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This A&E show is an hour long and features 1 or 2 cases. For homicide detectives, the clock starts ticking the moment they are called. Their chance of solving a case is cut in half if they don't get a lead in The First 48. Each passing hour gives suspects more time to flee, witnesses more time to forget what they saw, and crucial evidence more time to be lost forever. We follow detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations. It had the Cops style realism that I love, but I've never seen anything like it. The brutality of the violence is shocking, the utter despair of the victim's families will rip your heart out, the chase for the killer is thrilling, the tension between the detectives and how they bust each other is funny, when leads don't pan out it's frustrating, but when things start to come together and people are caught in lies it's very exciting. The official guide is off a little as they show ones from an upcoming season in the previous season and vice versa, so to make it easy I just keep them in number order, not by airdate. I have written detailed descriptions for each episode if you are looking for something specific. I have them all but #27.
| 1 | Body in the Park/Ruby Street Shooting - In Philadelphia, Sergeant Irma Labrice and Detectives Leon Lubiejewski and Michael Gross don't have much time to find a murder suspect, and they don't have much to go on--the victim's body was burned beyond recognition. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Detective Bill Kelhower and his team must gather enough physical evidence to crack a murder case because the witnesses to the crime aren't talking. 6/5/05 |
| 2 | Gangs of Little Havana/Execution in Coconut Grove - A wall of silence from a frightened community hampers efforts to solve a brutal murder; and a mother of two is shot execution-style in her kitchen in an affluent neighborhood. In a visual style more like drama than reality show, we tail Miami homicide investigators as they race time to solve these murders. Who're the suspects? Are the detectives right? With cliffhangers at each break, both cases in this gritty episode will keep viewers guessing until the end. Miguel "Renteria" Gonzalez was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder and has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. 10/16/04 |
| 3 | Overkill/Left for Dead - Miami homicide detectives race against time in the critical first hours of investigation to find the evidence necessary to charge two suspects in a brutal murder case; and police find a man who's been shot and left for dead, but with no evidence, witnesses, or even a name for their victim, the detectives have got their work cut out for them. Find out if these driven detectives can make their cases. Floyd Walker was arrested a year later and was charged in the death of Carlos Macias. He is awaiting trial. 7/17/04 |
| 4 | Blood in the Snow – In Kansas City, KS, Liza Michie is a
young woman found brutally murdered in a snowy cul-de-sac. Detective Keith
Wright & Detective Bobby Lane investigate with the help of Capt
John Cosgrove & Capt John Ward but are unable to solve the case. Swope Park Killing - In Kansas City, MO, Russell N Clarke is man shot and dumped in a bucolic park. Sgt. Barbara Eckert, Detective Ray Lenoir and Detective Dave Needham investigate. They find he was killed in a house and dumped there. As these detectives race against time during the critical first hours of their investigations, they must enter a dark subculture of drugs, guns, and buried safes. 6/17/04 |
| 5 | Double Murder on Haskell - Kansas, City, KS - Kevin
‘Geechi’ Brown (43) & Jamie Wilson (25). 11pm a man calls in about
a couple murdered at 2209. Capt John Cosgrove leads. Det Terry Mast, Off
Thomas Joyce, Det Alexander Kump, Sgt Ramero Moran, Det. Greg Lawson, Det.
Mike Vega assists. Investigators track down two suspects and must convince
one of them to give up the other - his own father. "Big
Pat" Angelo was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and
sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Back Alley Revenge - Kansas City, MO - Emmanuel ‘Stank’ R. Todd (23). 7am Saturday someone is shot and 2 men are seen dragging a body. Sgt. Barbara Eckert leads. Det Jeff Cowdry, Det. Darin Penrod, Det Dave Needam, Det. Jim Green, Scott McCubbin, Det Ray Lenoir, Troy Meyer assists. Detectives must rely on inhabitants of a drug-ridden area to help solve a murder, hoping that the word on the street will crack the case. Josh Fields was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years. Frederick Johnson AKA "Noodles" was later arrested and convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years. 3/31/05 |
| 6 | Killing Spree - Detectives pursue a serial killer terrorizing residents of a Miami housing project who are too frightened to offer information to help the police. Alfred Farnell was convicted on 3 counts of murder and 1 count of attempted murder and got 25 years. Curtis Adkins was convicted of 1st degree murder and got 20 years. 9/2/04 |
| 7 | On Ice/Body in the Canal - Detectives in Phoenix are followed. Included: the murder of a young employee at an ice rink; the murder of an unidentified victim whose body was found floating in a canal. Norris Jemmerson subsequently pled guilty to manslaughter in Michael Strode's murder case. He has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. Louis Pita-Mota was charged with first-degree murder but was later released because of insufficient evidence. The investigation continues. 5/5/05 |
| 8 | Fire in the Rain/Family Feud - Police try to identify a prostitute whose body was partially burned; and detectives search for two shooting victims who may still be alive. Darryl Gene Orr II was subsequently convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second degree murder. He has been sentenced to life without parole. 5/7/05 |
| 9 | Desert Bones/Party's Over - Detectives Dillian and Jewell join forensic anthropologist Laura Fulginiti to determine the identity of a female skeleton found in the desert. And the shooting of a teenager at a high-school party puts Detectives Rodriguez and Kulesa on the trail of a shooter wearing a ski mask. Several months later, Kenny Smith died of complications from surgery. The case is now officially a homicide, and the investigation continues. 12/4/04 |
| 10 | At Death's Door/Wrong Side of the Tracks' - Miami detectives investigate a possible assassination; and the murder of a prominent doctor's son. Cedric Figgers was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and has been sentenced to life without parole. 8/26/04 |
| 11 | Stripper's Revenge - Phoenix, AZ detectives investigate a homicide in which the victim's prostitute
girlfriend was originally suspected. Carl Lee Blackman plead guilty to
manslaughter and got 21 years. Dead on Arrival - the search for the killer who gunned down a man in his home. 9/9/04 |
| 12 | At Close Range/Murder in Motor City - When Phoenix homicide Detective Tom Kulesa realizes a potential witness to a double murder has gone missing, he must race against time to stop another vicious killing; and in Detroit, Sergeant Jo Ann Kinney must turn to forensics to solve the murder of a man found dead in a brand new Cadillac Escalade. Lonny Bassett was subsequently convicted of two counts of first-degree murder. He is serving two consecutive life sentences. 6/16/05 |
| 13 | Silent Witness/Halley Street Slayings - A store employee is murdered in Miami, and detectives use the store video surveillance system to help their investigation. In Detroit, a couple are killed in their home. 8/25/04 |
| 14 | Murder on the Interstate - Miami, FL detectives investigate the murder of a college student.
Willie "Lump" Lumsdon was convicted of second degree murder and
got 40 years. House of Santeria - the bizarre death of a doctor. 5/7/05 |
| 15 | Hostile Takeover - Miami, FL - Eric Lil Lee Leuned
(21) is killed in August 2007 in Overtown. On 13th and 3rd a man is shot
multiple times at 10pm. Sgt. Altaar Williams leads. Det Manny de la
Torriento, Det Eddie Avila, Det. Freddy Ponce, Lt. Connie Ibrajim, Det
Robert Laurenceau, Willard Delancy & Rupert Butcher assist. Donta
Irvin Boyd & Malcolm Williams were arrested, but charges were dropped
because of a witness who was uncooperative. Shot in the Back - Miami, FL - Jorge Salgado (41) is found dead on a sidewalk by a whore at 5:30am. Det Emiliano Tamayo leads. Det Ervens Ford, Det Kevin Ruggiero, Laz Fernandez & Dr. Reinhard Motte assist. No one was caught. 4/28/05 |
| 16 | A Serial Killer Calls - A serial killer directs homicide detectives to bodies he has hidden around Kansas City. 90 mins. 1/6/05 |
| 17 | Hunt for Teeth/Coyote Blue - In Kansas City, KS, Capt. John Cosgrove and his team of homicide detectives must track down a man suspected of beating his best friend to death with a cinder block--before he can flee the country; Dets. Greg Lawson and Mike York are hot on the trail of their murder suspect they know only as Teeth. Dwayne Roberson was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. 3/3/05 |
| 18 | Downstream Drifter - Texas
detectives investigate the discovery of a man who was beaten to death and
found floating down a river. Joel Gonzales was convicted of capital murder
and got life in prison without parole. Andrew Garcia was found guilty of
murder and got 50 years. Murder in Room 162 - a body is found in a hotel room in Phoenix. 6/30/05 |
| 19 | Roadside Burning/Blood Ties - A Dallas motorist discovers a body; a hard-working migrant is found dead in a parking lot. Torsha Whitaker was subsequently convicted of murder. She is currently serving a 20 year sentence. 4/7/05 |
| 20 | Deadly Betrayal - With Hurricane Jeanne threatening Miami, Sgt. Joe Schillaci and Det. Olga Rome must solve the murder of the owner of a popular strip club. The club's surveillance video reveals three men ambushing the victim. Schillaci and Rome soon realize this was an inside job--the victim was betrayed by one of his workers. They must race against time to catch the killers before their investigation is halted by the approaching hurricane. All charges against Mark Placide have subsequently been dropped. 3/3/05 |
| 21 | Twisted Honor - Kevin Gagnon was killed. In Phoenix,
AZ Det. Dave Barnes
must track down desperate lovers on the lam to solve a savage shotgun
murder. Jesse Rubio was convicted of murder and got 22 years. Vultures - in San Antonio, TX Det. Tom Froelick and his team find a body of a woman in a wooded area and learn that she was last seen alive with a mysterious stranger. Carlos Rey was convicted of murder and got 40 years. 7/28/05 |
| 22 | Silence in the Grove - In Miami's
Coconut Grove, Sgt. Joe Schillaci and his team try to solve a
near-impossible case of four men shot while sitting in their car. The
shooting left an innocent passenger dead...but the three survivors refuse
to name names. Gator was eventually found
and charged with murder in an unrelated case. The investigation in to Eli
Ellis' murder continues. Show Stopper - when Det. Emiliano Tamayo and his rookie partner Det. Kevin Ruggerio find a local celebrity murdered in his apartment, they realize the key to the case is the victim's cellphone missing from the scene. As they work the murder around the clock, Ruggerio learns he must make a personal sacrifice to solve the case. Derrick Lamar Evans was convicted of 2nd Degree Murder and was sentenced to 150 months in prison. 6/30/05 |
| 23 | Devil's Candy - A Miami detective goes undercover to investigate a murder connected with heroin trafficking. Eddie Green pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 30 years probation. 7/14/05 |
| 24 | Deadly Attraction - In his final case as a homicide investigator, Sgt. Joe Schillaci teams up with Dets. Mayree Morin and Olga Rome to solve a baffling murder of a man found murdered in his bed. Schillaci and his team soon learn the killer may be a worker for a traveling carnival. They must enter into a murky and dangerous world of "Carnies" to track down the elusive killer...before he leaves town. Clayton Brian Lovell was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison. 8/11/04 |
| 25 | Murder in the Driveway/Double Shooting in the Beans - In a case of young man shot dead in Little Haiti, Miami Detective Ervens Ford and his team learn the suspected killer is a member of a notorious gang. The team must hunt him down, before he flees the country. And when two teenagers are brutally gunned down in the Pork-n-Beans project, Sgt. Pepi Granado and Det. Freddy Ponce learn there's a witness who saw the murders go down. To solve the case, they must get the witness to reveal what he knows. 9/15/04 |
| 26 | Fallen/Texas Burning - A death in Miami originally thought to be a suicide is determined to be murder. In Dallas, two burned bodies are found in two separate locations. 6/19/05 |
| 27 | Baby for Sale/The Barrel - 2 murdered children killed decades apart may be linked. 10/27/05 |
| 28 | House of Blood/Last Man Standing - A brutal stabbing in Little Havana has Detective Carlos Castellanos following a trail of bloody footprints the killer left as he fled the scene. It will take bloodhounds and a frantic pace to track down the killer in this whodunit. And Sergeant Confessor Gonzalez has a mystery on his hands. A young man is found gunned down in a parking lot, and a trail of blood at the scene indicates a second victim. Who is he and what does he know? Gonzalez needs to find the answers to those questions to solve this case. After this episode first aired, a viewer called Miami Police with information on John Valdespino's whereabouts. Valdespino was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. 10/6/05 |
| 29 | Fish Out of Water - In Miami, a man
from Ohio is murdered Good Samaritan - a homeless man is stabbed while defending a local restaurant owner. Tyrone Clark was convicted of 1st Degree Murder and attempted murder and was sentenced to 22 years. 10/20/05 |
| 30 | Custody of the Devil/Duct Tape Murder- In Memphis, Sgts. Tony Mullins and Doreen Shelton get caught in the rumor mill and must separate truth from lies as they struggle to identify the two men who robbed and killed a neighborhood drug dealer. And in Miami, when a daughter discovers her mother's body, Detectives Tamayo and Ruggerio search for the elusive killer and learn that sometimes the harshest punishment happens outside the law. (The title is misleading as it has nothing to do with anything Satanic) 10/13/05 |
| 31 | Evil Streak/.50 Caliber - In Las Vegas, Detectives Mike Wallace and Mark McNett are called out on a nightmare of a case: a beautiful young woman was assaulted and murdered in her own apartment. With nothing but the physical evidence, they've got to find out if the killer is a total stranger or someone she knows. And in Miami, Detectives Rolly Garcia and Orlando Silva must track down an enormous handgun that was used to gun a man down on a residential sidewalk; the .50 caliber Desert Eagle is such a rare weapon that the Miami crime lab has never handled a case with one before. 11/3/05 |
| 32 | Fifty Dollar Murder/Murder in Liberty City - In Memphis, TN a store clerk is shot during a robbery at a convenience store. Sgt. Connie Justice and Sgt. Ron Collins find extensive forensic evidence at the scene but none of it points to a suspect. Their only hope is surveillance cameras that captured the violent struggle on tape. They hope this will give them the lead they need to ID the killer. In Miami, Sgt. Jose "Pepi" Granado and rookie detective Armando Aguilar are confronted with a dead victim and a wounded man at two crime scenes just blocks apart. With no on talking, they rely on old-fashioned police work to find a man who knows what happened that night. 12/15/05 |
| 33 | Foolproof Alibi/Left Behind - Miami detectives search for the killer who gunned down a young father-to-be; and Phoenix detectives investigate the discovery of a woman's decomposed body. 12/1/05 |
| 34 | Torched - In Miami, Sgt. Mo Velazquez and Detective Freddy Ponce discover an unidentified victim in the back seat of a torched rental car. The investigation takes a bizarre turn, as detectives uncover a kidnapping and robbery plot involving a crew of drug dealers. They must find everyone involved - before they all disappear. Myron Morales plead guilty to attempted robbery w/o a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 10 years. Rene De La Paz plead guilty to kidnapping with intent to hold for ransom and was sentenced to 10 years. 12/22/05 |
| 35 | Point Blank – In Memphis, TN, Issa is found dead on a swing
in the park at night. Sergeants Sharon Maybon and Jessica Burton work with
clues from his cell phone found on the crime scene, Sergeants piece
together information and locate potential witnesses. The case takes an
unexpected turn when they are able to locate and crack an uncooperative
witness. Sgt. Ron Collins, Sgt. Jim Currin assist, Steve Smith is the
suspect. Shoot Out - In Miami, FL David “Dread” Pettinger is found killed. Detective Fernando Bosch and Leo Tapanes investigates a murder that takes him across state lines to Atlanta. What the detectives find out when they get there surprises them all. Lt. Armando Aguilar, Sgt. Moises Velasquez, Sgt. Carlos de los Santos, Det. Mark Smith, Morrie & Smitty – suspects. 12/29/05 |
| 36 | Last Exit – In Phoenix, AZ Andre Thomas (41) is found
lying dead in the road thrown from a car. Homicide Detective Jeremy
Rosenthal has been with the Department for eight years, and this is just
his fifth case a homicide detective. He and Sr. Detective Alex Feminia
investigate. Patrick Kotecki – witness, Louis Allen was driving him, has
Andre’s blood on his car, but claims he broke a glass, it is a lie and
he sends police on a wild goose chase looking for a prostitute he claims
Andre was with. Louis fails a polygraph and gets a lawyer. The case is
unsolved. Out Cold - In Miami, FL Guillermo Reyas (54) is found in front of a bar on a little Havana sidewalk with his skull cracked. Detectives Armando Aguilar and Fernando Bosch investigate. Ruben Bayaverdes is a drunk old witness who saw him, people in the bar can’t find the owner, Dr. Julia de la Garza does the autopsy, Sgt. Altaar Willaims assists, Michael is a witness who won’t go to the station and disappears. Another witness says Pepe who works at the bar fought with Reyas and he’s arrested. 1/5/06 |
| 37 | Dead Man Running – In Memphis, TN Homer Palmer is found
naked shot dead running down the road. Wanda Jones, Shawanna Sutton, Sgt.
Ernestine Davison, Crystal Mullins – witness. Three months later, a
new tip led to the arrest of Frederick Williams, aka "Little
Fred." He subsequently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and has
been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Crash – In Phoenix, AZ – Eduardo Beltran is shot outside his truck at a body shop. Sgt. Jason Schecterle recovered from being burned all over his face and 27 surgeries to come back. Det. Tom D’augustino, Det. Carl Caruso, Det. John Shallule, Det. Derrel Branch, witnesses Oswaldo & Maria Escalon give up Arturo Rodlfo Gutierrez the suspect. Esteban Morales AKA Moreno was charged with Conspiracy to commit murder. He plead guilty to 2nd Degree Murder and was sentenced to 22 years. 1/12/06 |
| 38 | Close Ties - When Phoenix Detective Alex Femenia
is called to a scene where three young people are found dead in their
home, it is his job to cull through the evidence and determine what
happened at this bloody scene. As night falls, the detective waits for the
Medical Examiner to arrive to determine if this is the scene of a triple
murder or a murder suicide. Last Call - In Memphis, TN Sgt Tony Mullins and Sgt. Caroline Mason get their first call of the week. A woman calls 911 to report a dead body laying on the front lawn of a home. When the detectives arrive on the scene the mother of the victim is there and gives the Sgt's a clue, she tells them the last time she saw her son alive, he was with his girlfriend. With the clock ticking it is now up to the Sergeants to locate the girlfriend and find out exactly what she knows. Lewis "Knockout" Mayese was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison. Lonzie Carter has also been convicted and got 14 years. 2/9/06 |
| 39 | Pack of Lies - Detectives investigate the brutal stabbing of a young man. Homicide charges against Kevin Goode have subsequently been dropped. The investigation continues. 3/2/06 |
| 40 | Loved to Death/Unmasked - In Memphis, Sergeant Caroline Mason and her team respond to a convenience store shooting, where surveillance cameras captured the last few moments of a man's life. Investigators must sift through the footage for clues that will point them to the killer. And in Miami, Detectives Fernando Bosch and Ricky Martinez are called to a wealthy high-rise condo, where the crime scene blood-covered bathroom. To track down the killer, investigators follow a blood trail that leads them out of the building and into a hair-raising manhunt. 6/15/06 |
| 41 | Inner Demons/Kids with Guns - Miami detectives find a man murdered outside his own apartment. While hunting for the killer, they uncover the victim's inner life, revealing a man torn between who he is and what he believes. In Memphis, a tragic triple shooting leaves two young men dead and one fighting for his life in the hospital. Detectives soon find out that the deadly shooter and his partner may be kids, too. With their only witness in critical condition, they race against the clock to catch the killers before they strike again. Caesar Johnson was subsequently convicted of two counts of voluntary manslaughter and one count of criminal attempt felony and is now awaiting sentencing. 6/22/06 |
| 42 | The Boogey Man/Murder on Flowering Peach - Dallas Homicide Detectives respond to a call about a body in the charred remains of a car. Digging into the victim's life uncovers a dangerous lifestyle with questionable friends. With each interview, a new piece of the puzzle is revealed and investigators take one step closer to the killer. In Memphis, Sergeant Tony Mullins and his team find themselves crossing state lines into neighboring Mississippi in their hunt for the person responsible for a home invasion that left one man dead. 6/29/06 |
| 43 | The Witness/The Trunk - Miami detectives Ricky Martinez and Fernando Bosch investigate the double homicide of a husband and wife. As they race against the clock to find the killer, they discover that their best witness in the case tragically also has the most at stake. And in Memphis, Sgt. Ron Collins and his team must solve the mystery behind a car discovered on the edge of town. The car's owner had given the keys to her boyfriend three days earlier and he has been missing ever since. Now there is blood dripping from the trunk. 7/6/06 |
| 44 | Pre-emptive Strike/Unlucky - Detectives must determine if a shooter acted in self-defense; detectives look for a mentally unstable suspect. 7/20/06 |
| S1 | Miami City Vice - Following Miami detective Lt. Joe Schillaci as he leads a special-operations team that works in disguise or undercover. Schillaci discusses his new responsibilities and reminisces about his career in homicide. 8/3/06 |
| 45 | Crossfire – In Miami, FL Jessica Dixon (23) shot dead in a
convenience store from a stray bullet from a gunfight that happened
outside. Detectives Emiliano Tamayo and Ervens Ford find the store's
surveillance footage reveals two black man in a shootout in front and one
was hit in the leg. They need to find him before it's too late. Officer
Paul Noel and Fabrice Nelson CSI were on scene. Sgt. Eunice Cooper, Faheim
the witness, Corey Ronnel Harold - suspect, Lt. John Burmaster assists. School Ties - In Miami, FL Yvon Pierre (22) was shot dead on the street in the middle of the day. Detectives Fernando Bosch and Rick Martinez are investigating the murder of a man. The victim's girlfriend was there and may know the identity of the killer. Sgt. Juan Herrera, Steve Sterling is the suspect caught 4 months later. 8/31/06 |
| 46 | The Run Around/Night Cap - In Memphis, Sergeant Mitch Oliver and his team respond to the murder of a man shot in his car while parked at a local mini market. In order to track down their shooter, detectives must rely on witnesses who sometimes hide more than they reveal. And in Phoenix, Detective Rosenthal is investigating the case of young man shot dead and left in the parking lot of a local bar. His biggest lead is the bar's surveillance tape. It could reveal who the victim was with the night he was killed. 8/24/06 |
| 47 | Memphis Blues/Knife to the Heart - Miami detectives respond to the stabbing murder of an elderly man found dead in his home. After collecting key evidence on the crime scene and talking to witnesses, Detective Rolando Garcia starts to suspect the victim's emotionally unstable nephew may have committed the murder. In Memphis, Sergeant Caroline Mason investigates the murder of a young man outside of a liquor store. She uses all her interrogation skills and street smarts to find her suspect. 7/27/06 |
| 48 | Fool for Love - In Dallas, TX Leonel V is found a badly
decomposed in his bathtub after neighbors break in. Detective Rick Duggan
delve into the victim's past leading them on a trail lined with love and
deceit after finding his safe has been emptied and his door locked. Gary
Pfieffer witness, Sgt. Eugene Reyes, Detective John Palmer, Sgt. Gil
Garza, Det Eddie Ibarra, Marcella Cortezz & Geraldo Hernandez – his
ex-girlfriend and new boyfriend who robbed and killed him. Dumped - In Memphis, TN Quinton Johnson was found mysteriously dumped in an empty field. Detective Tim Helldorfer, Sgt. Ron Collins, Sgt. Scott Reed, Sgt. W.D. Merrit, Det James Woods, Sgt. Kevin Lundy scramble for leads. Marlon Wright witness leads to Pit Bull 9/14/06 |
| 49 | The Wrong Man/Five Points Payback - An innocent bystander dies in a drive-by shooting; a man dies by gunshot in a van. 9/21/06 |
| 50 |
Candy Lady - In Memphis, TN Gloria Morris the Candy Lady was found shot
through her closed front door. Sergeants Bill Ashton and Caroline Mason
hunt for the killer from the projects of the city to the trailer parks of
the countryside. Sgt. Tony Mullins, Lt. Tony Armstrong, Det Vikki Saine,
Sheriff Bill Kelley, Det Ricky Wilson assist. A man in a gray jogging suit
is sought and found, but the case is unsolved. Best of Friends - In Miami, FL – Cornell Mike (17) is shot in the notorious Liberty City section called the "Pork and Beans". Detectives Ervens Ford and Kevin Ruggiero must sift through the lies and get to the truth before time runs out. Lt.. John Buhrmaster assists, Andrew “Pop” Hart is the suspect. 9/28/06 |
| 51 | Family Affair - In Dallas, TX Felicia Dabney is found
stabbed, beaten, and burned on a bed and the victim's 12-year-old niece
and her mother are missing. Detective Dale Lundberg finds out the mother
Yolanda Wilson is responsible. She went crazy and though people were
coming for her. Kelly Maguire, Sgt. Rich Wilson, Det. Steve David, Det.
Rick Duggan. The Hustler - In Memphis, TN Jonathan Ardey a pool hustler is killed in a bloody motel room. Sgt. Mitch Oliver learns the victim's white Cougar is nowhere to be found. If he finds the car, he'll find his suspect. Sgt. Lauren Robinson, Cassandra – wife, Serena Carter is the girlfriend, Maurice Hood is a kid caught in the car and Elliot Fullilove is the killer. 10/5/06 |
| 52 | Motel Massacre - In Memphis, TN Darrel Smith, Jarret “Foxx” Robinson and Regie Renfroe are shot when a motel turns into a war zone when a gunfight leaves two men dead and another critically injured. Sgt. WD Merritt, Sgt. Tim Helldorfer, Sgt. Lonnie Justice, Lt. Joseph Scott investigate. Two whores Lakeysha Hill & Tosha “Jasmine” Taylor were on scene. It turns out Regie was their pimp and the plan was to have Foxx’s friend Deango “Tony” Sevier rob them. All three are charged and Regie survives. Pure Innocent - In Kansas City, MO Jontai Hoskins is a 2 year-old baby killed in a car shooting. Det. Everett Babcock, Sgt. Barbara Eckert, Det. Carl Counti investigate. The victim’s 8 year old sister says the shooter is her uncle George Haynes who is hiding in Mississippi, Det. Mike Jones goes on America’s Most Wanted to catch him and does. 10/12/06. |
| 53 | Family Secrets/Clipped - Memphis detectives search for a missing couple; and Miami detectives investigate the murder of a young man who was shot behind a barbershop. 1/11/07 |
| 54 | Broken Alibis - In Miami, FL 7/15/06 - Lazeros
"The Prince" Suarez (59) a homeless man is found killed on the
sidewalk in front of a business in Little Havana. He sleeps in front of
the place after it closes, someone tried to steal his scooter and beat his
head in with a baseball bat. Det. Freddy Ponce leads, Det. Mario De Los
Santos & Sgt. Mo Velazquez assists. A woman IDs him, a bloody shoe
print is found and they think it was another homeless man and they don't
change their shoes, so they check all homeless people's shoes. Vladimir
Hernandez's shoes match and CSI finds blood spots on them. He says Angel
gave him the shoes. Angel Concepcion is brought in and says he did give
him the shoes, but before the murder. He was with Juan that night. Juan is
brought in to verify his alibi. He says they went out to get money and
came back with blood on them. Angel is brought back in. and says he was
the lookout while Vladi robbed him. He takes him back to the scene and
tells them what happened. Both are charged with first-degree murder. A Good Woman - In Kansas City, MO - Yvette Goode (50) is found in her house stabbed many times by her son Tom hadn't seen his mom in a couple days. Det. Ray Lenoir leads, Sgt. Barbara Eckert, Sgt. Doug Niemeier & Det. Dave Needham assist. A bloody knife is found and her car is missing. Her car is found the next day, but is clean. Her partner says her nephew Ronald Allison lived with him and was a problem. They find he has a history with knives and is already in jail. They go get Ron and he says he was out drinking all night and came back and she wasn't home. He has a big cut on his hand and doesn't know how it got there. DNA tests are made on the weapon and it matches Ron. Ron is brought back in and says he found the body first and was scared because he was on parole. Tom is told who the killer is and he can't believe he had to do that and they assure him they have the right man. Ron is charged with first-degree murder.11/16/06 |
| 55 | Houdini/Innocence Lost - A robber shoots a gas-station clerk; a 9-year-old girl is killed while playing outside her house. 11/30/06 |
| 56 | Wrong Turn/Deadly Dance - A tourist who's in Miami for his son's 17th birthday is murdered; and a shooting at a high-school dance leaves one teen dead and another one in critical condition. 12/7/06 |
| 57 | Moment of Truth/Cat and Mouse - In Dallas, a woman is killed during a robbery; and in Detroit, a mother and her infant are murdered. 12/14/06 |
| 58 | Get That Money/Senseless - A young man is murdered in Kansas City, Mo., and the victim's cell phone may lead the detectives to the killer; in Memphis, a woman is killed in the neighborhood where the investigating detective grew up. 12/21/06 |
| 59 | Easy Prey/Widowmaker - A woman is shot to death in Dallas; in Miami, an elderly man is beaten to death outside of his home. The murder charge against Terrance "Mississippi" Staples was subsequently dropped. 12/28/06 |
| 60 | Up in Smoke/Shot in the Dark - A truck fire in Memphis turns out to be a double murder, and there are many suspects to be pursued; in Kansas City, a woman is found dead in the street, but there are few clues to her killer. 1/25/07 |
| 61 | Fatal Pickup - In Detroit, a double
shooting in a vacant lot leads Lt. John Morell and Sgt. LaNesha Jones to
an unlikely suspect--a 61 year old man. Bad Neighbor - in Dallas, TX Det. Eddie Ibarra must unravel the complex life of a victim riddled with bullets and dumped in a downtown park. Claude Morris was convicted of first degree murder and got 17-32 years. 1/18/07 |
| 62 | Blood Trail/50 G Murder - In Memphis, TN a woman is brutally stabbed and left for dead in the street. When a witness comes forward with the license plate number of a van she saw driving from the scene, the homicide team must employ unique tactics to lure the suspect in. In Dallas, Texas, Detective Rick Duggan investigates the murder of an elderly man, shot inside his dental clinic. Investigators have little to work with until a woman comes into headquarters with information that seems too good to be true. 2/1/07 |
| 63 | Live To Tell/Field of Lies - Miami detectives investigate the case of a woman who was raped and murdered in a vacant lot; a Dallas robbery-murder case hangs on the ability of a wounded survivor to identify the attackers. 2/21/07 |
| 64 | Stray Bullet/Payback - Dallas detectives believe a man was killed in a case of mistaken identity, and they try to find the intended target before it's too late; a rookie detective in Miami tackles a triple homicide. 3/1/07 |
| 65 | The Good Book/Nightmare - A Miami detective investigates a double homicide that left a third victim clinging to life; a Dallas detective tries to solve a case involving a charred body in a burning car. 3/8/07 |
| 66 | To Die for - In Memphis, TN a sergeant investigates a murder in her old
neighborhood Highway Revenge - a detective in Detroit tracks a notorious gang responsible for a homicide. Nathaniel Haynes was convicted of first degree murder and got 15-25 years. Robert Simpson got 42-62 years. 3/15/07 |
| 67 | Final Investment/Writing on the Wall - A man is shot in Memphis, and a girl is the only witness to the crime; the murder of a homeless man in Miami is linked to a gang. 4/5/07 |
| 68 | Silenced - Dallas detectives investigate the murder of an unidentified woman who was shot to death, and they have only a few clues, including a cell phone found at the scene. 4/12/07 |
| 69 | Last Dance/Deadly Deal - A gang-related shooting leaves two people dead in Dallas; in Kansas City, a man is found dead in his pickup truck clutching money and drugs. 4/19/07 |
| 70 | Hard Fall - A former airline executive is murdered in his car in Miami. 5/24/07 |
| 71 | Reversal of Fortune/Running Scared - In Dallas, a body is found rolled in a carpet and dumped on the side of the road; and a 66-year-old Cuban man is shot to death in Miami. 5/31/07 |
| 72 | Blindsided - a Dallas detective searches for a killer who shot a woman in the lobby of her workplace. The detective is given crucial evidence when video surveillance reveals the killer's face. 7/12/07 |
| 73 | Missing Witness/Who's Knocking - A man is gunned down in Miami in broad daylight; in Cincinnati, OH a man is murdered outside of his apartment. Garfield Howard was convicted of murder and got 23 to life. 6/21/07 |
| 74 | 20 Bucks/Family Friend - A Cincinnati teen watching a street fight is killed by a stray bullet; in Dallas, a victim is shot and left behind a vacant house. 7/19/07 |
| 75 | Bicycle Bandits/First Shot - A recent high-school graduate is shot in Miami; and Cincinnati detectives search for a man they believe took revenge on a childhood friend. Miliaray Torbert plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and got 20 years. 7/26/07 |
| 76 | Last Birthday - In Cincinnati, a 58-year-old man is found dead in a hallway, and detectives learn that he was murdered the day before his birthday. 8/2/07 |
| 77 | Floated Away/Tagged - In Dallas, a man is found floating in a creek with his throat slashed; in Memphis, a 19-year-old man is gunned down in the street. Kristian Iglesias was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and got 5 years. 8/9/07 |
| 78 | Friend or Foe/Code of Silence - Cincinnati detectives investigate the murder of a teen who was shot in the head while sleeping; and, in Kansas City, detectives search for a killer who shot a man over a dice game. 8/16/07 |
| 79 | Thrown Away/Crimson Trail - In Miami, the decomposing body of a 14-year-old boy is found in a dumpster; in Dallas, the body of a Honduran immigrant who was stabbed to death is found in an alley. 8/23/07 |
| 80 | About Face/Backyard Murder - In Detroit, a young man is found shot to death in a yard; and Miami detectives investigate the murder of a young man shot in broad daylight. 8/30/07 |
| 81 | Stepping Up/Foul Shot - A man is shot in Dallas while trying to protect a friend; in Detroit, a basketball game turns violent and someone is fatally shot. Leon "Little Cuz" Morrow was convicted of second degree murder and got 20-30 years. 9/13/07 |
| 82 | Double Life - In Miami, a man is found stabbed to death behind a church and the investigation uncovers a mystery regarding the victim. 9/20/07 |
| 83 | Shooting Spree/Lady in the Fire - a man is found shot to death behind an abandoned house in Detroit; and a Memphis woman is found dead inside a burning house. 10/11/07 |
| 84 | Bad Call/Ricochet - Miami, FL – Albert Merritt (41)/Memphis, TN – Herman “Keith” Rhodes (37) - Detective Freddy Ponce and Sgt. Louis Melancon unravel the mystery of a man found shot dead in his car. The key to the case could be the victim's cell phone. 10/19/07 |
| 85 | Neighborhood Sweetheart/Hail of Gunfire - Miami, FL – Shenique ‘Shain’ Shorter (19)/Kansas City, MO - Isaac Calvert (18) In Miami, Detective Ricardo John is investigating the brutal homicide of a 19-year old girl. The detectives believe that she may have been murdered to send a message to her boyfriend, an alleged drug dealer. In Kansas City, Missouri, a man is shot dead during a gun fight. Detective Everett Babcock has to unravel the mountain of ballistics evidence on the scene to solve the case. #85. 10/25/07 |
| 86 | Misled/Somebody's Daddy - Alberto Gutierrez (17)/Jereme Fletcher (27) In Miami, a 17-year-old boy is beaten to death and his body dumped in the backseat of his car; in Dallas, a young man is shot dead in a parking lot. 11/1/07 |
| 87 | Motel No-Tell/Brotherly Love - Ivan Rangel (22)/Antonio ‘Black’ Span (32) - Memphis detectives search for a murder suspect who may have left the state; a Dallas detective investigates a fatal shooting in a motel parking lot. 11/8/07 |
| 88 | The Tender Trap/Bait and Switch - Manuel Cordero (52)/Christian Marton (21) - In Miami, a mechanic is shot to death in his shop. Detective Juan Hererra and his team focus on the victim's everyday habits to find a reason why someone would want him dead. In Dallas, a young, small-town farmer is murdered while trying to buy a used car. With only a nickname to go on, Detective John Palmer and his team need to track down the car's seller to help them find their suspect. 11/29/07 |
| 89 | Fit of Rage/Mean Streets - Cincinnati, OH - Keisha Hogan (34)/Miami, FL - Raul Nervoa (65) Cincinnati detectives investigate a strangulation death; and detectives in Miami try to solve the murder of a 65-year-old man. 12/6/07 |
| 90 | Double Time - Jose Castro (45)/Roberto Cruz (40) - In Miami, Detective Ervens Ford is called to a shooting in a Little Haiti café. Witnesses say it was a robbery gone bad. But just as Ford and his team close in on their suspects, the team gets assigned to a second homicide investigation. It's a race against the clock for the team to solve both cases. 1/17/08 |
| 91 | Inked In Blood - Memphis, TN 7/21/07 - Chianne Gast (32) of Top Shelf Tattoos, Chica777 on myspace the tattoo artist is shot to death during a robbery & rape by 3 men. Jamal Williams (21) is the fourth. Rashanda Clark (18) was indicted on the charge of accessory after the fact. 1/10/08 |
| 92 | Dead Sleep - Cincinnati, OH - Ronny
Simpson (51) 2pm a call comes in that a man had his head bashed in on the
East End in a yard. Det. Kurt Ballman leads. Sgt. Bob Liston, Frank Fede,
Pat Moran, Det. Dave Feldhaus assists. Tag Team - Memphis, TN - Darrell McVeigh (19). A call comes in about a fight and his friend was shot 3 times. Sgt. Caroline Mason leads. Lt. Toney Armstrong, Sgt. Tony Mullins & Sgt. Vivian Murray assists. #92. 1/24/08 |
| 93 | Unnecessary Roughness - Cincinnati, OH
8/12/07 - Ernest ‘Yearn’ Crier (19). Kids are playing football in the
Peace Bowl and gunfire erupts nearby at 3pm in Avondale. News coverage
captures it. Det. Greg Gehring leads. Det Kurt Ballman & Sgt. Joe
Briede assists. Stolen Life - Dallas, TX - Coach Samuel West Jr. (63). 1am in the Oak Cliff neighborhood. A woman says a man walked up to them in a pickup asking for money and opened fire. Det. Robert Quirk leads. Det. P.E. Jones, Sgt. Dudley Mosworth, Ofc Trish Allen, Det Dennis Mumford & Det Fidel Perez assists. They work to learn the identity of the person who robbed and killed a popular high school basketball coach. #93. 1/31/08 |
| 94 | Burden of Proof - Detroit, MI - Barbara Anne Udics (37). A man calls at 7am that his wife and him have been shot in the northwest district. Off Lance Sullivan leads. Off Chuck Zwicker, Latrelle M, Barbara Simon, Sgt. Michael Martel, Off Greg Stopcynski, David Andrews & David Pauch assists. A suspect is identified driving the victim's car. Backfire - Cincinnati, OH - Kevin Stevenson (17). A call of a man shot in the head comes in. Det. Colin Vaughn leads. Det David Feldhaus, Det John Horn & Sgt. Bob Liston assist. They investigate the murder of a young man. 2/7/08 |
| 95 | American Dream - Memphis, TN - Hocko
Velage (52). 7am a man is found in an 18 wheeler dead with the window shot
out in a warehouse parking lot. Sgt. Joe Stark leads. Det. Debo Carson,
Lt. Mark Miller, Sgt. Kevin Lundy, Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Connie
Justice & Sgt. Tony Mullins assists. Easter Sunday - Detroit, MI - Rico Hence (30). On Easter a call of a silver SUV blocking an alley comes in and police find a dead man in the back. Off Lance Sullivan/Sgt. Constance Slappey leads. Off Chuck Zwicker, Off Lester Lee, Sgt. Gordon Hampton, Off Hamilton & Sgt. David Babcock assists. 3/6/08 |
| 96 | Better Days - Memphis, TN - Maurice Pegues
(78). At 7:41pm in the Magnolia neighborhood a call comes of a man dead
next to a house. Sgt. Terry Max leads. Lt. Toney Armstrong, Sgt. Joe
Stark, Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Tony Mullins & Sgt. Vivian Murray
assists. Wildflower - Dallas, TX - Melissa LeSueur (35). A missing woman’s body is finally found in a field. Det. Bob Ermatinger leads. Det. Scott Sayers, Det Ken Penrod, Det. Randy Laboda, Sgt. Larry Lewis, Marshall McLemore, Det. John Palmer, Det. PE Jones & Det Phil assists. 3/13/08 |
| 97 | Last Ride - Dallas, TX - Brandon
Lichtmexay (18). 12:30am an illegally parked Lincoln is towed and they
find blood all over it. Cops find a man in the trunk. Det. Rick Duggan
leads. Det. Scott Sayers, Sgt. Rene Sigalia, Det Ken Penrod, Det. Dan
Lusty, Sgt. Larry Lewis, Det. Eddie Ibarra, Det. Robert Quirk, Det. John
Palmer & Det. Mark Ahern assists. Trailer Trap - Memphis, TN - Lee Trap Davis (35). 7am a woman calls 911 about a dead man at Leahy’s Trailer park. Sgt. Terry Max leads. Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Tony Mullins & Sgt. Bart Ragland assists. 3/20/08 |
| 98 | Lured in - Miami, FL - Luis Medina (50) is
killed at 11:30am. A 911 call from a hotel on Biscayne comes in about a
dead man in a room. Det Carlos Castellanos leads. Sgt. Louis Melancon, Det
Manny Castillo assists. Mervin Watty is charged with first degree
murder. 3/27/08 Disaster - Memphis, TN - Christopher "Disaster" Hammond (32) is killed at 1:07pm. A 911 call of gunshots and a man down in the street comes in. Sgt. Caroline Mason leads. Sgt. Tony Mullins, Ofc C. Price, Sgt. Joe Stark, Sgt. Barry Hanks, Lt. Toney Armstrong assists. Darnell Galloway (18) is the shooter, but it was self-defense. |
| 99 | Deal Breaker - Memphis, TN - Chris Mathis
(21) is found lying in the street shot dead by woman driving. Sgt. Bart
Ragland leads. Sgt. Tony Mullins, Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Debo Carson,
Det. Kevin Clark, Lt. Toney Armstrong, Sgt. Eddie Bass, Sgt. Connie
Justice, Sgt. Barry Hanks assist. Greg, a friend of the victim comes
forward. Chris went with him to buy some coke to sell. The dealer got in
the back of his red Crown Victoria, pulled a gun, a fight ensued and he
shot him. He got in the front and pushed Chris on him and he went out the
door and the guy drove off with Chris. They tell his mom and wife. He was
working on a barge to support the kid. The next day they find the car, it’s
been torched. They get the phone records and the last call is to Quentin
Johnson (21). Now they have to find him. Day 5 - he turns himself in. He
denies having anything to do with the murder. He claims his phone was
stolen that day. They say it’s BS. He says he doesn’t want to give any
names. They check his phone records and talk to his sister who talked to
him on the phone. He admits Rodrick G. Greenwood G-Money his cousin shot
him. He picked him up and Aaron Carr (21) was driving. He says they were
going to rob them and it went to a fight and went wrong, then they burned
it. Rod will tell you everything, but they don’t know where he is. Day 6
- Greg comes in and IDs Rod as the shooter. They catch Aaron and he doesn’t
know anything. They tell him Quentin put him there. He admits being there,
but didn’t know it was a robbery, he wasn’t going to snitch and get
killed. Kim Bell-Morris says they are still aching. Jessica Mathis his
sister adn Josalon Mathis the wife are there. Mickie Mathis his mom says
he has a big heart. Rod was caught a month later in Chicago. All three are
charged with first-degree murder. Gunplay - Tucson, AZ - Derrick Burris (16) is killed on East Aurora when a man calls that his friend was shot in the chest on 29th. Det Bill Hanson leads. Det Bob Saunders, Det Kevin Hall, Det Kathi Kelley, Det. Jennifer Whitfield assist. His friend says they went to see a movie and were walking back home and two guys jumped them at the bus stop. They pulled a gun on them and shot. He knows Raymond Godoy (15) from school, they didn’t say anything, just shot with a big cowboy gun. They tell the family, then go look for Ray. He’s not home, but they search his house and find a matching gun. His mom says he couldn’t have done it and he’s staying at a girlfriend’s house. They go get him. He says he was sick and just sitting watching TV, you’ve got the wrong guy. His mom didn’t know about the gun and cries. He doesn’t want to talk in front of his mom. His says his cousin Anthony Encinas (18) had a gun and wanted to rob them. He was on probation and wanted no part of it. Derrick thought the gun was fake and grabbed for it and it went off. He ran, didn’t mean to do it, just wanted to scare him. Now they have to get Anthony and raid his house and he’s home. He says he has no idea what’s going on, it was Ray’s idea, he knew the guys, he gave him the gun, he went to grab it and it went off, it was an accident. Lakia Culver his mom still can’t believe it. Anthony & Ray both get first-degree murder. #99. 5/22/08 |
| 100 | Shell Shocked - Memphis, TN - Robert Clay
(23). A woman calls 911 to say her boyfriend was shot in her house and
there’s blood all over. Sgt. Mundy Quinn leads. Sgt. Kevin Lundy, Lt.
Mark Miller & Sgt. Chris Harris assists. Cradle to Grave - Miami, FL - Levardos McKenzie (29). On Grand Ave a man is shot dead in the street in Coconut Grove. Det Manny Castillo leads. Sgt. Juan Herrera, Lt. John Buhrmaster & Det Ricardo Ohn assists. 4/10/08 |
| 101 | Dropped Call - Tucson, AZ - Manuel ‘Poncho’
Moreno (26). 7pm a 911 call of a man shot comes in and he dies at the
hospital. Det Bill Hanson leads. Sgt. Karen Cutlip, Det Kathi Kelley,
Julie Ramirez, Det. Mike Carroll & Sgt. Kevin Hall assists. Derailed - Memphis, TN - Diana Franklin (44). A woman calls 911 that her mother has been missing for 3 days. They find her car, the next day they find a body by the train tracks and it’s her. Sgt. Debo Carson leads. Ofc Archie Rudd, Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Tony Mullins & Sgt. Joe Stark assists. 5/8/08 |
| 102 | Ashes and Snow - Minneapolis, MN - Kristine C. Larson (19) is killed at 8pm. A 911 call comes in about a fire and a body in a car. Sgt. Rick Zimmerman leads. Sgt. Tammy Diedrich, Sgt. John Holthusen, Sgt. Nancy Dunlop, Sgt. Christopher Gaiters, Det Chris Granger, Lt. Amelia Huffman assists. They investigate the death of a woman who was strangled and left in a partially burned car; while racing against time and an incoming snowstorm, they come to the realization that the killer is close by. Zachary Matthews was charged with first degree murder. 5/15/08 |
| 103 | Bail Out - Dallas, TX - Daniel Barron (26)
is killed at midnight in December in the Oak Cliff neighborhood when a
call of a shooting comes in. Det Ken Penrod leads. Det Scott Sayers. Det
Ray Bennett, Sgt. Larry Lewis, Ofc Dale Ordogne, Lt. Craig Miller, Det
Maria Varker, Det. Linda Crumm assists. It looks like a dopehouse robbery,
pants are down, shot on the floor many times. They find 2 guns in the
bedroom, someone left. They find his drug partner Joey Crews, he was over
the house and Chris Wade came over around 4, he hadn’t seen him in years
and he wanted drugs. They hung out and smoked around 5 hours. He delivered
some weed, came back an hour later and he was dead. They talked business,
Chris might’ve killed him for it. Chris has been arrested 8 times so
they pick him up. He says he saw Joey, went over, smoked a blunt, left a
half hour later and went over Didi’s house for the night. She confirms
his story. They hit the streets. Day 18 - he gets a tip that Callie
Marshall was involved so they go get her. She says her boyfriend is in
jail and wanted $1500 to bail him out and heard the drug house had major
money. Her friend Terome Omar Richardson knew them, had bought from them
before. He went in and shot them and kept shooting. They went in and
robbed the place. Day 19 - Marshals pick Omar up the next day. He says
Joey called him about a robbery, he wasn’t there. Ken says that’s not
true. He says Callie tried to run in and he started shooting to protect
her. He flipped Dan over and he wasn’t dead and he told him he was
sorry. A week later the family is told what happened. Frank Barron says he
would’ve given her the money for bail. Both are charged with capitol
murder. Seeing Red - Cincinnati, OH - Fred Tucker (57) is found dead by a woman at her grandfathers house at Marshall St. Det Jenny Luke leads. Sgt. Joe Briedle, Ofc Ryan Smith, Det Terry McGuffey, Sgt. Bob Liston, Det. Dave Feldhaus assists. The scene is very bloody, he’s covered in it. The back door was broke open and a long bloody machete was found. The bathroom has blood and dirty clothes like he took a shower. There are bloody shoeprints on the porch. The granddaughter Christina says she doesn’t know anything, her mom Connie Tucker was the one who went there and said she’d never believe what happened. She didn’t want to call the cops because she has warrants and is at a hotel. They go out and find her, she’s really hard looking for her age. She says she broke in the back door looking for him. She asks if Mark Roby was home upstairs, but he didn’t answer, just a dog. He worked for her dad, they had problems and his dog Rocky was missing and they heard a dog at Mark’s. They go back to Mark’s and give the dog to family. In the bathroom they find a shoe print matching the bloody one. They find him hiding in KY. He says he’s not violent, Fred was his boss and always made him feel like he was better than him and tormented him. He was drunk and Fred came up bitching about the radio and he grabbed a knife. Then he was covered in blood, he took a shower, looked for a gun to shoot himself and the dog followed him home. He doesn’t know why he did it. He got 15 years. 7/22/08 |
| 104 | Frenzy - Miami, FL - Armando Gutierrez
(43) & Vicente Del Risco (74) are killed at 1:39am in Coral Wayne. A
911 call comes in that someone was shot nearby and yelling help in
Spanish. Cops find 2 bodies and lots of gunshots. It's a nice area, it
rarely happens. Det Carlos Castellanos leads. Sgt. Louis Melancon, Ralph
Garcia, Trevor Bonner, Lt. John Buhrmaster, Det Leo Tapanes assists.
Eduardo Cohen (63) is charged with 2 counts of first degree murder. Hard Truth - Cincinnati, OH - Jarrel Grafenreed is killed. A 911 call comes in about a shooting in Bond Hill and cops arrive in a group of people screaming around someone shot. Det Bill Hilbert leads. Sgt. Joe Briedle, Det. John Horn, Ofc Keith Fangman, Ofc Ron Avant assists. Kevin Lawrence was charged with felony assault and murder and got 25 years. 5/26/08 |
| 105 | Black Out - Dallas, TX - Brandon Brown (22) is killed at 6am. A woman calls about a shooting in an apartment where 3 men are shot and 1 dies on scene. Det Robert Arredondo leads. Det Dwayne Thompson, Lt. Richard Rivas, Ofc William Regan, Lt. Craig Miller, Det. Eddie Lopez, Ofc B.K. Nelson, Ofc Ed Parker, Dep Marquis Fomby, Sgt. Brian McDonald, Sgt. Chris Thomsen & Sgt. Christopher Gaites assist. Eric Harris & Lorenzo Johnson are both charged with capital murder. 7/22/08 |
| 106 | Breaking the Silence - Cincinnati, OH -
Marco Dink Faulkner (26) is killed at 11:45pm. There’s a shooting
outside a bar and a man dies after getting hit 3 times. Det Keith
Witherell leads. Det Bill Hilbert, Det Jeff Schare, Lt. Mike Zwick, Ofc
Dave Corlett assist. Kelly Dority-Trapp (16) is charged with murder. Letters of Intent - Dallas, TX - Jessica Lewalling (23) is killed at 10:20pm. A call comes in about a woman screaming at an apartment who was stabbed. Det Mark Ahearn leads. Det Robert Quirk & Det. Dan Lusty assist. Darrell Billingslea is charged with first degree murder. 7/15/08 |
| 107 | The Last Fare - Tucson, AZ - Timothy R. Royce (27) is killed at 11:30pm. A cab driver finds an abandoned taxi and a dead man nearby. Det Jennifer Whitfield leads. Sgt. Kevin Hall, Dr. David Winston, Det. Bill Hanson, Det. Mike Carroll, Det. Kathy Kelly, Sgt. Bob Saunders, Sgt. Mike Allen & Sgt. Robert Allen assists. Marisela Pacheco (30), Ruben Archunde (20) and her fiance Jessica Gellegos (16) were charged with first degree murder and Jess is tried as an adult. 7/1/08 |
| 108 | Last Night Out - Cincinnati, OH - Terry
Larkins (23) is killed in Mount Airy at 2:41am. A call of a man is shot in
the face outside a nightclub. Det Matt Thompson leads. Det Doug Lindle,
Ofc Cecila Charron, Det. Bill Hilbert, Sgt. Colin Vaughn & Det. Dave
Gregory assists. Neco Hawkins (16) is charged. Death Do Us Part - Miami, FL - Guerline Germain (31) is killed at 2:47am in Little Haiti. A call of a woman is found shot in the head in a SUV with 2 babies in the back comes in. Det Manny Castillo leads. Det Carlos Castellanos, Sgt. Jose Pepi Grenado, Ralph Garcia & Willard Delancey assist. No one was charged. 7/8/08 |
| 109 | The Last Yard - Memphis, TN - Taylor
Bradford (21) is killed at 10pm when his car crashes into a tree on the
university campus and paramedics find he has been shot in the chest. Sgt.
Eric Freeman leads. Sgt. Mundy Quinn, Sgt. Tony Mullins, Sgt. Ron Collins,
Sgt. Eddie Bass, Sgt. W.D. Merritt, Sgt. Connie Justice, Lt. Toney
Armstrong, Sgt. Joe Peel, Lt. Mark Miller assist. A woman says she heard a
gunshot in the University of Memphis dorm lot and heard him speed off,
then he crashed around the corner. The next day it’s all over the news
and is high profile. A guy from his team says he was a good guy, didn’t
drink or smoke, but he did get in a fight with Devin Jefferson last year.
They have to get him. The next night there is a candlelight vigil for
Taylor. The next day Devin is brought in. He says he stole Taylor’s high
school sweetheart and he was stalking her and they fought over it. He
denies getting beat up. He was thrown into a tree, he punched him 10 times
and doesn’t care if Taylor is dead for what he did to him. He worked all
day, went to his girls’ house and stayed there. He has a paper due
tomorrow and wants to go home soon. They have the girl there and she says
he was with her the whole time, but she asked if he did it and he said no.
They have to let him go. At the first Memphis Tigers game they honor
Taylor #93. A call comes in that Taylor won a jackpot at a casino. He was
bragging about winning $8000. Day 6 - a woman calls who saw it all and
wants to meet at The Butcher Shop. She says it was a robbery by 3 men who
weren’t students - DaeShawn Tate, Victor Trezvent & Courtney
Washington. Day 7 - They go out and round them up. Court says he was home
all night. They say he’s lying and will be charged. He says they all
went to high school together. They heard he was flashing money, went out
to rob them, got nothing and Vic shot him. He was the driver and didn’t
see it. Vic says he got scared and shot. Vic denies knowing them and can’t
understand why they think he did it. They say they didn’t just pick him
out at random and Court admitted it. He starts crying and says it all
could’ve been avoided and he wishes he wasn’t there. It was all Devin’s
idea. He is an old friend of his. He told him the guy had money and
nothing wouldn’t happen, but he knew something would. He didn’t care
and didn’t want the money and he knew something was up. Dae admits he
was there. They go back and get Devin. He says he told them everything.
They tell him his 3 friends rolled on him. Everything they knew about
Taylor came from him. All 4 of them are charged with first degree murder.
4 months later - Taylor’s parents Jimmie & Marva are still missing
him. Root of All Evil - Tucson, AZ 12/07 - Quinterios Straughter (27) & Aries Straughter (26) are found when the sister breaks in a window of a house in midtown. Det. Jennifer Whitfield leads. Det Mike Caroll, Det. John Dorer, Sgt. Tim Milbourn, Sgt. Kevin Hall assist. Brandice came over to check and broke the window to get in. The bodies are on the floor and all the expensive stuff is still there including money. They’ve been dead for days. The sister got worried she hadn’t heard from her in 4 days. She thinks he went back to selling drugs with a guy called K and thinks it’s him. He hangs with a short stripper named Theresa from Kansas. They hit all the strip clubs looking for her. Curves says she’s Theresa Thompson, but hasn’t been there in a couple days. They don’t want to call and spook her. They check Quin’s camera and there’s pictures of him holding stacks of cash, which are missing now. The next day the sister finds an apartment building where Theresa lives. The manager says she moved out, but her friend is still there. She says Theresa left town for KS the day after the murder with K. She knows Q and is hit hard by it. They call Theresa who says she lived with them and she’s in Wichita. They decide to go there to get her and she meets them. Day 3 - they say it looks weird she left town the day after the murder. She says she was already leaving and he jumped on the bus with her, got off in Albuquerque and she hasn’t seen him since. They were in a hotel and K left in the middle of the night, said something messed up happened and now he won’t answer his phone and it’s suspicious. They believe her, but no one was caught. 7/29/08 |
| 110 | Moving Out - Memphis, TN - Cedric Smith
(44) is found shot twice in a driveway at 1:47am when man calls about a
fight and shots fired. Sgt. Debo Carson leads. Lt. Don Crowe, Sgt. Connie
Justice, Lt. Mark Miller, Sgt. Mundy Quinn, Sgt. Eric Freeman, Sgt. Joe
Peel, Sgt. Ron Collins, Asst DA John Campbell assist. They were moving
out, there is a mattress on the ground and furniture on the car roof and a
muddy toy gun inside the car. Neighbors heard Cedric fighting with his
girl Patricia who is gone. His sister calls in about him and they go tell
her. He lost his job and was on bad times. Patricia then shows up. She was
with Cedric, Mike & Sylvester in the driveway drinking. Then he
snapped and tried to hit her. He had a gun, they got it away from him, she
went down, then Cedric was shot. She IDs the toy gun. They go to Syl’s
house and she says he isn’t there. They do find Mike though. He says he
hasn’t seen him in a day and wasn’t out drinking at Cedric’s house,
he was his girl. They don’t believe him and can charge him with this.
They’ll call his girl and she’ll be charged and lose her kids if you
are lying. Then he says he shot him in self-defense. He says Ced pulled a
gun on them, fought his brother Mike, said he would kill them and he went
and got his gun and came back and shot him. They find Syl and he says he
got the gun away, found out it was a toy and Mike shot him anyway. Michael
Bob is charged with voluntary manslaughter. Among Thieves - Dallas, TX - Atanael Compos (28) is found in a truck shot dead after man calls that 2 black men stole his Dodge Durango with his cousin inside. Det Dale Lundberg leads. Sgt. Larry Lewis, Ofc Clayton Reynolds, Det. Dan lusty, Cpl. Bryon Guynn, Det. John Palmer, Det. Eugene Reyes, Det. Rick Duggan assist. They bring in the uncle and he says they went to a baptism and his nephew was drunk, so he gave him a ride. Two men came up with guns and one waited in a silver car behind them. They all got out except his cousin. One guy took the car and the other got in the silver car, he thinks an Infiniti. He didn’t know he was dead and can’t believe it. A cop calls in about 4 carjackings that night all with a silver Infiniti and they caught someone. They were looking for the car and found a suspect running from a carjacking. They find the uncle’s wallet inside. Petrie AKA Pepe denies everything and asks if he’s in trouble. He’s got aggravated murder at least. He wants to go home. That won’t happen. He doesn’t want to hear about murder charges. He says he was just walking and they got him. Do you hear what you are saying to me? Yes, I just said it. He goes in a ball and tries to hide. They go to his grandfather’s house to search his room. He wasn’t home at all yesterday night, he runs with a guy named Eric McCullugh all the time. They catch Eric and he admits he was at the carjacking. He doesn’t want to turn on anyone and it was an accident. He says Petrie fought with the victim and the gun went off. He won’t say who the third is. Day 11 - Daniel Henderson and his girlfriend Melanie are caught with stolen merchandise. She says Dan wasn’t there at the murder. She admits he tried to stop Pepe from hurting the family. Dan denies everything and wants a lawyer. He’s taken to jail and when they go to book him for murder he wants to talk. Mel begs him to talk. He says all 3 of them were in the car and Pepe was staking them out. Pepe took the car and they followed and Pepe killed him, he didn’t know it would happen like that. Petrie Pepe Robinson, Eric McCullough & Danny Henderson are all charged with capitol murder. Melanie Thompson went to jail for robbery. 8/5/08 |
| 111 | Red Handed - Tucson, AZ - Anthony Montoya
(55) is been shot at home and is bleeding everywhere at 2pm when a girl
calls finding her grandpa. Det Bill Hanson leads. Sgt. Kevin Hall, Det
Thomas Stewart, Det. Kathi Kelley, Sgt. Steve Wheeler, Sgt. Mike Allen,
Ofc Tony Winters, Det Mike Carrol assist. Two guys came to the door with a
gun, he slammed the door and they fired through it. Chris chased them in
his truck and they both crashed. He heard a bang, saw them leave, chased
them and they shot at him, crashed and 3 men ran and the driver flipped
him off. He had black hair, long shirt, orange sleeves. There has to be a
reason. He denies doing or selling drugs. In the black SUV they left it
has bullet holes, 2 guns and a gang bandana. Cops catch 2 guys hiding
nearby. Suleme Flores (20) & Ruben Smokey Ramirez (18) are questioned.
Ramiro Perez Jr. is the owner of the SUV. She says we were supposed to be
in the car and something about a shooting, but was on the bus eating
pizza. They say she is here because she was ID’ed. You can be charged
with murder. Did you have a gun or kill anyone? Ramiro did. He’s her
boyfriend, she doesn’t know why he went there. He just said he shot him.
Ruben says Ramiro said a guy owed him money. He knocked on the door, he
answered, tried to close it and Ramiro started shooting. He doesn’t know
why he didn’t just ask for the money. Now they have to find him. With
time running out he gets a tip where he is and set up. Day 3 - they find,
capture and take him in. He doesn’t know what’s going on and gives his
lawyers number. He’s charged with first-degree murder. In Cold Blood - Cincinnati, OH - Herbert Abraham (83) is found by police tied up, strangled and dead at 3pm when a woman calls about a missing 83 year old relative who isn’t answering his phone or door. Det Jennifer Mitsch leads. Det. Kurt Ballman, Det. Dave Feldhaus, Sgt. Bob Liston, Ofc Charles Real, Det Greg Gehring, Det Doug Lindel assist. His money is missing, looks like he was getting out of the tub naked. His prescriptions show he stopped 2 days ago. A neighbor says a man knocked on his door looking for #3, it was weird, but he looked normal, white guy, glasses. His car is missing and another car, a Kia is there stolen from KY. They go to KY and talk to the owner Aaron Price. They were robbed, he took an ATM card and used it for gas in OH. They go to the gas station to look for a video of him, but it comes up empty. Two hours later they find the car with a suspect Roger Tucker (37) and burglary tools in KY. He has a prison record for burglary. The neighbor IDs him, but feels bad he couldn’t save him. They go to Kenton Co. Jail to interview him. He doesn’t know what it’s about, doesn’t know whose car he was in. He denies hurting anyone, but admits he was there robbing the place. He starts beating his head against the wall and screaming. They bring him to OH the next day. He admits committing burglaries his whole life for drugs. He just got out of prison for it and no one ever gets hurt. It wasn’t supposed to happen. He’s a crackhead, a no good mofo. He doesn’t know why he did it, he was just scared. He tied him up, but doesn’t know he strangled him. They tell the family and neighbors they got him. He is charged with aggravated murder. 9/2/08 |
| 112 | Lester Street - Memphis, TN - Cecil Dotsun (30), Marissa Williams (27), Hollis Seals (33) Shindri Roberson (25), Cemario Dotson (4), & Cecil Dotsun II (2) are found dead at 6pm 3/2/08. In the rain a mother goes to her boyfriend’s house and the door is open and no one answers. 6 are dead, 3 children are injured. Sgt. Tony Mullins leads. Lt. Toney Armstrong, Sgt. Rick Davidson, Ofc Alex McCollum, Sgt. Joe Stark, Sgt. Larry Carson, Sgt. Vivian Murray, Sgt. Caroline Mason, Sgt. Bill Ashton, Sgt. David Parks, Sgt. Connie Justice, Sgt. Terry Max, Sgt. W.D. Merritt, Sgt. Debo Carson, Sgt. Bart Ragland & Dir Larry Godwin assist. Jessie Dotsun AKA Junior got six counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. 7/15/08 |
| 113 | Collateral - Detroit, MI - Clarence ‘Pooch’
Cherry (34) & Gaudrielle ‘Angel’ Webster (17) are shot on the east
side 3pm and Danasia Brown is shot, wandering around and survives. Sgt.
Gary Diaz leads. Ofc Lance Sullivan, Ofc David Babcock, Ofc Mark Amos,
Frasier Adams, Sgt. Joe Abdella, Ofc Kelly Mullins, Det. Brooks assist.
The girls were both tied up in the house and both had babies inside. He
was hit in the car, ran out and dropped, there were 14 shots. There is a
trail of blood from the survivor going door to door. Angel’s sister
arrives and says it has to be Clarence, has to be drugs, he’s never
around, he doesn’t live here. He must’ve gotten into something. They
go talk to Danasia. Two guys with guns broke in, taped them up, told Angel
to call Pooch and when he got there they executed him and shot them both.
She didn’t see it, heard it all. She knows the short guy from the
neighborhood, not his name, just braids light-skinned. She lost an eye.
They go through the database and find a guy that matches the description -
Lakari Berry. They bring the picture and she IDs him. Now they have to
find him. His mom says she hasn’t seen him for months. He’s hiding.
Day 12 - he’s found at a hotel. Gary lays out what they know and they
want the second guy. He denies it all and says he’ll see you at the
trial and laughs. He gets first degree murder. 10 months later -Vincent
Smothers (27) is IDed as the second shooter and is caught. He says it was
a contract hit for $10,000. He gets lots of hits all for drugs. He brought
Lakari in on it and followed him around. They went to his house and Lakari
wanted to take out the women. He went after Clarence and Lakari shot the
women. They’ve never encountered a real hit man before. They go see
Danasia and she feels ugly now without an eye and doesn’t want to go out
anymore. Angel had a kid to live for, she didn’t. She wants her back.
Lakari was tried and got life. Vincent got first-degree murder. Driven to Kill - Dallas, TX - Terry ‘Catfish’ Nash (49) man found dead in a field on mother’s day after a 911 call comes in. Det. John Palmer leads. Det Scott Sayers, Randy Loboda, Joe Pawlewicz, Sgt. Steve Shaw, Det. Mike Mendez assist. The man was run over by a car, his legs and arms are all broken the wrong way. They find a knife and packages of steaks nearby like he was coming from the store. His sister says he was selling steaks door to door. Cops say Charles Stewart (29) broke into the victim’s house earlier looking for money Terry owed him. Charles is picked up right away. He came up from New Orleans, says Catfish was his friend, didn’t know he was dead, he didn’t do it. He admits kicking the door in and wanting his money, he loves and hates him. He starts crying and says he wouldn’t hurt anyone. John says he isn’t acting right, tell the truth. He says he was there, but didn’t do it. Chris was driving the Jeep giving him a ride. Christopher Wallace (57) hit him, he has no house and lived in Jeep and had little gas. Cops are dispatched to find him. The find the Jeep and him quick. He says he was at Terry’s house when Charles broke in. He drove him around to find Terry and they did. Charles fought him, got back in the car and run him over. He didn’t do it, he admits not doing anything to help Terry either. Both are charged. 2 hours later Charles wants to talk. He admits tracking him down and Terry tried to stab him and he floored and ran him over. He was driving, panicked and drove off. Charles gets murder. Chris gets failure to report a felony. 8/26/08 |
| 114 | Unwelcome Guest - Memphis, TN - Ronald
Paige (50) is found at 2pm by an assistant manager who checked a room
because no one answered and saw a man down. Cops arrive and find him dead.
Sgt. Connie Justice leads. Sgt. W.D. Merritt, Lt. Mark Miller, Ofc Marcus
Berryman, Nathan Gathright, Sgt. Joe Peel, Sgt. Mundy Quin, Sgt. Ron
Collins, Lt. Danny Barham assists. Connie used to live there. Ron was a
pastor in AR. They find a wine glass with a bloody knife inside. There is
a bloody trail starting in the bed, up the wall and into the living room.
His neighbors say he brought homeless people over and gave them stuff.
They look for prints on everything. He had over 100 stab wounds. A DVD in
the player has prints. It comes back to Andre Harris who was involved in a
stealing a truck 3 days ago. They go look for him and Miller gets a tip
from Andre’s uncle. They find the truck and wait for him to show up.
They are talking when the black Blazer passes them and runs a red light.
Cops are called and surround him. It turns out it was a woman who just
bought a similar one. The next day he’s found at a gas station. Day 3 -
he wants to know why he’s here. He says he bought the Blazer from a
lady. He cut his arm while washing the Blazer. They tell him this is
homicide and show him a picture of Ron and ask if he knows him. He says he
doesn’t know him. They can put him in his house. Then he says Ron tried
to rape him. He was staying over and Ron offered him a place to stay. He
never met him before. He reached for a knife, got cut, stabbed him once,
he wouldn’t let go and he hit him with a bottle twice before he got out.
Andre is charged with first-degree murder. Wrecked - Minneapolis, MN - Darby Claar (32) is found by Cops on the sidewalk dead at 2am when a woman driving calls 911 about an accident on Washington Ave and gunshots. Sgt. Nancy Dunlap leads. Sgt. John Holthusen, Sgt. Christopher Gaiters, Sgt. Rick Zimmerman assist. Cops have all the people from the car and truck and will interview them at HQ. Darby’s drunk friend says 2 black guys hit them and cops came. He had a lot to drink and doesn’t even know Darby is dead and gets very angry when he is told. He says to get out and he’ll go through him. He screams and curses them all out they could’ve told him. The second friend knows what happened. Their truck was hit, they got out and met the guys, it got confrontational and they asked for insurance and a third guy pulled a gun and shot Darby 3 times. Then cops arrived. It wasn’t the 2 guys they talked to. The shooter was leaving and didn’t think about him and didn’t know where Darby was and found him dead. The 2 guys know him. They talk to the black driver. He says he hit him, got out and were exchanging IDs and cops arrived with guns. He says his cousin was with them and he doesn’t know where he went or why. He doesn’t have a gun, doesn’t think anyone else has a gun. He can be charged with half the murder if he lies. Suddenly he says he had a gun, he showed it to him. His name is Tyeric Lessely and he stays with his aunt. SWAT goes and gets him. He asks what he’s arrested for? For last night. He says he was with his cousin and got in an accident and he ran because he had a warrant. He heard someone was killed on the news. When he learns he’s being charged he wants a lawyer. An hour later he wants to talk to Nancy. He says he ran for it, a guy chased him and said to come back. The guy hit him, they fought, he was drunk and he shot him. He fired twice, knew he hit him. It’s eating him up he might be a father that he took. It was all a misunderstanding. Jonathan & Melissa Claar say he had 1 year old son when he died. He gets second-degree murder. 8/19/08 |
| 115 | River’s Edge - Minneapolis, MN - Robert Anthony Bavinck (38) is found by the river after a call from a restaurant on the MS river by a man found a body comes in. Sgt. Bruce Folkens leads. Sgt. Chris Karakostas, Dennis Bernstrom, Sgt. Allen Kramer assist. The area is a homeless camp. It looks like his head was beat in with a rock. They talk to Nathan who found him. He knows Mattie Ann Grassrope who lives down there and found him. They check her record and she’s wanted. He IDs her. Now they have to find her and check the shelters. He had 7 wounds to the head and bled to death. They ID him from the prints. His mom says she hasn’t seen him in a year, he was adopted and became an alcoholic. He’s been on his own for 10-15 years. A shelter says Adam Charles Heldt (28) is Mattie’s boyfriend who also has a long record. They were going to be tried for robbing and assaulting another guy. Another shelter says they showed up the day of the murder and have it on DVD. It turns out Robert was with them. There is a homeless convention that day so cops go there looking for them. Day 3 - Ryan says he was talking to a guy named Roach who told him while drinking he hit a guy in the back of the head by the river with a rock. He was mad he messed up his tent. He told him he was still alive when he left. He asked him to go see. He heard it on the news and told Roach about it and he said oh crap I just killed a guy. He looks like me and was with a girl named Maggie. He IDs them both from pictures. Cops find them both at the convention and bring them in. She says she was at her friends house that day. They say it’s not true. She admits she, Adam and Robert were drinking by the river and she didn’t know Rob. Adam got mad that Rob was being loud and he did something to him. She didn’t touch him, doesn’t know what happened. They say Adam got him involved in this before, do you think he will protect you? No. It’s time to tell us. I didn’t see what he did. Adam admits he was with Ryan that night. He slept in a garage, didn’t see Mattie until Sat and he was with Ryan then. He lost a day, honest to god. Bruce says he knows what happened. Adam wants to know what happened. No, you know what it is. He wants a lawyer and crawls under the table. They got back to Mattie and say he didn’t help you. She says he was going to take all the blame and he probably hit him with the rock, drug him out of the tent, he wouldn’t be quiet so he kept hitting him. Doesn’t know how many times, Rob was saying help me and Adam got scared and ran. They are both charged. Rob’s mother wants to know why, but there is no answer. 2 months later Charlotte Bavinck says she adopted him. She shows pictures of him and his life, he even raised money for the homeless, but his life was destroyed by alcohol. Adam got second degree. Mattie got felony aiding. 9/9/08 |
| 116 | Smoke - Dallas, TX - Oluwasanmi 'Smoke'
Ikotun (30) was found at 6:30 am when a woman driving spotted a shot and
bleeding body in a parking lot on Overton. Det Rick Duggan leads. Det
Scott Sayers, Det Randy Loboda, Det Phil Harding, Det Mike Mendez, Andra
Lewis-Krick, Pat Genovese, Officer B.K. Nelson & Officer Andy Caceras
assist. There are 2 types of cases - laydown where you have it all and a
mystery. They have nothing here. His girlfriend says the family was
religious and he was the black sheep. His friend Robert was with him also
Dontae Wilson (19) & Xavier Neal (19) who had 9mm guns. He gave him
$25 and they left in a grey Chevy Malibu. Rob IDs them both. 30 hours in
the victim's car is found torched. They find 20 prints and they match. Day
9 - Xavier is brought in by the gang unit. He knows Rick from the First 48
on TV. He denies being with Smoke or killing him. Rick says they got him
in the car with his prints. He says he owed him money, they fought, pushed
him and the gun just went off 3 times. Dante didn't do anything. He tried
to cover his tracks and screwed his whole life up. Now they have to find
Dante. The gang unit cruises around until he calls them himself and says
where he is. He says they picked him up with Desteni Carter. Smoke got out
to pee, Xavier followed him, shot him and burned his car. He was sitting
in the car and didn't do anything. They took his car and money. All 3 are
charged with capital murder. Touch of Evil - Minneapolis, MN - Tricia Daniels (36) & Robert Shepard (10) are found at 7am when a man came home from work to find his girlfriend & stepson killed and blood all over. Sgt. Gerhard Wehr leads. Randy Hanson, Det. Erick Fors, Sgt. Jerry Wallerich & Sgt. Darcy Klund assist. Joe Williams found his 17 month daughter alive. There is blood in every room, on all the walls, a broken knife, another knife, a golf club, plus bloody foot prints. It's one of the worst scenes they've seen, they don't think Joe did it. Joe says they never fought, he went to work at 9pm and came home at 7am, he has no idea what happened. His boss confirms it. They find Trisha's phone in the trash 2 blocks away. They call the last numbers in the phone and a woman was over that night with 2 guys - Brian Lee Flowers (16) & Stafon Edward Thompson (17). They have to find them. Staf calls in and they agree to come to the station. Brian says they went over, Trish was like a mom to them, they ate, hung out, played video games, left at midnight. He has no bruises. Stafon's girlfriend says he came home the next day all bloody with no shoes on, they tossed their clothes in the alley. Now Brian says Stafon did it. He hit her with club, stabbed her like that. He wanted her car, she said no. He hit Rob with the TV, he wanted no witnesses, the baby was crying. They tell Stafon that Brian put it on him and he denies it. He says Brian wanted money and robbed him. He has no cuts, you do. He says it was from a cat. His hands have cuts all over. They don't believe him. They find his bloody clothes the garbage. Joe is broken and doesn't know what do to. 2 days later the community rallies for the victims. Both are charged with first-degree murder. 9/23/08 |
| 117 | Snapped - Cincinnati, OH - Gary Ciccone (52) was
found at 6pm on the east side after a 911 call of a woman who says 2 guys
kicked her husband, he went down the stairs and died. Det Jenny Luke
leads. Det Dave Feldhaus, Det Terry McGuffey, Sgt. Gary Conner, Det Colin
Vaughn, Dorothy K. Branson assist. He was taken out of his house and
beaten down the stairs into the wall. His wife Linda says 2 black guys
came to the door for their drug money. She owed them like $10. They pushed
their way in, took the phone and she went to get the money. She heard them
fighting and when she came back they were gone, he was bloody, beaten and
his phone was gone. She knows Keno did it and where he lives. Tor Hardey
(15) is the kid. Cops find him the next day. He says I ain’t do nothing.
They know he did. He went up for his money and she owed him $20. He was
mad they texted him calling him a nigger. She tried to get out, he stopped
her. Gary cursed him out, they fought, he probably kicked him, he was mad
and stopped when he saw blood. His friend Ju was there, but he didn’t do
anything, he doesn’t know about his phone. They find Julian Douglas (17)
is the friend. Linda can’t ID him, but her roommate Crystal does. They
know Tor is lying about Julian having the cellphone. Day 8 - he’s
brought in yelling he didn’t kill nobody. Tor asked him to take him over
to a friend’s house to get his money. They let him in, everything is
cool. Linda said she was calling the cops so he left. He didn’t touch
him. What about the phone? He didn’t take it, Tor must’ve given it to
me. He can get the same charges Tor did and he cries and no. Tor got 10
years for manslaughter and burglary, Julian got 3 years. Fallen Angel - Dallas, TX - Augustine Angel Plancarte (28) is shot in his car in the parking lot at 5am at the El Lago Mexico bar. Det Eddie Ibarra leads. Det Dale Lundberg, Det Scott Sayers, Det Mike Mendez, Sgt. Pete Bailey, Det John Palmer assist. They find a pistol, meth and 4 phones on him. The bullets came from inside the car. He talks to the security guard who was outside, saw the Jeep Cherokee pull up next to him, went inside and heard shots, went back and saw the Jeep speeding off. His girlfriend Monica says his whole family is in Mexico. He had problems with a guy there and is living in a hotel room. She takes him there and it’s like a recording studio. A friend says he owed El Cocho money, a short Mexican with mustache, monobrow driving a Cherokee. He’s Samuel Benitez. They go to the guard to ID him, but he can’t. They go to a friend who was there and she IDs Sam instantly. Day 9 - US Marshals find him and he runs. He asks what’s happening? He says he met Angel there to collect $800 from him, but didn’t shoot him. He says El Compa did it, he’s from the Mexican Mafia sent up to avenge his brother that Angel killed. 3 hours later they grab him. He wants his lawyer. They search his house for evidence and find a gun in the mattress. Alfredo El Compa Diaz and Samuel Benitez both charged with murder. 9/16/08 |
| 1 | At Close Range - Phoenix, AZ 6/16/04 -
Lonnie Allen Bassett (16) killed Frances Tapia & Joseph Pedroza - Det
Tom Kuelsa has retired, he has a son the age of the killer. How could a
kid that age kill 2 people? The car was against the pole, on fire, was put
out and 2 people were shot in the back of the head, executed. First
thought was carjacking, not a gang area, quiet, not much crime. It was
surprising that all the shotgun shells were in the car and the person who
shot them was in the back. Virginia Trumbull the aunt had Francs living
with her. Tony Tapia her dad said she went to school and was a mom. She
was supposed to be at a family dinner and they let her go, she shouldn’t
have. Trina Tumbull the mom was furious and Tom calmed her down. He was
living with foster parents who raised him when his mom abandoned him. He
had a good upbringing. He shot Francis because she wouldn’t stop
screaming. He doesn’t believe it was self-defense. It was a good feeling
to tell the family, it’s a start to finish. Mom was so happy. Virginia
wanted to see him. 11/05 - the trial date was set. Prosecutor Jeanette
Gallagher got the case. Her boyfriend was murdered and she knew what it
was like. There was no doubt Lonnie did it, but you don’t know what the
jury is going to do. Tom likes to sit there the entire trial to show it’s
not a dead body, he cares about the case. Ruth Stevens, Joe’s older
sister says he was the youngest of five. Gabriel Pendroza says it’s hard
to fathom he’s not there. Belinda Penrose was a juror and says the
hardest thing was they all had so much to live for. He came in looking
like a kid and maintained the attitude of a kid. It was the first time the
family saw him and all had hate. Jena took his testimony apart word by
word and it was all a lie. Joe didn’t have a gun. They show the gun, the
DNA chart, the bloody shoes & the x-ray of Joe’s head. Rebekah Parks
says he sat there with a smile on his face. He was divorced from the
situation. The defense pulled out a letter opener saying it was a shank
that Joe had to use on them. Ruth says it was hers, it was in her car, she
had to talk. She testified that it was hers using it to open mail as she
drove. They reminded the jury he was in a gang, used drugs and carried
guns. They made it sound like he was a bad guy. It was like he was bad so
it didn’t matter he was dead. They were worried he wouldn’t get the
full charge. It’s hard to take away their life at that age. It took 3
hours to get 2 counts of first-degree murder. That was a relief when they
heard guilty. There was no defense for what he did. He will spend his life
in prison, no chance at parole. The families meet for the first time in 2
years at their graves. Murder on the Interstate - Miami, FL 5/25/04 - Willie Lumsdon killed Malcolm Jamarr Marshall (20) - Lt. Joe Schillaci says what separated him from the other cases was it was so senseless. South beach cut off the traffic to a hip hop festival, they couldn’t handle it anymore. From the time you pick the phone up you document everything you pick up because you won’t remember 4 years down the road when it usually goes to trial. Eva Marshall his mom got a call at 2am from his best friend and hung up, she couldn’t take it. She called her sister to say he was gone. It was and still is a nightmare. She couldn’t go to the crime scene. John Buhrmaster says they work backwards, how did he get here at the end? Det Freddy Ponce says they were just in traffic and got picked on, they had the tag it was big evidence so they put the news out to all the departments. The tag number of the SUV became everything to them. Words killed an innocent young man. Eva says he was premature and had to carry him around on pillow because he was so brittle. His sister Krystal thought he was like superman and protected her. He was sent to private school to keep him from trouble and it didn’t work out. Freddy says a BOLO went out and they found it. Joe remembers the moment when they got the call they had the vehicle. He wanted to rush over, trip and get there because he was so excited. It was weird, of everybody there the first one his eyes were fixed on was Willie. When it comes to murder friends are quick to wash their hands of it. From the time they walked in with Willie he denied any knowledge of a homicide. They all know when you go and sit down with someone it’s psychological warfare. Joe knew he had 1 mission, to grab the one piece deep inside that was good and bring it out. Getting the confession is about getting closure to him, Willie, the family, everybody that was involved. You get surprised at how little life means and how easy people are killed, you shake your head. 7/31/04 - He was given no bond. It would be 3 years before it went to trial and Joe was worried about the verdict from day one. 7/25/07 - in court the family saw him, he looked at them and said hello. After he was arrested he kept changing his story and saying I want to tell you the truth this time. He wanted to put the gun on someone else. They were able to get a partial print from the gun. Arnold Yen says that’s extremely hard no matter what you see on TV. Herbert Smith was trying to get it down to manslaughter. Marissa Altman says he fired once, he could’ve fired more. He was firing a warning shot, they hit the breaks and it hit the car. John says they were up higher and the bullet went downward. It took 30 minutes to reach a guilty verdict. Joe says he can’t put it any simpler, a sense of peace for Eva. Eva says he wasn’t targeting her son, but he shot into a car, somebody could get hurt. He killed her only son. She started a scholarship fund to keep his name alive. Joe solved the murder, but never found out the reason to this day. Eva says it’s devastating, she’ll never be the same. Reb forgave, but won’t forget. Willie got 40 years and is appealing. 10/7/08 |
| 2 | Fool for Love - Dallas, TX 5/7/06 - Leonel
Via - Det Rick Duggan says who would’ve thought a sweet young girl could
do something so brutal like this. It was one of the worst crime scenes he
ever saw, it was intense working the scene. The biggest piece of evidence
was the safe in the kitchen. They assumed that it had to be somebody he
knew. They shook the bushes to develop some kind of lead. Sgt. Gil Garza
says Marsela was fun, vivacious, smiling and very cooperative. Rick says
he wanted to make sure he asked about the safe, wanted to see his reaction
and what she would say about it. He felt like she knew more than he was
telling them, but seemed believable. He knew they had prints from the
safe, but didn’t know whose they were. Bingo, right away they got a
suspect. Gil says her demeanor was different from the day before, knew
something was going on. She tried to appear happy go lucky, still had the
smile, but it was fake, wasn’t genuine. Det Eddie Ibarra says he
expected for someone that had feelings for him to show concern, but she
didn’t. He thought she was getting flirtatious with him. The day before
she lied about the safe, it was important he asked about the safe a second
time. Sgt. Eugene Reyes says he comes from a small Mexican town with one
phone in the middle of town, it was a stab in the dark to find him. They
weren’t able to find family. She wasn’t easy anymore, wasn’t smiling
very much, posture was different. The fact that he was stabbed that many
times and his throat was slashed may be a crime of passion, but there was
anger. She was clearly becoming more uncomfortable, a lot more nervous,
you could see he had her. When they were in the car with her helping to
set up Gerardo so they could find him she was thinking of anybody, but
herself. He was more concerned with Marsela even though he knew she gave
him up, he still loved her. Eddie doesn’t normally do this, to turn his
back on a person that committed a murder, but felt safe enough to do it.
Some point down the road the case will go to trial and the jury will watch
the interview, it doesn’t get any more powerful than that, it was
genius. It must’ve been strong feelings he had for her, a sad state of
affairs to kill someone for her. Dewey Mitchell took the case. They met,
had the files, went through the evidence, he had the knife, that was it.
Who was leading the train, who was following along? When you watch the
confession you see her worrying about her, he wants to know what will
happen to her, you don’t see that often. His family couldn’t believe
it. Ana Hernandez his sister wants to know how, he’s not capable of
doing this. They are a hard working family, some kind of disconnect with
her. Ana though it was her and he covered up for him. Mark McClelland
represented Gerardo, not a lot of lawyers want to take a case with all
that evidence, murder weapon, confession, and on video, almost
insurmountable. They wanted a capital murder charge 40 to life. They didn’t
have the robbery motive down. It was a million to one chance at a lower
charge and they wanted to take it. He wanted to make a deal to get him out
some time. Dewey wanted to say what was best for people. He was young, had
no criminal history, would be deported after his case. Both pled guilty to
murder for 33 year sentences. It was all about a relationship, 2 guys and
1 woman who played both of them to get what she wanted, it resulted in a
brutal murder. Crash - Phoenix, AZ 7/25/05 - Eduardo Beltran - Det Jason Schechterle didn’t feel like he had a place until homicide took him in. He’s now retired. He still has his booking photo, looks at it quite a bit, he will stay with him. He shot someone over a minor accident. He thought downtown phoenix, someone shot in broad daylight, should be pretty easy. Det Tom D’aguanno says when they started looking around they had nothing, the victims vehicle and nothing around. They had no witnesses, no one saw anything, he was struck by that. Anna Beltran his wife says the doctor sat down said when he arrived he didn’t have a pulse and couldn’t recover. Monica Reyes his sister says he didn’t have any enemies and didn’t understand why. They didn’t care if it took 6 months, they would find him. They got information he was in a car accident the day before, he said he was there to get his truck fixed, the people who hit him are coming here to pay him. You can’t assume, but it was striking. Those kids were without a father, for what? Every time she looks at her girls she thinks of him. He used to take his oldest daughter to school, now she does. When he died he took a part of all of them, he did something with all of them he can’t anymore. When they found the victims cell phone they knew he called the number on the paper in the truck right before he was killed. Branch came up with something like he found the phone in the trash and wanted to return it, a great ploy. Det John Shallue says he was very attached to his ex, so that’s what he started with, his feeling towards her. He was taking to him compassionately, he didn’t say you were a murderer. His mom said you get more bees with honey than vinegar, even with a murder suspect. As far as juries and prosecutors they had nothing and needed him to tell the story. Most people won’t tell the truth and gave him the opportunity. He was mad he kept calling, he drove to the body shop beside the victim and Rodolfo shot him. John was in the office trying to find him on the computer and they called that they got him. He had more of an attitude, more standoffish, then he asked about the accident and he admitted he was involved and was there that day. He remembers him saying he knew they were saddling up to get this guy, then planned to go kill the guy. Jason was proud to put in the hours to figure out what happened, the family is devastated and you can give them closure. He was trying to get his car fixed, could’ve been anyone hit from behind and wanted him to pay for the damage. Noel Levy got the case, it was a travesty, nice family, never hurt anyone and was blown away. He had a likely conviction, took the charges to the grand jury and got capitol murder. Esteban wasn’t remorseful and was there as an accomplice. Jason wanted to sit there as a family and let them see the suspects, let the family have their day. He didn’t want them to plead out, he wanted a trial. They both pleaded murder without going to trial and Jason was bummed. In 2007 Rodolfo was brought to court and the family got to face him. The sister wanted to smack him around. Anna wanted to know the family he ruined, someone that didn’t do anything to him. They were moved, so was the judge, 2 violent people were removed. He destroyed their family, won’t get him back, but they are locked up and one else will go through that pain. Alma Beltran says it’s upsetting, some people die in an accident, but he was taken. Bottom line is they killed an innocent victim in cold blood. Rodolfo got life, Esteban got 22 years. Then they will be deported. Marsela wrote to Gerardo, but he won’t respond. 10/14/08 |
| 118 | Coma - Dallas, TX - Priest White (16)
& Devonte Edwards (16) are shot at 1:30am at a strip mall on the south
side of town. A call came in about a shooting at the Gymroom, a boy is
shot dead. Two teens are hit. Det Eddie Ibarra leads. Ofc Charles
Moreland, Ofc Gary Collins, Sgt. Larry Lewis, Det Mark Ahearn, Det Robert
Quirk & Det John Palmer assist. Priest is on life support. Devonte was
hit in the hand and they have him. A guard says there were fights in the
parking lot. They were breaking them up and shots were fired. A friend of
his says nobody with her had a gun. They walked out and there were fights
everywhere. Then there was shooting everywhere. She said to get down and
he was hit, she thought it was a joke. She was screaming, heard a guy got
shot, they were running with guns. Another woman knows Devonte. The club
closed and Matthew Clay Davis got into a fight with him over his girl
Derica. They fought and Matt pulled out a gun and shot him in the hand.
They need to find Matt. Dev says he was winning the fight, Matt came back
with a gun, he ran, was hit and the bullet is still in his hand. He doesn’t
know Priest. The bullet went through his brain, it’s swelling, doesn’t
look good. They go back to the scene in the day and find a spend 9mm, a
live 45, one in a tree, three different calibers. Matt says he’ll turn
himself in. He admits fighting with Dev, he calls him Te. Security broke
them up, he fell and a gun fell next to him. It wasn’t his, he picked it
up and fired at Dev when he was coming at him just once, he aimed for his
leg. He was grabbed into a car, doesn’t remember anything or what he did
with the gun. He doesn’t know about another guy getting shot, doesn’t
know what he did with the gun. He’ll be charged with aggravated assault
in the shooting of Dev. He goes to Dev’s house. Tamika Edwards says they
are taking the bullet out Friday. Eddie wants the bullet, it’s very
important for the other boy fighting for his life. They get the bullet and
hope it matches the other one. Day 17 - Priest wakes up and Eddie goes to
talk to him, but he can’t speak. Where he was, it couldn’t have been
Matt. It was from stray gunfire behind him. 9 months later - Jenia Jones
says he’s improving, he can only say a few words at a time. The shooting
is unsolved. Disappeared - Dallas, TX - A call comes in about a missing girl Lakendra Lawrence. She is the woman’s sister, been missing 6 days. They put her story on the news since they have no leads. Det Maria Varker leads. Det C’mon Wingo, Det Eddie Ibarra, Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick, Det Armando Perez, Lt. Craig Miller & Det Paul Ellzey assist. She wants to find the boyfriend Douglas Edwards. He says he wanted her. He can’t help, he doesn’t where she is. She doesn’t believe him. He didn’t go there, then he says he did. Eddie talks to him. Then he says she wouldn’t open the door, he called her, she said no. Eddie thinks it was one way, he lost his mind and made a mistake, where is she? Take me to her car, I’ll guide you to her. He wants a couple hours of freedom to see his family before they lock him up. No, I can bring your family here, draw me a map. They bring him a map of the city and he says he doesn’t see it. They agree to take him in the car and he leads him to a lake where he wrapped her up in a green sheet. They look until they find her and tell the family. Doug says she was dating another guy, they fought about it, he tried to get close with her, she slapped him, he choked her, she couldn’t breath and that was it. He put her in the sheet, stuck her in his car, drove around and left her there. He used to fish there. He is charged with murder. 12/9/08 |
| 119 | Obstruction - Cincinnati, OH - Preston
Saxon (28) is shot by an apartment at 6pm. Det. Terry McGuffey leads. Det
Dave Feldhaus, Sgt. Bob Liston & Det Brian Trotta assist. He was hit
in the leg and bled a lot, he was also hit in the head. Amanda White saw
two guys arguing, one was asking where his gun was. She dropped her keys
and ran, heard 2 shots. They find her keys near the scene and give them to
her. The manager says a 2008 Silver Saturn outside shouldn’t be there.
It’s a rental from Detroit, it’s Preston’s friend’s car. They went
there to get some weed from Todd Cooper, he’s seen him a few times, he
lives with a girl he doesn’t know. He set him up. A caller says Todd did
it and the girlfriend is Amanda they talked to. They get their phone
records and see they talked right after the murder. They keep calling her
and she dodges them. 3 weeks later she shows up and she can’t ID Todd
from the lineup and denies knowing Todd. Brian knows a relative of Todd’s,
she says Amanda is his girlfriend. They play the tape to her. She says why
would I lie? I want out. They say all deals are off now. Day 23 - Todd
comes in, he says Amanda is his girlfriend, he knows Preston. He talked to
him the day he died, he has his shoes he was going to pick up. Still does.
He never sold him drugs, never talked to him, he was at his friend’s
house playing video games. They know he was there. He keeps going on that
he wasn’t there. They let him go. Todd’s friend says he hasn’t been
in trouble, just had a kid, is working and keeping straight. He did come
over between 3-4pm, doesn’t know when he left, they talked, played a
game. They say he’s lying. He says he met Preston, thought fought over
weed, then Todd shot him in the head, ran, left his keys and had Amanda go
back for them. Day 24 - they find Amanda and let her mom talk to her and
she doesn’t like that. She even lies to her mom about it. Her mom
screams at her that they know she’s lying. She wants a lawyer. Later
Todd turns himself in with a lawyer. 7 months later - April & Epiphany
Saxon are still hurting. Todd gets aggravated murder. Amanda gets
obstruction and tampering of evidence. Flight Risk - Dallas, TX - Heather Franklin (22) is dumped out of a grey car on a service road shot in the head. Det Phil Harding, leads. Sam Martin, Ofc Reginald Jones, James Andrews, Eugene Reyes, Det. Mark Ahearn, Chris Cooley, Det. Robert Quirk, Det. Tim Stewart, Det. Mike Mendez & Sgt. Bryan Whoolery assist. Her cousin Flora Franklin was in the car when she was shot and ran away. They have the car somewhere else, she was shot in the back through the seat. Her mom says she was 4 months pregnant. Flora says she and Fernando Zapala came from Galveston to Dallas with her. He hit her, Heather went stop him, he got mad and told her to get out, pulled a gun on her and just shot her. He got out, dumped her, drove them downtown and left the car. She ran for it. He says he was going to Mexico. They find Fern has many warrants and is on the run. They get wanted poster and go the bus stations and send it to the border. They get a tip he bought a bus ticked to Laredo. They call the police in Austin to stop the bus. Police get him no problem, but he had no gun. Fern says he has some drug cases. It’s murder now. He wants a lawyer. She was pregnant, so it’s capitol murder. Later he tells the family Joe M. Adams what they have. 1/15/09 |
| 120 | Return to Sender - Dallas, TX - Mikael Hudson (19) is shot in a car at 2:40am with another man in a car on the side of the road and one dies. Det Rick Duggan leads. Sr Cpl Jeffrey Lewis, Det Mike Mendez, Ofc Gregory B. Johnson, Det. Eddie Ibarra & Kurt Hibbert assists. They say they were at a gas station, they were chased and shot at 7 times. Leonard Bisor (22) survives. They find a trail of 9mm casings. Jason the driver is OK. He picked them up, went to a club, they left at 2am and a Crown Victoria backed into him. There was no damage, so he wanted to let it go. The other guy wanted to fight and cops broke it up. He went to a gas station, met a girl there and the car came up to him, she saw the gun, he drove off, they chased him, fired and rammed them off the road. The car is full of bullet holes and the backseat is covered in blood. They go back to the scene to look for the car that went off the road. Tire tracks go right into a fence and there is a broken headlight, blue paint and a pile of mail there. The name on the mail is Cedrick Peterson (22). They make a lineup with his picture and the cop who was there IDs Ced as the driver. Leonard also IDs him, but he wasn’t shooting. His mom Barbara Bisor is there. He didn’t see the shooter. The gang unit goes out to look for him. Day 3 - they find his wife and she gets him on the phone. He’s in Galveston and scared, he wants to come in. She knows where the car is and takes them to it. Ced arrives hours later. They went to the gas station with Eric Edwards (18) and saw the car they hit, heard they had a gun and drove off. It was Eric who shot them. They know he was chasing him, he’s an accomplice in this, it’s a murder charge. He feels like he is dead now. Eric has no history and Marshals are called in to get him. Day 5 - Eric’s dad calls about wanting to turn himself in. He says Ced saw the car that hit him, he got out with the gun, but they backed off. Ced was drunk and like a dummy was driving and shooting out the window. It’s a lie. Then he says he was driving and Ced was shooting. It’s a lie. He knows the guy, his brother Marcus was killed 6 months ago and the one he shot was Little Mike. Then he denies saying that and wants a lawyer. Then he says to go to school, stay off the streets or you’ll end up like him. Montoya Hudson says he was the youngest of 10 and it hurts losing 2 brothers like this. Ced & Eric are charged with murder. In memory of Sr. Col Norman S. Smith. Death Camp - Minneapolis, MN - Brian Wayne Lumbar AKA Candyman (47) is found at 7am when a call comes in that a man is dead on the ground. Sgt. Bruce Folkens leads. Sgt. Chris Karakostas & Kari Jorgensen assist. He is on a door in a field, there is lots of blood and a trail of blood leading a homeless camp. Kenneth Miller and Eric A are the friends who found him. Eric has been arrested before for assault there. He lives at the camp, knew Brian for several years, found him there dead. He has cuts he says was from a fight a couple days ago, picked a scab. He was at tramp camp the night before, a shelter. His hands are clean, the cuts are old. Ken saw him 2 days ago, but he doesn’t like the camp, lots of drugs and drinking, weapons like the old west. They use tire irons, sticks, golf clubs. A guy called G.I. beat him with a bat last year. Jon Fitzgerald Posey (42) is G.I., he’s been arrested for assault. They find him and he plays harmonica for them. He says G.I. stands for Gary Indiana. He saw Candyman yesterday, he was crazy, talked about killing people all the time. He didn’t do it. He has a wound on his hand and blood on his shoes they photograph. He says he stepped in his blood looking at the body. There is blood on top though. Then he admits he killed him because Brian came after him trying to kill him. He confesses, he was scared. He hit him, Candy ran, he followed him and hit him again and left. He used a bat. It’s not really self-defense then. He is charged with first-degree murder. 1/8/09 |
| 121 | Crashing the Gate - Dallas, TX - Kendrick
Red (28) & Shirley Jones (27) are shot when a man calls that someone
shot his cousin in an east side apartment complex. A gate is broken, a
white Cadillac is there with two bodies. Det Randy Loboda leads. Det
Robert Quirk, Lt. Craig Miller, Sgt. Eugene Reyes, Det .Mark Ahearn, Lisa
Bowers & Det Boux Bland assist. The cousin was in the back seat, they
went to the box at 2am to open the gate and they were shot and the car
went into the gate. Family arrives and IDs her. The cousin says they were
driving around and he fell asleep and didn’t see it, didn’t know where
he was, ran for help looking for a street name. They check Ken’s phone
and his ex was calling over and over. He went there to sell drugs. She was
the last one to talk to him, she lived there. She says she only got his
voicemail. She has no idea who did it. A call comes in that Clarence Ray
Hines did it, he followed him to rob him and it went bad. His prints are
found on Ken’s car. Cops go to his house and find him. Day 3 - he knows
Red was killed, but doesn’t know anything about it. He doesn’t do
much, works, hangs out, never told anyone he did it, never was in his car.
Randy says he has evidence he was involved, so now he wants a lawyer. He
shot her for screaming. He got capitol murder. 6,000 Motives - Miami, FL - Alexio Bello (66) is found dead in a house in Little Havana that is a bloody scene. Det Orlando Silva leads. Det Rolando Garcia, Sgt Confessor Gonzalez, Dr. Emma Lew, Lt. John Buhrmaster, Larry Elmhurst & Agent Wesley Horne assist. There is a small dog inside, Alex was stabbed in the chest, no forced entry. They scour the place for prints and evidence. His brother Hugo saw him a couple days ago with a guy named Jorge who lived with him. He’s 20, white, long black hair. He just met him at a Laundromat and he took him in because he had no place to stay, he had $6000 cash on him for a trip that is gone. They go to the Laundromat to watch the tape and see Alex do his laundry, then Jorge comes over to help him fold it and pack it up. The prints come to Jorge Navarette, he has a record in Georgia, but his photo is bad. He calls GA back for a better photo and gets it. They look for him for weeks, only have an address from Atlanta. Day 26 - they go to Atlanta to look for him. His mother is home, she hasn’t seen him months, talked to him 2 weeks ago. She gives a DNA sample. Day 32 - the DNA is a match to Jorge at the crime scene. He is charged, but never found. 1/15/09 |
| 122 | Blood Money - Tucson, AZ - Wayne Anthony
Johnson (20) is shot dead on the ground behind an apartment. Det John
Dorer leads. Sgt Jennifer Pegnato-Hill, Det Kathi Kelley, Sgt. Kevin Hall,
Det Kelly Pike & Det Bill Hanson assist. A man heard the shots and
came out and found him. His girlfriend Candice Devore arrived at the same
time and took a cellphone from his hand. She gets belligerent, won’t
answer questions or give up the phone and they arrest her to get it. Her
friend Meghann Allen says he was going to make a drug buy and they didn’t
hear from him. When they found him he was dead and had drugs on him and
she took them, black tar heroin. Her boyfriend Johnny Manzaritas and Wayne
planned on ripping off a drug dealer so they could get high. She doesn’t
know where he went, he said the dealer Pelon shot him. She thinks Candice
knows him. She admits knowing Pelon, but denies the phone is his or she
took it. The phone rings looking for Daniel AKA Pelon, so the phone is
his. They go find Johnny and find blood on the money in his wallet. He
says Wayne robbed the guy before, went to get heroin from him and Wayne
went after him and attacked him. The guy’s name was Danny, but he had no
part of it. He denies any blood and wants a lawyer so they charge him with
first-degree murder and he doesn’t understand. A tip comes in that Danny
Aguilar was robbed of $100 and shot him. Now they have to find him. 1
month later Mimi Johnson & Wayne Anthony Hassel his parents talk about
him. Candice is charged with hindering, Meghann with drug possession and
hindering. Daniel fled to Mexico and wasn’t found. Fifteen - Dallas, TX - Juanita Thomas (15) is shot on the street outside a teen club. Det Robert Quirk leads. Officer Kevin Gladden, Sgt. Eugene Reyes, Det. Mark Ahearn, Ofc BK Nelson, Det Wayne Thompson & Det Tim Stewart assist. A fight broke out inside at a birthday party and spilled outside and someone shot. Juanita didn’t even know the people there. They find 29 AK-47 casings and 9mm casings. An SUV was stopped racing away and has blood and bullets in it. Neiman Ross is covered in blood, he was in a fight inside, then got hit outside, knocked out and doesn’t remember anyone. The driver says he saw a guy hiding behind a car in a white tank top with the AK and shot at them as they were driving. They got hit as they drove. Darnice, Juanita’s best friend was with her when she got hit, held her and didn’t know she died. A tip says Suber started the fight and they get him. He denies knowing anything about shooting. He was kicked out for fighting. He hit Ross, then saw shooters, he didn’t see a gun pulled out. They offer a $10,000 reward for a conviction. 6 weeks later a man says Don ‘Dun Dun’ Hardge (17) did it. They the witness come and ID him. They find him the next day. He admits being there, but not shooting. He wants evidence, they are all lying, there are no prints, no cameras. Rob says he’s not telling everything, but knows he didn’t mean to hit her. He admits he lost everything, threw away his life, his girl just turned 5 months. He was shot at and returned fire with an AK. Melvin & Dorothy Thomas are told them got him. Dungia Suber is charged with assault, Hardge with murder. 1/22/09 |
| 123 | Gone - Dallas, TX - Richard Hernandez (38) is reported missing at 12pm when a woman says her friend has been seen for 2 days, hasn’t gone to work, doesn’t answer at home. Police check the house and find blood on the floor, but no body. Det Dwayne Thompson leads. Lt. Craig Miller, Sgt. Raymond Beaudreault, Ofc Marshall McLemore, Det Brian Tabor, Det Eddie Lopez, Det Steve Daily, Det Tommy Raley, Det. Bob Erminger, Sgt. Shawn Henderson, Det Bruce Chamberlin, Det Scott Sayers & DA Andrea Hanley assist. He worked at Wal*Mart, lived alone, no sign of forced entry. There is signed of a struggle, blood all over the walls, floors, tub and a blood trail leading out down the area into a dumpster. They have to track where the trash went. They picked up 2000 tons that day so there is no way to search. The stuff in the tub is from his stomach. His sister says it’s unlike him not to go to work and he’s gay, close to guys at work. A guy from work who is gay says he never hooked up with guys. His debit card is missing and is being used around town. They go to look at the stores the suspect went to for video of him. At Target they find he’s a white guy buying a PS2, backpack and bug repellent. They get a picture of him and show it to friends including Rudy Araiza. They don’t know him. Rudy’s know him 22 years. They go back to his apartment and the groundskeeper saw him the day he went missing walking around and they kicked him out. The manager says he’s Seth Winder and used to live there. They look for him and get a call from Carrolton that they found Seth’s backpack. Police found the backpack in the garbage with blood on it and bank information for Seth and a phone number of his mom. She says he was just at his dad’s with a samurai sword. Rodney Winder says his son isn’t there, hadn’t seen him in 2 weeks, he is wearing the same clothes for the last 2 weeks, all black. He was kicked out of the army for being crazy, he needs help. They check the sword he left, but it is new. He never says where he goes, he stays in the woods nearby, he was on meth and tried to choke his mom. He gave him a tent to live in. They call a helicopter to look for his tent and coordinate from the ground. They spot a blue ten from the air and have to walk into the trees. It smells like death and bird heads are hanging around. The tent has blood and a sword inside. They find a bloody shower curtain and a receipt from Richard’s credit card. Rodney calls them back. He found more stuff with other people’s ID cards he thinks are stolen. They find his camera with porno pictures of Seth in Richard’s apartment. Day 3 - They find Seth used the debit card for a hotel in Lewisville and the Marshals meet them there. They get there and he’s gone. They call local police and they find him carrying a 6 pack. They check his backpack for any clues, he has lots of books. Dwayne wants to be his friend, he tells them they both went to the army at Fort Jackson, SC. He doesn’t know if he can talk to him. Dwayne thinks he can’t reach him. Scott tries to talk to him, then Eddie asks where Richard is. Dwayne has enough and goes in and starts yelling at him. He keeps saying “I don’t know” to everything. The DA says they have enough to file capitol murder charges on him, arrest him and take him to jail. Dwayne briefs the family Rene Garcia, Rachael Enriquez, Peter Moreno, Janie Moreno it’s only the third case they’ve had without a body. 1/1/09 |
| 124 | Out of the Past - Dallas, TX - Felix
Aguirre (54) was shot in the head at 2am. A man calls that someone stormed
the house shot and his uncle. Det Randy Loboda leads. Sr Cpl Carlos
Rivera, Det Scott Sayers, Sgt. Eugene Reyes, Det Dale Lundberg, Ofc Eliza
Martinez && Det Bruce Chamberlin assist. His family was there, he
has money on him, wasn’t robbed, the door was kicked in. Cops caught
Nester Hernandez running from the scene. The son heard the door boom open,
saw a guy shoot him. There were 3 guys in bandanas, only 1 shot. His wife
says in 1992 Felix was arrested for murder, but it was ruled self-defense.
Nester says it’s bad evening that he’s here. He was driving with
friends who didn’t do nothing. He keeps checking his clothes so they
take them for DNA. His shoes match the print on the door. He says maybe
someone else has the same shoes. He’s on probation for weed, can’t get
in trouble. They made him go, he didn’t want to. He doesn’t know why
the went there, it was for a robbery. David & Tomas Hernandez were
there. He doesn’t know who shot. He gives them an address, his mom
warned him not to hang with them. They are all young guys how could they
be linked to the murder in 92? At the house they find bandanas, shirts
with eye holes cut out and a gun. David doesn’t know why he’s there or
anything. He tells him Nester already told him. He says Tomas wanted to
rob him, he didn’t shoot him, Tom did, no one was supposed to be there.
He doesn’t understand why he’s going to jail. Tom doesn’t know why
he’s there. He has no job, no money, is having a kid and is sorry about
it. He asked the son where the dad was and when he came out he shot him,
he doesn’t know about killing him. He admits he was paid $15,000 to kill
him, the others didn’t know about the money, just a robbery. He didn’t
know the man, didn’t ask questions. All 3 are charged with capital
murder. Israel Mendez the driver was later caught and got capital
murder. Feud - Cincinnati, OH - Kevin Leary (23) is shot dead in a car that crashed in the Mount Auburn neighborhood. Det Colin Vaughn leads. Det David Gregory, Capt Rusty Neville & Sgt. Gary Connor assist. There are 8 casings in the street and 1 in the car that don’t match. Looks like he had a shootout. A passenger in the car Mookie has left. They spot him and he takes off on them and they have to chase him down. He says he’s scared, salty as hell, didn’t have a gun. He got a haircut, smoked some weed, Kevin isn’t his friend, whatever happened he wasn’t there. He wasn’t in a car, he was with a friend. They call his friend and it checks out. A tip comes in about who did it - Robert Turnage. Day 12 - Rob is found and says they shot at him while he was walking. It went right by him. He ducked and fired back, the car crashed and he went down, sure he was dead. He’s known Kevin a long time, were friends, but have been feuding for months. The other guy is William Harrison AKA 40. He agrees to come in, wanted to go riding around. They saw Rob and Kevin fired at him, he fired back. When they crashed he took the gun and ran. He hid it in the woods. Rob won’t be charged, but he needs to turn his life around. He was charged with illegal possession of a handgun. 1/29/09 |
| 125 | Up in Flames - Birmingham, AL - Joseph
Scholl (63) is found in a fire at 10pm when a 911 call from the east lake
area on Exeter Ave about a vacant house comes in. A truck is burned with a
body inside the bed. Det. Jerry Williams leads. Det Chris Anderson, Sgt.
Sam Noblit & Det. Roy Bristow assist. The fire spread to the house,
the only thing left is caps on the teeth and a license plate. It comes
back to Joe, but he’s not home. They go to the daughter and son who
confirm it’s him. A tip comes in he was with a white female Angela
Greene. They go to her house, but she won’t come out. Cops watch the
house and bust her when she drives out minutes later with Phillip Aaron.
Phil knows Joe, he just got out of prison to visit her. There is a gun in
the trunk. She denies it. Then a firetruck races by and they say it’s
her house. It was arson. Phil was there 2 days and denies Joe was there.
Then he says he was there and Angela was arguing with him. He heard the
gunshots, ran in and put the gun in the car. She took his wallet to buy
crack. He put him in the truck and she drove it away with a gas can, he
didn’t do it. She wants a lawyer. They found Joe’s blood on her
carpet. They are both charged with capital murder. Drive-By - Minneapolis, MN 10/13/08 - Jesse Mickelson (18) is hot at 6:43pm in the south end in the alley from a car. Sgt. Robert Dale leads. Sgt. Christopher Gaiters & Sgt. Tammy Diedrich assist. Heidi Crandell the cousin called, they were playing football in the alley at a birthday party. It was a white car, he was a good kid, not in a gang. They have 6 witnesses, but no one saw the shooter, except he was in the back. They go to Flag Foods a block away and check the security cameras and see the car leaving. His dad Doug also says he was a good kid he was proud of. They have to press the witnesses again. One says the shooter is Smokey AKA Edgar Barrientos (25). He IDs him. Day 11 - Others ID him so they grab him at work. He knows about the shooting and he was linked to it. He says he got in a fight with a guy around there, so they are blaming him. He says he was out of town all weekend and they can call the girl. She says he disappeared at the time of the murder. He wants a lawyer. They tell the family he is charged with first-degree murder. 4/16/09 |
| 126 | Devil Inside - Tucson, AZ - Margie E.
Ortiz (58) was found dead and naked at 10pm after two guys were
skateboarding at Veteran’s overpass and found her. Det John Dorer leads.
Det Jennifer Whitfield, Sgt. Kevin Hall, Det Bill Hanson, Sgt. Tim
Milbourn & Det Chris Brown assist. She has cuts up and down the body,
blood & 666 on the walls, possessions are strewn about with ID. She’s
homeless, makes it harder. She was arrested for loitering the day before.
A street vendor on scene saw her yesterday, doesn’t know where she’d
stay. One guy says all she did was bother people for money, nothing bad.
They liked her. They get 2 DNA samples from a bottle on scene, 1 of a man.
Day 4 - a man assaulted her and said not to resist, he’s the son of
Satan. He used his belt on her. Another homeless man saw it and broke it
up. There is no DNA match in the country. He’s Indian, 5’8”, medium
height, talked about Satan so they canvass the area. If he goes to jail,
someday he will pop up in the system. Month 4 - they get a hit from a lewd
conduct charge. Apollo Ortega (23) is on probation and brought in. He
lives in a Christian halfway house, got turned him around. He used to not
care, was into black magic, worshiped Satan, thought he would be in hell.
He’s been there 3 weeks, he’s doing god’s work now. He blacks out
while drinking, doesn’t remember anything. They show crime scene photos
and know he didn’t black out, he was there. He says it wasn’t him, it
was in his head, it was the child inside of him let loose. He stabbed her
in the back, sexually assaulted her and hit her with a block. Someone came
out and stopped him. Later he was walking with Margie. A friend of hers
was going to get them drugs and ripped them off. He made her strip, cut
her up, pulled her insides out and god said he did good. He guesses this
is god’s will. He is charged with murder and multiple counts of assault
in other cases plus another murder. Rattlesnake - Birmingham AL - Demarcus Ferrel (19) is killed when shots are fired in the Fountain Heights neighborhood. A man says they were shooting at his son and he can’t find him. A car was found in the morning with bullet holes and a body. Det Eric Torrence leads. James Logan, Det Roy Brisco, Det Henry Lucas & Det Chris Anderson assist. There were at least 3 shots. They canvas the area and after 4 hours they get a tip. A witness told him a guy walked up to his car, pulled a gun and tried to rob him. He took off and he fired on him 4 times. They call him Antonio Tim Spencer the rattlesnake. He came back and threatened all the witnesses with harm if they told. He’s only been out of jail 30 days. They go back to the guy who told the second guy and he denies it all. He does admit Tim threatened him and said he would shoot him. He did see him, but not do the shooting. They get a tip he’s home and go look for him. Another tip says he’s in a red mustang heading to a relative. He’s there and wants to know what’s going on, they need to talk to him. He fights them and kicks the police door closed and they carry him in. He doesn’t really know about the murder, he went to the club Tuesday, wasn’t there. He just did 3 years in prison. All the witnesses are lying. He didn’t walk up to him and shoot him. Who said that? They are. I was asleep then. They charge him and now he wants to talk. He doesn’t know why they would lie. He doesn’t want to do more time. He wants to go home, he promises he won’t run. He walked up to his car looking for pills. He told him to get his ass out of there and pulled a gun on him. He didn’t want to kill him, but just did it. Now let me go home. That’s not going to happen. He’s charged with murder. 2/6/09 |
| 3 | After the First 48 - Blindsided Update -
Dallas, TX 12/4/06 Karen Lafon (51) - Det Eddie Ibarra lead. Det Phil
Harding, Det Ken Penrod & Det John Palmer assist. Inga Dwyer says she
lit up a room. Her son Kyle Lafon says his stomach just dropped. Marshall
Lafon says she was going to be a grandmother. Lisa Reyes says she just
graduated college. They get a lot of crazy tips and have to check them
all. He’s Jose Castro (24) ad IDed by his family. They wanted a
confession so bad. They were so glad he wouldn’t hurt anyone else. Andy
Beach prosecuted the case. It was vicious and violent worthy of Capitol
murder seeking the death penalty. Mick Mckelsen represented Castro. They
knew he was mentally ill and acting crazy, which made the death penalty
tougher. He was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. They gave him a deal, no
trial. 9/12/08 - sentencing day. He had no emotion and got life in prison
without parole. Killing Spree Update - Miami, FL 3/13/04 Marlon Lambert (24) - Sgt. Joe Schillaci lead. Lt. John Buhrmaster, Det. Emiliano Tamayo & Arnold Yen assist. There was a string or murders that kept people prisoner. It was in the Pork & Beans, it’s compact. They were sending a message they didn’t care. Casings found were like winning the lottery. Lawrence Lambert his dad was on vacation when he got the call, it was the worst thing ever. Shaunquella Heath had 2 kids with him. He was the youngest son. A nickname means everything in a case. They’ll never forget his brother saying you know he did it. Multiple witnesses said Marlon gave him a look and he vowed to hunt him down. Joe was shocked to get the call from Alfred and worried how to move forward. It was intense. He had to be patient and trust he would show up. 15 minutes felt like 3 hours. He never confessed. They had 2 murder charges on him. The first 2 days were everything to them because of fear. Edward O’Donnell took Alfred’s case saying it was a turf war. 9/07 - Ellen Sue Vezner was judge on the case. His family showed up every day to support him. They offered him a deal of 50 years for the 2 murders. He took it. Lawrence wanted a life sentence. They weren’t sure they could get it. 2/12/09 |
| 127 | Blame Game - Birmingham, AL - Isaias
Rivera Mexicano (30) is shot in a parking lot at 11:30pm on the west side
a call of a man. Another was beaten. Det Warren Cotton leads. Det Cynthia
Morrow & Det Jody Jacobs assist. Jose says they were flagged down,
they got out, were beaten and robbed. Johnny Squeaky Coach Jr. is arrested
for parole violation. He says he knows something. William Carrington Jr.
& Michael Armstrong were drinking when the car pulled up. Then they
pulled guns and robbed them. Will shot and he took off, he had no part of
it. They take pictures to Jose, but he says no. A neighbor was upset about
it, he says all 3 were there and Squeaky is the leader. They planned
robbing the Mexicans, they knew they had money, he heard them do it. Day 4
- they get a tip where they are. William is caught at home. He wants to
know what he’s charged with. This is a homicide. He wants a lawyer. Day
5 - they get Mike. He says his brother picked him up, they drank, shot
dice. Will & John left, robbed these guys, shot and ran off. He was
inside the whole time. Will told him he did, he didn’t know why. John
was holding him and he got away, then he shot him. Jose Martinez the
survivor says he was sending money back to Mexico for his son. Chasing Shadows - Louisville, KY - Philip Debarry (32) is shot at 1:30am Newberg section and a couple works on him. Det William Brown leads. Det Kristen Downs, Det Leigh Maroni, Sgt. Denny Butler, Det Richard Arnold & Tina Bennett assist. They heard 3 shots, saw a black male leave in a green compact. Christy shows them the building surveillance. Phil is seen walking around, then he spots a guy and chases him down like he has a gun, then he’s killed. A man says Phil was robbed by Kenny and came back for the guy. The manager says he’s Kendall Kenny Shaw, his girlfriend called about the video. The girl says he’s not there and doesn’t want them inside. They’ll get a warrant. She admits he is there. They get him, a gun and casings in the toilet. Ken says he was smoking and a few friends pulled up. They left and a masked man rushed him like he had a gun. He pulled his gun and shot him 3 times. He’s hoping for self defense. He’s never seen the guy before. He knows a guy got robbed of weed, but it wasn’t him who did it, it wasn’t Phil who was robbed. Laura Guy, Keisha Deadwyer, Karen Krupp his family don’t know why it happened. Ken was charged with murder, but plead self-defense. 2/19/09 |
| 4 | After the First 48 - Downstream Drifter -
San Antonio, TX 9/04 Juan F. Trujillo (64). Det Timm Angell says it was so
vicious, didn’t have to be. There was head trauma, in the water several
days, no way to have visual ID. When you don’t know who it is,
everything goes cold. Sgt. Andrew Hernandez says the body guides you. Lupa
Garza her niece says he dressed well. Josephine Trujillo says he liked
jazz, was fun until his mom died and he lost it. The crimestoppers tip was
the most important thing in the case. It was from Joel’s brother, they
were tired of him stealing from him. He tells him no matter what you tell
me you are going home after to put them at ease. He said he was just a
witness. They found bloody shoes, which was crucial. No witnesses means
you need a confession. You need to be easy going, honest and let them know
they did it. He had to let him go, it’s not comfortable, but you lose
the confession if you lock them up. Joel couldn’t shut up, they told him
to several times. He’s typical of someone who has been through the
system many times, he knows the game. They admitted to causing injury,
stealing from him and throwing him in the creek. Anita Garcia said her son
couldn’t do that, couldn’t believe it. 2006 - David Lunan prosecuted
the case, it was either life or death sentence. Joel was more responsible,
Andrew was a follower. Joel would reoffend if he got out. They had public
defenders. Suzanne Kramer represented Andrew. His medical condition was he
had reduced mental capacity. Jeff Mulliner represented Joel, it was bad
from what he said. He also had learning problems they decided. They had to
stop the death penalty. Joel got capitol murder and robbery. Andrew got
murder. Anita doesn’t know how it happened, told him not to, wouldn’t
listen. Maria Beuno his sister can’t believe it, hopes he’ll come out.
Andrew now says he is disappointed, regrets it, has dreams about it still.
The family is happy they got the sentences and it was over with. Joel got
life, Andrew got 50 years and is eligible for parole in 2029. Silenced - Dallas, TX 10/8/06 Crystal Jenkins (25). Det Ken Penord says they started with nothing, just she died of a gunshot. Det Bob Ermatinger says it’s not a high crime area. What are the odds someone would kill someone and leave their phone next to them? When a suspect is lying it’s a good indication they are going in the right direction. They have to keep going, the case won’t go away. Follow the leads where they take you, have to testify to it in court right or wrong leads. Det John Palmer says if you don’t swing you won’t hit the ball. It wouldn’t have happened without the internet, it could’ve taken them months. Teresa Jenkins her mom says she went nowhere without her car and when they found it something was wrong. Tonya Sullivan her sister says she was like a second mom to her. Her boyfriend was a career criminal. They were proud she was going to testify, she wasn’t a bad person, got around the wrong people and paid the price. She thought she had control and didn’t. He gained her trust and had her where he wanted her. The confession is the number one thing they wanted and he thought he was smarter than everyone else. She was doing the right thing and ended up dead. She liked being in the woods, liked being on the go. They knew early on he thought he could beat them. It was a goldmine to show his cell phone was at White Rock Lake when she was killed. The family was relieved she would get justice. Marc Moffitt prosecuted the case, it was the first time they saw someone killing Robbie McClung his lawyer says he was adamant he didn’t do it. Adam Anderly was on the jury, it was pressure with the family there to do the right thing. They had a video of them together hours before the murder wearing what she was killed in. The cousin’s testimony was key to the jury. They tracked the phone calls and 15 lead right from El Dorado to Dallas, then right back. Richard Franklin Lavelle’s other lawyer says they couldn’t prove he was on the phone, it could’ve been Jarvis, no idea who had the phone. There was no evidence at the crime scene. The jury was deadlocked after an hour. They went back through the cell phone records. Teresa was worried then. After 3 hours they found him guilty of capitol murder. There was no remorse for Lavelle, he thought he could beat it. They were relived he wouldn’t get out. They missing talking to her, holidays are hard, they deal with every day. He got life without parole, but is appealing. 2/26/09 |
| 128 | Live Bait - Minneapolis, MN - Jermaine
Hudson (23) is shot at 11:55pm on the north side. A 911 call saying his
cousin was shot after getting jumped in an apartment building. Sgt.
Christopher Gaiters leads. Sgt. Robert Dale, Sgt. Tammy Diedrich, Sgt. Ann
Kjos & Sgt. Luis Porras assist. His pants, shoes and other things are
on a different floor. The cousin says a girl he didn’t know called and
he went to see her and he waited outside. Then he called him to come in
and a guy jumped him from behind, he fought and another guy shot his
cousin and he ran for it. He only saw one guy. They bring in the girl who
called him right before he was killed. She says she got the phone for
Jamiccia, she was with Krystal and they were going to rob some guy. They
would lure them and the guys would get them. They go get them. Krystal
says she saw it on the news. Then she admits meeting him on the bus, she
called him, he came over and then 2 guys followed him and jumped him. She
called him twice. No, it was 9 times. She says she doesn’t know who told
her to call. So they go to Jam and she’s scared. Ricardo Cee-Bo Walker
and Lazarus Marshall did it, they will get her, they made her do it. They
jumped him and she ran, they bragged about it. They go back to Krys and
she confirms it. Now they have to find them. Day 17 - they are both in
Anoka Co. jail for a new crime. Ricardo denies everything and won’t
talk. Laz also denies it. 4 months later - the Hudson family still are
dealing. Six weeks later Cee-Bo confessed. Krystal Shelton, Jamiccia
Donnerson, Walker and Marshall get first-degree murder. Drama at the Classic - Birmingham, AL - Kenneth Wayne Holmes Jr. (21) was found at dead 2:30am when a call of a wreck on 4th avenue going the wrong way comes in. The car is full of bullets and Ken. Det Cynthia Morrow leads. Det Jody Jacobs, Det. Warren Cotton, Det. Chris Anderson & Det. John Tanks assist. Marco was in the car and uninjured. Ken picked him up and they were cruising the Classic. They went to the store, parked, a guy pulled up next to them, started shooting and Ken was hit, but drove off and they crashed. He saw his face, they call him Booby. Betty Holt & Wanda Parker his mom says he was fighting with his ex and new boyfriend Booby. The girlfriend arrives to talk, they broke up 6 months ago. Booby is Stetory Calhoun. She saw him yesterday and they argued, then left, she didn’t tell Booby. She doesn’t want to hear it. They get a picture of him from the file and take a lineup to Marco the next day. He IDs him. They call Stet and he shows up. He has 5 kids and 2 more on the way. He says he was there when they started shooting. He had words with Ken once, it was nothing. They don’t want to hear it, arrest and charge him. 3/5/09 |
| 129 | Out of Sight - Minneapolis, MN - Joseph
Sodd III (20) is found stabbed in the neck on the ground at 2:16am in the
Cedar Riverside area. Sgt. John Holthusen leads. Sgt. Chris Grander, Lt.
Rick Zimmerman & Officer Jeanine Bru assist. He was on a moped, it’s
covered in blood, his ID was stolen. A woman says he had problem with a
local gang. Cops look for a knife and find a man sleeping in a van nearby
and he has blood on him. He says he’s homeless. His parents say he went
out with 2 friends to a bar. His friends say he was at the bar until 2am
and he left walking to his scooter in the alley. The Somalian homeless man
has 73 charges. He was with 2-3 guys and got in the van at 12am. He says
the blood is from his hand. The next day they go back for evidence and
cops see an assault in progress. They chase the guy down. The victim says
they jumped him for his vodka and probably killed Joe. One of the suspects
is the homeless guy. Of course he says he’s innocent and starts to trash
the interrogation room. They calm him down and he denies a murder and
wants a lawyer. They turn it over to the news. Local cops say there are
violent Somali assault gangs in the area. Cops round them up. One says a
guy told him he stabbed a guy. At the station he retracts his story. They
turn it to crime stoppers. 7 months later they still have no leads.
Unknown DNA was found on him. Missing Piece - Miami, FL - Leonard Brown AKA Debo (16) is shot through the chest in the Liberty City area. A call of a gunshot and a man down and bloody comes in. Det Rick Martinez leads. Fabrice Nelson, Det. Emiliano Tamayo, Sgt. Eunice Cooper, Det. Roderick Passmore & Sgt. Ervans Ford assist. His mom says he came home a couple days ago with an AK-47 he said was a friends and she made him leave with it. His friend says they were hanging out at a convenience store, he got a call, left, then heard the shot. He was holding the gun for Audrey Roberts (17). He brought it to his cousin Antonio Wells (16). The next day he told him the gun was stolen. Audrey is wanted for gun charges already. They go to Bishop Johnny Davis pastor of the World Deliverance Church. He knows all the kids, they were in his program and he saw Audrey yesterday, didn’t like the way he looked and gives them his number. They go get him. He says the gun was his and Leonard and Antonio fought over the gun and he thinks Antonio shot him. Davis brings in Antonio who says he was innocent and that he was home the whole night. He denies everything and his story checks out. Audrey admits going to get his gun and cries that Ant wasn’t there. He had another gun and shot Leonard with it. He’s not hard enough to kill him. He told him not to tell, he took a bath in bleach to get the gunpowder off. He breaks down in hysterics. Now Antonio says he was there, they fought, that was it. Then he says he was afraid for his life, he tried to kill him, he pulled a gun and shot him. He is charged with first degree murder. 3/19/09 |
| 130 | Shattered Dreams - Louisville, KY -
Mohamed Abdul Rahman (31) is shot at 6pm in the Portland section at New
York Fashions clothing store. Det Rick Arnold leads. Lt. Barry Wilkerson,
Dane Lawrence, Det. Mike Smith, Det Chris Middleton, Det Brenda Wescott
& Matthew Clements assist. It was a robbery gone bad and the owner was
killed. A warning shot was fired into the ceiling, 2 casings are on the
floor, the man was hit once, but there is security cameras. A man in the
store says 2 guys came in, fired and wanted money. They are both on the
video, but their faces can’t be seen. A witness saw them running and one
dropped his phone and it broke. They go back and find a Samsung battery,
but no prints. He tells cops to look out for the gun and the news that he
needs help. At a vigil his wife Sumaya Harun says they fled Darfur for a
new life and it’s ironic. His brother Fawzi Abdul Rahman has hope. Day 6
- Alexander Ruff is stopped by police and has a gun and black hoodie in
the car. The gun is tested and it’s a match. Day 7 - they question him.
He admits having the gun, but not going to NY Fashions. He tells him he
has the murder weapon and the clothes. He denies it, says he bought it
from K. Not good enough. Day 8 - he wants to talk again. He says he was
the driver, he didn’t go in. Two other guys did Kenny and John or JT.
They think he’s distancing himself from the shooting. Day 9 - the family
goes to the media for the other suspects. Alexander is charged with
first-degree murder. Left to Die - Birmingham, AL - Sandy “D.D.” Das Jr. (29) was shot and died and his girlfriend calls it in. Det John Tanks leads. David Rockett, Det Jody Jacobs, Det Fernando George, Det Marcel Walker & Sgt. Scoot hurmond assist. Pamela Murphy was hit 4 times, is at University Hospital, but is expected to make it. She says 2 guys came over - Little Nephew and Little Boobie AKA Edward Hale were trying to sell a gun to Sandy. They left, came back and started shooting until he ran out of bullets. She played dead while they robbed him. They get Ed’s name and go get him. He says Dion Williams came to get him, they went to Sandy’s, hung out, went home and found out later about the murder. They say she lived and that he isn’t the shooter, but he needs to stop playing. He cries. They go to get Dion and bring him back. He won’t talk. Day 30 - Dion says Randall Cunningham was with him, not Edward. He says he went with him to get weed. Dion went in, he was outside and heard shots. He ran to the car and Dion ran with him. He doesn’t know Edward, he wasn’t there. He let an innocent man sit in jail, he will be charged. Ed is let out, he says it was hard for him to be away from his son, he’s glad they caught them. Dion and Randall both got capital murder. 3/26/09 |
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