Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Fanning Diane

Author:Fanning, Diane [Fanning, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780312985257
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

EARLY in the afternoon of January 2, Pope, Allen and Sells went out to the Harris home to videotape a walk-through of the crime scene. Allen operated the camera. Pope did the questioning. They started down at the spot where Sells had parked the van that night. They walked up the path he’d followed to the trailer. Sells circled the home, showing them the door he’d attempted to jimmy, the window he’d tried to open and where he’d actually entered the home.

He crawled back in through that window again and casually revisited the site of the carnage. He re-enacted all his movements through the home and into Kaylene’s bedroom. “She tried to come over here.” He stood in the spot by the bedroom door. “And I stabbed her like right here somewhere.”

He moved to the end of the bunk bed and said, “I stabbed her here and she, like, jumped back, and I cut her like this right here.” He nonchalantly demonstrated the flick of a knife blade across the girl’s throat. “She fell down right here,” he said as he bent down to the floor, “and I think I reached down there and done it one more time.”

He walked over to the side of the top bunk. “And this little girl up here, and I walked over her and went like this.” His hand made a puny flip of the wrist over the spot where Krystal’s neck had lain that night.

“This girl just fell down? There was no more struggle or anything?” Pope asked. “ ‘Cause I’m looking at this room and I see blood over here, here, here.” As he pointed out the blood, Allen scanned the area with the camera. “Is there any more movement than that?” Pope continued,

“Now, I know you may not remember everything but do you know how some of this blood may have gotten around this room?”

“Maybe when the little girl got up. Right here”—he moved to the foot of the bunk bed and pointed to the floor—”was the main conflict. And I walked over here”— he returned to the side of the bed—”and I cut this one. Then I was getting a little nervous.”

Before returning to the Val Verde Correctional Center, the officers and Sells stopped by Val Verde Regional Medical Center and drew up blood samples for forensic testing.

Lieutenant Pope had videotaped a confession and a walk-through of the crime scene. The district attorney wanted more—he requested a written confession, too.

In that session with Sells, Pope asked, “Tommy, did you take a souvenir or something?”

“No, I don’t ever take anything,” Sells answered.

With that denial, there was no evidence of felony theft, since the family could not identify any items missing from their home except for the two window screens.

Pope typed up the confession with a standard phrase establishing Sells’ identity and a list of his constitutional rights. Sells initialed each of the rights and signed each page. One statement was made in this confession that differed from his videotaped accounts. Sells said, “I touched her between the legs and I touched her breast.

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