This first video-taped interview went from 10:05 a.m. to 10:57 a.m. During this interview Chuck learned for the first time that the victim was strangled with his own belt.

Keep in mind that when he was asked about the strangulation in his first interview with police he had it WRONG.

In this first interview, Chuck used his hands to simulate how the victim was choked by Ryan while laying on his back, face up. Yet we know that the victim was found face down. In the March 10, 2004 video taped interview, 
Detective Short asked Chuck, "So the guy being attacked was on his back?" Chuck's answer, "Yeah, I think, yeah."

Chuck was asked again later in the same video interview about how Ryan strangled the victim. This time he said he thought Ryan used a "shirt or something."

When Detective Short told him he knew for a fact that it wasn't a shirt, Chuck then guessed, "maybe a bungee cord or something from his car. I don't see why he'd have a rope in his car."

At this point Detective Short TOLD Chuck, �Well, we know for a fact that his belt was ripped off of his pants and he was strangled with his belt.� Keep in mind that this was information that only the police and the real murderer knew. Yet when Chuck didn't know how the victim was strangled, Det. Short told him.

Chuck's response when he was told this information was, "Really?"

When Detective Short asked Chuck if he saw a belt in Ryan's hands, Chuck first responded, "I don't know."

Detective Short then asked, "Okay. You didn't put anything in your hand then?"

Chuck's answer, "No. I mean I don't remember that at all."

Detective Short changed the subject, but he brings up the belt again a few minutes later.

"So it's possible Ryan could have strangled this guy with his belt, got the keys, and you not know about it?" the detective asked.

"The guy? The man's belt?" Chuck repeated.

"Yeah," Detective Short said.

Chuck asked for further clarification. "His own belt?"

Short asked if that "rang a bell", and Chuck answered, "Not at all."

It seems clear that Chuck Erickson had absolutely no idea about the murder weapon or any first-hand knowledge about how the murder occurred or how the victim was strangled. At this point he told the detective, "I mean, I might not even know what I'm talking about now."

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Another example that clearly demonstrates how little Chuck knew at the time of his arrest is when he emphatically stated on three different occasions during his March 10, 2004 videotaped interview (p.19 and 20 of the transcript), that he only hit the victim once. 

Detective Short again fed Chuck details about the number of times the victim was hit by telling him that there were "multiple, multiple, multiple contusions, hits and strikes on this guys head". He goes on to tell Chuck "there is no way in hell that you hit this guy once".

These audio excerpts are from the Columbia Police Department's Video Interviews on March 10, 2004:
*Video # 1 (10:05 a.m.-10:57 a.m.)
*Video # 2 (3:29 p.m.- 3:57 p.m.)
*Video # 3 (5:01 p.m.- 5:23 p.m.)