1 00:00:06,634 --> 00:00:08,477 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:08,536 --> 00:00:12,383 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:12,441 --> 00:00:14,250 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:14,309 --> 00:00:17,085 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:17,146 --> 00:00:18,591 These are their stories. 6 00:00:19,515 --> 00:00:21,688 Did you see how she grabbed the centerpiece? 7 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:22,820 SIDNEY: I saw. 8 00:00:22,885 --> 00:00:25,297 (SCOFFS) Thinks she owns the world. 9 00:00:25,354 --> 00:00:27,095 It was the same at the buffet. 10 00:00:27,356 --> 00:00:29,097 Like it was a... A hotel. 11 00:00:29,158 --> 00:00:30,831 It was a hotel. 12 00:00:30,893 --> 00:00:33,567 Oh, but that's his side of the family, not ours. 13 00:00:33,629 --> 00:00:34,630 (CAR HONKING) 14 00:00:34,696 --> 00:00:35,766 (CRASHING) 15 00:00:35,831 --> 00:00:37,368 (EXCLAIMS) Are you okay? 16 00:00:37,834 --> 00:00:39,142 Check the cake! 17 00:00:40,503 --> 00:00:41,573 (MEN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 18 00:00:41,638 --> 00:00:42,981 What the hell's the matter with you? 19 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:44,848 It's a red light, for crying out loud! 20 00:00:44,908 --> 00:00:46,615 (MEN ARGUING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 21 00:00:46,676 --> 00:00:47,848 Don't you talk English? 22 00:00:48,178 --> 00:00:49,782 Hey... Hey! 23 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,623 There's damage here! 24 00:00:58,221 --> 00:00:59,860 SARA: Oh, my God! 25 00:01:01,692 --> 00:01:04,605 Black female, mid-20s. Multiple gunshot wounds. 26 00:01:04,662 --> 00:01:06,539 The paramedics had a time getting her out of the trunk. 27 00:01:06,597 --> 00:01:07,598 Alive? 28 00:01:07,665 --> 00:01:09,338 They were working on her and the baby when they left. 29 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:10,435 ED: Oh, God, baby? 30 00:01:10,501 --> 00:01:12,174 EMS medic said she was pregnant. 31 00:01:12,236 --> 00:01:13,374 Any ID? 32 00:01:13,437 --> 00:01:15,678 Her purse was in the trunk with her. 33 00:01:15,739 --> 00:01:18,686 Dena Meredith, 112, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. 34 00:01:18,742 --> 00:01:20,517 Same address on the insurance card. 35 00:01:20,578 --> 00:01:21,784 Ignition's popped... 36 00:01:21,845 --> 00:01:23,757 There's some stuff in the back seat. 37 00:01:23,815 --> 00:01:25,795 Shopping bags and auto parts. 38 00:01:25,850 --> 00:01:28,228 BMW rims, Blaupunkt radio. 39 00:01:28,286 --> 00:01:29,458 Boosters. 40 00:01:29,754 --> 00:01:31,825 Yeah, I take it, it wasn't those two, huh? 41 00:01:32,357 --> 00:01:35,827 Sidney and Sara Rosenberg. They were in the Cadillac. 42 00:01:37,028 --> 00:01:38,905 ED: Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg, we're with the police. 43 00:01:38,964 --> 00:01:40,341 Can you tell us what happened here? 44 00:01:40,398 --> 00:01:41,706 I hurt my neck. 45 00:01:41,766 --> 00:01:44,269 (STAMMERING) We were coming home from our nephew's bar mitzvah. 46 00:01:44,336 --> 00:01:45,542 At The Pierre. 47 00:01:45,604 --> 00:01:46,605 I was stopped at the light. 48 00:01:46,671 --> 00:01:47,844 They hit us from behind. 49 00:01:47,907 --> 00:01:50,046 I got out to see what the damage was, and they ran. 50 00:01:50,109 --> 00:01:51,588 SARA: How's that poor girl? 51 00:01:51,644 --> 00:01:52,952 We're hoping she'll be all right. 52 00:01:53,012 --> 00:01:54,013 Can you identify them? 53 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,492 Uh, two white kids. More, I didn't see. 54 00:01:56,549 --> 00:01:59,393 The older one had a cast here. 55 00:01:59,452 --> 00:02:02,023 Older? How could you tell in the dark who was older? 56 00:02:02,088 --> 00:02:05,069 The other one looked just like my cousin's son, Stanley. 57 00:02:05,124 --> 00:02:06,432 Also a wild one. 58 00:02:06,492 --> 00:02:08,335 BRISCOE: Did you see which way they went? 59 00:02:08,394 --> 00:02:11,273 They ran this way, right up the street. 60 00:02:11,330 --> 00:02:12,401 Did they say anything? 61 00:02:12,466 --> 00:02:15,140 They didn't talk English. Sounded like, what? 62 00:02:16,203 --> 00:02:17,307 I should know? 63 00:02:19,106 --> 00:02:20,107 Thanks. 64 00:03:08,691 --> 00:03:11,171 She lost a lot of blood. She's in a coma. 65 00:03:11,226 --> 00:03:12,398 She gonna make it? 66 00:03:12,461 --> 00:03:13,838 Fifty-fifty, at best. 67 00:03:14,296 --> 00:03:15,400 What about the baby? 68 00:03:15,464 --> 00:03:18,968 Twenty-nine weeks. We were able to deliver him via C-section. 69 00:03:19,034 --> 00:03:20,513 He's touch and go, too. 70 00:03:20,569 --> 00:03:22,640 Another half hour, they both would've been dead. 71 00:03:22,705 --> 00:03:26,210 Can you tell us how long she was lying in the trunk after she got shot? 72 00:03:26,276 --> 00:03:27,346 Oh, it'd be a guess, 73 00:03:27,410 --> 00:03:28,411 but given the nature of the wounds 74 00:03:28,478 --> 00:03:31,152 and the amount of blood loss, I'd say two or three hours. 75 00:03:31,214 --> 00:03:32,420 Is there anything else? 76 00:03:32,482 --> 00:03:34,655 Can you give us a call when she regains consciousness? 77 00:03:34,718 --> 00:03:35,856 If. 78 00:03:38,555 --> 00:03:40,796 Dena's a good girl. Got a nice job at the bank. 79 00:03:40,857 --> 00:03:42,165 Worked her way up, too. 80 00:03:42,225 --> 00:03:43,727 She's in the loan department. 81 00:03:44,728 --> 00:03:46,366 Who would do this to her? 82 00:03:47,131 --> 00:03:48,872 We're trying to figure that out, ma'am. 83 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:51,376 Shoot a pregnant woman for a car. 84 00:03:52,837 --> 00:03:54,282 I don't understand. 85 00:03:55,239 --> 00:03:56,616 Mrs. Meredith... 86 00:03:57,541 --> 00:04:00,522 Do you have any idea where your daughter was last night? 87 00:04:00,578 --> 00:04:01,716 (SIGHS) 88 00:04:03,247 --> 00:04:06,524 She called in the afternoon. 4:00. 89 00:04:06,984 --> 00:04:09,191 Said she was going out to dinner in the city. 90 00:04:09,820 --> 00:04:12,131 I told her she shouldn't be running around. 91 00:04:12,591 --> 00:04:13,968 Not in her condition. 92 00:04:14,793 --> 00:04:16,067 She just laughed. 93 00:04:17,062 --> 00:04:19,440 Said I worry too much. 94 00:04:20,198 --> 00:04:21,370 MAN: Dorothy... 95 00:04:22,868 --> 00:04:24,176 DOROTHY: Miles! 96 00:04:26,304 --> 00:04:27,715 These men are detectives. 97 00:04:28,206 --> 00:04:31,312 This is Miles Hawthorne, the baby's father. 98 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:32,684 Have you found the person who did this? 99 00:04:32,744 --> 00:04:33,779 We're working on it. 100 00:04:33,845 --> 00:04:35,689 BRISCOE: We were just about to ask your mother-in-law, 101 00:04:35,748 --> 00:04:37,955 if she knew where Dena went to dinner last night, 102 00:04:38,017 --> 00:04:39,087 or who she went with. 103 00:04:39,152 --> 00:04:40,187 I thought she was with you. 104 00:04:40,453 --> 00:04:41,454 No. 105 00:04:41,521 --> 00:04:43,000 Mrs. Meredith, I can take you up 106 00:04:43,055 --> 00:04:44,432 to see your grandson now if you like. 107 00:04:44,590 --> 00:04:47,969 Yes, please. If that's okay. 108 00:04:48,027 --> 00:04:49,631 Oh, yeah. You go ahead. 109 00:04:50,062 --> 00:04:51,268 MILES: I'll be right up. 110 00:04:54,167 --> 00:04:56,374 Actually, she's not my mother-in-law. 111 00:04:57,403 --> 00:04:59,850 Dena and I were supposed to get married in June. 112 00:04:59,907 --> 00:05:01,011 You two live together? 113 00:05:01,775 --> 00:05:03,550 Dena's pretty independent minded. 114 00:05:03,777 --> 00:05:05,814 Wanted to keep her own place till we tied the knot. 115 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:07,552 You said she didn't have dinner with you. 116 00:05:07,614 --> 00:05:09,457 When was the last time you saw her? 117 00:05:09,983 --> 00:05:12,190 The bank closes at 1:00 on Saturday. 118 00:05:12,486 --> 00:05:14,397 By the time we got done with the paperwork, 119 00:05:14,455 --> 00:05:15,695 we didn't leave until 2:00. 120 00:05:15,756 --> 00:05:17,099 So, you work at the bank, too? 121 00:05:17,157 --> 00:05:19,637 I'm the manager. Uh, People's Bank of Harlem. 122 00:05:20,327 --> 00:05:22,398 So after the bank closed, then what? 123 00:05:22,596 --> 00:05:23,667 I went home, 124 00:05:23,731 --> 00:05:25,711 and Dena and Cheryl went shopping for baby clothes. 125 00:05:25,767 --> 00:05:26,837 Cheryl? 126 00:05:26,901 --> 00:05:29,848 Cheryl Treadwell. She works in Human Resources. 127 00:05:29,904 --> 00:05:33,317 Just for the record, uh, what did you do after you got home? 128 00:05:33,541 --> 00:05:35,418 Watched some of the St. John's game. 129 00:05:35,910 --> 00:05:37,389 Had something to eat. 130 00:05:38,112 --> 00:05:39,318 After that, I went out. 131 00:05:39,380 --> 00:05:41,087 Played some squash with friends. 132 00:05:41,149 --> 00:05:42,389 And last night? 133 00:05:42,851 --> 00:05:45,092 (SIGHING) Got some takeout, rented a movie... 134 00:05:45,653 --> 00:05:46,689 Crashed. 135 00:05:46,755 --> 00:05:48,063 So the last time that you and Dena 136 00:05:48,123 --> 00:05:49,693 spoke to each other was when you left work? 137 00:05:49,758 --> 00:05:52,136 Dena mentioned she might have dinner with Cheryl. 138 00:05:52,728 --> 00:05:54,207 I thought that's where she was. 139 00:05:59,235 --> 00:06:01,374 Layettes, baby clothes, car seats. 140 00:06:01,437 --> 00:06:03,041 There was this humongous registry list. 141 00:06:03,105 --> 00:06:04,550 We spent the whole afternoon. 142 00:06:04,607 --> 00:06:07,486 Anything unusual about her mood? Her behavior? 143 00:06:07,543 --> 00:06:10,080 Uh, aside from hormones, no. 144 00:06:10,145 --> 00:06:12,148 Any problems with her boyfriend? 145 00:06:12,215 --> 00:06:13,489 Miles? He's a saint. 146 00:06:13,550 --> 00:06:15,029 Worships the ground she walk on. 147 00:06:15,085 --> 00:06:17,224 What time did you two get done shopping? 148 00:06:17,587 --> 00:06:19,430 Dena dropped me off around 6:00. 149 00:06:19,489 --> 00:06:21,230 And you were going to have dinner together? 150 00:06:21,291 --> 00:06:22,497 Uh, she bagged on that. 151 00:06:22,559 --> 00:06:24,505 Said she was wiped out from all the shopping. 152 00:06:24,561 --> 00:06:26,973 And she didn't mention any other plans? 153 00:06:27,497 --> 00:06:30,239 No. She just said she was going to head home to Brooklyn. 154 00:06:35,172 --> 00:06:36,810 Fender-bender happened around 11:00, 155 00:06:36,874 --> 00:06:38,683 and the doctor puts the shooting at about 8:00. 156 00:06:38,743 --> 00:06:40,313 Forensics indicates she was shot 157 00:06:40,378 --> 00:06:41,755 while she was in the trunk. 158 00:06:41,812 --> 00:06:43,223 Slugs were from a .45. 159 00:06:43,281 --> 00:06:44,851 Any prints? Nothing so far. 160 00:06:44,916 --> 00:06:48,295 They did find scratch marks on the trunk lock from the inside, 161 00:06:48,352 --> 00:06:49,888 like she was working on it with something. 162 00:06:49,954 --> 00:06:51,092 Must've been why it popped open. 163 00:06:51,155 --> 00:06:53,658 So she was forced inside before she was shot, 164 00:06:53,724 --> 00:06:54,828 then struggled to escape. 165 00:06:55,726 --> 00:06:57,137 Not a pleasant thought. 166 00:06:57,195 --> 00:06:58,539 All right, say she was nabbed at 7:30, 167 00:06:58,597 --> 00:07:01,635 that still leaves a one and a half hour gap 168 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:04,374 from the time Dena dropped Cheryl Treadwell off. 169 00:07:04,436 --> 00:07:07,212 BRISCOE: We're running down her cell phone records and credit cards. 170 00:07:07,272 --> 00:07:09,616 Dena told her boyfriend that she was gonna go have dinner with Cheryl 171 00:07:09,675 --> 00:07:12,019 then she told Cheryl she changed her mind and she was going home. 172 00:07:12,444 --> 00:07:14,549 But she didn't. Why? 173 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:17,056 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) Ed, line three. 174 00:07:19,017 --> 00:07:20,052 Detective Green. 175 00:07:20,118 --> 00:07:22,292 So, what do you have on the boyfriend? 176 00:07:22,355 --> 00:07:24,130 BRISCOE: His alibi seems to check out. 177 00:07:24,190 --> 00:07:26,898 From all indications, he's a stand-up guy. 178 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,871 No priors, steady employment. 179 00:07:28,928 --> 00:07:31,067 And Dena's mother's his biggest fan. 180 00:07:31,130 --> 00:07:32,575 Well, that says something. 181 00:07:32,632 --> 00:07:34,168 Yeah, all right. Thanks. 182 00:07:34,233 --> 00:07:36,474 That was auto. We got a hit on the Blaupunkt. 183 00:07:37,570 --> 00:07:38,776 What's this code? 184 00:07:38,838 --> 00:07:40,044 I never heard anything about a code. 185 00:07:40,106 --> 00:07:42,814 BMW radios are manufactured with an encoded chip, 186 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:45,151 which is specific to the car it's registered to. 187 00:07:45,211 --> 00:07:47,522 Ah! So, you found my radio, huh? 188 00:07:47,581 --> 00:07:48,616 Great. 189 00:07:48,682 --> 00:07:51,595 If you happen to see a few wheels and an engine, let me know. 190 00:07:51,652 --> 00:07:54,030 My car was stolen four months ago. 191 00:07:54,088 --> 00:07:55,294 ED: Four months ago? 192 00:07:55,356 --> 00:07:57,495 Yeah, some cops raided a chop shop up in the Bronx 193 00:07:57,558 --> 00:07:58,798 back in November. 194 00:07:59,093 --> 00:08:00,834 They showed up with one of my front doors. 195 00:08:00,894 --> 00:08:02,771 And now you guys bring me my radio. 196 00:08:02,830 --> 00:08:05,037 At this rate, I figure I ought to get the whole car back 197 00:08:05,099 --> 00:08:06,544 in about seven years. 198 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,376 Do you remember the cop's name who brought you the door? 199 00:08:09,436 --> 00:08:11,314 No. Had me fill out some forms. Uh... 200 00:08:11,373 --> 00:08:13,649 An affidavit for the, uh, Grand Jury. 201 00:08:13,708 --> 00:08:15,745 BRISCOE: You got a copy of it? Yeah. Bedroom. 202 00:08:16,444 --> 00:08:17,650 Yeah, in the glove compartment. 203 00:08:17,712 --> 00:08:18,884 (CHUCKLING) 204 00:08:22,717 --> 00:08:24,958 A grand larceny indictment would cause most people 205 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:26,863 to reconsider their line of work. 206 00:08:26,921 --> 00:08:28,594 Yeah, but not you, right, Bob? 207 00:08:28,890 --> 00:08:31,461 You just opened another chop shop someplace else. 208 00:08:32,060 --> 00:08:33,835 I don't know what you're talking about. 209 00:08:33,896 --> 00:08:36,240 Come on, man. We talked to the Bronx D.A. 210 00:08:36,298 --> 00:08:37,572 We found out you were running the largest 211 00:08:37,633 --> 00:08:39,476 stolen auto parts operation on Jerome Avenue. 212 00:08:39,969 --> 00:08:41,539 BRISCOE: Where you running it out of now? 213 00:08:41,604 --> 00:08:43,675 My client's put his past behind him. 214 00:08:43,939 --> 00:08:45,850 He's exploring other business opportunities now. 215 00:08:45,908 --> 00:08:46,909 Oh, yeah? 216 00:08:47,109 --> 00:08:48,645 You mean like attempted murder? 217 00:08:49,345 --> 00:08:50,346 What? 218 00:08:50,413 --> 00:08:52,791 We found a pregnant woman in the trunk of a car 219 00:08:52,848 --> 00:08:53,986 that was boosted. 220 00:08:54,050 --> 00:08:55,529 She was shot three times. 221 00:08:55,584 --> 00:08:57,495 What makes you think my client's involved? 222 00:08:57,553 --> 00:09:00,797 There were stolen auto parts in it that matched vehicles 223 00:09:00,857 --> 00:09:02,632 that were seized in the chop shop. 224 00:09:03,093 --> 00:09:05,039 But they never found your warehouse, did they, Bob? 225 00:09:07,864 --> 00:09:10,572 If my client cooperates, what's in it for him? 226 00:09:10,634 --> 00:09:14,138 If his information is good, we talk to the D.A. 227 00:09:14,204 --> 00:09:16,013 and we turn this indictment into a misdemeanor. 228 00:09:23,114 --> 00:09:24,115 Okay. 229 00:09:24,182 --> 00:09:26,594 We're looking for two guys. Early 20s. 230 00:09:26,818 --> 00:09:28,593 One of 'em had a cast on his right arm. 231 00:09:31,889 --> 00:09:33,232 Gabor. 232 00:09:34,292 --> 00:09:35,498 Gabor Hartunian. 233 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:40,641 Hey! Anybody lose a radio? 234 00:09:41,366 --> 00:09:43,277 Who are you? The Car Fairy. 235 00:09:43,334 --> 00:09:45,177 Put your hands behind your back. 236 00:09:47,206 --> 00:09:48,310 Lennie... 237 00:09:55,647 --> 00:09:57,320 ED: Gabor Hartunian, I presume. 238 00:09:59,351 --> 00:10:01,262 Careful. Don't hurt his hand. 239 00:10:03,555 --> 00:10:04,932 Where were you Saturday night? Home. 240 00:10:04,990 --> 00:10:06,970 This is before or after you took the Camry? 241 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,232 I don't know about Camry. 242 00:10:09,294 --> 00:10:10,865 And you bought this wholesale, right? 243 00:10:11,531 --> 00:10:12,874 Never see it before. 244 00:10:12,932 --> 00:10:15,572 Sarkisian gave you up, Mark. How do you think we found you? 245 00:10:15,635 --> 00:10:17,581 BRISCOE: Did you know that woman was pregnant? 246 00:10:17,637 --> 00:10:18,741 What woman? 247 00:10:18,805 --> 00:10:21,615 (BOTH SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 248 00:10:21,674 --> 00:10:23,745 No, no woman. Just car. 249 00:10:23,877 --> 00:10:24,878 Shut up, Gabor. 250 00:10:24,944 --> 00:10:27,151 Yes, woman. You shoot. 251 00:10:27,213 --> 00:10:28,521 Me? No shoot. 252 00:10:28,581 --> 00:10:29,616 What about him? He shoot? 253 00:10:29,682 --> 00:10:31,662 Whoa, whoa. Nobody shoot no one. 254 00:10:31,718 --> 00:10:32,958 You should've made sure she was dead. 255 00:10:33,019 --> 00:10:35,125 Now she's gonna be able to identify you. 256 00:10:35,189 --> 00:10:36,998 Yeah, not to mention the couple you rear-ended. 257 00:10:37,057 --> 00:10:39,936 You're gonna be as old as they are by the time you get out. 258 00:10:45,065 --> 00:10:46,066 No shoot no woman. 259 00:10:48,269 --> 00:10:50,044 (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 260 00:10:50,871 --> 00:10:52,043 Tell the truth. 261 00:11:00,081 --> 00:11:01,424 The car was in a lot on the west side. 262 00:11:02,083 --> 00:11:03,289 What lot? 263 00:11:03,351 --> 00:11:06,195 Twelfth Avenue and 66th Street. By the river. 264 00:11:06,655 --> 00:11:07,725 Why that car? 265 00:11:07,789 --> 00:11:09,894 Sarkisian need Camry parts. 266 00:11:09,958 --> 00:11:11,904 You expect us to believe you two mopes 267 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,633 just happened to pick a Camry 268 00:11:13,695 --> 00:11:15,572 that had a half-dead woman in the trunk? 269 00:11:15,630 --> 00:11:17,632 I swear on my father's grave. 270 00:11:17,699 --> 00:11:19,303 How do I know your father's dead? 271 00:11:19,367 --> 00:11:20,505 No shoot no woman. 272 00:11:20,936 --> 00:11:22,143 Well, what time was this? 273 00:11:22,205 --> 00:11:26,381 Around 10:30. We broke into the car and drive it off the lot. 274 00:11:26,442 --> 00:11:27,546 That's it. 275 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:28,680 And then he hit that other car. 276 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:31,984 We never even looked in the trunk. 277 00:11:32,048 --> 00:11:33,049 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 278 00:11:40,556 --> 00:11:42,934 You know, as much as I want to close this case, 279 00:11:42,992 --> 00:11:44,903 my gut tells me we're wasting our time. 280 00:11:44,961 --> 00:11:45,997 They're just punks. 281 00:11:46,063 --> 00:11:47,098 Forensics turn up anything? 282 00:11:47,164 --> 00:11:48,768 Well, they found their prints inside the car, 283 00:11:48,832 --> 00:11:50,038 but nowhere near the trunk. 284 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:51,773 (SIGHING) Well, if it's not these two guys, 285 00:11:51,835 --> 00:11:52,973 we're looking at a blank wall. 286 00:11:53,036 --> 00:11:56,210 Well, let's just get search warrants for both their homes just in case. 287 00:11:56,273 --> 00:11:58,412 PEREZ: Lieutenant, the hospital just called. 288 00:11:58,475 --> 00:12:00,512 Dena Meredith died 30 minutes ago. 289 00:12:00,811 --> 00:12:03,189 (SIGHING) That baby. 290 00:12:04,114 --> 00:12:05,957 What away to enter the world. 291 00:12:11,689 --> 00:12:12,895 How'd it go? 292 00:12:12,957 --> 00:12:16,268 Dumb and Dumber came up clean on the search of their homes. 293 00:12:16,327 --> 00:12:17,328 Not much here either. 294 00:12:17,395 --> 00:12:21,104 Dena Meredith's utility bills, address book. 295 00:12:21,466 --> 00:12:23,468 Ed, cell phone IUDs, 296 00:12:23,902 --> 00:12:25,279 log from the day of the murder, 297 00:12:25,336 --> 00:12:26,644 and this is from the credit card company. 298 00:12:26,704 --> 00:12:27,705 Thanks, Reina. 299 00:12:27,772 --> 00:12:30,878 One-minute call to her home number at 3:27 p.m. 300 00:12:30,942 --> 00:12:33,048 Probably checking her answering machine. 301 00:12:33,746 --> 00:12:35,657 Another call at 4:05. 302 00:12:35,714 --> 00:12:37,284 Three minutes to Jersey. 303 00:12:37,349 --> 00:12:38,623 Her mother said she called at 4:00, right? 304 00:12:38,684 --> 00:12:39,754 You got her mother's number over there? 305 00:12:39,818 --> 00:12:40,990 Whoa, listen to this. 306 00:12:41,053 --> 00:12:45,297 Credit card charge for $14 at Lot 61. 307 00:12:45,357 --> 00:12:47,837 Saturday, 7:20 p.m. 308 00:12:47,893 --> 00:12:49,804 That's about an hour before she got shot. 309 00:12:49,862 --> 00:12:51,239 You know this Lot 61? 310 00:12:51,297 --> 00:12:52,799 Yeah, it's a spot downtown. 311 00:12:52,998 --> 00:12:54,477 One last hurrah. 312 00:12:55,801 --> 00:12:57,679 Yeah, I remember her. 313 00:12:58,004 --> 00:13:00,814 She was wearing some maternity thing Still pretty cute. 314 00:13:02,008 --> 00:13:03,578 She came in here alone? 315 00:13:03,643 --> 00:13:05,281 Said she was waiting for someone. 316 00:13:05,345 --> 00:13:06,915 We were packed, so I made some room for her 317 00:13:06,980 --> 00:13:08,050 at the end of the bar and got her a snack. 318 00:13:08,581 --> 00:13:09,992 A $14 snack? 319 00:13:10,917 --> 00:13:13,557 So do you know if her date ever showed up here? 320 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,157 About 10 minutes later. Two guys. 321 00:13:16,723 --> 00:13:18,225 You ever seen them in here before? 322 00:13:18,291 --> 00:13:19,395 Nope. 323 00:13:19,459 --> 00:13:20,631 So, what happened next? 324 00:13:20,694 --> 00:13:22,732 Well, they hung out with her for a few minutes and left. 325 00:13:22,797 --> 00:13:24,367 BRISCOE: She left with the two guys? 326 00:13:24,465 --> 00:13:26,172 Seemed like she knew 'em. 327 00:13:26,233 --> 00:13:27,303 She in some kind of trouble? 328 00:13:27,902 --> 00:13:29,313 Not anymore. 329 00:13:29,570 --> 00:13:30,981 Did anybody else see them leave? 330 00:13:31,038 --> 00:13:33,109 Yeah. Uh, check with Dom. 331 00:13:33,274 --> 00:13:34,947 He's like the Pope of 21st Street. 332 00:13:35,576 --> 00:13:38,648 Yeah, these two brothers rolled up in this champagne-colored Lexus. 333 00:13:39,246 --> 00:13:40,953 Gave me a C-note to watch it. 334 00:13:41,449 --> 00:13:43,520 Kind of sticks on a player's mind, know what I mean? 335 00:13:43,584 --> 00:13:44,893 You catch their names? 336 00:13:45,187 --> 00:13:47,133 One of the cats I seen around before. 337 00:13:47,456 --> 00:13:48,833 Uh, Henry. 338 00:13:48,890 --> 00:13:50,164 Other dude had a scar on his face. 339 00:13:50,225 --> 00:13:51,431 I never saw him before. 340 00:13:51,493 --> 00:13:53,404 This Henry have a last name? 341 00:13:53,462 --> 00:13:54,964 I'm sure he does, 342 00:13:55,030 --> 00:13:57,476 but we're not exactly on a last name basis around here. 343 00:13:57,532 --> 00:13:59,512 Champagne Lexus. You mean the SUV? 344 00:13:59,568 --> 00:14:01,809 Oh, word to the mother, man. The whole package, 345 00:14:01,870 --> 00:14:03,645 tricked out from top to bottom, baby. 346 00:14:03,705 --> 00:14:05,446 ED: Any idea where he got it from? 347 00:14:05,507 --> 00:14:06,952 Nah. I didn't ask. 348 00:14:07,175 --> 00:14:09,281 It's not exactly in a player's budget. 349 00:14:09,345 --> 00:14:11,757 But he was all up in my grill about watching it for him. 350 00:14:11,814 --> 00:14:14,920 I think he said he had just picked it up somewhere in midtown. 351 00:14:14,984 --> 00:14:16,986 So you say the two men went in together, 352 00:14:17,053 --> 00:14:19,294 and a few minutes later, they came out with the girl? 353 00:14:19,355 --> 00:14:21,767 Yeah. When they came out, the dude with the scar, 354 00:14:21,824 --> 00:14:22,825 went off with the pregnant lady. 355 00:14:22,892 --> 00:14:25,372 They all came out of the club together, then they split up? 356 00:14:25,428 --> 00:14:27,203 They might've been going to the same spot. 357 00:14:27,263 --> 00:14:29,140 'Cause see, what happened was the dude came out, 358 00:14:29,198 --> 00:14:31,303 then he said something to Henry about following him. 359 00:14:31,367 --> 00:14:32,711 Any idea where they were going? 360 00:14:33,037 --> 00:14:34,107 You got me there, baby. 361 00:14:34,171 --> 00:14:36,481 Hey, man, thank you. You got it. Take care. 362 00:14:36,540 --> 00:14:38,019 All right. Take care of yourself, huh? 363 00:14:38,075 --> 00:14:39,145 You, too. 364 00:14:39,209 --> 00:14:42,418 I think there's only one Lexus dealership in Midtown. 365 00:14:43,881 --> 00:14:46,623 We need to know how many you've sold in the past month. 366 00:14:46,683 --> 00:14:47,787 Champagne only. 367 00:14:47,851 --> 00:14:51,355 Oh, that's, uh, 18 units since New Year's. 368 00:14:51,422 --> 00:14:52,662 All with the full option package? 369 00:14:52,723 --> 00:14:53,724 Well, let's see. 370 00:14:54,324 --> 00:14:55,598 (CHATTERING ON PA) 371 00:14:58,029 --> 00:14:59,303 That narrows it down to 10. 372 00:14:59,364 --> 00:15:01,173 How about five-star chrome rims? 373 00:15:01,232 --> 00:15:03,269 Booming system? Leather interior? Our premium package? 374 00:15:03,334 --> 00:15:04,438 Yeah. 375 00:15:04,903 --> 00:15:06,041 Now we're at four. 376 00:15:06,404 --> 00:15:07,508 You got a list? 377 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,041 Printing. 378 00:15:10,708 --> 00:15:12,085 Either of you gentlemen in the market? 379 00:15:13,611 --> 00:15:15,147 It's about a year's pay. 380 00:15:17,315 --> 00:15:18,419 Here. 381 00:15:21,987 --> 00:15:23,830 Anybody you recognize? 382 00:15:28,527 --> 00:15:29,801 BOY 1: Ricky, Ricky, can you sign this? 383 00:15:29,862 --> 00:15:31,170 Hey, Chris, could you sign my ball? 384 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:32,436 Yeah, sure, man. What's up? 385 00:15:32,498 --> 00:15:33,841 Chris, come on, Chris. 386 00:15:34,366 --> 00:15:36,812 Uh, I'll see you guys, I'll see you. Sorry about that. 387 00:15:36,869 --> 00:15:37,870 See you, kids. 388 00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:38,972 Mr. Cody... 389 00:15:39,038 --> 00:15:40,381 Uh, that's just for the kids, fellas. 390 00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:42,180 Detectives Green and Briscoe. 391 00:15:42,641 --> 00:15:43,847 We're just here to ask you a couple of questions. 392 00:15:43,909 --> 00:15:45,048 Questions? About what? 393 00:15:45,112 --> 00:15:46,591 About a champagne Lexus? 394 00:15:47,514 --> 00:15:49,289 My Lexus? I just bought it. 395 00:15:49,716 --> 00:15:51,024 What happened to my ride? 396 00:15:51,084 --> 00:15:53,928 Your ride may have been involved in an incident Saturday night. 397 00:15:54,287 --> 00:15:56,198 An incident? What, like an accident? 398 00:15:56,256 --> 00:15:58,065 ED: You give somebody named Henry the keys to it? 399 00:15:58,125 --> 00:15:59,399 Henry Williams. 400 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:01,461 Henry was seen driving your Lexus. 401 00:16:01,528 --> 00:16:02,973 I let him drive my car sometimes. 402 00:16:03,029 --> 00:16:04,940 But I still don't understand what this is about. 403 00:16:04,998 --> 00:16:06,272 A woman was shot. 404 00:16:06,333 --> 00:16:07,676 Killed with a .45. 405 00:16:08,469 --> 00:16:10,278 Whoa, whoa. Slow down there. 406 00:16:10,738 --> 00:16:12,411 You say Henry shot some lady? 407 00:16:12,673 --> 00:16:13,811 ED: Her name is Dena Meredith. 408 00:16:13,875 --> 00:16:15,252 BRISCOE: She was pregnant. 409 00:16:15,910 --> 00:16:18,481 There's no way Henry shot her. How do you know that? 410 00:16:18,546 --> 00:16:20,287 Because I know Henry. 411 00:16:20,515 --> 00:16:21,653 Don't take this the wrong way, 412 00:16:21,716 --> 00:16:24,162 but where were you Saturday night around 8:00? 413 00:16:24,218 --> 00:16:26,858 I was at the Excelsior. I had a party for some friends. 414 00:16:27,221 --> 00:16:28,598 Left around midnight. 415 00:16:28,656 --> 00:16:30,693 That's kind of late. Didn't you have a game on Sunday afternoon? 416 00:16:30,758 --> 00:16:33,069 I don't need much sleep to sit on the bench. 417 00:16:33,262 --> 00:16:35,003 I've been having some problems with my foot. 418 00:16:35,998 --> 00:16:37,944 So, uh, where do we find Henry? 419 00:16:39,067 --> 00:16:40,171 Bed-Stuy. 420 00:16:42,204 --> 00:16:43,877 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 421 00:16:47,509 --> 00:16:48,954 ls Henry Williams here? 422 00:16:50,812 --> 00:16:53,019 Talented girl. You could do worse. 423 00:16:56,052 --> 00:16:57,622 Yeah, Chris called me. 424 00:16:57,687 --> 00:16:59,928 Said y'all was busting about some girl getting killed. 425 00:16:59,989 --> 00:17:01,400 I don't know a damn thing about it. 426 00:17:01,457 --> 00:17:02,731 That's not what we heard, Henry. 427 00:17:02,792 --> 00:17:03,793 Well, you heard wrong. 428 00:17:04,193 --> 00:17:06,173 Oh, so you weren't at Lot 61 on Saturday night? 429 00:17:06,229 --> 00:17:07,503 Me and a hundred other people. 430 00:17:07,564 --> 00:17:10,272 The other 100 didn't drive away with Dena Meredith. 431 00:17:10,333 --> 00:17:11,403 Neither did I. 432 00:17:11,467 --> 00:17:12,946 Man, I don't even know who you're talking about. 433 00:17:13,002 --> 00:17:14,481 You know what, Henry? We believe you. 434 00:17:14,537 --> 00:17:16,744 But you're going to have to convince our lieutenant. 435 00:17:16,806 --> 00:17:18,376 So, come on. You want to go with us now. 436 00:17:18,441 --> 00:17:20,012 If that's what it's gonna take. 437 00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:24,420 I'll follow you. 438 00:17:24,481 --> 00:17:26,256 No, not this trip, Henry. 439 00:17:26,317 --> 00:17:29,059 Yeah, Detective Green, badge number 3472. 440 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,928 We need a vehicle impounded. 441 00:17:32,356 --> 00:17:34,597 ED: Narcotics. Six arrests, two convictions. 442 00:17:34,658 --> 00:17:36,695 That's just business, man. Ain't got nothing to do with no murder. 443 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,831 Yeah, but getting in a car with a woman who ends up dead 444 00:17:38,896 --> 00:17:40,102 has plenty to do with it. 445 00:17:40,164 --> 00:17:43,509 Look, man, I told you, I drove off from Lot 61 by myself. 446 00:17:43,567 --> 00:17:45,241 Your witness is mistaken, all right? 447 00:17:45,303 --> 00:17:46,338 You can't hold me on that. 448 00:17:46,404 --> 00:17:47,849 BRISCOE: Yeah? What about this? 449 00:17:47,906 --> 00:17:50,386 Your license was suspended two months ago. 450 00:17:50,442 --> 00:17:51,512 What's that got to do with anything? 451 00:17:51,576 --> 00:17:54,921 Driving without a license is a parole violation. 452 00:17:55,180 --> 00:17:56,488 Sit down, Henry. 453 00:17:56,548 --> 00:17:57,549 You ain't going nowhere. 454 00:17:57,616 --> 00:17:58,754 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 455 00:17:59,517 --> 00:18:02,293 SUV's clean, but the Lieutenant thought you should see this. 456 00:18:04,389 --> 00:18:06,198 What's that, man? My report card or something? 457 00:18:06,258 --> 00:18:07,966 ED: It's the loan agreement for the Lexus. 458 00:18:08,027 --> 00:18:09,370 What's that got to do with me? 459 00:18:09,428 --> 00:18:10,930 It's from the People's Bank of Harlem 460 00:18:10,997 --> 00:18:14,069 BRISCOE: Dena Meredith was the loan officer. 461 00:18:14,133 --> 00:18:15,703 But I guess you already knew that. 462 00:18:15,768 --> 00:18:16,974 I want a lawyer. 463 00:18:20,806 --> 00:18:22,615 You're saying this might be work related? 464 00:18:22,675 --> 00:18:24,018 JACK: We don't know that yet. 465 00:18:24,076 --> 00:18:26,852 What we do know is that there's a connection between the car loan 466 00:18:26,913 --> 00:18:28,551 that Dena made to Chris Cody 467 00:18:28,614 --> 00:18:30,787 and a drug dealer named Henry Williams. 468 00:18:30,850 --> 00:18:34,264 Whatever Dena may have done, whatever she was involved with, 469 00:18:35,389 --> 00:18:37,801 she certainly got more than she deserved. 470 00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:42,038 What does he mean, "What she was involved with"? 471 00:18:42,095 --> 00:18:43,540 What's he talking about? 472 00:18:44,398 --> 00:18:46,071 I tried to tell her to be careful, 473 00:18:46,133 --> 00:18:48,636 that these people were out of her league, but she wouldn't listen. 474 00:18:48,702 --> 00:18:49,840 What people? 475 00:18:50,837 --> 00:18:52,111 Chris Cody. 476 00:18:52,639 --> 00:18:54,050 What about Chris Cody? 477 00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:57,452 Dena was writing loans for him. Him and his friend. 478 00:18:57,679 --> 00:18:58,919 Henry Williams? 479 00:18:58,980 --> 00:19:01,927 She told me she was setting up businesses for Cody. 480 00:19:01,983 --> 00:19:04,486 That he was putting money back into the community. 481 00:19:04,552 --> 00:19:05,929 It was drug money. 482 00:19:07,388 --> 00:19:10,028 She started at that bank right out of high school. 483 00:19:10,091 --> 00:19:11,661 This guy was famous. 484 00:19:12,193 --> 00:19:14,002 She got dragged into the whole trip. 485 00:19:14,062 --> 00:19:18,067 You know, parties, clothes, even the drugs. 486 00:19:18,132 --> 00:19:19,544 Dena never did any damn drugs. 487 00:19:19,601 --> 00:19:21,547 Miles, she was my best friend. 488 00:19:22,538 --> 00:19:24,711 Why didn't you come forward before? 489 00:19:24,773 --> 00:19:26,616 Because I thought what everyone thought. 490 00:19:26,675 --> 00:19:28,814 That this was just a freak thing. 491 00:19:29,078 --> 00:19:31,115 You know, a carjacking or something. 492 00:19:33,415 --> 00:19:35,122 He was famous, Miles. 493 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,101 According to Cheryl Treadwell, Dena Meredith processed a number of loans for Cody. 494 00:19:41,156 --> 00:19:44,570 But almost all the money ended up, one way or another, 495 00:19:44,627 --> 00:19:46,038 in the hands of Henry Williams. 496 00:19:46,096 --> 00:19:47,336 To finance what? 497 00:19:47,397 --> 00:19:48,899 A variety of start-up businesses, 498 00:19:48,965 --> 00:19:50,808 basically cashing in on Cody's name. 499 00:19:50,867 --> 00:19:52,107 Any of them legit? 500 00:19:52,168 --> 00:19:55,240 Williams has a long sheet for narcotics convictions. 501 00:19:55,305 --> 00:19:57,182 I'd say legit's a stretch. 502 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,618 What about the boyfriend? The bank's manager? 503 00:19:59,676 --> 00:20:01,280 He relied on her judgment. 504 00:20:02,012 --> 00:20:05,550 Well, let's suppose Williams used the money to finance drugs. 505 00:20:06,783 --> 00:20:09,128 The question is, did Chris Cody know about it? 506 00:20:11,155 --> 00:20:12,361 The loans Chris made were simply the case 507 00:20:12,423 --> 00:20:15,495 of one friend lending a helping hand to another. 508 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,430 You're telling me your client was unaware of the background of Henry Williams? 509 00:20:19,497 --> 00:20:20,999 They're friends. Boyhood friends. 510 00:20:21,065 --> 00:20:22,669 Chris wanted to get him started. 511 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,377 If it hadn't been for basketball, 512 00:20:24,435 --> 00:20:26,073 I might've been just like Henry. 513 00:20:26,137 --> 00:20:27,707 There are a lot of people who don't play basketball 514 00:20:27,772 --> 00:20:29,513 who don't wind up selling drugs, Mr. Cody. 515 00:20:30,074 --> 00:20:33,579 Well, I think the point here is that my client hasn't done any wrong. 516 00:20:34,112 --> 00:20:36,388 Then why lie to the police about knowing Dena Meredith? 517 00:20:37,349 --> 00:20:38,453 That was my fault. 518 00:20:38,517 --> 00:20:40,121 I told Chris that he should tell them 519 00:20:40,185 --> 00:20:42,893 he had no knowledge of Ms. Meredith's death. 520 00:20:42,954 --> 00:20:44,592 That was a miscommunication. 521 00:20:45,090 --> 00:20:47,195 And for that I take full responsibility. 522 00:20:48,727 --> 00:20:50,365 Then you did know Ms. Meredith? 523 00:20:50,595 --> 00:20:53,041 I met her at the bank, arranging a loan for Henry. 524 00:20:53,098 --> 00:20:54,806 Chris and his business managers did a number 525 00:20:54,867 --> 00:20:57,473 of substantial transactions through Ms. Meredith. 526 00:20:57,937 --> 00:20:59,746 And what was all this money for? 527 00:20:59,972 --> 00:21:02,714 CHRIS: Honestly, I didn't pay much attention. 528 00:21:02,775 --> 00:21:04,777 I mean, Henry would pitch some ideas, 529 00:21:04,844 --> 00:21:06,152 I'd run 'em by my managers. 530 00:21:06,212 --> 00:21:08,624 If they were good, I gave him the money. 531 00:21:10,016 --> 00:21:12,553 I was just trying to put something back in the community. 532 00:21:15,188 --> 00:21:16,599 Just so we're clear, 533 00:21:16,656 --> 00:21:19,433 so there aren't any more miscommunications, 534 00:21:19,493 --> 00:21:21,131 you're saying you have no knowledge 535 00:21:21,195 --> 00:21:23,641 why Henry Williams might have killed Dena Meredith? 536 00:21:23,697 --> 00:21:25,938 I'm saying I don't think Henry did it. 537 00:21:28,502 --> 00:21:31,415 Over the last two years, Cody gave Williams over $300,000. 538 00:21:31,472 --> 00:21:34,248 All that money went through Dena Meredith as business loans, 539 00:21:34,308 --> 00:21:36,310 which Cody's accountants then wrote off. 540 00:21:36,376 --> 00:21:38,413 So, he has the taxpayers footing half the bill. 541 00:21:38,479 --> 00:21:39,822 It gets better. 542 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:40,950 When the bank came to Cody 543 00:21:41,014 --> 00:21:42,425 to make good on some of the loans, 544 00:21:42,483 --> 00:21:44,122 he claimed financial hardship. 545 00:21:44,185 --> 00:21:45,596 With his contract? 546 00:21:45,653 --> 00:21:48,190 It's in its last year, and negotiations for a new one 547 00:21:48,256 --> 00:21:49,462 haven't been going well. 548 00:21:49,524 --> 00:21:50,730 Stress fracture. 549 00:21:50,792 --> 00:21:51,930 According to his medical records, 550 00:21:51,993 --> 00:21:53,700 the doctor put a pin in his right foot. 551 00:21:53,762 --> 00:21:56,675 But there's also something else on the record. 552 00:21:57,532 --> 00:21:59,409 He was in a drug program. 553 00:21:59,467 --> 00:22:01,777 He rehabbed while he was out with the foot injury. 554 00:22:01,836 --> 00:22:04,248 That's how he and the team kept if from the league. 555 00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:13,617 Drug use by a star player isn't exactly the type of PR the team's looking for. 556 00:22:13,682 --> 00:22:14,820 So you didn't report it? 557 00:22:14,884 --> 00:22:17,694 Well, we have to work closely with the Player's Association, 558 00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:21,462 and the rules allowing us to demand a drug test are very specific. 559 00:22:21,524 --> 00:22:25,165 Without absolute proof, the union won't let us near their people. 560 00:22:25,227 --> 00:22:27,332 So why did Cody agree to a drug program 561 00:22:27,396 --> 00:22:28,739 if you couldn't prove he was using? 562 00:22:28,797 --> 00:22:31,369 Well, A, if he didn't participate, we would have gone to the league. 563 00:22:31,434 --> 00:22:34,142 And B, we showed him reports about the people he was hanging out with. 564 00:22:34,204 --> 00:22:37,549 People we considered to be less than, uh, savory characters. 565 00:22:37,607 --> 00:22:38,847 Henry Williams. 566 00:22:39,109 --> 00:22:42,352 After his foot surgery, the GM told him that if he didn't rehab, 567 00:22:42,412 --> 00:22:45,052 he'd be a salary cap casualty next season. 568 00:22:45,115 --> 00:22:48,824 These people were throwing, uh, late night parties, providing hookers. 569 00:22:48,885 --> 00:22:51,331 Then we got word about a banger named Marcus Cole. 570 00:22:51,655 --> 00:22:54,660 When he showed up, we really got scared. 571 00:22:54,725 --> 00:22:55,795 Scared of what? 572 00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:57,066 That's his sheet. 573 00:22:58,429 --> 00:23:01,069 Twelve years for homicide. Six for drug possession. 574 00:23:01,132 --> 00:23:02,406 Currently on parole. 575 00:23:03,134 --> 00:23:05,410 Certainly be my first choice for an invite to a party. 576 00:23:05,469 --> 00:23:06,880 Maybe not enough for a conviction, 577 00:23:06,938 --> 00:23:08,849 but certainly enough for a conversation. 578 00:23:15,112 --> 00:23:16,386 (BASKETBALL GAME PLAYING ON TV) 579 00:23:17,114 --> 00:23:18,992 He's in the living room. 580 00:23:26,058 --> 00:23:27,628 What you watching, Marcus? 581 00:23:31,330 --> 00:23:33,776 Don't get up on our account. Come on. 582 00:23:34,533 --> 00:23:36,012 Hey, what's all this about, huh? 583 00:23:36,068 --> 00:23:37,945 We're from the Neilsen ratings. 584 00:23:39,805 --> 00:23:40,909 Look, man, I don't know nothing about nothing. 585 00:23:40,973 --> 00:23:45,081 See, we already know that. 'Cause if you did know anything about anything, 586 00:23:45,144 --> 00:23:49,354 you'd know not to keep a semi-automatic .45 caliber pistol 587 00:23:49,415 --> 00:23:51,520 in a shoe box under your bed. 588 00:23:51,851 --> 00:23:55,094 My office is running the gun through ballistics as we speak. 589 00:23:55,355 --> 00:23:56,698 Now, this is just a wild guess, 590 00:23:56,756 --> 00:23:58,895 but we think that's the gun that was used to murder Dena Meredith. 591 00:24:00,293 --> 00:24:02,705 Now, see, y'all ain't got no probable cause 592 00:24:02,762 --> 00:24:04,435 to be searching my stuff like that. 593 00:24:05,131 --> 00:24:07,043 That's poison from the fruit tree. 594 00:24:09,403 --> 00:24:11,280 Remember Sing Sing, Mr. Cole? 595 00:24:11,872 --> 00:24:13,943 Specifically the day you got out? 596 00:24:15,175 --> 00:24:17,280 That's your signature on a release form 597 00:24:17,344 --> 00:24:20,791 consenting to searches of your person and your residence 598 00:24:20,848 --> 00:24:23,158 at the request of your parole officer. 599 00:24:23,651 --> 00:24:25,597 And guess who me and my partner 600 00:24:25,653 --> 00:24:27,599 spoke to before we dropped by. 601 00:24:28,389 --> 00:24:32,133 Game's over, Mr. Cole. And once that ballistic report comes in, 602 00:24:32,193 --> 00:24:34,036 I don't need you anymore. 603 00:24:34,362 --> 00:24:35,841 It's as simple as that. 604 00:24:39,134 --> 00:24:40,374 (SIGHS) 605 00:24:41,403 --> 00:24:43,041 So what you gonna do for me, huh? 606 00:24:43,705 --> 00:24:45,946 I mean, it's four letters no matter how you look at it. 607 00:24:46,007 --> 00:24:47,748 There's a difference between life 608 00:24:48,176 --> 00:24:50,850 and life with no possibility of parole. 609 00:24:50,912 --> 00:24:52,550 In another 25 years, don't you at least 610 00:24:52,614 --> 00:24:53,992 want the chance to sign a piece of paper like that? 611 00:25:00,223 --> 00:25:01,293 Twenty. 612 00:25:01,357 --> 00:25:03,530 It depends on how good the information is. 613 00:25:03,826 --> 00:25:06,136 Oh, it's good. It's real good. 614 00:25:08,130 --> 00:25:11,134 According to Cole, the murder was orchestrated by Chris Cody. 615 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,770 Why, in God's name? 616 00:25:13,269 --> 00:25:15,510 Claims not to know. What he will say is, 617 00:25:15,571 --> 00:25:17,448 that he was approached by Henry Williams 618 00:25:17,506 --> 00:25:20,044 and paid $18,000 on Cody's behalf. 619 00:25:20,510 --> 00:25:21,989 Do we have any corroboration? 620 00:25:22,045 --> 00:25:25,049 There was an $18,000 withdrawal from one of Cody's bank accounts 621 00:25:25,115 --> 00:25:26,651 two days before the murder. 622 00:25:27,284 --> 00:25:28,490 Let's bring him in. 623 00:25:28,552 --> 00:25:30,395 I've already telephoned his lawyer 624 00:25:30,454 --> 00:25:33,367 and the team's general counsel to arrange a surrender. 625 00:25:33,457 --> 00:25:34,458 Good. 626 00:25:34,524 --> 00:25:36,868 I'd like him processed with as little fanfare as possible. 627 00:25:36,927 --> 00:25:38,031 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 628 00:25:38,095 --> 00:25:40,132 I just spoke to the team's practice facility. 629 00:25:40,197 --> 00:25:41,700 Cody didn't show up this morning. 630 00:25:41,766 --> 00:25:43,473 Briscoe and Green are checking his apartment. 631 00:25:43,534 --> 00:25:44,979 LEWIN: Notify the airlines. 632 00:25:45,036 --> 00:25:46,344 They're already on it. 633 00:25:47,638 --> 00:25:48,639 (SIGHS) 634 00:25:49,207 --> 00:25:51,050 So much for lack of fanfare. 635 00:25:52,377 --> 00:25:55,449 The morning doorman at his building saw him leave around 6:30. 636 00:25:55,513 --> 00:25:56,617 The police checked with the garage 637 00:25:56,681 --> 00:25:57,955 where Cody keeps his cars. 638 00:25:58,015 --> 00:26:00,393 He ordered his Jaguar around the same time. 639 00:26:00,451 --> 00:26:02,431 The attendant saw him get in and drive away. 640 00:26:02,487 --> 00:26:04,364 They put out his plates, make and model. 641 00:26:05,389 --> 00:26:08,098 I'm asking for your cooperation, Mr. Garnett. 642 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:13,269 I can't vouch for his safety if he doesn't peaceably surrender to authorities. 643 00:26:13,332 --> 00:26:15,334 I told you, I spoke with him last night. 644 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,711 Now, obviously, I can't divulge the substance of our discussions, 645 00:26:18,771 --> 00:26:20,341 but he seemed fine. 646 00:26:20,539 --> 00:26:21,984 And you have no idea where he'd go? 647 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,041 None. 648 00:26:23,108 --> 00:26:24,746 I'm telling you that as an officer of the court. 649 00:26:24,810 --> 00:26:26,255 I have... Yes, I'm here. 650 00:26:26,812 --> 00:26:27,984 Mmm-hmm. 651 00:26:28,781 --> 00:26:30,455 Mmm, okay. All right, thanks. 652 00:26:30,783 --> 00:26:31,887 He's at his mother's house. 653 00:26:31,951 --> 00:26:33,589 Well, uh, at least I think so. 654 00:26:33,653 --> 00:26:37,123 He picked up a girlfriend, a Charlene Bettie, 655 00:26:37,190 --> 00:26:40,034 at her home in Brooklyn around 7:30 this morning. 656 00:26:40,093 --> 00:26:41,299 Where's his mother live? 657 00:26:41,361 --> 00:26:42,704 Riverdale. 658 00:26:43,530 --> 00:26:45,976 Is he still inside? Yeah. Two of my men knocked on the door. 659 00:26:46,032 --> 00:26:48,308 Saw an upstairs window curtain move, then nothing. 660 00:26:48,668 --> 00:26:50,341 Couple of minutes later, we heard woman scream. 661 00:26:50,403 --> 00:26:52,906 We were about to go in, when she came out. 662 00:26:53,340 --> 00:26:54,785 Charlene? Yeah. 663 00:26:54,842 --> 00:26:55,946 What happened? 664 00:26:56,010 --> 00:26:58,286 (SOBBING) He's just... He's freaking out. 665 00:26:58,345 --> 00:27:00,723 I thought we were going for a ride in the country or something. 666 00:27:00,781 --> 00:27:02,158 But then he drove here. 667 00:27:02,516 --> 00:27:04,894 The cops showed up, and he... ED: It's okay. 668 00:27:04,952 --> 00:27:06,488 Do you know where he is in the house? 669 00:27:06,554 --> 00:27:08,556 In the upstairs bedroom, I think. 670 00:27:08,622 --> 00:27:09,999 Or at least he was... 671 00:27:10,057 --> 00:27:11,559 And he's got a gun. 672 00:27:12,593 --> 00:27:14,971 I think he's going to kill himself. I really do. 673 00:27:15,162 --> 00:27:17,039 Thanks. It's gonna be okay. 674 00:27:18,366 --> 00:27:19,777 Has anybody tried to contact him? 675 00:27:19,835 --> 00:27:21,644 Yeah, I tried to call him. He didn't pick up. 676 00:27:21,703 --> 00:27:23,273 Neighbor says his mother's down south. 677 00:27:23,338 --> 00:27:25,249 All right, look, we don't want to step on anybody's toes here, 678 00:27:25,307 --> 00:27:27,844 but we know this guy. You mind if we try to start a conversation? 679 00:27:27,909 --> 00:27:30,617 Hey, if you're volunteering, I'm all for happy endings. 680 00:27:30,812 --> 00:27:32,257 Now, come on, I'll take you inside. 681 00:27:44,193 --> 00:27:45,365 ED: Chris? 682 00:27:45,728 --> 00:27:46,729 Chris? 683 00:27:47,630 --> 00:27:50,110 It's Detectives Green and Briscoe. You remember us? 684 00:27:50,299 --> 00:27:52,040 CHRIS: Don't come up here. 685 00:27:52,101 --> 00:27:53,546 You all right, Chris? 686 00:27:56,205 --> 00:27:57,912 Hey, Chris, we're coming up to talk, all right? 687 00:27:57,974 --> 00:27:59,078 CHRIS: I said don't! 688 00:27:59,142 --> 00:28:00,985 Just to talk, that's all. 689 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,755 Chris? 690 00:28:08,118 --> 00:28:09,290 Chris... 691 00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:11,660 You okay? 692 00:28:11,822 --> 00:28:13,028 (SOBBING) Stay away from me. 693 00:28:13,090 --> 00:28:14,194 Easy, easy. 694 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,735 I never meant for any of it to happen. 695 00:28:18,795 --> 00:28:20,001 We know you didn't. 696 00:28:20,063 --> 00:28:22,600 Just put the gun down, Chris, and nobody'll get hurt. 697 00:28:22,666 --> 00:28:24,407 Has anybody talked to Henry? 698 00:28:24,468 --> 00:28:25,708 'Cause he can set this straight. 699 00:28:25,769 --> 00:28:27,442 We can do that, man. We can talk to Henry. 700 00:28:27,504 --> 00:28:29,644 But first, we gotta take care of this. 701 00:28:29,707 --> 00:28:31,084 Look, you don't understand, man. 702 00:28:31,142 --> 00:28:33,122 I gotta set this straight! I gotta! 703 00:28:36,814 --> 00:28:38,293 I tried... 704 00:28:38,483 --> 00:28:40,087 I tried to tell her. 705 00:28:43,187 --> 00:28:45,360 Don't! Don't! Don't do that, Chris. 706 00:28:45,423 --> 00:28:47,801 You got a lot of people cheering for you every night. 707 00:28:47,859 --> 00:28:48,997 You got a lot of fans out there. 708 00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:50,232 You don't want to go out like this. 709 00:28:50,295 --> 00:28:53,743 Think about the kids, Chris. The ones who wear your number. 710 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,784 (SIGHING) 711 00:29:09,114 --> 00:29:10,923 All right. I'm sorry, man. 712 00:29:18,658 --> 00:29:20,729 My client wants to set the record straight. 713 00:29:20,794 --> 00:29:23,001 He had a chance once before. He knows that. 714 00:29:23,063 --> 00:29:24,565 I won't promise anything. 715 00:29:27,434 --> 00:29:28,606 Have you talked to Henry? 716 00:29:28,668 --> 00:29:30,306 JACK: He's being produced for arraignment. 717 00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:32,179 He hasn't been interviewed yet. 718 00:29:32,238 --> 00:29:34,775 Look, this is hard, man. Henry and me... 719 00:29:39,212 --> 00:29:40,886 He owed some people money. 720 00:29:40,948 --> 00:29:42,120 Money for what? 721 00:29:42,183 --> 00:29:43,355 Drugs. 722 00:29:43,417 --> 00:29:45,090 Now, I don't know their names, 723 00:29:45,152 --> 00:29:47,029 but they fronted him for some coke. 724 00:29:47,088 --> 00:29:49,466 And I was supposed to give him the money, only I couldn't. 725 00:29:49,523 --> 00:29:51,594 Dena said the bank wouldn't give me any more loans. 726 00:29:51,659 --> 00:29:53,195 What about your cars? Your co-op? 727 00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:54,330 Look, it's all borrowed. 728 00:29:55,229 --> 00:29:56,833 Borrowed time, my mom said. 729 00:29:58,265 --> 00:30:00,575 Look, anyway, Henry didn't believe me. 730 00:30:00,635 --> 00:30:02,546 He thought I was trying to back out on the deal. 731 00:30:02,837 --> 00:30:05,648 So he said he would make Dena give him the loan. 732 00:30:05,874 --> 00:30:09,447 Marcus Cole says it was you who wanted Dena Meredith killed. 733 00:30:09,511 --> 00:30:11,149 I had no reason to kill Dena. 734 00:30:11,213 --> 00:30:14,422 Unless it was to silence her about the drug money. 735 00:30:14,816 --> 00:30:17,023 $18,000 was withdrawn from your account 736 00:30:17,085 --> 00:30:18,428 two days before her murder. 737 00:30:18,487 --> 00:30:21,661 Henry said the dealers would wait for the rest of their money 738 00:30:21,723 --> 00:30:23,566 if he could give them the 18 grand, 739 00:30:23,625 --> 00:30:25,036 so that's what I did. 740 00:30:25,093 --> 00:30:26,470 But that's all I did. 741 00:30:28,431 --> 00:30:30,570 You believe him? Who knows? 742 00:30:31,934 --> 00:30:33,811 The drug dealers have no names, 743 00:30:33,870 --> 00:30:36,111 and Dena Meredith certainly isn't around 744 00:30:36,172 --> 00:30:37,981 to help us figure it all out. 745 00:30:38,041 --> 00:30:39,543 Briscoe and Green talked to Williams. 746 00:30:39,609 --> 00:30:41,111 He had nothing to say. 747 00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:43,984 That was before his best friend sold him down the river. 748 00:30:45,214 --> 00:30:47,251 I already told you, I ain't got nothing to say. 749 00:30:47,650 --> 00:30:48,651 That's too bad, 750 00:30:48,718 --> 00:30:51,494 because Marcus Cole and Chris Cody have a lot to say. 751 00:30:52,288 --> 00:30:55,395 Cody claims that you killed Dena Meredith over some drug money. 752 00:30:55,459 --> 00:30:57,735 I assume this is all off the record? 753 00:30:58,028 --> 00:30:59,439 Chris is my brother. 754 00:30:59,496 --> 00:31:01,134 JACK: He rolled on you, Mr. Williams. 755 00:31:01,398 --> 00:31:03,400 He said he refused to give you money 756 00:31:03,467 --> 00:31:05,105 you needed to pay off a drug buy. 757 00:31:05,969 --> 00:31:06,970 That's a lie. 758 00:31:07,037 --> 00:31:09,711 We also have a witness that puts you with Cole and Dena 759 00:31:09,773 --> 00:31:11,343 just hours before her death. 760 00:31:13,310 --> 00:31:14,721 Are you being straight with me? 761 00:31:14,778 --> 00:31:17,453 Chris told you that this was about me and some drugs? 762 00:31:17,515 --> 00:31:19,256 He's letting you take the fall. 763 00:31:19,317 --> 00:31:22,321 He's counting on a jury not believing a word you say. 764 00:31:23,121 --> 00:31:24,566 Chris wouldn't do that. 765 00:31:24,623 --> 00:31:25,795 He already has. 766 00:31:30,962 --> 00:31:34,307 Damn. Chris, he's got no kind of character, man. 767 00:31:35,367 --> 00:31:36,539 All he could ever do was play ball. 768 00:31:43,609 --> 00:31:45,020 If I, um... 769 00:31:45,277 --> 00:31:47,018 If I tell you the truth, what happens? 770 00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:49,355 Twenty-to-life, same as Cole. 771 00:31:49,615 --> 00:31:51,686 And Chris, he... He gonna be up in there with me? 772 00:31:51,750 --> 00:31:54,162 You'll be waving goodbye to him when you get out. 773 00:31:58,024 --> 00:32:00,300 This ain't got nothing to do with no drugs. 774 00:32:01,327 --> 00:32:03,830 Chris is the father of that girl's baby. 775 00:32:06,833 --> 00:32:10,246 According to Williams, Cody didn't want to pay child support. 776 00:32:10,303 --> 00:32:12,305 Professional athlete making millions. 777 00:32:12,506 --> 00:32:14,782 In his mind, murder was a viable option. 778 00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:17,678 It's all part of the Chris Cody entitlement program. 779 00:32:17,744 --> 00:32:19,690 He's gotten by on talent his whole life. 780 00:32:19,746 --> 00:32:22,022 As long as he performed on the court, 781 00:32:22,082 --> 00:32:24,790 he always had people ready to clean up his mess. 782 00:32:24,851 --> 00:32:26,592 Now, I don't think the responsibility for this 783 00:32:26,653 --> 00:32:28,258 rests entirely on his shoulders. 784 00:32:28,322 --> 00:32:30,324 I think that's exactly where it belongs. 785 00:32:31,325 --> 00:32:35,239 You know, the fact is, a ghetto kid turned pro sells tickets. 786 00:32:36,297 --> 00:32:40,006 The thug life image, that's what gets him on ESPN, 787 00:32:40,701 --> 00:32:42,305 that's what gets him his endorsements. 788 00:32:42,370 --> 00:32:43,474 So... 789 00:32:43,571 --> 00:32:45,551 So we encourage it as a society, 790 00:32:45,606 --> 00:32:47,745 and then clobber him when it spills off the court. 791 00:32:48,075 --> 00:32:50,817 A big part of sports is entertainment. 792 00:32:50,878 --> 00:32:55,089 An athlete forgets his image is just that, an image. 793 00:32:55,150 --> 00:32:56,493 The fault's his, not society's. 794 00:32:58,454 --> 00:32:59,797 What about these loans? 795 00:32:59,855 --> 00:33:02,358 Obviously for drugs. Had nothing to do with the murder. 796 00:33:02,424 --> 00:33:03,926 You can prove the baby's his? 797 00:33:03,992 --> 00:33:06,165 JACK: Miles Hawthorne has agreed to cooperate. 798 00:33:06,228 --> 00:33:09,334 We'll confirm paternity with a DNA test as soon as he comes in. 799 00:33:13,869 --> 00:33:14,939 Chris Cody hired me to kill her. 800 00:33:15,003 --> 00:33:16,074 Why? 801 00:33:16,306 --> 00:33:18,217 Chris said she was pregnant with his baby. 802 00:33:18,274 --> 00:33:20,311 See, she called Chris up the day before, 803 00:33:20,376 --> 00:33:22,413 said she needed to talk to him about the kid. 804 00:33:22,479 --> 00:33:23,480 I guess to make arrangements, 805 00:33:23,546 --> 00:33:25,526 being that the due date was near and all. 806 00:33:25,582 --> 00:33:27,357 That's why he wanted me to kill her that night. 807 00:33:27,951 --> 00:33:29,089 He said she was gonna run back 808 00:33:29,152 --> 00:33:31,359 and tell her family about the baby and what not, 809 00:33:31,421 --> 00:33:32,593 and by then it'd be too late. 810 00:33:32,822 --> 00:33:34,165 JACK: Too late for what? 811 00:33:34,724 --> 00:33:35,964 He'd have to pay. 812 00:33:36,259 --> 00:33:38,603 I mean, he already had that one kid down in Florida. 813 00:33:38,962 --> 00:33:40,601 Said he wasn't gonna pay for two. 814 00:33:41,499 --> 00:33:43,137 And you agreed to kill her? 815 00:33:43,267 --> 00:33:45,804 At first, you know, I just kind of laughed. 816 00:33:46,003 --> 00:33:48,074 'Cause it's like, I know Chris. 817 00:33:48,239 --> 00:33:49,582 Known him since we was little kids. 818 00:33:50,207 --> 00:33:52,153 Chris has never really been the type to be down 819 00:33:52,209 --> 00:33:53,586 for no real gangster stuff. 820 00:33:54,011 --> 00:33:56,082 I mean, he could play the part and all of that, 821 00:33:56,147 --> 00:33:58,650 but deep down inside, I didn't think he had it in him. 822 00:34:00,584 --> 00:34:01,756 But he did. 823 00:34:03,087 --> 00:34:04,158 He sure did. 824 00:34:06,558 --> 00:34:07,696 Nothing further. 825 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,137 (CLEARING THROAT) 826 00:34:12,798 --> 00:34:15,972 You're a convicted drug dealer facing a murder charge? 827 00:34:16,501 --> 00:34:17,639 That's right. 828 00:34:17,702 --> 00:34:19,545 And you were offered a plea bargain 829 00:34:19,604 --> 00:34:21,880 in order to secure your testimony today? 830 00:34:21,940 --> 00:34:23,146 Twenty-to-life. 831 00:34:23,441 --> 00:34:26,047 You must've had something pretty important they wanted, huh, Henry? 832 00:34:26,111 --> 00:34:28,023 Say, like a pro basketball player. 833 00:34:28,514 --> 00:34:29,584 Objection. 834 00:34:29,649 --> 00:34:30,992 Sustained. 835 00:34:31,817 --> 00:34:34,696 That money Chris gave you, that 18,000, 836 00:34:34,754 --> 00:34:37,598 that wasn't the only money he ever gave you, was it? 837 00:34:38,157 --> 00:34:40,433 He'd given you money before to buy drugs. 838 00:34:40,493 --> 00:34:41,528 That's right. 839 00:34:41,594 --> 00:34:45,906 Only this time, this last time, he said no, didn't he? 840 00:34:46,666 --> 00:34:48,202 I don't know what you're talking about. 841 00:34:48,267 --> 00:34:50,144 Well, he cut you off, Mr. Williams. 842 00:34:50,436 --> 00:34:51,677 Only you still owed money. 843 00:34:51,738 --> 00:34:54,548 Money for drugs you'd been fronted, isn't that right? 844 00:34:55,742 --> 00:34:58,985 You killed this woman because my client wouldn't give you any more money, 845 00:34:59,046 --> 00:35:00,116 isn't that right? 846 00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:03,662 We killed her because Chris asked me to. 847 00:35:05,485 --> 00:35:06,555 You were the shooter? 848 00:35:06,620 --> 00:35:07,621 Yeah, that's right. 849 00:35:08,155 --> 00:35:09,532 How much were you paid? 850 00:35:09,590 --> 00:35:10,864 Eighteen thousand. 851 00:35:11,858 --> 00:35:13,565 How was the murder committed? 852 00:35:14,261 --> 00:35:17,106 Henry set it up for her to come to this bar downtown. 853 00:35:17,165 --> 00:35:19,645 When she got there, she got in her car with me, 854 00:35:19,701 --> 00:35:22,477 we followed Henry to where we told her Chris was gonna be at. 855 00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:23,777 Where was that? 856 00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:26,010 This street up in the Heights. 857 00:35:26,574 --> 00:35:28,576 When we got there, I put a gun to her head, 858 00:35:28,643 --> 00:35:30,122 told her to get in the trunk. 859 00:35:30,645 --> 00:35:32,124 Drove to this parking lot, 860 00:35:32,714 --> 00:35:34,057 opened the trunk up, 861 00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:35,953 put a cap in her, 862 00:35:36,818 --> 00:35:39,025 went to where Chris was at and told him it was done. 863 00:35:39,087 --> 00:35:40,499 JACK: Where was Chris Cody? 864 00:35:40,556 --> 00:35:41,899 Party at a hotel. 865 00:35:41,957 --> 00:35:43,834 What was his reaction when he was told? 866 00:35:44,293 --> 00:35:45,829 Well, he was cool with it. 867 00:35:52,368 --> 00:35:53,745 (CLEARING THROAT) 868 00:35:53,802 --> 00:35:56,305 Did you ever, uh, talk with Chris Cody 869 00:35:56,372 --> 00:35:58,409 about killing Dena Meredith? 870 00:35:58,474 --> 00:35:59,748 I can't remember. 871 00:35:59,808 --> 00:36:03,951 Well, isn't it true that you never personally spoke with Chris Cody? 872 00:36:04,114 --> 00:36:07,994 That all your information concerning this murder came from Henry Williams? 873 00:36:08,518 --> 00:36:09,792 The 18 grand came from Chris. 874 00:36:09,853 --> 00:36:11,924 But it was Henry who gave it to you. 875 00:36:11,988 --> 00:36:13,365 Henry's his boy. 876 00:36:13,423 --> 00:36:15,460 All right, now when you said before that 877 00:36:15,525 --> 00:36:19,063 Chris was, uh, "Cool with it," with the murder... 878 00:36:20,630 --> 00:36:22,337 Were you present when he said that? 879 00:36:22,399 --> 00:36:24,242 Look, we was all at the party. 880 00:36:24,301 --> 00:36:27,374 Henry came up to me and told me everything was cool. 881 00:36:27,671 --> 00:36:28,741 Oh. 882 00:36:29,674 --> 00:36:31,017 Nothing further. 883 00:36:33,277 --> 00:36:36,850 I first met Dena a couple of years ago, at the bank. 884 00:36:37,648 --> 00:36:39,355 I went in with Henry about a loan. 885 00:36:39,850 --> 00:36:42,592 And eventually you had an intimate relationship. 886 00:36:42,653 --> 00:36:43,654 Yes. 887 00:36:43,721 --> 00:36:46,895 Did you know you were the father of her baby, Chris? 888 00:36:47,091 --> 00:36:50,095 At the time? No. I did not. 889 00:36:51,396 --> 00:36:53,069 I mean, of course, I knew she was pregnant, 890 00:36:53,131 --> 00:36:55,168 but she was about to marry another man. 891 00:36:55,934 --> 00:36:58,574 So, no, I had no idea. 892 00:36:59,805 --> 00:37:03,446 Now, what about what Henry Williams told this jury? 893 00:37:03,508 --> 00:37:04,885 CHRIS: Henry and I go way back. 894 00:37:05,677 --> 00:37:09,352 I've always helped him out, which is why this is so hard, 895 00:37:09,414 --> 00:37:10,950 what he's trying to do to me. 896 00:37:13,452 --> 00:37:14,898 Maybe everyone was right. 897 00:37:15,755 --> 00:37:18,395 Maybe if I hadn't have bailed him out all this time, 898 00:37:18,458 --> 00:37:20,961 maybe if I had made him take responsibility for... 899 00:37:24,097 --> 00:37:25,235 I don't know. 900 00:37:27,567 --> 00:37:30,912 Did you have anything to do with the death of Dena Meredith? 901 00:37:31,371 --> 00:37:33,681 Absolutely not. 902 00:37:40,114 --> 00:37:43,186 You're upset Mr. Williams isn't taking responsibility 903 00:37:43,283 --> 00:37:45,661 for you, isn't that really it? CHRIS: No. 904 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,325 The way people have always taken responsibility for you? 905 00:37:48,388 --> 00:37:50,231 I've taken care of myself. 906 00:37:50,290 --> 00:37:51,394 Have you? 907 00:37:51,458 --> 00:37:54,564 In college, didn't you get your coach to bail you out, 908 00:37:54,628 --> 00:37:57,507 when your grades threatened your basketball eligibility? 909 00:37:57,564 --> 00:37:58,599 That was different. 910 00:37:58,665 --> 00:38:00,611 And when you went into drug rehab, 911 00:38:01,101 --> 00:38:04,447 you had your team cover that up for you, didn't you? 912 00:38:04,506 --> 00:38:07,385 Object to the form of the question. "Cover up"? 913 00:38:07,442 --> 00:38:08,887 Rephrase, Mr. McCoy. 914 00:38:10,645 --> 00:38:12,647 You had your team 915 00:38:13,448 --> 00:38:18,295 keep your drug use out of the public eye, isn't that right? 916 00:38:18,353 --> 00:38:20,458 They didn't want people to know any more than I did. 917 00:38:20,522 --> 00:38:23,025 And that's exactly what you've always counted on, isn't it? 918 00:38:23,358 --> 00:38:26,533 That your athletic ability would make people look the other way. 919 00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:27,869 I don't use people. 920 00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:29,603 Didn't you use Dena Meredith? 921 00:38:29,665 --> 00:38:32,236 Didn't you use her to give you money? 922 00:38:32,301 --> 00:38:35,475 Money that you knew would be used to buy drugs? 923 00:38:35,538 --> 00:38:37,176 She was getting her bonuses. 924 00:38:37,506 --> 00:38:39,417 So using her was okay, then? 925 00:38:42,511 --> 00:38:45,890 Now, if you knew 926 00:38:46,582 --> 00:38:48,118 you hadn't done wrong, 927 00:38:48,651 --> 00:38:50,928 why did you lie to two detectives 928 00:38:50,987 --> 00:38:53,661 when you were asked about knowing Dena Meredith? 929 00:38:53,724 --> 00:38:54,998 That was a mistake. 930 00:38:55,325 --> 00:38:57,737 JACK: And what you said when you surrendered at your mother's house, 931 00:38:57,794 --> 00:38:58,898 was that another mistake? 932 00:38:58,962 --> 00:39:00,202 I don't know what you're talking about. 933 00:39:00,764 --> 00:39:03,244 You told Detective Green that you tried to tell her. 934 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:05,439 Tried to tell her what, Mr. Cody? 935 00:39:05,502 --> 00:39:07,277 That you didn't want this baby, isn't that it? 936 00:39:07,938 --> 00:39:09,315 I tried to warn her. 937 00:39:11,341 --> 00:39:12,513 Warn her? 938 00:39:14,812 --> 00:39:15,847 About what? 939 00:39:17,548 --> 00:39:20,927 You've already testified you didn't know what Henry was going to do. 940 00:39:22,954 --> 00:39:24,865 You knew you were the father, 941 00:39:25,456 --> 00:39:29,404 and when she came to you, you did what you've done your whole life. 942 00:39:30,528 --> 00:39:31,836 You took care of yourself. 943 00:39:32,530 --> 00:39:35,136 GARNETT: Objection. Ls there a question here, Your Honor? 944 00:39:38,971 --> 00:39:41,212 Were these people using you, 945 00:39:42,841 --> 00:39:44,752 or were you using them? 946 00:39:52,384 --> 00:39:55,365 Mr. McCoy can paint whatever picture he wants of Chris Cody, 947 00:39:55,420 --> 00:39:56,865 but the truth is, 948 00:39:57,356 --> 00:39:58,858 he can't prove any of it. 949 00:39:59,524 --> 00:40:02,506 The only evidence against Chris Cody is the testimony, 950 00:40:02,562 --> 00:40:04,769 the word of two convicted drug dealers. 951 00:40:04,831 --> 00:40:09,143 One who admittedly had dealings with the victim, 952 00:40:09,202 --> 00:40:10,476 and the other, 953 00:40:11,037 --> 00:40:14,678 who never personally spoke with Mr. Cody. 954 00:40:15,141 --> 00:40:17,178 The simple fact is, 955 00:40:17,410 --> 00:40:20,619 Chris Cody never knew he was the father of this child. 956 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:21,954 And if he never knew, 957 00:40:22,582 --> 00:40:24,892 he had no motive for killing Dena Meredith. 958 00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:29,601 This man rose from nothing 959 00:40:30,524 --> 00:40:34,267 to become a respected person in his community. 960 00:40:34,895 --> 00:40:36,636 A champion for this city. 961 00:40:37,398 --> 00:40:39,776 He spent his own money in his old neighborhood, 962 00:40:39,833 --> 00:40:41,676 never forgotten where he came from, 963 00:40:41,735 --> 00:40:43,874 never forgotten who he was. 964 00:40:44,772 --> 00:40:46,308 Don't you forget him now. 965 00:40:46,707 --> 00:40:50,019 Don't you let these people trade on his celebrity 966 00:40:50,078 --> 00:40:53,082 in order to steal his liberty and his good name. 967 00:40:53,148 --> 00:40:56,425 He pulled himself up out of hell with his own hands. 968 00:40:56,852 --> 00:41:01,597 Don't you dare let them pull him back down with theirs. 969 00:41:08,563 --> 00:41:11,066 "Pulled himself out of hell with his own hands." 970 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,610 More like he stepped on others in his climb to the top. 971 00:41:16,906 --> 00:41:19,716 Listen to his self-serving story, 972 00:41:20,509 --> 00:41:23,046 and ask yourselves if it makes any sense. 973 00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:28,185 He claims he didn't know he was the father of this child. 974 00:41:28,751 --> 00:41:31,254 Says Dena Meredith never told him. 975 00:41:31,487 --> 00:41:33,694 Yet somehow Henry Williams knew. 976 00:41:34,957 --> 00:41:37,996 He claims he had no motive to kill. 977 00:41:38,061 --> 00:41:40,132 But he had the same motive to kill 978 00:41:40,197 --> 00:41:42,609 that he attributes to Henry Williams. 979 00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:46,307 Silencing a witness who could implicate him in drug trafficking. 980 00:41:46,370 --> 00:41:50,011 And he had a second motive all his own. 981 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:53,517 To avoid paying child support. 982 00:41:54,611 --> 00:41:56,921 This is no champion, ladies and gentlemen. 983 00:41:57,381 --> 00:42:00,055 This is no favorite son. 984 00:42:00,918 --> 00:42:03,525 This is a man who got by on his talent, 985 00:42:04,322 --> 00:42:06,666 had others willing to look the other way because of it, 986 00:42:07,258 --> 00:42:11,365 had others willing to do his bidding in order to profit from it. 987 00:42:15,266 --> 00:42:18,475 A child taken from its dying mother's womb, 988 00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:21,540 will have to struggle to survive without her. 989 00:42:22,573 --> 00:42:27,683 Dena Meredith's mother will have to make it without her daughter. 990 00:42:29,882 --> 00:42:32,089 It's time to stop cheering for this man, 991 00:42:32,851 --> 00:42:35,354 and for his ability to play ball. 992 00:42:36,388 --> 00:42:40,495 It's time to stop fretting over the opportunities 993 00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:42,937 supposedly lost to him, 994 00:42:44,196 --> 00:42:45,607 and time to start thinking 995 00:42:46,432 --> 00:42:48,036 about the opportunities 996 00:42:49,068 --> 00:42:50,343 and the lives 997 00:42:51,671 --> 00:42:54,015 stolen by him. 998 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,366 JUDGE: Mr. Foreman, I understand the jury's reached a verdict. 999 00:43:09,422 --> 00:43:10,560 We have. 1000 00:43:12,892 --> 00:43:14,497 On the first count of the indictment, 1001 00:43:14,562 --> 00:43:16,564 charging murder in the first degree, 1002 00:43:16,630 --> 00:43:19,110 we find the defendant, Christopher Cody, 1003 00:43:19,667 --> 00:43:20,805 guilty, 1004 00:43:40,689 --> 00:43:41,929 Life without parole. 1005 00:43:43,091 --> 00:43:45,298 He won't be able to play his way out of that. 1006 00:43:45,661 --> 00:43:47,504 What do we hear about the child? 1007 00:43:47,562 --> 00:43:48,870 Doing fine. 1008 00:43:49,564 --> 00:43:53,273 A man murders the mother of his baby to avoid child support 1009 00:43:53,835 --> 00:43:56,247 and winds up paying for the rest of his life. 1010 00:43:56,905 --> 00:43:58,475 Losing season all the way around.