01x03 - Lost Soul in Lafayette

[bunniefuu]

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- My mom said she was

going to Louisiana.

And next thing you

know, she was gone.

- The east side of Lafayette

is a very remote

area, very desolate.

Someone could really do some

heinous things in those areas.

- There are gators,

water moccasins.

It's not all fun and

games when you get lost.

In trouble quick.

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- This was probably one

of the bloodiest scenes

that I had seen.

Her neck was cut very deep,

and possibly multiple times.

- This was pure evil.

Somebody that had no regards

for life, whatsoever.

- I told them, you treat this

like this was your mother.

Because I want answers.

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(gentle music)

- Lafayette's located in

south central Louisiana,

about 50 miles west of

the Mississippi River,

20, 30 miles from

the Gulf of Mexico.

It's an entertainment hub.

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- Lafayette is its own little

bitty piece of Louisiana.

It's really small, it has

its own little flavor.

The Cajun culture is everywhere.

I mean, it's in the food,

it's in the way that

people live their lives.

I don't think I went

to as many festivals

and celebrations

as I've ever been

in any other place

that I've lived.

(lively music)

I felt like I could connect

to people a little bit better

because they're so welcoming.

I still love it very much.

It's still very

much home for me.

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in distance)

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- [Narrator] Just a few miles

from Lafayette's city center

lie the murky

depths of the bayou.

(thunder rumbling)

- As soon as you

leave the city limits,

you're in an area where

there's no lights,

there's no houses, buildings,

or any kind of structures.

The majority of that area is

very desolate, very remote.

You're in swampland,

you're in a marshland.

- You end up in bayous

and bring your hip boots

'cause you're gonna

be in mud and water.

There are gators,

water moccasins.

It's not all fun and

games when you get lost.

In trouble quick.

- Someone could really

do some heinous things

in those areas.

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On Saturday, December 6th, 2008,

it was a typical cool morning.

(people cheering)

The Cajun Country

Marathon, at the time,

was a half on, half

off-road marathon

that was taking

place in Lafayette.

A runner was warming

up prior to the event

and had stepped off

of one of the trails

to relieve himself.

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And, when doing so,

he located a female,

obviously deceased,

and he notified the

local sheriff's deputies

that were working

the race off duty.

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(sirens blaring)

- [Narrator] Sergeant Bajat

makes his way to the crime scene

just off Lajaunie Road,

an area surrounded by

thick southern oak and cypress.

- The body of the victim was

about 20 yards inside the woods

from the roadway.

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The victim was a white female.

She was in her mid-40s.

Her arms were above her head and

there was a significant

amount of blood in the area.

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The most obvious injury

that we were able to tell

was that her neck had been cut.

Very deep and possibly

multiple times.

She was still fully clothed.

Her pants were unbuttoned,

but it didn't appear

that the victim had been

sexually assaulted.

- [Narrator] Her

k*ller leaves behind

one identifying and

vicious piece of evidence.

- We located a boot print

in blood on her chest,

which would've been caused

after the stabbing occurred,

because she was found

lying on her back.

That made it look like

there was anger involved

and that it was a

personal attack on her.

At the time that this occurred,

I was on the force

for nearly eight years

and this was probably one of

the bloodiest scenes

that I had seen.

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- Since the body was found

with no animal activity

or no kind of decomposition,

which happens very fast

here in south Louisiana,

it led us to believe that she

had not been there very long.

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- We were unable to

find any identification,

any type of purse, any type

of personal belongings.

There was only one thing that

was located in her pocket

and that was a room

key to a local hotel.

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- [Narrator] The key belongs

to room 46 at the Regency Inn.

As the crow flies,

it's located five miles

from the crime scene.

- When detectives arrived

at the Regency Inn,

using the key and

the room number,

we went and knocked on the door

(knocking)

to see if there

were any associates

that would help us

identify the victim.

We were able to locate

a female who said that

her friend Bonnie

Ruphard had not returned

from the evening before.

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We learned that Bonnie

Ruphard was in her late 40s.

She wasn't a resident

of this area.

She was from Illinois.

With the hotel key and the

statement that we obtained

from the friend

that we interviewed,

we were fairly confident that

Bonnie was the individual

that we found off

of Lajaunie Road.

- [Narrator] Fingerprints

confirmed the victim

as 47-year-old

Bonnie Faye Ruphard.

Detectives reach out to her

daughter up north in Illinois

to break the news.

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- I got off of

work, I was in IGA.

It was me and my

daughter's father,

and my grandma called.

She said, "Hey girl,

are you off work?"

I said, "Yeah."

I remember her saying,

"They found your

mama dead today."

I said, "Huh?"

She said, "Yeah.

They found your

mama dead today."

And I remember falling

in the middle of the store

and my daughter's

father looked at me

and he said, "I know that,

I know that scream."

He said, "Is Bonnie Faye okay?"

I said, "No."

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My mom was from

Broughton, Illinois.

My mother went through

some horrible things

that had happened to

her by her grandfather

and at age 14, my mom

decided to leave Broughton

and she came to

Champaign, Illinois

and she met my father.

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(tender music)

I was born but my mom

was my mom, I mean

She just had a tough

fight in this world.

She had really bad

depression and anxiety

and she was bipolar.

And I think instead of

her taking her meds,

she would turn to the drugs

and that would help numb her.

But when that high came down,

those problems were still there.

- [Narrator] As Bonnie

struggles with addiction,

she parts ways with

Nichole's father.

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In 1981, Nichole's grandmother

steps in to adopt her,

while free-spirited

Bonnie takes to the road.

- My mom was a worldly woman.

She was 5'11", beautiful.

She had these olive skin tones

and she had the most

beautiful-est hair

and the most

bubbliest personality.

And she just traveled.

She would be in California,

Texas, Massachusetts.

All I could say is she

traveled very well.

- [Narrator] Two decades pass.

Nichole is in her mid-20s

and a mother herself

when Bonnie returns.

She's welcomed with open arms

and once again makes

Illinois her home.

- When Grandma Bonnie

came into my life,

I was about six or seven.

She was a lively woman.

She always kept

herself up, jewelry,

purses, her hair done.

She taught me how to do a

inside-out French braid,

how to take care of my hair,

and she was excited about it.

She was happy to be a part

of her grandkids' life.

It was a good moment,

because now I had another

grandma to spoil me.

- [Narrator] In 2007, Bonnie's

wanderlust kicks in again.

- I came to visit my mom one day

and she told me she was leaving.

She said, "I met this cool man."

I didn't even know his name.

And she said she was

going to Louisiana.

I said, "You know

what you doing?"

She told me, "Yeah."

And next thing you

know, she was gone.

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- [Narrator] Police

discover Bonnie is part

of a traveling group.

She's been sharing a room

with the man she

mentioned to her daughter.

His name is Lambert Hatfield

and their relationship is rocky.

- We had learned that there

was a domestic incident

that happened several

months prior out of state,

where it was reported that

Lambert was intoxicated

and had struck Bonnie,

which led her to go

to a women's shelter

and to get a stay away

order against him.

Bonnie had checked into

the women's shelter

and then had checked out,

stating that she was

traveling to Mississippi

to do some work,

which obviously wasn't the case,

because she ended up here

in Lafayette with Lambert.

It's a very high percentage,

when a woman is m*rder*d,

that it's going to be some

type of romantic partner

or relationship gone bad.

And because of the injuries and

how violent this crime was,

the total disregard for

her body and her remains,

that led us to

believe that someone

committed the m*rder

in a fit of rage.

You would associate

these types of wounds

with a domestic

violence incident.

That definitely

raised a red flag

and make Lambert

suspect number one.

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- Bonnie Ruphard

and Lambert Hatfield

had been traveling

together for some time.

And there's a history

of domestic violence.

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- [Narrator] Investigators bring

Lambert in for questioning.

- Lambert said that the

last time he saw Bonnie

was the Friday morning

prior to her death

and that as he

left to go to work,

she was still sleeping

in the hotel room.

- [Narrator] Lambert

denies any involvement

in Bonnie's m*rder.

- Lambert said that Bonnie

would disappear on occasion

and that she would perform

sex acts as a form of revenue

so that she could

purchase narcotics.

It appeared that Bonnie

was in this situation

because of addiction

and doing that, along

with small odd jobs

is the only way that she

could support herself

and live to see the next day.

Lambert said that he didn't

approve of what she was doing,

but was okay with the fact

that she was bringing in

some type of revenue.

Additional information

that we learned

is that Lambert had told

Bonnie to get rid of

all of her identification

and to cut ties with all

of her family in Illinois.

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Doing this to someone

is a clear sign of them

trying to isolate them

from anyone that they love

and could be considered,

potentially,

premeditation to commit a m*rder

and make it difficult

for law enforcement

to identify the victim.

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- I started going

online, searching.

And I seen a picture

in a article

after Lambert had beat on her

and she looked sad, and

she looked down and out.

You got rid of her ID,

you wouldn't let her

call me anymore.

Most people who do that,

it's because they

have something to hide

and they're about to do

something really, really crazy.

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- Because it was

such a violent crime,

you look at the individual

to see if they had

any types of injuries

or scratches on their hands,

anything on their face.

And Lambert didn't

have any of those.

Lambert's clothing was

also looked at closely.

His shoes were inspected,

not only for blood

or trace evidence,

but for the tread on the soles.

And that was compared

to any type of tread

that we located on the scene

and none of those matched

and no physical evidence of

blood was found on his shoes.

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Lambert was very cooperative

with the detective

that was conducting

the interview.

He answered all

of the questions.

He voluntarily gave a DNA sample

and ultimately took a polygraph.

The results of that

test showed that

he did not show any deceit.

The amount of cooperation

that he extended towards us,

the lack of physical injuries,

and just the way that

he presented himself

led us to believe that he

wasn't involved in the m*rder.

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On December 8th, 2008,

a autopsy was conducted

on Bonnie at the Lafayette

Parish coroner's office.

The initial thought that Bonnie

wasn't sexually assaulted

was confirmed.

The pathologist discovered

that Bonnie was stabbed

11 times on her

back and shoulders.

She was struck

with a blunt object

approximately four

times on her head

and that her throat

was slashed six times.

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When looking at everything

that took place in the scene,

the boot print on

Bonnie's chest in blood,

the blunt force trauma,

the multiple stab wounds,

and the way that she was

discarded in a trash pile,

this was pure evil.

Somebody that had no

regards for life whatsoever.

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- Hearing the

details of her death,

it kind of made me hurt worse.

Whoever did it, they beat her,

they stabbed her

all over her body,

and they bashed her skull in.

You really wanted

to end her life

and I just wanna know why.

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- A monster did that.

But that monster didn't realize

who he was dealing with,

dealing with my mom.

And I know my mom was a fighter

and when I tell you, wrist was

broke from her punching back,

stab wounds everywhere.

That little lady

fought for her life.

- [Narrator] Bonnie's

battle with her k*ller

may well provide detectives

with the evidence to catch him.

- During the autopsy,

it's standard procedure

to get nail scrapings.

In the case of

Bonnie, there was skin

that was located

underneath her fingernails.

- While documenting

the bloodstains

on Bonnie Ruphard's shoes,

a 90 degree drop was

located near her laces

and on the toe of her shoe.

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A 90 degree blood drop

is a perfect circle.

This indicates to us that it

came from an elevated level.

- That type of blood drop

leads investigators to believe

that the suspect was

standing over her

whenever the blood

was deposited there.

It could have been

from one of the items

that the suspect

used to stab Bonnie.

- She could have punched

the suspect in the nose,

could have scratched him, could

have caused him to bleed.

But there led me to believe that

whoever stabbed her had cut

himself during the altercation

and had bled on her shoes.

- So we were fairly confident

that we had the suspect's blood,

we had the suspect's skin.

DNA evidence that

potentially could help us

identify that individual that

committed this heinous m*rder.

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- A swab of the 90

degree blood drop,

along with Bonnie's

fingernail scrapings

was sent to the Acadiana

Crime Lab for DNA testing,

with the hopes of

finding a suspect.

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- [Narrator] As detectives

await lab results,

Bonnie's body is

transported north

700 miles to her hometown

of Broughton, Illinois,

where she is finally

laid to rest.

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- We just had a small,

little graveside service,

but before we went there,

my grandmother took me

and we got the most

prettiest nightgown

with a house coat and

it was silky and long.

She said,

"You don't have to get her

regular clothes, Nichole.

She's going to bed for

the rest of her life."

And they got her dressed

and I looked at her,

and I gave her a kiss.

- She was so young.

Like, she was 47.

You still have a whole

life ahead of you.

She still had time to change.

She had time to fix her life.

She had time to

make things better.

And that's not fair.

It's not fair that she didn't

get the chance to, like,

keep being, you know,

be able to be a better person.

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- [Narrator] As

the family grieves,

detectives receive

results from the lab.

- 10 days after

submitting the blood swabs

and fingernail

scrapings from Bonnie

to the Acadiana Crime Lab,

we received a full DNA

profile of a white male.

So we were fairly confident

that this was the blood

and DNA profile of our suspect.

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- The sample was

entered into CODIS.

But the national database

where the DNA is stored,

you have to commit a

felony or a violent crime.

It did not match to anybody

in the database at the time.

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- That was extremely

frustrating for us because

we felt that the

individual that was capable

of doing a crime such as this

would have had some type

of criminal history.

And that wasn't the case.

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- [Narrator] The investigation

is hitting a wall in Lafayette.

Detectives expand their search

beyond this bayou community.

They look into a series

of unsolved murders

in neighboring

Jefferson Davis Parish.

- Prior to Bonnie's

death, since 2005,

about 40 miles down

the interstate

in Jennings, Louisiana,

seven women have been k*lled

and their bodies disposed of

in these very remote places.

Canals, wooded areas.

It is alarming.

Jennings is very small.

It's a very, everybody knows

everybody type of place.

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All of these women lived

very similar lifestyles.

Some of them had to

resort to doing sex work.

Some of them have

lived through poverty.

They have some

substance abuse issues.

- [Narrator] Detectives cannot

ignore the eerie similarity

to Bonnie's case.

- Bonnie was somewhat

down on her luck.

She would prost*tute

herself for money.

So we felt like because

of the victimology,

that Bonnie could have been

a victim of their suspect.

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- We also have where

these women in Jennings,

their bodies have

been disposed of

in these very remote places.

And then you have

Bonnie in Lafayette,

who also, you find her

body off into the woods.

You're wondering

if the same person

is doing the same thing

in these two very

small communities.

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- I was scared for everyone,

because it wasn't

just my mother.

It was young ladies

and women all over.

Because K*llers move.

They k*ll people from one

town to the next town

and they don't stop

until they are caught.

- You start to wonder if

this is a serial k*ller.

Is he or she expanding

their territory?

Do we have to worry about

somebody else being k*lled?

Is this coming this way?

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- We were concerned

that the serial k*ller

that was operating 40

miles down the road

had moved his operation

into our city.

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- [Narrator] Just down the

highway from Lafayette,

in Jennings, between

2005 and 2008,

seven women have been m*rder*d

in similar circumstances.

- It's a very eerie feeling

that you really can't shake.

And so for that to spread

to somewhere like Lafayette,

that is happy-go-lucky,

community oriented,

(police radio chatter)

it's an unsettling thing.

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Because you don't know

what's gonna happen next.

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- Local agencies

were investigating

those other murders that took

place in the Jennings area

and we reached out

to those agencies

because of the victimology.

- There were similarities

in all of those

young ladies' backgrounds.

Young women who basically lived

the same lifestyle as Bonnie.

Substance abuse

problems, some sex work.

- We contacted investigators

that were in charge

of those crimes,

compared similarities

to what was going on.

Looking at the injuries

to victims in that area

and the extensive stab

wounds that Bonnie had,

we were able to

determine that there were

minimal similarities.

- [Narrator] While Bonnie

was stabbed to death,

investigators believe that

most of the Jennings victims

were strangled.

- We determined that Bonnie

wasn't a victim of their suspect

and we were able to exclude

her from that group.

- [Narrator] This is a

setback for detectives,

who are flush out of leads.

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- The lead investigator

in Bonnie's case

worked diligently for months,

exhausted all leads,

exhausted all tips,

and ultimately, she decided

to suspend the case.

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It's extremely frustrating

when all the leads dry up.

One of the worst things that

can happen to an investigator

is to hit that wall.

- [Narrator] After a year,

the case of the

m*rder*d grandmother

grows as cold as the dark

December waters of the bayou.

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- I was angry at whoever did it.

I was angry at the world,

because it wasn't fair

I lost my grandma.

And especially when I got her

into my life later in life.

So to get her taken away

from me permanently,

it was a different type of pain,

because she can't

come back this time.

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- [Narrator] Though Bonnie's

case sits on the shelf,

the crime lab continues to

run DNA samples through CODIS,

looking for a match

to their suspect.

Then, something catches

a specialist's eye.

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- One of the lab

technicians recognized

a familial trait on

the Y chromosome.

That familial trait ran

in the Hebert family.

So if you were a male

with the last name Hebert,

or your father had

the last name Hebert,

you were likely to

carry this trait.

So while there was still

no hit in the database,

we now had a last name.

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- [Narrator] What feels like

a major break in the case

could be more akin to finding

a needle in a haystack.

- With a little research,

I was able to determine

that just in the

state of Louisiana,

there's over 20,000 individuals

that have that last name.

You can narrow that down because

we're looking for a male,

but it's still a significant

amount of people in the state.

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By 2013, I had been transferred

to our homicide

violent crimes section.

And upon my arrival

in that section,

I requested that I be

assigned Bonnie's case.

Because I was on the scene,

because of how violent it was,

it was always in my mind

and having the opportunity

to pick it back up in 2013,

I jumped at the chance.

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Having that full DNA profile,

I knew that if we identified

a very good suspect,

that we could solve it.

The lab was able to

identify three Heberts

that had a very distant

DNA match to our suspect.

And the first thing I

thought of at that time

was to get as many swabs

from family members

along the family tree of the

known individuals that we had.

And if I could find

a common relative,

possibly I could

get a suspect name

and do what I could to

get a swab from them

to compare to our suspect.

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- [Narrator] For four years,

Sergeant Bajat collects

voluntary DNA samples

from Hebert family members

and keeps plugging them into

the system, without a hit.

Until a surprise

phone call turns this

stone cold

investigation red hot.

- So in March of 2018,

10 years after Bonnie's

m*rder took place,

I was building a shed

in the back of my house

and I received a phone

call from the crime lab.

And the technician who

I'd worked with for years

was extremely excited on

the other side of the phone,

saying, "We got

him, we got him."

And when she

finally calmed down,

she said that she had a

match to the suspect DNA

in Bonnie's case

and that he had been

arrested on a drug charge

and booked into the Lafayette

Parish Correctional Center,

where they obtained

a swab from him

during the booking process.

And in fact that

it was an Hebert

and it was an individual by

the name of Millard Hebert.

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I was extremely excited

because I knew that I had him.

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Looking into

Millard's background,

up until 2018, Millard

was leading a clean life.

He was a family man from a

small town called Youngsville,

just south of the

city of Lafayette.

We learned that he

was a tow truck driver

for a local tow company

and that he was in

his mid to late 50s.

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Luckily for us, Millard was

still waiting to bond out

on the drug charge

and I couldn't wait to get

into work the next morning

to hit the ground running and

do what we needed to do to

to make sure that he

didn't harm anybody else.

- So we arranged it with our

local sheriff's department

to bring him down to

an interview room.

- Just because your DNA

is found at the scene

doesn't mean you

committed the m*rder.

But it was blood and skin

under Bonnie's fingernails.

- Explaining why

his DNA was present

was going to be difficult.

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- [Narrator] Sergeant Bajat

doesn't waste any time

diving into the reason he's

questioning Millard Hebert.

- When we started the interview,

Millard didn't know

why we were there.

But that didn't last long.

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Well, at that point I

sat back in my chair

and within 30 seconds,

Millard just started talking,

without even being

asked a question.

- I believe when Millard

said he blacked out,

he knew how brutal it was.

He was disgusted by it, I feel.

And I don't think that

he could bring himself

to admit fully what

he had done to Bonnie.

- Millard said that

during that argument,

Bonnie threatened

to call the police

and she threatened to

call his employment

and report that he was

doing this type of activity

on the job.

I believe that he was

scared to lose his job.

I would believe he was

scared to be arrested.

I believe that he was high

on some type of narcotic

and lost control.

- [Bajat] We were

able to determine

the blood came from his hand

and the skin more than

likely came from his face.

- The brutality of the m*rder,

it was shocking to us

that Millard hadn't

done it again

or hadn't done it before.

We were diligent

in looking to see

if he would've been

involved in anything else.

And ultimately this

appeared to be the only time

that he had done that.

- What surprised me is that

being a tow truck driver,

he had instances where he was

involved with law enforcement

for years, on all of

our accident scenes,

and he was right there

amongst us the entire time.

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- [Narrator] Sergeant

Bajat immediately calls

Bonnie's daughter Nichole

up north in Illinois

to share the news she's

waited a decade to hear.

(telephone ringing)

- I was at work

and my phone rung

and I wasn't gonna

answer it, but I said,

"This is a Louisiana number."

And I remember,

it was March 9th,

and her birthday was March 10th.

And he said, "We got him."

And I remember saying,

"Boy, that's the best

birthday present you could

have ever gave her."

And I was excited,

and I was in the hallway,

jumping up and down.

That little piece of

hope that I had held onto

for all those years,

it finally came true.

(tense music)

- [Narrator] The Lafayette

Police announce the arrest

of Millard Hebert for the

m*rder of Bonnie Ruphard.

- We at the Lafayette

Police Department

want the public to understand

that we don't put

cases down here.

It may have taken us 10 years

to bring someone to justice

in this case,

but it's important that the

public know that we don't stop.

So the message we

hope to the family

is that this arrest leads

to some sense of justice

and some sense of closure.

- [Narrator] As Hebert's

case moves through the court,

Bonnie's family makes

an unusual request.

- I asked the prosecutor

not to take this to trial.

'Cause I did not want to drag

my mother through the mud.

I want this to be

done and over with.

I didn't want my kids to have

to experience that trial.

I did think about the fact

that Millard had a

wife and a daughter.

And I felt bad for

them that they see that

their father and husband

had m*rder*d someone.

They had nothing

to do with this.

They knew nothing about it.

And I had sympathy

for them also.

I didn't want anyone's life

dragged through the mud

unnecessarily.

- [Narrator] Millard Hebert

pleads guilty to manslaughter

and is sentenced to

20 years in prison.

- The fact that Millard

openly came out and confessed

made it seem like

this had been a burden

that had been bearing

down on him for 10 years.

He knew how brutal it was.

He was disgusted by it.

I believe Millard was truly

remorseful in what he had done.

(somber music)

- When the sentencing

hearing was over,

I met the detective

in the hallway

and I gave him the biggest hug.

And it was a hug of peace.

He was able to give me something

and it wasn't about him

and it wasn't about making

a name for his self.

And I am forever

grateful to him.

- Of all things that

makes you feel good

as a law enforcement officer,

it's that hug.

It's the thank you and

the gratification showed

by the victim's family.

That's unexplainable.

- [Narrator] Nichole also

makes a special request

of Sergeant Bajat.

- I said, do you

have anything left

that I can have from my mom?

And he had me follow him

to the police station.

(emotive music)

And he said, "I

can't give you much."

And I placed these in this

napkin when he gave them to me.

It's three earrings that she

had on when she was k*lled.

One set and one little one.

And no, I won't

wear these earrings,

but these earrings give me a

little peace and a little hope

and let me know,

if nothing else,

we always have a

little piece of her.

(tender music)

- My grandma Bonnie

lived her life

the way she wanted

to live, free.

Without a worry in this world.

That's what I want to remember.

I want to remember her

happy, smiling face.

I want to remember

the good times we had,

the lessons she taught me.

She was a loving person.

And that's what I love,

because not everybody can find

that little bit of happiness

in a world full of darkness.

(tender music)