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[woman 1]
Chris was tall, slight.
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I always think of the movie
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
[chuckles]
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You know, I'm imagining him
on a skateboard,
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just kind of
cruising through town.
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[man 1]
The victim in this case
was reported missing
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14 years prior.
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[man 2] Anyone who's smelled
a dead human body
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will never forget it.
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[flies buzzing]
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[woman 2]
I don't know how people
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could live with that smell
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and not
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want to investigate further.
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[man 1] Every morning
or every night,
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you're having dinner
or breakfast,
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and little do you know
that there's a body about
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36 inches away
directly underneath you.
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[man 3]
How could they not know?
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There is something
going on here.
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[man 1] Salinas is located
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about 115 miles
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south of San Francisco.
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It's along the Pacific Coast.
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[man 2] The Salinas area
is known as the salad bowl
of the world.
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The fields
surrounding the Salinas River
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are incredibly fertile,
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and they've been producing
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massive quantities
of vegetables for
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quite a while now.
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When details
of the story start emerging,
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we go back to January, 1998.
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And at the time,
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a new couple had
moved into a house.
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The Carbajals.
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And if you're a new homeowner,
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you're gonna find
a lot of things that
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you want to fix in the house.
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And you're gonna want to do
as many improvements yourself
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as you possibly can.
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One of the places
you might want to start
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is improving your ductwork,
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making sure that there's
adequate and clean air.
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So Mr. Carbajal decides to
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suit up, get under the house,
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and take a look at
what they're working with.
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As he's under there
sort of assessing
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what it's gonna look like,
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he sees a pair of
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1980s-style tennis shoes
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sticking out
from under the dirt.
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And he just takes note of it.
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Well, fast forward
a couple weeks later,
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and he's got family over.
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He's got his sister-in-law.
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And they're just hanging out,
having a good time.
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And somehow it comes up
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that, uh, Mr. Carbajal
was under the house.
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And then it becomes a dare.
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It becomes a,
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"I dare you to go under there
and check it out."
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And, uh,
the sister-in-law suits up,
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zips up her coveralls,
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and goes under the house.
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She got closer and closer,
looking for that shoe.
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And when she finds it,
she tugs at it.
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But when she tugs at it,
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she finds that
it's attached to a body.
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[Andy] It was
the end of the workday.
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I got a phone call
from our dispatchers.
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And they gave me
the information that
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a family had located
what they believed were
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human remains
under their house.
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[man 3] When I first received
the call from patrol
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that they believed
they had discovered a body
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under a house,
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I can recall
driving there thinking,
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"No, there's no way.
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This is gonna be
a mannequin or something,
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and it'll just
turn out to be nothing."
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[Andy]
The entrance was in a pantry
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off of the kitchen.
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And the area that we're
going to look at was, uh,
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maybe 20 feet or so from
that crawlspace opening.
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And it would have been
directly underneath
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where the kitchen table
would have been.
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It's open.
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So it was spider webs,
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and, uh, you know,
it was obviously dirty.
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And as soon as you saw this,
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you could tell
that it wasn't a hoax.
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It wasn't a Halloween trick.
It wasn't anything like that.
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It was exactly what
it appeared to be.
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The shoes were
in almost perfect shape.
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They were Vans Off The Wall.
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And I remember thinking
as soon as I saw them,
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"Wow, that's weird
because that's exactly
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the kind of shoes
I used to have."
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Socks were bunched around
the tops of the shoes.
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And you had bones
that were coming
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from the shoes
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leading to
the rest of the area,
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which was still
covered in dirt at this time.
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[Bob] I didn't think
it was true. I really didn't.
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Because we had just never
seen anything like that.
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But, obviously
when we got there,
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there was no doubt
that was a body.
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[Andy] The family that had
reported the remains was
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the Carbajal family
that were living in
the residence at that time.
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[Mike] You always
have a suspicion
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because they live there.
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It's under their house,
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under their kitchen floor.
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They had to have
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some knowledge of the home
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because the access
to the ground
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underneath the floor
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was not readily apparent.
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Who could have
buried that person there?
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It couldn't have been
a stranger.
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How could a stranger
do all that?
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They were still
living in the home.
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[Cristina] I think at first,
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it's natural to suspect
what's in front of you.
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So the Carbajals
were suspects.
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[Bob]
The first thing I want to do
is identify who it is.
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Then you can begin to
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paint a picture
as to what happened
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to the individual and how
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that person ended up
under the house.
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So we placed a call
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to a forensic anthropologist
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out of UC Santa Cruz.
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She's only one of five
in the state
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that are specialists at this.
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My name is Alison Galloway.
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I am Professor Emerita
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from the University
of California at Santa Cruz.
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As an undergraduate,
I started in archaeology.
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But I was really interested
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in the human skeleton
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in archaeological settings.
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And then from that,
worked into forensics.
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I got a call, I think
in the late afternoon,
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and, uh, it said to
come down to Salinas.
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And they gave me an address.
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And they said,
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"We have a body
in the crawlspace of a house."
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When I first
walked through the door,
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it looked like
a normal suburban house.
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I mean, we walked
into the living room and,
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uh, nothing looked amiss
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until they took us
into the dining room,
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and there was
a large hole in the floor.
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[Cristina] I remember
those photos distinctly
'cause it was...
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You're seeing a kitchen,
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and then you're looking
down into the ground,
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literally under
the kitchen table.
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[Alison] We were
looking down into the dirt.
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We could see a little bit of
the leg bones showing through.
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So we got down in there,
and then we have to find
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where, actually, the grave is.
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Uh, obviously,
we can see the feet,
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but we don't know if,
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you know, how the body
is positioned.
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Probing is just taking
a very thin metal, uh, rod,
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and you poke it
into the ground.
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Where the ground has
not been disturbed,
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it only goes in a very
small amount of distance.
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And then as you get into
the grave site,
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it sinks in further.
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And so you know
you've hit that edge.
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We took the skull out,
um, as a block,
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because the skull itself
was fractured.
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And so we wanted to make sure
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that we got
all of the little tiny pieces
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so that we could
put it back together again.
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And the cranium had
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two very large
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defects on this side
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and two defects on this side.
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Based on
the skeletal evidence,
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the defects were
consistent with
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at least
three gunshot injuries.
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Two of those injuries
would have been in the head,
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and one of them
would have been in the back.
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[Andy]
It's kind of an eerie scene.
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There was floodlights set up.
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And Dr. Galloway and her team
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started doing
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almost like an archaeological
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process of the scene.
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In other words,
they would take
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small amounts of soil out
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as they're
uncovering the grave.
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They would be taken
to a screen,
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and they would screen
all of the soil that
came out of the grave.
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During the process
of this screening
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is when they found
the projectiles
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that were in the grave.
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Projectiles are
the lead portion of a bullet
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that is fired from the gun.
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[Bob] We determined
that it was fired
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from a.357 Magnum.
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There's no question
that we have a murder here.
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We're gonna have to do
basic background work.
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So I don't know anything
at this point.
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But I can say that
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this burial has been here
for a long time.
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These people have been here
for a couple of years.
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Probably not gonna
be a problem.
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And if they had been involved,
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not likely they would
have called us.
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We started doing
a basic background
on the home,
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running the address to see,
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"Have police been out here
at any time in the past?
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What kind of calls
have we responded to?"
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[Cristina] The Carbajals share
with the police that
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at about the same time that
Mr. Carbajal had gone
under the house,
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they had received a letter
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from the Salinas
Police Department
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inquiring about
a missing person.
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A person who had been reported
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missing from that house
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in 1984.
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[Andy] The letter would say
something along the lines of,
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"We're conducting a follow-up
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for an old
missing person case.
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Your residence was listed
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as the last place
the person was seen.
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Do you have any new
information about this case?"
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[Cristina] Police are shocked.
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Could this body,
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found under the kitchen table,
in the basement...
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be the same person
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who was missing
from that house in 1984?
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[flies buzzing]
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[Andy] We had a cold case.
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A missing person report
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that had been filed
July 13th, 1984.
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[Bob] And we get those
kind of cases all the time.
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Uh, runaways, for example.
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And, uh,
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by law, we're required
to close them out.
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And so it typically
is a phone call back
to the residence.
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The person will say,
"Oh, yeah,
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he or she returned home."
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And we close the case out.
Very simple.
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99.9% of them are cleared out.
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So as a result,
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we sent a letter
to that residence,
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basically saying,
"Hey, you reported
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this young man missing.
Did he return home?
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Please let us know
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so we could
close the case out."
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[Mike]
The missing person case was
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for a young man named
Christopher Denoyer,
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who was about 16 years old.
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Christopher became
a missing person
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in 1984.
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[man] I met Chris
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riding my bicycle to school.
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And he was also riding his.
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Chris moved
to our neighborhood
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because his parents
had been divorced
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and his mother had remarried.
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Chris was
the type of person who,
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he could walk in a room,
not know anybody,
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and five minutes later, like,
everybody's wondering,
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you know, how long
have they been friends?
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I don't even know
this guy and stuff.
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Like, he was
that type of person.
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[Cristina]
I always think of the movie
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
[chuckles]
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You know, kind of like
a surfer type,
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on a skateboard, just kind of
cruising through town.
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Chris loved animals.
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He had two dogs
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that were so loyal to him
and that he loved.
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Chris did play football.
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He wore it on Fridays,
you know,
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as they would wear
their uniforms,
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uh, to school and stuff.
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And, you know, he wore his.
He was into the team.
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And he was
valuable to the team.
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[Andy] What we could tell
from the records
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that we were able to find
about the composition
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of the home
at the time of the murder
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was that you had
Christopher Denoyer there.
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You have
his stepfather, Jackson.
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You have his mother, Dale,
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and his sister, Cherie,
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who was several years younger
than Christopher at the time.
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Jackson and Dale Vallarta
had just gotten married.
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They'd just moved to the area.
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They both had
previous relationships.
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Dale had two children,
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a daughter and a son.
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And Jackson had
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a child from
another relationship.
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Chris's dad lived in L.A.
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They had
a really good relationship.
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But Chris moved to Salinas
with his mom, Dale.
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Divorce is never easy,
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especially if you are a kid.
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Having to leave his dad
and everything he knew
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must have been
really difficult for him.
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I believe Chris did
miss Southern California,
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and he did want to go back.
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Chris, um,
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talked frequently
about wanting to go back,
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about how, you know,
this place sucked. And,
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you know, I have
to agree with him.
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Like, every other day,
there would be this
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new smell of manure
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washing over
the neighborhood. And...
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Because it is
a farming community.
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it must have seemed
primitive and, um,
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spartan to him.
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[Cristina]
The day Chris disappeared,
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he had plans
to hang out with Carlotta,
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his girlfriend, at the time.
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[Robert] I had known Carlotta
for a long time.
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They would talk
on the phone every day.
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That was the thing.
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Talking on the phone was
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the way
we spent time together.
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And, uh,
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Chris would call her as often
as I would call my girlfriend.
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So, they had
something between them
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that was pretty important
to both of them.
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[Cristina] Dale, Chris's mom,
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was headed
out of town with Cherie,
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Chris's sister,
to go shopping.
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Dale gets home from shopping,
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unloads the car,
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and she's just wondering,
"Where's Chris?"
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Uh, time's going by
and she just hasn't seen him,
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so she figured he's
probably out with his friends.
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She asks Jackson,
his stepfather,
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"Jackson, have you seen Chris?
Do you know where he's at?
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Did he tell you
where he went?"
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Jackson said he had
no idea where he was.
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But the next thing
happens is that...
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There's a knock at the door,
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and Carlotta's at the door.
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And Carlotta's mad.
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[Andy] They were supposed to
get together for some event,
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something they wanted
to do together,
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and he basically just
never showed up.
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[Cristina] Once Dale realizes
that Chris is
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not with Carlotta,
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she starts panicking,
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because it's not like him
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to just not let anybody know
where he was.
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So she decides
to go across the street
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to Robert, who's one
of Chris's closest friends,
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and asks Robert,
"Hey, have you seen Chris?"
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[Robert] I believe my answer
to her question,
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"Have you seen Chris?"
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was "The last time I saw him,
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he was carrying a dog, dead."
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Chris's biological father
sent him two dogs
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for a birthday gift.
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And they were beautiful dogs.
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They were hound dogs.
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[Cristina] The last time
Robert had seen Chris
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was the day before,
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when Chris showed up
at his house
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with a dog in his arm.
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He thinks that the dog had
gotten into some rat poison.
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Robert tells Dale that
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Chris was having a hard time.
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And Robert was
really concerned that
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Chris decided to run away.
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[Robert]
Chris did want to run away
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for a very long time.
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Most of the time when
Chris would talk about
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running away,
it was Southern California.
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[Cristina] Dale calls
her ex-husband in L.A.
to find out
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if Chris had checked in.
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Maybe Chris is there.
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But he hadn't heard
from Chris either.
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[Mike] She looked around
and made phone calls,
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did everything that
a normal parent would do
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to try to find her son,
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but after it became apparent,
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he's gone,
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and so she ended up
calling the police department
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and making
a missing person report
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regarding her son.
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[Bob] What happens is
once we get the information,
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that information is entered
into the national database,
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uh, that this young man's
a missing person.
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So let's say
I'm a police officer
in Northern California,
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and I stop a car and he
happens to be driving it,
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if I run his name
in the system,
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it will show
that he's missing.
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[Robert] As far as people that
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theorized where he might be,
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there was two schools
of thought. There was,
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"We all knew he was
gonna run away and he did."
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And then there was
the Carlotta, like,
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"He wouldn't have
left me like that."
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I never once considered
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that him running away
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was not what happened.
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So, yeah,
I never... I never...
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thought that he was anywhere
but in Southern California.
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And he's living his best life.
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[Cristina] A week goes by
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and Dale is beside herself.
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"Where's Chris?"
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He hasn't shown up,
he hasn't reached out
to his friends.
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[Andy] She filed that
missing person report
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and she also
followed up on that report
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several times
with the department.
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[Cristina] Dale was convinced
Chris was out there.
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He wouldn't just
leave her like that.
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She went to
the ends of the earth
looking for her son.
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She'd put up
missing persons fliers,
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she'd share his photo
wherever she could.
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[Bob] My understanding is that
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one time there was
a supposed sighting of Chris,
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like, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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And she went and looked.
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She did everything
humanly possible
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to try and find him
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with what was
available at the time
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in 1984.
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[Cristina] And then
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a telegram arrives,
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allegedly from Chris.
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And it reads,
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"Don't worry about me, Mom.
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I'm headed
to Southern California."
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And "Look for me in the NFL."
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[Andy] To Dale,
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what that helped her do,
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and probably other people
as well in the family, was say
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that he did send us this.
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He is just a runaway.
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[Cristina] This telegram
supposedly from Chris
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is kind of a dead end
for the cops.
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They're like, "He ran away.
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So, sorry.
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Thank you. Goodbye."
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[Robert] Back then,
it wasn't uncommon for things
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to stink in our neighborhood
for a minute or two.
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But there was a smell
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permeating our neighborhood
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after,
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and coinciding with
the disappearance of Chris.
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[flies buzzing]
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[Robert]
Though the neighborhood
did often smell of fertilizer,
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it almost never smelled
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of decaying bodies. Um...
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It never smelled
like that until then.
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And it smelled like that
for a long time.
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The smell in the neighborhood
was so bad
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that Jackson,
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Dale, and Cherie
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sold the house that
they had all been living in.
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Um, it was that bad.
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Nobody came to see me
since he'd been missing.
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And they
largely forgot about it
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until such a time
as they had the body.
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[Andy] One of the process
that has to take place
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is the identification
of the remains.
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That's the corner's job.
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They rely on
a lot of different techniques.
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[Bob] Once the corner
examined the body,
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it was positively ID'd
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as Christopher Denoyer
through dental records.
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[Andy] So once we have that
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positive identification
of our victim,
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the real question
is now to be answered,
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and that is who killed him.
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[Robert] I was in
extreme Northern California
when I
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got the news,
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like, they had found Chris.
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The wind was
taken out of my sails,
you know. Um...
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He was our
local neighborhood James Dean,
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you know, he was
the cool one. He was...
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And he was... Damn it,
he made it, you know.
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And when we found out
that he didn't...
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It was... It was...
It was harsh.
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It was really harsh.
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[Andy]
Everyone could be a suspect.
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Any one of his friends,
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anyone that lived
in the house. We don't know.
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So my partner
at the time said,
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"On the missing person report,
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it says here
he had a girlfriend.
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Let's go find her."
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[Cristina]
Police are naturally
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suspicious of Carlotta
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because she was
one of the last people
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who was supposed to see Chris.
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[Andy]
She told us that she had
tried to call the house,
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she tried to go by the house.
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And as far as she was told,
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Christopher had just
packed up his stuff and left.
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[Robert]
When Chris didn't show up
to their date one time,
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Carlotta said she knew
something was wrong.
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She was the one voice
that was like,
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"Wait, something's not right."
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But it wasn't loud enough
to rattle anybody's cages.
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[Andy] The news
that we delivered to her
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about Christopher
being murdered
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and buried under the house
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was, you know,
she was blown away.
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She'd obviously
moved on in her life.
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But here we are,
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uh, presenting an alternate
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piece of reality
that kind of changed
everything for her, I think.
516
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000
We were
suspicious of everybody.
517
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,166
But as soon
as we spoke to her,
518
00:23:07,166 --> 00:23:09,667
you know, it was clear
what her role in this was.
519
00:23:10,967 --> 00:23:12,400
[Cristina]
Carlotta's distraught.
520
00:23:12,867 --> 00:23:14,467
Carlotta's sad.
521
00:23:14,467 --> 00:23:15,967
He's her first true love.
522
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,767
But she also shares
with the police that
523
00:23:19,767 --> 00:23:22,200
Chris had
a really hard time at home.
524
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,200
Carlotta was
the only ray of sunshine
525
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,900
at that time in his life.
526
00:23:30,266 --> 00:23:32,200
After police
speak with Carlotta,
527
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,166
they start really thinking
that maybe
528
00:23:34,166 --> 00:23:36,100
something happened
in that house.
529
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,467
[Andy] So the next thing is
we got to decide
530
00:23:39,467 --> 00:23:40,767
who can we talk to next
531
00:23:40,767 --> 00:23:42,000
that will bring us even closer
532
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,667
into what's happening
in the house.
533
00:23:44,667 --> 00:23:47,667
We decide that's gonna be
Chris's sister, Cherie.
534
00:23:48,567 --> 00:23:51,100
We located her in Xenia, Ohio.
535
00:23:52,467 --> 00:23:54,467
Cherie is, uh, shocked to
536
00:23:54,467 --> 00:23:56,667
have a visit in Ohio from,
537
00:23:56,667 --> 00:23:59,500
uh, detectives from Salinas,
where she used to live.
538
00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:01,567
But she was very,
you know, gracious.
539
00:24:01,567 --> 00:24:03,200
She invited us in, and we
540
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,166
told her that Christopher's
body had been discovered,
541
00:24:05,166 --> 00:24:06,300
buried under the house.
542
00:24:13,667 --> 00:24:15,000
[Cristina]
So police asked Cherie
543
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,667
if there was anything
that she remembers
544
00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:18,300
that was unusual
about the time
545
00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:20,166
when Chris went missing.
546
00:24:20,166 --> 00:24:23,100
And she did happen to remember
that there was a smell.
547
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,200
Cherie tells police
that she remembers
calling her dad, Mike,
548
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,266
in Southern California
around this time,
549
00:24:30,266 --> 00:24:32,266
because she was
so concerned about the smell.
550
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,667
[Robert] Cherie had asked
her biological father,
551
00:24:36,667 --> 00:24:38,000
"What do you think
is the smell in the house?
552
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,166
Like, 'cause it smells."
553
00:24:41,066 --> 00:24:43,066
And her stepfather, Jackson,
554
00:24:43,066 --> 00:24:44,900
told the biological father,
555
00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:46,500
"Well, you know,
Chris's snake got out
556
00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:49,000
and it must've
died in the walls.
And that's what smells."
557
00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:53,266
[Cristina]
But the smell is so pervasive.
558
00:24:53,266 --> 00:24:56,467
It's all over the house.
It's in their clothes.
559
00:24:56,467 --> 00:24:59,166
It's just bad.
It's smelling up
the neighborhood.
560
00:24:59,166 --> 00:25:00,867
It's got to be more
than a pet snake.
561
00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:10,467
[Alison] Flies are attracted
to dead bodies.
562
00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:13,266
And they're attracted
relatively quickly.
563
00:25:13,266 --> 00:25:16,400
It's the gases
that are coming out
from the respiratory system,
564
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,800
and things like that
attract the flies.
565
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,100
And so they
lay their eggs there.
566
00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:21,767
They're gonna lay their eggs
567
00:25:21,767 --> 00:25:24,467
at a place where
the maggots can get into
568
00:25:24,467 --> 00:25:26,700
the soft tissues of the body.
569
00:25:27,667 --> 00:25:31,066
It's a pretty
odiferous process.
570
00:25:31,066 --> 00:25:33,166
There's a lot of smell
that goes with that.
571
00:25:34,767 --> 00:25:36,767
I don't know how people...
572
00:25:36,767 --> 00:25:37,967
[flies buzzing]
573
00:25:37,967 --> 00:25:39,500
[Alison] ...could live
with that smell...
574
00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:40,667
[flies buzzing]
575
00:25:40,667 --> 00:25:43,367
...knowing that somebody
from the family was missing
576
00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:45,000
and not
577
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,567
want to investigate further.
578
00:25:48,266 --> 00:25:50,266
[flies buzzing]
579
00:25:50,266 --> 00:25:51,567
[Andy] So at this point,
580
00:25:51,567 --> 00:25:55,066
what our viewpoint is,
is that the people most likely
581
00:25:55,066 --> 00:25:56,500
to have committed this crime
582
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,266
were the people
in control of the house.
583
00:25:58,266 --> 00:26:00,066
So that meant
his mother, Dale,
584
00:26:00,066 --> 00:26:01,867
and his stepfather, Jackson.
585
00:26:01,867 --> 00:26:03,600
[flies buzzing]
586
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,266
[Andy] So it's time
to interview Dale.
587
00:26:13,166 --> 00:26:14,667
She's the victim's mother,
588
00:26:14,667 --> 00:26:16,367
but we have no idea
589
00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:18,066
what, if any, role she played
590
00:26:18,066 --> 00:26:19,066
in the homicide.
591
00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:22,367
[Mike] My position was,
592
00:26:22,367 --> 00:26:24,667
she has to know
something about this.
593
00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:25,567
She has to know.
594
00:26:26,567 --> 00:26:28,867
Because her son's missing,
595
00:26:28,867 --> 00:26:30,800
and then there's
a smell in the house,
596
00:26:32,066 --> 00:26:34,200
she had to know
something's up.
597
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,467
[Andy] As an investigator,
we're always racing
against the clock
598
00:26:38,467 --> 00:26:40,367
to get to people
before they know
599
00:26:40,367 --> 00:26:42,100
what the actual situation is,
600
00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:44,266
especially in
a cold case homicide.
601
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:48,367
Once people are aware
of our investigation,
602
00:26:48,367 --> 00:26:50,567
they have a chance
to change their stories.
603
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:53,567
So we wanted
to be sure we had Dale
604
00:26:53,567 --> 00:26:55,367
in a position where
we could talk to her.
605
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,800
While we're talking with her,
606
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,467
we have another team going out
607
00:26:59,467 --> 00:27:00,500
and grabbing Jackson.
608
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:02,767
Now they're grabbing him
under the pretext of,
609
00:27:02,767 --> 00:27:04,567
we want to talk to you
on a follow-up
610
00:27:04,567 --> 00:27:05,700
for this missing person case.
611
00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:07,200
So he was very cooperative.
612
00:27:08,467 --> 00:27:09,867
We tell Dale
we're doing a follow-up
613
00:27:09,867 --> 00:27:11,033
on the missing person's case,
614
00:27:11,033 --> 00:27:14,400
which we are.
She's the reporting party
in that case.
615
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,467
[Cristina] Once they get Dale
down at the police station,
616
00:27:17,467 --> 00:27:19,066
they put her
in the witness room
617
00:27:19,066 --> 00:27:20,600
and they break
the news to her.
618
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,000
I mean, she was,
you know, devastated.
619
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,100
She was asking us,
"How do we know it's Chris?
620
00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:29,867
How do we
establish the identity?"
621
00:27:29,867 --> 00:27:30,867
And all these things.
622
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,467
It's delicate
623
00:27:33,467 --> 00:27:36,600
because it's possible
we're sitting here
talking to the suspect
624
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:37,967
and we just don't know it yet.
625
00:27:37,967 --> 00:27:39,700
So we have
to be careful not to
626
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:41,367
jeopardize any of our leads
627
00:27:41,367 --> 00:27:43,100
that we're developing
or any new information
628
00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:44,266
that may come our way.
629
00:27:45,767 --> 00:27:48,467
[Cristina] When police
remind her about the smell
630
00:27:48,467 --> 00:27:50,667
around the time
Chris went missing,
631
00:27:50,667 --> 00:27:52,467
she had no idea what it was.
632
00:27:53,667 --> 00:27:54,867
[Mike] How could she not know?
633
00:27:56,367 --> 00:27:58,166
There's something
going on here.
634
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:00,667
And my feeling was,
635
00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:03,800
she's extremely naive.
636
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,967
Or she knew about this murder,
participated in it.
637
00:28:06,967 --> 00:28:09,400
She had to
maybe know something.
638
00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:11,867
[Andy] I think
it would be clear to her
639
00:28:11,867 --> 00:28:13,367
at that stage of the interview
640
00:28:13,367 --> 00:28:14,600
that we're trying to find
641
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,467
somebody who committed
a murder here,
642
00:28:16,467 --> 00:28:17,767
and we're not positive
643
00:28:17,767 --> 00:28:18,867
that you are not involved.
644
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,166
[Mike] The whole situation
645
00:28:27,166 --> 00:28:29,567
involving this case was
646
00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:31,367
pretty unique.
647
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,400
From
648
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,066
a missing persons report
649
00:28:36,066 --> 00:28:38,100
to the discovery of a body
650
00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:39,667
to the excavation.
651
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,900
At the time the body was
discovered under the house
652
00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,000
in the basement in Salinas,
653
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,300
Chris had been gone 14 years.
654
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,166
[Bob] There was
a multitude of reasons
655
00:28:51,166 --> 00:28:53,467
we should have
never have found that body.
656
00:28:53,467 --> 00:28:56,100
But fate and circumstances...
657
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:58,100
led us to it.
658
00:28:58,867 --> 00:29:00,600
[Mike] We had Dale Villarta,
659
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,667
his mother,
660
00:29:01,667 --> 00:29:05,700
run down the situation
with Christopher.
661
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,567
What kind of
a young man he was.
662
00:29:08,467 --> 00:29:09,867
His behavior.
663
00:29:09,867 --> 00:29:11,266
How was he around the home?
664
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,800
Was there any issues?
665
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,266
Did he have enemies?
Did he have animosities?
666
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:18,000
What would
667
00:29:18,667 --> 00:29:21,300
lead to this situation?
668
00:29:22,867 --> 00:29:24,066
[Bob] She was confronted
669
00:29:24,867 --> 00:29:26,400
about the possibility
670
00:29:27,166 --> 00:29:29,300
that she could be responsible.
671
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,100
She came unglued emotionally.
672
00:29:31,567 --> 00:29:32,667
I mean, she was
673
00:29:32,667 --> 00:29:34,567
deeply offended,
and I could tell.
674
00:29:39,667 --> 00:29:41,400
[Andy] During this interview,
675
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,200
she started talking
about the relationship
676
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,000
between Christopher
677
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,300
and Jackson.
678
00:29:47,567 --> 00:29:49,500
Now she's still
married to Jackson.
679
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:50,967
They're still living together.
680
00:29:50,967 --> 00:29:53,467
[Mike] So this is her husband
that she's talking about.
681
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:57,166
She mentioned that
682
00:29:57,166 --> 00:29:59,100
the relationship between
683
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,400
Christopher and Jack
was strained.
684
00:30:03,367 --> 00:30:05,667
There were
arguments and so forth.
685
00:30:05,667 --> 00:30:08,467
Jack was a little strict.
686
00:30:08,467 --> 00:30:10,367
And Christopher
was a little rebellious
687
00:30:10,367 --> 00:30:12,100
against that sort of thing.
688
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,266
[Bob]
So you begin to start to see
689
00:30:16,266 --> 00:30:18,367
this picture developing
of a conflict
690
00:30:18,367 --> 00:30:20,600
between the stepdad
and the stepson.
691
00:30:24,467 --> 00:30:27,567
[Andy] At that point,
we had everything
we'd gleaned so far.
692
00:30:27,567 --> 00:30:28,667
Not a perfect scenario.
693
00:30:28,667 --> 00:30:30,367
We had 14-year-old memories.
694
00:30:30,367 --> 00:30:33,367
We had a young girl
who remembers her
missing boyfriend.
695
00:30:33,367 --> 00:30:35,667
We have mom's account.
We have sister's account.
696
00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:37,266
And now we're gonna
get a chance
697
00:30:37,266 --> 00:30:39,100
to hear from Jackson.
698
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:49,567
[Cristina] When detectives
interview Jackson,
699
00:30:49,567 --> 00:30:50,867
they break the news to him
700
00:30:50,867 --> 00:30:53,667
that Chris was found
under the house.
701
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,700
Jackson has a lot of questions
for the police.
702
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,567
He wants to know
where under the house
703
00:31:01,567 --> 00:31:03,166
and how they found Chris.
704
00:31:04,066 --> 00:31:05,667
He's being evasive
705
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,700
and not real helpful.
706
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:10,900
[Andy] The only person
that never smelled
707
00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:13,100
anything in the house
was Jackson.
708
00:31:14,467 --> 00:31:16,900
He just... He would...
He adamantly
709
00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:18,166
never smelled
anything in there.
710
00:31:18,166 --> 00:31:19,600
He was the only person
that said that.
711
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,667
So in this interview
with Jackson...
712
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,900
sometimes we'll
put some pressure on him,
713
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:29,567
but then we'll stop
the pressure and we'll say,
714
00:31:29,567 --> 00:31:31,767
"Okay," you know, "What was
your address at the time?
715
00:31:31,767 --> 00:31:33,100
Do you remember
your social security number
716
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:34,166
that you were using
at that time?"
717
00:31:35,266 --> 00:31:37,166
And then, uh, we got into,
718
00:31:37,166 --> 00:31:39,000
"Do you own
any firearms of any kind?"
719
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:41,200
He goes,
720
00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:44,100
"Yeah, I've got a.357 Magnum.
721
00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:45,567
Yeah, it's at
my house right now."
722
00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:48,900
Through Dr. Galloway's
process of
723
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:51,266
screening the soil
that was in the grave,
724
00:31:51,266 --> 00:31:53,266
we now have projectiles.
725
00:31:53,266 --> 00:31:54,667
Clearly these
bullets were used
726
00:31:54,667 --> 00:31:56,667
as part of the homicide.
727
00:31:56,667 --> 00:31:58,900
And they've been sitting
in the ground for 14 years.
728
00:31:59,867 --> 00:32:01,600
But the hope now, uh,
729
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,200
is that we can
take these projectiles
730
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,266
and see if this bullet
731
00:32:06,266 --> 00:32:08,166
was fired through
the barrel of this gun.
732
00:32:09,367 --> 00:32:10,900
[Bob] In any investigation,
733
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:12,967
you always look
for the murder weapon.
734
00:32:12,967 --> 00:32:15,600
And in this
particular case, it was
735
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,567
a Colt Python.357 Magnum.
736
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:28,400
[Mike] We obtained
a search warrant of
737
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,367
Jackson Villarta's home
in Marina, California.
738
00:32:32,667 --> 00:32:34,667
[Andy] It appeared to us that
739
00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:36,900
Jackson and Dale
740
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,567
probably fit the category
of being hoarders.
741
00:32:39,567 --> 00:32:41,400
You know, they had a lot
of stuff all over the place.
742
00:32:42,667 --> 00:32:45,166
Lots of documents
and old materials.
743
00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:48,867
We found a calendar
744
00:32:48,867 --> 00:32:50,266
from the time
of the murder, actually.
745
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,367
It's a daily planner
746
00:32:52,367 --> 00:32:54,166
that looked like Dale
had put together.
747
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:55,967
But it's had on there,
748
00:32:55,967 --> 00:32:57,767
you know,
"Chris went missing."
749
00:32:57,767 --> 00:32:59,400
And then you had some
other things about,
750
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,100
the telegram arrived.
Or whatever.
751
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:03,800
So she was kind of
keeping track of stuff.
752
00:33:07,567 --> 00:33:09,100
[Bob] When we executed
753
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:10,367
the search warrant
754
00:33:10,367 --> 00:33:12,100
on their residence in Marina,
755
00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:13,467
we found the telegram.
756
00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:17,100
And we also found
757
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,367
their Pacific Telephone
phone bill
758
00:33:19,367 --> 00:33:20,667
that showed
759
00:33:20,667 --> 00:33:23,166
that someone
from the residence
760
00:33:23,767 --> 00:33:25,400
made the phone call
761
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,000
to Western Telegram
762
00:33:27,867 --> 00:33:29,100
to place that telegram.
763
00:33:30,767 --> 00:33:32,400
[Andy] Both Dale
and Jackson at the time
764
00:33:32,967 --> 00:33:34,667
worked for Pacific Bell.
765
00:33:35,767 --> 00:33:38,667
[Bob] You began to wonder,
of these two,
766
00:33:38,667 --> 00:33:40,667
if either one was involved,
767
00:33:40,667 --> 00:33:42,800
who would have a reason to?
768
00:33:50,166 --> 00:33:52,100
[Cristina] Police have
circumstantial evidence now
769
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:53,500
linking
770
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:54,800
someone in the house,
771
00:33:55,467 --> 00:33:57,500
Dale or Jackson,
772
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,567
to the telegram
773
00:33:59,567 --> 00:34:01,767
that was sent and received
774
00:34:01,767 --> 00:34:04,567
at the house 14 years prior.
775
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,600
[Mike]
During the search warrant,
776
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,200
I was out in the garage.
And inside,
777
00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:15,166
there was a locked cabinet.
778
00:34:16,166 --> 00:34:18,767
And inside that locked cabinet
779
00:34:18,767 --> 00:34:22,000
was a.357 pistol
780
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,567
that was obtained
for evidence.
781
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:27,500
[Bob] It was a very
high quality handgun.
782
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,567
The machining on it
was just unbelievable.
783
00:34:32,266 --> 00:34:34,767
Today, those things
are extremely valuable
784
00:34:34,767 --> 00:34:36,867
because of the quality
of craftsmanship.
785
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:48,000
[Andy] Jackson and Dale
held on to a lot of property
786
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,800
a lot longer than most people
would hold on to it,
787
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,467
which turned out
to be helpful to us.
788
00:34:52,667 --> 00:34:54,200
[Bob] If I were gonna
commit a homicide,
789
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,667
the first thing
I'm gonna do is get rid of
790
00:34:55,667 --> 00:34:57,800
all the evidence. Everything.
791
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,667
The clothes I'm wearing.
The weapon I use. Everything.
792
00:35:00,667 --> 00:35:02,867
The last thing I'm gonna do
is keep everything.
793
00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:05,100
Because ultimately,
that's what's gonna hurt me.
794
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,400
Everything pointed
to Jackson Villarta
795
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,867
as the person who,
one, murdered Chris,
796
00:35:11,867 --> 00:35:13,200
and, two,
797
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,800
tried to cover it up
by the phony telegram.
798
00:35:17,667 --> 00:35:18,800
[sirens wailing]
799
00:35:22,867 --> 00:35:25,266
[Bob] The arrest
of Jackson Villarta
800
00:35:25,266 --> 00:35:26,567
was on February 6th,
801
00:35:27,266 --> 00:35:28,300
1998.
802
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,367
[Andy] We felt that
arresting him at work
803
00:35:31,367 --> 00:35:34,166
would give us the best chance
of him being unprepared.
804
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,767
So we pulled him over
in his work truck.
805
00:35:38,767 --> 00:35:40,467
He gets out of the car.
He puts his hands up.
806
00:35:40,467 --> 00:35:42,266
[indistinct chatter
on police radio]
807
00:35:42,266 --> 00:35:45,500
Suddenly, he dives
into the car.
808
00:35:51,367 --> 00:35:52,300
[Andy] It was within a week
809
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:54,266
of the interviews
taking place,
810
00:35:54,266 --> 00:35:56,000
we decided we're gonna arrest
811
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,300
Jackson Villarta
for this murder.
812
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,166
When we pull him over...
813
00:36:01,166 --> 00:36:03,000
It's called a high-risk stop.
814
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,166
He suddenly dives back
into his work truck.
815
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,000
We're thinking
he's going for a weapon.
816
00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,600
So, I mean, it got kind of
tense there for a second.
817
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,166
But he comes out.
818
00:36:14,166 --> 00:36:16,667
He's got an orange
traffic cone.
819
00:36:16,667 --> 00:36:18,166
In a sense,
he's got one hand up,
820
00:36:18,166 --> 00:36:20,100
in the other hand,
he's got the traffic cone.
821
00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:21,567
Then he steps backwards.
822
00:36:21,567 --> 00:36:23,000
He gets to
the corner of the car.
823
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,400
He puts the cone down.
824
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,600
And then comes back
and complies with
all of our orders.
825
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,066
So, you know, later,
we couldn't help but go,
826
00:36:30,066 --> 00:36:31,266
"Jackson, what
were you thinking?"
827
00:36:31,266 --> 00:36:33,166
He goes, "Those are the rules.
828
00:36:33,166 --> 00:36:36,166
You've got to
put the cone down
when you park the van."
829
00:36:36,166 --> 00:36:39,767
And I remember thinking,
you know, of all his trouble
830
00:36:39,767 --> 00:36:42,900
and being arrested for murder,
you're worried about your
831
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:45,300
traffic cones
around your truck.
832
00:36:51,867 --> 00:36:53,066
[Andy] After the arrest,
833
00:36:53,066 --> 00:36:55,100
the prosecution
process begins.
834
00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,166
And it was May of 2000
when the trial began.
835
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,066
It's a big challenge.
836
00:37:01,066 --> 00:37:02,600
It happened 14 years ago.
837
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,300
There's no direct witnesses.
838
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:05,367
You know, so we know
839
00:37:05,367 --> 00:37:07,667
that what we're trying
to do here is difficult.
840
00:37:08,767 --> 00:37:11,000
[Cristina] I think Dale
believed he was innocent.
841
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
I know there was
a lot of stress going on.
842
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,500
I think she was in denial.
843
00:37:16,767 --> 00:37:18,767
The prosecution put forward
844
00:37:18,767 --> 00:37:21,500
that Jackson was responsible
for Chris's death.
845
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,367
That it was Jackson
846
00:37:23,367 --> 00:37:25,867
that shot Christopher
after an argument.
847
00:37:27,667 --> 00:37:30,467
Chris detested his stepfather.
We all knew that.
848
00:37:31,667 --> 00:37:33,467
I could see him being angry.
849
00:37:33,467 --> 00:37:35,166
I could see Jackson
850
00:37:35,166 --> 00:37:36,767
exerting his power over him.
851
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:40,767
[Andy] There was other
items of evidence that became
852
00:37:40,767 --> 00:37:42,700
kind of big deals in trial.
One was the dogs.
853
00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:44,900
The poisoning of the dogs.
854
00:37:47,367 --> 00:37:48,867
[Cristina]
Chris's dogs were sick.
855
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,000
And he was afraid
856
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,967
that Jackson
had done something
to get the dogs sick.
857
00:37:54,867 --> 00:37:56,100
And for Chris,
858
00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:57,867
it's extremely upsetting
859
00:37:57,867 --> 00:38:00,166
'cause his dogs
are his connection.
860
00:38:00,166 --> 00:38:01,600
He loves his dogs.
861
00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:03,867
So to think that Jackson
862
00:38:03,867 --> 00:38:06,000
would have done
something to hurt his dogs,
863
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,266
he was angry.
864
00:38:08,767 --> 00:38:10,767
[Andy] The picture
in my mind always was
865
00:38:11,266 --> 00:38:12,767
there was an argument.
866
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:15,800
Chris has had enough.
867
00:38:16,567 --> 00:38:19,467
And Jackson gets his gun
868
00:38:19,467 --> 00:38:21,100
-and kills him.
-[gunshot]
869
00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:23,567
[gunshot]
870
00:38:23,567 --> 00:38:25,467
-[gunshot]
-[Andy] And then after it,
871
00:38:25,467 --> 00:38:27,667
in a haste to hide
what he had done,
872
00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:29,667
Jackson dragged him
under the house.
873
00:38:29,667 --> 00:38:31,166
Quickly dug a grave.
874
00:38:31,166 --> 00:38:33,400
Too shallow on one side
because it later
875
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,266
resulted in the tips
of Christopher's tennis shoes
876
00:38:36,266 --> 00:38:37,500
poking up out of the ground.
877
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,166
If he had dug
a little deeper on that side,
878
00:38:40,166 --> 00:38:41,667
never would have
been discovered.
879
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:53,467
Dale ended up
divorcing Jackson.
880
00:38:53,467 --> 00:38:55,000
I'm sure in the beginning,
881
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,166
she couldn't believe it.
882
00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:57,767
But eventually,
883
00:38:57,767 --> 00:38:59,867
if she sat through that trial,
884
00:38:59,867 --> 00:39:03,500
she would have walked out
with no doubt in her mind
885
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,400
that her husband,
the person she loved,
886
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,200
the person
she trusted the most,
887
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,266
had murdered her son.
888
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:13,567
[Andy] Everything we were
getting from Dale
889
00:39:13,567 --> 00:39:15,467
was that she was not involved
890
00:39:15,467 --> 00:39:17,100
in the murder of her son.
891
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,567
And that, in fact, she had
been involved for years
892
00:39:19,567 --> 00:39:20,567
in trying to find him.
893
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:22,900
She also told us
something else
894
00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:24,367
that was not expected.
895
00:39:24,367 --> 00:39:26,100
And that was,
during these years
896
00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:28,400
that she spent
looking for Christopher,
897
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,700
she said that Jackson
would make fun of her.
898
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,700
He would say,
"You're wasting your time.
899
00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:35,000
You're wasting our money."
900
00:39:36,767 --> 00:39:38,967
She described how she would
come up with another idea.
901
00:39:38,967 --> 00:39:41,900
"Maybe I could try this
trucking place out here."
902
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,367
She said he would laugh at her
like she was a fool.
903
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,166
When I look back
over the circumstances,
904
00:39:52,166 --> 00:39:53,600
the totality of the case...
905
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,667
The initial
missing person letter
906
00:39:57,667 --> 00:39:58,767
to the residents.
907
00:39:59,867 --> 00:40:01,300
The fact that the residents
908
00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:02,567
had been working
under the house
909
00:40:02,567 --> 00:40:04,467
at the time
the letter arrived,
910
00:40:04,467 --> 00:40:07,367
which created
a little suspicion for 'em.
911
00:40:07,367 --> 00:40:08,600
The fact that
912
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,467
you have the murder suspect
913
00:40:12,467 --> 00:40:14,266
who keeps the weapon,
914
00:40:14,266 --> 00:40:15,667
who keeps the telegram,
915
00:40:15,667 --> 00:40:19,000
who keeps the phone bill
that's 14 years old.
916
00:40:19,767 --> 00:40:20,834
Any one of those
917
00:40:20,834 --> 00:40:23,100
could have disrupted
this entire investigation.
918
00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:24,600
But they all came together.
919
00:40:26,367 --> 00:40:28,767
[Mike] Jackson Villarta
was ultimately charged
920
00:40:28,767 --> 00:40:30,700
with second degree murder.
921
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:32,867
And was found guilty.
922
00:40:39,467 --> 00:40:41,200
I'm pretty sure Chris
would want to be remembered
923
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,367
for the guy that he was.
924
00:40:44,367 --> 00:40:45,800
We didn't know
925
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,867
how bad
his situation was at home.
926
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:49,767
Chris
927
00:40:49,767 --> 00:40:52,600
lived in
an impossible situation
928
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,266
to live in.
929
00:40:54,266 --> 00:40:55,467
And yet he did it.
930
00:40:55,467 --> 00:40:58,266
And he still moved with grace.
931
00:40:58,266 --> 00:40:59,767
So he would've wanted us...
932
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:03,767
[sniffles] He...
933
00:41:04,467 --> 00:41:05,367
[sniffles]
934
00:41:05,867 --> 00:41:06,867
[exhales]
935
00:41:07,867 --> 00:41:09,800
He would want us
to remember that,
936
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,700
you know, he could,
he could, uh,
937
00:41:12,367 --> 00:41:13,700
he could make us all laugh.
938
00:41:15,066 --> 00:41:16,266
He just made things better
939
00:41:16,266 --> 00:41:17,867
for himself
and those around him.
940
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,266
I think that's
the takeaway right there.