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The murder trial for Sam Parker began a new week Monday with testimony from two investigators.
Walker County sheriff’s detective David Gilleland said he was the detective on the March 24, 2007, shift, when the missing person investigation began on Theresa Parker.
Gilleland said he and district attorney investigator Johnny Bass met Sam Parker at his late father’s residence in Trion and questioned him about Theresa’s whereabouts.
Sam Parker’s trial began Monday, Aug. 17, in Walker County Superior Court in downtown LaFayette before Judge Jon “Bo” Wood. It is expected to last three weeks.
The jury, consisting of nine women and six men (including three alternates), was picked the previous week from Bartow County. It is not being sequestered. The jurors are being bused daily to and from Bartow.
Sam is accused of killing Theresa, who was last seen on March 21, 2007. Her body has never been found.
The couple were in the process of getting a divorce and moving out of their house on Cor-dell Road in LaFayette. Theresa was in the process of moving to an apartment in Fort Ogle-thorpe. Sam was staying in the house of his recently deceased father; the house was in Trion. At the time Sam was a sergeant with the LaFayette Police Department.
Public defender David Dunn on Monday asked Gilleland if Sam had denied answering questions, without a lawyer present, and Gilleland said he did not.
Gilleland said GBI special agent James Harris later arrived for the investigation.
Harris said his first part of the investigation was investigating Theresa’s new apartment on Flagstone Drive in Fort Oglethorpe, where the investigators found various receipts from Lowe’s, The Gap and her Black Bear Lodge Reservation from Gatlinburg, Tenn., which were found on the kitchen counter.
Harris said numerous shoes and winter clothes were inside the apartment.
Around 10 p.m., Gilleland and Harris went to the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, where the two men spoke to various witness, such as Christy Bellflower, Corey Griffin and Shane Green, after LaFayette public safety director Chief Tommy Freeman had spoken to 911 dis-patcher Rhonda Knox.
Sam was later called in to have his first interview with the GBI, which took place around 12:45 a.m. on March 25, 2007.
District attorney Leigh Patterson submitted an audio recording and a transcript from the interview with Sam that Harris had hid in his notebook while interviewing Sam.
Various statement from Sam to Harris in the initial interview included:
“I tried calling her Friday (March 23) because we were supposed to go to the bank.”
““I thought it was okay.... I thought it was fine (our relationship)”
“She called it retail therapy (shopping trip in Gatlinburg).”
“She said she has got an apartment and I said, 'okay, that's fine.’”
(On her disappearance) “She didn’t tell her mother she was going, she didn’t tell her sis-ter she was going, which was strange.”
“She said, ‘We’ll talk when I get home.”
“She said, ‘Let’s just separate for awhile.”
“On the 21st and 20th (of March), I worked in the yard with Cody Cordell until dark...and she was moving boxes somewhere.”
“I was running late (to meet Bill Slack to fish).”
“Unless somebody picked her up and went somewhere.”
“The last time I saw Theresa...We didn't talk...It was Wednesday night. I was working in the yard with Cody.”
“I don't know. I absolutely, positively don't know (her whereabouts).”
“I didn't see this coming.”
“Is she lying to me about that reservation.... I don't know.”
““That is why I am talking to ya'll (GBI).”
“Theresa's mom knows something.”
Sam told Harris, in the recording, that when he returned to the Parker residence at 985 Cordell Ave. at around 7:45 a.m., while he was leaving to go fishing, Theresa’s Toyota Fore-runner was still there, but she was not to his knowledge.
“Whatever ya’ll want, we will do.”
“If she don’t come back home, we’ll have to do something.”
“We couldn’t say we loved each other anymore.”
In the audio, Sam claims to have been at his Cordell residence at 7:30 a.m. on March 22.
Harris asked Sam if Theresa had ever left home before and Sam describes a trip she took to Cancun and then returned and told him that she was going to stay in Florida, with her sister Hilda.
Sam said (in the audio) that Theresa wanted to come home and she was sorry.
In the audio Sam said, “She told me it was wrong what she did to me (leave him), because when her dad died, I was her daddy.”
Sam later says about Theresa’s safety, “All of this separation and divorce stuff is put on hold for this. I hope she is with somebody.”
Asked about her renting a new apartment, Sam said, “I kind of got a funny feeling that somebody was going to half the rent.”
The court recessed for lunch.
The murder trial for Sam Parker began a new week Monday with testimony from two investigators.
Walker County sheriff’s detective David Gilleland said he was the detective on the March 24, 2007, shift, when the missing person investigation began on Theresa Parker.
Gilleland said he and district attorney investigator Johnny Bass met Sam Parker at his late father’s residence in Trion and questioned him about Theresa’s whereabouts.
Sam Parker’s trial began Monday, Aug. 17, in Walker County Superior Court in downtown LaFayette before Judge Jon “Bo” Wood. It is expected to last three weeks.
The jury, consisting of nine women and six men (including three alternates), was picked the previous week from Bartow County. It is not being sequestered. The jurors are being bused daily to and from Bartow.
Sam is accused of killing Theresa, who was last seen on March 21, 2007. Her body has never been found.
The couple were in the process of getting a divorce and moving out of their house on Cor-dell Road in LaFayette. Theresa was in the process of moving to an apartment in Fort Ogle-thorpe. Sam was staying in the house of his recently deceased father; the house was in Trion. At the time Sam was a sergeant with the LaFayette Police Department.
Public defender David Dunn on Monday asked Gilleland if Sam had denied answering questions, without a lawyer present, and Gilleland said he did not.
Gilleland said GBI special agent James Harris later arrived for the investigation.
Harris said his first part of the investigation was investigating Theresa’s new apartment on Flagstone Drive in Fort Oglethorpe, where the investigators found various receipts from Lowe’s, The Gap and her Black Bear Lodge Reservation from Gatlinburg, Tenn., which were found on the kitchen counter.
Harris said numerous shoes and winter clothes were inside the apartment.
Around 10 p.m., Gilleland and Harris went to the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, where the two men spoke to various witness, such as Christy Bellflower, Corey Griffin and Shane Green, after LaFayette public safety director Chief Tommy Freeman had spoken to 911 dis-patcher Rhonda Knox.
Sam was later called in to have his first interview with the GBI, which took place around 12:45 a.m. on March 25, 2007.
District attorney Leigh Patterson submitted an audio recording and a transcript from the interview with Sam that Harris had hid in his notebook while interviewing Sam.
Various statement from Sam to Harris in the initial interview included:
“I tried calling her Friday (March 23) because we were supposed to go to the bank.”
““I thought it was okay.... I thought it was fine (our relationship)”
“She called it retail therapy (shopping trip in Gatlinburg).”
“She said she has got an apartment and I said, 'okay, that's fine.’”
(On her disappearance) “She didn’t tell her mother she was going, she didn’t tell her sis-ter she was going, which was strange.”
“She said, ‘We’ll talk when I get home.”
“She said, ‘Let’s just separate for awhile.”
“On the 21st and 20th (of March), I worked in the yard with Cody Cordell until dark...and she was moving boxes somewhere.”
“I was running late (to meet Bill Slack to fish).”
“Unless somebody picked her up and went somewhere.”
“The last time I saw Theresa...We didn't talk...It was Wednesday night. I was working in the yard with Cody.”
“I don't know. I absolutely, positively don't know (her whereabouts).”
“I didn't see this coming.”
“Is she lying to me about that reservation.... I don't know.”
““That is why I am talking to ya'll (GBI).”
“Theresa's mom knows something.”
Sam told Harris, in the recording, that when he returned to the Parker residence at 985 Cordell Ave. at around 7:45 a.m., while he was leaving to go fishing, Theresa’s Toyota Fore-runner was still there, but she was not to his knowledge.
“Whatever ya’ll want, we will do.”
“If she don’t come back home, we’ll have to do something.”
“We couldn’t say we loved each other anymore.”
In the audio, Sam claims to have been at his Cordell residence at 7:30 a.m. on March 22.
Harris asked Sam if Theresa had ever left home before and Sam describes a trip she took to Cancun and then returned and told him that she was going to stay in Florida, with her sister Hilda.
Sam said (in the audio) that Theresa wanted to come home and she was sorry.
In the audio Sam said, “She told me it was wrong what she did to me (leave him), because when her dad died, I was her daddy.”
Sam later says about Theresa’s safety, “All of this separation and divorce stuff is put on hold for this. I hope she is with somebody.”
Asked about her renting a new apartment, Sam said, “I kind of got a funny feeling that somebody was going to half the rent.”
The court recessed for lunch.