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And now
to an unbelievable hoax
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that police say
many people fell victim to.
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A caller pretending to be
a police officer was convincing enough
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to talk some managers
into sexually abusing fast food employees.
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If I didn't submit to this search,
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then I'd be
either arrested or lose my job or both.
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Couple police officers telling me
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there's a video of what happened here.
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I'd never seen anything like it
and I still haven't in 30 years.
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Who is this?
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The caller, of course,
has committed the perfect crime
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because he's completely anonymous.
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We have a sexual predator
on the loose
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-and the phone's still ringing every day.
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My manager came to tell me
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that he needed me
back in the office, which…
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I don't think that's ever happened.
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And he was like, "Shut the door." And…
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The office was tiny, and frighteningly so.
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I had no clue what was going on,
but I knew something was seriously wrong.
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I felt powerless.
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I grew up in South Georgia.
We moved around a lot.
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We lived in just
a lot of little, small rural areas.
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Deborah is my twin sister.
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We went off to college when we were 18
at Georgia Southern in Statesboro,
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and we were living in a little trailer,
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doing whatever we could to make ends meet.
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I mean, it was literally month-to-month.
It was always sketchy.
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But, you know,
we had each other there to lean on.
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I always wanted to be independent,
have my own money,
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and so I got a job at Taco Bell.
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I was 19-years-old when I started.
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It was three o'clock
in the morning,
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and Deborah had come home
from working at Taco Bell,
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and just started, like, telling me
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about this weird thing
that happened to her at work.
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It was a Monday night
in November.
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I was working a double shift.
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My manager told me
there was a detective on the phone.
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The cop said there was a purse
that had been stolen from the lobby,
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and that I fit the description
of the person who had taken it.
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Which, to me, was shocking
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because that's not
something I would have done.
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So I had two options that the cop gave me.
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It was either have
a law enforcement officer come
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and do the search on me there,
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or I could just let my manager
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go ahead and do it.
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I did not even know
what a strip search entailed.
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I was very vulnerable.
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Very much a rule follower.
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None of it made any sense.
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And it was, uh…
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puzzling because she's telling me
that she had to take her clothes off.
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Every piece of clothing
I would take off, I would hand to him.
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He would read the tag
to the man on the phone,
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and then put it in the safe.
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The cop on the phone, he sounded very calm
like he knew what he was doing.
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He wanted me to do exercises
so that I would sweat
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and so that, if you rubbed my skin,
you can have a green residue.
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The cop said, "If there was money
that had been hidden on your body,
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it would be visible."
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Basically rubbed all over my body
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just to make sure
there's no green residue.
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There was checking of everything.
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My mouth, ears, and then my genitals.
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I had to bend over
and spread and touch toes.
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I don't think there was anywhere
he probably didn't touch.
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It got scary to the point
where I was like, "No."
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I felt like my body was violated. I mean…
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She kept saying over and over again
that she was scared,
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and if she didn't do this
or if she didn't do that,
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then they'd arrest her.
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Who am I to question how this goes?
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That's not something
that I even have the authority to do.
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At the end, my manager, he got angry
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and just kind of said, "Fuck you,"
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and hung up,
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kind of tossed my clothes
to me and walked out.
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The call lasted for hours,
and it felt like eternity.
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Even coming out of the room,
I remember it kind of felt like
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nothing was real.
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About a day or two later,
I really did realize
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that there was actually no one
accusing me of stealing anything,
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and there was no actual cop on the phone.
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If you'd ask her, she'd say,
"I don't want to talk about it,"
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or she'd change the subject.
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I think just the whole
embarrassment of it,
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I just didn't want to be real, I guess.
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And if you say it, it becomes real.
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Quit my job after that,
dropped out of school.
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I lost my scholarship.
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I just couldn't do it. Like, I just
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quit for a few years, just took a break.
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There was an innocence
and a brightness to Deborah
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that was always there.
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And then, when this happened,
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she went into a really, really dark place
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and I still feel…
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I'm sorry.
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I still feel a lot of guilt
that I didn't do more.
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I think the caller on the phone
absolutely has no regard for humanity
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or what people
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can feel in a situation.
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Definitely a sexual predator, just sick.
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He needed to be stopped.
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When I started realizing
there was more victims out there,
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I felt like it was my duty
to get this stopped,
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and I worked tirelessly
and endlessly to make this happen.
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This had been going on
for ten years across the United States.
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What blew my mind was,
I could not believe that we had
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marched forward in this case,
trying to solve it,
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and now we're up to 73 cases in 32 states,
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-and the phone's still ringing every day.
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All the calls tracked back
to Panama City every time.
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Every time. Not one time to Texas,
not one time to California.
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And none of them ever got solved.
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I got a Burger King
in Fargo, North Dakota,
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where a manager strip searches
a 17-year-old employee.
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In 2002, at the Taco Bell,
a young woman was strip-searched
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by her manager
and being accused of stealing items.
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This case was bigger than me.
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But there's two things
I never wanted to hear.
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I never wanted to hear
the word "No," and don't tell me I can't.
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As time went on
and we kept making phone calls
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and kept asking questions and…
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we'd just get a little bit further,
and a little bit further.
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After I talked to Vic, I knew
they may have a guy that was a suspect.
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Maybe he's going to get that
next little piece of information I need.
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So, it took me four months of calls.
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Four months of tedious video.
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Finally, we have a picture.
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You could actually see
the individual from an overhead video
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purchasing the calling card.
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It showed us
the individual characteristics,
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hair color, height, build.
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He's got a braid on the side of his pants.
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Braid is police.
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He's a cop.
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Finally, it's now time to get
off the phones and boots on the ground.
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We're going to Panama City to find him.
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I fly down to Panama City.
Me and the sun are evil enemies. It's hot.
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Panama City, it's a vacation spot.
I think a perfect place in this area
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to make these phone calls
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because most of the people here
are transient.
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They're just here for a few days, a week.
No one cares. No one knows you.
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You know, we're searching for a ghost.
Who is this person in the video?
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Could be anywhere.
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I was looking
at all four Wendy's calls that night.
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All four calls happen the same night,
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probably a range
from 7:30 at night to 11:30,
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somewhere in that vicinity.
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Two of the calls
made at Wendy's in Massachusetts
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were made from this gas station.
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They're both about 90 minutes in length
and one right after the other,
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so he was at this gas station
for almost three hours.
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I can't believe that phone booth
is that close to the door.
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I definitely thought
it'd be a more private area,
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away from the business a little bit more.
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It's kind of surprising.
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I believe it's a power issue.
I mean, he's making phone calls outdoors
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with people walking by.
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He wanted power over people.
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He wanted to know that they were doing
what he was telling them to do.
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I think he's a serial sexual predator.
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I mean, he made multiple, multiple calls
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to instruct somebody
to strip search women and men.
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This individual making these calls
is very dangerous.
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He hurt a lot of people.
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I mean, in ways that we'll never know.
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We go into
the Panama City Police Department,
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meet up with their detectives,
and we start unwrapping all this stuff
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and going over the case.
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Get the laptop and going,
and showing them these pictures to see
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if they could assist in any way.
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Brought up the photo,
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and they're all like,
"No, we don't recognize him."
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If he was a cop, they'd know him.
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And they all looked at it and said,
"No, it's not a cop. It's not a cop."
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I'm like, "Then why
is he wearing police pants?"
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And they say,
"It's not police pants." I go, "What?"
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"That's a corrections uniform.
He's a corrections officer."
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But I'm like, "Wait a minute here. What?"
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I was shocked that it could be a cop.
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I didn't want it to be a cop.
And now I was kind of surprised it wasn't.
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No. Absolutely not a cop. Correction.
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But we're still looking
in the right direction.
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We shrunk the pool of suspects
down from the entire state of Florida,
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to law enforcement,
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to corrections employees.
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Now, I have a better feeling
that we're going to identify him.
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While we're trying to find out
where the call was coming from,
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I'm reviewing other cases,
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but my main goal is to try
to bring some justice for Louise,
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her being a victim in this case.
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Investigators say
a man claiming to be police
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called McDonald's
in Mount Washington in April of 2004.
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He told the supervisor that
Louise Ogborn was a suspect in a theft.
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He then ordered
the supervisor and her fiancé
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to strip search Ogborn
and perform sexual acts.
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The fiancé, Walter Nix,
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said he thought the man on the phone
was an actual police officer.
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The subject had a way of compelling him.
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Making them believe
what he was telling them
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and convincing them
that they needed to follow his directions.
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Most people say they would never believe
someone on the phone is asking them
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to conduct a strip search.
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However, this hoax caller
must be very good at what he was doing.
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This caller, he was the kind of guy
who never raised his voice.
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He was very articulate
in how he wanted things done
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and how he described
how he wanted things done,
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so that if there was any doubt
in their mind, if he gave them a reason,
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that sort of removed the doubt,
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and they would go ahead
and do what he wanted.
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The hoax caller,
he sounded like an authority figure,
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so he suggested,
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you know, maybe blacking out
the window so no one could see in
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just to protect them, protect Louise.
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He would give
a description of the employee,
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what clothes they were wearing.
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You think, "How did he know
what the employee looked like?"
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They think
they're talking to a police officer.
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In their mind, there's a police officer
on the other line,
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there's also a McDonald's
corporate person on the other line
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with the police officer.
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So they're thinking,
"This is all legitimate."
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So, they keep going, one-by-one,
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trying to see how far he can get.
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Certainly in this case,
the hoax caller is the criminal,
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is the villain, but people
are blaming Donna Summers
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and they were blaming
her fiancé, Walter Nix.
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Just because we can't find the caller,
don't think for one minute
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these two game players
are not getting charged
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and not getting dealt with.
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Walter Nix and Donna Summers
were the ones that let it happen.
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It didn't look good for Nix.
He had some serious charges.
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We had him dead to rights,
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and there was no way
that he could talk his way out of it.
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Walter Nix
doesn't have a great case,
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and he pleas to sex crimes, he has
to be on the sex offenders registry
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and he has to serve five years in prison.
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And good afternoon, I'm Lori Lyle.
A Bullitt County man is headed to prison
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for following what he thought
was to be police orders
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to sexually abuse a teenage girl.
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Mr. Nix is truly a good person
who got caught in a unique situation
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and made a very bad choice.
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The judge disagreed
on Nix's good character.
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He denied the first plea agreement
for probation only,
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but accepted a new deal
including a prison sentence.
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It is absolutely amazing to me
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that anyone would commit
these kinds of acts
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based on a telephone call.
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Nix ended up, after his plea deal,
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getting sentenced
to five years in state penitentiary.
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Donna Summers, she did a bad thing.
She did it intentionally.
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Nobody held a gun to her head
and told her…
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She did what the caller told her to do.
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She ought to have had enough sense
to know not to do that.
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She needed to be held accountable
of her actions.
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She needed to pay the fiddler here.
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Donna Summers also enters a plea,
but hers is an Alford plea,
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which means you admit guilt
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because there's enough evidence
to convict you,
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but you still maintain your innocence
under the eyes of the law.
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So she pleads guilty to
a misdemeanor and gets a year probation.
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Physically, Donna didn't go to jail,
but Donna got fired by McDonald's.
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They terminated her employment,
dropped her like a hot potato.
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Her face ended up being
on the six o'clock news
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quite a bit over this case.
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So, her work career,
she was probably ruined.
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I was following the instructions
of what I was told to do by the caller.
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It wasn't anything
that I wanted to do intentionally.
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I'm not a criminal.
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And I have such guilt,
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such unprofound guilt about what happened.
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It has actually destroyed my life.
It has absolutely destroyed it.
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You've got a hoax caller who's calling,
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asking them to do criminal things
and they oblige.
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I'll never know why you felt like
you needed to be compelled
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to do something like that
to another human being,
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just because somebody told you
to do it on the phone, as long as I live.
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A lot of people that I talked to said,
"Well, hell, I wouldn't do that!"
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"Why didn't they hang up the phone?"
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I was like everyone.
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I was astonished when I first read
about the hoax case
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and I probably had the reaction
that most people have,
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which is, "How could anybody do that?"
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But then I remembered
that's the same reaction people have
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when they look at the Milgram study.
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Let me out of here!
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You have no right to keep me here.
Let me out! Let me out of here!
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- Continue, please.
-Let me out of here!
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-Go on.
-Let me out!
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Stanley Milgram was interested
in the question of why so many people
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go along with authority figures,
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even when those authority figures
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are giving instructions
to do something terribly wrong.
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Milgram created
an artificial situation in a laboratory
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working on these obedience studies.
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There were three characters involved.
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One person was
the experimenter who ran the study,
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one person was the real participant,
and the third person was an actor
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who was pretending to be a participant.
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The teacher was instructed
to give a simple memory test.
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If the learner got the wrong answer,
then he was supposed
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to get an electric shock,
and the teacher's job was
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to deliver electric shock.
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Of course,
the shocks were not being delivered
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and it was set up so that
the person pretending to be a participant
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was always going to be the learner.
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The learner did give
a lot of wrong answers on purpose,
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so that the teacher was required to give
stronger and stronger electric shocks.
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Wrong!
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225 volts.
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The word is "noise."
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65% of Milgram's participants
continue to deliver what they thought
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was extremely painful, and perhaps
even lethal, doses of electric shock.
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These people were agonizing every time
they had to press a shock lever.
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Yet, despite those internal resistances
that they were experiencing,
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the situation was so powerful,
they found themselves, nonetheless,
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pressing the levers.
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-Who's actually pushing the switch?
-I was.
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But why didn't you just stop?
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He won't let me. I wanted to stop!
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And what's most intriguing about that
is that what that tells all of us
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is that under the right circumstances…
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…any one of us is probably capable
of doing some very disturbing
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and maybe some
very uncharacteristic things.
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In a matter of a few hours, I went
from doing something right for somebody
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to facing life in prison,
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just because I took this phone call.
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I was gullible. I was… I believed.
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I believed in authority,
and I believed it was a policeman.
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And I believed that I was helping somebody
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get out of a situation
where she was accused of.
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I went to the jail
and I met Allan.
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He's telling me the story
about an imposter
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posing as a police officer over the phone
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and getting him
to do these terrible things.
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He was charged with some serious offenses,
including rape and kidnapping.
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00:23:45,258 --> 00:23:50,138
But Allan did not fit any profile
of a rapist or a kidnapper
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that I had ever been acquainted with.
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I took the case and agreed to handle it
for the family and take it all the way.
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00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:10,200
When I got the job at Hardee's,
I was in my early fifties.
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I went in as an assistant manager.
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I was pretty much new on the job
at Hardee's, still learning the ropes.
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00:24:20,919 --> 00:24:23,379
That afternoon,
I was about to get off my shift.
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The phone rang.
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So, I grabbed the phone.
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The gentleman said…
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I'm so-and-so
from the Rapid City Police Department.
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I have a complaint that
one of your employees has stolen money
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from a customer.
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00:24:45,193 --> 00:24:50,198
I was thinking, "Wow, one of my employees
stole from a customer?"
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I didn't know what to think.
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00:24:53,701 --> 00:24:54,744
The cop said…
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Her options were
to go to the police station
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and be strip-searched, or she could
be strip-searched at Hardee's.
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00:25:03,503 --> 00:25:08,258
She agreed that she would rather
be strip-searched at Hardee's
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than to go down to the police department.
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I'm on the phone, and he starts
telling me the process, you know.
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Take off her shoes.
Is there any money in her shoes?
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00:25:21,688 --> 00:25:26,693
And then, take off her blouse
and check the sleeves.
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It was every piece of clothing
that I needed to have her take off
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00:25:32,490 --> 00:25:38,288
and check to see
if she had any money stashed anywhere.
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00:25:39,372 --> 00:25:44,419
During that time,
the young lady is on the phone
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thirteen times with the caller.
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00:25:48,464 --> 00:25:53,261
She can also hear the caller
as Allan is hearing him
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give the directions
as to what the next step is.
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One time
he wanted her to do jumping jacks
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so he could hear her doing it
and know that I was carrying out
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the things that he asked me to do.
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This hoax
went on for 2.5 to 3 hours,
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which actually enhanced
the ability of the caller
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to groom and condition, and take
the matters as far as he took them.
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00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:37,055
His voice sounded
very precise, very demanding.
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00:26:41,517 --> 00:26:45,521
I was just like,
"No, I don't want to be part of this,"
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00:26:45,605 --> 00:26:48,274
but I felt that I didn't have any choice.
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00:26:50,693 --> 00:26:53,571
I found no money.
It's like, "Okay, we should be done."
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00:26:55,698 --> 00:26:58,951
He was saying that now,
I need to search her for drugs.
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00:27:00,036 --> 00:27:04,624
And I'm thinking, "What? I thought
this was about a strip search for money."
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00:27:07,085 --> 00:27:10,254
And then,
he continued on with other demands.
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00:27:12,423 --> 00:27:16,511
The caller actually
asked him to do specific things,
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00:27:16,594 --> 00:27:21,974
which involved touching
intimate areas of her physically.
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00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:30,441
"Check her crevices for drugs"?
It's like, this is a nightmare.
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00:27:33,403 --> 00:27:38,116
I knew I needed to end
what was taking place, that I did know.
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00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:42,203
And about that time, my assistant came in.
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00:27:43,621 --> 00:27:47,166
And it's like,
"Oh, my God, what did I just do?"
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00:27:52,296 --> 00:27:54,173
I just got out of there. I went home.
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00:27:57,093 --> 00:28:00,888
Through psychological
manipulation and coercion,
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00:28:00,972 --> 00:28:05,601
Allan did something he regretted terribly.
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00:28:06,894 --> 00:28:09,272
I started questioning myself,
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00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:14,527
"Is it a cop? Was it a prank?
What really just took place?"
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00:28:15,695 --> 00:28:17,530
I was in a state of shock.
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00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:22,910
And then the next morning,
I went back down to Hardee's.
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00:28:24,245 --> 00:28:29,459
And there were two detectives there,
and they charged me with three felonies.
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00:28:30,877 --> 00:28:35,214
Two kidnapping,
and one second-degree rape.
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00:28:39,677 --> 00:28:42,680
Like, I couldn't even believe
what was happening.
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00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:49,645
In my mind,
from an early stage in my investigation,
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Allan was a victim as well.
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00:28:53,524 --> 00:29:00,156
Perhaps the most critical feature
of our case was that there was a camera
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00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:06,162
that recorded the entirety
of the 2.5, 3-hour strip search.
403
00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:08,873
It was all on video.
404
00:29:08,956 --> 00:29:11,167
The young lady asked at the outset
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00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:14,796
that Allan cover…
"Please cover the camera."
406
00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:16,756
He said, "No, no, no."
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00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:21,761
He emphatically declined
to hide the events in that room.
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00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:27,683
No criminal would want a documentation
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00:29:28,518 --> 00:29:31,145
through video of his conduct.
410
00:29:31,229 --> 00:29:32,814
It is absurd.
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00:29:37,193 --> 00:29:40,112
The trial is pretty much a blur to me.
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00:29:40,696 --> 00:29:42,782
The only thing I remember
is me being on the stand,
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00:29:42,865 --> 00:29:44,742
and then getting to tell the truth.
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00:29:45,743 --> 00:29:49,455
He was honest, and that's who Allan was.
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00:29:49,539 --> 00:29:54,669
A jury had to know Allan.
They had to see what's inside.
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00:29:56,170 --> 00:29:59,090
I was unconscious,
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00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,803
had no clue what they might say.
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00:30:03,886 --> 00:30:07,431
Just thinking, "Wow, I could spend
the rest of my life in prison."
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00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:13,020
And the judge asked the jury,
"Have you reached a verdict?"
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00:30:14,272 --> 00:30:20,236
"We the jury find the defendant,
to the charge of rape and kidnapping…
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00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:23,906
not guilty."
422
00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:27,952
It's like,
there's people that believed me!
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00:30:29,537 --> 00:30:34,292
Because I didn't know if there was
ever anybody that would believe me.
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00:30:36,127 --> 00:30:38,254
Other than my family, of course.
425
00:30:43,009 --> 00:30:48,764
The jury can despise
what your client did,
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00:30:48,848 --> 00:30:52,268
but abide by the evidence
and find him not guilty.
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00:30:52,977 --> 00:30:59,150
That was the most
illuminating example that I've ever seen
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00:30:59,233 --> 00:31:04,906
of that capacity,
for a juror to make that distinction.
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00:31:06,741 --> 00:31:08,492
Turned my life upside down.
430
00:31:10,995 --> 00:31:12,914
Personal relationships…
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00:31:15,750 --> 00:31:18,586
All they thought is like,
"How could somebody do this?"
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00:31:19,253 --> 00:31:21,297
"I don't want to be a part of him."
433
00:31:23,424 --> 00:31:26,677
And even a couple of my friends for life…
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00:31:28,679 --> 00:31:32,558
exited my friendship.
435
00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:39,941
All I would like to say
to that young lady is,
436
00:31:40,024 --> 00:31:43,444
I'm sorry, from the bottom of my heart.
437
00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:48,032
And it's… it's just something that…
438
00:31:49,617 --> 00:31:54,747
Well, it's something that's been
a dark cloud over me for all my life.
439
00:31:58,376 --> 00:32:00,795
And the caller
committed the perfect crime
440
00:32:00,878 --> 00:32:03,005
because he's completely anonymous.
441
00:32:03,089 --> 00:32:07,301
He's 1,000 miles away
or 80 miles away, who knows?
442
00:32:08,636 --> 00:32:14,517
So the police immediately looked
only at the man in front of them.
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00:32:15,476 --> 00:32:18,980
They were uninterested, disinterested
444
00:32:19,063 --> 00:32:23,234
in attempting to find out
who made the call.
445
00:32:35,579 --> 00:32:39,125
We're in Panama City,
and I'm tracking the hoax caller.
446
00:32:40,084 --> 00:32:43,337
We realize he's not a cop,
and he works in the jail.
447
00:32:45,089 --> 00:32:46,882
There's three jails in the area.
448
00:32:48,592 --> 00:32:49,635
We're going.
449
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:56,017
We're going to the closest one.
Then we're going to the second one.
450
00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,977
If we have to,
we're going to the third one.
451
00:32:59,812 --> 00:33:02,314
We hit the first correctional facility,
452
00:33:04,191 --> 00:33:08,404
get into the warden's office,
open up the laptop, thinking,
453
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:11,073
"Here we go. It's gonna be so easy."
454
00:33:16,996 --> 00:33:20,499
And they look at it and they're like,
"No, I don't know who that is."
455
00:33:22,084 --> 00:33:23,961
They didn't know who the hell he was.
456
00:33:25,296 --> 00:33:26,338
So we pack up…
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00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:30,926
get in the car,
and head to the second one.
458
00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:36,599
We're getting closer.
Somebody will know who he is.
459
00:33:42,313 --> 00:33:44,774
I spent the last 32 years
in corrections.
460
00:33:47,276 --> 00:33:49,320
June 30th, I was at work, normal duties.
461
00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:54,617
Chief at the Bay County Jail called
and said that they had some investigators
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00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,702
that had a picture
they wanted us to look at.
463
00:33:56,786 --> 00:33:57,828
"Sure, come on."
464
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:05,628
We go into the second jail,
go through security,
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00:34:06,712 --> 00:34:08,464
then to the warden's office.
466
00:34:10,508 --> 00:34:14,053
We're with the warden,
one of the security personnel.
467
00:34:14,845 --> 00:34:20,518
I bring up the picture, the warden
and the head of security come over.
468
00:34:23,938 --> 00:34:27,274
They showed us
a screenshot of a surveillance shot
469
00:34:27,358 --> 00:34:29,026
from Walmart in Callaway.
470
00:34:29,485 --> 00:34:31,612
It was an overhead shot over the register.
471
00:34:32,738 --> 00:34:35,241
And you could see that,
as soon as we looked at it,
472
00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:37,076
"Holy shit, there's David Stewart."
473
00:34:39,662 --> 00:34:40,704
And I go, "What?"
474
00:34:42,206 --> 00:34:43,207
"David Stewart."
475
00:34:44,708 --> 00:34:46,085
What the fuck?
476
00:34:46,669 --> 00:34:49,255
We identified him.
I didn't know what to say.
477
00:34:52,842 --> 00:34:55,719
The cops in the room,
when we identified him, faces lit up
478
00:34:55,803 --> 00:34:58,514
because now they have the missing piece.
479
00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:01,725
That's David Stewart,
so now they know who they're looking for.
480
00:35:02,309 --> 00:35:06,605
I asked the warden, "David Stewart,
does he work this facility?"
481
00:35:07,148 --> 00:35:09,900
And the warden goes,
"Not only does he work facilities…"
482
00:35:09,984 --> 00:35:11,652
But, I mean, he's here right now.
483
00:35:12,653 --> 00:35:16,740
You got to be kidding me.
So, not only did he identify him,
484
00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:19,243
he's in the facility as we speak.
485
00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:22,163
I really thought
interviewing might get him.
486
00:35:23,539 --> 00:35:25,332
I wanted the confession.
487
00:35:25,916 --> 00:35:29,545
When we went to the warden, we said,
"We're ready for him. Bring him up."
488
00:35:31,172 --> 00:35:35,759
David was a correctional officer.
He was on a second shift, 3:00 to 11:00.
489
00:35:35,843 --> 00:35:39,096
Their main duty is the care, custody,
and control of the inmates,
490
00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:42,308
is to make sure they're safe,
make sure everybody else is safe.
491
00:35:45,269 --> 00:35:48,564
The warden comes in,
individual behind them.
492
00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:55,738
It was the absolute identical
picture and video. You couldn't miss it.
493
00:35:56,947 --> 00:36:01,493
White male, about 6 feet tall,
slicked back black hair.
494
00:36:03,412 --> 00:36:08,709
I introduced myself and then I asked him
why would he think that we're down here
495
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:10,669
speaking with him today.
496
00:36:11,337 --> 00:36:12,838
And he said, "I have no idea."
497
00:36:14,590 --> 00:36:18,385
I mean, he's only in there 30 seconds
and he's already very uncomfortable.
498
00:36:19,303 --> 00:36:24,058
And I'm like, "Game time,"
because I knew we have him.
499
00:36:24,934 --> 00:36:29,855
I said, "We know you made
the hoax phone calls to Massachusetts
500
00:36:29,939 --> 00:36:32,733
and other communities
throughout the United States."
501
00:36:33,817 --> 00:36:37,488
And at that point,
he started to sweat, shake.
502
00:36:37,571 --> 00:36:38,989
You think, "Okay, good."
503
00:36:40,282 --> 00:36:42,618
Then he said, "Was anybody hurt?"
504
00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:45,454
And after that, he goes,
"Thank God, it's over."
505
00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:51,043
At that moment, when he made
those statements, I thought I had the guy.
506
00:36:51,585 --> 00:36:54,421
Without question.
I said, "We have you on video
507
00:36:54,505 --> 00:36:55,839
purchasing calling cards."
508
00:36:57,091 --> 00:37:00,344
He said, "Well, I didn't make the calls,
I didn't make the calls."
509
00:37:00,427 --> 00:37:02,888
He denied buying any cards.
510
00:37:03,764 --> 00:37:06,642
He won't admit it,
and he pleads the Fifth.
511
00:37:06,725 --> 00:37:10,145
So we stopped the interview,
didn't say another word.
512
00:37:13,232 --> 00:37:15,693
When I heard the extent
of how big this was,
513
00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:19,571
I couldn't believe how long
had it gone on without him getting caught.
514
00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:21,949
You know, we're still
in surprise and shock at this.
515
00:37:22,741 --> 00:37:25,202
It's too late to do
surveillance on David Stewart.
516
00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:28,414
We knew at this point, we wouldn't
be able to catch him in the act.
517
00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:31,917
I needed a confession,
and he didn't give it to me.
518
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:35,254
This investigation is hanging by a thread.
519
00:37:36,338 --> 00:37:38,090
I needed more evidence.
520
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,847
So, now we go back
to Panama City detective's office
521
00:37:44,930 --> 00:37:49,226
and we say, "Okay, what's the next step?
What are we going to do?"
522
00:37:49,310 --> 00:37:52,354
I decide we need to do
a search warrant on his house.
523
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,066
David Stewart lived in Fountain,
524
00:37:56,150 --> 00:37:59,028
twenty-five miles north
of the heart of Panama City.
525
00:37:59,945 --> 00:38:04,199
Fountain is a lot of dirt roads,
people living in mobile homes.
526
00:38:04,742 --> 00:38:07,119
Just want to be left alone,
mind their own business,
527
00:38:07,202 --> 00:38:09,496
and don't want anybody coming down there.
528
00:38:12,833 --> 00:38:15,419
He lives deep
into the woody area,
529
00:38:15,502 --> 00:38:19,465
and he has a trailer
and there's a small shed on the property.
530
00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:24,636
David still had no idea
they're going to search the house until…
531
00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:27,222
he opened the door.
532
00:38:28,974 --> 00:38:31,727
Panama City detectives
do a full search of the property…
533
00:38:35,189 --> 00:38:38,025
…and found numerous police magazines.
534
00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:44,031
He put in applications
for numerous police jobs
535
00:38:44,114 --> 00:38:45,282
throughout the area.
536
00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:52,039
We also found diaries.
He was obviously, at one point,
537
00:38:52,122 --> 00:38:56,877
a part-time police officer
at some county or local department,
538
00:38:57,378 --> 00:38:58,629
and he'd put stuff like,
539
00:38:58,712 --> 00:39:05,511
"Monday April 21st, rode with Brock.
Chased someone doing 125 miles an hour."
540
00:39:06,512 --> 00:39:10,516
"Wednesday, April, 30th,
chased sergeant, 140 miles an hour."
541
00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:15,771
He was obsessed
with being a police officer.
542
00:39:17,231 --> 00:39:18,941
You could tell that excited him.
543
00:39:22,486 --> 00:39:27,408
You know, it just doesn't help my case.
I need to get the smoking gun.
544
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:34,456
They searched all the grounds.
Outside, sheds…
545
00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:38,627
and then, boom.
546
00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:41,672
Found a calling card.
547
00:39:41,755 --> 00:39:44,216
The key piece of evidence
was a prepaid calling card.
548
00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:48,846
My hope is,
can we tie him to Mount Washington?
549
00:39:48,929 --> 00:39:52,474
Can we tie him to Massachusetts?
Is this the card?
550
00:39:52,558 --> 00:39:55,227
You know, that would be, like,
the icing on the cake.
551
00:39:56,103 --> 00:40:01,275
My job at this point
is to convince the DA of charges.
552
00:40:02,985 --> 00:40:06,405
Well, I want him to get charged
with some type of sexual assault
553
00:40:06,488 --> 00:40:08,991
because I think it fit
the elements of the crime.
554
00:40:09,074 --> 00:40:13,203
He directed somebody
to sexual assault these victims.
555
00:40:14,913 --> 00:40:17,499
The DA just thought it was a hoax call.
556
00:40:18,125 --> 00:40:21,503
Although sick, incredibly demeaning,
557
00:40:23,797 --> 00:40:27,843
the DA thought it would be too hard
to convict David Stewart of a sex crime,
558
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:31,847
since it was just a hoax call
and he physically wasn't there.
559
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:32,931
He was on the phone.
560
00:40:36,310 --> 00:40:39,521
Ten years, this individual's
making these calls.
561
00:40:39,605 --> 00:40:43,025
I find him,
and nobody wants to charge him.
562
00:40:43,108 --> 00:40:45,152
It's fucking unbelievable.
563
00:40:46,028 --> 00:40:48,822
Then, I call Buddy Stump,
Mount Washington.
564
00:40:53,118 --> 00:40:57,915
I received a phone call from Vic,
and I said, "What's going on down there?"
565
00:40:57,998 --> 00:41:00,792
I'm 650 miles away. "Is he in jail?"
566
00:41:01,627 --> 00:41:05,464
Vic says, "Well, I don't think
I've got enough to charge this guy yet."
567
00:41:06,548 --> 00:41:10,302
And I went, "What the hell,
you can't charge him? He's at home."
568
00:41:11,261 --> 00:41:14,431
"He knows that
he's being looked at by the police,
569
00:41:14,515 --> 00:41:17,768
and you're telling me
this guy could skip out,
570
00:41:17,851 --> 00:41:19,102
and we could lose him?"
571
00:41:19,186 --> 00:41:23,899
I thought, "I have worked my ass off
on this case for over three months,
572
00:41:23,982 --> 00:41:26,527
and we get him ID'd
and he's gonna walk away?"
573
00:41:28,946 --> 00:41:32,282
So I said,
"We got to put an end to this shit,"
574
00:41:32,366 --> 00:41:36,578
and I went as hard as I could go
to get a warrant.
575
00:41:36,662 --> 00:41:39,831
And we met with the county attorney,
the commonwealth attorney,
576
00:41:40,415 --> 00:41:41,291
and a district judge,
577
00:41:41,375 --> 00:41:44,419
and the judge issued
a warrant to arrest David Stewart.
578
00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:49,466
I called my wife on the phone.
I said, "Honey, have my bags packed."
579
00:41:49,550 --> 00:41:51,260
"I'm heading for Panama City, Florida."
580
00:41:55,222 --> 00:41:58,767
His ass is mine. I'm gonna bring him home.
581
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,356
We're gonna have
a little justice around here
582
00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:06,316
for all the hell he's put us through.
583
00:42:10,487 --> 00:42:13,574
I mean, what the hell can go wrong?
584
00:42:18,996 --> 00:42:22,082
Well, the police think
every case is a slam dunk.
585
00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:30,424
The police's version of what happened
is almost never what actually happened.
586
00:42:32,718 --> 00:42:35,137
Do I think my client,
David Stewart, is innocent?
587
00:42:36,305 --> 00:42:38,640
I know for a fact he's not guilty.