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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In new testimony, David Renz says he allegedly would not accept murdered a librarian and raped a babe if his acquittal administrator had advised alerts that Renz was analytical with an cyberbanking ecology bracelet.
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When attorneys broiled Renz in bastille for four hours in April, he revealed:
The lax administration of Renz afore he committed one of Central New York's best agitated crimes in decades has already resulted in accessible outrage, a federal analysis of the acquittal office, aldermanic calls for ameliorate and a firing.
The degradation was Renz's aboriginal accessible account of how he got out of the abate armlet that was declared to clue his movements and accumulate him home at night, and breadth he went.
Renz, 31, was arrested in January 2013 on accuse of possessing adolescent pornography. A adjudicator arise him from bastille Jan. 11, 2013, on the action he abrasion the ecology bracelet.
Renz apparent how to annihilate the armlet four canicule later, on Jan. 15, 2013, he testified.
First time was an accidentHe was walking through his mother's home in Cicero aback he got the accessory bent amid two abundant boxes and the bracelet's pins bankrupt aback he yanked on it, accidentally ambience him free, he testified.
"The aboriginal time was by accident," Renz said. "What happened was I got my abate bent in a bound breadth and it was aloof too abundant torque for the brooch to handle so it broke."
He affected the armlet would accelerate out a alter alert, so he waited to apprehend from his acquittal officer, Steven Acquilano, Renz said. But he heard nothing. Renz alleged Acquilano the abutting day and told him about the accessory breaking, Renz testified.
Acquilano alleged Renz into the acquittal appointment and let him watch as Acquilano repaired the device, Renz testified. Bristles canicule earlier, Acquilano had accustomed Renz to watch him attach the bracelet, Renz said. Acquilano didn't accomplish Renz face the added way either time, Renz said.
Lawyers for the victims argue Acquilano abandoned acquittal procedures for adhering the adviser by absolution Renz watch. Matthew Brown, arch federal acquittal administrator for the Syracuse office, said he couldn't animadversion because the case is the accountable of a lawsuit.Acquilano, who no best works for probation, did not acknowledge to a appeal for an interview.
Renz waited two or three weeks afore he dismantled the armlet on purpose for the aboriginal time, he said. Still, he got no alarm from probation, Renz said.
Inattention freed himWhen he accomplished acquittal wasn't advantageous attention, Renz took the armlet off 10 to 12 times, he said. The aftermost was on March 14, 2013, the night he murdered Bresnahan and raped the babe who was with her in the parking lot of Great Northern Capital in Clay.
In the affidavit deposition, attorneys asked Renz whether he would've tampered with the armlet if federal acquittal admiral had responded the aboriginal time it bankrupt off.
He would not have, Renz said. Would he accept committed the annihilation and abduction if acquittal had responded to the alter alerts, asked S. Robert Williams, a advocate for Bresnahan's estate.
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"Most acceptable not," Renz said.
John Cherundolo, a advocate for the adolescent victim's law guardian, asked Renz if the abridgement of acknowledgment from acquittal had emboldened him to accomplish the crimes.
"I would say yes," Renz testified. "Uhm, because of the abridgement of acknowledgment to assertive accomplishments that I knew that - or affected anyways that there was uhm - I had greater freedom."
In the video of the deposition, Renz appears calm. He never shows affect or expresses anguish about the annihilation and rape. He's dressed in a blooming bastille uniform. He again refuses to acknowledgment questions about how and why he dead Bresnahan and raped the girl.
Renz's facial aberration sometimes makes it adamantine for the agent to accept him. He's had the aberration aback birth.
The accusation seeks $190 actor from the U.S. government over claims that the acquittal department's abortion to acknowledge to alter alerts from Renz's armlet accustomed him to accomplish the crimes.
A advocate for the federal government contends acquittal admiral had no way to anticipate Renz from committing his crimes, and has asked a adjudicator to abolish the lawsuit.
Federal acquittal admiral abandoned 46 alerts from Renz's abate armlet in the six weeks arch up to the attacks, according to an analysis by the Administrative Appointment for U.S. Courts.
At the time of Renz's crimes, Syracuse had the alone federal acquittal appointment out of 490 in the U.S. that commonly abandoned alerts beneath than bristles account that warned high-risk defendants were analytical with an abate monitor. The maker of the armlet had appropriate two years beforehand that it stop sending notifications for any alter active that lasted beneath than bristles account to abstain ambidextrous with apocryphal alerts.
Ten of the 46 abandoned alerts from Renz were for tampers best than bristles minutes, according to cloister records.
Renz's acquittal officer, Acquilano, chock-full alive for the acquittal appointment two months afterwards Renz's crimes. Acquittal admiral afterwards said one agent had been accursed and an bearding cardinal of others had been demoted over the Renz case, but did not analyze the accursed worker.
At first, no plansIn his deposition, Renz said he'd been watching adolescent porn for six years afore his arrest.
The aboriginal time Renz advisedly removed the bracelet, in aboriginal February 2013, he had no affairs to go anywhere, he testified. Williams, the advocate for Bresnahan's estate, asked Renz why he took it off.
"Basically, the abstraction of freedom," Renz said. "It was the actuality that I acquainted free, I guess."
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He never got a alarm from acquittal aback he had the armlet off, Renz testified. He did get one alarm from Acquilano, in mid-February, allurement about seven alter alerts that day, Renz said.
At one point, a acquittal administrator told Renz to about-face bottomward the music on his stereo because that was acceptable the account of the alerts, according to cloister records.
Renz allegedly began planning to accomplish a abomination at atomic two weeks afore he attacked Bresnahan and the girl.
Preparing for the crimeHe removed the armlet Feb. 28 and bound reassembled it, so that it would arise to acquittal and the armlet architect that he was still cutting it, he said. He went to Home Depot and Wal-Mart that day to buy zip ties and an air gun, he said.
By March 1, six weeks afterwards accidentally breaking the bracelet, Renz no best had any worries about demography it off, he said.
Renz fabricated abiding to "maintain best practices" by abbreviation the bulk of time he wasn't cutting the bracelet, he testified.
Robert Smith, a advocate for the armlet maker, Behavioral Interventions Inc. of Colorado, told Renz he wasn't acclimated to audition addition use a accumulated term, best practices, in talking about a crime.
"By afterward the best practices, it gave me the better adventitious of actuality undetected," Renz said.
He went to Great Northern Capital on March 7 after the armlet and bought a appearance ski mask, he said.
March 14, 2013
Renz removed the armlet at 7:08 p.m. March 14, 2013, and reassembled it aural a minute, cloister annal show. He larboard it at his home, giving the consequence to acquittal he was still there.
Probation did get a alter active at 7:09 p.m. that night, annal show, but abandoned it. Renz planned to get home afore his 9 p.m. curfew, he testified.
Renz collection to the capital and anchored in a atom breadth he could see bodies activity in and out, he said. He brought the air gun and zip ties, forth with a switchblade knife, panty hose, the appearance ski affectation and condoms, he testified. He was dressed all in black, he said.
Renz went into the antechamber abreast a piano and agency abundance and stood there for bristles to 10 minutes, he said.
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Renz followed a woman and adolescent babe from the capital adjoin their car, but did not get in, he said. He went aback into the antechamber and waited. Again he followed Bresnahan and the 10-year-old babe outside, he said.
Renz kept a ambit amid the victims and him, and absent afterimage of them for a moment aback they angry adjoin Bresnahan's Ford Focus, he said. He bent up to them and got into the aback bench through a aperture that was larboard open, he said.
The three of them backward in the car in that atom for about bristles minutes, again he had Bresnahan drive them to a darker breadth of the parking lot, on the added ancillary of the mall, he said.
They backward there for 15 to 20 minutes, he said. Again Renz got into the driver's seat. He collection to addition spot, amidst a band of acclimated cars, he said. They backward there for addition half-hour, Renz testified.
Renz again collection the victims out of the capital and assimilate Verplank Road. That's breadth the babe got out of the car. Renz dead Bresnahan, again fled. State badge captured him on a artery that night.
Other cloister annal appearance Renz brandished the gun aback he confronted the victims as they got into the car. He acclimated the zip ties to bind them, again the knife to again ache Bresnahan.
He pleaded accusable in July 2013 to murdering Bresnahan and raping the girl. He was bedevilled to activity in bastille after the achievability of parole.
Renz was bedevilled in federal cloister in March 2014 to 30 years in bastille for possessing added than 11,000 images of adolescent chicanery and 1,100 adolescent porn videos.
Silence on his crimesDuring the bastille deposition, Renz's lawyer, Assistant Federal Accessible Defender Randi Bianco, invoked his Fifth Amendment appropriate adjoin self-incrimination 76 times. Renz had agreed to affirm with the compassionate that he wouldn't acknowledgment any questions about the abomination itself.
Bianco explained that federal prosecutors could use Renz's affidavit to arraign him on new accuse that agitated the afterlife penalty.
Despite that, Kenneth Alweis, a advocate apery the buyer of the capital breadth Renz abducted his victims, again formed Renz with questions about the crime.
Bianco objected every time Renz looked at her, advertence he capital to adjure his Fifth Amendment right. At one point the two attorneys got into a angry argument.
Renz appeared unruffled.
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