Monday, June 29, 2009 - 11:45 AM

The witness, Alex Coleman, is the owner of a 1985 red Toyota Corolla. The interview was conducted at the Yoknapatawpha Sheriff's Department and recorded on a portable tape recorder with the witness's knowledge and consent.

Detective Samantha Murphy
Detective Ted Armstrong
Alex Coleman

Detective Murphy: For the record please state your name and address.

Alex Coleman:  Alexander Coleman and my address is 222 Country Club Road. I am still staying at Lacy's house but will be getting a place of my own soon.

Detective Murphy: We talked to your mother and father again.

Alex Coleman: My father doesn't know anything about me. He always likes to pretend like we are so close but he is never around. Never has been. Mom always treats me like I'm still a little kid. It's quite pathetic really. To be honest, neither one of them really know me.

Detective Murphy: Do you really know them?

Alex Coleman: I know enough.

Detective Murphy: Your mother said the barrette and the chain found in your trunk weren't hers. We recently found out that they belonged to Taylor Duncan.

Detective Armstrong: How did they get in your car Alex?

Alex Coleman: I…I don't know. I mean, I know Blake had Taylor in my car but I don't know how they would have gotten into the trunk.

Detective Armstrong: You think Blake Jenson killed her?

Alex Coleman: I didn't say that. But, I guess he could have.

Detective Armstrong: Are you saying that the night that Taylor disappeared is the night she was killed?

Alex Coleman: It would explain the stuff in my trunk. I never loaned him my car after that night. Blake died just a few months ago so that stuff must have been in there all that time.

Detective Murphy: Why do you automatically assume it was Jenson? Did you know that your mother wrote a threatening note to Blake while he was still alive?

Alex Coleman: Wha..?

Detective Armstrong: Yes, her handwriting was a match for a note that we found in his pocket after he was murdered.  Maybe she is the killer, Alex.

Alex Coleman: NO! My mother may be a lot of things but she wouldn't ever physically hurt anyone.

Detective Armstrong: We disagree with you. We are planning on arresting her today; you know she will probably die in prison.

Alex Coleman: No way. Come on, think about this a minute. She isn't strong enough to hit someone hard enough to kill them. She couldn't have beaten someone to death like that. It couldn't have been her. It had to have been Blake!

Detective Armstrong: Beaten to death you say? Taylor was beat to death, Alex, but how would you know that?

Alex Coleman:  I read it in the paper or saw it on the news.

Detective Murphy: No you didn't. We haven't leaked that part.

Detective Armstrong: You better start talking kid!

Alex Coleman: Okay, okay.  He said he took her to my house because he wanted to have sex with her. She was teasing him. She'd kiss him and stuff then pull away.  He said he didn't know how it happened but he ended up raping her and then she was going to call the police and he was freaked out and before he knew what was happening he had a fire poker in his hand and blood all over himself and she was dead. She was dead!  He told me he buried her out by the lake and he buried the poker in his backyard and then moved an old doghouse over it. You can go check it out if you don't believe me.

Detective Murphy: Oh, we believe that we will find the murder weapon right where you say it is. But can you explain to us why your mother wrote Blake a note that said if he didn't keep quiet he would be six feet under?

Detective Armstrong: We have an eyewitness who saw TWO men bury the body at Sardis lake and we have a picture of Blake with Taylor's dead body in your basement. Now, who do you think was down there with them to take that picture?

Alex Coleman: Mom was just trying to protect me! She found the picture in my drawer; she sent it along with the note and one of Taylor's barrettes to Blake so he would keep his mouth shut. If only I'd have stayed home that morning and not run into that Fitzgerald guy, I would have been home free.

Detective Murphy: Alex, do you realize you just confessed to two separate murders and that your mother can be charged as an accomplice?

Alex Coleman: I didn't mean to kill her. She said I raped her! I have never been in trouble in my life. I was so scared. I convinced Blake to help me clean up the basement and to bury the body. He had sex with her earlier in the night and he was afraid he would be charged. I took that picture without him knowing it. Everything went so wrong that night. Please believe me; it wasn't supposed to happen like that. I need a lawyer; I want to call a lawyer. I have rights don't I?

Detective Armstrong: Well, one thing is for sure Alex.

Alex Coleman: What's that?

Detective Armstrong: You said you wanted to get a place of your own soon. That's definitely going to happen.  Read him his rights.

Interview ends: 12:55 pm