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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Freezing my ass off for a
nicotine hit, it's pathetic.
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(LAUGHS)
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Come over to my place.
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Uh-uh. Too dangerous.
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What are you afraid of,
one drink?
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(SIGHS) I really think
we ought to take it slow.
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I won't put the moves on you, promise.
Unless you want me to.
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You see, that's exactly...
(GASPS)
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Oh, my God,
that man shot himself!
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OFFICER: Kids that saw it happen
said they were on a first date.
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Dinner and a show?
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Not exactly
what they had in mind.
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What about the victim?
On his way to Bellevue.
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No, is he likely?
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EMS said
he was still breathing.
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If he's not DOA,
he's a house plant.
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FONTANA: 9mm.
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There's the shell casing.
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What time did
this go down?
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Witnesses said
just after 11:00.
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He called somebody
at 10:59.
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Get this stuff vouchered,
will you? Have any ID?
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Richard Ranson.
Twenty-eight years old.
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Hello? Hi, ma'am, I'm sorry
to call you so late,
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this is Detective Green, New
York City Police Department.
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Yeah, may I ask who I'm speaking to?
Okay, do you know a Richard Ranson?
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Ah, yeah, I understand.
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Wife?
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Yeah, they're separated.
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That figures. Family trouble.
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He's on his way
to Bellevue, ma'am.
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Self-inflicted
gunshot wound.
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We don't know, we don't know.
We're on our way there now.
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Excuse me?
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Do you have an address?
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She thinks he may have
killed somebody else.
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You're kidding me. Where?
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Uh-huh.
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Over there.
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ED: I'm assuming those are
his prints on the knife.
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And assuming he dies,
it'd be a murder-suicide.
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He shot himself in the head
and kept breathing?
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He must've flinched.
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Room's registered to a Richard Ranson.
Thank you.
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New York license.
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Maryann Miller. Sullivan Street.
She's... 29?
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It's a hard 29.
Looks more like 39 to me.
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Look at the left side of
her arm and face.
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Yeah, she's got a suntan
like she'd been driving.
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Not in New York.
Not this time of the year.
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He's a lucky man.
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Bullet creased his skull,
exited the scalp.
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That's because
he wasn't fully committed.
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Excuse me?
To dying.
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A wound like that
means that
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you turned the gun away
at the last possible second.
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I see. But he has a concussion,
hairline skull fracture.
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But it sounds like
he's gonna make it.
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Barring unforeseen complications,
he should end up with no more than
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a bad headache, temporary double vision.
Down the road,
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maybe a little
cosmetic surgery.
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Well, we're gonna need to
talk to him at some point.
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Just give me a day or two,
I'll let you know.
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She's in here.
Thanks.
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Mrs. Ranson?
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Detective Green. This is my
partner Detective Fontana.
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Hi. Did you
go to the hotel?
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Oh, my God.
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Richard,
what have you done?
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Who? Do you know?
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Well, we were hoping
that you might be
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able to help us with that.
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The victim was in her 30s,
pretty, brunette.
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Her 30s?
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Maryann Miller, no,
I don't know her.
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FONTANA: Probably
from out of town.
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Well, you have her license,
can't you just...
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It's a fake. There's no such
person, no such address.
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Mrs. Ranson, what made you send
us to your husband's hotel room?
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MRS. RANSON:
He'd left me a message.
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What was the message?
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He said he had finally done what
he needed to do his whole life.
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And it was the hardest thing
he'd ever done.
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And why would that mean
he would kill somebody?
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He'd been talking about it
for months.
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FONTANA: About
killing someone?
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Anyone in particular?
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His mother.
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Richard grew up in a cult.
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I didn't know
they still had cults.
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His mother, Mrs. Shelby,
is the leader.
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The founder.
She's the queen bee.
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Even the members
call her "Mother."
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She live in the city?
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They have branches in Mexico, in Asia,
and she's usually out of the country.
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What about his father?
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Oh, who knows?
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The Children
of the Divine...
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Wait, that's what
they call this thing?
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It was founded in the '60s.
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They believed in
free love, drugs,
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salvation through sex,
enlightenment through ecstasy.
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Well, there was a lot of that
going on back then.
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Richard was a product of what
they call the "soul seduction."
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The female members would go out and try
to seduce men to get them to join.
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So Richard's father took the sample,
but he didn't buy the package.
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It was a one-night stand.
I don't think he ever met him.
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I can understand why Richard resents
his mother, but why kill her?
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The Children of the Divine practice what
they call the "sexualization of children."
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That doesn't sound good.
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Adults had sex with the children, the
children had sex with each other,
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while their parents watched.
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They said it was natural.
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It's what God intended
in the Garden of Eden.
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And all this happened
to Richard?
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Big time.
He was the Crown Prince.
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The Chosen One.
Mother's successor.
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Richard didn't
buy into that.
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He hated it.
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Couldn't wait to get out.
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He left when he was 19.
He escaped, really.
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How long you two been married?
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A year and a half.
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He thought
we were gonna make it.
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ED: What happened?
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About six months ago, he got
really angry and depressed.
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Went into
a complete tailspin.
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You know why?
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He wouldn't tell me.
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Then two weeks ago,
he hit rock bottom.
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He moved out, and he said it'd
be the best for both of us.
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RICHARD ON TAPE: Taking a human fife
was the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Not that it made any difference.
I'll never escape the past.
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I know that now.
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Thanks for trying.
I love you.
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And he shot himself.
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"I'll never escape the past."
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There's a website for survivors,
cult members who've walked away,
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and they all tell the same story.
Physical abuse,sexualabuse.
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Drug overdoses, suicide.
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Mmm. Parents who'd do this
to their own children.
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And the kids who rebel? They
get sent to the Philippines to
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these "victory camps," where
they're disciplined, punished,
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until they get
their heads straight.
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Do we have any idea why
he killed this Maryann Miller?
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We're thinking because of the phony
identification that she has some
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connection with the cult. They're
into fake names, passports.
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So they could stay one step ahead
of the law. What about Mr. Ranson?
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We won't be able to get a crack at
him for the next couple of days.
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He worked at a travel agency. We
were gonna go check out his office.
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All right.
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Rich was always easy
to get along with,
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and then, I don't know,
last six months or so,
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he just stopped talking,
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stopped going out for lunch with
the rest of us. It was dramatic.
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What about the last couple
of weeks or so?
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Beyond blue.
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His wife said
he moved out.
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Oh, my God,
that explains it.
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I thought it was
the phone call.
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What phone call?
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Some woman, uh,
Richie picked up...
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I swear he turned white,
he heard who it was,
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like he was talking
to a ghost.
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He say anything about it?
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Just rushed outta here. Came
back a couple of hours later,
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he was a wreck.
Nervous, twitchy.
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Hey, when did that phone call
happen, do you remember?
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Couple weeks ago, maybe. The day
after this really complicated
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charter to Lithuania, that was a
Monday, so it wasn't last Tuesday,
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but the Tuesday before that.
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Hey.
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Look at this. Look how it's written.
That's the day of that phone call.
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Looks a little shaky. "Empire
S-T." Empire Street?
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We're gonna borrow this stuff.
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Yeah, I seen him a couple
of times. Came by to see her.
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Who's her?
Miss Porter.
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Miss Porter have
a first name?
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Sunny. Real California
hiPPv-dippvivpe-
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Blonde hair, always complaining about
the heat, as in not enough of it.
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If you find her, let us know, she still
owes us for her last three days.
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Do you have her address?
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Yeah, but I assume it's phony.
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Phone number was. We still have her bag.
Suitcase.
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And being the good
citizen that you are,
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you're gonna turn over
this suitcase to us
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as found property,
am I correct, sir?
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Yeah, the tag on the back says
she flew in from San Francisco.
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Oh, it looks like Sunny and
Richard were more than friends.
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Oh.
"Christmas '92, Manzanillo."
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That's Mexico.
Yeah?
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Uh-huh.
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Okay. Thank you. Sunshine
Porter flew one way from
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San Francisco to Newark. She got here the
day after Richard got that phone call,
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and she checked in the same day
at the Empire State Hotel.
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Sunshine? This whole thing
is starting to sound like
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a bad acid flashback
from the '60s.
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And guess who
sold her the ticket?
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The Travel Planet.
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Richard Ranson.
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ED: You're sure
you don't recognize her?
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No, I'm positive.
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Well, this photo would've been
taken, like, 10 or 12 years ago.
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What was her connection
to Richard?
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FONTANA: We don't know yet.
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What makes you think
there was one?
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Well, Richard was in the picture with her.
We cropped him out.
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Why?
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We wanted to show
them separately.
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What were they doing
in the photograph?
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Oh, this must've been
before he left the cult, so...
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Was she a member, too?
We don't know.
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She looks about 13, 14.
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They were just kids.
It wasn't their fault.
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Yeah, we know.
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(PHONE RINGING)
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Not again.
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Are you gonna answer it?
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Hello? These hang-ups
are driving me crazy.
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When did they start?
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Since everything happened.
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When that happens, hang up,
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pick up again, dial star-57.
We can trace the call.
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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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Open up, it's the police!
MAN: Who is it?
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I said
it's the police!
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MAN: How do I know
you're really the police?
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Read the badge, Einstein,
what's it say?
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MAN: Could be fake.
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Yeah, it could be,
but it's not.
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Now open up, or we're
gonna kick the door in!
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Where's Sunshine Porter?
She's not here.
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Where'd she go?
I don't know.
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FONTANA: What's your name?
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Jared. Jared Weston.
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All right, come on, give me your ID.
Give me some ID. Come on!
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Can I ask you a question?
FONTANA: It depends.
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Is he gonna be okay?
Who?
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Daniel.
Who's Daniel?
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You know, Richard Ranson. The guy who
shot himself and killed that lady.
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That's why you're here,
isn't it?
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Why do you call him Daniel?
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That's how we knew him.
Whoa.
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Growing up, that was
his name before he left
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Children of the Divine.
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Are you Sunshine Porter?
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Yes.
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She wasn't hiding from you.
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We thought Mother sent you.
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Mrs. Shelby?
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Why are you afraid of her?
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We just don't want her
to know where we are.
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Were you in this cult
with Daniel?
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After Daniel left, we left.
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What was your relationship
with Daniel?
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I'm his sister.
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Why did you call your
brother's house and hang up?
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I wanted to apologize
to his wife.
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But I didn't know
what to say.
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And the woman he killed?
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Dolores.
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She was our nanny.
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The nannies were these girls who
took care of us most of the time.
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They had sex with us, and got
us to have sex with each other.
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And your mother
condoned all of this?
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She believed in it. It's
written in the teachings.
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God is love,
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and the purest form
of love is sex.
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So...
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It's all in
the Book of Daniel.
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What's the Book of Daniel?
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Mother wrote it. It tells
you how to raise a child.
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By having sex with them?
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A couple of weeks ago,
you called your brother.
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I heard Mother was gonna be in New York for
a meeting with some of the American Elders.
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I thought if Daniel could just confront her
about what happened when he was a kid,
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maybe he could move on
and get over it.
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So you told him
about the meeting?
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Yeah, but I didn't know where it
was gonna be, so he asked me to
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put him in touch
with Dolores.
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He thought he could get to
your mother through Dolores?
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I guess Dolores wouldn't
tell him where Mother was.
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I was just trying to help.
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I didn't know he would
do what he did.
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Dolores Diamond, 40, been living in
Mexico City, FBl's had a file on her
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for more than a decade. Along
with her boss, Mrs. Shelby,
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and the rest of
her inner circle.
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What is the Feds' interest
in these people?
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International investigation. Child abuse.
Argentina, Mexico, Belgium...
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FONTANA: Any luck? A few arrests,
a few trials, no convictions.
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Well, you'd think with all those
survivor testimonies on the website,
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they'd be able to prosecute.
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00:15:30,963 --> 00:15:32,658
Well, they claim
they cleaned up their act
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a long time ago, but no one's been
able to find the cult leaders
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long enough to
prosecute them.
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Well, I'd like to spend an hour
with one of the little creeps,
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and teach 'em a whole new meaning
to the expression, "See the light."
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Hospital called. Said your
boy's well enough to talk.
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I did it.
I killed Dolores.
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Not that you need
my confession.
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FONTANA: We'll read
you your rights.
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I waive my rights.
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Let 'em do whatever
they want to me,
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throw away the key,
lethal injection.
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If you're looking for help from the
State of New York to finish the job,
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you're outta luck. You should
have done her in Texas.
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Whatever.
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Why did you kill Dolores?
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She deserved it.
They all do.
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You know how many suicides
there have been?
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Among the children
who grew up in this...
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Abomination? How many drug overdoses?
And that's not counting the addicts,
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and the alcoholics, the walking
wounded and the living dead.
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We know what went on
in the cult, Daniel.
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Then you know why I did it.
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00:16:50,776 --> 00:16:53,211
You know what
the worst thing was?
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Even as she was about to die,
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she still didn't get it.
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Dolores?
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She's dying.
She's bleeding to death.
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00:17:06,993 --> 00:17:09,724
She looks me in the eye,
and says, "Why?
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"Why, Daniel, why?"
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00:17:16,736 --> 00:17:20,468
She still doesn't understand
she's ever done anything wrong.
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00:17:24,110 --> 00:17:26,545
Does he really
deserve murder two?
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00:17:27,146 --> 00:17:29,171
I could live with man one.
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00:17:29,248 --> 00:17:31,979
What if we could use Richard
to get at his mother?
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00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:34,179
She's really
the culpable party here.
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00:17:34,253 --> 00:17:36,415
I agree, but for what?
334
00:17:37,123 --> 00:17:40,388
I've been going over his file,
his grandparents were awarded
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00:17:40,459 --> 00:17:42,291
custody of Richard
when he was a toddler.
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00:17:42,361 --> 00:17:44,090
They were
his legal guardians?
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00:17:44,163 --> 00:17:46,154
He was living with them
when Mrs. Shelby abducted him.
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00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,360
Did they file a complaint?
They did.
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00:17:48,434 --> 00:17:51,495
But she took him to Mexico
and they never saw him again.
340
00:17:51,571 --> 00:17:53,096
That could be construed
as kidnapping.
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00:17:53,172 --> 00:17:54,264
I thought so.
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00:17:54,340 --> 00:17:57,401
It could also be construed
as a custody dispute.
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00:17:57,476 --> 00:17:59,672
Not to mention
the statute of limitations.
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00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:02,146
If he was taken for the purpose
of performing a sexual act,
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00:18:02,214 --> 00:18:04,911
that's a Class A felony,
no statute of limitations.
346
00:18:04,984 --> 00:18:07,612
Kidnapping involving
a parent is tricky.
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00:18:07,687 --> 00:18:11,089
Under New York law, it's an affirmative
defense if the defendant's a relative
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00:18:11,157 --> 00:18:14,491
and the reason for the abduction
is simply to assume control.
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00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,996
So we have to prove Richard was
abducted for sexual purposes.
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00:18:18,064 --> 00:18:19,088
Without corroboration.
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00:18:19,165 --> 00:18:20,997
We'd have
his sister's testimony.
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00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:24,460
We'd have to
find Mrs. Shelby first.
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00:18:25,671 --> 00:18:29,699
I'm just ajourneyman lawyer on retainer.
I handle the more mundane
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00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:32,142
legal matters
for Mrs. Shelby.
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00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:34,009
Why does the District
Attorney need to
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00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,844
know where Mrs. Shelby is?
357
00:18:35,915 --> 00:18:37,906
Dolores Diamond
was her assistant.
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00:18:37,984 --> 00:18:40,510
We'd like to ask some questions
concerning the case.
359
00:18:40,586 --> 00:18:45,888
Well, I can assure you Mrs. Shelby knows
nothing about this tragic incident.
360
00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:49,553
Are you familiar with the
website run by ex-cult members?
361
00:18:49,629 --> 00:18:51,620
"Cult" is such
a negative word.
362
00:18:51,697 --> 00:18:53,096
What would
you call it?
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00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:58,294
A religion. One person's cult
is another person's way to God.
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00:18:58,571 --> 00:19:01,268
A religion? The
Children of the Divine?
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00:19:01,707 --> 00:19:04,404
The IRS thinks so,
and so do the courts.
366
00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:07,606
The people who post to this website
seem to think that Mrs. Shelby
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00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,375
had a lot to do
with this incident.
368
00:19:09,448 --> 00:19:11,576
That in some real way,
she was responsible.
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00:19:11,651 --> 00:19:13,346
Bitter apostates
who bear a grudge.
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00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:14,511
Can you blame them?
371
00:19:14,587 --> 00:19:17,079
No, not if their claims are credible.
They're not?
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00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:21,320
Any misdeeds you may be referring to
were perpetrated by a very small faction
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00:19:21,394 --> 00:19:24,955
of the group, who were dealt
with and expelled years ago.
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00:19:26,632 --> 00:19:29,192
The cult no longer
practices sex with children?
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00:19:29,268 --> 00:19:32,727
The Children of the Divine never did.
Only a few renegades who
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00:19:32,805 --> 00:19:36,708
misinterpreted the teachings. I can
get you a set of press releases
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00:19:36,776 --> 00:19:42,306
if you like, and transcripts of the trials
abroad, which absolutely exonerated
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00:19:42,381 --> 00:19:44,372
the organization.
Maybe you could just show us
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00:19:44,450 --> 00:19:47,613
a copy of the Book of Daniel. Or tell
us where we can get out hands on one.
380
00:19:47,687 --> 00:19:49,155
We wouldn't have
to bother Mrs. Shelby.
381
00:19:49,221 --> 00:19:50,780
There is no such book.
382
00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:54,019
That's not what Daniel,
Richard Ranson, tells us.
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00:19:54,093 --> 00:19:56,528
Is he well enough
to speak to you?
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00:19:56,595 --> 00:19:58,927
Because I know that Mrs.
Shelby would like to call him,
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00:19:58,998 --> 00:20:00,591
just to see how he's doing.
386
00:20:00,666 --> 00:20:03,328
He's in jail.
He isn't going anywhere.
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00:20:03,402 --> 00:20:05,928
All she has to do is
come and visit.
388
00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,004
I'm afraid that would be
highly unlikely.
389
00:20:10,076 --> 00:20:12,238
You think that lawyer's in
touch with Mrs. Shelby?
390
00:20:12,311 --> 00:20:13,904
I definitely got that feeling.
391
00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:15,378
Maybe he can help us
find her.
392
00:20:15,448 --> 00:20:17,780
How? If Sunshine
sends her a message
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00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:19,249
through him.
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00:20:20,252 --> 00:20:22,380
I'll call Fontana and Green.
395
00:20:24,190 --> 00:20:26,056
Sunshine,
you can do this.
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00:20:26,125 --> 00:20:27,559
Yeah, she scares me.
397
00:20:27,626 --> 00:20:29,287
We'll be right there
with you.
398
00:20:29,361 --> 00:20:31,329
I don't know how to get
in touch with her.
399
00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:34,833
You call her lawyer, you tell him
that you wanna meet up with her.
400
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,368
Yeah, she won't wanna see me.
401
00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:40,235
She will if you tell her that
you have a message from Daniel.
402
00:20:54,854 --> 00:20:58,381
I am so happy to
see you, darling!
403
00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:00,824
I missed you so much.
404
00:21:01,961 --> 00:21:03,759
You and your brother.
405
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:05,595
Hi, Mother.
406
00:21:05,664 --> 00:21:07,393
Have you talked to Daniel?
407
00:21:07,466 --> 00:21:09,798
Yes, Mother.
I went to visit him once.
408
00:21:10,669 --> 00:21:14,037
Mr. Jackson said you have a
message to give me from Daniel?
409
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,732
Yes.
410
00:21:16,776 --> 00:21:19,143
Well, what is it?
What did he say?
411
00:21:19,211 --> 00:21:21,339
ED: He said
you're under arrest.
412
00:21:21,413 --> 00:21:22,847
Under arrest for what?
413
00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:25,009
Kidnapping him
20 years ago.
414
00:21:26,886 --> 00:21:28,854
ED: You have the right
to remain silent.
415
00:21:28,921 --> 00:21:33,188
Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
416
00:21:35,694 --> 00:21:39,187
My client is a religious leader
with an international reputation.
417
00:21:39,265 --> 00:21:41,029
International indeed,
Your Honor.
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00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,468
She's been investigated in a number
of countries on a variety of charges.
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00:21:44,537 --> 00:21:47,666
Spurious, trumped up,
discredited, and dismissed.
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00:21:47,740 --> 00:21:50,334
Thank God we still live in a country
where one is allowed to worship
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00:21:50,409 --> 00:21:51,843
as he or she chooses.
422
00:21:51,911 --> 00:21:53,345
Mr. Granger, please.
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00:21:53,412 --> 00:21:56,609
Save the First Amendment for your
closing, should you get that far.
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00:21:56,682 --> 00:22:00,118
Given Mrs. Shelby's international
connections and resources,
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00:22:00,186 --> 00:22:01,620
we're asking that
she be remanded.
426
00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:03,917
GRANGER: Mrs. Shelby
has no intention of fleeing.
427
00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:07,823
The Children of the Divine have
consistentlyjumped bail when facing trial.
428
00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:11,090
Sweeping generalization, Your Honor,
and what others may or may not
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00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:12,653
have done is irrelevant.
430
00:22:12,731 --> 00:22:15,063
It is not irrelevant,
any more than
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00:22:15,134 --> 00:22:18,695
it would be with the leader of
any other criminal organization.
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00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:22,639
The Children of the Divine have a long
record of dealing deceptively with
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civil and
judicial authorities,
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00:22:24,877 --> 00:22:26,902
part of their standard
operating procedure,
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00:22:26,979 --> 00:22:28,606
promulgated by Mrs. Shelby.
436
00:22:28,681 --> 00:22:30,115
You've convinced me,
Ms. Borgia.
437
00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:31,274
Thank you, Your Honor.
438
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:33,079
Bail is set at $2 million.
439
00:22:33,152 --> 00:22:34,176
Your Honor.
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00:22:34,253 --> 00:22:36,085
Defendant will
surrender her passport.
441
00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:38,556
Your Honor.
Happy? No? Good.
442
00:22:42,561 --> 00:22:46,225
This isn't kidnapping, it's a
twenty-five-year-old custody dispute.
443
00:22:46,298 --> 00:22:49,324
Your client took her son
from his legal guardians.
444
00:22:49,401 --> 00:22:51,426
Her parents,
the boy's grandparents.
445
00:22:51,503 --> 00:22:52,971
JACK: For sexual purposes.
446
00:22:53,405 --> 00:22:54,463
That's a lie.
447
00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:56,907
To rectify an erroneous
court decision and
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00:22:56,976 --> 00:22:58,705
reunite a son and his mother.
449
00:22:58,777 --> 00:23:03,271
The abuse Richard Ranson suffered as a child
at the hands of his mother and others
450
00:23:03,349 --> 00:23:05,784
led directly to the murder
of Dolores Diamond.
451
00:23:05,851 --> 00:23:08,013
That's his self-serving
justification.
452
00:23:08,087 --> 00:23:10,317
He wasn't abused.
453
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:15,850
On the contrary, Daniel was the most
pampered little prince. He was royalty.
454
00:23:16,729 --> 00:23:18,424
As for the sex acts.
455
00:23:18,497 --> 00:23:20,898
We have his sister's
corroborating testimony.
456
00:23:20,966 --> 00:23:23,628
My daughter is
a disturbed young woman.
457
00:23:23,702 --> 00:23:26,467
And your son is a murderer
and a would-be suicide.
458
00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:29,572
Your point?
459
00:23:30,309 --> 00:23:32,505
Your revolutionary
child-rearing techniques
460
00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:34,808
seem to have fallen
a little short of the mark.
461
00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:38,475
I am not saying that I was
the best mother that ever was.
462
00:23:38,851 --> 00:23:40,717
But these allegations,
463
00:23:42,288 --> 00:23:43,380
they're unbearable.
464
00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:45,389
GRANGER: Not to
mention incredible.
465
00:23:45,958 --> 00:23:48,655
And as you say,
look who's making them.
466
00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:52,291
Then you're not interested
in a plea?
467
00:23:52,364 --> 00:23:57,029
What would I plead to, Mr. Mo Coy? Trying
to bring my children closer to God?
468
00:23:57,636 --> 00:24:01,163
Making them aware of the divine
spark that burns within?
469
00:24:02,141 --> 00:24:05,771
And now I'm being
persecuted for it? Hmm?
470
00:24:09,048 --> 00:24:12,541
I'm afraid Granger's right.
Nojury's gonna put much stock
471
00:24:12,618 --> 00:24:16,646
in a murderer's sordid fantasy about
his mother and his babysitter.
472
00:24:16,722 --> 00:24:19,623
Or the sister he had
an incestuous affair with.
473
00:24:19,692 --> 00:24:22,525
We could use a witness
who wasn't a member.
474
00:24:23,362 --> 00:24:24,454
Not much chance of that.
475
00:24:24,530 --> 00:24:26,328
We could use
a copy of that book.
476
00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:28,230
According to Richard Ranson,
as soon as
477
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,826
the authorities got on to
what they were up to,
478
00:24:30,903 --> 00:24:32,871
Mrs. Shelby ordered
every copy burned.
479
00:24:33,872 --> 00:24:35,931
We'll just have to make
do with what we got.
480
00:24:38,043 --> 00:24:42,207
Facing her mother would be hard for
Sunshine Porter on her best day.
481
00:24:42,281 --> 00:24:44,773
I'll do what I can to
shore her up.
482
00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:49,115
Nobody forced us to have sex.
483
00:24:50,089 --> 00:24:53,150
Isn't that a direct contradiction
of what you told the police?
484
00:24:53,225 --> 00:24:56,092
It's just the way things
were in our world.
485
00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:59,324
You were expected to,
and you did. Everybody did.
486
00:25:01,734 --> 00:25:03,202
What if you'd said no?
487
00:25:03,268 --> 00:25:05,032
Mother would
have been angry.
488
00:25:05,137 --> 00:25:09,574
Okay, then. That's pressure. It's coercive.
You were a child.
489
00:25:11,310 --> 00:25:12,539
I guess.
490
00:25:15,247 --> 00:25:16,908
What about the victory camps?
491
00:25:16,982 --> 00:25:19,280
I never had to
go to one of those.
492
00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:21,012
What about Daniel?
493
00:25:21,387 --> 00:25:24,254
When he was 17, he had to go
to the Philippines for a year.
494
00:25:25,491 --> 00:25:27,357
Did he ever
tell you about it?
495
00:25:27,426 --> 00:25:29,622
Mmm, he didn't wanna
talk about it, really.
496
00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:31,424
Said it was no big deal.
497
00:25:31,497 --> 00:25:34,228
The website testimonies
make it sound...
498
00:25:35,401 --> 00:25:36,596
Brutal.
499
00:25:37,403 --> 00:25:39,462
Beatings, isolation.
500
00:25:39,905 --> 00:25:43,466
Daniel was the Chosen One, there was
only so much they could do to him.
501
00:25:44,410 --> 00:25:46,242
Other kids had
a harder time of it?
502
00:25:48,013 --> 00:25:50,209
I know our brother David did.
503
00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:54,482
I didn't know you had another brother.
I'd like to talk to him.
504
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,612
You know how I can
get in touch with him?
505
00:25:57,689 --> 00:26:00,283
Mmm, he died last year.
506
00:26:02,761 --> 00:26:03,819
HOW?
507
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:09,056
Drug overdose.
508
00:26:12,771 --> 00:26:16,730
They found him convulsing on
the floor of his hotel room.
509
00:26:19,378 --> 00:26:21,107
Never had a chance.
510
00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:26,174
His death coincides with
the onset of your depression.
511
00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:27,275
So?
512
00:26:27,352 --> 00:26:30,287
It could be used to
undermine your testimony.
513
00:26:30,355 --> 00:26:32,380
You blame your mother
for David's death?
514
00:26:32,458 --> 00:26:33,516
I do.
515
00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:35,758
You look vindictive.
516
00:26:35,828 --> 00:26:37,193
I am!
517
00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:41,699
You fabricate these fantastic tales of
childhood abuse in order to get back at her.
518
00:26:41,767 --> 00:26:43,633
I'm telling the truth!
519
00:26:45,471 --> 00:26:47,098
Wish we had
a copy of that book.
520
00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:48,298
So do I.
521
00:26:48,974 --> 00:26:50,601
The book is gone.
522
00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:54,877
What about Sunshine?
523
00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,972
I'm cautiously optimistic.
524
00:27:00,385 --> 00:27:03,013
You don't know
what you're up against.
525
00:27:06,925 --> 00:27:08,689
SUNSHINE: Dolores would,
526
00:27:09,528 --> 00:27:11,895
you know, sex him up.
527
00:27:13,198 --> 00:27:15,599
JACK: How old
was he when this started?
528
00:27:15,667 --> 00:27:17,101
Six or seven.
529
00:27:17,169 --> 00:27:18,796
How old were you?
530
00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:22,498
I'm three years younger
than Daniel.
531
00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:26,602
So you would have been three or four.
And you remember this? Really?
532
00:27:26,678 --> 00:27:27,907
Oh, yes.
533
00:27:28,247 --> 00:27:29,874
I remember Mother
534
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:32,951
bringing me into
the room to watch.
535
00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:34,349
By Mother,
536
00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:37,146
you mean the defendant,
Mrs. Shelby?
537
00:27:38,023 --> 00:27:39,081
Yes.
538
00:27:39,825 --> 00:27:42,317
She was aware of
what was going on?
539
00:27:42,394 --> 00:27:45,295
It was part of the teachings.
Her teachings.
540
00:27:46,298 --> 00:27:47,891
She condoned it?
541
00:27:48,901 --> 00:27:50,494
It was her idea.
542
00:27:51,303 --> 00:27:52,828
JACK: How long
did this relationship
543
00:27:52,905 --> 00:27:55,875
between your brother
and Ms. Diamond go on?
544
00:27:55,941 --> 00:27:58,467
SUNSHINE: Until
he was about 17.
545
00:27:59,478 --> 00:28:01,071
How do you know?
546
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:08,278
I'd watch.
Sometimes I'd participate.
547
00:28:09,388 --> 00:28:12,551
You'd have sex with
your brother and Ms. Diamond?
548
00:28:14,226 --> 00:28:15,318
Yes.
549
00:28:17,196 --> 00:28:19,688
Was your mother
aware of this, too?
550
00:28:22,434 --> 00:28:23,765
She encouraged it.
551
00:28:24,670 --> 00:28:26,035
Your mother
552
00:28:26,338 --> 00:28:30,297
encouraged you to have an incestuous
relationship with your brother?
553
00:28:31,009 --> 00:28:32,067
Yes.
554
00:28:33,512 --> 00:28:34,741
She did.
555
00:28:43,322 --> 00:28:44,448
(SNIFFLES)
556
00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:49,584
How long did
this incest go on?
557
00:28:49,661 --> 00:28:50,787
SUNSHINE: Till Daniel left.
558
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:52,822
Why did he leave?
559
00:28:52,898 --> 00:28:54,297
He told Mother
he didn't believe in
560
00:28:54,366 --> 00:28:57,927
the teachings anymore
and he wanted a normal life.
561
00:28:58,003 --> 00:28:59,732
And what was her reaction?
562
00:28:59,805 --> 00:29:03,867
She was upset! She sent Daniel to
victory camp in the Philippines.
563
00:29:03,942 --> 00:29:05,273
Victory camp, what's that?
564
00:29:05,344 --> 00:29:07,312
A place where
you studied the teachings
565
00:29:07,379 --> 00:29:08,778
until you understood
them better.
566
00:29:09,114 --> 00:29:10,878
Where they punished you?
567
00:29:10,949 --> 00:29:13,179
Yes.
How long was he there?
568
00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:15,482
A year.
And when he returned?
569
00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:19,057
He was angry.
570
00:29:19,658 --> 00:29:20,853
Bitter.
571
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,794
Was this, uh, anger directed
at anyone in particular?
572
00:29:25,664 --> 00:29:27,029
SUNSHINE: Our mother.
573
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,564
Is that when he left?
574
00:29:29,668 --> 00:29:31,136
Moved to New York.
575
00:29:31,203 --> 00:29:33,535
And changed his name
to Richard Ranson?
576
00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:36,105
Yes.
What about you?
577
00:29:36,908 --> 00:29:39,900
Were you upset when your, uh,
brother left the community?
578
00:29:41,580 --> 00:29:44,515
Of course. That's natural.
He was your lover.
579
00:29:47,419 --> 00:29:49,444
That's not why.
It isn't?
580
00:29:50,122 --> 00:29:53,524
Isn't it true that for many years,
your mother had no idea what
581
00:29:53,592 --> 00:29:55,253
you and your brother
were doing?
582
00:29:55,327 --> 00:29:56,624
She knew from the beginning.
583
00:29:56,695 --> 00:29:58,720
Do you know
how preposterous that is?
584
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:01,858
That any mother would condone, let
alone encourage, such a thing between
585
00:30:01,933 --> 00:30:03,059
her young children?
586
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:05,297
In our community
it was normal.
587
00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:07,031
That's what parents did.
588
00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:11,667
You and your brother were lovers as
teenagers, after puberty, were you not?
589
00:30:12,277 --> 00:30:13,836
(LAUGHS)
Yes.
590
00:30:14,012 --> 00:30:17,312
For several years, until
Daniel called a halt to it.
591
00:30:17,616 --> 00:30:18,981
(SIGHS)
Yes.
592
00:30:19,051 --> 00:30:22,453
Isn't it a fact that that's when this
incestuous relationship started,
593
00:30:22,521 --> 00:30:26,583
when you were teenagers, living in an
isolated, self-contained community
594
00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:28,683
in a foreign country?
No.
595
00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:30,290
It was before that.
596
00:30:30,362 --> 00:30:31,887
And when your mother
discovered that
597
00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:35,797
you and your brothers were lovers, isn't
that why she sent him away for a year?
598
00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:38,802
No! Far from condoning
this illicit relationship,
599
00:30:38,870 --> 00:30:40,895
wasn't she horrified?
600
00:30:40,972 --> 00:30:42,838
She wanted us to be together.
601
00:30:42,908 --> 00:30:48,244
And that upon his return, didn't you and
your brother concoct this outlandish story
602
00:30:48,313 --> 00:30:49,803
to get your revenge on her?
603
00:30:49,881 --> 00:30:50,939
Objection, Your Honor,
604
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:52,882
what is the foundation
for all this?
605
00:30:54,486 --> 00:30:56,113
I'm getting to that,
Your Honor.
606
00:30:57,155 --> 00:30:58,486
See that you do.
607
00:31:03,729 --> 00:31:05,629
This is a transcript of
a sworn statement
608
00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,722
you made to
the Mexican authorities
609
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:09,563
investigating similar
allegations
610
00:31:09,634 --> 00:31:11,068
you and your brother
made against
611
00:31:11,136 --> 00:31:13,969
Mrs. Shelby and
the Children of the Divine.
612
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,508
Would you please read
the highlighted section?
613
00:31:24,616 --> 00:31:28,416
"Miss Porter: Daniel
and I made that up.
614
00:31:29,121 --> 00:31:32,421
"Investigator: Made it up?
Which part?
615
00:31:32,858 --> 00:31:34,792
"Miss Porter: All of it.
616
00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:37,385
"Investigator: Why?
617
00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:42,166
"Miss Porter: We were mad at
Mother for sending Daniel away.
618
00:31:43,034 --> 00:31:46,095
"Investigator: Then these
allegations are false?
619
00:31:46,438 --> 00:31:50,306
"Miss Porter: Yes,
they are. Completely."
620
00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:53,534
GRANGER: Which
is it, Miss Porter?
621
00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:57,343
Were you lying under oath then,
or are you lying under oath
622
00:31:58,683 --> 00:31:59,741
HOW?
623
00:32:14,966 --> 00:32:17,867
Judge Huse had no choice but
to dismiss the charges.
624
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:22,669
Sunshine was doing so well, too, even
with her mother giving her the Death Ray.
625
00:32:22,741 --> 00:32:25,108
I'm going after her for murder.
Mrs. Shelby?
626
00:32:25,177 --> 00:32:26,645
For the death
of her son David.
627
00:32:27,813 --> 00:32:29,076
Where do we start?
628
00:32:29,147 --> 00:32:32,139
Talk to the FBI,
they have a cult task force.
629
00:32:32,217 --> 00:32:34,015
See what they've got on
the Children of the Divine.
630
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:35,246
I'll get on it right away.
631
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,084
Before she leaves
the country again.
632
00:32:40,091 --> 00:32:41,559
There are ongoing
investigations against
633
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,458
Mrs. Shelby and
the Children of the Divine
634
00:32:43,528 --> 00:32:45,223
in Argentina,
the Philippines.
635
00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:47,595
They claim they've
cleaned up their act.
636
00:32:47,666 --> 00:32:51,398
Well, it's maybe not as egregious as it
once was, but sex abuse still goes on.
637
00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:55,236
Do you have any idea where we could
find a copy of Mrs. Shelby's book?
638
00:32:55,307 --> 00:32:57,241
The legendary Book of Daniel?
639
00:32:57,309 --> 00:32:59,107
We're trying to build a murder
case against Mrs. Shelby
640
00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:01,111
for the death
of her son David.
641
00:33:01,179 --> 00:33:02,908
It would help corroborate
Richard and Sunshine's
642
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,176
testimony against
their mother.
643
00:33:04,249 --> 00:33:05,239
We can't find it.
644
00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:06,614
I can get you a copy.
645
00:33:06,685 --> 00:33:07,743
You can?
646
00:33:08,620 --> 00:33:11,851
I've got a photocopy of a manuscript
that was seized in a raid years ago
647
00:33:11,923 --> 00:33:14,153
on Mrs. Shelby's compound
in Buenos Aires.
648
00:33:15,327 --> 00:33:18,490
A photocopy. Can the
original be authenticated?
649
00:33:19,130 --> 00:33:21,098
It's in her handwriting.
650
00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:23,929
The book is explicit, Arthur.
651
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:28,599
It's not just doctrine or some crazy
how-to manual for child rearing.
652
00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:32,610
It documents specific instances, many
of them involving Richard Ranson.
653
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:35,146
It can help us establish
a clear pattern of abuse.
654
00:33:35,213 --> 00:33:37,011
They gave them drugs as well?
655
00:33:37,082 --> 00:33:38,379
How else do you
get a 10-year-old to
656
00:33:38,450 --> 00:33:40,817
have sex with a 40-year-old
and claim it's consensual?
657
00:33:40,886 --> 00:33:43,651
I wanna go back to the Grand Jury
and get an indictment for murder
658
00:33:43,722 --> 00:33:46,157
against Mrs. Shelby for
the death of her son David.
659
00:33:46,558 --> 00:33:47,548
Walk me through it.
660
00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:49,424
Immigration says
Mrs. Shelby was in
661
00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:51,053
New York at the time
of David's death.
662
00:33:51,129 --> 00:33:53,154
She and David had flown
in from Mexico City.
663
00:33:53,231 --> 00:33:56,929
During their visit, David Shelby
died of an overdose of Quaaludes.
664
00:33:57,002 --> 00:34:01,269
An empty prescription bottle belonging
to Mrs. Shelby was found at the scene.
665
00:34:01,339 --> 00:34:04,639
If she smuggled them in and gave
them to her minor son David
666
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:06,177
while he was in her care...
667
00:34:06,244 --> 00:34:08,872
For the purposes
of sexual exploitation.
668
00:34:09,581 --> 00:34:12,016
Depraved indifference,
murder two.
669
00:34:12,617 --> 00:34:14,745
Let's re-arrest Mrs. Shelby.
670
00:34:17,956 --> 00:34:21,221
David was my half-brother.
We have the same mother.
671
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:25,020
JACK: When was the last time
you saw your brother?
672
00:34:25,096 --> 00:34:27,588
About ten years ago,
when I left the cult.
673
00:34:28,133 --> 00:34:29,362
How old were you?
674
00:34:29,434 --> 00:34:31,960
RICHARD: 18.
David was five.
675
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,505
Do you recognize this?
676
00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:39,243
It's the Book of Daniel.
677
00:34:40,178 --> 00:34:42,909
It's a book describing
how I was raised.
678
00:34:43,014 --> 00:34:45,847
It's also a book of
my mother's teachings.
679
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:48,883
Who wrote
the Book of Daniel?
680
00:34:48,954 --> 00:34:50,444
She did.
681
00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:53,048
Does it accurately describe
how you were raised?
682
00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,528
Yes, it does.
683
00:34:57,495 --> 00:35:01,557
The Book of Daniel claims that you
were initiated into sexual activity
684
00:35:01,633 --> 00:35:03,863
at a very early age,
is that true?
685
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:05,425
Yes.
686
00:35:05,503 --> 00:35:08,564
Who was the first person
you ever had sex with?
687
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,109
My nanny, Dolores Diamond.
688
00:35:11,543 --> 00:35:13,170
How old were you?
689
00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:14,637
Six.
690
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:19,340
She would have been
about 17 or 18.
691
00:35:19,718 --> 00:35:23,484
Would you tell the court what
crime you have been convicted of,
692
00:35:23,555 --> 00:35:26,047
and are presently
awaiting sentencing for?
693
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,182
RICHARD: Manslaughter.
694
00:35:27,392 --> 00:35:28,416
Who did you kill?
695
00:35:28,493 --> 00:35:29,892
Dolores Diamond.
696
00:35:30,595 --> 00:35:32,290
Your nanny. Why?
697
00:35:34,332 --> 00:35:36,960
I hated her for what she did
to me when I was a kid.
698
00:35:37,736 --> 00:35:38,862
It's all in the book.
699
00:35:38,937 --> 00:35:41,201
Was that the only reason
that you killed her?
700
00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:45,368
I wanted her to tell me where
my mother was. She wouldn't.
701
00:35:46,111 --> 00:35:48,239
Why did you
wanna know that?
702
00:35:48,613 --> 00:35:50,843
I was hoping to kill her, too.
703
00:35:51,249 --> 00:35:54,446
After you killed Dolores
Diamond, what did you do?
704
00:35:56,354 --> 00:35:58,118
I shot myself.
Why?
705
00:36:00,425 --> 00:36:01,915
I felt guilty.
706
00:36:02,394 --> 00:36:03,987
For killing her?
707
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,125
For my brother, David.
708
00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:12,967
I should have
taken him with me.
709
00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:16,772
But I left him behind,
710
00:36:18,576 --> 00:36:19,839
with her.
711
00:36:22,313 --> 00:36:25,248
She was doing to him
what she did to me.
712
00:36:26,418 --> 00:36:28,182
Giving him drugs,
713
00:36:28,253 --> 00:36:31,621
and making him have sex
while she watched!
714
00:36:32,424 --> 00:36:34,722
Did your mother
give you drugs?
715
00:36:34,793 --> 00:36:37,228
Phenobarbital, Quaaludes,
Ecstasy.
716
00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:40,228
The adults,
717
00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:42,064
our parents,
718
00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:45,864
always gave us drugs before
they had sex with us.
719
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:50,074
JACK: Do you know
how your brother died?
720
00:36:50,642 --> 00:36:52,633
An overdose of Quaaludes.
721
00:37:03,688 --> 00:37:07,420
You were so angry with your
mother, you wanted to kill her?
722
00:37:07,492 --> 00:37:08,550
RICHARD: Yes.
723
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:11,395
So you killed another
woman instead?
724
00:37:11,463 --> 00:37:13,830
Dolores was
as close as I could get.
725
00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,593
Ah, that makes
a lot of sense.
726
00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,559
How did you kill
Dolores Diamond?
727
00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:19,762
With a knife.
728
00:37:19,838 --> 00:37:22,102
How many times
did you stab her?
729
00:37:22,173 --> 00:37:23,231
I don't know.
730
00:37:23,308 --> 00:37:27,541
I can help you with that. According
to the Medical Examiner's report,
731
00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:30,274
you stabbed her five times,
732
00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:33,240
and then slit her throat.
733
00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:36,348
Each wound was a fatal one.
734
00:37:36,421 --> 00:37:37,980
If that's what it says.
735
00:37:38,056 --> 00:37:41,458
You invited Ms. Diamond to dinner,
asked her back to your room,
736
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:47,455
and then you stabbed her to death with a
weapon you had purchased earlier that day.
737
00:37:47,532 --> 00:37:48,590
Yes.
738
00:37:48,666 --> 00:37:52,068
A premeditated, violent,
vicious slaying,
739
00:37:52,137 --> 00:37:54,265
and you're serving
a term for manslaughter?
740
00:37:54,339 --> 00:37:56,307
Objection.
Sustained.
741
00:37:56,374 --> 00:37:59,207
Dolores Diamond molested you
when you were a child.
742
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:02,975
Dolores Diamond gave you drugs.
You were so angry with her,
743
00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:06,473
you lured her back to your
hotel room to kill her.
744
00:38:06,551 --> 00:38:09,748
Your Honor, does counsel
intend to ask a question?
745
00:38:10,188 --> 00:38:11,656
Mr. Granger?
746
00:38:13,158 --> 00:38:16,856
Isn't it true, Mr. Ranson, in
return for a manslaughter plea,
747
00:38:16,928 --> 00:38:18,555
you concocted this story
748
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:22,430
against your mother in order to
please the District Attorney?
749
00:38:23,902 --> 00:38:25,028
No.
750
00:38:28,540 --> 00:38:30,065
It's the truth.
751
00:38:35,113 --> 00:38:36,706
Nothing further.
752
00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:43,679
You didn't write
the Book of Daniel?
753
00:38:43,755 --> 00:38:45,086
I did not.
754
00:38:45,857 --> 00:38:49,851
The People's expert witness testified
that the manuscript was in your hand.
755
00:38:49,928 --> 00:38:51,453
It's a forgery.
756
00:38:51,963 --> 00:38:54,796
Did you ever believe
in what it advocates?
757
00:38:55,834 --> 00:38:58,565
When I finally obtained
a copy of it
758
00:38:58,636 --> 00:39:00,866
and read the book,
I was distressed.
759
00:39:01,439 --> 00:39:05,808
I ordered the book destroyed, and
anyone who believed or practiced
760
00:39:05,877 --> 00:39:08,039
its precepts expelled.
761
00:39:08,112 --> 00:39:09,876
Why would someone
go to all the trouble
762
00:39:09,948 --> 00:39:11,040
to forge this document?
763
00:39:11,115 --> 00:39:13,584
To discredit me
and our community.
764
00:39:13,651 --> 00:39:14,709
Why?
765
00:39:15,787 --> 00:39:19,189
We're a threat to
the established social order.
766
00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:22,284
To governments and churches.
767
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,221
A threat? How so?
768
00:39:24,295 --> 00:39:28,459
We believe in God's laws,
not man's.
769
00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,762
Your own son and daughter
testified against you.
770
00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:37,097
I feel so sorry for them.
771
00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:40,069
Are any of the things
they said about you true?
772
00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:41,509
Not at all.
773
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:44,105
Are they lying?
774
00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:49,550
I think they believe
what they're saying.
775
00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:52,212
They've been manipulated.
776
00:39:52,690 --> 00:39:54,681
They have false memories.
777
00:39:55,193 --> 00:39:57,787
They feel guilty
about what they did.
778
00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:00,220
About their relationship.
779
00:40:00,665 --> 00:40:01,826
And...
780
00:40:03,501 --> 00:40:06,027
That's why
I feel sorry for them.
781
00:40:06,804 --> 00:40:08,135
I think...
782
00:40:08,706 --> 00:40:11,107
I think they're victims, too.
783
00:40:11,743 --> 00:40:13,074
Thank you.
784
00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:24,981
Did you ever give
your children drugs?
785
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:26,420
No, never.
786
00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:31,085
You never gave your son, David, Quaaludes?
You had a prescription for them.
787
00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:35,531
He may have taken them from me without
my knowledge, but I... I don't know.
788
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,093
And you never encouraged any of your
children to have sex with each other,
789
00:40:39,170 --> 00:40:40,831
or with adults?
790
00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:42,031
Of course not.
791
00:40:43,207 --> 00:40:46,700
And all of the testimony
we've heard from ex-members
792
00:40:47,011 --> 00:40:49,605
which contradicts
what you're saying?
793
00:40:50,882 --> 00:40:52,850
I have a lot of enemies.
794
00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:59,012
Because you're such a threat to
the established order of things.
795
00:40:59,357 --> 00:41:00,415
Yes.
796
00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:05,889
How many followers
do you have, Mrs. Shelby?
797
00:41:05,997 --> 00:41:08,489
We're flourishing in
a number of countries.
798
00:41:08,566 --> 00:41:12,503
According to the FBI,
you have less than 10,000.
799
00:41:12,904 --> 00:41:15,168
That's a gross
underestimation.
800
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,869
With many of the younger ones
leaving as soon as they're able.
801
00:41:18,943 --> 00:41:21,537
That's not true.
They want to diminish us.
802
00:41:21,612 --> 00:41:24,912
And charging you
and your cult
803
00:41:24,983 --> 00:41:26,542
with sexual and
physical abuse.
804
00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:29,143
This campaign
against us has
805
00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:30,984
been going on for decades.
806
00:41:31,055 --> 00:41:32,784
This conspiracy against you.
807
00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:35,255
All lies.
808
00:41:35,526 --> 00:41:39,963
There may have been a few
instances, a few excesses early on,
809
00:41:40,465 --> 00:41:41,762
but we dealt with them.
810
00:41:42,467 --> 00:41:43,957
Why, Mrs. Shelby?
811
00:41:46,070 --> 00:41:49,802
Why would all these people,
these agencies
812
00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:53,167
and governments,
your own children,
813
00:41:54,579 --> 00:41:56,377
conspire against you?
814
00:42:00,818 --> 00:42:05,346
Every great spiritual and religious
leader throughout history
815
00:42:06,457 --> 00:42:09,051
has been mocked,
scorned, persecuted.
816
00:42:09,861 --> 00:42:11,659
You should know that.
817
00:42:12,130 --> 00:42:13,598
For instance?
818
00:42:13,765 --> 00:42:17,224
Jesus. Muhammad.
The Buddha.
819
00:42:18,336 --> 00:42:21,772
Joseph Smith. Galileo.
Saint Francis.
820
00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:24,171
Mary, Queen of Scots.
821
00:42:24,809 --> 00:42:27,437
And you put yourself
in their company?
822
00:42:29,747 --> 00:42:30,839
I do.
823
00:42:51,502 --> 00:42:52,697
How do you find?
824
00:42:53,438 --> 00:42:55,634
We find the defendant guilty.
825
00:43:07,518 --> 00:43:08,781
Let's go.
826
00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:29,407
Mother Shelby.
Her performance.
827
00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:33,403
"Smile and smile
and be a villain."