The unspeakable evil that happened to Gabbi Doolin
Dec 01, 2023
Thomas
Dare you tread the dark path which leads us to uncover the chilling tale of Scottsville, Kentucky's most devastating tragedy? Brace for impact as we unravel the details of merciless kidnapper and murderer, Timothy Madden, pulled from obscurity by the silent but damning witness - DNA evidence. Madden, with no prior run-ins with the law, became the embodiment of a community's worst nightmare, shaking it to its core. Hear the heartrending journey of a family torn asunder by this unthinkable loss, and the strength they displayed through a seemingly endless four-year wait for justice.
Join us on this emotional rollercoaster, as we navigate the tumultuous waters of Madden's trial - a spectacle of denial and pathos. A spectacle where Madden, ever the defiant convict, pleads not guilty to the charges of rape and sodomy, even in the face of irrefutable evidence. The courtroom, heavy with anticipation, resounds with the poignant impact statements of the victim's family, while Madden's own kin stand staunch in his defense. A life sentence seals Madden's fate, yet the plea deal that spared him the death penalty, and his inexplicable refusal to admit his full crimes, has left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many. Through this harrowing journey, the resilience of Gabby's family shines as a beacon of hope, a testament to human strength in the face of irreparable loss.
Dare you tread the dark path which leads us to uncover the chilling tale of Scottsville, Kentucky's most devastating tragedy? Brace for impact as we unravel the details of merciless kidnapper and murderer, Timothy Madden, pulled from obscurity by the silent but damning witness - DNA evidence. Madden, with no prior run-ins with the law, became the embodiment of a community's worst nightmare, shaking it to its core. Hear the heartrending journey of a family torn asunder by this unthinkable loss, and the strength they displayed through a seemingly endless four-year wait for justice.
Join us on this emotional rollercoaster, as we navigate the tumultuous waters of Madden's trial - a spectacle of denial and pathos. A spectacle where Madden, ever the defiant convict, pleads not guilty to the charges of rape and sodomy, even in the face of irrefutable evidence. The courtroom, heavy with anticipation, resounds with the poignant impact statements of the victim's family, while Madden's own kin stand staunch in his defense. A life sentence seals Madden's fate, yet the plea deal that spared him the death penalty, and his inexplicable refusal to admit his full crimes, has left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many. Through this harrowing journey, the resilience of Gabby's family shines as a beacon of hope, a testament to human strength in the face of irreparable loss.
Gabby Doolan was kidnapped as assaulted and strangled to death on November 14, 2015, while attending a football game at the Allen County High School Football Stadium in Scottsville, kentucky. She was at the game to watch her brother, alec, play the Hirey One. Welcome to another episode of Human Wreckage, covering another disturbing story of a less-than-human person Can't say a man, because no man would do such a horrible act. Truly heartbreaking, this episode is about the evil acts that Timothy Madden committed. Our hearts and prayers go out to Gabby Doolan's family. Let's get into it.
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Dressed in a cute pink dress, gabby played hide-and-seek with friends near the bleachers during the game. One of the kids Gabby played with asked Amy, gabby's mother, if she had seen the girl, because she could not find her. That's when Amy frantically searched for her daughter and alerted authorities. Police found the seven-year-old girl's body 25 minutes after she disappeared from the game. She was facedown in a creek. Police locked down the scene and asked everyone at the game that night if they saw the girl with anyone that night or noticed anything unusual. Tips quickly led them to the home of 40-year-old Timothy Madden. Madden attended the game that night to watch his son play. The clothing and boots he wore were stained with blood, and an officer who visited his home said it appeared that he had blood around his genital area. Many people mentioned his name to police when asked if they noticed anything unusual. That evening, november 20, 2015, dna taken from Gabby's body came back matching the blood taken from Madden's clothing.
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One step closer to justice. Police arrest a man for the murder of this 7-year-old Gabby Duhlin. Tonight we have the arrest warrant, which says there's a DNA match in this case. Thanks for joining us. I'm Shannon Kogan.
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And I'm Scar Reynolds. Kentucky State Police say DNA from the suspect Timothy Madden matches that of the little girl taken during her autopsy. It was one week ago that Gabby disappeared during that football game in Scottsville down in Allen County. She was found less than 30 minutes later near the field in a creek in a wooded area. Madden is seen here being hauled into the Barron County jail this afternoon. Tonight William Joy was there and spoke to a community still coming to terms with this unbelievable crime.
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Right now Madden is being held here at the Barron County Detention Center. All throughout Scottsville the people I talked to say they're happy an arrest was made. At the same time they say their community will never be the same.
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We made over 200. Wednesday and Thursday we ran out of ribbon. We could have probably sold that many more.
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Yes, we had a very, very, very busy week. Sheila Jones folds another bow. She thinks of the 7-year-old. It's 4.
Speaker 5:
You know, I heard somebody make a remark. She's probably just running and playing somewhere. They'll find her in a few minutes.
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A couple ribbon-wrapped light pulls away at Goad Funeral Home when Davis is still in shock.
Speaker 6:
I really couldn't believe that that would happen here, you know, because everybody knows everybody.
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For Davis, that includes Timothy Madden, who was arrested Friday.
Speaker 6:
Just the thought that someone could do that to a child, knowing him, I really couldn't believe that that would happen here. You know, because everybody knows everybody.
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She says the arrest has helped ease fears.
Speaker 6:
I think, now that the arrest has been made, I'm hoping that the family can have some peace and I'm hoping that the community will be able to breathe a little easier.
Speaker 4:
It's a case that shook even the state police. It's not been an easy investigation on any of them. It's very taxing and it's one Scottsville won't soon forget.
Speaker 5:
You know, I think our security they didn't say it's gone. We've been lucky that something like this hadn't happened.
Speaker 6:
I think things will be different now.
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Today the Kentucky State Police said they couldn't give out many details. They say, even though they have made an arrest, the investigation is still ongoing In Barron County, william Joy Wave 3 News.
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Madden being held on a one million dollar bond. He has a five month old daughter and a second grade daughter, the same age as Gabby Duelin, and Madden went to high school with Gabby's father.
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He was taken into custody, where he initially denied any involvement with Gabby's murder. Transcripts of the initial police interview state that Madden told police you guys are at the wrong place. When they knocked on his door, he told reporters that he was innocent and that you could ask anyone who knew him.
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What do you have to say about the charges you're facing?
Speaker 7:
It's all bogus. I'm a very innocent man. They can ask anybody that knows me.
Speaker 3:
Why did they connect you to this murder?
Speaker 7:
Small town gossip. They said I fit the suspect.
Speaker 3:
Do you know what that was?
Speaker 7:
Six foot tall, brown coat, long beard Pretty much, that's all I know about it. But then I know they found the little girls bodied later on that night and then locked them, played ball game down.
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Do you know the Duelin family?
Speaker 7:
Yes, I went to school with him. You went to school with her dad, with her daddy.
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yes, Amy told investigators that Gabby was on the cheerleading squad with Madden's daughter and would have trusted him enough to go off with him. The families knew of one another. Until the murder, madden had a relatively clean criminal record, with only a few misdemeanor nonviolent criminal offenses a part of his history. As the hearing got underway, a detective testified that after Duelin went missing, they gathered everyone who was at the football game in the gym to identify possible suspects. Police went to Madden's home where he provided them with the clothes he was wearing that night. Officials linked him to the crime after a DNA test matched Duelin's DNA to blood that was found on Madden's underwear and belt buckle.
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The emotions ran high during Madden's 2019 sentencing, facing the death penalty. Madden pleaded guilty to the murders. Why did you do it? There's no reason you can give. Gabby was an innocent little girl at her brother's football game. Amy said as she wept while giving her victim impact statement. Timothy Madden turned his attention elsewhere as she spoke, prompting Gabby's father, brian, to spoke up to address Madden and his attorney, saying Sir, that's the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen. We've had four years waiting. You can let him listen to what she has to say. Do you understand me. Suddenly, brian became overwhelmed with emotion and appeared to lurch forward toward his daughter's killer while yelling Three minutes, that's all we've asked. You can listen to her for three minutes. I'm sick of this. He needs to hear what she has to say.
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Because of you, we lost our baby girl. Our boys lost their sister before she was even eight years old.
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Four years after seven-year-old Gabriela Gabby Duhlin was kidnapped and murdered, her mother, amy, gave a victim impact statement to the judge before the man responsible was sentenced. 42-year-old Timothy Madden will spend life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to a ruling Wednesday by Allen Circuit judge Janet Crocker. Madden's charges stem from November 14th of 2015, when Duhlin went missing during a football game at Allen County Scottsville High School and her body was discovered in a nearby creek. Madden's DNA was found on several items at the crime scene. In August of this year, just days before his trial was supposed to begin in Hardin County, he pleaded guilty to murder and kidnap charges and entered an Alfred plea on rape and sodomy charges. An Alfred plea means he does not admit guilt, but he acknowledges that there is enough evidence for a jury to convict him.
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Madden's sentence came after a day of testimony from witnesses called by Commonwealth Attorney Corey Morgan and Public Defense Attorney Tom Griffiths.
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Morgan says the day was about presenting evidence to prove the rape and sodomy charges, so he called three law enforcement officers, one DNA analyst and a witness to testify. Witness Wendy Blankenship was at the football game in 2015 and says she noticed a man near her in the stands being loud and vulgar and that when Gabby and two friends left the stands to play hide and seek, that man later identified as Madden was also gone. And Wendy also learned one of the girls Duhlin had been playing with was Madden's daughter. Detective Wes Medley says when Gabby was reported missing, they called attendees at the game into the gym and questioned them, which led to Madden becoming a suspect. When Sergeant Adam Morgan arrived at Madden's house that night, he answered the door in his underwear and told police he was at the football game and had been playing hide and seek with Gabby. Morgan also called Duhlin's mom, amy, to give a victim impact statement, during which Gabby's dad, brian, yelled at Madden for whispering with Griffiths.
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Sir, that's the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen.
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Give us just a minute we've had four years wait.
Speaker 1:
You listen to it now. You look around. All you want to.
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Which led to both families being removed from the courtroom for a brief recess. After the impact statement was finished, griffiths called Madden's sister, pam Kinslow, to testify, and he also read a statement from Madden himself, in which Madden claims he is innocent and was set up by the Kentucky State Police. I'm Emily Zanto reporting.
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I don't know if you respect and you're an attorney, but you're played by the taxpayers. You're played by the taxpayers. I respect Bobby Moe.
Speaker 9:
I respect Bobby Moe. I respect Bobby Moe Absolutely. We are off the record.
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The judge momentarily cleared the courtroom after chaos erupted between the Madden and Duhlin families. After a brief recess, amy finished her statement and a member of Madden's family provided a statement on his behalf, stating that he was a loving person. Madden entered the plea because it was the right thing to do for himself and for the victim's family and for everybody involved, including the community, said Madden's attorney, tom Griffiths, in a press conference. Upon agreement with the Duhlin family, the death penalty was taken off the table and Madden was sentenced to life in prison. The judge said she likely would have sentenced Madden to death had the family not agreed to the plea deal sentencing him to life in prison.
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Well, I'm going to start first by simply observing For mr Madden to maintain his innocence is, that best, an act of cowardice and at worse is an indicative of a social path pathology that is difficult to comprehend. It is hard appreciate for this family and this community at large to understand why it is that it took us four years to get to this day, because the overwhelming guilt of evidence as the result of outstanding Law enforcement activity, investigation from the outset is the same today as it was within Four days of that child's death. And over the course of these four years we have talked about that scientific evidence in very Clinical terms. We have simply talked about the DNA evidence and have carefully guarded that. That DNA evidence Was a match of of mathematical probability Beyond comprehension of Seaman from the vaginal cavity and anal area of a Seven-year-old child, and to suggest that somehow that evidence was planted and that law enforcement somehow got this wrong is simply ludicrous and the lies that Mr Madden has perpetrated on his family, including his own child, is An act of simple self-polishness. As I said, he lied to his family. They initially paid for lawyers for him and they've been here all along and Gonna continue to support him. But there is no doubt that he is guilty of these crimes and of course there is a perversity with respect to this plea that, again, is hard to understand. I Will admit that I kidnapped and killed this child, but I'm not going to admit that I raped and sodomized this child because somehow my family might think less of me, my family might not support me when, again, the evidence of the kidnapping murder is the presence of his semen all over that child's genitalia, her blood on his underwear. And so the question is, ultimately, what is justice? What is justice for Gabriella? Most people would probably say that life without parole Is Too lenient, and I'm confident, if this case had proceeded to jury trial, that 12 jurors in Hardin County, kentucky, would have found this man guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of all four counts and they would have recommended the ultimate penalty of death.
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When I took that plea, I observed that the Duelan family had shown great mercy on Mr Madden and his family More particularly. What I'm hopeful is is that ultimately this will bring some closure for them Because, again, you know a lot of people mistake. You know the Allen County Jail for prison. It's a rude awakening when all of a sudden they go under razor wire. You know, I've observed Mr Madden through all of these proceedings and at one time have I observed one ounce of remorse. Not once have I observed one ounce of fear. I too have watched him come in and smile and smirk and blow kisses and slouch at his chair as if this were somehow happening to somebody else. But the reality is, this court accepts the Commonwealth's plea. He'll be moved immediately from where he is to maximum security prison housed with other offenders who have committed similar heinous crimes. Even though not, ultimately, department of Corrections can keep him safe in that environment remains to be seen.
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The reality is that and I don't say that facetiously, I don't say that jokingly is that for anyone to perceive that life without parole will not be filled with a lifetime of suffering for this man, that this man won't experience punishment on this earth? He will, he will. But more particularly, the measure of his life is defined by what he did to this child. I can only hope for his children that it will not be the measure of theirs, because they are just as innocent as Gabriella was. And the only comfort that, ultimately, that the doulins can take away is that after today, they will not have to sit in the same room with their child's killer. They will not have to breathe the same air of a man who raped and sodomized and then killed their child.
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And however many times that they have said, how many times a day, that they hope that no other family would have to experience the unimaginable pain that they experienced then and that they would experience today, and they will experience tomorrow, that no other family will have to experience that Well, they can take comfort in that, because life means life, in contrast to a death penalty where, ultimately, there would have been decades of appeals, constantly, constantly riding that roller coaster. Today it is over, and what I am hopeful is that, ultimately, that you will be able to move forward and that Gabriella Doolan's life will not be measured by her death but by her life and the spirit that she brought into this world. The court accepts the Commonwealth's recommendation. Before we do that, though, there are some administrative matters I need to address briefly. First of all, mr Griffiths, with respect to the pre-sentence investigation report, are there any changes, corrections or clarifications to that report?
Speaker 10:
Your Honor, we went over that report to Mr Madden. There was a single error on page 37 that missed the address and phone number of his son incorrectly.
Speaker 9:
I can correct that now or I can provide it to you in writing, whenever that's worth it Is that with respect to Michael, that's correct and that he still resides with his mother and his sister. Thank you, I'll make that clarification. And then, with respect to the comprehensive sex offender evaluation, is there any changes or corrections to that? No Judge.
Speaker 10:
We did have medical records that we thought should be made part of the PSI, which would include the psychological evaluation as well as his medical records.
Speaker 9:
If you want to go ahead and tend to those please.
Speaker 1:
Your Honor. For the record, Mr Griffiths did contact us about that earlier.
Speaker 5:
We had no objection to that being included.
Speaker 9:
So, with respect to what is being made a part of this it is the psychological examination from Dr Nichols Are you asking that any other reports be tendered with the Pre-Sentence Investigation Report? That would include the report from the Kentucky Psychiatric Facility. Again, that was simply a response to the notice.
Speaker 10:
And I don't think that's necessary Judge the other is literally the medical records from his local doctor.
Speaker 9:
Okay, we'll go ahead. Any objection to that?
Speaker 5:
No, your.
Speaker 9:
Honor. All right, mr Rand, I'm going to ask you to stand, please. For the kidnapping of Gabrielle Adulin, causing her death, you are sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. For rape first degree of Gabrielle Adulin, a child under the age of 12 years, you are sentenced to 50 years. For the separate offense of sodomy first degree of a child, of Gabrielle Adulin, a child under the age of 12 years, you are sentenced to 50 years. And finally, you are sentenced to life without a possibility of parole. For the murder of Gabrielle Adulin in combination with rape first degree and sodomy first degree For a total, effective sentence of life without parole.
Speaker 9:
As explained during the colloquial, life without parole means that you will remain incarcerated for the rest of your natural life. You are remanded into custody at this time. To begin service of that state sentence. Consistent with the motion that has been filed by your attorney, the Department of Corrections will be required to transport you to a state facility. In all likelihood that will be the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, within the next 45 days. You'll remain housed in the Hardin County Detention Center until that date. At this time, sheriff, if you will take him back into custody, mr Griffiths, mr Maddox, do you need to meet with Mr Madden any further at this time. No Judge, all right, let's go ahead and get him escorted out first.
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He was sentenced as follows Kidnapping with victim death. Life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Murder. Life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Rape in the first degree 50 years. Sodomy in the first degree 50 years. Timothy Madden deserved the death penalty. I am glad the Judge allowed the parents of Gaby to give input, however, so justice for what it is worth is served for their peace of mind. This was a tough case to cover. I left out a lot of the disturbing details. I guess the biggest question is why? Why would someone do this? Total innocent life taken away for no reason. Thanks for joining me on this episode of Human Wreckage. If you liked this episode, please give us a like. Hit the subscribe button to join us for future episodes. I am Thomas. Take care everyone.