Transcript of The After Show: Born to Kill

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Well, police zero in on an obvious suspect, and it would wind up taking years for this case to actually be solved. It would take a determined prosecutor to actually take on this case and to bring justice to Katie's family. And fortunately for us, we have that prosecutor with us today. Kenley Abbey came into this case and she would not give up. She was in our report on 20/20. You would have seen her on Friday night if you caught the report. And if you didn't, she is here with us today to give us some more details and kind of a personal take on this case as well. So, Kenley Abbey, great to have you with us.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Oh my gosh, good to have you. You have been so busy, by the way. You are a woman who is in and out of court. We had a hard time pinning you down because every time we look up, you're in the courtroom. Let's talk a little bit more about you then before we even get into this case, because For more than, what, 13 years you've been a criminal prosecutor. One of your big areas of interest is human trafficking. You're deeply, deeply concerned about penetrating these cases that involve young women and so forth. Give me a sense of your passion and what brought you into this line of work.

Yeah, so, you know, I was a first-generation lawyer in my family, but knew pretty early on I wanted to do trial work, that I wanted to be a litigator, and that I wanted to be a prosecutor. There's something about being a prosecutor where you just have this ability to do the right thing for the right reason every time. Um, and I loved the opportunity and the ability to do that. And then I zeroed in in college really on helping special victims. So children of, uh, sexual assault, domestic violence, uh, domestic homicide, which is what this case was. Um, I zeroed in pretty early on on trying to help some of our most vulnerable populations and getting the opportunity to be a voice for them and a representation for them in court.

Yeah. And as a woman, too, I would imagine that you really feel a burning passion about it. I have interviewed so many female prosecutors, detectives who really bring something kind of different to this kind of work because we do feel it, I think, a little bit differently when we are out there, when I'm reporting, when you're prosecuting, I would imagine.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, we see, you know, these shared experiences in our friends and people that we know. And so it's just so interesting to be able to actually do something about it on this side.

Yeah. Well, tell me about Katie Blavelt and how that case when it hit your desk and you began to look into this young woman who had been married. She was in the throes of a breakup, and then she turns up murdered. What were your first thoughts about this?

Yeah, you know, so this case was really interesting when it came on my desk. First, it came in a giant box. And a lot of times we end up with boxes in cases, but we don't necessarily start with them. So first and foremost, I was really impressed just with the depth of work that the Simpsonville Police Department had done on this case. Once I started going through it, it was really interesting to see the personal dynamics take shape, um, to see who Katie was with her older husband, John, now estranged husband, or then estranged husband. And then it was really interesting to me to see how many teenagers were gonna be involved in this case as key witnesses. Um, it wasn't something I was necessarily expecting to see on the front end.

Mm-hmm.

But we were really able to get a lot of really good information from 16, 17, and 18-year-olds, and they became key and essential witnesses throughout this entire case and trial.

Yeah, and we want to talk about that later because they were actually pivotal in your actually being able to prosecute this case. But let's talk about Katie, and without getting too sensational about it, I mean, the way this woman was murdered, and oftentimes that tells you something when, when, when you know exactly what had happened to them. I mean, she had been found in this abandoned house. Were there things about the way, you know, her body had been found and the way she had been murdered that informed you a little bit as a prosecutor?

Absolutely. First and foremost, this abandoned house wasn't just an abandoned house on an open road. It was secluded in the woods. This was a house where somebody didn't want Katie to be found. Not only was the house, you know, almost impossible to see from the road, but then where Katie's body was as well was downstairs in a basement, in a cement kind of carve-out that existed in that basement.

Ugh.

Her body, yeah, her body itself also told us a lot of really interesting things. So it was almost like it was a two-sided crime scene, 'cause we had Katie in this box secluded and hidden, and she had no pants on. And typically when there's not a sexual assault involved in a case, which there wasn't in this one, when there's not a sexual assault, someone will remove the clothing in order to embarrass that victim.

Oh.

But then also, yeah, but then also Katie's body was covered with a giant board. And so typically people cover bodies when they don't want to have to look at what they did. So typically that's someone that's got a connection or some sort of compassion. So we had this weird dual-sided crime scene, especially with her body, of somebody that wanted to embarrass her, but then also had some sort of affection for her as well in terms of the crime scene. So that was really interesting to me to see both of those in there at the same time.

Yeah, that's so interesting. I've never heard that before, that, you know, you would assume that if the bottom of their clothing is removed, that maybe they had been assaulted. And this whole notion of embarrassing the victim. Well, police eventually— I mean, initially started looking at her estranged husband. And we say older. He was around, what, 27, 28? Katie was pretty young.

Yep, about a 6-year age difference.

Yeah, so she was a bit younger than he was. But they had had a little bit of a rocky relationship. What did you begin to learn from folks about him and about their relationship?

So the military was everything to John. That was his entire identity. That is, you know, the job that he was meant to have. And he was a recruiter, and that's actually how he met Katie. He actually recruited Katie prior to ultimately marrying her. So he recruited Katie, and then he got sent to the high schools to be a recruiter in the high school. And that is really where we start to see how he operated. And he used that recruiter charm and that ability to talk to people to kind of break people down and to break their guards down and just allow him to go in a little bit further and to develop these deeper relationships.

Well, when you got this case, you So you started digging and trying to find out, obviously, about him and about the relationship, because now, you know, the case has to be prosecuted once eventually. And we'll talk a little bit about how police were able to finally make an arrest here. You actually saw the interviews that investigators had done with him, and that was pretty revealing to you, right?

Yeah, absolutely. They filmed the death notification, which is when they notified him that she had been found dead. Um, and, and, you know, everyone reacts to trauma differently and to bad news differently. So I try really hard not to say it was an atypical reaction. Mm-hmm.

Right?

Like, I, I understand people process things differently, but this was bizarre. And the most telling thing about all of it is he never asked any of the law enforcement officers how she died.

Oh.

And that was so telling to me. And even when they confronted him with that and said, you know, hey man, we've been talking to you this whole time and told you that we found your wife dead and you never asked us how she died. his response was, well, it doesn't really matter, does it? And that was it. And that was just, that was so telling to me of someone that just genuinely had no care or concern, or someone that already knew. It was one or the two.

Yeah, that's always so stunning to me when I've— when I cover these stories. And when you hear about these interrogations and the way people present, I mean, oftentimes they're going overboard with their emotions. And then oftentimes like this, they just show no— it's just absolutely shocking to me. And then one thing factored into this case, which I see a lot in the stories I cover in 2020 is that digital evidence. Everybody thinks that they're going to be able to search and look and Google and use all kinds of technology and it won't be detected. But in this case, it was also very telling when you looked at that digital footprint, didn't it?

Absolutely. There were, you know, a couple of things that really stood out to me in terms of the digital footprint. One, this was a guy that was constantly on his phone. You know, he would wake up at 4 in the morning and just start Google searching things and start looking at things. So he was always on his phone, but he wasn't during the time that Katie had died. So that was extremely telling to us. Um, there were a lot of other small digital things that we got to pull together with surveillance cameras and stuff throughout the case, but most telling was what he was Googling once he found out Katie was dead. And that was not just Katie Blauvelt or missing Simpsonville woman. He was always attaching his name to it. So he's always Googling, you know, John Blauvelt, Katie Blauvelt. He was just trying to see, was his name associated? Was his name in these newspapers?

Mm-hmm.

And I mean, I think you do that to figure out if anyone's on to you.

Yeah, right.

And so that, that's exactly what it was. He wasn't caring about what the news was saying about his wife. He was caring about what they were saying about him.

They were saying about him. In looking at the piece on Friday night, it was really just, just captivating in so many ways. And one other thing, and this speaks to your work too, the work that you are so passionate about when you talk about young people, you know, this couple had split up. John had already moved on and he had another interest, a 17-year-old girlfriend by the name of Hannah Thompson. And it was just shocking to me when we revealed that he brought her to his wife's funeral. His girlfriend, his new teen girlfriend. What about you? What was your reaction?

Yeah, so they set up a private viewing at the funeral home for John. And this was a law enforcement tactic. They were hoping that if they set up this private viewing, that maybe they could catch him saying something or something, you know, something useful throughout the investigation. They were not expecting him to show up with Hannah Thompson. Um, but he showed up and, and they were there and they had this private viewing that law enforcement was able to listen in on. Um, and the whole time he was just talking about how Katie was dirty and was laughing and they were cracking jokes. And it just, again, I don't try to judge people's reactions, but I certainly judged that reaction.

No, you have to judge that reaction.

Yeah, that was one that was not what we were expecting. It is not what should happen. So not only were we shocked that he brought Hannah along, but just the conversations that he was having with her and the way he was just mocking his wife was just appalling to us.

It was just absolutely shocking to see that. Well, I want to dig more into that and his character, but also to the way this thing all played out. Police began to zero in on John Blavat, and then he disappears. That was a big moment that I think kind of caught us all off guard. And also that search and what happened and behind the scenes. So we need to take a quick break, but when we come back, we want to talk about about what happened behind the scenes and how police got their big break. So stay with us, Kenley, and don't you go anywhere. We'll be right back. This show is sponsored by Who Killed Angel Harris, a podcast from ID. On June 25th, 2011, 31-year-old Angel Harris was found murdered in Gainesville, Florida. More than 15 years later, her case remains unsolved. But on the new podcast, Who Killed Angel Harris? A podcast from ID, host Sarah Kalin travels to Florida to uncover what happened to Angel and who may be responsible. Retired Gainesville Police Detective Courtney Roberts joins Sarah to review evidence. That includes surveillance footage showing Angel with an unidentified man shortly before her death, and then the same man walking away alone.

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And now he's on the run. And what were you— what was your thinking about this? You know, any fears about this young woman, her safety? What was your thinking?

Yeah, you know, first and foremost, there's fear and concern for Hannah. Not only did he take Hannah on the run, he completely isolated her before he did so. So she had turned her phone into her mailbox, right? So her parents' mailbox. So she had no phone. She didn't have anything. So not only was there a fear because we knew how dangerous of a person he was, but there was a fear because she had no way of contacting anyone. if something was going wrong or she needed help. So there was definitely a fear. And then the longer they stayed gone, the more I think that fear grew.

Yeah. Were you worried then that she would meet the same fate as Katie?

I was certainly convinced he was dangerous. I hoped that she wasn't going to meet the same fate as Katie. I think for Katie, I think Katie's the one person that stopped falling for John's tactics. And I think that's what really spurred a lot of this on. You never know what could happen with someone who has just proven to be such a violent individual. Because like you said, this was not Some sort of accidental death or something that was insignificant. This was a brutal killing.

A brutal and intentional act. Well, they're on the run, which was really shocking to me that they could even evade police. I mean, obviously today we have technology that might make that a little more difficult, but this was 10 years ago. But they're on the run and they're gone for a while. Were you beginning to worry then that this case was not going to be able to land in court and be solved?

Yeah, I mean, and I think we had solved the case, right? Like, I think everyone knew it was John, especially when he fled. It was solved, but there was nothing we could do about it. They couldn't find him to serve those arrest warrants. So you're kind of sitting there trying to do more and more, but your hands are really tied until you find him. So, I mean, there were— it was definitely periods of time, especially as years continued to pass, where I thought this case was never gonna get prosecuted.

Yeah. So Hannah eventually makes her way back to South Carolina. Again, as I said, this takes years, but ultimately things start to change. But over time, she makes her way back to South Carolina. And, you know, you've got to deal with her. How are you looking at her as a victim, as someone who can help you in this case? How did you approach that?

I think the biggest thing we did, and a huge, you know, thank you to Simpsonville Police Department for doing this as well. I think the best thing we as a team did was didn't categorize her, right? We didn't categorize her as a victim or as someone that could help us. Or as a defendant. She certainly had the ability to be all 3. And so we were very cautious and very careful when we communicated with her and when we met with her to make sure we were recognizing, you know, this is someone that is potentially a victim, someone that no matter what has been traumatized, even if we don't think she's a victim, someone that's potentially a defendant in this case. And so we just tried to be really careful handling Hannah and making sure we were, you know, dotting our i's and crossing our t's in terms of communicating with her as to not traumatize her or trample on her rights as a defendant as well. So it was a really interesting way of approaching somebody because she really was everywhere on that spectrum in terms of her involvement in this case.

So you try to do what you can with her. You're still trying to find him. And then eventually, US Marshals actually do find him. And I thought it was interesting, they discover that he's now moved on to another girlfriend. He's in Oregon. And he's with this girlfriend. They actually find him and you get that moment and you're at an event with one of your kids, right?

Right. Yeah, I was at my daughter's swim lesson and I got a phone call from a coworker of mine, which was just odd to get a phone call after hours. And he said, you're never going to believe it. They found John Vavelt. And I said, you got to be kidding me. It was not something I was expecting to get a phone call about. But then as soon as we got that phone call, I mean, it was boots on the ground. Everyone was ready to go. Law enforcement was ready to go get him. We had extradition paperwork drawn up, we were ready to try to make up for the 6 years of lost time that we had for Katie's family.

Yeah, 6 years. There's— when you, when you're describing this, it sort of comes back to The Fugitive. What is the Tommy Lee Jones movie about the, you know, The Fugitive? That kind of comes to mind. I mean, it had to be, I guess, a sense of satisfaction that you finally caught this guy that you have been pursuing, you know, to try to bring him to trial.

And the thing about John is that he had told people before, you know, well, I'll just go work on a fishing boat in Alaska, or I'll just go to Mexico. So When we had all of these years passing without any digital evidence, I mean, there were 5 years that went on that nobody had any sort of connection with him or any digital evidence. So as time was passing and we weren't getting anything new, I mean, for sure, yeah, we didn't think we were gonna find him. I'm very glad they did.

Yeah.

But he, you know, he had started a new relationship and was just living completely under the radar.

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I mean, obviously you've got a job to do, but you've also got to observe. So there's got to be body language and all of that there. Tell us and take us inside that courtroom.

Yeah, you know, it was really interesting because when John Blavat was found and located, I wasn't in the courtroom during his first bond hearing. Someone else from the office had handled that. So trial was really the first time I got to see him in person. And I had, you know, listened to every interview and read every statement, and I was ready for this just, you know, really aggressive, tough guy, born to kill kind of— yeah, this born to kill military guy to walk in there. And he wasn't. He was just very stoic. He was very detached. Um, he showed little to no emotion throughout the entire trial. There were 2 times where you could see a physical reaction to something that was going on, and it wasn't when people were calling him murderer or people were presenting evidence. It was when he first walked in for jury qualification and saw how many potential jurors were there. You could see his face almost light up.

Mm-hmm.

Like, he, he just couldn't believe that everyone was there for him.

Oh, wow.

Um, and then, Yeah. And then likewise, when the cameras were there, cameras started on the second day of trial, or the first day of trial, or day 2 of the case. And when he saw the cameras, it's the only time he saw any emotion on his face, and it was joy. It was very bizarre. You know, stoic throughout the whole trial, but very engaged at the attention he was getting.

Yeah. Yeah. Just absolutely bizarre. And we've seen that, I guess, with other killers too, in some of these cases where they're kind of basking in the glow of the attention. One of the things that shocked me in the episode, and I don't know, for some reason, wouldn't have expected it from this guy. But one thing that was really important to you was the fact that he had written a— he had a diary. He actually recorded some details about what had happened. And there was actually one passage that kind of stopped you in your tracks. Tell us about it.

Yeah, so he kept a journal the large majority of the time he was on the run. And Hannah would also write in it. They would kind of write back and forth to each other.

So strange.

About what was going on. It was very strange. And he would write mundane things about his day. Um, he would write letters to people. Like, there was a letter he wrote to his daughter, um, that said, you know, I'm sorry I had to do it, but, you know, you'll never understand, but I had to do that. That woman was evil to me.

Mm-hmm.

You know, clearly referencing Katie and what he had done and why he was on the run. But, um, I think the, the one page that really stood out to all of us is he's writing about some people involved in the case, some law enforcement involved in the case, and then almost like a puzzle, he writes down at the end and underlines the letters that spell out I did it. And it was one of the last things I said in my closing. And to just see that, you know, he's talking about the case, he's talking about people on the case, and then to just show, you know, I did it, was just— I mean, it's honestly something you see in movies. It's nothing that I ever thought would happen in real life. So it was extremely interesting once we found that journal and got to not only be in his head during that time he was on the run, but to see how just brazen he was to ultimately write, I did it, and underline it in his journal.

Yeah, that was really a stunner for us. all of us too, I think, when we saw that. You know, you have to, of course, you know, divorce yourself from the emotions and you're doing your job and you're giving it to the jury. I'm just sort of curious though, when you— especially something like this and someone like that and you're reading all of this, is that when you're doing your opening and also when you were doing your closing here and you're trying to appeal to the jury, and again, you don't have an eyewitness, you know, you have your man here and you're convinced that they probably will see it. What are those moments and emotions like for you when you're making that final argument and hoping that the jury will really get it.

Yeah, you know, that's 20 seconds left on the clock. You've got, you know, 20 seconds to score the winning touchdown, and you've got to just give the best drives of your life. There's no time for failure. There's no time for fumbles or mistakes. And that's what it is. I absolutely love to close. I think a closing argument can really just pull every piece of the case together, especially this case, which had a lot of really small digital pieces, you know, time cards and surveillance videos and starts and stops of when cars are turned on. You know, that's a lot of information for a juror to digest. And so I think it's extremely important to weave all of that together in a very clear, linear story for the jury. So when they get there, they don't say, why did they show us this piece of evidence? Or what was that again? I just want it to be one very clean and clear story for them. And this case is also interesting because we have Hannah, right? Like, Hannah had given us really good information, but we knew her credibility was gonna come into question, right? And rightfully so.

The defense did question her credibility, as they should have. And so I wanted to really use closing argument to corroborate every single piece of Hannah's story that I could to show the jury why they should believe her today.

Yeah. So when they go off to deliberate, did you feel pretty confident, or— you never know. Were you worried?

Yeah. Yeah, you never know. I felt really good when they went out to deliberate. Again, the defense attorneys did announce the verdict. But I just felt the evidence was there. But the longer they deliberated, the less that confidence was shining through. And so, you know, towards the end, before the verdict came, I was definitely a lot more nervous than I was probably 10 minutes after.

Yeah. But you say the longer they deliberated, they only took, what, 3 hours?

Yeah, about 3, a little over 3 hours.

Yeah, that's relatively short. And they came back, and when you heard that guilty verdict, your reaction and Blavelt's reaction?

I was so happy for that family. You know, you're happy for us, right? Like, you know, I'm happy that we were able to do it. But most importantly, I was so happy for her mom. Her mom never gave up hope. And we kept promising her we were going to do everything that we could. You know, that's, as a prosecutor, that's the only promise I can give. I can't say that we're going to win. I can't say, you know, that someone's going to be convicted or how much time they're going to get. But I made a promise to her that we would be the most prepared that we would be and that she would get the best team that she could and we would do the best job possible. And so to know that our best job possible was able to bring her just that smidge of closure, it's never going to take away what happened to Katie, but just that little bit of relief. We were really, really happy to be able to do that for that family because they're just, they are such good people.

Yeah, yeah, that bit of, like you said, not closure, but certainly some kind of maybe repair to, you know, all the emotions they had been feeling. You actually, throughout the course of this, at some point you had an encounter with one of Blavelt's relatives somewhere, didn't you?

I did. I did. We, with the Attorney General's Office, you know, who prosecuted the case, were stationed in one area of the state, but the trial took place in another. So we stayed in a hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, which is the county where this happened. And John Balbelt also had an aunt that came and sat behind him throughout the trial. It was his aunt and his cousin, and she happened to be staying in the same hotel as us. And so we kind of ran into each other after court one day. And she sent a just very nice Post-it note through one of the employees at the hotel to give to us about just the admiration she had for the level of quality of prosecution we were doing in the case. And it caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting it.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect that either from a relative.

Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I think this— I think she supported her nephew. I don't necessarily think she supported what he did. And I think you can have both of those things. I think both of those things can exist at the same time. So, you know, she was there sitting behind him every day. But I think she also very much respected the quality of prosecution that we were doing in this case and decided to write me a little Post-it note to tell me that. So I was— it was a very nice touch.

Yeah, that's really kind of unbelievable. Do you think Katie's family, through the course of this trial, were you able to help them understand why?

You know, an act as senseless as this, I think why is the hardest question. And I think that was one of the hardest things, or one of my biggest concerns for the jury too, right? We clearly don't have to prove why as prosecutors, but they were gonna wanna know why. I mean, they were estranged. He had a new girlfriend. They weren't in the middle of a big argument. So why do something this brutal?

Mm-hmm.

Um, but I hope throughout the trial what Katie's family saw and learned is that, you know, this was somebody that didn't play by the rules. This was someone that loved himself and cared about himself more than anyone else. And I think Katie finally pushed against that. There's never gonna be a why that makes it okay or that satisfies anyone, 'cause it's a senseless why.

But you— they got some answers and you brought those answers to them. Kenley Abbey, it is such a pleasure getting a chance to talk to you, getting a chance to know you. I tell you, the folks of South Carolina are fortunate to have you down there fighting for so many victims and would-be victims. So thank you again for taking the time.

Thank you very much.

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