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Ex Police Chief Thinks He Can Kill To Get Child Custody And Get Away With It (He Can't)
Only Interrogations | 2026-09-11
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Watch this police interrogation with intense raw interrogation from the interrogation room as police conduct a full interrogation of a suspect. This raw interrogation footage captures every moment of the suspect interview, complete with deception detection techniques, and criminal psychology in true...
Watch this police interrogation with intense raw interrogation from the interrogation room as police conduct a full interrogation of a suspect. This raw interrogation footage captures every moment of the suspect interview, complete with deception detection techniques, and criminal psychology in true JCS style interrogation. 1. The Background Joshua Niles (28) and Amber Washburn (24) lived together in Sodus, Wayne County, New York, and had a young son. Niles also had two older children with Charlene Childers, his former partner. Childers later married Timothy Dean, former police chief of Sunray, Texas. They had met while working at a Texas police department. In May 2018, Dean was charged in Texas with injuring a child. After that case, Childers lost custody of the two children she shared with Niles; Niles was granted custody in August 2018. Childers later testified that she wanted Niles dead so she could try to regain custody of those children, and that she and Dean planned the killing together. She said Washburn was not part of the original plan. A third person, Bron Bohlar (another Texas officer), later admitted helping Dean obtain a rental car for the trip. 2. The Crime Date and place: afternoon of October 22, 2018, in the driveway of Niles and Washburn’s home on Carlton Street in Sodus. Investigators and later trial evidence established that Dean drove from Texas to New York—more than 1,400 miles—using rental vehicles. The first rental was placed in Bohlar’s name. After a crash in Kansas, a second rental was obtained and the trip continued. Niles was shot in the driveway. Washburn arrived home around the same time with their 4-year-old son in the car; she was also shot and killed. The child was not physically injured. A neighbor saw parts of the attack. Authorities said a 9mm firearm was used. Childers was not believed to be in Sodus at the moment of the shootings; she later traveled to the area and appeared at a vigil. 3. The Investigation Wayne County Sheriff’s investigators quickly focused on the custody fight and on Dean’s long-distance travel. Phone records, rental-car records, and a license-plate reader placing a relevant vehicle near the scene were used at trial. About 13 shell casings were recovered at the scene. Childers was found the next day in Palmyra, New York, with a loaded 9mm pistol. Childers and Bohlar later gave statements and testified under plea agreements. Childers described planning the shooting with Dean (weapon type and timing) and said she told him the killing “needed to happen.” She also described meeting Dean in Kansas after the rental-car crash. Dean was arrested in Texas (already in custody on the earlier child-injury case) and extradited. Childers was arrested in New York. Early public comments by Childers after the killings did not match the later admitted planning. 4. Conviction and Sentencing Charlene Childers: Pleaded guilty in April 2019 to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon (reduced from a murder charge) in exchange for testimony. Sentenced June 27, 2019, to 28 years in New York state prison. She later sought resentencing under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act; that application was pending as of mid-2026 reporting. Timothy Dean: Jury trial in May 2019. Convicted of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree conspiracy. Sentenced August 2019 to life without parole. On later appeal, some second-degree murder and one weapons count were dismissed as inclusory of the first-degree murder conviction; the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence were otherwise affirmed. true crime,law and crime network,interrogation,interrogation analysis,red thread interrogations,interrogation jcs inspired,interrogation jcs style,interrogation psychology,interrogation psychology jcs inspired,new interrogations 2026,interrogation breakdown,police interrogation psychology,bodycam,interview,case analysis,bodycam footage,crime investigation,police interrogation,suspect interview,int,interrogations 2026,interrogation videos,jcs true crime
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