| Friday, January 13, 2006 - 9:30 a.m.
This follow-up interview with the witness, Victor Bledsoe, was conducted by Detectives S. Murphy and T. Armstrong at theYoknapatawpha County Sheriff’s Department, and was recorded on a portable audio tape recorder with the witness' knowledge and consent.
TA= Detective T. Armstrong
SM= Detective S. Murphy
VB= Victor Bledsoe
TA: Thank you for coming down again, Mr. Bledsoe.
VB: No problem Detective, anything I can do to help catch my little girl’s killer.
TA: Would you please state your name and address for the record?
VB: Certainly. Victor Bledsoe, and I live at 310 Lewis Ln. in Oxford.
SM: Mr. Bledsoe, in our first interview you stated that you and Amy had been close but recently that closeness had faded.
VB: Yes, unfortunately she and my wife didn’t get along as well as I hoped, but I think that would have gotten better, given time.
SM: Did you ever give Amy rides?
VB: Rides? Well, sometimes yes I would. She would usually call a friend, but if she got stuck somewhere she knew she was welcome to call me.
TA: On the night of December 4th did she call you for a ride?
VB: The night she was murdered? No, I didn’t receive a call from her that evening. I wish I had, maybe I could have saved her.
TA: Are you okay, Mr. Bledsoe? Do you need a moment to compose yourself?
VB: No, no I’ll be fine, it’s just tough to talk about it now that it’s sunk in that my little girl, my precious little girl is gone. That someone would do this to her, she was an angel. I can’t see why someone would hurt her. Then wrap her in plastic and . . . and just leave her body in the woods for some animal to find? What kind of sick person would do such a thing?
SM: That’s what we’re trying to find out Mr. Bledsoe. You mentioned she was an angel. Did she have anyone that didn’t care for her?
VB: No, everyone liked her. I can’t think of anyone that would hate her enough to do this.
SM: Was she really an angel, Mr. Bledsoe? I mean, perhaps to you she was, but in reality might she not have been doing things you would disapprove of?
VB: NO! She’s perfect . . . was perfect . . . I can’t believe she is gone. I had so much that I wanted to do with her. Things I never got to say. I can’t believe you would say that about her, clearly you didn’t know her. I bet you didn’t know she liked to do things with me?
TA: What kind of things?
VB: She liked to help me do things that her mother considered "man" things. Like changing the oil on the car, and we were going to paint the garage together before I moved out. I’d even bought the paint . . . and now it will never happen.
SM: So she wasn’t necessarily a girly kind of girl?
VB: No, her mother liked to think of her that way, but she wasn’t. Oh don’t get me wrong, she could dress up and be the most polite young lady you ever met but she was truly happiest wearing a pair of blue jeans and an old shirt.
TA: You said you were going to paint the garage with her, and you’d bought the paint.
VB: Yes, we were going to do that, but things just got so bad between her mother and I, that I moved out before we did it.
TA: I remember when I painted my garage I made the mistake of just trying to use newspaper to cover the floor, made a big mess.
VB: I bought a tarp to cover the entire floor, I knew if I got one drop of paint on that floor Mary would have killed me.
SM: What kind of tarp was it?
VB: One of those clear plastic kinds that you can buy in a big roll.
SM: And you bought that before you moved out? Did you leave it there or take it with you?
VB: I left it there. I have no need for it now. I think part of me was hoping that someday I might be able to go back and paint the garage with Amy . . . but . . . but that will never happen now. I’m sorry Detectives . . . I’m unable to go on right now, can we do this another time?
TA: That would be fine, Mr. Bledsoe. We understand this is difficult for you. We will contact you soon if we have anything further that we need to talk to you about.
VB: Thank you.
SM: Thank you Mr. Bledsoe, we’ll be in touch.
End Interview 9:50 a.m. |
