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Sep 19, 2007 10:43 pm US/Central
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Triple Murder Suspect Talks Only To CBS 11
WARNING! PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, ADULT CONTENT AND GRAPHIC MURDER DETAILS.
Click here to watch the entire interview with Robert Sparks.
DALLAS From a Dallas jail, Robert Sparks explained why he allegedly killed his wife and her two sons last Saturday in Dallas.
Sparks was arrested Tuesday night. As police escorted him to jail, he told reporters his wife, Chare Agnew, had tried to kill him, and blamed her for enlisting her 9 and 10-year-old sons to help.
Sparks, 33, faces multiple charges, the most significant of which is three counts of capital murder punishable by the death penalty.
Add to that list two counts of aggravated sexual assault for the alleged attacks on his wife's 12 and 14-year-old daughters.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit released Wednesday, Sparks called 911 to say he had committed the crime.
"My name is Robert Sparks and I just killed my wife and the two boys. You need to get over there fast," Sparks said during the Saturday morning call.
After giving the home's address and his name again, the caller said: "I left two girls in the closet."
CBS 11's Clif Caldwell is the only reporter to have conducted an interview with Sparks since he was arrested Tuesday evening.
Sparks gave a vivid account of what happened Saturday morning.
Police found Agnew's daughters bound and gagged in a closet. Sparks said he made the girls kiss their mother's corpse, but won't explain the allegations of raping them.
"I know everybody said, 'Why the kids?' The only thing I can tell you why I did it, because I wanted to make them people suffer too, just like I was suffering," Sparks said.
Sparks said he was in bed when Agnew came home from work.
"The last thing I said... when I stabbed her, with her eyes open, I said, 'I told you I would kill you if I found out,'" he said.
He was referencing his belief that his wife put poison in his food.
Sparks described the murder weapon as being "six, seven inches long, probably longer. And that's just the blade."
After the murder, Sparks said he actually left the area and was in Austin. But he said he came back because of threats against his mother.
He added, "I came back for a reason... to kill her sister."
During the interview Sparks said he regretted two things: not murdering Agnew's sister and her boyfriend, and taking the lives of the two young boys.
"I don't need a trial," he said. "If they did find me guilty, and they gave me the death sentence, I wouldn't even fight it. It ain't worth living no more."
Sparks said his parents did not raise him this way. For a moment, he was clearly ashamed.
"My mama and daddy didn't fight," he said. "And if they did, we didn't see it."
Sparks, who has a history of criminal violence, was captured Tuesday night after leading police on a slow-speed chase. Sparks refused to stop and fired several rounds at one point in the chase.
Officers apprehended Sparks when he became trapped on a dead-end residential street. Police say he had fled in a vehicle he was accused of stealing earlier in the evening.
Funerals for Agnew and her two sons will be Saturday morning at the Potter's House in Dallas.
CBS 11 has followed the story since it broke Saturday. For more details on the case, click on the headlines below:
Dallas Police Arrest Triple Murder Suspect
Reward For Dallas Triple Murder Suspect Tripled
Girls Say Man Abused Them After Killing Family
Dallas Man Suspected Of Killing Wife & Her 2 Sons
Police Investigating Triple Murder In Dallas
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