1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation. I Want justice. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace available now only on Fox Nation. 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: How does a young Utah couple end up dead at 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: their own home their children in the home in the 5 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: last hours, A major break in the case. I Nancy Grace. 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. First 7 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: of all, let's go straight out to CBSKUTV Jeremy Harris. Listen, 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: this all started in the middle of the night and 9 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: it plays out like a horror story. That was the 10 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: information police had when they were called to this neighborhood 11 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: just after one a m. West Jordan Police say officers 12 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: found one person dead in the backyard, one person dead 13 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: in the house, both from gunshots wounds, and alive in 14 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: that house were the couple's three children, all under the 15 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: age of four. We know that two people were killed, 16 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: but now we need to find out the who and 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: the and the y. And now police believe that the 18 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: couple may have fought back against the person who broke 19 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: into their home and killed them. They say there was 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: evidence that that person may have been stabbed. They appeared 21 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: to in our drone video, potentially that there was a 22 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: blood trail that was marked with cones leading from the 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: backyard of the house. Now police say this person who 24 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: was responsible for this was able to get away. Well, 25 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: what we are learning from CBSKUTV is that the TV 26 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: station had a drone circling overhead. I guess they followed 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: all the police to the home where the mom and 28 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: dad were killed, and they could make out due to 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: the placement like an orange cone you see in traffic 30 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: that police have put out or in parking lots. They 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: kut followed the cones and believed there was a trail 32 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: of blood leading from or two, but most likely from 33 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: the home. With me an all star panel to break 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: it down and put it back together again. Jason Ocean's 35 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: defense attorney joining me out of the New York Tristate area. 36 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: Bruce Johnson, owner ESP Investigations, Master Sergeant Chicago Metro Police, 37 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: retired doctor Michelle Duprie, South Carolina medical examiner and author 38 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Doctor Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: on Instagram Doctor Daniel Bober. But right now to Nicole 40 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: Parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole, I want 41 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: to first start with the victims, Tony Butterfield and Katherine Butterfield, 42 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: thirty one and thirty respectively. Now let me understand they 43 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: were in their home at the time they were murdered. 44 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: That's correctnes See. Thirty year old Katherine Butterfield apparently spin 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: the day sending out handwritten notes to her friends and family. Tony, 46 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: her husband, thirty one years old, had been outside building 47 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: toys for the children to play with. Later in the evening, 48 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: they touched their three children in the bed upstairs in 49 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: the home. Their children ages three, four and six months. 50 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: It was at around one fifteen that thee call went 51 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: in the neighbors saying she heard screams, she heard gunshot wounds. 52 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: Authorities headed out to the home where they found Tony 53 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: in the backyard, both dead from gunshot wounds. Take a 54 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Salt Lake City. Fox thirteen 55 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: Spencer Joseph a West Jordan neighborhood woken up in the 56 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: middle of the night to sounds of screaming and gunfire. 57 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: Police arriving on scene finding a husband and wife both 58 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: shot and killed. We're calling it a homicide. We do 59 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: believe that we have a suspect or suspects that attempted 60 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: to break into the home and for what reasons we 61 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: don't know. In the home three children, all ages four 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: and under. We're dealing with two parents that have been murdered, 63 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: possibly in the presence of these children, we don't know. 64 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: Police are now working to piece together what happened. Given 65 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: the young age of the children, that that becomes very 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: difficult for us to do to interview you children in 67 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: that age group. They say the suspect may have been 68 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: injured or stabbed in the break in. Police are following 69 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: leads to try and get a description of the suspect 70 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: or suspects, thescription of that vehicle. Police say they've never 71 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: been called to this home before and have no reason 72 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: to believe this is a part of something bigger. It 73 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: doesn't fall into that room. Interesting the way they say 74 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: that police have never been to the home before and 75 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: it doesn't quote fall into that realm. Interesting the way 76 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: that that was put to doctor Daniel Boba, forensic psychiatrist. 77 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: The children are ages three, four and six months now. 78 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: Both of their parents, our dad murdered in the home. 79 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the nature of survivor guilt? 80 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: What is that well, Nancy survivor guilt is essentially feeling 81 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: like you did something wrong by living through a tread event. 82 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: You know, when kids are exposed to trauma, generally they 83 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: don't really have a lot of memory before age three, 84 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: but some of them do, so it's unknown what will 85 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: happen in this situation. But kids do tend to be 86 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: pretty resilient, so it's difficult to predict the effect that 87 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: the trauma will have, you know, and I find it 88 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: very interesting that you, in particular doctor Bober, when children 89 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: are victims, always talk about how resilient they are. That's 90 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: interesting because the children that I have known that have 91 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: lost both their parents carry it around with them for 92 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. And there are really, for 93 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: me just a JD countless studies that indicate if a 94 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: child goes specifically without their mother, much less their mother 95 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: and father before some say age three, some say age four, 96 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: some say age ten, that they have lie long implications 97 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: of that. What implications would those be of not having 98 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: a mother starting at age six months? Well, certainly that's 99 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: a prime time for bonding an attachment, and so if 100 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: you don't have a mother figure in your life, it 101 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: could affect you academically, it could affect your future relationships 102 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: that it could affect you all across the life Spanancy, depression, alcohol, drugs, 103 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: absolutely a higher, much higher statistically percentage of not finishing 104 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: high school, much less going to college. And if you 105 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: don't finish high school and you don't go to college, 106 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: what kind of job are you going to get? So 107 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: you have this job at basically minimum wage, and it's 108 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: hard to make ends meet with that kind of job. 109 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: So you're facing most likely low standard of living bordering 110 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: on poverty level. And you have with you forever survivor guilt. 111 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: You live and mommy and daddy were murdered and you 112 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,679 Speaker 1: were home. Was it somehow your fault? Did your nightmare 113 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: somehow come true? And you don't have the bonding of 114 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: the attachment the family. Nothing, You have nothing after something 115 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: like this happens a six month old, a three year old, 116 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: and a four year old. Doctor Michelle Dupree, what if anything, 117 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: do we know of the injuries of this young mom, 118 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: Catherine Butterfield and her husband Tony. I think I have 119 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: doctor Michelle Dupree with me. Michelle, are you there? You 120 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: know I'm very curious. Let me ask you. Nicole parton, 121 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: what was the cod cause of death on the mom 122 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: and dad? Both of them were gunshot wounds. We know 123 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: that the father, Tony, was found just outside the home 124 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: in the backyard, mom inside, but both fatally wounded dead 125 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: from gunshot wounds. Cops found the Johnson's care at the scene. 126 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: And I'm very curious about whether a car was stolen, 127 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: what was stolen in the home, what we know about 128 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: what occurred inside the home. I'm trying to get at 129 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: motive for the murders of the Butterfields Nicole Parton, what 130 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: can you tell me about any potential motive. Police are 131 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: being tight lipped, but we do know that when they 132 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: arrived on the scene, they found broken glass. They found 133 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: a footprint near the garage, So signs of a fourth century, 134 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: they do say, and are calling this a home invasion. 135 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: They're calling it a robbery, and they're saying that the 136 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: belongings of this family inside the home were all rummaged through. 137 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: Now they aren't giving us details as to what items 138 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: are missing, but they are being very very plain to 139 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: say that the home was rummaged through. That's very interesting. 140 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: What would have been worth two lives of a mother 141 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: and a father to take out of that home. And 142 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: as you heard before, there was no police call prior 143 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: to this to that home. These were not drug dealers. 144 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 1: They didn't deal with the eaving stolen property, nothing like this. 145 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: This is a suburban area with a mom and dad 146 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: at home with their two children. So what went wrong? 147 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: We also know that the Butterfields are believed to have 148 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: tried to defend off their attacker or attackers, and police 149 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: say there were defensive wounds. Let me try doctor Michelle 150 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: Duprie again. What our defensive wounds? Explain how the cops 151 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: could look at the bodies and determine they tried to 152 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: fight Nancy. Defensive wounds are things that a person might 153 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: might get the usually on the arms or the legs 154 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: or the hands where they tried to fight off the offender. 155 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: There could be things like abrasion, scratches, if a sharp 156 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: fource instrument was used, it could be cuts, It could 157 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: be things of that nature. You know, what does that 158 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: tell you to doctor Daniel Bober that they had defensive wounds, 159 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: The mom and the dad tried to fight for their lives. Bober? 160 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: What you said now, seeing that you know they were 161 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: fighting for their lives and that the evidence of defensive wounds. 162 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we were talking about 163 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: the brutal murder of a young mom and dad in 164 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: their home, their three children asleep at the time of 165 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: a home invasion in a very quiet subdivision. Take a 166 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: listen to our friends at k ST you. This is 167 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: Fox thirteen reporter John Francie. Investigators say Tony and Katherine 168 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 1: were shot and killed in the middle of the night. 169 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: Their children were home a neighborhood screaming and called police. 170 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 1: They could hear movement inside of the house. They went 171 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: into the house for a security sweep to make sure 172 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: that you know that everyone else in the home was 173 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: accounted for and those that were not supposed to be 174 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: in the home, and that is where they encountered the 175 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: three children. Those kids are now being cared for by 176 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: family members as detectives work to bring their parents killer 177 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: to justice. We canvass the neighborhood. We spoke with neighbors. 178 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: There's obviously ring doorbell footage that we had through review 179 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: Ribbons now wind the street of the home where this happened. 180 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: We do believe that the Butterfields were absolute true victims 181 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 1: during this As a result of this act. They did 182 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: not have any rule in this. We don't believe that 183 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: there was any criminal activity. A community searching for healing 184 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: and answers. It's very near and dear to all of us. 185 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: You know, we all have loved ones, many of us 186 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,599 Speaker 1: have children, and just the impact of this crime is 187 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: far reaching. We know also that the three children, ages four, 188 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: two and six months in the home at the time 189 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: of the murder were unharmed. We also know that there 190 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: is now a go fund Me established to support them 191 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: and they are taking breast milk donations for the youngest baby, 192 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: a baby girl still breastfeeding when mommy gunned down in 193 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: the home. I want to circle back to owner ESP Investigations, 194 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: former Masters Argent in Chicago Metro, Bruce Johnson, you are 195 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: analyzing the crime scene that one victim was found inside, 196 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: one victim was found outside. You extrapolated what you're hearing 197 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: and determined that one of the victims that tried to 198 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: fight back, most likely with a kitchen knife. Explain your reasoning, 199 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: Bruce Johnson. Okay, The reasoning is because number one, we 200 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: know that there's defensive wounds. We know that there's a 201 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: trail of blood because that either led to or from 202 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: the house which you mentioned earlier. With the pones. We 203 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: know that there's a struggle in the house and outside 204 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: of the house. So when you're looking at a theory, 205 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I'm hearing in my ear. I have sound. 206 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: I need you to hear before we go further. Regarding 207 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 1: the very narrow question I asked you, Bruce, regarding the 208 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: crime scene, take a listen to our France at k STU. 209 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: This is Fox thirteen L Thomas. Remnants of broken glass, 210 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: a footprint on the door, caution tape still draped nearby. 211 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: This is what's left of a tragic Saturday morning shooting 212 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: that left two dead and three children without parents. This 213 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: is the first time that I've been back to the 214 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: house since the news For friends of the deceased Tony 215 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: and Katherine Butterfield, and I've been good friends with him 216 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: and Katherine for quite a few years, so the tragedy 217 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: is indescribable. My brother called me at four o'clock in 218 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: the morning on Saturday morning, and I thought he was 219 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: kidding with me. I thought he was playing some sort 220 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: of a joke or something. I didn't believe him. Now, 221 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: as the investigation continues, police say they have leads but 222 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: no suspect, leaving everyone hoping for positive news and justice. 223 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: Tony and Catherine are just good, salt of the earth 224 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: kind of people, with their smiles, their willingness to help 225 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 1: out everybody, just great people. It's sad to see him go. Guys, 226 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: you're hearing our friends at Fox thirteen. That was l 227 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: Thomas speaking. You hear neighbors and relatives breaking down in 228 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: tears when they get the news that these two, Tony 229 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: and Katherine Butterfield, have been slaughtered in their own home 230 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: where their children asleep, by home invasion. To doctor Daniel Bober, 231 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: the witness speaking said that at first he thought it 232 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: was an awful joke, that someone was playing a joke 233 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: on him, that Catherine and Tony have been slaughtered. Is 234 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: that some sort of a defense mechanism to what you're hearing? 235 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: That's exactly right, Nancy. You know when people hear news 236 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: like that that's so terrifying the mind cannot even grasp it. 237 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: So a lot of people will go to that to 238 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: protect themselves from having to deal with that level of trauma. 239 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: I want to go now to Jason Oceans, renowned defense attorney, 240 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: joining me out of the New York tri state area. Jason, 241 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. I want to try 242 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: and analyze the crime scene. Jackie. Can you confirm for 243 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: me whether Utah has the death penalty or not. Just 244 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: plug in Utah death penalty, Jason. If you analyze the 245 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: crime scene, these purps, from what we can tell, break 246 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: in in the early morning hours around one am ish 247 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: all the family members are asleep. That would suggest a 248 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: death penalty aggravating factor of lying in wait. In almost 249 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: every jurisdiction that has or has the death penalty, there 250 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: are aggravating factors that go to a murder, such as 251 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: murder for hire, murder for pecuniary or money interests, like 252 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: you want to kill somebody for their life insurance, okay, 253 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: or because you're a beneficiary of the will. That's considered 254 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: be even more cold blooded than pulling out a gun 255 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: at a bar and shooting. A murder of a political 256 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: figure such as JFK or a police officer, or a 257 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: symbol of the state. Not to suggest that those lives 258 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: are any more important than our lives, but you're attacking 259 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: the symbol of the United States or the government when 260 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: you kill a cop or you kill a president or 261 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: a governor by killing a person under a certain age 262 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: like a child, or over a certain age like a senior. 263 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: In many places, that is an aggravating circumstance. Lying in 264 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: wait would apply here because they had to sneak up, 265 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: wait on these people to go to sleep, and then 266 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: break in. And a catch all, Jason Oceans, as you 267 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: well know, is a murder in the commission of another 268 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: felony such as rape, armed robbery, burglary, which is here. 269 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: They broke into the home to commit a felony. Therein 270 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: any felony will do theft, rape, anything like vandalism. If 271 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: it's a felony and a death occurs during the felony, 272 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: that's a felony murder and also meets an aggravating circumstance 273 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: under which the state can seek the death penalty. And 274 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: here is another perfect example, Jason Ocean, mass murder more 275 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: than one body under the law equals mass murder and 276 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: that is an aggravating circumstance. And Jack, you just told 277 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 1: me Utah does still have the DP. So what about 278 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: this crime seeing, Jason otion, take off your defense at 279 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: just one moment and tell me the factors that you 280 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: see here. That are particularly aggravating. Well, Nancy, I think 281 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: the analysis, as you properly said, isn't the crime scene. 282 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: It breaking in the glass, you know, violent act. Usually 283 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: in a burglary, you're trying to access by a more 284 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: surreptitious to nopequindow, prying the door quieter, You're trying to 285 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: do things so that you're more unannounced. Here, I think 286 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: the breaking of the glass was a clarion call. I'm 287 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 1: getting in I have purpose, which was to you know, 288 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: to murder. I mean, Jason, wait a minute, think about 289 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: your boy and your girl. And yes, I know they've 290 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: grown up once in college, but think about it coming 291 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: in your home with the doors locked in the middle 292 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,479 Speaker 1: of the night and murdering mommy and daddy, leaving those 293 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: children without a parent, not just one parent, but both parents. 294 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: For Pete say they've got to have a go fund 295 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: me to get breast milk to feed the little baby. 296 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace for those of you just 297 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: joining us. A Utah couple, a married couple, Tony and 298 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: Catherine Butterfield, slaughtered in their own home while their children slept. 299 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: There's about one fifteen in the morning. You know what 300 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: you think it can't happen to you a home invasion. 301 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: If you can see this neighborhood, you may think differently. 302 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: This is a tree line neighborhood with the houses and 303 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,199 Speaker 1: a perfect row lawns, front and bike. It's I know, 304 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: it's like the mind tricking the eye back to you, 305 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: Jason Oceans. The reason I say that is because in 306 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: a suburban area like that, you don't expect crime of 307 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: this nature to seep. In no doubt, I'm sure if 308 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: we looked at the statistics in general for that community, 309 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: type of criminal activity is seemingly beyond the pale. It 310 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: shocks the conscience of the community because it's totally unexpected. 311 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: And then you put in the aggravating factors of these 312 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 1: three little children, really beyond the pale. But to me again, 313 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: it's it's the fact that this you know, you you 314 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: mentioned felony murder right breaking in and then subsequently right 315 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: this to me is almost a contract murder, a purposefulness, 316 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: and it's that's an Asian something is we're going in 317 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: to remove the life of these two people. Who whoa 318 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: Jason Oceans. When you say contract murder, I think a 319 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: mobsters dope hits of killing a witness to a felony. 320 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: These people were just regular people that I have a 321 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: drug history, there are any history that there was an 322 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: intent from the very beginning. This was not, in my mind, 323 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: a burglary or a robbery. This was intentional to murder 324 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 1: these two people. That was the intent. Looking at their 325 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: ghosts Amy photo, Jackie, I want you to look at it, 326 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: to Brett, it's of them. It's Katherine and Tony Butterfield, 327 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: murdered in their own home, West Jordan, Utah. And here 328 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: they are. She's holding up her engagement ring when they 329 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: got engaged. It's just do you see those two smiles? 330 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: They're dead, gragic, murdered. Can you imagine one fifteen in 331 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: the morning, Jackie, You're sound asleep and you hear either 332 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: you're along, go off, or you hear glass breaking. Your 333 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: children are home. It's just what was going through their minds. 334 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: They try to fight back. In the last hours, we 335 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: have a crack in the case. But right now I 336 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: want you to listen to Salt Lake City Fox thirteen 337 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: kneys reporter Spencer Joseph. The kids are now safe with relatives. 338 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: So this is a terrible case. It's a terrible thing 339 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: for anybody to have to wake up too. It's a 340 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: terrible thing for our officers frankly that are involved in 341 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: the investigation and our crime scene folks. And so we're 342 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: very hopeful that we can make an arrest on this 343 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: and bring this to closure. You could see late into 344 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: the afternoon the West Jordan Police Department is still on 345 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: scene of this double homicide, making sure they canvas the 346 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: entire community behind me for any clues. Let's go very 347 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: quickly to KSL knees reporter Dan Raskin, and yes, at 348 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: that point police were hopeful they can make a quicker rast. 349 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: Take a listen to Dan Raskin. According to police, this 350 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: was not a random act of violence, but a targeted act. 351 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: They say Johnson didn't know the Butterfields, but they are 352 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: not saying how or what the motive may be. We 353 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: do believe that the Butterfields were absolute true victims during 354 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: this as a result of this act. They did not 355 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: have any role in this. We don't believe that there 356 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: was any criminal activity going on on their part or 357 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: anything like that. Investigators say Tony was found shot to 358 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: death in the backyard his wife Katherine inside the home, 359 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: but apparently there was a struggle where it's believed the 360 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 1: Butterfields grabbed a knife in their defense and injured Johnson. 361 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: Those injuries, we believe are consistent with the knife, so 362 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: we believe that he was either stabbed or cut with 363 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: that knife, and also believe that those injuries are likely 364 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: on his appendages, so his arms or his legs. So 365 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: police are looking for a particular person, his name Albert Johnson. 366 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: How did he know the Butterfields. They're looking for a 367 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 1: guy with slashes to his body and a major man 368 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: hunt ensues. How did he know them? What was the connection? 369 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: But somehow cops zero in on this guy named Albert Johnson. 370 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: We also know that this family were Sunday school teachers. 371 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: Did he somehow know them through the family's church youth directors? 372 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: It's what they were at their church. Did he know 373 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: them somehow through the search? Somehow through their church? To 374 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: Nicole parton Crimealline dot Com investigative reporter, do we have 375 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: any idea how this guy, Albert Johnson knew the Butterfield family. 376 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: We don't know exactly, but authorities are telling us that 377 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: he did know them, but they're not giving details concerning 378 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: the relationship. How he knew them. We know that both 379 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: Katherine and Tony had been missionaries for the Latter Day Saints, 380 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: a local business, their own landscaping business. So did he 381 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: know them through there, had he worked for them, had 382 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: he been appointed through their business? We don't know, but 383 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: we do know that he somehow knew this family. You know, 384 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: A big, big clue in this case, and cole Parton 385 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: turns out to be once again the ring doorbell. So 386 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: the family apparently had at least one ring doorbell on 387 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: their home. What do we know about that? If anything? 388 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: We do know that they had the ring doorbell. We 389 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: know that it was working and active, and authorities say 390 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: that they have been reviewing the footage from the doorbell. 391 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: You know, I want to just talk about that very quickly. 392 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,479 Speaker 1: Jason Oceans, New York defense attorney again, take off your 393 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: defense just a moment, Jason. The ring doorbell can catch, 394 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: of course motion. It doesn't mean somebody rings your doorbell, 395 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: but if there's a motion in the area. When I 396 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: have to travel out of town, I love looking at 397 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: my ring doorbell. I can see the dog, I can 398 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: see the children coming in and out of the door, 399 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: even if they don't ring the doorbell. Now sometimes though, Jason, 400 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: because I know who it is, I can identify them. 401 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: But you don't always get a clear picture on a 402 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: ring doorbell. But I'm telling you, I guarantee you either 403 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: that or a fingerprint had to be the way that 404 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: they came up with a name. Albert Johnson. Well, Nancy, Yeah, 405 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: ring doorbell can be quite addictive if you have it. 406 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: But other times, as you mentioned, there's a shadow the 407 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: person to wear of it or conscious of that the purpose. 408 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: But you get their car from another ring doorbell as 409 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: it goes by, so you can get the make and 410 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: model from that. You can narrow things down certainly in 411 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 1: a in a smaller community, or they hit him a 412 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: number on a plate if it goes by. But those 413 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: are the additional clues that you use, and of course 414 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: we did. There was mentioned that there was a footprint. 415 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: Again that could be a foot Yeah, I know, but 416 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: footprint sometimes that's the methodology you use. Got to be 417 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: really unique, like a sneaker, uh tread or a car 418 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: tread in the mud that you can really match up. 419 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: Uh well, we do know. In the famous Oorenthal James 420 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: Simpson double murder case, they said because of prints in 421 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: the blood of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. They could identify. 422 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: The footprint was unique. It was a bruno'maly, a designer, 423 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: very expensive designer, Italian shoe. Simpson swore under oath at 424 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 1: a depot. He didn't have any. Then the inquirer of 425 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: all people come up with a picture of him on 426 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: the sidelines of a football game when he was a 427 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: commentator wearing Bruno Molly's shoes. Didn't have that at trial, 428 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: but it came out later. So you're right about that. 429 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: But I'll take a fingerprint anytime I can get one. 430 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: But you said something really interesting, Jason Oceans, because you, 431 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: of course are familiar with Jennifer Dulo's disappearance in Connecticut 432 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 1: and what we know about that. Cops did exactly what 433 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: you just mentioned. I've never seen it done so expertly. 434 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: They take ring doorbell footage from a series of homes 435 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: in that newhaving Connecticut neighborhood. They put it together. Then 436 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: they take footage from businesses. They take footage from school buses. 437 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: Every time a school bus or a public bus opens, 438 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: there's a video. They get all this footage and it 439 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: can actually trace the husband of Jennifer Julos and his 440 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: hinch persons just going along in the car. It was 441 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: incredible the way they did that. So I'm wondering if 442 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: they did this. Of course, I'll take a fingerprint any 443 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: day of the week. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, 444 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: we were talking about the murder of a young couple. 445 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: Take a listen to k SL news reporter Dan raskin 446 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: this is my way and showing Tony and Katherine who 447 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: love eman. Listen. A mother and daughter still trying to 448 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: comprehends the brutal murder of their friends and neighbors. Thirty 449 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: one year old Tony Butterfield and his wife, thirty year 450 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: old Katherine. According to police, both were shot and killed 451 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: by this man, thirty one year old Albert Enick Johnson, 452 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: a man investigators say broke open their door and entered 453 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: their home in West Jordan early Saturday morning. Catherine was 454 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: just a ray of sunshine and loved everybody, and they 455 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: were just the best parents ever. Crying and asking that why, 456 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: why what happened. Diana Romero is also still in shock 457 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: from the killing, always with her smile on her face. 458 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: We're a big smile, beautiful. It's just a terrible situation. 459 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: It's horrific. Their three children have been left without parents. 460 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: Let's quickly go to KSTU Fox thirteen, John Francie, take 461 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: a listen to this break. West Jordan Police Tony did 462 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: not release a motive for this crime, but they are 463 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: confident that Albert Enick Johnson carried it out. We discovered 464 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: he has a violent past. Mister Johnson is certainly a 465 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: dangerous person. I think it would be irresponsible to say 466 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: that he's not. This is the suspect. West Jordan police 467 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: want to find Albert Enoch Johnson. Thirty one years old, 468 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: five foot ten and two hundred and seventy five pounds. 469 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: He all so has a record. Mister Johnson does have 470 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: a criminal history. Through research of court documents, Fox thirteen 471 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: found Johnson played no contest to assault the deadly weapon 472 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: in twenty ten and aggravated battery in twenty eleven. Both 473 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: of those crimes occurred in California. The documents show his 474 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: nickname is Psycho Owl. Police believe he knew his victims, 475 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: Tony and Katherine Butterfield, but they did not describe the 476 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: nature of their relationship. We don't want to give up 477 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: too much where mister Johnson is not in custody, but 478 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: we do want people to know that they did know 479 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: each other. It was not random, and we believe that 480 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: they were in fact targeted guys the death the murders 481 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: of a young mother and dad, three children. Why we 482 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: are just learning about a break in the case. The 483 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: alleged per Albert Johnson nickname Psycho Owl, and the search 484 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: is on. Take a listen now to the break in 485 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: the case is KUTV two er Harrison. They contacted the 486 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: victim's family, Tony and Katherine Butterfield, very first to let 487 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: them know that they'd gotten to Albert Johnson off the 488 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: streets there in Californian As you can imagine lots of 489 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: relief coming from that family. But we have that newest 490 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: mug shot of Albert Johnson. He's pretty rough. He looks 491 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: pretty rough, that is, and that is because we are 492 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: told he tried to arrest. The US Marshall's Office helped 493 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: and believed Johnson to be armed and dangerous, and he 494 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: did evade arrest, tried to do everything in his power 495 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: to not be taken into custody. So accords did who 496 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: two kis though here at the department he was arrested 497 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: at two o'clock this morning. Booked at six. Johnson's wanted 498 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: for the murders of Tony and Katherine Butterfield. Please believe 499 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: Johnson is responsible for shooting and killing the couple at 500 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: the West Jordan home Saturday morning. We do know this 501 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: just the facts that we establish the other day. The 502 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: intruder that went into that home was definitely uninvited given 503 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: the time of day. We definitely believed that there were 504 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: some criminal intent and not good purpose is in general 505 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: to be there, and so we would stick along the 506 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: lines with that. But things definitely went very wrong. This guy, 507 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: Albert Johnson, has just been booked into the San Joaquin 508 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: County Jail, French Camp, California, shortly after six am Pacific, 509 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: according to jail records, booked in relation to an outstanding warrant. 510 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: Now he had somehow made it all the way to 511 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: California to French Camp, California. We know that a court 512 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: hearing is happening. In that court hearing, I believe he 513 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: will be charged officially with two counts of aggravated murder. 514 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: Straight out to Nicole parton Crime Online dot Com investigative 515 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: reporter joining us, how was the guy captured, and I 516 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: still don't know the connection between this guy Psycho Owl 517 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 1: with an aggravated battery, which means, correct me if I'm wrong, 518 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: Jason Oceans, in your jurisdiction that during the attack, you 519 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: lose the use of a part your body, like an eye, 520 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: your nose is cut off, your teeth are torn out, 521 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: your arm, your finger, your leg, you lose the use 522 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: of that in an aggravated battery versus an aggravated assault 523 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: where you're put in serious in fear of serious bodily 524 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: injury or death. Aggravated assault with a weapon is when 525 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: you are shot at or stabbed, you live, and then 526 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: there's a murder, right Jason Oceans, I see yes, no, Jason. 527 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is this guy Nicole parton Psycho Owl. Listen, 528 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: listen to what they said. He had assault with a 529 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: deadly weapon twenty ten aggravated battery in California two eleven, 530 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: and he's out, he is out to murder the butterfield. Well, 531 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: what happened, Nicole? That's correct, that's what we're being told. 532 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: We're being cold missionaries, their missionaries exactly. And it's important 533 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: for me to say police have made it very very 534 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 1: clear that this family did nothing wrong. There was no 535 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: criminal activity within their home, within their lives whatsoever. They 536 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. They were simply an acquaintance of this guy. 537 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 1: He knew them, but they were in no way involved 538 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: in criminal activity with him. Nicole Parton, tell me what 539 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: is the latest. I know that Johnson first named as 540 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: a suspect in a double homicide, but now they're looking 541 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: at his wife. What does she have to do with this? 542 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: That's correct? Twenty nine year old Sena Johnson, also with 543 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: a criminal record, is being now held with helping him 544 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: to escape campering with evidence. She first spoke to authorities 545 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: denied knowing anything. Later she came clean, telling them that 546 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,240 Speaker 1: she had spoken to Albert before daring and aster the crime. 547 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: She had also attempted to help destroy evidence. Take a 548 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: listen to our friend. Scott Mcca KST Fox thirteen News 549 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: busted in book after police say she lied to them 550 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: regarding what she knew about the crime, her husband's alleged 551 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: involvement in it, and his whereabouts, and that she also 552 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: destroyed evidence. The couple ran a successful landscaping company, Electric 553 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: Blue Yard Service, and on Easter Sunday, April twelfth, less 554 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: than a week before they were killed. Electric Blue celebrating 555 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 1: five years in business. It's not known yet if Johnson 556 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: conducted any business with a couple or ever worked for them, 557 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: but police say it is clear that they did know 558 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: one another. Is that the connection. Did he work for 559 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: Electric Blue yard service, that the couple had started their 560 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: own business in addition to being youth directors and missionaries. 561 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to take in that this wife of 562 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: his allegedly lied to police and destroyed evidence. What was it? 563 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: Bloody clothes? Did she lie about where he went? If 564 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: she knew where he went, how did they find him? 565 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: Did they tap her phone? Did they look at her 566 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: cell phone records? We wait as justice unfolds, but I 567 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: know this, those children compare to Albert Johnson, who may 568 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: get another light pleague, get in and out of jail 569 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 1: for double murder. Those three children get a life sentence 570 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: without their parents. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off Goodbye friend.