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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Just last month police released audio recordings of a prison interview with four-year-old Ivan Cano's killer Cecil New.
One of the detectives is now speaking candidly about the interview and investigation. Former LMPD Major Troy Pitcock was one of the detectives who worked the case and interviewed Cecil New in prison.
WHAS11 was there as he spoke exclusively about the case as part of the side bar radio show with hosts Christopher 2x and Mark Gunn.
“Do you think you actually blacked out or do you think that's maybe when you snapped?” asked a detective while interviewing New.
"Well I guess, I just, I snapped is what I did," answered New.
Chilling confessions from New's interview with detectives last summer still resonate with Pitcock.
"There's no true closure to that. You live with that until the last breath leaves your body. We don't provide any closure, we provide the answers to some outstanding questions," said Pitcock.
Those answers are what Cesar Ivan Cano's family and police longed for, after New avoided a trial by pleading guilty to murdering the four-year-old boy. WHAS11 learned New drowned the boy, but why?
"What do you think the motive was for killing Cesar?” asked Christopher 2x.
"The motive appears to be power and control. He admits that he got a rush or high from having that power and control over that child," said Pitcock.
How Cano entered New's apartment has also remained a point of contention. New told police Cano entered the apartment unprovoked.
"During the course of the interview there were people that told us the child did go through the neighborhood, the alley way back there at times and at times had wandered into other apartments. So it appears that is quite possible and quite credible that he could've wandered into that apartment," said Pitcock.
Questions have also remained about possible sexual contact between new and Cano.
New: "Well, I do wanna say there was never nothing at all sexual. Nothing at all."
Detective: "Had you had more time, during that time, like we discussed earlier, you would've sexually assaulted him.”
New: "I probably would."
Still most disturbing for Pitcock is this final exchange with New:
Detective: "If you got out today and were on the street, and the same situation presented itself, you would do the same thing again. Right?
New: "I don't know."
Detective: "But you agreed while ago that it's very likely you would."
New: “It's likely, yeah."
Pitcock later said to WHAS11, "[New’s] remorse seems more in the fact he was caught and is in prison more than he's remorseful for the crime."
