In early 2019, Katie Riford and her children were reported as “missing” by the media, though in her affidavit submitted to Niagara County Family Court, Riford stated she was going into hiding with her children. Despite her absence from their Wheatfield, NY, home, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office did not make a public statement for several months. It wasn’t until October 31, 2019— at least seven months later—that WIVB News 4 Buffalo published an article, after Christina Little Riford, Katie’s sister, contacted local media outlets.
Christina and Kevin Riford, Katie’s siblings, spoke with WIVB’s Luke Moretti and Dan Telvock for over an hour, sharing their story, discussing various issues related to Katie, Family Court, the FBI, and other concerns. However, despite this extensive conversation, key statements made by FBI Special Agent Brian Burns were not included in the final article.
In their interview, WIVB News 4 Dan Telvock admitted he heard some of the statements made by FBI Special Agent Burns—though he referred to one audio as “scrambled.” Among the statements in question were remarks made by FBI Agent Brian Burns like “lock-pick the car,” “bring a handgun,” “investigate the grey car,” and “let’s kill him.” These disturbing comments were not included in the news article, despite Telvock acknowledging that he had heard some of them. In fact WIVB Luke Moretti and Dan Telvock did not mention the FBI at all in their published article.
You can listen to this portion of the discussion below regarding FBI Special Agent Brian Burns statements with WIVB Dan Telvock
Why were these statements left out? Given their serious nature, shouldn’t they have been addressed in the WIVB News article? This omission raises questions about WIVB Channel 4 out of Buffalo, NY.
Here is the full conversation with FBI Special Agent Brian Burns
Below are the statements made by Buffalo, NY FBI Agent Brian Burns, which were obtained from the full conversation above.
17 min. 46 seconds: FBI Brian Burns states in the full conversation “investigate the grey car, over. its his sister”
17 min. 39 seconds: FBI Brian Burns states in the full conversation states “lock-pick the car”.
5 min. 17 seconds: FBI Brian Burns states in the full conversation “bring a handgun”.
20 min. 12 seconds: FBI Brian Burns states in the full conversation “Lets kill him” with Kelly Marshal replying “OK”.
“Tell him you did good” – A unknown male instructing Brian Burns to tell Kevin “he did good”. Who is instructing an FBI Agent to make these statements?
Below is the full conversation with Christina Riford Little, Kevin Riford, & Buffalo, NY WIVB CH. 4 Luke Moretti and Dan Telvock
Buffalo, NY WIVB. CH. 4 Luke Moretti and Dan Telvock
Kevin Riford Calls the FBI to report Buffalo, NY Agent Brian Burns