How I became a suspect
Since Dateline focused on old information already proven
untrue I will need to revisit these topics yet again. I would really have
rather moved forward instead of staying focused on old out dated material. Moving
backwards we go!
Corey Parker was
murdered November 26, 1998; Thanksgiving Day. In the week following her death,
detectives interviewed everyone who lived in the area including me, multiple times.
Investigators testified that I was cooperative and they did not consider me a
suspect.
Over 2 months later on January 29, 1999, I lied to my
co-workers claiming I had a son who died in a car accident. I lied because I
wanted the weekend off work to party. My co-workers learned that I did not tell
the truth and I lost my job and was kicked out of my apartment. A few days
later I entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.
To be clear, I am very sorry, ashamed and embarrassed for
lying. It was a stupid thing to do. There is no excuse for my behavior, but I
was only 17 years old and was using drugs and drinking heavily. However this occurred
several months after Parker was murdered. Simply because I lied to get time off
work does not make me a murderer.
A year and a half later a reward poster for $20,000 was
circulating the community. Two of my former co-workers, Julie Sedgwick FKA Julie
Snyder and Dane Hough saw a poster and meet at a party where they talked about
me and the fact that I lived near Corey Parker and that I had lied to time to
get off work. Also at the party was a police informant named William Rentschler
(who has an interesting criminal history in core!). William Rentchler has never
met me. William Rentchler over heard Julie Snyder and Dane Hough discussing me;
subsequently providing my name to the police as a possible suspect. That is his
extent to involvement in the case.
Unbelievably, Dateline presented an interview with William
Rentchler where he claimed to be some sort of “bounty hunter” who conducted and
independent investigation into the Corey Parker homicide. William Rentchler
told Dateline that he interviewed witnesses and attempted to track me down.
These claims are nothing more than fantasies of a wanna – be detective.
Surprising Dateline did not investigate William Rentchler’s story. William
Rentschler was not even allowed to testify at trial since he could only provide
unsubstantiated hearsay.
More disturbing are the claims made by Julie Snyder NKA
Julie Sedgwick. Motivated by greed in the form of $20,000, Julie concocted a
story that would almost guarantee my arrest. Julie told investigators that I lied
to get out of work the same weekend Corey Parker was murdered. Even worse,
Julie Snyder KNA Julie Sedgwick lied by stating the day I lied she saw
scratches all over me and made false claims that I told her I was trying to
date a girl who was a waitress and student while pointing towards Parkers
apartment. If these claims were true (which they are not!) then any reasonable
person would have called the police immediately, and would not have waited
until a year and a half later to come forward after seeing a reward poster.
At trial Julie Snyder KNA Julie Sedgwick was impeached and
had to admit that my untruthfulness occurred months after rather than days
after the murder. She also backed off of her claim that I was covered in
scratches since the lie made no sense. Unfortunately, she continued to imply
that I attempted to date Corey Parker. Julie Snyder NKA Julie Sedgwick also
admitted that she felt entitled to the reward money.
Based off of this misinformation I became the sole focus of
the police investigation. Soon after, detectives spoke with one of my sisters,
Shelly Wess; the detectives then traveled to Easton, Maryland where I had moved to begin a
career in the computer industry.
***Next post; my sister and brother and their connection, or
lack of, to the investigation.
Editorial note ... while typing this blog post the proxy of the blog and the supporting family of the prisoner have made a startling connection. It is noted that Detective Billy Carlyle employed William Rentchler and Mr. Rentchler is related to Julie Snyder. What can be made from this connection is yet to be seen but will be looked into further. Did the Detective leak any information to his informant?
It should also be noted that the time period in which Ms. Snyder made claims that while she was at Roberts apartment, Robert looked down into the neighbors window and pointed stating he wanted to date Ms. Parker, Robert had a girlfriend; Heather Champion. Julie ended up splitting the reward money even though she was impeached at trial for lying and we are not sure what the split was.
Lastly, of the 15 suspects from the case, a handful of suspects were never investigated even though they were called in the same day or the day after the murder. There is a gross negligence of work that was done that none of the advocates seem to be able to understand.Why the detectives never even followed up on so many first hand suspects (at all, we know of 4 very possible suspects that never submitted DNA samples) and then waited a year and half to zero in on Robert is yet to be understood.
Editorial note ... while typing this blog post the proxy of the blog and the supporting family of the prisoner have made a startling connection. It is noted that Detective Billy Carlyle employed William Rentchler and Mr. Rentchler is related to Julie Snyder. What can be made from this connection is yet to be seen but will be looked into further. Did the Detective leak any information to his informant?
It should also be noted that the time period in which Ms. Snyder made claims that while she was at Roberts apartment, Robert looked down into the neighbors window and pointed stating he wanted to date Ms. Parker, Robert had a girlfriend; Heather Champion. Julie ended up splitting the reward money even though she was impeached at trial for lying and we are not sure what the split was.
Lastly, of the 15 suspects from the case, a handful of suspects were never investigated even though they were called in the same day or the day after the murder. There is a gross negligence of work that was done that none of the advocates seem to be able to understand.Why the detectives never even followed up on so many first hand suspects (at all, we know of 4 very possible suspects that never submitted DNA samples) and then waited a year and half to zero in on Robert is yet to be understood.
