1 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:09,801 [ambient street noise] 2 00:00:43,460 --> 00:00:45,754 [man 1] Friday night of Memorial Day weekend, 3 00:00:46,254 --> 00:00:50,341 we get a call for a missing person at, uh, 115 Central Park West. 4 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,762 The building is known as the Majestic. 5 00:00:54,262 --> 00:00:56,222 It's a very affluent building. 6 00:00:56,723 --> 00:00:59,934 [man 2] The Majestic had every amenity known to man. 7 00:01:00,435 --> 00:01:02,187 Doormen, concierge, 8 00:01:02,270 --> 00:01:06,900 everything that you need to live in that stratosphere. 9 00:01:08,193 --> 00:01:09,819 [man 1] We respond to the location. 10 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:11,696 We're met by Mr. Abdela, 11 00:01:11,780 --> 00:01:14,949 who says his daughter, Daphne Abdela, hasn't returned home. 12 00:01:15,450 --> 00:01:19,037 [man 2] Lee Furman starts to interview the father to find out what was going on. 13 00:01:19,788 --> 00:01:22,290 And the doorman says, "She's not missing." 14 00:01:22,373 --> 00:01:25,752 "She's back in the utility room at the back of the lobby." 15 00:01:26,252 --> 00:01:28,171 The doorman shows us where it is. 16 00:01:29,506 --> 00:01:31,841 When Mr. Abdela opens the door, 17 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:35,053 we see a young girl, young boy, 18 00:01:35,136 --> 00:01:37,931 in a bathtub, in water, washing each other off. 19 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,476 This is Daphne Abdela and her boyfriend, Chris. 20 00:01:42,393 --> 00:01:45,939 I'm thinking, "They're fooling around. They're in a bathtub." 21 00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:50,610 As awkward as that scene must have been, 22 00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:53,363 he noticed there was some blood. 23 00:01:53,988 --> 00:01:56,616 [Furman] So I asked about the blood, and Daphne said, 24 00:01:56,699 --> 00:01:58,660 "I cut my head rollerblading." 25 00:01:58,743 --> 00:02:00,703 It wasn't a lot of blood that we'd say, 26 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:02,914 "Something's going on. Something happened." 27 00:02:02,997 --> 00:02:04,374 It could have been a fall. 28 00:02:04,457 --> 00:02:07,627 I noticed Chris also had a cut over his eyebrow. 29 00:02:07,710 --> 00:02:10,130 But again, small. Nothing significant. 30 00:02:11,005 --> 00:02:13,550 I could tell she was mad that we were there. 31 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:16,177 She yelled at her father, "Why'd you call the cops?" 32 00:02:16,261 --> 00:02:18,096 "I hate the pigs. I hate 5-0." 33 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:22,350 And then Daphne yells out, "Get the fuck out. Close the door." 34 00:02:25,854 --> 00:02:27,522 At that point, Mr. Abdela said, 35 00:02:27,605 --> 00:02:30,775 "I'm okay now. Everything's good. I'll take them upstairs." 36 00:02:31,276 --> 00:02:32,402 So we left. 37 00:02:33,236 --> 00:02:36,239 Before Lee Furman gets too far away from the Majestic, 38 00:02:36,322 --> 00:02:38,032 he hears a job come over the radio 39 00:02:38,616 --> 00:02:42,036 about somebody reporting a dead body in Central Park, 40 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,122 and it's coming from the Majestic. 41 00:02:44,205 --> 00:02:45,999 [disconcerting music playing] 42 00:02:46,082 --> 00:02:49,252 [Furman] I came over the radio and said, "We were just there. We'll respond." 43 00:02:50,044 --> 00:02:51,880 And we return to the Majestic. 44 00:02:52,589 --> 00:02:55,466 It ended up being Daphne Abdela who called the police. 45 00:02:57,260 --> 00:02:59,387 So she invites us inside. 46 00:02:59,888 --> 00:03:02,140 I go in, and she said, 47 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:04,809 "There's a body in the lake." 48 00:03:04,893 --> 00:03:07,979 "A body in the lake. Really? What's the chances of that?" 49 00:03:10,315 --> 00:03:13,359 [Butcher] This was an evil crime. 50 00:03:13,443 --> 00:03:15,028 So over the top. 51 00:03:16,446 --> 00:03:19,866 Who would destroy someone so brutally? 52 00:03:19,949 --> 00:03:21,201 And why? 53 00:03:21,284 --> 00:03:23,161 [low, menacing music playing] 54 00:03:26,664 --> 00:03:29,459 [man 1] Every case takes a piece out of your soul. 55 00:03:32,128 --> 00:03:36,049 [Butcher] You cannot do this job unless you really care. 56 00:03:38,134 --> 00:03:40,178 [man 2] You want to find out the truth. 57 00:03:41,471 --> 00:03:43,056 That's what detectives do. 58 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,769 [Parrino] I've always liked the peek behind the curtain. What really happened? 59 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:52,023 [Rivera] It's so important for a family to know who murdered their relative. 60 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:53,149 That's my job. 61 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:58,029 [man 3] In New York City, the NYPD… 62 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:02,200 this is it. 63 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:06,537 [siren wailing] 64 00:04:07,956 --> 00:04:09,958 [pensive synth music playing] 65 00:04:17,966 --> 00:04:18,967 [ducks quacking] 66 00:04:22,762 --> 00:04:28,476 Central Park is essential to the heart of New York City. 67 00:04:29,852 --> 00:04:32,647 [McNeely] It's not just a park you would associate with… 68 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:34,399 Something with a great lawn, 69 00:04:34,482 --> 00:04:37,777 maybe a couple ball fields, and some playground area. 70 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,613 It's way more than that. 71 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:44,200 [Butcher] We all live in concrete. 72 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:46,536 We walk on concrete. 73 00:04:47,578 --> 00:04:50,707 We live up in the air, far from nature. 74 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:55,378 So, Central Park, for a New Yorker, is more than a backyard. 75 00:04:55,461 --> 00:04:56,713 It's an oasis. 76 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:00,800 [disquieting undertones building] 77 00:05:00,883 --> 00:05:04,137 [Butcher] But all New Yorkers share Central Park. 78 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:07,223 Not just the good people, but bad people too. 79 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:08,850 [suspenseful music playing] 80 00:05:08,933 --> 00:05:12,353 Central Park was very dangerous in the '70s and '80s. 81 00:05:12,437 --> 00:05:14,814 I never would go there at night. 82 00:05:14,897 --> 00:05:20,236 That's when we were having 2,500 homicides a year. 83 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,405 A lot of them happened in Central Park. 84 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,451 [man] By the late 1990s, 85 00:05:27,118 --> 00:05:29,537 the city was objectively getting safer. 86 00:05:29,620 --> 00:05:33,833 Every single indicator of crime, public safety, 87 00:05:33,916 --> 00:05:36,210 was moving in the right direction. 88 00:05:37,253 --> 00:05:40,965 When the city turned around and things became better, 89 00:05:41,049 --> 00:05:43,468 Central Park became better as well. 90 00:05:43,551 --> 00:05:46,596 However, whenever there was a crime there, 91 00:05:46,679 --> 00:05:48,389 it was all-hands-on-deck. 92 00:05:48,973 --> 00:05:51,934 [man 2] Somebody gets a hangnail in Central Park, it's like, 93 00:05:52,018 --> 00:05:55,688 "Oh my God, everybody has to go and figure out what's going on." 94 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:59,400 So when somebody gets murdered, it's a big deal. 95 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:01,486 [tense music playing] 96 00:06:06,949 --> 00:06:09,911 [Plansky] On May 23rd, 1997, 97 00:06:09,994 --> 00:06:13,247 I'm just starting my fifth year as an assistant DA. 98 00:06:14,165 --> 00:06:20,338 I'd just started riding along with a more senior homicide assistant, 99 00:06:20,421 --> 00:06:25,343 which means that I'm being trained to investigate and prosecute homicides. 100 00:06:25,426 --> 00:06:28,096 And somewhere between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.… 101 00:06:28,179 --> 00:06:29,013 [beeper beeping] 102 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:33,559 …I remember being awakened to the sound of the beeper going off. 103 00:06:34,185 --> 00:06:37,313 And because I'd just moved into my legal sublet, 104 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,315 I did not have a phone line hooked up. 105 00:06:40,566 --> 00:06:43,820 So I had to go out onto the street. 106 00:06:43,903 --> 00:06:47,073 Found a pay phone and I dialed the number on the beeper. 107 00:06:47,657 --> 00:06:50,952 And the person on the other end said, 108 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:54,038 "There's some kind of brouhaha in Central Park." 109 00:06:54,122 --> 00:06:58,000 [chuckling] I thought that was the understatement of the year. 110 00:06:58,084 --> 00:07:00,920 [suspenseful music playing] 111 00:07:03,339 --> 00:07:04,632 [man] It's early morning. 112 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:07,176 We'd been notified by nightwatch dispatcher. 113 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:10,221 He says, "We have a body floating in Central Park Lake." 114 00:07:11,055 --> 00:07:14,559 I was the commanding officer of Manhattan Detective Nightwatch. 115 00:07:14,642 --> 00:07:17,186 Our job was to establish the crime scene, 116 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:21,065 then hand off to the catching detective who has the case. 117 00:07:21,149 --> 00:07:22,442 I got to the scene 118 00:07:22,525 --> 00:07:26,946 right on the west side of Central Park, right next to Strawberry Fields. 119 00:07:28,406 --> 00:07:33,119 We had a trail of blood, maybe 40, 50 feet, going to the gazebo. 120 00:07:33,202 --> 00:07:34,871 And we followed the blood trail. 121 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:37,206 And I walk up to the lake. 122 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:38,624 And there in the lake 123 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:43,921 is a human body floating head up. 124 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:47,967 [Plansky] When I first saw the crime scene, 125 00:07:48,050 --> 00:07:54,056 I couldn't help but feel this incredible sense of dissonance. 126 00:07:54,765 --> 00:07:58,478 That lake is in the center of this beautiful park. 127 00:07:58,561 --> 00:08:03,191 And yet what I was seeing at this crime scene 128 00:08:05,109 --> 00:08:08,946 was among the most brutal I've ever seen. 129 00:08:10,531 --> 00:08:12,992 [suspenseful music playing] 130 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:18,414 I went to the death scene to investigate the body in its setting, 131 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:19,832 in its circumstances. 132 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:24,212 Most crime scenes are confined to one location. 133 00:08:24,295 --> 00:08:27,715 In this case, we had the path leading into the park 134 00:08:27,798 --> 00:08:29,509 where there were blood drops, 135 00:08:30,009 --> 00:08:33,804 the area by the gazebo where the pool of blood was, 136 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,015 and the body in the lake. 137 00:08:37,141 --> 00:08:40,269 And I looked at the edge of the water. 138 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:43,523 Just bobbing and floating among the reeds 139 00:08:44,815 --> 00:08:48,736 was just this pale man, 140 00:08:49,612 --> 00:08:51,364 what was left of a man. 141 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:55,034 And I stepped a little closer 142 00:08:56,118 --> 00:08:59,956 and saw that his abdomen was ripped open, 143 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:02,708 and his intestines were floating in the water. 144 00:09:03,584 --> 00:09:08,422 I've seen hundreds of bodies in my tenure in NYPD. 145 00:09:09,090 --> 00:09:12,593 This was the only body I ever saw with a floating intestine. 146 00:09:13,094 --> 00:09:14,428 It remained with me. 147 00:09:15,471 --> 00:09:17,682 [Butcher] His wrist was hacked. 148 00:09:17,765 --> 00:09:21,519 His right hand, hanging, almost detached. 149 00:09:22,103 --> 00:09:26,524 These multiple slashing, gouging stab wounds. 150 00:09:27,316 --> 00:09:28,693 You think "overkill." 151 00:09:29,318 --> 00:09:33,698 What overkill means is… is passion, anger, rage. 152 00:09:35,283 --> 00:09:39,245 Every murder is horrible, and every homicide crime scene 153 00:09:39,328 --> 00:09:44,417 is upsetting and emotional and hard to digest. 154 00:09:44,959 --> 00:09:46,711 But there's definitely variation. 155 00:09:46,794 --> 00:09:49,922 And homicides that are committed with knives 156 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:53,843 tend to be the most brutal. 157 00:09:54,427 --> 00:09:56,095 At this point in my career, 158 00:09:56,178 --> 00:09:59,098 this was the second homicide crime scene I'd ever been to. 159 00:09:59,181 --> 00:10:04,020 To be exposed to something like that so fast, 160 00:10:04,103 --> 00:10:07,398 this was definitely a baptism of fire. 161 00:10:07,481 --> 00:10:09,483 [music trails off] 162 00:10:11,027 --> 00:10:13,029 [mysterious, intriguing music playing] 163 00:10:15,364 --> 00:10:19,577 I was a third-grade detective investigator working at Manhattan North Homicide Squad. 164 00:10:19,660 --> 00:10:22,204 And I'd been there for almost four years. 165 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:27,710 Friday, May 23rd, 1997, I was not scheduled to work a day tour. 166 00:10:27,793 --> 00:10:32,506 I was coming in early to go to a court appearance downtown. 167 00:10:32,590 --> 00:10:35,343 I get to the office at about eight o'clock in the morning. 168 00:10:35,426 --> 00:10:39,805 The lieutenant looks at me and says, "Look, there's a murder in the park." 169 00:10:39,889 --> 00:10:42,975 "You gotta call downtown, cancel your court case, and come with us." 170 00:10:44,268 --> 00:10:48,648 [Plansky] I was told that somebody from Manhattan North Homicide 171 00:10:48,731 --> 00:10:49,982 was being assigned. 172 00:10:50,691 --> 00:10:54,236 And then Rob Mooney shows up. 173 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,906 And the second he starts talking, 174 00:10:57,698 --> 00:10:59,241 now I know who's in charge. 175 00:10:59,325 --> 00:11:00,993 [funky, groovy music playing] 176 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:04,413 [Plansky] This guy is 6'5". 177 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:06,916 He's got an enormous head. 178 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:11,128 He's got '70s rock star kind of hair 179 00:11:11,212 --> 00:11:13,756 with this '70s-style mustache. 180 00:11:14,548 --> 00:11:18,594 Looks like one of the long-lost members of the Allman Brothers Band. 181 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:22,556 And he always wore a Grateful Dead pin on his lapel. 182 00:11:23,766 --> 00:11:26,018 Big Deadhead. Loves the Grateful Dead. 183 00:11:29,105 --> 00:11:32,858 [Mooney] I've probably seen the Dead close to 300 times in my life. 184 00:11:33,567 --> 00:11:38,739 The diversity in that community gave me a serious advantage 185 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:41,826 in not being judgmental about people. 186 00:11:42,368 --> 00:11:44,620 You don't judge a book by its cover. 187 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:47,456 And in this case, it turned out to be true. 188 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:51,127 [low rumbling] 189 00:12:03,305 --> 00:12:09,019 [Butcher] The victim didn't have a wallet, but there were some papers we'd found. 190 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,314 And there was a name, Michael McMorrow. 191 00:12:13,566 --> 00:12:17,820 [Plansky] We learned that Michael was 44 years old. 192 00:12:17,903 --> 00:12:21,157 He lived in Manhattan with his mom, 193 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,077 and he worked in a real estate company. 194 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:27,413 [reporter 1] Today, mystery surrounds a gruesome murder 195 00:12:27,496 --> 00:12:29,123 of a man in New York's Central Park. 196 00:12:29,206 --> 00:12:32,752 [reporter 2] McMorrow was slashed more than 50 times, his throat cut. 197 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:37,214 You could actually hear the cavalry of the media, 198 00:12:37,298 --> 00:12:38,799 'cause in New York City, 199 00:12:38,883 --> 00:12:41,677 everything that happens in Central Park is top billing. 200 00:12:45,473 --> 00:12:47,266 [low, foreboding music playing] 201 00:12:47,349 --> 00:12:51,896 When I see the size of the victim, the guy was over six feet. 202 00:12:51,979 --> 00:12:54,523 He was… Looked like he was over 200 pounds. 203 00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:59,361 So for someone to be able to go out there and… and mutilate, 204 00:13:00,404 --> 00:13:02,072 dismember someone like that, 205 00:13:02,948 --> 00:13:05,576 there's more to the picture. I couldn't really understand it. 206 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:08,662 The condition of the victim's body 207 00:13:08,746 --> 00:13:12,041 and amount of violence that attended to all these injuries 208 00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:15,628 was a clear indication this was not a random act of violence. 209 00:13:16,212 --> 00:13:19,965 This was not a robbery that went bad. 210 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:25,012 And so the mystery then becomes the mechanism of what happened. 211 00:13:25,095 --> 00:13:27,097 [suspenseful, erratic music playing] 212 00:13:36,023 --> 00:13:40,236 [Furman] So I'm inside the apartment. Now it's two o'clock in the morning. 213 00:13:40,319 --> 00:13:43,948 After Chris left, that's when Daphne called us. 214 00:13:44,031 --> 00:13:46,283 And she said, "I was afraid of Chris." 215 00:13:46,367 --> 00:13:48,953 "I didn't want to say anything while he was around." 216 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:52,498 Daphne said she was in the park with her boyfriend, Chris. 217 00:13:52,581 --> 00:13:54,750 They were hanging out, they went for a walk, 218 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:56,836 and Chris went crazy. 219 00:13:56,919 --> 00:13:58,337 He killed a guy. 220 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:02,883 And while Daphne's talking, Mr. Abdela just walks away, like… 221 00:14:02,967 --> 00:14:05,886 I'm looking at him. He walks away. Like, "This is your daughter." 222 00:14:05,970 --> 00:14:09,139 "You're not saying anything. You're not stopping her from saying this." 223 00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:11,642 Again, maybe he's just used to this. 224 00:14:12,476 --> 00:14:15,187 So in my mind, I'm thinking, "She's bullshitting me." 225 00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:17,523 "You're 15 years old. You're young." 226 00:14:18,023 --> 00:14:21,485 Maybe she got in trouble, so she wants to cause problems for her father. 227 00:14:22,528 --> 00:14:26,031 So I'm not asking her questions. She's just divulging this information. 228 00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:30,286 Then she went into, "I tried to give him CPR." 229 00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:33,455 That she tried to help instead of being part of it. 230 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:36,250 She's saying, "Chris did this. Chris did that." 231 00:14:36,333 --> 00:14:38,335 Nothing "me," nothing "I did." 232 00:14:39,336 --> 00:14:43,632 Until, while Chris was trying to get rid of… rid of his body, 233 00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:47,845 she told him, "Chris, you should try to gut him and sink him." 234 00:14:47,928 --> 00:14:49,471 "Try to cover it up." 235 00:14:50,139 --> 00:14:53,058 To be around something like that should be shocking to you. 236 00:14:53,642 --> 00:14:57,271 But her demeanor was just, like, normal, just very relaxed. 237 00:14:58,606 --> 00:15:02,776 [Mooney] Lee Furman had some patrol cops from the Central Park Precinct 238 00:15:02,860 --> 00:15:03,861 go to the park, 239 00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:08,532 who in fact discovered the body floating in the lake. 240 00:15:08,616 --> 00:15:10,200 [foreboding music intensifies] 241 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:14,288 So that changed the tenor of everything going on in the apartment. 242 00:15:22,963 --> 00:15:25,883 [intricate, dramatic music playing] 243 00:15:27,551 --> 00:15:31,722 [Plansky] After Lee Furman responded to the 911 call in Daphne's apartment, 244 00:15:31,805 --> 00:15:35,935 we had, clearly, reason to believe Christopher was directly involved in this. 245 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:41,106 So later that morning, acting on that information, 246 00:15:41,190 --> 00:15:43,692 detectives went to Christopher Vasquez's apartment, 247 00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:49,323 and they placed him under arrest for the murder of Michael McMorrow. 248 00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:52,368 He had to go to central booking. 249 00:15:52,451 --> 00:15:55,496 And, uh, the lieutenant at the time says to me, 250 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,166 "Fix your tie. You gotta walk him out to the car." 251 00:16:00,042 --> 00:16:02,461 When I first looked at Chris Vasquez, 252 00:16:02,544 --> 00:16:07,675 I was kind of a little bit shocked, 'cause he looked like this little kid. 253 00:16:07,758 --> 00:16:10,803 You know, I knew he was 15, but he looked like he was 12. 254 00:16:11,512 --> 00:16:15,975 And he clearly had injuries on the side of his face and on his hands. 255 00:16:16,475 --> 00:16:21,605 That impression only added to my concern 256 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:24,066 about how this actually occurred, 257 00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:27,236 'cause it didn't seem likely to me 258 00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:30,864 that he was gonna be the sole responsible person 259 00:16:30,948 --> 00:16:33,409 for all the mayhem that occurred at this scene. 260 00:16:33,909 --> 00:16:38,038 What we really didn't know was what we had in Daphne. 261 00:16:38,122 --> 00:16:44,086 So the way that she presented herself was as a witness. 262 00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:49,633 But most witnesses to incredibly violent crimes 263 00:16:49,717 --> 00:16:53,971 don't volunteer that they suggested it would be a good idea to gut the victim 264 00:16:54,054 --> 00:16:56,265 in order to sink his body in the lake. 265 00:16:56,348 --> 00:16:59,768 So Daphne Abdela is arrested 266 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:02,521 at 12:30 in the afternoon on May 23rd. 267 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:07,151 And we went over to try to get a statement from her. 268 00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:08,610 We wanted to talk to her, 269 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:11,822 and the dad, on her behalf, 270 00:17:12,740 --> 00:17:15,200 refused to speak to us. 271 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:20,748 The first time I saw Daphne Abdela, she was a kid. 272 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:21,915 She was little. 273 00:17:22,958 --> 00:17:28,255 In my brain, I'm having a hard time connecting this person to this crime. 274 00:17:31,717 --> 00:17:33,302 [camera shutters snapping] 275 00:17:33,969 --> 00:17:36,263 We were informed that they both asked for lawyers. 276 00:17:36,346 --> 00:17:40,017 So there was no opportunity to have an interrogation with them. 277 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:41,435 So that's a huge loss. 278 00:17:41,518 --> 00:17:45,689 Any time that you don't get that opportunity, um, that's a problem. 279 00:17:46,356 --> 00:17:49,193 We had two 15-year-olds and Michael, 280 00:17:49,276 --> 00:17:51,862 who's 30 years older than both of them. 281 00:17:52,613 --> 00:17:55,824 So how in the world did these people come together? 282 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,535 How did this become a murder? 283 00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:00,621 [suspenseful, intriguing music playing] 284 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:05,292 Detectives looked at Daphne's family 285 00:18:05,375 --> 00:18:09,463 and learned that her father was a well-to-do businessman, 286 00:18:09,546 --> 00:18:11,507 her mother a French model. 287 00:18:12,007 --> 00:18:14,051 They had adopted her as a baby. 288 00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:17,262 And she lived a life of incredible privilege. 289 00:18:17,346 --> 00:18:19,431 She had everything. 290 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:22,601 [woman] In the late '80s, 291 00:18:22,684 --> 00:18:25,270 many moms would bring their children to the park. 292 00:18:25,354 --> 00:18:27,106 We'd all play in Strawberry Fields. 293 00:18:27,981 --> 00:18:30,109 And then fast-forward about 13 years. 294 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:34,822 And one day we hear that somebody has been arrested for murder. 295 00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:37,491 And it was a girl named Daphne. 296 00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:40,369 And as we learned more about it, 297 00:18:40,452 --> 00:18:44,206 our friends all realize that that little girl named Daphne 298 00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:47,251 was one of the kids who played almost every afternoon 299 00:18:47,334 --> 00:18:48,502 with all of our kids. 300 00:18:49,378 --> 00:18:53,006 When I heard about the murder, I got so obsessed with it. 301 00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:54,883 I couldn't stop thinking about it. 302 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:58,095 It was then that I wrote a proposal to have a book done on it. 303 00:18:58,971 --> 00:19:02,808 In writing this book, I wanted to talk to anybody and everybody 304 00:19:02,891 --> 00:19:05,185 who knew Daphne, who knew Christopher. 305 00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:09,273 Daphne went to Columbia Grammar when she started school. 306 00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:11,775 And at first, she fit in pretty well, 307 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:16,613 but as the years went on, she became more, uh, belligerent. 308 00:19:16,697 --> 00:19:20,993 And finally, in eighth grade, she was asked to leave Columbia Grammar, 309 00:19:21,535 --> 00:19:24,538 which is not usual for a private school in the city. 310 00:19:24,621 --> 00:19:28,292 [Mooney] Daphne engaged in a lot of self-destructive behavior, 311 00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:31,086 i.e., booze and drugs. 312 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:35,048 And Daphne's family paid for her to go to really expensive rehab, 313 00:19:35,132 --> 00:19:37,384 I think, twice before this happened. 314 00:19:37,467 --> 00:19:40,137 [Sands] Daphne started high school at Loyola 315 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:43,223 after she was asked to leave Columbia Grammar. 316 00:19:43,307 --> 00:19:46,560 She was tough. She was brash. She was arrogant. 317 00:19:46,643 --> 00:19:48,937 Her attitude became worse and worse. 318 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:54,943 She just refused to follow any rules, any curfew, any decent behavior. 319 00:19:57,738 --> 00:20:01,283 [reporter] The other suspect is 15-year-old Christopher Vasquez. 320 00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:04,453 He is described as a former altar boy and a Boy Scout 321 00:20:04,536 --> 00:20:07,456 who grew up in a five-story walk-up in Spanish Harlem. 322 00:20:07,539 --> 00:20:10,876 I learn that Chris Vasquez was from a pretty good family. 323 00:20:11,501 --> 00:20:13,128 He was an altar boy. 324 00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:16,173 He lived right next to the church on 97th Street. 325 00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:19,343 He was such a good boy, very helpful, very obedient. 326 00:20:20,135 --> 00:20:22,304 [Butcher] He lived over in East Harlem. 327 00:20:22,804 --> 00:20:23,847 Nothing fancy. 328 00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:26,099 A very nice boy, very well dressed. 329 00:20:26,183 --> 00:20:28,894 Um, he didn't hang out. He wasn't a troublemaker. 330 00:20:28,977 --> 00:20:31,313 Everybody's devastated by this. We can't believe it. 331 00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:34,316 [Butcher] Christopher's parents were separated. 332 00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:37,611 And his mother was raising him. 333 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:41,490 And she put him in a private school, which is expensive. 334 00:20:41,573 --> 00:20:46,119 So his parents worked hard to give him a good life. 335 00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:48,538 [Mooney] And he was a good kid, 336 00:20:48,622 --> 00:20:50,582 but he was very introverted 337 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:53,877 and would get picked on a lot at school 338 00:20:53,961 --> 00:20:57,381 because of his size and his… and his introverted behavior. 339 00:20:57,464 --> 00:20:59,675 [reporter] Chris was someone the kids teased. 340 00:20:59,758 --> 00:21:03,679 They called him a "herb," slang for a loser, a weakling. 341 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:07,307 -[kid 1] I dunno why he did it. -[kid 2] He's a herb. He's a real herb. 342 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:11,478 [Sands] Both Christopher and Daphne were excellent rollerbladers. 343 00:21:11,561 --> 00:21:13,897 And they would go to the park most afternoons. 344 00:21:13,981 --> 00:21:15,357 They met each other there. 345 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,652 Neither Daphne nor Christopher had many friends. 346 00:21:18,735 --> 00:21:21,238 Daphne because she was so obnoxious, 347 00:21:21,321 --> 00:21:23,865 and Christopher because he was so withdrawn. 348 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:28,078 When they met up, they struck up a bit of friendship, 349 00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:29,705 then they started hanging out. 350 00:21:29,788 --> 00:21:31,123 They hung out together 351 00:21:31,206 --> 00:21:33,709 for about two or three months before the murder. 352 00:21:34,501 --> 00:21:38,505 [Butcher] Two 15-year-old children from private schools, 353 00:21:39,006 --> 00:21:42,801 and that made an absolute circus of coverage. 354 00:21:42,884 --> 00:21:46,221 A shocking crime that has led to the arrest of two teenagers 355 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:49,224 for allegedly stabbing a real estate agent and dumping the body. 356 00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,435 One of them a millionaire's daughter. 357 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:56,732 When I first learned what had happened to my uncle, 358 00:21:56,815 --> 00:21:58,859 I was… I was in shock. 359 00:22:00,068 --> 00:22:03,113 Especially since, for me and for my sister, 360 00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:07,034 we spent a good amount of time with my uncle in Central Park. 361 00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:09,494 That was a special place for all of us. 362 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:11,538 We knew it was a special place for him, 363 00:22:11,621 --> 00:22:15,959 so for him to have lost his life so tragically, 364 00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:19,463 uh, in this place that was so special, 365 00:22:19,546 --> 00:22:20,756 it was devastating. 366 00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:26,011 It was very hard to, uh, see my, you know, my mother, 367 00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:28,347 and the grief that she was in. 368 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:30,432 And the fact that they lived together, 369 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:33,852 I think the loss was felt by her more than anybody, 370 00:22:33,935 --> 00:22:38,398 and I think she still felt like she should have been his protector. 371 00:22:38,482 --> 00:22:40,734 [somber, pensive music playing] 372 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:44,863 We grew up on the West Side of Manhattan, a block from Central Park. 373 00:22:45,614 --> 00:22:47,324 Michael was extremely likable. 374 00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:50,118 Made a lot of friends and had a lot of friends. 375 00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:55,332 I didn't call him "Michael." I never referred to him as "Mike." 376 00:22:55,415 --> 00:22:59,169 I called him "Irish." That was his nickname in the neighborhood. 377 00:22:59,753 --> 00:23:01,088 He was quick to laugh. 378 00:23:01,171 --> 00:23:04,257 And that's basically what you saw of Irish, 379 00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:07,844 was he was laughing most of the time, cracking jokes. 380 00:23:07,928 --> 00:23:09,554 He was just a guy. 381 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:11,807 Just a guy. 382 00:23:12,307 --> 00:23:18,021 So why would someone want to destroy him like this? 383 00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:20,482 There's the mystery. 384 00:23:21,191 --> 00:23:22,943 [mysterious, intriguing music playing] 385 00:23:23,026 --> 00:23:25,862 [reporter 1] The two teenagers accused in the brutal Central Park stabbing 386 00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:28,615 of a Manhattan real estate agent say they're innocent. 387 00:23:28,698 --> 00:23:30,200 [reporter 2] Christopher Vasquez 388 00:23:30,283 --> 00:23:33,662 and Vasquez's 15-year-old girlfriend face an arraignment later today. 389 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:43,046 [Plansky] The arrest is not the end of the story. 390 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:44,840 It's really the beginning of the story. 391 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:47,050 It's a pretty confusing situation. 392 00:23:47,134 --> 00:23:50,637 We don't feel like we know exactly what happened at this point. 393 00:23:51,221 --> 00:23:54,891 [court official 1] Defendant is charged 125.25. 394 00:23:56,059 --> 00:23:57,060 First degree. 395 00:23:57,561 --> 00:23:59,896 [court official 2] This defendant, along with Chris, 396 00:23:59,980 --> 00:24:01,815 referring to the co-defendant, 397 00:24:01,898 --> 00:24:05,485 attempted to conceal the identity of the victim. 398 00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:09,614 [reporter] Fifteen-year-olds Daphne Abdela and her boyfriend, Christopher Vasquez, 399 00:24:09,698 --> 00:24:12,242 entered "not guilty" pleas during an arraignment yesterday. 400 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:17,539 [Plansky] Under New York State law, from the second that someone is arraigned, 401 00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:23,962 you have 144 hours to file an indictment. 402 00:24:24,045 --> 00:24:27,799 If you don't file an indictment within that statutory time period, 403 00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:32,137 then the defendants must be released from custody. 404 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:37,017 So we had to assess pretty quickly whether we felt we had enough evidence 405 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:42,522 to establish reasonable cause that would get us to an indictment. 406 00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:45,192 Now, the clock starts. 407 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:47,277 [mysterious, uneasy music playing] 408 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:55,035 [Butcher] This became a wide-ranging investigation. 409 00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:58,205 This required multiple crime scene teams 410 00:24:58,288 --> 00:25:01,833 to go and collect evidence from each of these locations. 411 00:25:01,917 --> 00:25:04,961 And then, of course, there was the team of detectives 412 00:25:05,045 --> 00:25:07,380 interviewing the family members, the witnesses. 413 00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:11,384 They're waiting for evidence to come in. That's how you build your case. 414 00:25:12,802 --> 00:25:16,389 [Mooney] Because of things Lee Furman observed at Daphne's apartment, 415 00:25:16,973 --> 00:25:19,059 there was evidence that needed to be collected. 416 00:25:19,643 --> 00:25:22,646 Blood evidence on the clothing, blood on her Rollerblades, 417 00:25:22,729 --> 00:25:25,315 and there was blood on the watch that she was wearing. 418 00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:27,776 When NYPD gathers evidence, 419 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:29,194 they don't fool around. 420 00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:33,031 It's not just a picture of some blood in a bathtub. 421 00:25:33,114 --> 00:25:34,908 They take the whole bathtub, 422 00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:39,746 because it's got blood of the perpetrators, 423 00:25:39,829 --> 00:25:41,498 maybe blood of the victims. 424 00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:43,542 We searched Daphne's bedroom. 425 00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:44,626 In one of her drawers, 426 00:25:44,709 --> 00:25:47,963 I found Michael McMorrow's wallet with his ID and some money. 427 00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:52,259 That's just another piece of evidence that places her there with Michael, 428 00:25:52,342 --> 00:25:53,677 with Chris at the scene. 429 00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:58,348 [Plansky] The problem is that, horrific as this crime scene was, 430 00:25:58,431 --> 00:26:02,310 merely being present while the crime's committed is not a crime. 431 00:26:03,311 --> 00:26:06,481 It may be morally and ethically indefensible, 432 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:07,691 but it's not a crime. 433 00:26:07,774 --> 00:26:10,986 You have to prove the elements of the crime 434 00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:13,154 beyond a reasonable doubt, every element. 435 00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:17,409 [Mooney] We learned from Michael McMorrow's family 436 00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:21,246 about Michael's regular behavior 437 00:26:21,329 --> 00:26:24,374 and some of the people he would spend time with in the park. 438 00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:27,460 [Charles] Michael had a group of people he knew in the park. 439 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:32,048 And after work, he'd go over there with, you know, a six-pack or something. 440 00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:35,093 He had his, you know, drinking buddies. 441 00:26:36,052 --> 00:26:38,138 [Plansky] Michael struggled with alcohol. 442 00:26:38,638 --> 00:26:43,018 He was just a regular guy with regular problems. 443 00:26:43,101 --> 00:26:44,978 Irish was trying to change himself. 444 00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:47,397 You know, going to AA. 445 00:26:48,148 --> 00:26:53,528 The one that Irish went to was, uh, at the Y off Central Park West, 446 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:56,156 and that's where he met Daphne. 447 00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:58,241 [taut, suspenseful music playing] 448 00:27:00,744 --> 00:27:03,622 [Mooney] The investigation was progressing as it should have. 449 00:27:03,705 --> 00:27:05,749 People were being interviewed 450 00:27:05,832 --> 00:27:09,294 that we discovered were present prior to the murder in the park. 451 00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:13,465 We discovered, on the day of Michael McMorrow's murder, 452 00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:18,011 Daphne and Chris agreed now to be boyfriend and girlfriend. 453 00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:24,476 They go rollerblading, and she gets into all kinds of trouble. 454 00:27:25,393 --> 00:27:27,937 She's picking fights with older men in the park. 455 00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:29,814 She's doing crazy things. 456 00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:33,526 Allegedly making a statement to one, "I'm gonna kill somebody tonight." 457 00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:40,033 Prior to the murder, Daphne and Chris, they had been drinking, 458 00:27:40,116 --> 00:27:43,620 and they ran into this group of people by Strawberry Fields, 459 00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:45,497 one of which was Michael McMorrow. 460 00:27:47,582 --> 00:27:51,294 Now, Chris is being the lapdog. He's just following along. 461 00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:56,800 Daphne is this much more "experienced," shall we say, child of the same age. 462 00:27:57,467 --> 00:28:00,095 She was the genie in the bottle. 463 00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:03,848 When Christopher found that bottle, and opened that cork, 464 00:28:03,932 --> 00:28:07,602 and she popped out, she controlled everything with him. 465 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,563 [tense music pulsing] 466 00:28:12,148 --> 00:28:15,068 [Mooney] During the search at Chris Vasquez's apartment, 467 00:28:15,151 --> 00:28:16,778 there was blood on his clothing, 468 00:28:17,570 --> 00:28:19,364 and they recovered a knife. 469 00:28:20,573 --> 00:28:23,076 We don't know at that point whether or not it's the knife. 470 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:26,579 So we had to get DNA testing done. 471 00:28:27,664 --> 00:28:29,666 [subdued, suspenseful music playing] 472 00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:39,259 [Butcher] Mr. McMorrow was taken down for autopsy. 473 00:28:40,677 --> 00:28:45,223 He had a blood alcohol level of .31 at autopsy, 474 00:28:45,306 --> 00:28:48,476 which is about more than three times the legal limit. 475 00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:52,105 Would that make him impaired? 476 00:28:52,188 --> 00:28:53,815 Probably, yes. 477 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:58,528 But he did have the ability to walk from Strawberry Fields 478 00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:01,823 down to the lake on his own two feet. 479 00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:05,785 So we're trying to establish what happened. 480 00:29:06,369 --> 00:29:08,872 There was bruising to the back of his legs. 481 00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:10,832 It was a pattern bruise. 482 00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:13,501 The destruction of his face 483 00:29:14,544 --> 00:29:19,674 indicated this was a very personal, very rageful attack. 484 00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:27,223 On one side of his chest were maybe eight or nine or ten stab wounds, 485 00:29:27,807 --> 00:29:31,686 all grouped together, that indicated he wasn't moving. 486 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:35,857 Now, you can see a man standing 487 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:38,693 and having his face hacked, 488 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:42,280 and his hands hacked as he fought for his life. 489 00:29:42,363 --> 00:29:44,949 Then he goes down. 490 00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:50,580 And now his attacker stands over him and brutally hacks at him. 491 00:29:50,663 --> 00:29:54,542 Stabs him multiple times, over and over and over. 492 00:29:58,004 --> 00:30:00,840 The biggest question, I think, that I had in my mind 493 00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,093 about what actually occurred… 494 00:30:04,177 --> 00:30:05,261 This is a big guy. 495 00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:07,222 How did he end up down on the ground, 496 00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:09,349 despite his level of intoxication, 497 00:30:09,849 --> 00:30:15,522 that it allowed skinny little Chris Vasquez to inflict all that damage? 498 00:30:15,605 --> 00:30:18,399 And the answer is Chris didn't do it by himself. 499 00:30:19,734 --> 00:30:21,653 At least that's the supposition. 500 00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:26,533 [somber music playing] 501 00:30:30,161 --> 00:30:33,164 [Charles] When I did finally learn what they did to the body, 502 00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:34,249 that angered me. 503 00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:37,752 I don't care if they're 15. There should be some justice here. 504 00:30:39,587 --> 00:30:41,840 [Matthew] My sister was 15 years old. 505 00:30:41,923 --> 00:30:43,633 I was 17 years old. 506 00:30:43,716 --> 00:30:49,013 We couldn't fathom how somebody our age could… could do something like this. 507 00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:54,352 Daphne Abdela will remain behind bars until at least Wednesday. 508 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:56,437 That's when another court date is scheduled. 509 00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:59,774 At that time, some grand jury action must have been taken, 510 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,526 or the 15-year-old goes free. 511 00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:03,611 [tense music building] 512 00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:08,032 [Plansky] The DNA analysis came in. 513 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:12,245 His pocketknife had a mixture of blood 514 00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:14,831 on the blade and in the hilt. 515 00:31:14,914 --> 00:31:19,419 And that mixture was his blood and Michael McMorrow's blood. 516 00:31:21,671 --> 00:31:23,298 [Mooney] It's the murder weapon. 517 00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:26,009 That's a rock-crushing piece of evidence. 518 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:28,845 [Plansky] It was hard to wrap your mind around the fact 519 00:31:28,928 --> 00:31:32,640 that they were capable of that sort of extreme violence. 520 00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:35,894 But at the same time, we knew that they were. 521 00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:38,980 We knew that they've done this. 522 00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:42,066 We felt at that point 523 00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:46,154 that on the totality of the information that we had at that moment, 524 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:51,367 that we had enough probable cause to charge both of them. 525 00:31:51,451 --> 00:31:55,038 The key piece of evidence for Chris was the knife. 526 00:31:55,121 --> 00:31:57,206 For Daphne, it was her statements. 527 00:31:58,124 --> 00:32:01,794 Clearly, she had placed herself in an active role 528 00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:04,464 in terms of trying to dispose of the body. 529 00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:07,467 We presented that evidence to the grand jury. 530 00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:10,094 The grand jury found it persuasive. 531 00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:13,222 They returned indictments for murder two against both of them. 532 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,358 Within the first few days of this investigation, 533 00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:28,529 we found out who the two defendants had retained to represent them. 534 00:32:29,530 --> 00:32:33,201 Christopher Vasquez retained a man named Arnold Kriss, 535 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:35,328 a former assistant DA. 536 00:32:35,411 --> 00:32:37,705 Clearly a formidable adversary. 537 00:32:38,706 --> 00:32:41,834 Daphne and her family retained Ben Brafman. 538 00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:46,214 Ben is one of the most prominent defense attorneys in New York 539 00:32:46,297 --> 00:32:47,966 and probably in the country. 540 00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:53,972 He's represented everybody from mafioso to Wall Street people. 541 00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:57,600 Ben had a portfolio that was diverse, 542 00:32:57,684 --> 00:33:01,479 and usually with good results for him and his clients. 543 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:05,608 It was, you know, kind of a stark reminder 544 00:33:05,692 --> 00:33:09,570 of how much was at stake here and how difficult this was gonna be. 545 00:33:10,196 --> 00:33:13,116 [Mooney] Some detectives might get a little bit intimidated 546 00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:15,660 by the presence of somebody like Ben Brafman. 547 00:33:15,743 --> 00:33:18,538 My opinion was, "You have a law degree, 548 00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:21,958 and you're dressed way nicer than I am, 549 00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:24,877 but we both put our pants on the same way this morning, 550 00:33:24,961 --> 00:33:26,879 and I'm ready if you're ready." 551 00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:28,423 "So let's do it." 552 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,385 [reporter 1] At this point, I have more questions than answers. 553 00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:33,553 Who was Mr. McMorrow, 554 00:33:33,636 --> 00:33:36,305 and why was he in the park drinking with children? 555 00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:40,727 The media was shaping the narrative to paint Irish as a pervert. 556 00:33:40,810 --> 00:33:44,063 They're painting an untruthful image of Michael. 557 00:33:44,147 --> 00:33:47,233 [reporter 1] Why he apparently liked to drink into the night in the park 558 00:33:47,316 --> 00:33:50,445 with a mostly young crowd remains unclear. 559 00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:53,114 What is clear is that it cost him his life. 560 00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:54,866 The most obvious explanation 561 00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:57,577 if you see that a 44-year-old guy 562 00:33:57,660 --> 00:34:01,956 is drinking with two 15-year-olds at night in Central Park… 563 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,585 It's not that much of a leap to try to paint that picture. 564 00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:08,671 [reporter 2] McMorrow later met up with the two teens near the lake 565 00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:10,673 and may have made a pass at Abdela, 566 00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:14,927 allegedly sending her boyfriend Vasquez into a knife-wielding rage. 567 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:19,724 I think the speculation was hurtful to my grandmother 568 00:34:19,807 --> 00:34:23,978 and to my other family members because they were not real. 569 00:34:24,604 --> 00:34:25,730 We wanted to make sure 570 00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:29,859 that he was remembered respectfully and with dignity, 571 00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:31,569 because that's what he deserved. 572 00:34:34,572 --> 00:34:37,116 [Mooney] There wasn't one thing we learned about him that indicated 573 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,285 he would've done anything bad to anybody. 574 00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:44,332 He was, in fact, a kind person that was good to everybody that he met, 575 00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:45,374 to a fault. 576 00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:47,919 And in… in this particular instance, 577 00:34:48,002 --> 00:34:50,546 to describe him as being in the wrong place at the wrong time 578 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:52,882 is absolutely right on… right on the money. 579 00:34:58,221 --> 00:35:03,226 The case against Chris was always stronger 'cause of the knife. 580 00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:06,395 That was the single best piece of evidence we had in the case. 581 00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:08,940 We knew that that knife was the murder weapon. 582 00:35:09,023 --> 00:35:11,984 We felt we were gonna be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt 583 00:35:12,610 --> 00:35:14,445 that Christopher was the knife wielder. 584 00:35:15,905 --> 00:35:20,034 We felt less confident about the quantum of proof for Daphne. 585 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:23,371 While there was a lot of circumstantial evidence 586 00:35:23,454 --> 00:35:25,748 that clearly placed her at the crime scene, 587 00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:30,878 it requires the jury to take a little bit of a leap. 588 00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:35,258 It was a more difficult case than the case against Christopher. 589 00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:39,262 And then we got a pretty big surprise. 590 00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:47,436 Mr. Brafman reached out to the DA's office as Daphne's lawyer 591 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,647 and said, "I've been interviewing my client, 592 00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:53,609 and she would like to come in under Queen for a Day." 593 00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:57,446 Ben's rationale for this was, "I think you guys got this wrong." 594 00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:00,992 "She's really a witness here. She's not a defendant." 595 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:03,369 "Let me bring her in on a Queen for a Day." 596 00:36:03,452 --> 00:36:05,163 That's an agreement 597 00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:08,249 in which a defense attorney can bring in his client, 598 00:36:08,332 --> 00:36:11,544 and she can speak essentially freely. 599 00:36:11,627 --> 00:36:14,463 [Mooney] Anything you say cannot be used against you 600 00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:16,883 unless you testify in court 601 00:36:16,966 --> 00:36:19,969 and testify differently from what you've talked about here. 602 00:36:21,971 --> 00:36:24,223 So we brought her down to the DA's office. 603 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,977 Daphne explained that, that night, 604 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:31,480 she and Vasquez just happened to skate into this group of people 605 00:36:31,564 --> 00:36:35,026 Michael would spend his evenings with who were drinking in the park. 606 00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:41,115 Shortly after, a cop on a scooter comes along and kinda disperses them. 607 00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:44,410 And so they all scatter in different directions. 608 00:36:46,245 --> 00:36:51,834 Daphne and Chris had the beer, so Michael followed the beer. 609 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:57,298 And they went down to the little gazebo at the side of the lake. 610 00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:01,469 And that's where they sat drinking the rest of the beer. 611 00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:03,888 And at some point, 612 00:37:03,971 --> 00:37:06,390 Daphne and Chris… 613 00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:13,189 decide that they're gonna go skinny-dipping in the lake. 614 00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:19,362 When they come out, they're both freezing cold. 615 00:37:20,738 --> 00:37:23,616 So her explanation was that… 616 00:37:26,202 --> 00:37:28,496 Michael sees that she's shivering. 617 00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:32,875 He puts his arm around her to try to warm her up, 618 00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:34,210 and Chris snapped. 619 00:37:34,293 --> 00:37:36,295 [foreboding music playing] 620 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:44,470 Because he thought that Michael was trying to make advances toward Daphne. 621 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:49,058 He pulled out his knife, and then he started stabbing him. 622 00:37:57,066 --> 00:38:00,778 She was saying, "Christopher did it. He did everything." 623 00:38:00,861 --> 00:38:01,904 "I'm a witness." 624 00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:06,742 If this were true, she, in fact, is an eyewitness to a murder. 625 00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:09,161 Her indictment would likely have been dismissed. 626 00:38:10,496 --> 00:38:12,915 And that would've been the end of it for her. 627 00:38:13,541 --> 00:38:16,002 But I wasn't satisfied. 628 00:38:18,337 --> 00:38:21,257 Daphne was born, practically, 629 00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:24,593 thinking she's superior to the rest of the world, 630 00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:28,806 that she's the most important person in any room that she would go into. 631 00:38:28,889 --> 00:38:33,561 So she, I'm sure, thought that she was gonna be smarter and be able to talk. 632 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:36,856 'Cause that's what they do. They all think they're gonna talk their way out of it. 633 00:38:36,939 --> 00:38:38,816 There's nothing that we like better. 634 00:38:38,899 --> 00:38:40,818 "You keep talking. Go right ahead." 635 00:38:40,901 --> 00:38:44,363 So I wanted to keep her on a string. 636 00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:47,616 I said there's physical evidence to corroborate what she said. 637 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,871 And so then I said, "Well, I wonder if it would be okay 638 00:38:51,954 --> 00:38:55,458 if you guys would let us talk to her a few more times." 639 00:38:55,541 --> 00:38:57,376 "I just want to clear up one or two things." 640 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,587 Brafman was like, "Yeah, not a problem." 641 00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,589 He thought this was a done deal. 642 00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:04,759 We did the follow-up interviews with her. 643 00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:07,678 He sent some junior associate from his office. 644 00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:10,598 [Butcher] Rob's got something about him. 645 00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:12,725 Um, it's almost fatherly. 646 00:39:13,851 --> 00:39:17,563 He's trustworthy, and people talk to him. 647 00:39:17,646 --> 00:39:21,734 When Rob Mooney talked to Daphne Abdela, 648 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,070 they built a rapport. 649 00:39:24,153 --> 00:39:25,529 He's brilliant at that. 650 00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,785 [Mooney] I asked her, "Well, I have a question." 651 00:39:31,410 --> 00:39:33,245 "I'm concerned about these bruises." 652 00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:35,915 And I took a picture out of the… out of the file 653 00:39:35,998 --> 00:39:39,627 that clearly showed this delineation and these rounded bruises 654 00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:41,796 on the back of his leg, and I said, 655 00:39:42,713 --> 00:39:44,799 "What do… What do you think these are?" 656 00:39:45,299 --> 00:39:48,552 And so she got a little coy for a moment and was like, "Hmm." 657 00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:52,848 She's turning the picture around, looking at it, being hesitant about it. 658 00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:55,851 This guy reached out, tapped her on the shoulder, and said, 659 00:39:55,935 --> 00:40:00,356 "It's okay. You can tell him." And I'm thinking, "Oh, thanks, pal." 660 00:40:00,439 --> 00:40:02,566 "You're really helping me out here." 661 00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:08,656 Then I reached in the box, take the Rollerblade out, and I say, 662 00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:13,160 "Does this help jar your thought about this at all?" 663 00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:19,208 So then she began to demonstrate 664 00:40:19,291 --> 00:40:23,629 part of her true, uh, behavior. 665 00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:28,926 And said, "I thought he was gonna hurt my friend, 666 00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:30,177 so I kicked him." 667 00:40:30,886 --> 00:40:34,807 I go, "Okay, I understand that, but explain it to me." 668 00:40:36,976 --> 00:40:40,062 "Well, I kicked him, and then, you know… and he fell down." 669 00:40:40,146 --> 00:40:42,731 "Then Chris jumped on him and was stabbing him some more." 670 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,733 And I was like, "Okay." 671 00:40:44,817 --> 00:40:47,570 And then the lawyer went, "Okay, we're done." 672 00:40:50,573 --> 00:40:55,119 She could no longer deny that she had any involvement. 673 00:40:55,661 --> 00:40:59,123 She assaulted Michael McMorrow. 674 00:40:59,206 --> 00:41:01,459 She kicked Michael McMorrow. 675 00:41:01,542 --> 00:41:04,170 She rendered him helpless. 676 00:41:05,421 --> 00:41:07,047 And now we have the proof. 677 00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:10,551 Perpetrator, not a witness. 678 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:11,719 A killer. 679 00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:18,434 [frantic music pulsing] 680 00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:23,105 [Plansky] We knew, from the totality of the circumstances, 681 00:41:23,189 --> 00:41:25,274 that she had to have helped Chris. 682 00:41:26,859 --> 00:41:29,737 And now, for the first time, she's telling us. 683 00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:31,572 Shortly after that came out, 684 00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:35,409 we worked out a plea deal with Daphne Abdela. 685 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:38,787 Tonight, a teenager charged with a vicious Central Park stabbing 686 00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:42,208 has cut a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. 687 00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:45,419 Sixteen-year-old Daphne Abdela apologized for her role 688 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:48,422 in last year's murder and mutilation of Michael McMorrow. 689 00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:49,882 The deal does not require her 690 00:41:49,965 --> 00:41:52,885 to testify against her former boyfriend, Christopher Vasquez. 691 00:41:52,968 --> 00:41:54,887 He is charged with the actual stabbing. 692 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:01,602 [Mooney] Daphne was gonna plead guilty, 693 00:42:01,685 --> 00:42:05,856 and she was gonna take the maximum sentence for the charge, 694 00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:09,985 but would not be testifying in court against Chris Vasquez. 695 00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:15,699 We worked a lot with the DA's office, and he basically said, 696 00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:19,370 "This is the best we could get. Because we had proof against him." 697 00:42:19,453 --> 00:42:21,539 "We had a pretty solid case." 698 00:42:21,622 --> 00:42:23,999 "But her, it was very late." 699 00:42:24,083 --> 00:42:28,504 "If we took it to court, we're not sure we could have gotten any conviction." 700 00:42:28,587 --> 00:42:30,297 [lawyer] I also want to request… 701 00:42:30,381 --> 00:42:34,260 In March of 1998, Daphne comes to court, 702 00:42:34,843 --> 00:42:39,014 and she pleads guilty to a crime called "manslaughter in the first degree." 703 00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:40,724 Manslaughter in the first degree 704 00:42:40,808 --> 00:42:43,185 is different from murder in the second degree, 705 00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:46,105 which is what she was originally charged with, 706 00:42:46,188 --> 00:42:48,816 because it doesn't require an intent to kill. 707 00:42:49,650 --> 00:42:53,821 What she pled guilty to was an intent to cause serious physical injury 708 00:42:53,904 --> 00:42:55,364 to Michael McMorrow. 709 00:42:58,784 --> 00:43:01,620 She pled guilty to manslaughter in the first degree. 710 00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:05,332 She allocuted in open court as to what she did 711 00:43:05,916 --> 00:43:08,669 that made her guilty of that crime, 712 00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:11,922 and she accepted a sentence of three to nine years. 713 00:43:12,423 --> 00:43:14,425 [siren squawking faintly] 714 00:43:15,884 --> 00:43:17,886 [tense, jittery music playing] 715 00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:22,558 [Plansky] November 1998, we're starting this trial. 716 00:43:23,434 --> 00:43:26,520 It was my first experience putting Rob on the stand. 717 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:28,647 And Rob came to court. 718 00:43:28,731 --> 00:43:33,068 He was wearing a sport jacket and had a Grateful Dead pin on his lapel. 719 00:43:33,861 --> 00:43:37,865 And me being the young, uptight assistant DA, 720 00:43:37,948 --> 00:43:39,950 said, "Rob, that's inappropriate." 721 00:43:40,034 --> 00:43:42,161 "You need to take that Grateful Dead pin off." 722 00:43:42,244 --> 00:43:44,496 I was like, "Pft, not happening." 723 00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:48,125 And I said, "Please take it off. You don't do that in a court." 724 00:43:48,208 --> 00:43:51,503 "You don't wear a skull with a lightning bolt on the stand." 725 00:43:51,587 --> 00:43:54,423 I go, "That's tough tarts. I'm not taking the pin off." 726 00:43:54,506 --> 00:43:57,593 And Rob said, "You have two choices here." 727 00:43:57,676 --> 00:43:58,969 [tense drumroll] 728 00:43:59,053 --> 00:44:01,805 "I can either testify with the pin 729 00:44:02,306 --> 00:44:04,892 or I can not testify with the pin." 730 00:44:05,392 --> 00:44:08,812 "But either way, this story ends with me wearing that pin." 731 00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:14,068 I thought about it for a second, and I said, "How soon can you go on?" 732 00:44:14,151 --> 00:44:16,570 [rim shot] 733 00:44:16,654 --> 00:44:18,656 [curious, intriguing music playing] 734 00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:22,743 [Plansky] The defense that was put forward was, 735 00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:26,413 "Three people went down to the lake. Two people came back." 736 00:44:27,289 --> 00:44:31,752 "Neither one of them is talking. You don't know what happened at the lake." 737 00:44:32,252 --> 00:44:33,837 'Cause if you're not sure 738 00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:39,927 who was actually doing the… the cutting, the fighting, 739 00:44:40,010 --> 00:44:44,223 then you've got to have reasonable doubt about this young man's guilt. 740 00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:49,019 [Mooney] There's always concern when people point the finger at each other 741 00:44:49,103 --> 00:44:52,147 that this is going to result in a stalemate, 742 00:44:52,231 --> 00:44:55,317 and maybe the jury is not going to be convinced either way. 743 00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:58,195 [Plansky] The defense did put the blame on Daphne, 744 00:44:58,904 --> 00:45:02,324 that she may well have been responsible for this, 745 00:45:02,408 --> 00:45:06,745 but I think the overall strategy was, "We just don't know." 746 00:45:06,829 --> 00:45:11,208 "And if you don't know, then you've got to acquit my client." 747 00:45:13,335 --> 00:45:17,297 In every case, there's a moment 748 00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:20,968 when the jury is able to visualize 749 00:45:21,051 --> 00:45:25,264 the person sitting in front of them doing the thing he's accused of doing. 750 00:45:25,347 --> 00:45:30,227 I just had a hard time believing that all 12 of those jurors 751 00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:34,648 were gonna be able to see Chris Vasquez committing that horrific crime. 752 00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:40,362 [Matthew] When the jury went out to deliberate, 753 00:45:40,446 --> 00:45:42,030 we'd already been waiting 754 00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:47,035 nearly a year and a half or so for… for justice. 755 00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:51,248 Um, our family was understandably nervous. 756 00:45:51,832 --> 00:45:52,958 The longer it went on, 757 00:45:53,041 --> 00:45:56,462 the more it seemed they had doubts about Christopher's guilt. 758 00:45:57,921 --> 00:46:01,341 [Plansky] They were out, I believe, for two days. 759 00:46:01,967 --> 00:46:06,221 And they came back "not guilty" for murder two, 760 00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:08,307 and "guilty" for manslaughter one. 761 00:46:10,684 --> 00:46:16,356 Essentially, the exact same conviction and sentence as Daphne Abdela. 762 00:46:18,025 --> 00:46:21,862 It felt a little like a compromise to me. 763 00:46:21,945 --> 00:46:23,947 [solemn music playing] 764 00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:26,992 The jury was crying. 765 00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:29,244 Crying. 766 00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:32,664 'Cause they were looking at Irish's family. 767 00:46:33,499 --> 00:46:38,045 It hurt the McMorrows 'cause they knew how much he suffered, 768 00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:41,423 and they didn't think they got justice. 769 00:46:43,175 --> 00:46:45,511 [Charles] I was very angry with that verdict. 770 00:46:47,554 --> 00:46:50,015 Thirty-eight stab wounds is not manslaughter. 771 00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:01,777 [Plansky] I think the jury didn't think that a kid that young 772 00:47:01,860 --> 00:47:06,698 should bear the mark of murderer for the rest of his life. 773 00:47:06,782 --> 00:47:09,201 I'm a big believer in following the law, 774 00:47:10,118 --> 00:47:14,540 but the law is complicated because humans are involved. 775 00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:17,417 And when humans are involved, emotions are involved. 776 00:47:18,794 --> 00:47:22,673 [Butcher] Most of the cases that fascinate us are mysteries. 777 00:47:23,257 --> 00:47:24,675 "Who did this thing?" 778 00:47:25,884 --> 00:47:28,887 In this case, that's not it at all. 779 00:47:28,971 --> 00:47:32,599 We know who did it, but why? 780 00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:34,726 Call it a folie à deux, 781 00:47:35,227 --> 00:47:39,398 where the two of them combined their insanity 782 00:47:39,481 --> 00:47:41,984 to form one killing machine… 783 00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:46,446 or just kicks. 784 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:50,325 Why? Why? Why? 785 00:47:51,285 --> 00:47:53,662 That's the kind of thing that drives you crazy. 786 00:47:54,538 --> 00:47:56,582 [Mooney] There's no way to know exactly what happened, 787 00:47:56,665 --> 00:47:59,042 'cause there was three people, and one's dead. 788 00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:02,129 That's what happens. That's why I say, when people go, "You solved that case," 789 00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:03,630 "Nah, that's a bad word." 790 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:07,134 Solving the case that you actually know what happened, 791 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:09,177 and a lot of the time, you don't. 792 00:48:09,261 --> 00:48:11,388 You certainly can suppose what happened. 793 00:48:11,471 --> 00:48:13,432 You can look at what some of the evidence 794 00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:16,476 will lead you to think is the logical conclusion, 795 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,396 but without that narration, there's no way. 796 00:48:31,617 --> 00:48:33,952 [reporter] The so-called "Baby-Faced Killers of Central Park" 797 00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:36,747 are out of prison tonight after nearly seven years. 798 00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:39,207 Abdela, now 21, was released Friday. 799 00:48:39,291 --> 00:48:42,753 Her former boyfriend, 22-year-old Vasquez, was released this morning. 800 00:48:42,836 --> 00:48:46,298 As part of their parole, the two are barred from seeing one another. 801 00:48:50,802 --> 00:48:54,890 Yeah, my brother's life was worth a lot more than six years in prison. 802 00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,770 [Butcher] I don't feel like justice was done. 803 00:49:00,812 --> 00:49:03,815 I know, it's the system, and that's the law, they were kids, 804 00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:05,317 and that's what happens… 805 00:49:06,818 --> 00:49:09,112 but it just doesn't feel fair. 806 00:49:11,949 --> 00:49:13,158 Not fair at all. 807 00:49:16,745 --> 00:49:19,539 Years later, Daphne, when she was out on parole, 808 00:49:19,623 --> 00:49:20,832 violated her parole. 809 00:49:22,084 --> 00:49:23,835 [Mooney] She was in a halfway house 810 00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:27,923 and assaulted one of the other residents at that house. 811 00:49:28,006 --> 00:49:32,803 And actually went back and served the full term, nine years. 812 00:49:33,303 --> 00:49:36,431 Chris got out after six years. 813 00:49:37,182 --> 00:49:41,478 I'm not aware of him ever doing anything to reoffend in any way 814 00:49:41,561 --> 00:49:43,230 in all the years since then. 815 00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:45,315 [understated, pensive music playing] 816 00:49:49,611 --> 00:49:53,824 It was a really difficult experience on both a personal and professional level. 817 00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:56,868 You know, it was an unusual case, 818 00:49:56,952 --> 00:49:58,662 an emotional case. 819 00:49:58,745 --> 00:50:00,205 Those feelings linger. 820 00:50:03,208 --> 00:50:05,627 One of the best things that came out of that case 821 00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:07,838 was that I got to know Rob Mooney. 822 00:50:07,921 --> 00:50:12,676 And I didn't know it at the time, but we were just getting warmed up. 823 00:50:19,307 --> 00:50:21,309 [distorted audio warping] 824 00:50:21,393 --> 00:50:22,394 [train car rumbling] 825 00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:36,867 Eight o'clock in the morning, the phones are ringing like crazy. 826 00:50:36,950 --> 00:50:41,121 Everybody's talking about a missing cleaning woman 827 00:50:41,204 --> 00:50:44,249 in the financial district named Eridania. 828 00:50:44,332 --> 00:50:48,420 Coworkers say that she always has dinner with them during their shift, 829 00:50:48,503 --> 00:50:51,506 but the last time they saw her was around eight o'clock, 830 00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:53,133 and she hasn't been seen since. 831 00:50:54,426 --> 00:50:58,013 [McNeely] It's definitely a daunting task to search that building 832 00:50:58,096 --> 00:51:02,434 for anyone or anything, because it goes up 26 floors. 833 00:51:03,226 --> 00:51:04,978 She's not seen again on camera. 834 00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:08,023 She's not seen getting off the elevator at any other time. 835 00:51:08,106 --> 00:51:09,816 And she's not seen leaving that building. 836 00:51:12,319 --> 00:51:13,320 Where is she? 837 00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:17,282 [Titus] We looked at every nook and cranny of the building from top to bottom 838 00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:19,159 and couldn't find her. 839 00:51:19,951 --> 00:51:24,206 That means that instead of just 2 Rector Street being the place 840 00:51:24,289 --> 00:51:27,501 where all of the investigation was gonna take place, 841 00:51:27,584 --> 00:51:29,377 it now became New York City. 842 00:51:32,422 --> 00:51:34,424 [dramatic outro music pulsing]