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(tense music)

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- [Narrator] Every suspect
accused of a crime

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has the right to remain silent.

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Many agree to be
interrogated anyway,

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but they can stop the
interview at any moment,

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making it a race against time.

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(dramatic music)

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Justice hangs in the balance.

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(tense music)

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- On Christmas day, 2019,

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the Metro Police
Department were contacted,

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pertaining to a missing
person, Kevin Bacon.

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Kevin Bacon was 25 years old.

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His parents report him missing

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because he had not shown
up for a Christmas brunch,

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and they indicated that this
was very out of character.

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(car whooshing)

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His parents said that, well,
Kevin's roommate had told them

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that Kevin was last seen
leaving his residence

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the day before at
approximately 5:22.

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And she had said that
Kevin sent her a text

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at about 6:12 PM stating that
he was gonna be out late.

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He had met a person
on a dating app

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and he was going to
meet up with that person

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to have some fun.

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But now he was
nowhere to be found.

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- I knew something was wrong

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because no one could
get ahold of him.

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I just remember that whole
day calling his phone

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and hoping that there was
going to be an answer.

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And unfortunately,
there never was.

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(tense music)

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- So after Kevin's parents
contacted the police,

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they began their own search.

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They drove around the area

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and they discovered Kevin's
vehicle in a parking lot.

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Police are notified
and they respond.

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- What was odd is
that everything

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that Kevin was known
to have been wearing

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when his roommate had last
seen him was in the car.

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His cell phone was in the
car, his wallet, keys.

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Everything except for Kevin.

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- At that point, we're thinking
that this is highly unusual.

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Why are Kevin's
clothes in the vehicle?

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- Did he disappear willingly
or is there foul play?

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We didn't have enough to know
if a crime had been committed.

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(tense music)

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(cars whooshing)

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- Something I always
admired about Kevin

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is he was never afraid
to express himself.

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He was not afraid to
be this big, bald man

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with a pink polo and a
purse and his nails done.

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- Kevin was just one of

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my truest, closest
friends that I ever had.

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He was just very vibrant

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and he always had an
opinion about everything.

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- When I first met Kevin,
his major was psychology.

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He would spread awareness
about important topics

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like the LGBTQ community and
sexual violence prevention.

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His passion was helping people.

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(clock ticking)

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- So Kevin's phone
was handed over

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to the Michigan State
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and on the phone
they found a chat log

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from a mobile dating app.

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- [Joshua] There was
one person in particular

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that Kevin had been
communicating with.

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- They were looking
to have a date

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and have a consensual
sexual encounter.

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(tense music)
(messages beeping)

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- There was banter
back and forth

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about where they
were going to meet,

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and it did suggest that he
was going to pick Kevin up

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and transport him
back to his home.

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(messages beeping)

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- And they were able to identify

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that it was a resident in
Michigan, Mark Latunski.

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We learned he was a
50-year-old divorced male.

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He was known to run
different online sex forums,

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almost like a male
escort type scenario.

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- Mark Latunski had invited
men over to his residence

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in October and November.

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Each of them dialed 911,

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claiming that they were in
some sort of state of panic.

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- [Joshua] The state
police had gone out

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and investigated those incidents

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and they both had
similar stories.

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- Police learned that
the men were there

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for consensual sexual
encounters and role playing,

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but it became a little
too intense at that time,

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causing the men to
flee his residence.

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Once law enforcement
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those men decided that they
didn't wanna pursue charges.

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- At this point, Mark Latunski
was a person of interest.

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Definitely a lotta
red flags were there.

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We needed to go out and
talk to Mark Latunski

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at the house to see

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what kind of information he
would be willing to give.

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- I remember there
being some lights on.

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We just made a silent approach.

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We knocked.

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Mark Latunski answered

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and we'd explained to
him we were investigating

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a missing persons
complaint with Kevin Bacon.

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Asked consent to
search the house

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and Mark Latunski granted it.

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Me and one of the other officers
remained with Mr. Latunski,

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just conversating with him

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while they were
searching the home.

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Mark appeared very
calm and collected,

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not nervous whatsoever.

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His Christmas tree was still
up, we were talking about that.

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- The troopers searched the
upstairs of the residence.

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They didn't find anybody there.

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Then they went downstairs
into the basement.

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- And I just hear my
partner exclaim, "Oh my God.

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Oh my God."

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I make my way to the
top of the stairwell

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while Latunski was still
with the other officer.

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And I see my partner.

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Just absolutely, all
the life looked like

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it had been sucked
out of my partner.

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He was just as white as a ghost.

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And he told me, "Lock him up."

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I didn't ask any questions.

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I went and immediately
placed him in handcuffs

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and he exhaled deeply and said,
"You're making a mistake."

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And that was all.

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(police radio chatter)

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- [Jim] When I arrived on scene,

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we were taken to a secluded room
on the north side of the house.

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The room had a sliding barn door

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that only locked
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So if the searching officers
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it very easily could
have been missed.

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- And I remember
thinking to myself,

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what in the world
are we looking at?

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- [Jim] The body was found
at the far end of that room.

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He was nude and he was
hanging from his feet

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by the ceiling of the basement.

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(tense music)

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There was a trap door
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exposing sand and dirt,

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and there was a dried pool of
blood directly below the body.

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- [Joshua] He had been
hanging there for a while,

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but initially, we couldn't
see the injuries that he had.

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(tense music)

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- The victim had lots
of tattoos on his body,

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so we'd matched the
tattoos and hair

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to the missing person flyer.

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And that was how they
identified Kevin.

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- It was just completely evil.

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I mean, who could have
done that to somebody?

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(Mark chuckles)

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- I was tasked just to watch
over him for the time being

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and listen if he decides
to talk on his own,

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make any unsolicited
statements to me.

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- It was just bizarre, because

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he didn't act like someone
that had just killed somebody.

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I thought, maybe it
wasn't Mark Latunski.

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Maybe someone else killed Kevin.

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- Kevin was very outgoing.

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He always said what he felt.

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If you wanted to ask if your
hair looked good that day,

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he would tell you yes or no

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and you would know
it would be honest.

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And I love that.

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Every week he would come over

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and we would all watch
"RuPaul's Drag Race" together.

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And we actually went to a drag
pageant together once too.

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That was so much fun.

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He was really good about
supporting local LGBTQ efforts.

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(tense music)

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- The stakes are,

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this is a highly
unusual crime scene.

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I have no idea what happened.

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Time is ticking.

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I don't know if Mark is gonna
want to continue to wait

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and be cooperative if I
make him wait too long.

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- We don't know if
it was premeditated,

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if it was a sexual
encounter gone wrong,

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whether it was heat of passion.

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Was there anybody else involved?

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(car revving)

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- It was just an odd
scene, odd situation.

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He was comfortable,
he was casual.

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He didn't act like a dead
body was found in his house.

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(tense music)

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(doors thudding)

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(Mark laughing)

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(officers chattering)

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(tense music)

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- So the strategy was to
just get him talking,

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but I remember thinking, we
can't even get his name out.

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How are we gonna get the story
of what happened to Kevin?

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- He was trying to
direct the interview.

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So I sat back, I gave
him control of the room.

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I wanted him to trust me.

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I didn't want him to shut down.

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He briefly glanced at me,

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I think almost in a
surprised fashion.

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I feel calling him by Olykos,
which was a vanity name,

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was showing him respect,

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is gaining his trust in me.

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And I'm trying to maximize that.

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- So at that point, I felt
I had earned enough trust

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and that was the perfect segue
for me to discuss Kevin Bacon.

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- He said that Kevin decided
to wear all of those items

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from the parking lot
to Mark's residence.

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And that Kevin's clothes
were left in the vehicle.

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(tense music)

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(melancholy music)

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- I felt a lot of pressure.

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Kevin's dead. He's got a family.

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They're gonna want answers.

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I don't have them at all.

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I just broadly asked him, who
was the man in the basement?

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And left it open-ended

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and let him kinda direct
his thought process.

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- He was framing the agreement
as Kevin wanted to die,

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that it was an assisted suicide.

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(ominous music)

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They had conversations
about how he could die

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and what would
happen after he died.

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- I felt, you know, he's
murdered this person

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and now he's certainly
distancing himself.

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(eerie music)

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(tense music)

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- For Mark to just openly say,

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"I plunged the knife into
his spine," on his own,

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that was huge.

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- We're gonna get justice
for Kevin and his family.

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And as horrible as this is,

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maybe that'll help give them
a little bit of closure.

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Looking back, that probably
was a terrible excuse.

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But I had to get outta there.

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When I called the
detective on scene

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and explained to him the
description of the knife,

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there was a little bit
of a waiting period

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as they walked up the
stairs to the bedroom.

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And, sure enough, the
detectives found that knife.

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You could still see it had
some dried blood on it.

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And it was a sense of relief

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'cause now we've got
the murder weapon.

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So you're talking to someone
that's done a horrific thing.

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But I was trying to play
into what he thought was good

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and honorable and normal.

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And it seemed to work.

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He seemed a little bit
more at ease with us.

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(intense music)

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(melancholy music)

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- Kevin decided to
enroll in beauty school.

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And that was a big deal

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because he was already
going to college.

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because he was already
going to college.

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We definitely did fry
my hair off one time,

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but I think we've all been
there and made that mistake.

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(laughs)

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- Doing hair definitely was a
great creative outlet for him.

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We would actually come to
my house and do my hair.

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And I remember
having conversations

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about what he wanted to
do beyond graduation.

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I think he was really
considering a different scenery,

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landscape, a bigger city.

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I know that he had visited one

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of our mutual
friends in Chicago.

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They went out to
a bunch of places

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that were LGBTQ friendly and
he really, really loved it.

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So he came back really
wanting to move to Chicago

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after that particular visit.

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(tense music)

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- Definitely wasn't
prepared for that.

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Fortunately, I was able
to keep my composure

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for the most part.

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But I think that my
stomach was turning

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right about that time.

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(tense music)

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- After Mark had provided us
all of the graphic details

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of what he did to Kevin,

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it kinda dawned on me

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that this may not be Mark's
only victim that he killed.

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And the fact that he was able
to show no remorse, you know,

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try to justify it,
that it was honorable.

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To me, he's one of the
most dangerous people

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I've ever come in contact with.

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And once he's in jail,

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I probably won't get to
speak to him ever again.

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So I wanted to make sure
then, that I switched tactics

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and try to figure out if
Kevin was his only victim.

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(tense music)

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(tense music)

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- There came a point in time
and I needed to confront him.

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I was aware of the two other
men that had fled his house.

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Now I have to start putting
my cards on the table.

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I know more than you think I do.

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- He wasn't aggressive.
He wasn't demeaning.

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I actually believed
him, to an extent.

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I feel like his reaction

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would've been different had
there been other victims.

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At that point, I have nothing
left to speak about with Mark.

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I felt that I had
everything that I could give

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to the prosecutor pertaining

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to his interview
and interrogation.

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So I ended the interview.

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- Initially, he was
charged with open murder,

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which allows the jury to
decide which degree of murder.

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We believed that it
definitely was premeditated.

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This definitely was part

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of an elaborate plan
to become a cannibal.

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- He was disappointed
that he wasn't going home.

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He thought he would
be exonerated.

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How can a human do
this to another human

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and not have a ounce
of regret or remorse?

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(tense music)

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- After the interview with Mark

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and still having the
lingering questions of,

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are there other victims of Mark,

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I then reached out to the FBI.

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(tense music)

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The FBI didn't think
he had killed before,

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but potentially had the capacity

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to have had other victims
if he was not caught.

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- We're extremely fortunate.

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He got the taste of death.

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And had he gone undetected,

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we probably would've been
looking at a serial killer.

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(wind whooshing)
(melancholy music)

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- This is one of
the most brutal,

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horrific murders I've seen,

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not only in this county,
but in the state.

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(tense music)

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- At that time, Kevin was
turning his life around.

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He'd made plans.
- He was happy.

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- He had some future plans.

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- [Reporter] Bacon's family
says their prayers were answered

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with the first-degree
murder charge.

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As for their son's tragic death,

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it is something they struggle
to live with every day.

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- [Karl] I think
about him every day.

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- [Pamela] We both do.

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- [Karl] And yeah, he's
always in my thoughts.

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(melancholy music)

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- [Joshua] Mark was
under the impression

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that he could convince us

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that what he did was
what Kevin wanted.

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But yet we had learned
from the text messages,

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Kevin didn't wanna die.

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Kevin by no means
wanted this to happen.

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- I think it was
justice for Kevin

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and my heart goes
out to the family.

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They can never get
their son back,

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but at least we know
that Mr. Latunski

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will never be out on
the streets again.

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- As someone who works with
survivors of sexual violence,

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I think it's really important
that we never victim blame.

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It was not Kevin's fault
that this happened.

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We can do everything right
and protect ourselves

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in the best ways possible,
but at the end of the day,

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it is the perpetrator who
caused that to happen.

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- Still to this day, it's hard.

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Sometimes I feel
like it's not real.

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And I just want everyone
to think of rainbows

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when they think about Kevin,

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because that's what he was.

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(melancholy music)