Witness Statement
SPEAKER_00: Hello? SPEAKER_00: Hello. SPEAKER_00: Is this Yes? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: This is detective Powell with the Idaho State Police. SPEAKER_00: Hi. SPEAKER_01: Hi. SPEAKER_01: How are you? SPEAKER_01: I apologize. SPEAKER_01: I just hung up on you when you tried to call. SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh. SPEAKER_00: No. SPEAKER_00: That's fine. SPEAKER_00: Idaho, like, as in Moscow? SPEAKER_01: Yes, ma'am. SPEAKER_01: Like, Idaho is the state. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: What's what's up? SPEAKER_01: Do you have a well, is now a good time to talk? SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: Hold on. SPEAKER_00: Let me just go where it's a little quieter so I can hear you. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: So yeah. SPEAKER_00: What's going on? SPEAKER_01: So yeah. SPEAKER_01: So I'm a detective with the Idaho State Police. SPEAKER_01: I have my partner here, detective Schwecky, as well. SPEAKER_01: We just wanted to talk are were you a current employer of the Quality Inn Hotel in Pullman, Washington? SPEAKER_00: I was. SPEAKER_01: A former I didn't mean to say current. SPEAKER_01: I meant former. SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: No. SPEAKER_00: I was. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: When about what time what were the times that you worked there? SPEAKER_00: Hold on one second. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: And SPEAKER_00: I'm on the front desk. SPEAKER_00: I would work from 03:30 to about 11:30 at night. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: What were the dates that you were employed by then? SPEAKER_00: You know, I can't remember exactly. SPEAKER_00: It was during the summertime. SPEAKER_00: I know that. SPEAKER_01: Of this 2022? SPEAKER_00: Was, like, from June or July to, like, before October hit. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Gotcha. SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: What is this regarding? SPEAKER_01: So this is regarding the homicides in Moscow, Idaho. SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay. SPEAKER_01: Yep. SPEAKER_01: Yep. SPEAKER_00: I still can't believe I met the guy. SPEAKER_00: Like, it freaks me out. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Well, that's that's what we're calling to talk about, you know, since you did have interaction with him. SPEAKER_01: Is there anything can you you know, in detail, can you recall that that incident? SPEAKER_01: I SPEAKER_00: just I remember seeing his face, you know, like, when I saw his picture, I thought he looked familiar. SPEAKER_00: I was kinda, like, still in training on the desk, and said that from I don't know how they saw they kinda looked at, like, the camera footage or whatever, but I apparently double charged him or whatever. SPEAKER_00: And it was an accident, so he got really upset with me. SPEAKER_00: But then, you know, after they got taken care of, like, if she is the same guy I'm thinking, he kept coming downstairs and kinda being, like, flirty and nice after the fact. SPEAKER_00: But other than that, he didn't, like, bother me too much. SPEAKER_00: I just know he, like, came up and down the stairs quite quite a bit. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Now now I I think if I heard you right, you were referencing or is it SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: Moriah. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Is who's SPEAKER_00: She was my manager. SPEAKER_01: She was your manager. SPEAKER_01: When's the last time you talked with her at all? SPEAKER_00: I talked with her, I think it was today and a few days ago because she told she called me and said that the guy who was involved in the murders, he stayed at our hotel. SPEAKER_00: And I was like, are you serious? SPEAKER_00: And then she looked up to see who was on shift the night the night he checked in, and it was me. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_00: So she did tell me that, and I was just I was in shock. SPEAKER_00: Because I was like, oh my gosh. SPEAKER_00: I was alone with that guy. SPEAKER_00: Like, he could've killed me. SPEAKER_00: Like, that creeps me out. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: So is there anything that you can recall from that night with your interactions with him that you haven't spoke with about? SPEAKER_00: No. SPEAKER_00: Just pretty pretty much everything I'm telling you is what I told her that he got a little upset about the charge on his room, but then, you know, he seemed like he was being nice and he kept coming down the stairs here and there for a little while. SPEAKER_00: That was about it. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: I can remember. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Did he have you did he, like, lose a key card or have you make any extra keys? SPEAKER_01: I know sometimes people lose their key cards. SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't recall that. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_00: So I I don't think he was one of them. SPEAKER_00: You know, I think he might have been one of the guys though too that needed help fixing his TV, and I didn't have any batteries for the remote SPEAKER_01: Oh. SPEAKER_01: At the time. SPEAKER_01: Gotcha. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Was there anybody else staying with him? SPEAKER_00: Not that I saw. SPEAKER_00: It was just him. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Do you remember by chance, like, vehicle he could have been driving or one that he might have put down on his registration card? SPEAKER_00: No. SPEAKER_00: I don't recall that because when they did, I, like, took, like, a glance at it, and I was like, there's a car on there. SPEAKER_00: I don't really care what it is. SPEAKER_00: So I didn't, like, really look too much into it. SPEAKER_01: Now does the customer or the guest, do they normally write the car information on there, or is that something you guys do for them? SPEAKER_00: They have to they have to write down the car. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Make and model and stuff. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Alright. SPEAKER_01: Do you so do you remember him asking any questions, like or ask requesting you guys to make a card for a visitor at all, or was he expecting any visitors? SPEAKER_00: Not that I know of. SPEAKER_00: He'd been standing there to me. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Who was your guys' night audit that night? SPEAKER_00: You know, it so it could've been between two people. SPEAKER_00: It could've been a guy named and a guy named Okay. SPEAKER_00: One of that. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Because this depending on, like, when it was and what day I was working, it was between those two that would switch on and off with each other. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Gotcha. SPEAKER_01: Alright. SPEAKER_00: When you sit at the hotel, is that when the murders happened? SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Good. SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: Nope. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: If do you have any more questions? SPEAKER_01: So if we any more questions that we think you might be able to help us out with, is it okay if I call you at this number? SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: No problem. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Well, I appreciate it, and thank you for your time today. SPEAKER_00: Yeah. SPEAKER_00: No problem. SPEAKER_00: Thank you. SPEAKER_01: Care. SPEAKER_01: Bye bye. SPEAKER_00: Alright. SPEAKER_00: Bye.