Opinion ID: 2453894
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Fourth Interview

Text: The next morning, February 14, Troopers Stephenson and Allen returned to Pilot Point with orders to make a video of what they had learned during their investigation. The troopers contacted Martha and Micarlo Kalmakoff to inform them that the troopers would be taking Kalmakoff to Anchorage. The troopers then went to get Kalmakoff from school. To avoid making a scene, the troopers asked a teacher to remove Kalmakoff from class. Once they were outside, Kalmakoff repeatedly asked the troopers when he could return to school. The troopers first ignored these requests or provided misleading answers such as we're going to sneak you out of class for a little while; what I wanted to do is have you spend a little bit of time with us today; and maybe an hour or so. Trooper Allen instructed Kalmakoff, I wanna have you talk with us about what happened so that we can understand it very clearly[,] okay, so that nobody . . . has any questions about stuff okay[,] would you like to go around with us and do that? Kalmakoff responded, I guess so, and then a few seconds later asked the troopers if they knew what would happen to him. No Miranda warnings were administered. Trooper Allen then told Kalmakoff that the troopers would be taking him to Anchorage to appear in front of a judge. Kalmakoff responded, I didn't do it on purpose, and asked if B.K.'s mother had been told of his involvement. Trooper Allen said no, and Kalmakoff requested, If you guys do tell 'em, tell them I didn't mean to do it on purpose. Trooper Stephenson said that he understood and that bad things happened; Kalmakoff replied, It's that dang booze. At that point, after the troopers had convinced Kalmakoff to participate in the interview and Kalmakoff had made additional incriminating statements, Trooper Allen administered Miranda warnings to Kalmakoff. Trooper Allen prefaced those warnings by saying: I want to go through this with you real quick okay cause we've done this before but this is, this is more official now cause I've told you I'm taking you with me, to McLaughlin, apparently referring to McLaughlin Youth Center, a juvenile detention center. Kalmakoff said that he had heard of McLaughlin. Trooper Allen continued: So I, listen to what I read to you[,] and I'm gonna ask you these questions again, we did this before but I just want to do it again for you all right. Trooper Allen read Kalmakoff his rights and Kalmakoff agreed that he understood those rights and that he would speak with the troopers. The troopers then drove Kalmakoff to the various crime scenes so that Kalmakoff could show them what happened to the best of his recollection and they could videotape it. During the videotaped interview, Kalmakoff described shooting B.K., moving her body to the airplane hangar on his four-wheeler, removing B.K.'s clothes and having sex with her, and leaving B.K.'s body in the bushes. The interview lasted for a little over an hour.