in late 2008 William Blodgett went
missing in Roswell New Mexico at the
time Roswell Police filed a missing
person's report
fast forward almost 15 years later and a
man with a guilty conscience called
9-1-1 and told dispatchers that he
wanted to confess to a crime Roswell
Police arrived at the gas station where
they found 37-year-old Tony Peralta on
the curb waiting to confess to his crime
Thunder
okay a long time ago yeah yeah or today
what is that
I married him in his house
right okay on Fifth Street what's the
address
how'd you go here you walked yeah this
was a long time ago is anything I'm just
tired of covering I'll try to cover it
up yeah yeah okay I'm tired of living
with my wife sir thank you yeah
okay
this is him
is it okay you're all sweaty did you run
here no I drink oh you drink all that
water right there
foreign
you don't want to finish it you're good
there yeah okay anyways all right just
hang on okay
no
just say anything
I did you did yeah
no
just hang out right here okay
we'll talk about this guy stay right
here
so he's saying
he's saying he uh killed somebody a long
while ago when he burned the house some
House of History that's what he's like
so I asked him he's willing to show me
where the house is he's like yeah
so that's that's all we got right now he
doesn't know the address a long time ago
that's it nothing current so I'm gonna
take him up there
see if you're going to show me the house
what year was this at you don't remember
okay it's been so long it's been a long
time okay we're gonna go all the way
around over here okay my car's way over
there so we're gonna Walk This Way
thank you guys again absolutely
thank you yeah once I get your name or
once I get you in the car I'm gonna get
your name and stuff okay
or go to the passenger side here okay
is it on East Fifth or West Fifth
East Side okay
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just hang out that tire okay
do you have anything on your personal
size of swishers mind if I check you
well okay
phone okay let's go hold on to these
okay
she lives right there down the street
okay I left the house okay all right
we'll address it have a seat okay
I'm Gonna Roll the window down for you
all right so what's gonna happen Okay
um we're gonna go Police Department okay
we're gonna find out some more
information okay the detectives are
going to talk with you about more
information with them okay and then
we'll we'll address it from there okay
all right so hang on okay yes sir
no sir
you listen to any specific music or
anything
any music you'd want to listen to at all
gospel
okay
do you want to listen to Drake yeah I
don't care all right
man
[ __ ] hurts dude what hurts my [ __ ]
handcuffs okay we're gonna get them off
here right now we're gonna go this way
stay right here and face this wall real
quick
is hurting
bro your whole body yeah I think a bunch
of color pressure pills and everything
you took some or you take some I took
some okay and they drank I shouldn't
drink okay have a seat hold on but I
know how to confess for him okay have a
seat real quick all right
now when you say and you take all this
stuff when was this a little bit ago
when you took the pills and the alcohol
yeah I needed my pills when was this
that you took him as early this morning
okay
okay hang on let me go lock my car quick
hold on
masks
profession
Al speed you know I see okay
what you're asking I'm just trying to
start a conversation man okay when it's
24 to 21 Proctor yeah
I'm sorry I've been drinking you've been
drinking yeah okay it's my understanding
you called us is that correct hell yeah
you want those off yeah
so
you caught us but it's kind of mixed
messages they have handcuffs in them
okay
um
do you feel like you're able to leave if
you if you wanted or do you want to be
here hell yeah I confess to a murderer
okay
today a lot
a lot yeah
wait when you find this [ __ ] body
that make her feel better
that'll make you feel better yeah yeah
okay I don't want to live with this
shame anymore okay I understand that
all right well
um
yeah it's my understanding you're
willing to take us to the house yeah did
it happen at the house it did it did I
was I was on that really bad okay and I
killed him because he didn't give me no
money
uh buried him in his house
in his house do you remember his name
his name was Bill
everybody talks about it all the time
okay how long ago
too long ago
you've ever seen don't kill nobody that
you don't have to
all right 2012 tell you what give me a
sec we're gonna go go for a car ride you
wanna do that
yeah let's go okay now before we redo
this you understand if
if anyone if we can find anybody you
better find your body it should be right
there okay
okay
live life anymore without compass
it's for good measure like you say you
brought you got brought here in here
because I know I know you called us I
know you want to do this because it's
strain on yourself but I just want to
make it clear that
I'm not going to be that person yeah I
mean I want to make this perfectly clear
that you're telling us it's a good
awning for doing it but it'd be my job
I would have to prosecute this when I
discovered this he understands that
right okay so I'm gonna go ahead and
advise you right just because it's kind
of the state I don't you don't have to
tell me my rights I know I'm [ __ ] I
don't even care if I go to jail for
[ __ ] forever or get until death
penalty I should have never sinned and
that's it man I got you but just just
let me get through this is something
that's it's something on my end that
they want me to do okay so you have the
right to remain silent anything you say
can only be can and will be used against
you in the court of lots you're the
right to an attorney to the attorney
president before any question and during
any questioning if you can't afford to
hire an attorney you want to be provided
for you and it'll cost to you and if you
choose to answer any questions or make
any statements you're free to stop
a little bit
hey I wanted right I understand all
right cool all right so we're gonna go
get in the car we'll drive you to it you
show me I'm hot though will we turn on
the air conditioner so hot in here we're
gonna go downstairs we're gonna get in a
car and I'm gonna turn that AC up all
right I hate it up here all right well
let's go
okay give me one minute
hey
my last cigarette and that's it already
well I got you
you can bring with you if you want it
all right we're gonna go down to the
right and down the stairs again okay
okay
thank you guys absolutely
yeah okay
let's move some things
okay
good all right
all right
foreign
this side okay
go ahead and see all right
all right
Forever Mr Peralta wanted to confess to
killing his landlord many years ago in a
home they shared Peralta would lead
police to the house where the crime
happened all those years prior
I buried him in that psych place right
here
okay thank you in the little building
thank God
I'm sorry why didn't they smell his body
I don't know hang on okay
Tony yeah here's the deal brother
we need some more details all right what
do you want to be able to prove it okay
so let's start at the beginning okay
what year do you think this was I don't
remember how old do you think you would
I don't remember what does the victim
look like I don't remember what do you
mean I don't remember
why do you know that
yeah
okay why did you keep busy
how long you been keeping this evening
yeah you see how all your answers are I
don't know
that's what we're having a hard time
with
oh I said I did it yeah but we need a
lot more detail than that
in order to get the full picture of me
right
if this person's dead in here and has
been dead for a long time they got a
family right yeah yeah so the family's
father missing them they probably
deserve answers on what happened right
yeah
so do you want to give them that I will
fly and I didn't
okay what were you high on meth smoke it
or shoot I shot it shot it how much did
you use a bit a lot a lot are you still
using no sir no that's probably why I'm
confessing so why would what was the
reason that you killed him I have a
reason you didn't have a reason
so were you guys arguing no I just felt
stupid one day I guess you just felt
dumb what was he doing when you killed
him are you good man was he sitting
sleeping standing reading watching TV
you know remember but she killed him in
the tub and
that's what you said earlier
what did you say I said a joke no you
said in the bathroom in itself how'd you
go
how'd you go I said building medicine no
he didn't told me how earlier well he's
right there well we're gonna go see if
he's in there good but how'd you kill
him
go home oh did you shoot him no
did you hit him with a bat I'll kill you
how'd you kill him I don't remember did
you stab him
he did earlier
they're just repeating the things that
I'm saying now you see how I don't
believe you
if I just came to you and I just said it
all the time I don't know I don't
remember will you believe anything I'm
saying
said Hey sir what's the law on this and
said I don't know you think you trust me
that's why I'm having a hard time
trusting you
I know I said a guilt person made
something else yeah we're gonna go try
and find them
good but I don't have the details on
where he's at
I told you where he was at where's he at
inside the house huh
where's where's you burying
on the side house right there okay what
park
the part right there yeah yeah but what
part of that room
the left side the left side yeah if you
dig in if you pull the board up and dig
them up okay on on the left side of the
building yeah so that's towards the
courthouse yes okay which sways is head
pointed I don't know which way are his
feet pointed how's he laying in there
how deep is he buried I'm not very far
not very far nope are we talking about
inches and dip or like feet inches
inches yep you'll find him you think
he's decayed oh yeah
what was he wearing I don't remember was
he wearing clothes yes or did you bury
him naked I buried him because you have
shoes on
did he wear glasses I don't remember
what what type of person was he white
was he Hispanic uh I think this is white
black
you don't know what he was and you don't
know his last name no sir how old do you
think he was old like how old
I don't know like if you had to guess
how old are you
uh 37. is he older than you yeah how old
your parents
my prince she did how old would they be
I don't know I don't know over 50. I
don't know anything okay are you under
the influence anything right now yeah
I'm drinking alcohol you've been
drinking
you want to wait and talk to us once
you're sober uh yeah can you take me to
the police station or what no we're
gonna leave you here for right now what
do you mean because we got to do this so
you're gonna stay here okay if we find
something then obviously we'll have more
to talk about all right cool but we need
details to start working on this so if
you can give you every single detail
right but there's a lot of I don't know
so I'm saying if you start to remember
those things
let somebody know all right okay first
thing okay okay otherwise you're gonna
stay here for a little while
okay okay and if this is a lie you're
gonna be charged with false reporting
okay okay okay
here's our light code
black tarp they put down they keep weeds
from bronzer
oh looks like [ __ ] yeah
I think it is I think it's a shoe too
and it's starting to pull out
bronzing
collection
s wow
it's going too easy to come help you
that's weird though
those
four do you want to back up
let's pull this out
let's see well hit it with the trouble
[Music]
all right
I don't know that's cheap
I think it's the boot and that's the
bottom sole of it
so you can see they come running up
right there
so we need to get that out and
I'll kind of determine a little bit more
you know yeah because that's the soul of
it yeah that's just yeah that would go
right there Kevin pull and see if the
foot falls out
Oogie she's getting very scientific
seven years or more I'm not gonna lose
anything
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so
first
[Applause]
do you like onions
I got them without because I hate onions
I didn't
I know how some people are you either
hate them or you love them
have you been here for a little while at
the police department my name is Gino by
the way they they just called me in it
says you too sir
is that good is it hamburger
it's McDonald's but
is what it is right
so they um
they already read you your Miranda
Rights be aware of all that stuff yeah
I'm gonna I'm gonna let you know again
okay
it's something I wish I had to do but um
you have the right to remain silent
anything you say kind of music
every right to talk to a lawyer and have
her present him or her present with you
before a drink question and if you
cannot afford a higher one we'll be
playing website no expense all right do
you understand all that
okay what time did you call the police
department yeah yeah okay
tell me what happened man
I killed somebody a long time ago okay
why what happened
I don't know
I've been told his name is Bill
uh but it's really William right
I don't know
you were living with him at the time
back then
um
you guys had some kind of issue was it
about a wallet
nope
foreign
do you remember what what happened why
why I just remember I just needed to
confess that was it
okay how did you do it
do you not remember you still want to
say that I used the one I'm talking
about
well top your shoulders now man
waiting room
you're welcome you're welcome no problem
you know I wasn't I wasn't around back
then
2009.
so
you know my own curiosity is
you know I wanna I wanna
you know I could read the reports from
from back then and that's why I said the
wallet thing because that's what we were
told I know he was an older guy and I
know that you were living with him right
you guys were roommates
he owned the place right
but he would he allowed you to stay
there like you were kind of renting did
you pay him money to live there or I
don't remember he just okay but you guys
are living together
all right
so
what happened man
do I look familiar to you no you look
real familiar with me
maybe I've just seen you around town
did you use a gun
I don't remember
okay well how about this one
why don't you tell me why you decided to
come over
because my heart hurts
okay he's been eating at you for a while
[ __ ] yeah
okay
I know this is probably the
a big hard decision you had to make
I've been thinking about it for a while
every day
I've never been in that position but I
can imagine
how hard that decision was to to step up
and
at least nobody tells you have to worry
anymore
yeah I mean I can imagine his family you
know he he was an older guy but you know
his family
never knew
what happened
and that's kind of that's kind of where
I stand because I want to be able to
to tell them you know what happened
I told him that he was a good man and I
should have did what I did
you know
yeah it was his son is the one that
reported it to us back then about not
being able to get a hold of his dad
why didn't anybody say anything after
that why did everybody just let him
[ __ ] slide
what do you mean
I don't know okay
the cops talked to you back then I'm
assume yeah
give me a little details Tony what
happened
do I have to speak or what no you don't
have to man I'm just talking to you you
don't have to tell me anything you don't
you don't I just I just want to know the
story I'm sure the family wants to know
the story
you know things he was he was always
good to me and I took his life for no
reason
and I don't have an excuse
me a lot of people have an excuse I
don't have one
what did you use to kill him I don't
remember
do you remember if it was some type of
weapon or your hands I don't remember
all I know is that I buried him and I
should
one of the officers told me that you had
said it was some type of sharp object
maybe like a knife or a screwdriver or
something
I don't remember
okay and again you
you don't have to talk to me but please
don't lie because there's no reason to
lie anymore right I killed him with this
screwdriver okay
and
is that screwdriver round anywhere no
because it's been I mean I know it's
been a long time yeah
you got family in town here yeah
that's what I wanted to confess they
don't you know nothing happens to them
it was my fault for myself
nobody else should suffer except this
your parents still around no no
okay
so no reason
all right
so I kind of went back there and looked
at it
in the area there's some cross members
on the floor
were those there when when you put them
in there okay so it was just an open
space at the time yeah remember
it was in what like cross members you
know like if you were to pull up the
floor there's like choices like braces
you know I'm talking about like Deco
diagonal that the floor sits on
you know those weren't there I don't
remember okay
did you have to let me say this did you
have to
dismember his body to get him in there
or did you just put them in their hole
anyways I already confessed man no we'll
see I'm I want I need to know this
information because I'm gonna go and dig
them up all right
yeah
no no no no we we went over there and
looked at it we haven't even got started
yet
it's a process
I don't know man I don't know we have to
talk to the District Attorney's office
some be stuck here all night or what no
not all night no
no but we got to talk to the DA's
there's a they're the ones that
ultimately make the decision
but those cross members you know like
there's no there would be no way to put
him in the ground without
dismembering them that's my just my
curiosity is what I'm facing
all right
is there anything that that you think I
should know that you want to tell me
before I took off everybody knows
everything already
police would end up digging under the
home where they found the remains of Mr
Villages Peralta was charged with murder
in his cases pending in a New Mexico
Court