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William Springer

Retired Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office cold case detective, original investigator on the 1984 Christy Luna disappearance, featured on The Deck, Cold Case Files, and American Justice.

Jun 24, 2026

speaker_2NARRATOR
8:00
Sergeant William Springer worked with the West Palm Beach Sheriff's Department at the time.
8:04
The road patrolman who first arrived on the scene, they discovered that...
8:10
Anita Spearman was in a back bedroom of the residence that she appeared to have been either shot or struck in about the head numerous times.
8:19
There was blood on the bed, blood on the sheets.
8:22
The crime scene revealed that there was no signs of any forced entry to the house whatsoever.
8:27
A side garage door that was very seldom used was discovered open.
8:32
An entry was gained, we believe, through that garage door.
speaker_2NARRATOR
8:35
As planned, Dutre had staged the murder to make it look as if it were part of a burglary, but the hired guns has slipped up in one crucial detail.
13:21
Either way, I thought that this was important to note in case there is any truth to it.
13:26
He went back to jail for violating his parole for coming to Florida.
13:31
In 1990, Victor gets released from prison, comes to Florida, and as soon as he gets in Florida, the sheriff's office tact team starts following him.
13:41
They follow him twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
13:45
They have pictures and video of him looking in these bedroom windows.
13:50
Sure enough, there's little girls in that bedroom that he's looking in.
13:53
So they follow him for almost a month.
16:39
Despite hitting roadblocks with both the Rambo brothers and Victor, investigators seemed to have a specific profile in mind when it came to identifying potential suspects, men with a track record of grooming and abusing children.
Marisa PinsonNARRATOR
2:05
In 2013, Lieutenant William Springer of the Hopewell Township Police Department took up the case.
2:13
Bruce was getting close to retirement when I was a very young officer.
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He was very, uh, influential.
2:19
I, I remember one thing he always taught was, "Never give up on a case, no matter how minor or how big it is." I didn't start really looking into the case until 2013.
2:28
I was newly promoted to acting lieutenant at the time, and I was wondering now with newer technology, newer approaches, uh, better DNA analysis, was there a way to possibly solve this case? This is one of the primary boxes of, of evidence in the case.
2:43
This is one of the first boxes I looked at.
2:46
Contains various information from the crime scene and some of the, uh, initial reports and supplemental reports completed by, uh, Detective Bruce Carnall.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:51
Police say some of Rifkin's alleged victims were dismembered.

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