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Snipper Case the Buzz in Granite State
Aired August 18, 2003 - 05:50 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The snipper case is on the buzz in the Granite State this Monday morning.
Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier, better known as the WOAK waking crew in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire, are on the phone.
All right, you guys, good morning to you, Mark and Danielle.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Fredricka.
Good morning.
WHITFIELD: All right, well, all right, I guess police aren't quite certain that this is Jack the snipper. But what are your listeners saying?
ERICSON: Well, you know, it's the now time tested term person of interest. It doesn't make him a suspect, just somebody that they are looking at.
WHITFIELD: Right.
ERICSON: And interestingly enough, there are two police departments involved in this, Fredricka. There's the town of Durham, New Hampshire and then the university has their own campus police force. And actually unh had a little bit of difficulty last spring with this same individual. He was somebody who was investigated as a person of interest for a peeping Tom situation last spring.
WHITFIELD: Well, Danielle, you heard in the report that we just played that some people in the towns there thought at first this is a little funny, a little quirky, but that maybe it was a precursor to something very serious. So is this kind of creeping out a lot of folks there?
CARRIER: This is definitely creeping out a lot of the folks here, especially the young women. I mean you're alone in these dormitories or apartments, and a lot of students have taken to apartments, and, you know, you don't think that some guy is just going to come and snip your clothes off for nothing. You have to wonder if that will lead to something else, because it's a very strange obsession to have with just women's clothing.
WHITFIELD: So for this guy, Gregory Ray, who was at least kind of caught in the action just of being a peeping Tom, he wasn't actually arrested. Might this really just be kind of an arbitrary case of just a peeping Tom problem in addition to having a Jack the snipper still on the loose?
ERICSON: Well, it was kind of funny because when they found him on July 30, he was confronted by police at quarter of five in the morning looking in a window. They didn't bust him on the spot because they said he had a "plausible excuse."
CARRIER: Plausible.
ERICSON: I'd love to hear what that one is. But they have now asked him to turn himself in, which he did last Friday morning at about 10:30 in the morning. He turned himself into the Durham Police Department and now they're charging him at the moment with nothing more than loitering and prowling. And they're investigating his background a little bit deeper.
WHITFIELD: All right, weird stuff.
Danielle and Mark, thanks very much, of the waking crew, for joining us this morning from WOKQ.
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Aired August 18, 2003 - 05:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The snipper case is on the buzz in the Granite State this Monday morning.
Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier, better known as the WOAK waking crew in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire, are on the phone.
All right, you guys, good morning to you, Mark and Danielle.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Fredricka.
Good morning.
WHITFIELD: All right, well, all right, I guess police aren't quite certain that this is Jack the snipper. But what are your listeners saying?
ERICSON: Well, you know, it's the now time tested term person of interest. It doesn't make him a suspect, just somebody that they are looking at.
WHITFIELD: Right.
ERICSON: And interestingly enough, there are two police departments involved in this, Fredricka. There's the town of Durham, New Hampshire and then the university has their own campus police force. And actually unh had a little bit of difficulty last spring with this same individual. He was somebody who was investigated as a person of interest for a peeping Tom situation last spring.
WHITFIELD: Well, Danielle, you heard in the report that we just played that some people in the towns there thought at first this is a little funny, a little quirky, but that maybe it was a precursor to something very serious. So is this kind of creeping out a lot of folks there?
CARRIER: This is definitely creeping out a lot of the folks here, especially the young women. I mean you're alone in these dormitories or apartments, and a lot of students have taken to apartments, and, you know, you don't think that some guy is just going to come and snip your clothes off for nothing. You have to wonder if that will lead to something else, because it's a very strange obsession to have with just women's clothing.
WHITFIELD: So for this guy, Gregory Ray, who was at least kind of caught in the action just of being a peeping Tom, he wasn't actually arrested. Might this really just be kind of an arbitrary case of just a peeping Tom problem in addition to having a Jack the snipper still on the loose?
ERICSON: Well, it was kind of funny because when they found him on July 30, he was confronted by police at quarter of five in the morning looking in a window. They didn't bust him on the spot because they said he had a "plausible excuse."
CARRIER: Plausible.
ERICSON: I'd love to hear what that one is. But they have now asked him to turn himself in, which he did last Friday morning at about 10:30 in the morning. He turned himself into the Durham Police Department and now they're charging him at the moment with nothing more than loitering and prowling. And they're investigating his background a little bit deeper.
WHITFIELD: All right, weird stuff.
Danielle and Mark, thanks very much, of the waking crew, for joining us this morning from WOKQ.
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