Name: Break in 2010 Fayetteville cold case
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Description: Fayetteville police announce details about a break in a years-long cold case from a 2010 murder in the community.

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No pressure. Ok. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. His press conference is gonna pay him in about one minute, 1 minute. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, you something. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us for a press conference. Before I begin, I would like to go over some housekeeping rules with you. Please be sure that all your mobile devices are silenced at this time. We also ask that you please hold all of your questions to the end of this conference. We are asking that any questions, all questions only be related to this investigative update also be at the end of the press conference as you exit, there will be an information sheet that will be provided to you as well. At this time, I'd like to introduce Captain Hunt with the major crimes division and he will begin with opening remarks. Good afternoon. And thank you for being here. We're here to inform you today of a cold case homicide that took place Memorial Day weekend, 2010 and an arrest has been made in this case shortly. Sergeant Locklear, the homicide unit supervisor will come up to the podium and make a brief statement about this case, he will then be followed by Detective Cruz. Detective Cruz is the fellow police department's cold case homicide detective. Then the chief of police Chief Brain will come up and make a few comments and once he's done, he will open up the floor for any questions that you may have related to this case. Good evening. Um, I'm Sergeant Jeff Locklear. I'm the supervisor for the fable police department's homicide unit. Um thank you for taking the time to come out and let us update you guys on a, uh, an unresolved homicide that has been resolved. Um, the original crime took place in 2010 and I was actually the lead investigator on it at that time and, uh, we put a lot of investigative effort into it. It's been almost what, 13 years now. Um, We never forgot about it. We kept, there's been several different times when we actually left the state. We sent different things to the lab. We, we've put a lot of work into this case and for like I said, almost 13 years, it went unresolved. Um, we were in contact with the, with the victim's family in this case and with a lot of the members of the community in the Bonny Doon area, a lot of people took notice and wondered if we'd ever bring this case to resolution. And, uh, as time went on technology developed, um, and the forensic side of the house kind of, uh, came forward as well. And uh we were able to uh the end of 2022, we used some new technology, some new methodology. Um and we were able to get an identification on our, our suspect. Um we got him identified and uh we were actually able to conduct an interview with him and he's been extradited back to North Carolina now where he will, where he will face uh and go through the criminal justice process. There's uh we won't be able to talk specifically about the investigation. We have to be careful once somebody is, has been charged with the crime, we have to be real careful about getting into the specifics of the case. But what we will tell you is is that um this case was really all of them are important. Every homicide investigation we conduct is important, all of them. Uh You know, there's a, there's, there's victims behind every one of them and the victims families behind every one of them. And, but this one um has, has, has just been there at me, I think years ago, Nancy mclear with, with the newspaper said that it gnawed at me and this one kind of did. So I'm thankful to still be here at the Federal Police Department and see this thing brought to some resolution. We have a uh a detective at the police department and he's my cold case homicide guy. He's also the police specialist. So he trains any new detectives that may come to the unit. He kind of, he's kind of a right hand man. He takes care of a lot of things that, that I can't sometimes do to other issues. Um, and I'm gonna let him come up and he's gonna talk to you a little bit about the new science and methodology and the new technology that we use to, uh, to bring this thing to a resolution. I'll let him introduce himself when it comes up. Good afternoon. I'm a specialist cruise, like you said. Um, basically this case resolution came from just hard case work. A lot of participation from other entities that we would like to extend our gratitude to um Fort Bragg C ID office, uh Houston County, Harris County, the Houston Homicide guys down in Texas helped us out a lot as well as the Wharton County Sheriff's office. But with, as far as the apprehension of the suspect being brought back here to Fayetville, now we'll enter the phase in which the criminal justice system takes over. Thank you first to all the partnering agencies, detectives and participants involved in this case. Thank you. Your professionalism and commitment to justice have made this arrest possible to the family and friends of Terrence Plummer. I hope this arrest in this case brings you new hope that justice can be served. District Attorney, Billy West was unable to attend today due to a prior commitment in Raleigh. We spoke earlier this morning and he assured me our detectives have the support of the District Attorney's office as this case proceeds to prosecution. I believe this case highlights the commitment of the homicide unit and its detectives to our victims and their surviving families. I hope this press conference today sends a message to our community, a message that the fabled police department will constantly seek justice for victims of violent crime and that we don't forget. So I'll open the floor now to specific questions from the press clear. You were the chief investigator and I watched a video of you this morning talking about this case. Give us some nuts and bolts about what you thought happened back then because that's public record right now, you kind of describe the case of where you thought where the individual was killed. So walk us through that like you did 10 years ago. Uh OK. Uh I will take the uh promotion you gave me, I'm not a captain, I'm a sergeant, but I'll take that promotion. Um So, uh and again, this, uh this crime took place in uh the Memorial Day weekend of 2010. Um And, and you know, it was a busy weekend for us that weekend. We actually had uh the guys, the other half of the squad was actually working a separate homicide. And uh when I received a telephone call from Sergeant Chris at the time who informed me that we had now a second homicide that we were gonna be responsible for, uh, investigating. And, uh, I was actually out of town at a school and he called me and said, hey, when you free to come back, we're gonna have to, you know, call you back from that school. Um, this is probably gonna be pretty, uh, pretty involved in investigation. Um, so I came back and we, we, we, the, the, the one thing that I really remember about that day was it, it got really hot really early in the morning, right? And, uh, what that does is, is that when you're in a situation there's, you know, it's, it's in an abandoned um, apartment like you said, you know, we, we did a uh cold case, a spot that we actually put on youtube years ago. And, uh, thank you for remembering that, that tells me that you folks are watching that stuff here. Um And uh we did, we got some, some tips and that kind of stuff started coming in the people in the community, um, of street and just the Bonny area, of course, when they see the police activity, they came in and people were giving us little bits of information throughout the day and the days turned into weeks and then the weeks turned into months. Um, we, uh spent a lot of time in the crime scene that day. Um And we, we collected a lot of evidence, we collected uh a lot of evidence that we would need to send to the lab, which we did. And uh there was a uh a key piece of evidence that we actually collected, um that uh we had hoped would bring us some, some results sooner than 13 years later. But um it took time for the science to develop um for the databases to communicate and that kind of stuff. But once that was done, we were able to, uh, to identify our suspect in that case. Um, and, and, and I don't think it goes without saying that it was one of the, one of the, the more brutal murders that I dealt with in, in, in my career. And, um, and again, all of them are important, all of them have a victim and then all of them have a victim's family. Um, but this one, uh, you know, it, it, it kind of stuck with me. So I, you know, worked several more years in homicide, left the homicide unit, did some other things. The police department got promoted and then they brought me back to the homicide unit as a supervisor. And, uh, the first thing that popped into my mind when I came back as the supervisor was this case because I know it was my cold case and that I hadn't brought any resolution to it. And every now and then I would see somebody from that community in Bonnie Doon and they would remember me they would be like you said, you were gonna solve that case, you never solved it. And, uh, that kind of, it affects you, you know, and, uh I'm just thankful that the science continues to evolve daily and, uh I think that the science is gonna continue to evolve and I think that this won't be the last time that we stand up here at this podium and give you guys some good news. We have C ID here. Clearly, Fort Bragg is involved. This is, uh you haven't named the suspect. Can you tell us what the suspect's name is and his connection to Fort Bragg? So at the time that suspect was a active duty soldier, his name was Joshua Richardson. Um, there was some evidence at the time that we were kind of working with that he may have been, you know, at least some connection to the military. Um, you know, in Fayetteville for bragged that connection. The working relationship with C ID has always been valuable to us at the police department. Um And then I think they would say the same thing about us. Um But at the time that the murder took place, the individual that committed the murder was an active duty soldier. Um That information is gonna be his, his, his biologics and, and that kind of stuff will be uh in that release that uh Sergeant Caldwell has for you. And I think she has actually a current photo of a booking photo, I talked with Billy West this morning. So this is a state case this will be tried by in the civilian courts. Fort Bragg is the statute of limitations that Fort Bragg won't have anything to do with this case in the military court since he was on active duty at the time of the crime. Yeah. So it's my understanding right now. Um it's gonna stay in, in a state in a state posture. Um, C ID. Uh, the agents from C ID have been helping us working with us. Really.

Break in 2010 Fayetteville cold case

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<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>