic that not only matched his previous victim but also that of ednas for officers the
realization now begins to settle in they have a kidnapper on the run and there might be a chance that he has kept Edna
alive not knowing where she is they had to act fast before this glimmer of hope dimmed even with this disturbing past
detectives didn't have enough evidence to press strong charges for kidnapping or murder however they had established
probable cause for Grand larsy involving Edna's Jeep a warrant to arrest Prince and search his property was granted and
officers were quickly dispatched to Prince's residents to take him into custody totally coopera just do
anything stand up on your feet yeah sir I will be very Cooperative despite the number of heavily armed
officers that just descended on Prince's property he remained noticeably calm and
composed as if he had a plan to escape this predicament the following footage was analyzed by our in-house criminal
research specialist and retired detective to shed some light on key techniques and strategies used during
the questioning when he is brought into the interrogation room the detectiv start with a relaxed friendly
conversation a tactic used to put suspects at ease they don't want him to know they've caught him on camera just
yet what what do you do now I do a lot of um Home Remodeling home repair I a lot of tile and I got a
customer base that has me doing stuff okay well why Bostic North Carolina come all the way down from to say Michigan or
Wisconsin okay here this is real easy um I'm originally from the east side of the
state of Michigan but I was in prison in Michigan for a while and when I paroled
I paroled to the west side of the state okay what uh what you get locked up for cuz he said he got pared I was locked up
for a um kidnapping charge okay and um I did 13 and2 years for that oh wow I did 1
and A2 years for a um false statement on a vehicle title you know when they're not sure if they're going to make
something they want something to hold you with so the false statement that's all that was the
kidnapping I was doing some bad [ __ ] that I shouldn't have been doing but I should have gotten kidnapping but I was
doing bad [ __ ] what kind of [ __ ] what [ __ ] have you gotten I really don't want to
say huh we're just bullshitting nothing when you're talking to two police detectives in a room it's just
bullshitting okay I've been through the system enough to know that all I'm going
to say about that is I did my time I made my first PR and I haven't been in trouble since hey and that's great to
know you know lot of people especially being what you've been through they come out and they go right back to it just
because he's a convicted criminal doesn't mean he's involved in Edna's disappearance but the evidence the
detectives have paints a different picture altogether from the hardworking reformed criminal he claimed to be I
talk you August 27 2021 of this year what day of the week was that it was a Friday okay okay so specifically the
27th mhm what two weeks ago do you remember where you were at no specifically where do you think you were
at I've been going all over the place I've been back and forth to Charlotte I've been down to South Carolina like
where's your jobs in South Carolina taking you um actually I was down Travelers Rest but I don't know if it
was Friday or Thursday I know I've been there earlier that week but you don't remember which day specifically no it
was either Thursday or Friday what kind of job were you working on I wasn't you wasn't I wasn't this lady had talked to
me several times I'd been down to her house two or three times we kind of got to be friends this woman has so many
damn problems mostly her daughter she would call me and have me come down there okay she said she needed to have
money at one point in time to help her daughter cuz her daughter was in jail then she needed money another time
because she was hiring a private investigator because her son-in-law was she talked to me all kinds of stuff
about it we got to be pretty good friends about stuff like that okay how' you meet her initially years ago okay
years ago it was somebody given me her name or number or her my name and number here the detectives are analyzing his
behavior and allowing Prince to dig a hole for himself that he's going to struggle to escape from when they reveal
they know the truth he's going to try and deny his guilt even when the evidence speaks for itself what you're
telling us is that's not you on the 27th food line parking lot traveler's rest I don't think
so that's not you that's me where's that food line August 27th 2021 9:23 okay to two seconds bringing a bell
yeah yeah I went down to food yeah yeah so what were you doing down there that day um she wanted me to look at some
stuff at her house okay and she picked me up at Food Li because she wanted me with her when she was
um going to go meet some guy for for um private investigator okay yeah tell us about that she wanted me to meet her
down there okay she was nervous because she says I'm not sure I trust this guy and she knows I've been in the military
and she says will you meet me she wanted me to see if this guy was going to meet
her where he was supposed to meet her do you know where there was a hotel lobby that he had finally said meet me at the
hotel okay she says drive up there and see if he's there and I drove up there and and things are starting to sound
really squirly to me this is a common deflective Behavior Prince is not only trying to deflect suspicion away from
himself he's trying to point suspicion directly at someone else in this case the private investigator according to
Prince Edna wanted to meet the private investigator the day before she was reported missing even though she didn't
feel safe meeting him alone luckily detectives have seen the whole thing on camera and it completely contradicts
everything Prince is saying what were you driving I was driving a blue car your wife's car or your car my wife's car so
that's yall coming down 25 you and her [Music] together it could be okay cuz that's
their car that's about 1345 on the 27th okay so that's so you're with her there yeah okay I guess yeah yeah I'm
not saying yeah I'm just saying that could be it's a different angle but I mean you know we've watched this
car right okay here's yall in the uh Hotel parking lot okay yeah oh look there's yall yall
backing in yeah and a couple of different copies of it backing in backing in yeah oh look you get out
nobody else gets out I told you that you're walking around the car yeah you wipe the entire car down because I was
worried you were worried or's you walking across the parking lot in front of Little Caesars
mhm and there's you getting back into your car and driving away oh she's willing look man
you are a good dude I honestly do believe that that you screwed up years and years ago Prince seems visibly
stunned by the amount of photographic evidence the detective is showing him and even though it can't be refuted
Prince is going to try and lie his way out of it but that's not the only evidence detectives managed to find
along the way as there's mud on the wheels of Prince's car leading detectives to believe he drove Offroad
to either kill Edna or to dump her body and this is when we arrive at the pivotal moment where Prince's story
starts to fall apart you're not a bad guy right nobody is saying that you're some evil Twisted dude MH okay we need
to know where is we've processed the car we found a dirt where did you go Offroad
I never where did you leave oh I can tell you exactly where she and I had gone off road please when we were going
from 25 South mhm there was off to the right there was a truck with a trailer and another vehicle there that had a uh
for sale sign on it and it looked like an older truck and I need a work truck and I went ahead and I pulled in and
with her and then we pulled out it was right there on 25 even in the face of such
overwhelming evidence Prince still denies any wrongdoing and even tries to take control of the situation but
detectives have him cornered and he's quickly starting to struggle to maintain his composure where's now her family is
desperately looking for her she's missing right now yes Dan where is it I don't have a clue I dropped her off at
her house Dan Dan please listen you did not drop her off at her house we have followed that car the entire day up and
down 25 there's a number of minutes that are unaccounted for that are not by her
house which car mine or hers dan stop playing games you know what we're when I got okay I can help you here got to give
me a second you got to let me answer the questions when they're asked when I dropped her vehicle off
look for the guy she said she wanted me to take her and drive around in my vehicle so I left her vehicle I went
down to Food Lion and she was in my vehicle with me and I dropped her off at home D we watched the video she is not
the car sits there it sits there man no no not in her car no my car Dr my car you did not drop anyone off man I picked
her back up she said in my car at food line and I went back and got her no you did not the detectives are beginning to
apply more pressure on Prince knowing everything he's telling them is a lie but he continues to stay on the defense
even trying to brush off the facts that he might have destroyed potential evidence I don't know where it is yes
you do no I don't damn let's go back to while you wiped the car down what what you said you were
worried about what the only thing I did was because I knew I'd been in and out of her car all
the time with her I'm like there is no way in hell I'm going to just leave this thing here cuz she's got somebody that's
after her prince tries to deflect suspicion Again by suggesting Edna may have been in some kind of danger but he
doesn't realize just how prepared these detectives are who would be after that guy with the truck she said she didn't
trust him the pi yeah she hired as a pi his story is totally different he's been
doing work for her I mean on the son-in-law thing I mean we've interviewed I mean he had no he didn't
meet her so right that's why I said she said she hired another Pi I'm sure you're recording this it's not making
sense of I mean you're the last person to be in a vehicle you wipe out of of a lady that's missing that sounds really
fun it does it that's why we're here I've been real honest with you guys I told you what was going on the
detectives managed to get Prince to admit he was with Edna on the day she disappeared while Prince tried to
convince them he was helping her meet a suspicious private investigator they know it's a desperate attempt to deflect
suspicion and distance himself from the crime Prince insisted he dropped Edna off at her home safe and well but the
detectives established that he was the last person to see her alive and because of this interrogation they locked him
into a lie that would eventually lead to a chilling confession when detectives search Prince's property they find
several automatic weapons because because of his previous convictions he's forbidden from owning any firearms that
means he could be facing a federal charge and be detained for even longer while he's detained they continue to
search his land and find one of the most crucial pieces of evidence yet a yogurt
cup this is the yogurt he bought shortly before Edna disappeared and it's laced with a cocktail of drugs lorazapam
Tramadol and cyclobenzaprine can cause central nervous system depression when they're combined when this happens the
body's neurological functions slow down in other words you're under sedation exactly as Edna was in the parking lot
when she was seen in Prince's car after feeding her the laced yogurt there's nothing Edna can do to stop him and
she's LED away to her death at the hands of this sadistic killer Prince begins to
realize he's cornered and has nowhere to run so they bring him back in for more questioning where he makes a full
confession as he admits to three more murders including the of Lee Goodman Dolores sers and her daughter Nancy Rigo
the first victim was Dolores Daniel had euthanized Dolores sers at the request of her daughter Nancy rioo however Nancy
began to have second thoughts and wanted to contact the police putting her directly in the crosshairs of Daniel
Prince a mentally Disturbed serial killer Nancy Rigo was now his second victim even worse is the fact that for
several years Daniel began receiving receiving ny's Social Security checks because she had given him her power of
attorney moreover the search of Daniel's property would also reveal several of ny's documents since
2017 after her murder Daniel pretended to be Nancy by sending her family emails and messages in an attempt to prevent
them from thinking that she was dead Daniel's third victim was Lee Goodman who allegedly attempted to Rob him
according to Daniel much like Nancy and Edna her body was disposed of in in some
desolate area and finally Daniel's fourth and final victim was Edna sules whose body would be found one year later
on May 16th 2022 in a grave close to Daniel's home in Rutherford County although decomposed officers were able
to positively identify it as Edna and return the body to her loved ones but even in the face of his crimes he would
never let go of his chance to leverage as much information as he could there was uh a lot of stuff F in uh your your
be house there could be a million explanations for some of that stuff and I don't want to jump to conclusions and
if there is something that happened that you didn't intend to happen let's talk about it there are
things that have to happen and there are things that are going to happen and I'm a realist and I
have acceptance with this I would like a little bit of control in how they happen if you tell them to turn that off
I will talk to you a little more freely when they turn the cameras off Prince makes a final attempt to take control
and influence the outcome in his favor Daniel Prince avoided a trial by making a deal with authorities he would tell
them about the location of Edna's body and in turn his case would go Federal because of the better living conditions
in federal prisons not only that but he would also avoid the death penalty and instead receive a life sentence one
would think that the detectives were naive to turn off their cameras and not record Daniel's confession but
unbeknownst to Prince the investigators keep the backup audio recording running after shutting down the camera this is
the chilling confession he made okay let's put it this way a person I was very good friends with wanted to do
something to put someone basic out of their misery that was very closely related to them that's one body that
person started having an extreme amount of guilt over this and decided they were
going to go tell what had happened that's the second body there's a third body that I did not kill and I knew that
they'd be getting Social Security disability for the rest of their life so I got rid of set bodies for example so
that I could continue to use the car by any chance while he's getting all his squ away mhm can you just help me get
that closure for in this family not until I have this I clam up like a clam if this doesn't go Federal for
everything

On the 9th of September 2021, 82-year-old Edna mysteriously disappeared after not showing up to a babysitting gig. Police quickly track her car, and finds that a man is driving it. A man who decades ago, got 30 years in prison, For kidnapping...

And as the story unravels, police would find out that Edna wasn't his first victim since he got out...

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Brief Summary

Daniel Prince, a convicted kidnapper, confesses to murdering Edna Subtles and three others after her mysterious disappearance.

Key points

The Disappearance of Edna. 80-year-old Edna goes missing after being seen with a man in a parking lot.
The Kidnapper Revealed. Detectives discover the man seen with Edna is Daniel Prince, a convicted kidnapper.
Confession of a Killer. Daniel Prince confesses to multiple murders, including Edna's.
Chilling Confession. Daniel reveals his involvement in multiple deaths and the guilt that haunts him.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

You did not drop her off at her house!

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