Snapped Killer Couples S18E04
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00:00A local man's disappearance ignites panic in a rural Appalachian town.
00:10This was not a man that would disappear.
00:12This is not a man that would walk away from his life.
00:15Something was really wrong.
00:17Someone hurt him.
00:18This is crazy.
00:19I don't want to be without him.
00:20He's my world.
00:21A gruesome discovery sparks more questions.
00:33For all intents and purposes, he was completely decapitated.
00:41As investigators launch a manhunt, a toxic romance takes center stage.
00:47She fell in love with the jailbirds, the troublemakers.
00:51I could feel the strain in between them.
00:54They're hiding something.
00:55I don't believe that one person could have done that alone.
00:57It was the luckiest ass I had ever seen in my life and it scared me.
01:03Anything that was done in the dark will come to light.
01:06So what did you need to talk to me about?
01:07The truth and the story.
01:08Preston County, West Virginia, is a tight-knit community located in rural Appalachia.
01:32Preston County is right on the edge of the Mason-Dixon line.
01:38It's a beautiful area with rolling hills and the Cheat River runs all the way through
01:43the county.
01:44It's just a small community where everybody's there for everybody.
01:48Preston County, 911.
01:49What's the address of the emergency?
01:50I'm actually driving.
01:51I just passed a car on Shower Pass Road.
01:52It's a two-day road.
01:53They had smoke rolling out the window.
01:54It's a truck.
01:55It's a rain truck.
01:56It's a truck.
01:57It's a truck.
01:58It's a truck.
01:59It's a truck.
02:00It's a truck.
02:01It's a truck.
02:02It's a truck.
02:03It's a truck.
02:04It's a truck.
02:05It's a truck.
02:06It's a truck.
02:07It's a truck.
02:09Law enforcement was dispatched.
02:11First on the scene was Deputy Justin Childers.
02:15As he approached the truck, he noticed that it was still a little bit smoky on the inside.
02:20It almost seems as if somebody's probably trying to set this one on fire.
02:26He can tell that there's been an agent to be able to start a fire.
02:30Not very successfully, but he can see and smell oil.
02:35Some sort of oil or lubricant or something.
02:38So he calls in the fire department.
02:50Don't touch anything or don't disturb.
02:53Anymore than you have to.
02:56Local Fire Chief Perry Barlow is among the first responders.
03:01When I arrived on scene, I saw the pickup.
03:06It kind of reminded me, you know, my uncle's truck.
03:09The registration was run on it.
03:13It was identified as Phillip Barlow's truck.
03:17That's my uncle.
03:18I'm thinking, well, why is my uncle's truck here on Shower Bath Road?
03:24Why isn't he here?
03:25What's going on?
03:26Works at Hillside.
03:27That's what I said.
03:28He should be in a tractor trailer.
03:30Perry says right away, my uncle would not have left the truck in this condition, abandoned
03:37and on fire.
03:39My first thought was that somebody possibly stole the truck.
03:44Perry tells detectives that his 61-year-old uncle Phillip, nicknamed Bucky, ought to be
03:50at work right now.
03:53So Perry calls Hillside Trucking.
03:57And they do confirm that Bucky did not come to work per his usual shift.
04:03He didn't show up today.
04:05He hasn't heard from him.
04:07Something's wrong because he was very punctual.
04:10He was always early.
04:11Time and all police for a fire to start back here, isn't it?
04:15Yeah.
04:16So there was confusion, concern, and I think a sense of urgency to try to locate Bucky.
04:28Phillip Bucky Barlow was born into a large and tight-knit family in 1957.
04:37There was nine of us.
04:38He was the next to the youngest.
04:41His dad was a coal miner, and my aunt was a homemaker, and everybody did their share
04:49on their farm.
04:50It was a hard life, I would say, but it was a good life.
04:58After dropping out of high school, Bucky started a career as a truck driver.
05:06Trucking was in our blood, so he just fell in, I guess.
05:10And by 17 or 18, he was driving a truck, and then he drove a truck all his life.
05:19In 2002, Bucky met the woman he would spend the rest of his life with.
05:25Her name was Mary Butler.
05:28Me and a friend of mine would go to a place called The Hideaway, and he was sitting with
05:36his friends, having fun and drinking.
05:41We seen each other every weekend, and he'd ask me to dance, and I'd get up, and I would
05:47dance with him.
05:49Monica Bucky and Mary were together around 20 years.
05:54We did a lot of things together.
05:55She would come camping when we were camping, or if we had, like, you know, birthday parties
06:00or something, she would come.
06:03He thought Mary was the world.
06:06He would spend as much time possible with her as he could.
06:13In 2011, Mary made the difficult decision to move back to her home state of Indiana.
06:21As far as us being separated, I mean, at times, it was hard, because he missed me,
06:28and I missed him.
06:30He was gonna look for a job up here, but Bucky doesn't like change.
06:37So we decided to wait till he retired and start moving him up here, up to Indiana.
06:48For eight years, the couple vowed to make the long-distance relationship work.
06:54Bucky set the date to move in, September 2019.
06:59He counted down the days.
07:00He would tell you how many days exactly he had left to retirement.
07:06Bucky was excited that he was gonna retire, because he wanted to quit driving truck.
07:14And he was excited that he was gonna spend time with me.
07:20But less than four months before Bucky was set to join Mary in Indiana, his truck is
07:26found abandoned and burned by the side of the road in Preston County.
07:30They've dumped oil all over inside of it and tried to set it on fire.
07:37The investigation of this fire, it was pretty cut and dry.
07:41When you see motor oil, still residual motor oil laying on the rear seat, it was deliberately
07:48attempted to be set on fire.
07:52Motor oil is a combustible, but it's not a very fast burning.
07:56It never got a good start.
07:59It's obvious that somebody had done something to this truck.
08:03This point, we don't know.
08:04Was it the owner of the vehicle that was trying to do an insurance claim?
08:08Was it a stolen vehicle that somebody was trying to destroy for evidence?
08:12There's a lot of different possibilities.
08:18After securing the scene on Shower Bath Road, deputies conduct a welfare check at Bucky's
08:23home.
08:25Bucky Barlow lived in Tunnelton.
08:28It's about a 10 or 15 minute drive from where the vehicle was found.
08:34They try to make contact with Bucky, and nobody answers the door.
08:43They don't see any signs of a disturbance.
08:46We did not have cause to force entry into his home.
08:49At that point, we did not go into his residence.
08:53Bucky's family immediately points investigators to his girlfriend, Mary Butler, currently
08:59living out of state.
09:01I got a phone call on May 29th that Bucky did show up for work, and that they found
09:09his truck.
09:11I had 50 million things running through my head at that time.
09:16Where could he be?
09:18What should I do?
09:19I knew there was something wrong.
09:24Coming up, the investigation into Bucky's disappearance leads authorities to a grisly
09:30crime.
09:31We came across a body.
09:36The jugular was cut, the esophagus was severed, trachea was severed.
09:42And a string of potential suspects will leave investigators baffled about the crime's true
09:48motive.
09:49What's this about an argument you had with Bucky?
09:51Was it true?
09:52I ain't gonna lie to you.
09:53The evidence was indicative that some kind of intense interaction occurred between multiple
09:59people.
10:00If you got dragged into something, right now is the time to fix it.
10:04And now it's time to say hello.
10:18Authorities in Preston County, West Virginia, are searching for 61-year-old Philip Bucky
10:23Barlow.
10:25After collecting evidence that his truck was intentionally set on fire 10 miles away
10:31from his home.
10:33We spent like the first three days checking all the woods and stuff around his trailer,
10:37looking for him.
10:39We looked extensively, like everywhere.
10:47Nearly 24 hours into the investigation, Bucky's girlfriend, Mary Butler, arrives in Preston
10:53County to speak with investigators.
10:56One of the things I noted immediately with Mary is she was genuinely concerned about
11:03Bucky's welfare.
11:04I just wish we could find him alive.
11:08I know, I do too.
11:11This is crazy.
11:13I don't want to be without him.
11:16He's my world.
11:18She described the last time that she spoke with him was the night before, around midnight.
11:23I was at my mom's when Bucky called me, when he was getting ready for work.
11:29He would go to work between 12.15 and 12.45.
11:33I told him that I would call him back.
11:38And 15 minutes went by, and I called him, and I didn't get any answer.
11:47They shared a cell phone account, and she was able to get onto the account and see the
11:51last activity from his cell phone.
11:54Mary was the last contact anybody had with him.
11:58While investigators request a ping on Bucky's phone, Mary gives them permission to search
12:04Bucky's home.
12:07We looked on the inside of his house, didn't see anything out of place.
12:11There was no signs of disturbance.
12:17Investigators canvassed Bucky's neighborhood, hoping someone had noticed any activity that
12:22suggests where Bucky may have gone.
12:26None of the neighbors indicated that they had heard or saw anything related to Bucky
12:32that evening.
12:33The reason I'm stopping is your neighbor there, I wonder if you happen to know when he left,
12:37or did you see him leave, or?
12:40No.
12:41We had footage that showed that area that we could locate at that time.
12:48The results of the phone ping offer investigators few clues.
12:53It was about a half a mile from his house when it stopped transmitting.
12:57The direction it traveled was the direction he would have went to go to work.
13:01We searched the area for the phone, but we were unsuccessful in finding it.
13:08The following day, authorities escalate their search efforts.
13:13Captain Tichenal brings in the National Guard aerial units that do surveillance in the air.
13:21We employed K-9 units to come in.
13:25Preston County is a very rough terrain, and to search it is a very daunting task.
13:30There was a real sense of urgency.
13:33This was not a man that would disappear.
13:35This is not a man that would walk away from his life.
13:44Ten days into the search, authorities receive a call from a local hunter.
13:49Preston County 911.
13:50We're just down here hunting, and we came across a fox in the creek.
13:57The creek is called Fortney's Mill from Tunnelton.
14:00It's about a 20-minute drive to get there.
14:04It's a very isolated, desolate area.
14:07Once I got on scene, myself and another officer were able to approach the body.
14:16It was moderately decomposed.
14:19He did not have a shirt on.
14:22His jeans were around his ankles.
14:24He was face down in the water.
14:27When the medical examiner came on scene, we were able to flip the body.
14:35When they removed the dentures of this individual, it indicated P. Barlow.
14:42And so we knew then.
14:48There was a significant injury to his throat area.
14:51The jugular was cut.
14:52The artery was cut.
14:54The esophagus was severed.
14:56The trachea was severed.
14:58Mr. Barlow was, for all intents and purposes, completely decapitated.
15:05He was just as brutally injured as you can imagine.
15:10Shock.
15:11You know, you don't want to believe that it actually happened.
15:18Nobody should die that way.
15:21I was hysterical because I didn't want it to be true.
15:25I lost my best friend.
15:29I'm not one to show emotion, but it tore me up inside bad.
15:34The family wanted answers.
15:36Bucky did not deserve this.
15:41Because of the nature of the crime, we have to look at the people closest to him, and
15:46that would undoubtedly be Mary.
15:49They completed a polygraph, which she passed.
15:52She provided hours of interviews to the sheriff's department with Captain Titchenal, and there
15:57was just nothing pointing to Mary.
16:00I loved him.
16:02We had a good relationship most of the time.
16:07Instead, Mary offers investigators a new name.
16:13She indicates that there had been some type of altercation or dispute between his neighbor,
16:19Craig, and Bucky.
16:23I knew there had been an argument and a scuffle with Craig, and I said, stay away from him.
16:32Just leave him alone.
16:33Don't say nothing.
16:44After recovering the remains of Bucky Barlow from a remote creek in Preston County, West
16:50Virginia, authorities have learned that the 61-year-old had been involved in an altercation
16:56with his neighbor, Craig.
16:59Craig was living in the back trailer behind Bucky.
17:04There always was bickering and fighting back and forth all the time.
17:11He would cut through the yard, and Bucky didn't like it.
17:16So that would cause arguments.
17:23So on Sunday, Bucky decided he wanted to cut the grass.
17:30And Craig had left some stuff on the grass, and Bucky had called me and told me about
17:36the scuffle.
17:38And that's when he came up missing.
17:46Investigators immediately follow this new lead and contact Craig.
17:51We located Craig where he had been living, which is located almost directly behind Bucky's
17:55residence.
17:57So what's this about an argument you had with Bucky?
17:59Was it true?
18:01We actually, yeah, we really did.
18:03I ain't gonna lie to you.
18:05He explained the conflict that he had with Bucky was about the property line.
18:11According to Craig, the dispute began when Bucky accused him of leaving garbage bags
18:16on his property.
18:17He come up for a...
18:18I mean, he could move.
18:19And I'd have run to the truck.
18:20I grabbed the golf club out of the back.
18:21I chased him around.
18:22I wasn't close enough to hit him, but I did swing at him.
18:23Craig denied that he had any knowledge or participation in anything that may have happened
18:49to Bucky.
18:50The night that Bucky disappeared, he said that night he had been working on the radio
18:54in the truck.
18:56He described the location.
18:57It's a back road.
18:58I slept in that Ranger.
18:59You slept in the Ranger all night?
19:00Yeah.
19:01Was anybody with you?
19:02No.
19:03I did question him.
19:04Why would you sleep in your truck that night when your residence is fairly close?
19:05At some point, you're gonna wake up in the night.
19:06Would you agree with that?
19:07You're gonna be like, I might as well go home.
19:08I'm only five minutes away.
19:09And he described that that was not out of the norm for him.
19:20I did not leave this spot.
19:23Craig tells them the truck he slept in belongs to a friend named Chris.
19:32Following Craig's interview, investigators contact Chris to see if he can corroborate
19:36his friend's claims.
19:39They go to look for Chris, and his wife, Debbie, is at the residence, and she agrees to go
19:46to the sheriff's department for an interview.
19:49That night, that guy came up and said, Craig sent a message to Chris.
19:53The message said, if anybody comes asking, I was with you guys all night.
20:05Investigators turn their attention to Chris and bring him in for a formal interview.
20:09Have you talked to Craig since this guy went missing?
20:12No text messages?
20:14No.
20:15Nothing about him.
20:17He denied ever seeing a text message from Craig asking him to provide him with an alibi.
20:23Chris, during the initial interview, said that he was home pretty much the entire night.
20:27He denied any knowledge or any participation in Bucky's disappearance.
20:32Be careful.
20:33Look at your phone.
20:34We're good.
20:35We were able to corroborate, at the very least, Chris's phone was at his residence.
20:41His cell phone records did not show any evidence that he had been involved in anything that
20:47night.
20:51The following day, investigators bring Craig in for a formal interview and confront him
20:57about the claim that he had asked his friend for an alibi.
21:00Now, let me get you all strapped in here.
21:04Craig was asked to polygraph.
21:06Did you in any way participate in the disappearance of Bucky?
21:11No.
21:12And he passed that polygraph.
21:14All right, torture's over.
21:16Craig allows investigators to search his phone.
21:20We didn't find anything to suggest that he was a part of the disappearance.
21:25Debbie's allegation that Craig sent a text message requesting an alibi was never corroborated.
21:32Officers never located that text message.
21:36The absolutely ridiculous amount of false information and rumors that were spread,
21:42it severely impeded getting this case resolved.
21:48So once we ruled them out as potential suspects, we were basically back to square one in the
21:54investigation.
21:58Coming up, a seemingly insignificant detail catches investigators' attention and spins
22:04the case in a whole new direction.
22:08Captain Tishnell reevaluates some evidence that he has, and he finds something.
22:14So if you guys were home all night, and you came here and you heard nothing from them,
22:18they're conditioning you.
22:20It's a small lie, but why are they not telling the truth?
22:26And the revelation of a sordid betrayal pits two suspects against one another.
22:33You better be thankful when I get out.
22:36I love you, baby.
22:39She's not thankful to you.
22:40You just heard it.
22:42I find her to be manipulative, cold, evil, and a very disturbed woman.
22:50Authorities in Preston County, West Virginia, have been searching for answers in the brutal
23:05murder of Bucky Barlow for eight months.
23:09My family and I, we feared that it would be a cold case.
23:14My Bible tells me that anything that was done in the dark will come to light.
23:21So somebody needs to pay for this.
23:26In January of 2020, Detective Tishnell meticulously reviews the case file, looking for anything
23:34that might give the case some traction.
23:37He has gone above and beyond to exclude people.
23:43So in typical Travis Tishnell fashion, he goes back and he re-evaluates some evidence
23:51that he has, being some statements from Laura Martin and Bobby Quinn.
24:00Laura Martin and Bobby Quinn were interviewed by Captain Tishnell, really just to get Captain
24:06Tishnell's head wrapped around who the neighbors were.
24:10Their residence sit directly next to Bucky's residence.
24:15During the conversation with Mr. Quinn and Ms. Martin, nothing out of the ordinary was
24:19noted.
24:20Nothing stood out to law enforcement at that time with them.
24:26I went back and listened to those statements again.
24:38He spontaneously said that he didn't hear anything because of the air conditioning.
24:43And Laura essentially said the same thing, just not to the same degree of the spontaneousness
24:48of it.
24:49It's like your vehicle pulling in and if you step inside the house there and you can't
24:56hear nothing because we got an air conditioner going.
25:00That kind of stood out to me that it just seemed a little bit out of context.
25:03Seemed like a pretty minute detail to have specifically remembered.
25:08I wanted to speak with them again.
25:11He looks for Bobby Quinn and Laura Martin and he locates them in Garrett County Jail.
25:17They were incarcerated in Maryland for a string of breaking and enterings into storage units.
25:23That's when I went to the Garrett County Jail where they were being housed and interviewed
25:28them again.
25:29I'm still working on figuring out all the circumstances with Bucky's disappearance
25:34and death.
25:35How well did you know him?
25:39Really not very good.
25:42Okay.
25:43And you didn't hear anything?
25:44No.
25:45What had the air conditioner on?
25:50When investigators sit down with Laura, she now mentions a different reason.
25:55Did you hear anything that night?
25:57No.
25:58Like I told you then, I had the washer and dryer running.
26:01Okay.
26:02So she said the washer and dryer.
26:06That was not consistent with what she had previously said.
26:09And she stayed consistent with the air conditioner.
26:12I felt at that point that it might be onto something on this.
26:19In an effort to corroborate their claims, Detective Tichenal reaches out to the couple's
26:24neighbor, Janice Maxwell.
26:27And that's the first thing he asked me.
26:30In Laura's house, was there an air conditioning unit in the window?
26:34I said, no.
26:37It's a small lie, but why are they not telling the truth?
26:43So at this point, I knew they were absolutely hiding something and lying about the activities
26:50of that night.
26:55Hoping to learn more about the couple, investigators contact Laura's daughter, Cheyenne.
27:03Cheyenne tells authorities that her mom has lived in Preston County her whole life.
27:11She was 19 when she got pregnant with me.
27:14She was over the moon and over the stars for me and my little sister.
27:19But at the same time, she was trying to make a living to provide for me and my sister.
27:25It wasn't always easy.
27:27Her criminal activity really begins in 2002.
27:33So she's a young adult at this point, and she's committing burglaries, grand larcenies,
27:38and obstructing an officer.
27:41When her children were still young, Laura split up with their father.
27:46I love her to death, but she does not know how to pick a man.
27:50She fell in love with the jailbirds, the troublemakers.
27:54Their relationships never really lasted long.
27:58In October 2018, Laura met Robert Quinn through an ex-boyfriend.
28:04She fell for him head over heels.
28:07Robert Quinn is born in 1977.
28:11He grew up in New Martinsville, the youngest of nine siblings.
28:16His father was a steel mill worker.
28:19His mother was a stay-at-home wife.
28:24After dropping out of high school, Robert began working full-time.
28:29He was working railroad, so he was bringing in a good amount of money.
28:35In 2018, Robert moved into Laura's trailer on Number 4 Road,
28:41where she had been living next door to Bucky Barlow.
28:45Laura Martin's dad, Kenny, lived next door.
28:49Kenny had died.
28:51And then it was Laura and Robert living there.
28:56Friendship? No.
28:58Uh, high?
29:00As you go by? Yeah.
29:03Their dog kept coming over, and Bucky didn't like them in the yard and stuff like that.
29:10And he would tell them, keep your dogs over by your own house.
29:15Bucky was more to himself.
29:17He did his thing, we did our things.
29:21While Cheyenne can't confirm her mother or Robert's alibis the night of Bucky's disappearance,
29:27she believes that her mother isn't capable of the crime.
29:32She can be vicious, but not someone I would see as ever killing vicious.
29:41Despite Cheyenne's belief that Laura had nothing to do with Bucky's death,
29:46Detective Tichenal trusts his instinct to dig even deeper into the couple.
29:53During the investigation, I requested from the Garrett County Jail
29:56all of Mr. Quinn and Miss Martin's jail calls.
30:00I wanted to see who they were communicating with,
30:02and if there was anything being mentioned about the murder investigation.
30:07Robert had very few calls, but Miss Martin had significantly more,
30:11including to an ex-boyfriend named Mark.
30:14During these jail calls, she is being sexually explicit with Mark,
30:18telling him things she wants to do to him.
30:22By this time, there had been no digital evidence, no forensic evidence, no physical evidence.
30:27We had nothing on this case.
30:30So on October 7th, 2020, myself, Deputy Pally, and the assistant prosecuting attorney
30:36went to the Garrett County Jail to try to get a resolution to this.
30:42Hoping to use Laura's infidelity as a means to get Robert Quinn to open up,
30:48investigators sit down with Robert on October 7th, 2020.
31:01I made about a 90-second to two-minute greatest hits of the filth that she was saying to her ex-boyfriend.
31:11And at that point, I played him those greatest hits.
31:30So once the jail calls are played, then Bobby says,
31:34Well, she may not have been there all night.
31:37And he starts to distance himself from Laura Martin.
31:41And that's the first time that occurs.
31:43He says Laura confessed to murdering Bucky Barlow.
31:48More than a year after the murder of 61-year-old Bucky Barlow,
31:53investigators continue interviewing his neighbor, Robert Quinn,
31:58who has claimed that his girlfriend, Laura Martin, was responsible for the crime.
32:07He says, I need to tell you this.
32:09I'm not going to tell you this.
32:11I'm not going to tell you this.
32:13I'm not going to tell you this.
32:16He says, I need to tell you the truth.
32:19And he immediately says it was Laura's idea to rob Bucky.
32:29They heard he had a large sum of cash.
32:32Robert says that they believed that because he was retiring that he would have some money.
32:37Why they believed he would be carrying it in his pocket, I don't know.
32:46Why did it go sideways?
33:06He describes how Laura hit Bucky.
33:10And a physical altercation ensues.
33:14Bobby says he only comes outside because it's getting more and more physical,
33:19and he needs to become involved at that point.
33:22They get Bucky in the vehicle, and he sits in the back seat with Bucky.
33:27She threw Bucky's phone out the window while they were driving to Fortney's Mill.
33:35Once they got him to Fortney's Mill, they took him under the bridge.
33:47Investigators ask Robert if he'll return to the scene.
33:52And he agrees.
33:57She took his wallet.
34:04OK, can you kind of recreate what you saw her do?
34:34OK.
34:45He said she drove the truck back up to Kingwood, where Laura tried to light the truck on fire.
34:52So once we had Mr. Quinn's statement and his version of the events,
34:57my next move was to take it back to Laura Martin.
35:01When she realized that Mr. Quinn had, in fact, rolled on her,
35:06that's when Ms. Martin gave her rendition of the events.
35:10It was supposed to be a burglary, and that's my idea.
35:17I'm not even gonna lie.
35:19OK.
35:20But as far as killing him, that was not my idea at all.
35:25Like, I don't have it in my heart to hurt anybody.
35:29It's not like that.
35:31Laura tells investigators that on the night of May 29th,
35:36she and Robert waited outside Bucky's door, wearing masks and gloves.
35:42We had BB guns, but they looked like Graper guns.
35:46Laura Martin says things went too far.
35:50Quinn starts roughing up Bucky.
35:54It was a struggle with all three of us.
35:57I mean, I wasn't gonna lie, I didn't get the best of me.
36:00I mean, I was freaking bleeding and everything because I got smacked around.
36:04I can't be mad, you know, he's defending himself.
36:07I'm begging him to stop.
36:09He's yelling at me to get in the truck.
36:13Laura claims that they drove to the creek where Robert attacked Bucky.
36:20Bobby pulled a box cutter out, and I'm like, what the f***?
36:25Then I saw Bobby cut him.
36:30I shoved Bobby, and I put my hands on Bucky's neck.
36:35And I'm looking at Bobby and I'm crying, and I'm like, please don't, don't do this.
36:40She makes herself out to be kind of the hero trying to save Bucky.
36:47Then Bobby's like, I'll f*** with you too.
36:54It was the luckiest thing I had ever seen in my life, and it scared me.
36:57It really did.
37:00Following their confessions, investigators must now determine who is telling the truth.
37:07They were basically pointing the finger at each other,
37:10but I don't believe that one person could have done that alone.
37:23More than a year after Bucky Barlow's murder,
37:26detectives have obtained the confessions of his next-door neighbors, Laura Martin and Robert Quinn.
37:35You ready?
37:37The couple is extradited from Maryland to West Virginia in October of 2020.
37:43Both are charged with first-degree murder.
37:48Quinn, I wasn't surprised for one bit.
37:52I wasn't. My mother, I really was in shock for what happened.
38:00Travis promised me, he said, I will find out who did this to your uncle.
38:07And he came through on that promise.
38:15As authorities prepare for trial, they receive a call that sheds more light on the couple's conflicting stories.
38:23We had multiple inmates that were incarcerated with Ms. Martin at the Garrett County Jail that came forward.
38:30She admitted to them that she had killed Bucky, and she made some very disturbing statements.
38:37Laura indicated that she loved the way Bucky's blood felt running through her hands,
38:45and that she wanted to feel that sensation again.
38:48Ms. Martin also claimed to her fellow jail inmates that after they killed Bucky,
38:53she and Robert took his lunch that he had packed for his shift,
38:57and they ate his sandwiches with his blood still on their hands.
39:01It was horrifying, to put it in a simple word.
39:06The way that she described the pure joy that she felt is something that I'll never forget.
39:13What I found was Ms. Martin and Mr. Quinn's relationship, she was definitely the dominant personality in the two.
39:21She basically wore the pants of the two of them.
39:24I find her to be manipulative, cold, evil, and a very disturbed woman.
39:35Even with the assertions of three jailhouse informants, prosecutors have concerns.
39:42When you have two people who are trying to pen the ultimate act of slashing the throat and committing the murder on each other,
39:48there's always a worry that that will confuse a couple of jurors, and all it takes is one.
39:53If one juror is convinced that there's something wrong with the case, they can hang the jury.
39:58Prosecutors offer Laura and Robert a plea deal, and they accept.
40:04On October 5, 2022, the couple is sentenced.
40:10Judge Schaefer sentenced Ms. Martin and Mr. Quinn to 180 years on the first-degree armed robbery
40:17and 15 years to life on the first-degree murder, and ran those sentences consecutively.
40:22They will never see the light of day outside of a prison.
40:31When they told me what the sentence was, I cried.
40:35I went up and I shook the judge's hand.
40:38Just knowing that Laura and him are off the streets, your whole neighborhood at least feels a little bit safer.
40:45But you just can't imagine thinking that this happened in this small town over such a stupid thing of just a robbery.
40:59It would take someone's life for $50.
41:02I'd give them $1,000 to not hurt him.
41:05Like, there's no reason for it.
41:10To know that they put him through, it's hard anybody could do that to somebody, especially for $50.
41:21I believe Laura Martin is a product of her environment, her upbringing, her psychological tendencies.
41:34But it doesn't make her a victim.
41:37I believe she would kill again.
41:41I know her sentence wasn't too harsh.
41:44She did what she did, and she got what she deserved.
41:56Uncle Bucky will be remembered for his easygoing personality and a love of family.
42:03And he touched a lot of people's lives.
42:06I remember him as a fantastic person.
42:09He was good to me.
42:12And I wanted him to be with me for the rest of his life.
42:18My partner, somebody that I loved and I'll never get back.