Deathbed confession helps solve West Virginia cold case
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2024
- A West Virginia man's deathbed confession led investigators to the remains of a 10-year-old girl and her mother missing since 2000. WSAZ's Kim Rafferty reports.
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#WestVirginia #Confession #ColdCase
Deathbed confession! What a coward!
Trying to clear his conscience....gross. I'm just glad the man found out what happened to his family and he got some closure. That would be awful never knowing.
Yeah but he can't hide from God.. like he did from the law
He is a coward but also smart to not confess to something that would give him life/death sentence until a time where he knew he would get away with it again.
Have you ever confessed your sins? How about publicly?
@00Agent5n85 no he's probably in hel.
Some mistakes were made? You mean you forgot to investigate the disappearance of a woman and her 10 year old daughter? At the stepfathers home? Oops?
He seemed like he had a lot more to say, but was holding back. I am pretty sure that whole investigation will be looked over to see who why this man wasn't looked into. They are still going to want someone to pay for this 24 yr old, cold case, since the killer is dead and they found evidence that should have been found when it happened.
Ground penetrating radar has been around long enough, they should have picked that up a long time ago.
@@NailzOfficial Yeah, I would've been in high school around that time and I can remember watching a lot of shows like Forensic Files and the New Detectives and they used ground-penetrating radar, so it was definitely around and used widely enough to be on multiple TV shows.
How was he not a prime suspect if they were living with him? He should have been the first suspect. Did they even investigate?
It’s West Virginia. It’s not exactly the top ranked state for competent local cops. Everything is badly underfunded. Federal agencies weren’t involved until recently.
the detective only said " clearly some mistakes were made" 🤬🤬🤬
@@martuuk8964 My thoughts precisely. Unless you're in a bigger city, you're going to be dealing with very rural, overworked, underpaid, not necessarily incompetent, but definitely out of their depth when dealing with a missing persons/possible murder investigation kind of cops.
So glad there's other people asking this question. I mean, I'm no detective but this seems like an easy one.
It's West Virginia...
This just tells me the detectives and police department didn’t do their job
Absolutely ridiculous
Exactly. And crime scene investigation & forensics weren't THAT MUCH different 24 years ago than now. The same way they found that bullet a couple of years ago is the way they could've found it 24 years ago. That department is a disgrace, and whomever was working on that case back then doesn't deserve to be in the position of "solving crimes."
It is so absurd that Keystone Cops putting up a victorious front after miserably failing to apprehend a murder who lived right under their nose. The spouse as the prime suspect drives most investigations.
Why don't YOU go be a detective or cop if you can do it better....
Bingo
Doesn't sound like they needed a deathbed confession, just a search warrant and a dog.
Not sure why law enforcement is there? They missed everything but the press conference.
Lol!
Patting their own backs
so he made peace for himself after living free. and all this time the loved ones live tormented. class act.
Innocent unless you prove it in court 🫡 Merica
Coward waited until he couldn't be punished so he wouldn't have suffer then thinks he is absconded by confessing 24 years later.
Oh, he's being punished.
I know! Totally agree.
He did not escape punishment. He may have escaped earthly punishment, but he did not escape punishment.
@@carribgirl007but that’s not what religion and the Bible says. If you confess and accept “Jesus” all your sins will be forgiven
Not true read your bible....you think this man confessed and accepted Jesus geniunely in his heart? Doubt it.... cowards do not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven...God weighs the heart and that mans heart wasnt heavy he knew he was dying and wanted to just confess so the bodies were found.@quinnbella-2023
Poor man. At least now he knows what happened. Some people never find their loved ones. He can live the rest of his life in some kind of peace.
TOO MANY QUESTIONS UNASWERED HERE
Wow they were negligent in their initial investigation you can tell from his response
They should be super sharp at this because women and girls are killed all the time.
Initially, they thought the mom kidnapped the daughter... but if this guy was her bf what bs story did he feed them that they bought
You caught that as well 👍
Im confused. What does the cops have to do with a man confessing, besides realizing the cops didn't do their job?
It’s a closed case now. They investigated it. Who’s supposed to tell us? The grocer?
Boasting rights, making a show
he was already incarcerrated for it before he confessed
in case hes lying only the killer and police would know key details
they had warrents for his house they found bullets with DNA on them years earlier they interogated him on his death bed until he confessed. So actually the police did a lot of work and were able to show the evidence to him and use it in their interogations leading to the confession.
Why do they say tjey are 2 missing women? One was a 10 year old girl.
They don't distinguish once a girl menstruates. It's how men think who were raised to believe females are meant for breeding only.
Was about to say that
I think its because it goes off of their assumed age until 100% proven
"Cash money." I've always known cash to be money. Also, I've always have known a 10year old girl is a child. Why is it after all these years this particular PD STILL contains Bozos? SMH.
@@precious5663 They meant cash money as opposed to money out of a bank account. Or any other form of money that isn't paper and coinage. Not all money is in the form of cash, so it's important to be specific.
A 10 year old is not a woman.
He killed her mother, who was a woman.
@@mizzury54 duh but the cop said "both women" , calling that little girl a woman also.
@@GLITTERandSKULLZyea bc she would be in her 30s now genius. They presume she’s alive until found other wise
@@Arginne She was found dummy. SHE WAS MURDERED AT THE AGE OF 10 and this press conference was held after the bodies were recovered. You tried to appear smart, you failed. Lol
It’s 2024 - nobody even knows what a woman is anymore
So the cops take all the credit for a deathbed confession.
Got it.
They always take the credit 😂
Honestly, IDGAF who takes the credit, as long as the man in this video knows what happened to his daughter. He deserves closure. If the cops need to take credit for him to get that, then so be it.
@@laura121684 nah, they’re lying, and you’re letting them lie to everyone so someone’s feelings are spared. Our government should never lie to its people.
@@laura121684Fuck the State Police!
@@laura121684no it's not so be it. Don't you dare take up for these rapists!
I’m sure they just took the killers word that “she just packed up and moved out”, instead of ACTUALLY investigating what happened.
This is what I was just thinking. But the cops investigating this, dropped the ball big time on this.
White privilege
Yeah, to much paper-work so they took the easy way, SMH...
That baby was 10 years old, she was not a woman.
She would be 34 years old today
NBC thinks a child is a woman, are you suprised?
Y’all… It’s worse than you think. It wasn’t a “poor investigation”; the primary thought was that this little girl, Natasha, was abducted by her mother, Susan. This is what happens when you get tunnel vision; you don’t see what is right there staring at you. Poor child and poor woman. The mother, having been assumed to be a child abductor for 20+ years… smdh.
What happens when men trust other men too much and project onto women.
I don’t believe he killed them over ‘’money’’.
I hope these officers don’t think they have the right to pin a medal on their chests for this bs.
This is beyond awful...for years they had warrents out on the mom for kidnapping and she too was dead the whole time 😢
Poor father 😭
What a heinous thing to do to a mother and her child, but I am glad he finally told the truth before taking it to his grave so they were able to find them.
'Mistakes were made earlier on in investigation'.🤬 So no, they did not look for these women. They just blew it off.
Why didn’t police look for them earlier? In backyard of house they were living at, cops couldn’t be bothered and now act like they accomplished something
It's West Virginia...
2:25 how is the initial investigation "ongoing" if the case is 24 years old? Crooked detective
sounds like the guy was best friends with the cops and so they didn't "investigate" to hard. those cops should be put in jail for aiding a crime!
2:21, man dancing around like he gotta pee when asked if they even looked for them
😅😅😅😅
& i love how he put his hand out to grey suit as if it’s a difficult, complex question that he’s not gonna take the fall for. WVSP lookin’ like 😳
Yep, then he gestures to the guy in the light tan suit, like, "Oh, you got this? Ok, Imma just back up outta yer way 'n' let you take that question. I coulda taken it, but you were right there at the podium and even though I was talkin' at the podium a minute ago, I figger'd it was easier fer you to take it since you were right there. You did real good on it too. Better'n I coulda done, I won't lie!" Good ol' boys pattin' 'em selves on the back for a "job well done." Pathetic.
The way that guy put his hand out and backed all the way to the flag to distance himself from that question was pretty telling. He knows they effed up the investigation
I don't believe the money story.
Me either.
Woman and a child.. He’s a coward he should’ve spoke up 23 years ago..
Well. She shouldn't have been dancing in the Devils Den. Only innocent one is the child.
That guy in the blue got out of there bloody quickly when they asked about the initial investigation.
Pretty terrible original investigation....
This can't be the first! How many other unsolved cases have not been investigated? They need an outside internal investigation on that entire department.
Not even a big yard! What the heck? Disappointed in investigators in 2000!! They should feel shame.
I don’t believe his version most likely he was confronted by the mother over the daughter telling her something happened with himy’all know what I’m trying to say and he dusted both of them. Or he already did something with the girl SA and offed her and knew he had to disappear the mom too.
I think he was saying the truth . He did not have to confess. He knew he was going to die so lying would be unnecessary
Actually, he could very well lie.
I wondered the same thing.
Is it really necessary to have law enforcement lined up behind the speaker at all of these press conferences? Especially in this case where it seems like the police dropped the ball so many years ago and didn't have much to do with solving the case.
I'm glad they were there so that he had to answer it from the reporter. He looked appropriately squirmy. 🤬
Cops are morons. Have you not realized this yet?
He may have escaped punishment in this life but in the afterlife he’ll suffer so yeah justice is served either way
That’s a nice thought but it’s not true. This man got away with it. He absolutely got away with it.
Yes, if he didn't repent, he will suffer the wrath of God.
@@MacLevistein while he was alive he did but but in the afterlife he suffering punishment no one escapes from what they did not even in death
@@littlemandarrenthere is no grand judgment. He got away with it!
So if he repented, he wouldn't suffer? That's not the selling point you think it is.
This how ohio kentucky and west virgina respect and appreciate females. Should have hot a warrant to search his home in 2000!
Red states and trumpers create nightmare scenarios for women. 🤦🏻♂️
Huh?
Indiana too
Missing persons and a freshly dug up yard. Who would connect those two things?
If the police would have investigated the basement the bodies were there for two days before buried there had to be evidence in that house like the police said there was a bullet and the girl's room in the wall
So, did they find the bodies on his property? I'd like to see a more in-depth story on this case and what police actually did in 2000 . Hard to believe that the bodies were right there on the property for 23 years.
Do you ever listen or just talk. Watch it again for your answers to your own questions
@@conqueringlion420 Angry internet man
@@StevenL-ye1ds The facts of the case are never angry, they are the facts and never assumptions like your statement or the original commenter’s assumption from lack of listening to said facts.
@@conqueringlion420 like i said you're an angry internet man
@@StevenL-ye1ds Who saith the judge? The one Who assumes in comments without fact just like the original commenter. You two’s defense is void
R. I.P. 🕊 Alex ❤ and Susan ❤🙏 Heart ❤️ Felt Condolences to their Dad ❤Family & Friends 💕
Cops acting like they solved the case
I do understand that it was wrong waiting all these years unto death to make a confess. However, more cold murder cases would receive closure if suspects would take this approach.
I can’t say 100% sure that O.J. Simpson committed the murders he was accused of, but I was hoping if he had that he would have given a deathbed confession. Now we may never know the truth 100% even though we suspect it
They got him to confess. He confessed on his own, only because he was dying 🫣
What was the Killers relationship to the mother and daughter? You guys never explain this in your report! Horrible reporting! More details are needed
I read that the killer was the stepfather, who had originally claimed that they both had just packed up and left in 2000 .
I was hoping O.J. Simpson was going to give a death bed confession
He may have but could you imagine the embarrassment of the LAPD and others involved!? I would believe they’d cover that up so fast! But I’d love to see the reaction of all the people ready to riot over a guilty verdict.
Honestly, I was hoping he was going to confess ANYTHING while he was on his death bed.
He probably didn't do it ...or maybe he was going to confess and they killed him before he got the chance.
He may have. Had everyone sign a paper about something.
Oh he absolutely did do it. I remember when the court proceedings were on tv every day when it was going on. Most people get convicted with just a small fraction of the evidence against him.
Cops investigating:
"Seems like a nice guy, said he didn't do it"
"So your wife and stepdaughter packed up and left without taking any suitcases, clothes or possessions? Typical!
Well, rest assured, Sir, we wont bother you again"
I don’t consider a confession to be a “solved” crime…
I know right?!!
First, my condolences to the rest of the family and friends. Second, at least the truth was finally revealed. Third, there still needs to be justice for the family.Fourth, I was suprised that law enforcement did not suspect Webb from the beginning, and obtain a search warrant. Last, they admitted to making mistakes...what mistakes were made ?
THIS LITERALLY PROVES YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER!
“Both women” one of them was a little girl.
They were buried in his yard. I guess they didn't have search dogs back then
Seems like this could have been solved long before this.
Yeah what are the cops doing on here bragging obviously they didn't do their job years ago
Sooo sad 😔 😢thankfully He and the rest of the family has closure .rest well ladies may Almighty God have been pleased with their lives
Kind of disgusting of the cops to regurgitate his ‘excuse’ as if it had any validity.
About as 1/8th assed job as the first one they severely bungled.
Thank God for closure.
Thank God? Really? SMH!
@@GatorPride7
Yes, thank God for closure. Is there a problem?
I'll tell you what., I just received a prophetic Word on April 16 and the Lord said, "My name with be on the lips of many that don't normally call my name" this was said for the calamity that will soon hit the United States.
@@lastharvestPDR you wanna know what would have been very “Godly”? It would have been very kind and merciful of your “god” if he would have prevented this tragedy from happening in the first place. Not only did he allow it to happen, he allowed the killer to live to old age. SMH! We’re much better off without your “god”
Amen
@@GatorPride7
...and I knew where you were going with that comment when you post it.
I knew the comment was made out of ignorance of spiritual matters so allow me to help. if I can.
Yes, there is a God but there's also Satan. Just as there is light there's also darkness. with that being said, we can open spiritual doors by sinning and can give the enemy legal rights by things we do.
The wages of sin is death. Sometime the seed that is planted doesn't bear fruit for many of years.
Take slavery for instance, you think America is going to get a pass for all the blood she has shed, no sir.
This year everything changes for the United States.
Watch the video it is a prophetic Word for pending judgements.
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The father’s name is Lafferty and the reporters name is Rafferty, mind blown
How sad.
Closure is good, I suppose.
This is regular Caucasian culture .. No disrespect intended, but just true
@@jlove8441
Human culture is human culture.
You won’t convince me you did not intend disrespect.
I’d also recommend using data and evidence to support your positions.
@@jlove8441 Uh… what part of this is “regular caucasian culture”? You obviously meant to be disrespectful but it’s hard to feel disrespected when your comment is so stupid, honestly.
Dang he stayed in the house with no problem dang people can be so full of the devil
So he told them in April and they didn’t do anything until the day after he died? So even when he told them they didn’t do anything?!
As everyone else is saying, what a coward. Waited until his last moments so he could live his life free of repercussions.
Thank God this father can rest.
He waited until the last moments of his life to confess. Why not a year ago when he had been indicted? This family wondering where these 2 were for nearly 25 years and they were right there the whole time. Humans are terrible animals sometimes.
No we are not animals fool but wicked sinners that need a savior. No one is good, no not one. Luke 18:19.
WOWWWW....Little Angel and her Mom Angel ....THANK YOUUUU 💖
I am glad he was able to get closure
Breaks my heart. Hope the dad can rest now. At least he knows now. RIP you two.
Hate that it took so long, but glad the father got to properly bury the remains.
The hair pin that was left behind was a really good find though
He was probably related to someone high up in the police department. How did a missing 10 year old girl get swept under the rug?
I was born in July 2000, just a month before these two went missing. Absolutely broke my heart😢
We want a documentary about the first investigation! These cops were incompetent thenn. So easy to solve back then if they followed up the case for real..the man living with them?!? Come on!! These detectives back then! Useless!
…shallow grave in the backyard too…. Did they even bother to LOOK!? Hearing the facts about this case one has to wonder if they did anything more than show up and take notes from the killer.
That bullet could have been found long ago, how tragic
So he's so selfish he only confessed because he was dying
0:59 "Eventually, they were able to get Larry Webb to confess...."
Uh, no they weren't. That was 100% his choice, and authorities are ingrates for not realizing how lucky they are that he allowed them to finally close their case.
He got away.
So sad for the families of the missing mom and daughter.
Why did he say both women one was a child.
Justice is never late no matter how long it takes. Glad the father has closure.🙏🏼 That man will stand before God for his deeds.
Wow!! That is so sad. God bless the father and his family. Rest in peace to the two women who were taken before their time.
“Mistakes were made” doesn’t sit right. 🥴
They should have done everything to keep him alive and stimulate every pain receptor possible until his last breath. He got to live the rest of his life a free man and no justice was ever served for those poor souls. This is disgusting.
So they never looked around the home ?
Wouldnt that be the 1st place to look for clues wth
Talk about severe indignation and negligence. He should have been the prime suspect if he saw them last.
The cops are incompetent. Look at this guy; he even referred to the little child as a "woman" during his press conference at 1:08.
What a clown, and those cops standing around like they are so proud of themselves for some reason.
All that funding and this is your detective work
Bravo
I'm confused by the wording of this report. The reporter refers to the missing people as both "women" but Alex was 10 years old. She was not a woman. She was a child. It's also weird that this case was not prioritized initially, since there was a missing child and I'm not sure why they were living with this man in the first place. The whole thing is very odd.
Imagine the amount people that actually know that animal and called him there friend. Can’t trust no one
The law enforcement should be sued
You must be black
You would think the police would have spotted the shallow grave in an initial investigation of the man’s property…
just goes to prove there is a thing as conscience...and everyone has one ...
My Sincerest Condolences 😢
God Bless You Sir 🙏
This entire police department beeds an overhaul. 24 years, and the suspect is right under your nose.
I’m happy you have justice sir.
Great so the cops didn’t do their jobs and he went out like a coward smh
What a sad sad story. At least the dad finally has his beautiful daughter. RIP both mother and daughter. You can now rest in heaven.
HEY!!! Reporter speak in a normal tone....for the love!
Thats so sad!..At least the father fot some closure about hid daughter.. RIP lady's...
I know her dad is at ease now knowing what has happened to them. Now he can give her the burial she deserves. Such a shame she was adorable, her mother also. God Bless the man for it is horrible sad. Peace!
So sad.
“Let’s call that ongoing investigation” what a dunce
What about the mother? Did he not care about the mother being missing too? And women quit living with men when you have children.
All the cops in the video are probably no older than the daughter would be today. Bring back the cops from the initial investigation and ask them how they messed up this bad