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Masseuse Accused Of Dismembering Cop's Body

Posted: 6:58 pm EDT May 20, 2009Updated: 8:35 pm EDT May 20, 2009

A Brevard County masseuse is accused of murdering a retired cop and then dismembering his body. Eyewitness News obtained exclusive video of the police interrogation just before Diane Parker was arrested.

"I don't think anything is under control right now. I'm really scared," said Parker in the video.

When Diane Parker was first brought in for questioning, she told detectives she couldn't remember meeting Paul Cadigan on Super Bowl Sunday, let alone killing him.


RAW VIDEO: Cop Interrogation With Masseuse

The 56-year-old Brevard County woman is accused of shooting the retired police officer and dismembering him in her Malabar home.

Cadigan's remains were found scattered in Osceola County. Parker told agents she blacked out and didn't remember Cadigan coming over for a massage.

"It's been happening more and more over the last 3 or 4 months. I've noticed it. I mentioned it to my therapist. My memories going bad, something's going on," she said.

Cadigan told investigators she didn't start coming out of the mental fog until she was in a college Spanish class the next day.

In a recording, investigators had a hard time getting any details from her.

"Why was all the blood in the massage room? Why was all the blood in the massage room?" asked an officer.

She said Cadigan started coming to her home last summer for massages she advertised. Parker said she stopped providing her services when his checks started bouncing.

Parker told detectives he repeatedly made sexual advances.

"I think he was a nasty person, personally. I was, I was a little afraid of him," stated Parker.

However, Parker claimed she never called sheriff's deputies because she said they never helped her before. A date for Parker's murder trial has not been set. She's being held without bond at the Brevard County jail.

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