1 00:00:06,957 --> 00:00:09,332 (male announcer) In New York City's war on crime, 2 00:00:09,409 --> 00:00:11,710 the worst criminal offenders are pursued 3 00:00:11,787 --> 00:00:14,671 by the detectives of the major case squad. 4 00:00:14,748 --> 00:00:16,348 These are their stories. 5 00:00:23,673 --> 00:00:25,024 It's all set. 6 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:27,142 Simon Fife is in custody of the Ho Chi Minh City police. 7 00:00:27,219 --> 00:00:29,686 They'll hand him over to us at gate three in ten minutes. 8 00:00:29,763 --> 00:00:32,281 Then what's our suspect doing up there? 9 00:00:36,787 --> 00:00:38,779 Is that live? 10 00:00:38,855 --> 00:00:41,239 Do you know where that is? 11 00:00:41,316 --> 00:00:42,750 [speaking Chinese] 12 00:00:46,822 --> 00:00:48,297 [reporters shouting questions] 13 00:00:53,703 --> 00:00:55,087 (Goren) Pardon us. 14 00:00:55,163 --> 00:00:56,338 Excuse us. 15 00:00:56,414 --> 00:00:59,424 Mr. Fife, did you kill Amberleigh Harner? 16 00:00:59,501 --> 00:01:00,801 Amberleigh is still with us 17 00:01:00,877 --> 00:01:03,261 if we're pure enough to hear her. 18 00:01:03,338 --> 00:01:04,679 (reporter) Why did you kill Amberleigh? 19 00:01:04,756 --> 00:01:06,389 She died... 20 00:01:06,466 --> 00:01:09,184 inadvertently... 21 00:01:09,261 --> 00:01:11,728 in a moment of intense love. 22 00:01:11,805 --> 00:01:12,696 Why did you? 23 00:01:12,773 --> 00:01:13,697 (Goren) Excuse us. 24 00:01:13,774 --> 00:01:14,798 Out of the way! 25 00:01:14,875 --> 00:01:16,825 Mr. Fife, tell us about your love... 26 00:01:16,902 --> 00:01:18,401 NYPD! 27 00:01:18,478 --> 00:01:20,237 Look, folks, move out of the way. 28 00:01:20,313 --> 00:01:21,696 There's no more questions now. 29 00:01:21,773 --> 00:01:22,823 Did he kill her? Are you sure? 30 00:01:22,833 --> 00:01:24,825 Simon Henry Fife? 31 00:01:24,901 --> 00:01:25,826 NYPD. 32 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:27,536 He's in our custody now. 33 00:01:27,612 --> 00:01:29,246 (reporter) Simon, are you ready? 34 00:01:29,322 --> 00:01:30,539 How are you feeling? (Goren) Back off! 35 00:01:30,615 --> 00:01:32,716 Autumn in New York? 36 00:01:32,793 --> 00:01:34,718 It's time I go home. 37 00:01:34,795 --> 00:01:35,794 [reporters shouting] 38 00:01:35,871 --> 00:01:36,804 Let's go. 39 00:01:38,874 --> 00:01:40,099 (Goren) Out of the way. 40 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:36,905 Keep this on ice. 41 00:02:38,099 --> 00:02:40,567 Simon. 42 00:02:40,644 --> 00:02:43,403 Simon? 43 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,572 You must not fly much. 44 00:02:45,649 --> 00:02:47,532 You haven't taken your eyes off the window. 45 00:02:47,609 --> 00:02:49,326 I've flown many times. 46 00:02:49,402 --> 00:02:55,123 I just haven't numbed myself to the miracle. 47 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,634 Sit down, or I'll throw you off. 48 00:03:00,038 --> 00:03:01,588 (Fife) Reporters. 49 00:03:01,665 --> 00:03:03,590 No shame. 50 00:03:03,601 --> 00:03:06,518 The pain they caused Beth. 51 00:03:08,380 --> 00:03:09,396 Beth. 52 00:03:09,473 --> 00:03:11,097 Amberleigh's mother? 53 00:03:11,174 --> 00:03:13,516 Mr. Nate Royce helped me understand the pain 54 00:03:13,527 --> 00:03:14,559 she went through. 55 00:03:14,636 --> 00:03:15,644 Nate Royce. 56 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,062 That's their next door neighbor. 57 00:03:17,138 --> 00:03:19,397 Beth's protector, 58 00:03:19,474 --> 00:03:22,451 and my email confidante for the last three months. 59 00:03:29,401 --> 00:03:31,418 He turned me in, didn't he? 60 00:03:33,488 --> 00:03:35,121 The DA didn't brief us. 61 00:03:35,198 --> 00:03:36,623 We found out about this thing 62 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:38,416 an hour before we got on the plane. 63 00:03:38,493 --> 00:03:40,627 The time had come. 64 00:03:40,704 --> 00:03:43,463 Sorry, time? To confess? 65 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:47,133 The time the world heard the story 66 00:03:47,210 --> 00:03:51,513 of a pure love, and of a world so corrupt, 67 00:03:51,589 --> 00:03:54,524 it had to force that love into darkness. 68 00:03:57,220 --> 00:03:59,154 Where it perished. 69 00:04:16,173 --> 00:04:19,165 (Faith Yancy) They all look sweet when they're sleeping. 70 00:04:19,242 --> 00:04:22,502 But this is one sick puppy. 71 00:04:22,579 --> 00:04:24,587 He is Simon Henry Fife, 72 00:04:24,664 --> 00:04:28,174 and tonight he is in NYPD custody. 73 00:04:28,185 --> 00:04:30,260 After 14 years, 74 00:04:30,337 --> 00:04:33,388 the Halloween murder of Amberleigh Harner-- 75 00:04:33,465 --> 00:04:35,181 this angel, 76 00:04:35,258 --> 00:04:37,559 killed in the basement of her Brooklyn home-- 77 00:04:37,635 --> 00:04:39,853 has at last been solved. 78 00:04:39,929 --> 00:04:41,563 Bethany Harner, 79 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:45,233 Amberleigh's mother, are there any words? 80 00:04:45,310 --> 00:04:50,655 I have waited so long for justice, Faith. 81 00:04:50,732 --> 00:04:53,325 She was... 82 00:04:53,401 --> 00:04:55,577 my star. 83 00:04:55,653 --> 00:04:57,337 Your neighbor, Mr. Nate Royce, 84 00:04:57,414 --> 00:04:58,830 led them to the killer. 85 00:04:58,907 --> 00:05:00,707 Without your perseverance, 86 00:05:00,784 --> 00:05:02,584 Fife would still be in Vietnam. 87 00:05:02,660 --> 00:05:04,252 If you haven't lost your lunch yet, 88 00:05:04,329 --> 00:05:05,712 here's another photo. 89 00:05:05,789 --> 00:05:09,758 Nate, how did you trap this predator? 90 00:05:09,834 --> 00:05:12,302 He emailed me about three months ago. 91 00:05:12,379 --> 00:05:13,745 Because of your book? 92 00:05:13,822 --> 00:05:15,588 (Nate) He wasn't the first sicko to reach out, 93 00:05:15,666 --> 00:05:18,608 but something in his emails unsettled me. 94 00:05:20,595 --> 00:05:22,395 I wonder what it was. 95 00:05:22,472 --> 00:05:24,647 I stopped reading when I got to Fife's line 96 00:05:24,724 --> 00:05:26,566 about how he made love to Amberleigh 97 00:05:26,643 --> 00:05:28,568 while commingling their blood. 98 00:05:28,645 --> 00:05:29,903 There was no blood in the basement, 99 00:05:29,979 --> 00:05:31,788 except for Amberleigh's. 100 00:05:37,463 --> 00:05:40,163 How much champagne did you let him drink? 101 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:41,990 Hope you got something good out of him. 102 00:05:41,992 --> 00:05:45,260 Well, he idealizes children, he demonizes adults. 103 00:05:45,337 --> 00:05:49,130 He was most likely abused by a parent. 104 00:05:49,207 --> 00:05:50,882 I don't suppose you asked him if he was in Brooklyn 105 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:52,675 on Halloween night, 1992? 106 00:05:52,752 --> 00:05:55,387 Well, that's not exactly a first interview question. 107 00:05:55,463 --> 00:05:57,597 Detective, I don't care about Fife's childhood pain 108 00:05:57,674 --> 00:05:59,182 or his world view. 109 00:05:59,259 --> 00:06:00,892 Brooklyn homicide botched this case-- 110 00:06:00,969 --> 00:06:02,560 I was just trying to gain his trust-- 111 00:06:02,637 --> 00:06:03,645 That's why it was kicked to us. 112 00:06:03,721 --> 00:06:05,180 Before Fife lawyers up-- 113 00:06:05,256 --> 00:06:06,231 What do you want me to do, go old school, 114 00:06:06,307 --> 00:06:07,399 slap him around with a phone book 115 00:06:07,475 --> 00:06:10,151 until he confesses? 116 00:06:10,228 --> 00:06:12,287 (Ross) I want the same thing you want, 117 00:06:12,364 --> 00:06:15,707 to be absolutely sure he killed Amberleigh. 118 00:06:19,737 --> 00:06:21,388 (Shankly) Oh, he killed her. 119 00:06:21,464 --> 00:06:23,164 The detail in his emails, his knowledge of her home... 120 00:06:23,241 --> 00:06:25,500 (Eames) Amberleigh's become an icon since her death. 121 00:06:25,511 --> 00:06:27,293 There's a lot of information out there. 122 00:06:27,370 --> 00:06:28,753 Yes, I know, Detectives. 123 00:06:28,830 --> 00:06:29,863 And hundreds of people confessed to killing 124 00:06:29,940 --> 00:06:31,714 the Lindbergh baby, but Hauptmann did it. 125 00:06:31,791 --> 00:06:33,100 (Ross) Okay, fine. 126 00:06:33,176 --> 00:06:35,385 Is there anything linking Fife to the scene of the crime? 127 00:06:35,462 --> 00:06:37,470 NYPD never secured the crime scene. 128 00:06:37,547 --> 00:06:39,431 A dozen people tramped through that basement 129 00:06:39,507 --> 00:06:40,598 before her body was found. 130 00:06:40,675 --> 00:06:42,016 So that's a no? 131 00:06:42,093 --> 00:06:44,727 There was a ransom call from a phone booth at night. 132 00:06:44,738 --> 00:06:46,187 A woman's voice, right? 133 00:06:46,264 --> 00:06:47,981 "Feminine," I believe, is the word. 134 00:06:48,057 --> 00:06:50,325 And Fife? Well, you've met him. 135 00:06:50,402 --> 00:06:52,318 (Eames) Any proof Fife 136 00:06:52,329 --> 00:06:54,487 ever met Amberleigh, stalked her? 137 00:06:54,564 --> 00:06:55,655 Our investigators are looking into it. 138 00:06:55,666 --> 00:06:57,198 In the meantime, let's arraign him. 139 00:06:57,275 --> 00:06:58,658 (Ross) In the meantime, let's not. 140 00:06:58,735 --> 00:07:00,869 He's comfortable in our custody. 141 00:07:00,945 --> 00:07:03,204 The longer we hold him, the more he talks, 142 00:07:03,281 --> 00:07:04,631 the better you look when you convict. 143 00:07:06,326 --> 00:07:07,342 I'd have to talk to-- 144 00:07:07,419 --> 00:07:08,376 (Ross) Go ahead. 145 00:07:08,453 --> 00:07:10,387 We'll wait. 146 00:07:14,709 --> 00:07:16,301 24 hours, if we're lucky. 147 00:07:16,377 --> 00:07:20,355 A 14-year-old unsolved case, 24 hours to solve it? 148 00:07:20,432 --> 00:07:21,906 Maybe someone close to Amberleigh can place him. 149 00:07:21,983 --> 00:07:24,434 It won't be easy, the mother hasn't spoken to NYPD 150 00:07:24,511 --> 00:07:25,560 since the night of the murder. 151 00:07:25,571 --> 00:07:26,686 And the ex-husband? 152 00:07:26,763 --> 00:07:28,196 (Eames) Away on business 153 00:07:28,198 --> 00:07:29,355 the night of the murder, remarried, 154 00:07:29,432 --> 00:07:30,890 and moved out west. 155 00:07:30,967 --> 00:07:32,317 (Ross) Pay a visit to Amberleigh's mother. 156 00:07:32,393 --> 00:07:33,501 Find out if she had ever 157 00:07:33,578 --> 00:07:35,320 seen Fife before he crawled out 158 00:07:35,396 --> 00:07:36,621 of his Vietnamese sewer. 159 00:07:44,006 --> 00:07:45,955 [doorbell chimes] 160 00:07:46,032 --> 00:07:48,592 (Nate) She's away, Detectives. 161 00:07:50,745 --> 00:07:53,254 You're Nate Royce, the author? 162 00:07:53,331 --> 00:07:54,598 The friend. 163 00:07:54,674 --> 00:07:55,965 And neighbor. 164 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:58,259 Beth disappears around Halloween, 165 00:07:58,336 --> 00:08:00,053 too many gawkers coming by the house. 166 00:08:00,129 --> 00:08:01,804 I'm surprised she kept this home. 167 00:08:01,881 --> 00:08:04,682 It's been hard for her to move on. 168 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:07,727 I think now she'll be able to. 169 00:08:07,804 --> 00:08:10,438 You mean, if Fife is guilty. [scoffs] 170 00:08:10,515 --> 00:08:12,857 (Eames) Did you ever see Fife watching Amberleigh? 171 00:08:12,868 --> 00:08:15,485 (Nate) No, but he knew about the blood 172 00:08:15,562 --> 00:08:18,571 on the couch, the open dryer door. 173 00:08:18,648 --> 00:08:20,615 Yeah, but still, you know, her murder-- 174 00:08:20,626 --> 00:08:24,619 This home invasion homicide, it was bold. 175 00:08:24,696 --> 00:08:26,579 And, uh, you've been fooled 176 00:08:26,656 --> 00:08:29,624 by his whimsical child/man character. 177 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:31,584 You think it's an act, a persona? 178 00:08:31,661 --> 00:08:34,712 That he might have created this... 179 00:08:34,789 --> 00:08:36,923 love affair he has with Amberleigh? 180 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,758 I think he's pathological, not creative. 181 00:08:38,835 --> 00:08:40,042 (Goren) Well, you'd know. 182 00:08:40,044 --> 00:08:41,761 He creates characters. 183 00:08:41,838 --> 00:08:43,096 You were a novelist, weren't you? 184 00:08:43,172 --> 00:08:45,557 I was, until that awful night. 185 00:08:45,633 --> 00:08:46,591 I... 186 00:08:46,668 --> 00:08:47,809 You found a way to be of service-- 187 00:08:47,885 --> 00:08:50,311 your book, website. 188 00:08:50,388 --> 00:08:53,982 I did what I could for Amberleigh. 189 00:08:54,058 --> 00:08:55,942 It's been... 190 00:08:56,019 --> 00:08:57,618 It's been hell. 191 00:08:57,696 --> 00:09:00,572 My wife died four years after Amberleigh, 192 00:09:00,648 --> 00:09:02,574 and I've had to raise our young son alone. 193 00:09:02,650 --> 00:09:06,077 Well, Beth Harner is very lucky to have you. 194 00:09:06,154 --> 00:09:08,020 And we need to get in touch with her. 195 00:09:08,098 --> 00:09:11,124 She won't talk to NYPD, you know that. [phone rings] 196 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,125 (Goren) Mr. Royce, we know that 197 00:09:12,201 --> 00:09:13,418 mistakes were made. Eames. 198 00:09:13,494 --> 00:09:15,837 I could try to talk to her. 199 00:09:15,913 --> 00:09:17,146 She'll be angry if she knows 200 00:09:17,148 --> 00:09:18,756 I even let you walk on her property. 201 00:09:18,833 --> 00:09:19,757 It's the captain. 202 00:09:19,834 --> 00:09:20,758 Fife is getting antsy. 203 00:09:20,835 --> 00:09:22,811 He wants to speak to you. 204 00:09:25,048 --> 00:09:26,431 Where's Bobby? He believes me. 205 00:09:26,507 --> 00:09:27,991 He does, I don't. 206 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:29,475 You ask me, you made the whole thing up. 207 00:09:29,552 --> 00:09:30,977 That's crazy. 208 00:09:31,054 --> 00:09:32,028 You said it. 209 00:09:33,782 --> 00:09:35,523 She was my girlfriend. 210 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,900 Right. And you met her, where? 211 00:09:37,977 --> 00:09:39,902 We met at her school. 212 00:09:39,913 --> 00:09:42,030 I worked as a nurse. 213 00:09:42,106 --> 00:09:44,991 And on Halloween night... 214 00:09:45,068 --> 00:09:46,743 I made love to her. 215 00:09:46,819 --> 00:09:49,454 There were no signs of... 216 00:09:49,530 --> 00:09:51,155 love-making. 217 00:09:51,232 --> 00:09:52,999 (Simon) You don't believe me. You want proof? 218 00:09:53,076 --> 00:09:54,500 How about her stomach contents? 219 00:09:54,511 --> 00:09:56,044 Halloween? 220 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,503 You're gonna guess candy. 221 00:09:57,580 --> 00:10:00,089 Just sesame logs. 222 00:10:00,166 --> 00:10:01,558 She loved them. 223 00:10:04,170 --> 00:10:05,678 I'm checking, checking. 224 00:10:05,755 --> 00:10:07,680 They blacked it out. 225 00:10:07,757 --> 00:10:09,849 (Simon) She gorged 226 00:10:09,926 --> 00:10:14,020 on sweet honey sesame candy while I made love to her 227 00:10:14,097 --> 00:10:17,991 on the night... she left us. 228 00:10:29,987 --> 00:10:31,404 The M.E. confirmed it. 229 00:10:31,481 --> 00:10:34,049 Amberleigh ate sesame candy in the last hours of her life. 230 00:10:34,125 --> 00:10:36,250 That was kept out of the autopsy report-- 231 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,461 never published, never leaked. 232 00:10:38,538 --> 00:10:42,215 The Department of Ed confirms Fife worked as a nurse 233 00:10:42,291 --> 00:10:45,551 at Amberleigh's school for two weeks that September. 234 00:10:45,628 --> 00:10:47,929 A lot of people worked at her school. 235 00:10:48,005 --> 00:10:49,138 I told the DA we'd strengthen her case. 236 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:50,556 You've done that. 237 00:10:50,633 --> 00:10:53,351 The DA told you that we had 24 hours. 238 00:10:53,428 --> 00:10:55,144 We haven't been into the crime scene. 239 00:10:55,221 --> 00:10:56,654 We haven't interviewed Beth. 240 00:10:56,732 --> 00:10:58,281 (Eames) You know the DA's office. 241 00:10:58,358 --> 00:11:00,233 This case collapses, they'll spin it 242 00:11:00,309 --> 00:11:02,077 so everybody thinks we botched it again. 243 00:11:02,153 --> 00:11:04,112 And this case collapses how? 244 00:11:04,188 --> 00:11:05,513 (Eames) The ransom demand. 245 00:11:05,590 --> 00:11:08,241 The caller said, "We have your whore daughter." 246 00:11:08,317 --> 00:11:11,411 Fife thinks he made gentle love to Amberleigh. 247 00:11:11,487 --> 00:11:13,254 Different fantasy. 248 00:11:13,331 --> 00:11:14,497 Okay. 249 00:11:14,574 --> 00:11:15,898 Keep the clock running. 250 00:11:15,976 --> 00:11:17,625 Get a search warrant for the Harner home. 251 00:11:17,702 --> 00:11:20,294 Track down the detective who first responded to the scene. 252 00:11:20,305 --> 00:11:22,213 (Eames) It wasn't a detective. 253 00:11:22,290 --> 00:11:24,015 It was a rookie, Linda Bonnardi. 254 00:11:25,501 --> 00:11:27,176 Right, I forgot. 255 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:28,261 She'd just graduated. 256 00:11:28,337 --> 00:11:29,503 Four months out. 257 00:11:29,581 --> 00:11:31,147 A year later, when I went to the Academy, 258 00:11:31,224 --> 00:11:34,058 they were using her as an example in class, 259 00:11:34,135 --> 00:11:37,103 to prove that women were too emotional to be cops. 260 00:11:37,180 --> 00:11:39,272 She left the force in disgrace. 261 00:11:39,348 --> 00:11:41,324 Find her. 262 00:11:55,248 --> 00:11:58,207 Happy Halloween. 263 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:01,210 (Bonnardi) 4:00 a.m.-- the mother, Beth, 264 00:12:01,287 --> 00:12:03,179 just totally hysterical. 265 00:12:03,256 --> 00:12:04,547 Said she heard the kid scream, 266 00:12:04,624 --> 00:12:05,923 ran to her bedroom. 267 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,059 Kid's gone. 268 00:12:10,439 --> 00:12:13,306 Ten or 15 minutes later, she gets a ransom call. 269 00:12:13,382 --> 00:12:16,392 "We have your whore daughter. We'll call back at 6:00. 270 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:18,060 Don't tell anyone." 271 00:12:18,137 --> 00:12:20,155 That's when she called us. 272 00:12:20,231 --> 00:12:22,273 And you searched the house? 273 00:12:22,350 --> 00:12:25,401 And Matt interviewed Beth. 274 00:12:25,412 --> 00:12:26,569 (Bonnardi) Big mistake. 275 00:12:26,646 --> 00:12:27,570 Beth had made phone calls 276 00:12:27,647 --> 00:12:29,197 before we arrived. 277 00:12:29,273 --> 00:12:32,283 So while I'm searching, people keep showing up. 278 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,701 People? The Royces. 279 00:12:33,778 --> 00:12:35,536 You mean Nate and Madeline? 280 00:12:35,613 --> 00:12:37,371 And their kid. 281 00:12:37,448 --> 00:12:39,040 Weird, right? 282 00:12:39,116 --> 00:12:41,083 And you didn't call for backup? 283 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,419 I thought it was a prank. 284 00:12:43,430 --> 00:12:45,546 But there was a ransom call. 285 00:12:45,623 --> 00:12:47,173 I didn't believe her. 286 00:12:47,250 --> 00:12:48,966 You get a call like that, 287 00:12:49,043 --> 00:12:50,593 "We have your whore daughter, don't tell anybody," 288 00:12:50,670 --> 00:12:52,595 and you invite ten friends over? 289 00:12:52,672 --> 00:12:54,597 Mm-hmm, I see your point. 290 00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:56,349 (Bonnardi) And the caller, 291 00:12:56,425 --> 00:12:58,059 she said she'd call back at 6:00. 292 00:12:58,135 --> 00:13:00,436 At 6:00, Beth is on the phone. 293 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:03,314 I tell her, "Hang up." 294 00:13:03,391 --> 00:13:05,149 That 6:00 call shoulda been all 295 00:13:05,226 --> 00:13:09,028 she was thinking about. 296 00:13:09,105 --> 00:13:11,280 Who went into the basement? 297 00:13:11,357 --> 00:13:14,617 I did, with Beth. 298 00:13:14,694 --> 00:13:16,002 [door opens] 299 00:13:34,130 --> 00:13:36,481 Nothing's changed. 300 00:13:44,307 --> 00:13:46,274 That cellar door wasn't open, 301 00:13:46,350 --> 00:13:48,150 but it was not in its locked position. 302 00:13:48,227 --> 00:13:49,452 You noticed that? 303 00:13:49,529 --> 00:13:50,820 No. 304 00:13:50,897 --> 00:13:54,073 Beth did, uh... right away. 305 00:13:54,150 --> 00:13:57,460 Then I noticed the dryer door ajar. 306 00:13:57,537 --> 00:13:59,453 The light is on. 307 00:13:59,464 --> 00:14:01,464 I open it... 308 00:14:03,510 --> 00:14:05,760 For a second, I thought she was sleeping. 309 00:14:06,913 --> 00:14:08,346 [shuts dryer door] 310 00:14:10,750 --> 00:14:13,434 You let Beth take the body out. 311 00:14:14,754 --> 00:14:18,431 I let her lead me to the body. 312 00:14:18,507 --> 00:14:20,516 She killed her daughter. 313 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:22,735 And because of me... 314 00:14:22,812 --> 00:14:25,446 she got away with it. 315 00:14:31,562 --> 00:14:33,496 Thank you. 316 00:14:33,573 --> 00:14:36,457 Don't let her get away with it this time. 317 00:14:39,236 --> 00:14:41,495 She was a female rookie, wanted to prove herself, 318 00:14:41,572 --> 00:14:44,290 ended up making it harder on the rest of us. 319 00:14:44,367 --> 00:14:48,461 Yeah, Beth Harner's behavior was very, very strange 320 00:14:48,537 --> 00:14:52,256 that morning, but it's another rookie cop's mistake 321 00:14:52,333 --> 00:14:55,676 to think that strange behavior equals guilt. 322 00:14:55,753 --> 00:14:57,720 Nate's still on duty. 323 00:14:57,797 --> 00:14:59,388 Mm-hmm, and he's on the phone. 324 00:14:59,465 --> 00:15:02,308 Wonder who he's talking to. 325 00:15:02,385 --> 00:15:04,393 No. There is nothing else. 326 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:06,103 The DA has copies of everything. 327 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:07,580 You're not... 328 00:15:07,656 --> 00:15:10,650 writing a new book about the case, are you? 329 00:15:10,726 --> 00:15:12,610 I'm just polishing it now, actually. 330 00:15:12,687 --> 00:15:14,528 Put you back on that bestsellers list. 331 00:15:14,539 --> 00:15:16,697 I am on your side. 332 00:15:16,774 --> 00:15:18,541 Then put us in touch with Beth Harner. 333 00:15:18,618 --> 00:15:19,617 She would kill me, if I-- 334 00:15:19,694 --> 00:15:20,668 What if I just hit the "redial"? 335 00:15:20,745 --> 00:15:22,386 Put that down! Please. 336 00:15:24,323 --> 00:15:27,592 I'm sorry, I just try to protect her. 337 00:15:27,669 --> 00:15:29,418 Look, she told me she had never met Fife. 338 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:31,796 We like to get our information firsthand. 339 00:15:31,872 --> 00:15:33,264 And you wouldn't want something 340 00:15:33,341 --> 00:15:34,924 to delay the publication of your book, 341 00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:37,268 like, say, a subpoena of your notes? 342 00:15:41,641 --> 00:15:42,589 [knocking on door] 343 00:15:42,667 --> 00:15:44,392 Jamie, I thought you had a meeting. 344 00:15:44,468 --> 00:15:45,768 Hello to you too, Dad. 345 00:15:45,845 --> 00:15:47,520 Everything okay? 346 00:15:47,596 --> 00:15:50,815 Yes, I'm just helping these detectives 347 00:15:50,891 --> 00:15:54,202 get in touch with Beth. 348 00:15:54,278 --> 00:15:56,862 I am surprised you even want my opinion. 349 00:15:56,939 --> 00:16:00,574 The New York Police Department never believed a word I said. 350 00:16:00,651 --> 00:16:02,159 And that's the guy. 351 00:16:02,236 --> 00:16:03,619 I never saw him in the schoolyard, 352 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:04,912 but that's the guy. 353 00:16:04,989 --> 00:16:06,297 (Eames) You took your daughter to school? 354 00:16:06,374 --> 00:16:08,424 I took my daughter to school every day. 355 00:16:09,618 --> 00:16:11,252 Unless, of course, she was-- 356 00:16:11,328 --> 00:16:12,545 Please don't touch anything. 357 00:16:12,547 --> 00:16:15,756 Unless, of course, she was working. 358 00:16:15,833 --> 00:16:20,720 And then, we would run lines together for her auditions. 359 00:16:20,796 --> 00:16:22,146 (Goren) You'd run lines? 360 00:16:22,223 --> 00:16:25,558 You were an actress too, right? 361 00:16:25,634 --> 00:16:26,976 Oh, no, uh, no. 362 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:31,406 Amberleigh was truly gifted. 363 00:16:31,482 --> 00:16:34,483 I was--well, I danced in the chorus 364 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,570 of a couple of shows, and weak knees ended that dream. 365 00:16:37,646 --> 00:16:39,697 Oh, your knees look fine. 366 00:16:39,774 --> 00:16:42,742 And your talent wasn't wasted. 367 00:16:42,818 --> 00:16:44,785 You gave it to Amberleigh. 368 00:16:44,862 --> 00:16:47,538 Thank you very much. 369 00:16:47,615 --> 00:16:48,622 But it wasn't just me. 370 00:16:48,699 --> 00:16:50,499 I mean, we had Jenna. 371 00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:51,500 Jenna? 372 00:16:51,577 --> 00:16:52,501 Yes. 373 00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:55,713 Amberleigh's acting coach... 374 00:16:55,790 --> 00:16:58,340 for all of her commercials, 375 00:16:58,417 --> 00:17:00,301 even the last one that she did 376 00:17:00,377 --> 00:17:01,302 in September in L.A. 377 00:17:01,378 --> 00:17:02,303 Sep-September? 378 00:17:02,379 --> 00:17:04,188 Yes, right bef-- 379 00:17:10,054 --> 00:17:15,608 You know, Amberleigh loved...acting. 380 00:17:15,684 --> 00:17:18,911 She loved Hollywood. 381 00:17:22,566 --> 00:17:24,917 Sweet and juicy. 382 00:17:24,994 --> 00:17:27,328 Mmm! 383 00:17:27,404 --> 00:17:29,789 Her last commercial, it never aired. 384 00:17:29,865 --> 00:17:31,791 As you can see, the camera loved her. 385 00:17:31,867 --> 00:17:33,375 Did she love the camera? 386 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,794 That's a lot of pressure on a young girl. 387 00:17:34,870 --> 00:17:36,545 Amberleigh was a professional. 388 00:17:36,622 --> 00:17:37,755 Even when she was unhappy, 389 00:17:37,832 --> 00:17:39,715 she never projected it on-screen. 390 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:41,074 Unhappy? 391 00:17:41,152 --> 00:17:42,760 Her mother said that she loved acting. 392 00:17:42,837 --> 00:17:44,637 Oh, she did. 393 00:17:44,639 --> 00:17:45,888 This is the only time I heard her complain. 394 00:17:45,965 --> 00:17:47,973 The shoot kept getting postponed. 395 00:17:48,050 --> 00:17:51,268 She was nervous about missing the start of school. 396 00:17:51,345 --> 00:17:54,063 Do you happen to remember the dates? 397 00:17:54,140 --> 00:17:56,941 It's on the box sleeve. 398 00:17:57,017 --> 00:17:58,868 "September 1992." 399 00:17:58,945 --> 00:18:02,363 Amberleigh was miserable. 400 00:18:02,439 --> 00:18:04,373 But you never saw it on her face. 401 00:18:11,907 --> 00:18:14,625 Sweet and juicy. 402 00:18:14,702 --> 00:18:16,794 Mmm! 403 00:18:16,871 --> 00:18:20,047 (Amberleigh's voice, echoing) Sweet and juicy. 404 00:18:20,124 --> 00:18:21,974 Mmm! 405 00:18:29,058 --> 00:18:31,725 I jimmied the lock on the cellar door. 406 00:18:31,802 --> 00:18:32,968 That's how I got in. 407 00:18:33,046 --> 00:18:36,689 Simon, that door wasn't jimmied. 408 00:18:36,765 --> 00:18:38,023 The door was unlocked. 409 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:40,609 No. 410 00:18:40,686 --> 00:18:41,828 That can't be. 411 00:18:44,148 --> 00:18:46,448 I snuck in through the cellar door. 412 00:18:46,525 --> 00:18:48,826 We'll put that aside for a moment. 413 00:18:48,903 --> 00:18:50,494 Um... 414 00:18:50,571 --> 00:18:53,789 What do you do, usually, on Halloween? 415 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:56,551 I stay home, hand out candy. 416 00:18:56,627 --> 00:18:58,335 And it must be your favorite night 417 00:18:58,412 --> 00:19:00,880 of the year, these little girls, 418 00:19:00,956 --> 00:19:03,549 dressed in costume. 419 00:19:03,626 --> 00:19:04,800 Princesses... 420 00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:06,969 Fairies... 421 00:19:07,046 --> 00:19:09,722 with sparkling wings, ribbons in their hair. 422 00:19:09,798 --> 00:19:11,482 Your favorite night of the year. 423 00:19:14,887 --> 00:19:16,821 Why did you go out? 424 00:19:18,766 --> 00:19:21,483 Um... 425 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,786 I mean, you must have went out. 426 00:19:23,863 --> 00:19:26,071 You said that you were with Amberleigh that night. 427 00:19:26,148 --> 00:19:27,556 That's right... 428 00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:28,908 Do you remember what she was dressed as? 429 00:19:28,984 --> 00:19:30,784 She was a little genie. 430 00:19:30,795 --> 00:19:34,881 (Goren) You remember everything about Amberleigh, don't you? 431 00:19:34,957 --> 00:19:36,874 Mm-hmm. 432 00:19:36,951 --> 00:19:40,586 First day of school, she wore a yellow dress, 433 00:19:40,597 --> 00:19:45,466 and little white ankle socks with white shoes. 434 00:19:45,542 --> 00:19:46,800 You can see that, can't you? 435 00:19:46,877 --> 00:19:48,811 I mean, you can see it in your mind's eye, 436 00:19:48,888 --> 00:19:50,471 the little yellow dress? 437 00:19:50,547 --> 00:19:53,015 Skipping at recess. 438 00:19:53,092 --> 00:19:56,518 So beautiful. 439 00:19:56,595 --> 00:19:58,938 Simon, you and Amberleigh 440 00:19:59,014 --> 00:20:00,865 were never in that school together. 441 00:20:03,569 --> 00:20:05,027 Amberleigh was in Los Angeles 442 00:20:05,104 --> 00:20:07,029 for the first two weeks of school, 443 00:20:07,106 --> 00:20:10,449 and you were fired before she came back. 444 00:20:10,526 --> 00:20:11,867 She was in Los Angeles? 445 00:20:11,878 --> 00:20:13,352 Mm-hmm. 446 00:20:13,429 --> 00:20:14,870 Then what about the sesame candy? 447 00:20:14,947 --> 00:20:16,538 I don't know. Maybe somebody told you. 448 00:20:16,615 --> 00:20:18,466 Maybe you read it. 449 00:20:18,542 --> 00:20:20,793 Oh! 450 00:20:20,869 --> 00:20:22,962 It must have been Beth, 451 00:20:23,038 --> 00:20:24,722 in one of her emails. 452 00:20:30,212 --> 00:20:31,812 Amberleigh's mother sent you an email? 453 00:20:34,133 --> 00:20:36,817 She made me promise not to tell anyone. 454 00:20:38,887 --> 00:20:40,145 No one knows, 455 00:20:40,222 --> 00:20:42,865 not Nate Royce, not the DA. 456 00:20:48,772 --> 00:20:51,624 You won't tell anyone, will you? 457 00:20:59,125 --> 00:21:01,250 He may not have murdered Amberleigh, 458 00:21:01,327 --> 00:21:04,461 but I wouldn't let him within a hundred miles of my nieces. 459 00:21:04,538 --> 00:21:05,888 (Ross) Well, for what it's worth, 460 00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:08,382 Fife has agreed to enter a monitored program. 461 00:21:08,459 --> 00:21:11,302 And the A.D.A. says we ruined her investigation, 462 00:21:11,378 --> 00:21:15,231 so now it's on us to solve. 463 00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:17,266 We have to ask Beth Harner 464 00:21:17,343 --> 00:21:19,393 about these emails she sent to Fife. 465 00:21:19,404 --> 00:21:20,777 Not me. 466 00:21:20,855 --> 00:21:23,906 He's the one she was making goo-goo eyes with. 467 00:21:23,983 --> 00:21:25,899 What's your take on her? 468 00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:27,401 Well, she's off, at times, in her affect. 469 00:21:27,412 --> 00:21:30,195 You know, she smiles when she's upset.. 470 00:21:30,206 --> 00:21:31,396 She craves attention. 471 00:21:31,474 --> 00:21:33,282 You can see why people made her as a suspect. 472 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:34,825 A suspect without a motive. 473 00:21:34,902 --> 00:21:36,419 She was living through her daughter. 474 00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:40,372 If Amberleigh ever balked at Beth's dream for her-- 475 00:21:40,449 --> 00:21:41,440 [soft drink can pops open] 476 00:21:41,517 --> 00:21:43,459 You said she craves attention. 477 00:21:43,535 --> 00:21:44,585 Give her some. 478 00:21:44,661 --> 00:21:47,221 You gained Fife's trust, gain hers. 479 00:21:51,627 --> 00:21:54,011 ♪ When me and my Alice were playin' The Palace ♪ 480 00:21:54,088 --> 00:21:55,637 ♪ In '45 ♪ 481 00:21:55,714 --> 00:21:57,306 ♪ There wasn't a word of ♪ 482 00:21:57,383 --> 00:21:59,099 ♪ They hadn't heard of that thing ♪ 483 00:21:59,176 --> 00:22:00,142 ♪ Called jive ♪ 484 00:22:00,219 --> 00:22:01,268 ♪ When we did our dance ♪ 485 00:22:01,345 --> 00:22:02,320 ♪ There was only one dance ♪ 486 00:22:02,396 --> 00:22:04,605 ♪ The world, it was alive ♪ 487 00:22:04,681 --> 00:22:08,159 ♪ We gave 'em the old soft shoe ♪ ♪ 488 00:22:15,234 --> 00:22:16,417 Oh. 489 00:22:17,611 --> 00:22:20,004 [doorbell rings] 490 00:22:26,662 --> 00:22:28,429 Coming! 491 00:22:30,249 --> 00:22:32,266 Welc-- 492 00:22:33,585 --> 00:22:37,012 Oh, I wasn't expecting the both of yous. 493 00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:39,556 Actually, I was just dropping my partner off. 494 00:22:39,633 --> 00:22:41,016 Yeah, well, maybe next time. 495 00:22:41,093 --> 00:22:42,059 Come in. 496 00:22:42,136 --> 00:22:45,488 Call me, if you need a ride home. 497 00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:46,530 Bye. 498 00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:53,037 I'm sorry you haven't had closure. 499 00:22:55,574 --> 00:22:58,283 But the case will remain open, right? 500 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,369 Yeah, the case will stay open. 501 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:01,829 No, I don't mean that. 502 00:23:01,831 --> 00:23:03,455 I mean... you'll be the one 503 00:23:03,532 --> 00:23:05,416 who calls me, who tells me things, 504 00:23:05,492 --> 00:23:07,584 who keeps me updated? 505 00:23:07,661 --> 00:23:09,503 Okay. 506 00:23:09,514 --> 00:23:11,430 Okay? 507 00:23:17,304 --> 00:23:20,097 You know, you seem like a man 508 00:23:20,174 --> 00:23:23,225 who is dedicated to his work. 509 00:23:23,302 --> 00:23:24,276 Too much maybe. 510 00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:28,114 Like you were to Amberleigh. 511 00:23:32,811 --> 00:23:34,987 All right, I did it. 512 00:23:35,063 --> 00:23:36,572 I mean, I pushed her. 513 00:23:36,648 --> 00:23:40,200 But Amberleigh wanted to stop acting. 514 00:23:40,277 --> 00:23:42,744 A few months before she died, 515 00:23:42,821 --> 00:23:46,331 she told me that it wasn't fun for her anymore. 516 00:23:46,408 --> 00:23:48,417 What? The auditions, watching her weight? 517 00:23:48,494 --> 00:23:50,419 Yes! 518 00:23:50,496 --> 00:23:52,555 Halloween... 519 00:23:52,631 --> 00:23:55,466 How did--how did you handle the candy? 520 00:23:55,542 --> 00:23:57,968 Amberleigh was allowed to keep ten pieces 521 00:23:58,045 --> 00:24:02,514 and then she had to give the rest away. 522 00:24:02,591 --> 00:24:03,765 To her friends. 523 00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:04,984 Oh. 524 00:24:07,554 --> 00:24:10,439 The names of these kids 525 00:24:10,516 --> 00:24:12,566 that went trick-or-treating with her, you remember them? 526 00:24:12,643 --> 00:24:15,569 Of course I remember. 527 00:24:15,580 --> 00:24:20,040 Um...Brianna. 528 00:24:20,117 --> 00:24:21,074 Okay. 529 00:24:21,151 --> 00:24:22,075 From down the street. 530 00:24:22,152 --> 00:24:23,577 You know? 531 00:24:23,654 --> 00:24:24,661 She--oh, she worshipped Amberleigh. 532 00:24:24,738 --> 00:24:27,465 [whispering] She worshipped Amberleigh. 533 00:24:28,718 --> 00:24:31,543 And the Perlman twins. 534 00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:35,306 And Jamie, Nate's son. 535 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:39,101 Nate Royce's son, who lived next door? 536 00:24:39,178 --> 00:24:40,469 He still does. 537 00:24:40,546 --> 00:24:41,645 Okay. 538 00:24:48,220 --> 00:24:52,481 Detective Goren... 539 00:24:52,558 --> 00:24:55,534 I've never told this to anyone before. 540 00:24:58,564 --> 00:25:04,493 The night that my baby was murdered, 541 00:25:04,570 --> 00:25:08,497 she wanted to eat an extra piece of candy, 542 00:25:08,574 --> 00:25:11,291 just one more little piece of candy. 543 00:25:11,368 --> 00:25:13,085 And I wouldn't let her have it. 544 00:25:13,161 --> 00:25:15,170 She went to bed, she was crying. 545 00:25:15,247 --> 00:25:16,713 She was angry with me. 546 00:25:16,790 --> 00:25:18,840 I didn't even kiss her good night. 547 00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:21,093 There's a book, okay? 548 00:25:21,169 --> 00:25:22,844 It's about grieving. 549 00:25:22,921 --> 00:25:25,722 And I'm sorry, but I can't remember the name of it, 550 00:25:25,799 --> 00:25:28,150 but it could-- it could help. 551 00:25:28,227 --> 00:25:29,685 I could email it to you. 552 00:25:29,761 --> 00:25:33,230 Thank you. 553 00:25:33,307 --> 00:25:36,525 But I don't have, um... the Internet. 554 00:25:36,536 --> 00:25:38,536 You don't have an email account? 555 00:25:38,612 --> 00:25:40,404 No. 556 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,615 If someone wants to send me a sympathy note 557 00:25:43,692 --> 00:25:45,609 or anything like that, you know, 558 00:25:45,686 --> 00:25:50,664 they, um, email it, or send it, or whatever it's called, 559 00:25:50,675 --> 00:25:54,635 to Nate, and then Nate brings it to me. 560 00:25:56,681 --> 00:25:58,589 Okay. 561 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:02,268 (all) Happy Halloween! 562 00:26:11,637 --> 00:26:13,395 Stop, Amberleigh. Stop tickling me. 563 00:26:13,472 --> 00:26:15,147 (Beth) Tell us what your costumes are. 564 00:26:15,223 --> 00:26:16,481 I'm a genie. 565 00:26:16,558 --> 00:26:17,608 And I'm a prince. 566 00:26:17,618 --> 00:26:19,401 (Beth) Oh, a prince! 567 00:26:19,478 --> 00:26:21,445 Isn't he handsome, Amberleigh? 568 00:26:21,521 --> 00:26:24,707 Isn't Jamie a handsome Prince Charming? 569 00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:25,933 Yes. 570 00:26:25,935 --> 00:26:28,577 So Beth told me she didn't email Fife 571 00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:30,704 about Amberleigh's stomach contents. 572 00:26:30,715 --> 00:26:34,291 And she didn't know about Amberleigh's candy binge. 573 00:26:34,368 --> 00:26:36,510 I wonder if Prince Jamie did. 574 00:26:46,606 --> 00:26:48,805 (Jamie) I was at Amberleigh's for the candy swap, 575 00:26:48,882 --> 00:26:51,600 and then my parents took me home. 576 00:26:51,611 --> 00:26:53,602 What kind of candy 577 00:26:53,679 --> 00:26:56,229 did Amberleigh get at the swap? 578 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:57,740 Sesame logs. 579 00:26:57,816 --> 00:26:59,149 She got, like, 30 of them 580 00:26:59,226 --> 00:27:02,402 because nobody else liked them. 581 00:27:02,479 --> 00:27:04,613 It's Halloween-- the anniversary. 582 00:27:04,690 --> 00:27:06,365 It must hard for you. 583 00:27:06,441 --> 00:27:08,825 Well, it's two anniversaries for me, so, yeah, I guess. 584 00:27:08,902 --> 00:27:10,577 My mom died on Halloween too, 585 00:27:10,654 --> 00:27:13,664 four years after, in a car wreck. 586 00:27:13,740 --> 00:27:14,790 She was drinking, 587 00:27:14,866 --> 00:27:16,875 but she didn't hurt anybody else. 588 00:27:16,952 --> 00:27:19,136 But that must have hurt you a lot. 589 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:22,923 I'm--I'm okay. 590 00:27:22,999 --> 00:27:24,257 I gotta go. 591 00:27:24,268 --> 00:27:25,467 I got a meeting. 592 00:27:25,478 --> 00:27:26,718 Faculty? 593 00:27:26,795 --> 00:27:27,719 Teach? No. 594 00:27:27,796 --> 00:27:29,471 Uh, I'm still a student, 595 00:27:29,548 --> 00:27:30,814 but this is a meeting, meeting. 596 00:27:32,801 --> 00:27:33,776 AA? 597 00:27:33,852 --> 00:27:36,520 N.A. Alcohol led to drugs. 598 00:27:36,596 --> 00:27:39,481 How long have you been sober? 599 00:27:39,558 --> 00:27:41,274 14 weeks. 600 00:27:41,351 --> 00:27:43,235 But I was addicted for 14 years. 601 00:27:43,311 --> 00:27:45,570 What step are you on? 602 00:27:45,647 --> 00:27:47,239 Fifth. 603 00:27:47,315 --> 00:27:48,791 Five... 604 00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:52,244 to admit the exact nature of your wrongs, 605 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,171 to stop lying. 606 00:27:56,742 --> 00:27:59,259 Are you ready to do that? 607 00:28:05,751 --> 00:28:07,351 Y-yeah. 608 00:28:08,712 --> 00:28:10,562 Yeah, I am. 609 00:28:20,223 --> 00:28:21,773 Halloween night... 610 00:28:21,850 --> 00:28:23,650 Amberleigh looked so pretty, 611 00:28:23,727 --> 00:28:27,821 and she kept trying to tickle me. 612 00:28:27,898 --> 00:28:30,207 I misunderstood. 613 00:28:30,284 --> 00:28:33,201 So that night, later, I couldn't sleep. 614 00:28:33,212 --> 00:28:36,163 I snuck into her house. 615 00:28:36,239 --> 00:28:37,873 I said we should go to the basement 616 00:28:37,949 --> 00:28:40,259 and eat all our candy. 617 00:28:42,913 --> 00:28:44,555 Okay. You ate candy. Then? 618 00:28:46,708 --> 00:28:50,302 Um, I tried to kiss her, 619 00:28:50,378 --> 00:28:52,137 and she screamed. 620 00:28:52,214 --> 00:28:54,306 I tried to cover her mouth, 621 00:28:54,382 --> 00:28:57,934 but I-I hit her nose instead. 622 00:28:58,011 --> 00:29:00,103 She started to bleed. 623 00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:02,689 She was really crying. 624 00:29:02,766 --> 00:29:06,193 I pushed her face into the couch 625 00:29:06,269 --> 00:29:08,862 to keep her quiet. 626 00:29:08,873 --> 00:29:10,864 Um... 627 00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:13,033 I was so scared, you know? 628 00:29:13,109 --> 00:29:15,035 I didn't mean to kill her. 629 00:29:15,111 --> 00:29:18,079 Then you put her body in the dryer. 630 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:20,040 No, I went home. 631 00:29:20,116 --> 00:29:24,252 And there was blood on my shirt. 632 00:29:24,329 --> 00:29:28,215 And my mom told me to go to bed, let her handle it. 633 00:29:28,291 --> 00:29:31,009 I thought she was gonna explain it to Beth. 634 00:29:31,086 --> 00:29:33,094 I waited at my window. 635 00:29:33,105 --> 00:29:38,308 Um, Mom got in the car and drove off. 636 00:29:38,385 --> 00:29:40,602 She probably went to make the ransom call. 637 00:29:40,679 --> 00:29:41,987 Why do you think she did that? 638 00:29:43,974 --> 00:29:47,901 I think she meant to get rid of the body. 639 00:29:47,978 --> 00:29:49,069 She must've panicked 640 00:29:49,145 --> 00:29:51,580 and hid Amberleigh in the dryer. 641 00:29:55,151 --> 00:29:57,753 I know you're gonna tell Beth. 642 00:29:59,781 --> 00:30:02,007 If she'll let me, I'd like to speak to her. 643 00:30:04,828 --> 00:30:06,595 You care about Beth. 644 00:30:07,765 --> 00:30:09,256 Jamie, why did you 645 00:30:09,332 --> 00:30:13,101 email Simon Fife pretending to be Beth? 646 00:30:17,173 --> 00:30:19,107 I don't remember doing that. 647 00:30:22,345 --> 00:30:24,980 But all those years of drug use, you know, 648 00:30:25,056 --> 00:30:27,065 I have...gaps. 649 00:30:27,142 --> 00:30:28,951 Um, they have meetings in jail, right? 650 00:30:30,854 --> 00:30:31,787 They do. 651 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:38,285 Do you think your dad blames himself 652 00:30:38,361 --> 00:30:40,254 for what happened to you after Amberleigh's murder? 653 00:30:40,330 --> 00:30:41,997 My dad didn't know 654 00:30:42,073 --> 00:30:43,707 about any of this. 655 00:30:43,783 --> 00:30:46,126 He was asleep. We never told him. 656 00:30:46,202 --> 00:30:49,796 He thought that I lost it because of my mom. 657 00:30:49,807 --> 00:30:53,675 Um, she was a bit of a self-medicator. 658 00:30:53,752 --> 00:30:56,311 I know the type. 659 00:31:01,384 --> 00:31:03,351 Another day, another confession. 660 00:31:03,428 --> 00:31:04,436 You buy it? 661 00:31:04,512 --> 00:31:06,813 Not the part about emailing Simon Fife. 662 00:31:06,890 --> 00:31:08,815 The question completely surprised him. 663 00:31:08,892 --> 00:31:11,318 Wouldn't be the first time drugs addled memory. 664 00:31:11,328 --> 00:31:12,869 (Goren) Well, except that 665 00:31:12,946 --> 00:31:15,822 these emails to Fife were sent in the last three months, 666 00:31:15,899 --> 00:31:17,991 and Jamie's been sober that whole time. 667 00:31:18,068 --> 00:31:19,826 Well, if he didn't write them, maybe his dad did. 668 00:31:19,837 --> 00:31:21,953 I don't see how a 12-year-old boy 669 00:31:22,030 --> 00:31:24,998 and a drunk mom could have kept a secret from Nate. 670 00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:26,074 Can you reach Beth? 671 00:31:26,151 --> 00:31:27,834 Maybe she'll meet with the kid. 672 00:31:27,911 --> 00:31:29,127 He lied to us about a few things. 673 00:31:29,204 --> 00:31:31,346 I don't think he'll lie to her. 674 00:31:34,084 --> 00:31:36,143 I haven't been able to reach Beth. 675 00:31:36,219 --> 00:31:37,510 She might be having a bad day. 676 00:31:37,587 --> 00:31:38,929 It's Halloween. 677 00:31:38,939 --> 00:31:40,147 Keep trying. 678 00:31:40,223 --> 00:31:42,349 In the meantime, we should charge Jamie. 679 00:31:42,425 --> 00:31:45,352 He says he did it, his mother covered. 680 00:31:45,428 --> 00:31:46,895 You don't believe a mother 681 00:31:46,972 --> 00:31:48,021 would protect her 12-year-old boy? 682 00:31:48,098 --> 00:31:49,339 There's a piece missing. 683 00:31:49,416 --> 00:31:51,024 Jamie's--maybe he's protecting his dad. 684 00:31:51,035 --> 00:31:53,777 It doesn't sound like his dad protected him. 685 00:31:53,853 --> 00:31:55,629 Jamie has a case file 686 00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:57,364 in the Portland, Oregon Department of Child Services. 687 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,709 He was living on the street there when he was 16. 688 00:32:03,321 --> 00:32:06,748 The Royces let their son turn homeless. 689 00:32:06,825 --> 00:32:07,874 Well, his mom was probably 690 00:32:07,951 --> 00:32:10,126 in her own world by then. 691 00:32:10,203 --> 00:32:12,045 Nate made a career out of protecting Beth. 692 00:32:12,122 --> 00:32:13,505 Why wouldn't he get his son help? 693 00:32:13,581 --> 00:32:15,057 I don't know. 694 00:32:22,841 --> 00:32:24,808 No. He didn't want him to get help. 695 00:32:24,884 --> 00:32:28,186 I mean, that's--that's the whole point, isn't it? 696 00:32:28,263 --> 00:32:29,187 Therapy is talk, 697 00:32:29,264 --> 00:32:31,564 right? 698 00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:33,066 A kid goes into therapy, 699 00:32:33,143 --> 00:32:34,700 he ends up talking about Amberleigh's murder. 700 00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:37,153 When did Nate and Fife start emailing? 701 00:32:37,230 --> 00:32:38,822 Three months ago. 702 00:32:38,898 --> 00:32:43,410 Jamie told us that he was sober for 14 weeks. 703 00:32:43,486 --> 00:32:44,919 You know, sobriety, 704 00:32:44,997 --> 00:32:46,371 that must have been Nate's worst nightmare. 705 00:32:46,448 --> 00:32:48,456 'Cause when his kid is out of control, 706 00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:49,708 he could control him. 707 00:32:49,784 --> 00:32:51,117 But if his kid's in a program-- 708 00:32:51,195 --> 00:32:53,586 Nate was afraid his son would end up telling somebody 709 00:32:53,663 --> 00:32:55,422 what actually happened that night. 710 00:32:55,498 --> 00:32:58,558 All right, Fife emailed Nate 711 00:32:58,635 --> 00:33:00,427 about his obsession with Amberleigh. 712 00:33:00,503 --> 00:33:01,886 Nate reeled him in. 713 00:33:01,963 --> 00:33:05,098 Jamie's walking a fine line, 714 00:33:05,109 --> 00:33:08,560 confessing to his sins, not his father's. 715 00:33:08,636 --> 00:33:10,895 Jamie won't turn on his father, 716 00:33:10,972 --> 00:33:14,149 but Nate, he's loyal to himself. 717 00:33:14,225 --> 00:33:18,319 Rich, can you find Faith Yancy's producer? 718 00:33:18,396 --> 00:33:20,572 Tell 'em it's, uh... 719 00:33:20,648 --> 00:33:23,450 the DA's office. 720 00:33:23,526 --> 00:33:26,453 Nate Royce, your own son 721 00:33:26,529 --> 00:33:28,496 has confessed to this crime. 722 00:33:28,573 --> 00:33:31,416 (Faith) Did you ever, ever see this coming? 723 00:33:31,493 --> 00:33:33,543 I really shouldn't be showing you this. 724 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:34,511 (Nate) Never in my wildest dreams, Faith. 725 00:33:34,588 --> 00:33:35,929 Thank you. 726 00:33:36,006 --> 00:33:37,881 (Faith) Mr. Royce, I have some news that... 727 00:33:37,957 --> 00:33:39,257 may shock you. 728 00:33:39,334 --> 00:33:41,935 An anonymous source at the DA's office 729 00:33:42,012 --> 00:33:44,521 tells me that they believe your son 730 00:33:44,598 --> 00:33:46,431 sent many emails to Simon Fife, 731 00:33:46,508 --> 00:33:49,267 pretending to be Beth Harner, 732 00:33:49,344 --> 00:33:50,727 giving him information 733 00:33:50,804 --> 00:33:52,520 that only the killer would have. 734 00:33:52,597 --> 00:33:54,189 (Nate) Faith... 735 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:59,027 My wife Madeline was a very sick woman, 736 00:33:59,104 --> 00:34:03,290 and I fear that she has passed that on to my son. 737 00:34:05,985 --> 00:34:09,504 I was looking for him in the holding cell. 738 00:34:11,950 --> 00:34:14,501 Detective Goren reached Beth. 739 00:34:14,577 --> 00:34:16,461 She's willing to meet you. 740 00:34:16,538 --> 00:34:17,846 Tonight. 741 00:34:19,582 --> 00:34:20,515 Tonight? 742 00:34:29,592 --> 00:34:31,318 It's all right, my baby. 743 00:34:33,197 --> 00:34:34,571 It's over. 744 00:34:36,432 --> 00:34:38,274 It's all over. 745 00:34:38,351 --> 00:34:39,951 Go to sleep now. 746 00:34:41,229 --> 00:34:43,154 I love you. 747 00:34:43,165 --> 00:34:44,915 Mama loves you. 748 00:34:47,026 --> 00:34:48,627 We all miss you, Amberleigh. 749 00:34:50,446 --> 00:34:52,047 Are you ready, hmm? 750 00:34:54,242 --> 00:34:55,550 Yeah. 751 00:34:58,672 --> 00:35:02,257 How dare you come here, Detective? 752 00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:03,633 Jamie wanted to pay his respects. 753 00:35:03,644 --> 00:35:07,262 No. No, Beth's had enough stress. 754 00:35:07,338 --> 00:35:08,647 No, it's all right, Nate. 755 00:35:13,636 --> 00:35:14,945 Come in, Jamie. 756 00:35:20,435 --> 00:35:22,569 Beth... 757 00:35:22,645 --> 00:35:24,412 I'm so sorry. 758 00:35:26,691 --> 00:35:28,575 You were a little boy, Jamie. 759 00:35:28,651 --> 00:35:31,244 I didn't mean to. 760 00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:32,745 It was an accident. 761 00:35:32,822 --> 00:35:34,414 I know. 762 00:35:34,490 --> 00:35:37,333 I know. 763 00:35:37,410 --> 00:35:39,586 Oh, you were so young. 764 00:35:39,662 --> 00:35:41,930 You were such a little boy. 765 00:35:46,419 --> 00:35:48,436 I forgive you. 766 00:35:51,016 --> 00:35:52,599 And so does Amberleigh. Now, come on. 767 00:35:52,675 --> 00:35:53,608 Come on. 768 00:36:04,437 --> 00:36:09,124 I wish I could take your place here. 769 00:36:12,746 --> 00:36:14,245 We'll drive you home, Beth. 770 00:36:14,322 --> 00:36:15,255 Oh, thank you. 771 00:36:15,332 --> 00:36:17,299 Yeah, I'd like to stay, 772 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:19,792 and--and--and talk everything over with Jamie. 773 00:36:19,869 --> 00:36:21,377 No, Beth. 774 00:36:21,454 --> 00:36:23,296 It's okay, Dad. 775 00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:25,265 I'm ready to take responsibility now. 776 00:36:25,342 --> 00:36:27,508 This isn't about making amends, Jamie. 777 00:36:27,585 --> 00:36:29,302 There are serious issues here. 778 00:36:29,313 --> 00:36:30,187 He already confessed, Nate. 779 00:36:30,263 --> 00:36:31,721 (Eames) But you know that. 780 00:36:31,798 --> 00:36:34,432 Faith Yancy told you all about it on national TV. 781 00:36:34,509 --> 00:36:36,142 Jamie and I watched. 782 00:36:36,219 --> 00:36:38,478 You need help, son. 783 00:36:38,554 --> 00:36:40,697 That's why I went on television, 784 00:36:40,774 --> 00:36:42,649 so that the public doesn't turn on you. 785 00:36:42,725 --> 00:36:43,924 (Goren) Help. He needs help? 786 00:36:43,926 --> 00:36:46,110 He's getting help. He's sober. 787 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:48,529 He needed help 14 years ago, 788 00:36:48,606 --> 00:36:50,615 the night Amberleigh died. 789 00:36:50,692 --> 00:36:52,158 (Nate) I knew nothing about that. 790 00:36:52,235 --> 00:36:53,493 My wife never told me. 791 00:36:53,569 --> 00:36:54,535 (Eames) Even so. 792 00:36:54,612 --> 00:36:55,962 The drugs, the alcohol-- 793 00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:57,830 you must have seen your boy was in trouble. 794 00:36:57,907 --> 00:36:59,332 Madeline refused. 795 00:36:59,409 --> 00:37:02,636 I was worried about Jamie, but she didn't care. 796 00:37:04,473 --> 00:37:07,048 Wait a minute, that's not true, Jamie. 797 00:37:07,125 --> 00:37:08,383 Your mother-- your mother cared 798 00:37:08,459 --> 00:37:09,842 so much about you. 799 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:12,845 She was a drunk, Beth. 800 00:37:12,922 --> 00:37:15,098 You know nothing about my private struggles. 801 00:37:15,174 --> 00:37:16,557 (Eames) But Jamie does. 802 00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:18,851 When you were in Portland, homeless, 803 00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:20,186 you had a case worker-- 804 00:37:20,263 --> 00:37:22,438 Wait a minute, you were--you were-- 805 00:37:22,515 --> 00:37:24,691 You told me he was away at school. 806 00:37:24,767 --> 00:37:27,610 (Eames) Your caseworker remembers you, Jamie. 807 00:37:27,687 --> 00:37:28,961 Do you know why? 808 00:37:28,963 --> 00:37:30,229 Because your dad called him 809 00:37:30,307 --> 00:37:33,041 to request that you not get counseling. 810 00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:36,077 Dad, why would you-- 811 00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:38,079 (Goren) Because he didn't want to risk 812 00:37:38,156 --> 00:37:41,082 you telling your therapist your family secret. 813 00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:42,667 Isn't that right, Nate? 814 00:37:42,744 --> 00:37:45,670 When Jamie found sobriety, you found Fife? 815 00:37:45,747 --> 00:37:47,797 You tricked him, didn't you, into confessing? 816 00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:50,216 They're lying, Jamie. 817 00:37:50,293 --> 00:37:51,718 (Goren) Fife had information 818 00:37:51,794 --> 00:37:53,436 about the murder only the killer could've known. 819 00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:57,691 Fife thought that Beth was emailing him. 820 00:37:57,767 --> 00:37:59,851 Beth, you weren't emailing him, were you? 821 00:37:59,927 --> 00:38:01,728 No. 822 00:38:01,804 --> 00:38:03,271 (Nate) It was Jamie. 823 00:38:03,348 --> 00:38:04,772 He-- he doesn't remember. 824 00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:06,607 I didn't email him, Dad. 825 00:38:06,684 --> 00:38:08,443 Listen, you know I love you. 826 00:38:08,519 --> 00:38:10,194 I have always protected you. 827 00:38:10,271 --> 00:38:12,572 (Goren) Protected? 828 00:38:12,648 --> 00:38:15,283 The only one you protected in all this was yourself. 829 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,743 (Eames) Your son could have gotten help, 830 00:38:16,819 --> 00:38:18,745 but you told him he'd do hard time. 831 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:20,747 Don't listen to them, listen to me. 832 00:38:20,823 --> 00:38:22,457 Listen to you? 833 00:38:22,533 --> 00:38:24,676 You've been lying to me for 14 years. 834 00:38:24,753 --> 00:38:27,128 Madeline made the ransom call. 835 00:38:27,205 --> 00:38:28,880 (Nate) Tell them, Jamie. 836 00:38:28,956 --> 00:38:31,591 You came home, Mom panicked. 837 00:38:31,667 --> 00:38:34,510 Tell them, hmm? 838 00:38:34,587 --> 00:38:36,763 Jamie, is that true? 839 00:38:36,839 --> 00:38:41,443 Jamie, Beth needs to know what really happened. 840 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:47,824 No. 841 00:38:47,901 --> 00:38:50,818 (Jamie) It wasn't Mom's plan, it was Dad's. 842 00:38:50,895 --> 00:38:52,036 They had a big fight. 843 00:38:52,113 --> 00:38:53,054 I watched from the window 844 00:38:53,131 --> 00:38:56,366 as Mom got into the car and drove off. 845 00:38:56,442 --> 00:38:59,619 Dad went into the house. 846 00:38:59,695 --> 00:39:01,621 And I saw the light go on in the basement, 847 00:39:01,697 --> 00:39:03,873 and he was down there for awhile. 848 00:39:03,950 --> 00:39:05,675 And then the cellar door opened, 849 00:39:05,752 --> 00:39:06,843 and lights went on upstairs. 850 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,170 Did you turn the lights on, Beth? 851 00:39:09,247 --> 00:39:12,382 Yes, when I heard Amberleigh scream 852 00:39:12,458 --> 00:39:13,800 from my bedroom window. 853 00:39:13,876 --> 00:39:15,760 Bedroom window, which is where? 854 00:39:15,837 --> 00:39:16,928 (Beth) It's two floors 855 00:39:17,004 --> 00:39:20,598 above the cellar door. 856 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:23,651 She screamed-- Oh, my God, did she scream. 857 00:39:26,889 --> 00:39:28,523 She was alive, Nate? 858 00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:29,816 No, no, no, no. 859 00:39:29,892 --> 00:39:31,818 She was gone, Beth. 860 00:39:31,894 --> 00:39:34,862 The screams were from when Jamie was with her. 861 00:39:34,939 --> 00:39:36,322 So, you were there. 862 00:39:36,399 --> 00:39:39,742 Jamie, do you remember what happened 863 00:39:39,819 --> 00:39:40,794 after the lights went on? 864 00:39:40,870 --> 00:39:44,330 The cellar door closed, 865 00:39:44,341 --> 00:39:46,633 and a few minutes later, Dad came out the back door. 866 00:39:46,709 --> 00:39:48,000 He's got it wrong. 867 00:39:48,011 --> 00:39:49,544 This was his mother's idea 868 00:39:49,554 --> 00:39:52,713 after Jamie killed Amberleigh. 869 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:54,224 (Goren) Jamie, you told me 870 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,893 that you gave Amberleigh a bloody nose. 871 00:39:58,588 --> 00:40:00,012 Did you hit her hard? 872 00:40:00,089 --> 00:40:03,349 No, I hit her nose by mistake, 873 00:40:03,426 --> 00:40:06,018 and she sat down and started crying, and I-- 874 00:40:06,095 --> 00:40:07,821 that's when I tried to stop the noise. 875 00:40:09,390 --> 00:40:10,698 And you suffocated her. 876 00:40:15,771 --> 00:40:17,330 But her head... 877 00:40:19,317 --> 00:40:21,409 Her head didn't hit anything. 878 00:40:21,486 --> 00:40:23,619 Amberleigh's autopsy, it's in your book. 879 00:40:23,696 --> 00:40:24,662 It's all there. 880 00:40:24,739 --> 00:40:25,913 She suffocated. 881 00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:27,498 (Eames) And her brain had bruising, 882 00:40:27,575 --> 00:40:31,377 front and back from head trauma. 883 00:40:31,454 --> 00:40:33,379 I didn't hit her head. 884 00:40:33,456 --> 00:40:35,006 All Jamie did was give her a bloody nose. 885 00:40:35,082 --> 00:40:36,382 He doesn't know what he did. 886 00:40:36,459 --> 00:40:37,550 (Goren) No, but you do. 887 00:40:37,561 --> 00:40:40,344 Right? 888 00:40:40,421 --> 00:40:43,806 You saw Amberleigh in the basement. 889 00:40:43,883 --> 00:40:46,517 You thought she was dead, just like Jamie did. 890 00:40:46,594 --> 00:40:49,487 You were gonna carry her body out, 891 00:40:49,564 --> 00:40:52,857 and hide it. 892 00:40:52,934 --> 00:40:55,410 But something happened. 893 00:40:57,030 --> 00:40:58,371 What was it? 894 00:40:58,448 --> 00:41:00,573 Did she wake up? 895 00:41:00,650 --> 00:41:01,824 (Goren) Did she? 896 00:41:01,901 --> 00:41:04,702 Nate, what did you-- what did you do? 897 00:41:04,779 --> 00:41:06,537 She start crying? 898 00:41:06,614 --> 00:41:08,456 She start cryin', Nate, is that what happened? 899 00:41:08,467 --> 00:41:10,833 You heard Beth moving upstairs, 900 00:41:10,910 --> 00:41:12,960 and you panicked, just like your son did? 901 00:41:13,037 --> 00:41:16,264 But Jamie ran for help from you. 902 00:41:18,501 --> 00:41:20,593 You smashed her head, 903 00:41:20,670 --> 00:41:23,021 and you threw her body into the dryer. 904 00:41:28,052 --> 00:41:32,355 Beth, Jamie didn't kill Amberleigh. 905 00:41:32,431 --> 00:41:33,481 You did. 906 00:41:33,558 --> 00:41:38,611 I never meant... 907 00:41:38,688 --> 00:41:40,446 It was an accident, and I swear that. 908 00:41:40,523 --> 00:41:41,672 It was an accident, huh? 909 00:41:41,749 --> 00:41:42,865 You sure you weren't just trying to 910 00:41:42,942 --> 00:41:44,501 weigh your options? 911 00:41:44,577 --> 00:41:47,578 You know, her life, your reputation? 912 00:41:47,655 --> 00:41:49,539 And then you decided to finish her off. 913 00:41:49,615 --> 00:41:51,624 I was trying to protect my son. 914 00:41:51,701 --> 00:41:52,625 (Jamie) From what? 915 00:41:52,702 --> 00:41:55,753 You told me it was my fault, 916 00:41:55,830 --> 00:41:57,838 told me to act dumb. 917 00:41:57,849 --> 00:42:03,010 And that's what I did for the next 14 years! 918 00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:06,931 How could you, Nate? 919 00:42:07,008 --> 00:42:08,608 How could you? 920 00:42:09,844 --> 00:42:12,395 (Beth) Look at me. 921 00:42:12,471 --> 00:42:14,397 Nate, look at me. 922 00:42:14,473 --> 00:42:15,481 Look at me! 923 00:42:15,558 --> 00:42:16,566 (Goren) Get him out of here. 924 00:42:16,576 --> 00:42:18,660 Look at me! 925 00:42:23,065 --> 00:42:25,333 You took everything.