Dateline and updating the show with a blurb

If Dateline would like to help solve the crime it would be more helpful to help fund necessary investigative work for the remaining suspects.


Since the show aired Robert has secured 2 full teams of DNA experts and forensic experts working pro bono.

What is left is getting investigators on the ground to interview several suspects and potentially asking for samples.

Email the blog, the facebook page or call Rick to set this up.

Denial of rights to council, basic Miranda rights, rights to an attorney denied.

Providing a Voluntary DNA sample

Police detectives and prosecutors have insinuated that I refused to provide a voluntary DNA sample, and that my failure to do so implied guilt. This is a terrible misrepresentation of what really occurred.

In July of 2000, Florida detectives travelled to Easton, Maryland where I was living. A Maryland detective called my home one morning asking me to come to the police station for questioning concerning an assault. I agreed to come.  

At the police station 2 officers identified themselves as Maryland detectives and lied to me stating the Police Captains’ son had been assaulted in my neighborhood and that I fit the description of the assailant. They then asked me to provide a voluntary DNA sample.

I agreed to give the sample. However because I was being accused of committing a felony assault which I knew I had not done-and suspected never happened- I asked the detectives to allow me to call my attorney to be present for the collection. A detective actually said that they could not allow calling my lawyer! The officers then began acting strangely and tried repeatedly to trick me into leaving DNA behind.

First a detective took me to a parking garage to smoke. While smoking I noticed the officer was staring at my cigarette and acting nervous. I realized he had hoped to collect the butt so I put the cigarette out and placed the butt behind my ear. The detective turned visibly red and I started to feel threatened by their actions.

Next the second detective gave me a bottle of water. I didn’t realize their intent until I moved to open the bottle and both investigators zeroed in on it. I did not open the bottle because of how strange the police were acting. I was very confused as to why they would act like this so I requested my lawyer again and wasn’t allowed to call him AGAIN!

Finally detectives asked me to sign several forms and seal them in envelopes. I signed each form but wrote on the bottom of each, “I do not refuse, just want my lawyer present.” This form can be downloaded below. I put the form in the envelopes but did not seal them. One of the officers encouraged me to lick them and I told them that it was the 3^rd time he tried to get my lips on something and he could seal them himself. I then told them that unless I could call my attorney, I was leaving and I left. 

Exhibit A  

As you can see, I never refused to give a DNA sample. I wanted to give my DNA. I had nothing to hide. All I wanted was a lawyer! Once the police began their tricks that were so blatantly obviously through their facial expressions and their physical demeanor, I had no intention of providing my DNA without a lawyer.

The detectives actions were so illegal that the trial Judge suppressed this evidence and the Jury never heard about the bizarre encounter.

Rather than question why I didn’t fall for police trickery; people should have asked why the police refused to let me have an attorney present after lying to me about a fictitious crime. Why not just tell me I was a suspect in Parker's murder? And then request a DNA sample? The only logical explanation is that Detective Billy Carlyle was up to no good.

It is unfortunate that Dateline failed to thoroughly investigate this encounter and aired such a distorted perspective of what truly happened.

***Next post; Detective Billy Carlyle

My family and their lack of relation.

My sister Shelly Wess

Detectives claim that during their investigation they spoke with one of my sisters Shelly, and that she described me as a “nightsalker” and a "lunatic", while making comparisons to my brother. Oddly there are no written statements made by Shelly, and no video or audio taped interviews documenting her alleged statements.

Under oath during a deposition, Shelly stated that she never made these comments to police and that they made it up.

This is another example of detectives making statements that are completely unsupported by the record or witness statements. It is unfortunate that Dateline failed to investigate this claim made by Detective Billy Carlyle before airing such unsubstantiated allegations.

My brother Patrick Denney

Many comparisons have been made between the murder my brother committed in 1990 and the murder of Corey Parker which I have been wrongfully convicted of. Any connection between the two is nothing more than wild speculation concocted by Detective Billy Carlyle and the prosecution. This is type of innuendo one would expect to see on Entertainment Tonight or read in the National Enquirer.

To set the record straight, I had just turned 9 years old when my brother was arrested for murder. His crime was terrible and horrendous. It took an innocent life and devastated my family. I was shielded from specifics of his crime, of which I still know very little of. Our age difference acted as a huge barrier.

My brother never spoke to me about, or confessed the murder he committed to me. I haven't spoken to him since the day he was arrested 26 years ago, and wouldn’t recognize him. After my arrest we did exchange a few letters but they were awkward and we have stopped communicating all together.

Sadly, people are stabbed to death all the time in America. Any similarities between the two crimes is an unfortunate coincidence, and not some horror movie plot of two brothers competing to commit brutal murders.

The fact that my brother is a killer does not make me a murderer. Since when do we convict people based on a crime their relative committed? Leave the ridiculous comparisons to the novel writers and quit persecuting me for my brothers’ crime.

This comparison was so outrageous and irrelevant that the trial judge prevented any mention of my brother during trial. Even the prosecutor admitted that such testimony was inadmissible.

***Next Post; Providing a voluntary DNA sample

Datelines espisode "Rear Window"

Response to Datelines one sided reporting

Datelines report on the case has left me disappointed and baffled. I fail to see the point or purpose of the episode since it did not address any favorable aspects of my defense and neglected to detail any of the new evidence discovered since the trial in 2005. Specifically, the fact that Angela Corey withheld and covered up evidence of information from an original suspect; documented proof of evidence tampering and contamination; and the FBI admitting evidence was mishandled by a previously unknown lab analyst.

It seems as if Dateline hastily prepared this segment designed to validate the evidence, prosecution and conviction. I am posting a letter written to NBC universal expressing my disbelief with Dateline’s unfair reporting and will update everyone if they provide a response.  

Very disturbing is the fact that my interview was edited in such a way as to mischaracterize the evidence and purposely excludes my explanation to the most important areas of the case. I feel that people deserve the full story and I call on Dateline to release my entire interview on its website.

Anyone familiar with the case and who has read this blog likely noticed that Datelines report is far from an accurate portrayal of the facts. I urge anyone unfamiliar with the case to read the entire blogs previous posts and download the available documents, then compare what you read to Datelines episode. The deficiencies are obvious. 

Hopefully Dateline lives up to its reputation as a balanced news program and reevaluates its inaccurate portrayal of the case to rely on more than simply the unsubstantiated word of Angela Corey and Detective Billy Carlyle. Until then I will continue to offer and rely on proof of my allegations. I feel compelled to devote the next few posts responding to areas of the Dateline show that were inaccurate, misleading and missing.

FOLIO WEEKLY writes about my case on their cover page!

Things here in Jacksonville are really heating up in the State Attorneys race.  Every single day the corruption is making headlines in the local media regarding Angela Corey, police brutality and even decades old rape kits not being tested or funded. I have sat here hoping this day would come when people finally start to wake up and apathy from the people fade. Last week my case made a pretty big landing in the cover page of FOLIO weekly. Datelines underwhelming episode "Rear Window" is mentioned. Please follow the link to read, my case is mentioned near the end.

Truth, Justice OR the ANGELA COREY Way?

Inconclusive Dateline show

Dear all, 

We are disappointed with the dateline show from last night regarding this case. Much of the information was old outdated and proven incorrect at trial regarding hearsay testimony. We prefer to focus on material evidence and will continue to disclose the facts only and not hearsay.

We feel like many of the original suspects felt bullied as well and have suffered some mental trauma and it may have caused lots of false information which may have lead to a tremendous amount of confusion. 

We have high hopes that this is just the beginning of datelines coverage of the case and that the newer material presented use only proven facts. 

Thank you for the kind words received, Robert really needed some cheering up considering the quality of what was covered.