1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,120 [tape rewinds, whirs] 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,400 [ominous music playing] 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,560 [man 1] Mr. Jackson, uh… [clears throat] …we're back here after the lunch break. 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,800 Did anything occur over the lunch break that, uh, would affect your ability 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,280 to recall or recount information? 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:22,320 No. 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,120 [man 1] Are you familiar with a person named Jordy Chandler? 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:31,880 -Who? -[man 2] We're not going there. 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,200 Don't answer. 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,800 We're not going to get into who he knows and doesn't know. 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,640 If you want to ask a question, go ahead and ask it, but… 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,960 I believe it's beyond the scope of discoverable matters in the case. 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,760 [Ron] Michael Jackson is sitting there smiling. 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,840 Of course he knows Jordy Chandler. 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,240 [man 1] Is it your position that you will instruct Mr. Jackson 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,120 not to answer any questions 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,280 that pertain to the issue of Jordy Chandler in any way? 18 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,120 [Ron] This was the first allegation of abuse against Michael Jackson. 19 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,280 The Chandler case took place about ten years 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,960 prior to the case involving Gavin. 21 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,480 I wanted the jury to understand that this guy's done this before. 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:18,520 [man] Michael! 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,720 [Ron] I wanted to bring in that evidence to show 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,560 that he has a propensity to commit sex crimes. 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,600 -It could change the outcome of this case. -[crowd yelling indistinctly] 26 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,520 [woman on TV] …the Jackson jury to hear past trial sex claims. 27 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,800 This is a critical ruling. 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,160 -Where there's smoke, there's fire. -[crowd yelling] 29 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,720 [Ron] It's very compelling evidence. 30 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,680 And every time I have done that on a child molest case, I've won. 31 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,560 [crowd yelling] 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,160 -[crowd chanting] Michael, innocent! -[ominous music continues] 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,600 [unsettling music playing] 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:55,560 [Ron] Neverland. 35 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,080 This fantasy island that he created… 36 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,960 was a huge piece of property with multitudes of staff. 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,600 I believe some of the cleaning staff, the senior staff, the secretaries, 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,160 the security people, knew what was going on. 39 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,320 I am convinced some of them were complicit. 40 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,280 How could they not have known? 41 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,880 [unsettling music continues] 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,920 They knew when to stay away and where to stay away. 43 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,600 They understood that, you know, as long as you work here, 44 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,840 don't dare ever think about even mentioning what goes on here to anybody. 45 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,960 There will be hell to pay if you do. 46 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,000 [music turns ominous] 47 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,760 We wanted the jury to know what they saw. 48 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,040 [woman on TV] The Michael Jackson trial is back in session today. 49 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,600 The jurors continue to hear testimony about past molestation allegations 50 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,400 against the self-proclaimed King of Pop. 51 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,800 -[crowd yelling indistinctly] -[man] Michael! 52 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,400 [Diane] Former employees were going to come and testify that for years, 53 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,880 Michael Jackson lured young boys to Neverland 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,400 and sexually molested them. 55 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,800 It could be a real game changer. 56 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,840 [man 1 on TV] Each day, we're going to hear disturbing details 57 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:12,160 of what people claim that they saw. 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,160 Michael Jackson knew what they had seen. 59 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,520 [ominous music continues] 60 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,920 I had interviewed former employees of his. 61 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,400 They'd all talked about misbehavior between Michael and young boys. 62 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,040 None of them came forward until we got them to. 63 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,480 Get into court, you have to answer questions. 64 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,560 [tense, pensive music playing] 65 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,280 [Diane] I'll just read out of my notebook. 66 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,520 Ralph Chacon. He was a security guard at Neverland. 67 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,120 One night on his patrol by the shower area, by the swimming pool… 68 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,520 [water splashing] 69 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,440 …there was Michael and Jordy Chandler, both naked. 70 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,440 "I saw that Mr. Jackson was caressing the boy's hair and caressing his face." 71 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,840 "And Michael Jackson performing oral sex on the boy." 72 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,840 Blanca Francia, a former maid, 73 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,640 talks about finding Wade Robson in the shower with Michael Jackson. 74 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,760 [man 2 on TV] Testimony just keeps on coming. 75 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,960 Another ex-employee took the stand. 76 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,720 [Diane] A former chef from Neverland named Phillip LeMarque. 77 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,920 He testifies that Michael Jackson was playing the Thriller video game 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,520 with the movie star Macaulay Culkin. 79 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,680 And Michael Jackson's left hand was inside the pants of the kid. 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,160 [video game trilling] 81 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,480 Question, why didn't you go to the police? 82 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,800 Quote, "No one would have believed me." 83 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,160 [Ron] There wasn't a one of them who was able to say 84 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,320 that Michael Jackson, to their knowledge, 85 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,400 ever had an adult guest in his room overnight. 86 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,120 Not even a wife. And he was married twice. 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,680 It was only adolescent boys who stayed in his room. 88 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,600 Many members of the press started to say, 89 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,840 "This is a bigger subject than we thought, than just the Arvizo family." 90 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,480 According to witnesses, 91 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,960 there was the Home Alone kid, Macaulay Culkin, 92 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,320 Wade Robson, Brett Barnes, 93 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,080 and Jordan Chandler. 94 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,400 [Kevin] It was like this pattern of prepubescent boys. 95 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:09,880 Almost like a conveyor belt. 96 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,640 They come in young, get old, they get off the other side. 97 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,960 Jim, bring me up to date, friend. 98 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:20,560 Five other children who Jackson allegedly groomed and inappropriately touched 99 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,120 could very well turn this jury against Michael Jackson. 100 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,080 [ominous music playing] 101 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,320 It did make me kind of stop and think, 102 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,200 "Wow, what if they're, like, the same thing that's been going on with Gavin, 103 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,800 you know, the same MO?" 104 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,520 [Nancy] Five boys, 105 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,400 but only one of them is going to testify, correct? 106 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,600 Four of the boys, Jordy Chandler, Brett Barnes, 107 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,640 and Wade Robson, and Macaulay Culkin, 108 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,680 none of them would talk to us. 109 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,720 We were down to one. 110 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,880 [ominous music continues] 111 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,480 Blanca Francia was one of the maids. 112 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,280 She had a son, adolescent son, named Jason, 113 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,680 now an adult, who was cooperative. 114 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,920 And he did testify for us. 115 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,560 You know, when he first walked in, I noticed Michael Jackson look at him 116 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,000 and then snap his head around, and he just looked forward. 117 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,680 Jason Francia, youth pastor, then about 8, 9, 10 years old. 118 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,160 Three times, he said he was abused by Michael Jackson. 119 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,640 "Question, 'Did his hands make contact with your genitalia?'" 120 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,680 "'Yes, over the clothes.'" 121 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,320 "'How long was his hand there?'" 122 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,360 "'Two cartoons' worth.'" 123 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,440 [unsettling music playing] 124 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Well, it was very moving. 125 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,000 I had interviewed his mother about these incidents back in 1993, 126 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,240 and here, years later, 127 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,320 her son is telling me exactly the same thing. [voice breaks] 128 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,360 It really got to me. 129 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,240 His testimony really got to me. 130 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,640 [man on TV] There's witness after witness 131 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,000 that say Jackson has a pattern and practice of molesting children. 132 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,840 And the jury's going to look to that, 133 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,880 and they're going to have a difficult time 134 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,200 saying that Jackson is not a pedophile in this case. 135 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,520 The prosecution, they said, "We got him." 136 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,960 We have a serial pedophile. 137 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,560 Well, what a bunch of junk that was. 138 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,080 The people who testified, 139 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,040 Francia, Chacon, McManus, LaMarque, 140 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,560 former employees who were angry. 141 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,080 They had an ax to grind. 142 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,840 -And we were going to prove it. -[dramatic music playing] 143 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,080 Jackson's lead attorney, Tom Mesereau, counterattacked ferociously. 144 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,960 [Trent] The defense skillfully took each one of these witnesses 145 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,840 and put them in one box, 146 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,680 and it was a box of grifters. 147 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,160 [dramatic music continues] 148 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,760 Some of these people were paid money by the media for their stories. 149 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,720 [Nancy] The housekeeper reportedly sold her story to Hard Copy for $20,000. 150 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,920 [Diane] He had something on every single one of them. 151 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,440 You got $20,000? 152 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,520 The fact of the matter is, back in the '90s, 153 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,200 tabloid television paid people. 154 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,520 I mean, everybody knows that. 155 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,040 Now they're having their reputation battered in court. 156 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,600 He was masterful. 157 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,920 I mean, he used facts and a tone of voice that made the jury think, 158 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,320 "Oh boy, these people can't be believed." 159 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,600 [tense music playing] 160 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,600 Yeah, you know, in my opinion, money hungry. 161 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,600 People wanted Michael Jackson's money, 162 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,720 no matter how to get it. 163 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,200 [Thomas] I think we cross-examined effectively. 164 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,880 They put on witnesses who were lacking in credibility. 165 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,080 [man 1 on TV] Every one of these prosecution witnesses 166 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,160 has their own little ax to grind to some degree. 167 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,120 [woman on TV] This is just Mesereau throwing more dirt. 168 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,320 We've had ten people testify, and he says they're all crooks and liars. 169 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,560 You have to buy that all these ten people are willing to risk perjury, defamation… 170 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,160 [man 1] They made a pretty strong case here. 171 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,480 [man 2] All about credibility, not physical evidence. 172 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,760 All of this is hanging in the air for the jury to consider. 173 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,840 [music fades] 174 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,280 [woman] I think the prosecution needs to pull something really big out of the bag. 175 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,800 [crowd chanting] Michael, innocent! 176 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,760 [Diane] As terrible as it looked at that point for the prosecution, 177 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,480 what they did next, I thought, was brilliant. 178 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,680 What better person to bring to the stand 179 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,400 than the mother of Jordy Chandler, 180 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,800 the little boy who got millions and millions of dollars to shut up? 181 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,640 -And so June Chandler came to the stand. -[ominous music playing] 182 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,280 [Brian] When we discovered that June Chandler was going to take the stand, 183 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,320 there was pandemonium, okay? [laughs] 184 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,280 It came back to haunt us. 185 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,720 [Diane] To understand how significant it was 186 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,600 for the mother of Jordy Chandler to take the stand, 187 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:56,520 you have to go back ten years earlier, 188 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,400 with this notebook right here, 189 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,240 book number one of my notes on Michael Jackson. 190 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,120 This is the original story that we broke back in 1993. 191 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,920 [ominous music playing] 192 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,280 [man 1 on TV] America is in shock tonight over the scandal 193 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,560 surrounding pop star Michael Jackson. 194 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,000 Barry, I don't want to overstate anything. 195 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,800 I try to be a careful reporter. 196 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,320 But we could very well be watching the downfall of a superstar. 197 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,320 [man 2] Sources in Los Angeles say a 13-year-old boy's claim of sexual abuse 198 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,600 led to the criminal probe of Michael Jackson. 199 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:28,080 [ominous music continues] 200 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,240 [man 3] It's the LAPD's Sexually Exploited Child Unit 201 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,440 of their Juvenile Division that is handling this case. 202 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,880 [music crescendos] 203 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,080 [Rosibel] When we first interviewed the victim, 204 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,920 it was at his father's home. 205 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,200 His parents were divorced. 206 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:50,120 The allegations were he had a sexual relationship with Michael Jackson. 207 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,640 The victim became very detailed. 208 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,400 One of the allegations was that they would shower together. 209 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,600 He drew specific details of Mr. Jackson's body. 210 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:06,400 He drew a picture of Mr. Jackson's private part, and specifically his penis, 211 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:11,320 stating that Mr. Jackson had markings on his, uh, penis. 212 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,360 Because of the details that he was giving to me 213 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,480 and to the other officers in the room, 214 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,040 there was absolutely no way that he could make this up. 215 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,800 [tense music playing] 216 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,120 [man 1 on TV] The Jacksons' lawyers had to guarantee 217 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,160 that Michael would submit to a police strip search 218 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,400 so cops could see if various parts of Jackson's body 219 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,160 matched up with the descriptions. 220 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,120 [Rosibel] The body warrant was served to photograph Michael Jackson. 221 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,080 [camera clicking] 222 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,200 Mr. Jackson was hysterical at the time, 223 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,880 yelling, screaming, yelling at his attorneys, 224 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,360 "How are you allowing this to happen?" 225 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,160 They served a search warrant on me 226 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,720 which allowed them to view and photograph my body, 227 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,000 including my penis, my buttocks, my lower torso, 228 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,680 thighs, and any other area that they wanted. 229 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,360 [woman on TV] This is the first time the world has seen Michael Jackson 230 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,680 deny the allegations of sexual abuse. 231 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,320 In a message carried on live television from his Santa Barbara ranch, 232 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,440 he emotionally described undergoing a recent body search by investigators. 233 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,760 It was the most humiliating ordeal of my life. 234 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,360 [tense music continues] 235 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,760 [Rosibel] From what I understand, 236 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:27,640 some detectives were able to corroborate the sketch, 237 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,400 actually match the photographs and the markings 238 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,760 that Michael Jackson had on his body. 239 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,040 [music intensifies] 240 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,560 We knew that we had a good case, 241 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,640 but the victim did not want to pursue the criminal case. 242 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,440 [music turns dramatic] 243 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,640 The young boy who was the catalyst, uh, for this investigation 244 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,680 has recently informed us that he does not wish to participate, 245 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,320 that we must decline prosecution involving Mr. Jackson. 246 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,520 [Rosibel] I was in disbelief. 247 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,720 We don't have a victim. 248 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,120 We don't have anybody else who's willing to come forward. 249 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,760 We don't have a case. 250 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,440 [man 2 on TV] The settlement is in, 251 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,440 and Jackson's young accuser is now California's newest millionaire. 252 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,280 Michael Jackson understood what this kid was capable of doing to him, 253 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,920 and $23 million was to keep Michael Jackson out of prison. 254 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,360 I did say to him, you know, "But that's got to be the end, Mike." 255 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,800 "You can never be seen around kids again, ever." 256 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,960 [music fades] 257 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,760 -[crowd chanting] Michael, innocent! -[yelling indistinctly] 258 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,600 -Michael, innocent! -[somber music playing] 259 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,360 [man on TV] The mother of the 1993 alleged victim 260 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,360 is the 51st witness to testify for the prosecution. 261 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,320 June Chandler, this highly credible witness. 262 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,080 This is the first time the jury's going to hear 263 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,840 the truth about what happened with her son. 264 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,080 Everything short of the actual description of molestation, 265 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,160 everything else could come from her. 266 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,760 June Chandler's testimony was riveting. 267 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,680 [ominous music playing] 268 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,200 -[games chiming] -[indistinct chatter] 269 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,720 [Diane] She said she and her son and small daughter 270 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,280 traveled the world with Michael Jackson. 271 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,000 [cameras clicking] 272 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,840 It was a whirlwind existence. 273 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,520 [ominous music continues] 274 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,240 June Chandler testified 275 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,720 it was the end of March 1993 that they went to Vegas. 276 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,960 Jackson came to her crying. 277 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,160 "You don't trust me. We're a family. Why won't you let Jordan be with me?" 278 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,840 And she said, "He is with you." 279 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,000 "But why not in my bedroom?" 280 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,000 And Michael was trembling and saying, 281 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,760 "We're a family. Jordy is having fun with me." 282 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,480 "Why can't he sleep in my bed? There's nothing wrong." 283 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,480 "There's nothing going on. Don't you trust me?" 284 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,120 And in the end, she did allow him to sleep with Jackson. 285 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,160 And from that point on, he always slept with Michael Jackson. 286 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:07,960 MJ spent the night more than 30 times in her Santa Monica house. 287 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,640 Where did they stay? "In my son's bedroom." 288 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,400 Question, "Is there more than one bed in that room?" 289 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,440 "No." 290 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,520 [ominous music continues] 291 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,640 That just gives me chills. 292 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,680 You couldn't get it out of your mind that this woman 293 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:28,400 got talked into letting her son sleep with Michael Jackson. 294 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,240 He was 12 years old. 295 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,440 [man on TV] Jackson gave her a very expensive Cartier bracelet. 296 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,240 And from then on, every time Jackson and Jordy were together, 297 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,640 they shared a bed. 298 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,400 You got the sense that she sold her son. 299 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:42,920 [music turns unsettling] 300 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,800 [Diane] And then she told the jury that she hadn't seen her son in 11 years. 301 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:54,040 You got the impression that June Chandler realized she had done something wrong. 302 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,840 She had allowed access to her son that she now regretted. 303 00:15:58,560 --> 00:15:59,920 I know she was hurting. 304 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,760 I could see that in her face when she would talk about Jordy. 305 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,160 [somber music playing] 306 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,320 [Ron] They were not able to resume 307 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:13,040 a kind of a normal mother-son relationship after that. 308 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,160 It would be speculation, but I think Jordan blamed her 309 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,000 for not protecting him from this abusive relationship 310 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,160 as a mother should have been. 311 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,760 You get diamonds, I get abused. 312 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,520 That's their understanding. 313 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,360 It was heartbreaking and infuriating at the same time. 314 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,080 I just remember sitting in the room watching her on the stand. 315 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,280 I just thought, "This woman perhaps gave a death blow to Michael." 316 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,160 I'm thinking the jury is going to send him to prison. 317 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,840 It did make me kind of stop and think, "Wow." 318 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:51,720 Knowing that Michael Jackson paid off this family 319 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,160 makes you wonder, is he guilty? 320 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,200 [man 1] Michael. Michael, do you think June Chandler told the truth? 321 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,200 There'll be no comment. There'll be no comment. 322 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,160 [man 2 on TV] The pattern she showed was so close to the current case, 323 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,680 the jury could really believe Jackson had a way 324 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,480 of going about seducing these kids. 325 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,440 [man 3] The prosecution is wrapping up the molestation part of its case, 326 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,760 moving on to conspiracy, 327 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,040 alleging the Arvizo family was held against their will. 328 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,120 [tense music playing] 329 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,160 Janet Arvizo, the mother of the accuser, is on the stand. 330 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:26,800 [crowd chanting] Innocent! 331 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,600 -Innocent! -Michael! 332 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,120 [woman on TV] Michael Jackson face-to-face with the mother 333 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,640 of the teenage boy he's accused of molesting. 334 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,280 For the prosecutors, Janet Arvizo, the mother of the accuser, Gavin Arvizo, 335 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:42,560 could not be a more important, pivotal witness. 336 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:43,640 [tense music continues] 337 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,920 She was going to testify that she had been kidnapped, 338 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,960 the family had been held against their will, 339 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,480 and then Michael Jackson had molested her son. 340 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,760 -[indistinct chatter] -[tense music continues] 341 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,760 [Ron] Janet was a very complicated woman. 342 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,600 Three kids when she was very young, lived in a state of poverty. 343 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,320 They had a one-room studio apartment. 344 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,200 Married to a man who was violent and abusive. 345 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,600 And that had an effect on how she viewed the world. 346 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,240 Insecure and conflicted and emotionally traumatized. 347 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:17,880 And that's how she presented. 348 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,280 [woman on TV] Emotional testimony revolved around the charge 349 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,440 that Jackson falsely imprisoned her and her three children. 350 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:29,840 [Diane] On the stand, Janet talked about being surrounded by the Jackson team 351 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,400 after the Martin Bashir documentary. 352 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,720 They said, "We've got to hide you at Neverland, 353 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,640 so the media can't get you." 354 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,280 So she did anything they told her. 355 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:43,640 -[music turns ominous] -[VCR clicks, whirs] 356 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,720 [Ron] We discovered fairly early in the case, 357 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,960 the video that depicted the entire Arvizo family 358 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,440 proclaiming their praise for Michael Jackson 359 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,240 and how much he's done for their family. 360 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,080 He plays with them, laughs with them. 361 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:57,840 He, uh… 362 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,000 lets them win. [laughs] 363 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,320 [Ron] At the time that that video was made, 364 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,480 Janet had no awareness at all that there was anything going on that was unseemly, 365 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,720 anything that was wrong, anything that was criminal. 366 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,760 She still believed that Michael Jackson was the family savior. 367 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,160 Every door closed on us, 368 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,320 and Michael said, "All my doors are open." 369 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,640 "My home is your home." 370 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,440 "And your children, 371 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,120 I am like their father." 372 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,520 And me, he calls me "family." 373 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,200 [unsettling music playing] 374 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:37,240 [Ron] Michael Jackson telling her that they are now family, 375 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,840 that he has a special relationship not just with her son, 376 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,280 but with her as well, and that he could be counted upon, 377 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,920 those were the types of things that June Chandler testified to as well. 378 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,520 What every prosecutor who deals with sex crimes learns quickly, 379 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,880 a pattern of behavior is repeated over a period of time. 380 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,920 And we believe there is a grooming process that extends beyond the child, 381 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,920 that includes the family of the child. 382 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,360 Pretty consistently with all of these kids that Michael Jackson was involved with, 383 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,760 there was no father figure. 384 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,680 That was the case with Jordan. I mean, there was a divorce. 385 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,400 It was the case with Gavin. 386 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,880 Michael Jackson telling them, "I am the father now." 387 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,400 "I will take care of you, and I will love you, 388 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,600 and you will be cared for and you will be attended to." 389 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,200 "You have to believe I have only your best interests at heart." 390 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,640 "Now let's go to bed." 391 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,600 [unsettling music continues] 392 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,080 From the very beginning, 393 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,280 things did not make sense about this family. 394 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:42,000 [dramatic music playing] 395 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,640 Michael Jackson, he couldn't understand, 396 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,240 why are they doing this to me? 397 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,600 Everybody has a past. 398 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,760 So when it came to Arvizos, who are these people? 399 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,800 Michael told me, "That's your job, Brian." 400 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,240 "Your job is to find out what really happened here." 401 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,520 I need to find every skeleton in their closet, 402 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,200 dirt on their shoes. 403 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,240 "You've got to sniff it out." 404 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,120 Do the search, court records. 405 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,240 Bingo. 406 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,120 There's a case against JCPenney's by the Arvizos. 407 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,760 [ominous music playing] 408 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,200 Gavin Arvizo went in and stole clothing, 409 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,960 and the security guard saw him and caught him. 410 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,160 Janet Arvizo sees what's happening, 411 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,280 and a melee ensued. 412 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,800 A fight. 413 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,360 They did not get charged with shoplifting. 414 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,880 Instead, Janet Arvizo filed a lawsuit against JCPenney's, 415 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:47,680 saying that the security guard supposedly molested Janet Arvizo in the parking lot. 416 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,160 [music fades] 417 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,800 Wait a minute, they've done this before. 418 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,640 This is the same MO. 419 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,440 I found out there was $152,000 420 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,640 paid to them in a settlement agreement. 421 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:08,040 And I said, "They've got all this money. What are they doing on welfare?" 422 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,040 They were scam artists. They knew how to do it. 423 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:13,560 I found the smoking gun. 424 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,680 But was it enough? 425 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,320 [suspenseful music playing] 426 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,600 [woman 1] Today at the Jackson trial, 427 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,880 Jackson's attorney begins cross-examining his accuser's mother. 428 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,880 Now the defense came into play. 429 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,720 [woman 2] Michael, are you looking forward to the cross-examination of this witness? 430 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,640 [Trent] Tom Mesereau's cross-examination, it was surgical. 431 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,120 Never explosive, but devastating. 432 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,680 He flipped the narrative. 433 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,880 He made the Arvizos the aggressors, 434 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,080 the predators, and Michael Jackson the prey. 435 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,960 The welfare fraud was so powerful, 436 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,240 it resulted in her claiming the Fifth Amendment. 437 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,920 He allowed Janet Arvizo to effectively hang herself. 438 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,440 There was a palpable reaction in the courtroom. 439 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,120 [Melissa] It did bother me. 440 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,760 -To me, it was… -[suspenseful music continues] 441 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,640 It was just a farce, you know. 442 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,440 She just… She just was out for money. 443 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,640 Out for money. 444 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,200 At every opportunity, the defense absolutely excoriated her. 445 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,720 The whole notion that they're a family of grifters 446 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,160 looking for a quick buck is nonsense. 447 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:26,960 There was high drama in the courtroom 448 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,200 of the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. 449 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,600 She witnessed Jackson licking her son's face, 450 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,600 and she actually did a reenactment of that, 451 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,520 which must have been incredibly bizarre. 452 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,720 She shouted, quote, 453 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,480 "Neverland is all about booze, pornography, and sex with boys." 454 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,440 She was rambling. She was incoherent. She was emotional. 455 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,320 [Diane] She was on the stand several days in a row. 456 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,600 [reporters clamoring] 457 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,240 [Diane] Every day, she appeared as a different person. 458 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,400 Once very meek, and then the next day very mad, 459 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,640 and then the next day very sad. 460 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,360 You just never knew what you were gonna get with Janet Arvizo. 461 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,320 All I know is sitting, you know, six feet away from her, 462 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,560 she was pointing at the jury. 463 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,680 "Put yourself in my shoes. Don't you judge me." 464 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,240 Talking about being kidnapped in a hot-air balloon. 465 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,640 I called her Janet from Another Planet. 466 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:21,480 Sorry, but, you know, I mean, that's just how she acted. 467 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,760 [tense, pensive music playing] 468 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,960 [Ron] It's a normal reaction for a mother who realizes 469 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,240 that their child has been exposed to harm. 470 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,520 And she was somebody who psychologically didn't have the ability to deal with it. 471 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,080 I'm not sure I would have the ability to deal with it, 472 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,440 and I had a fairly normal upbringing. 473 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,280 Today, we went from Neverland to fantasy land. 474 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,200 [Trent] This witness was a disaster. 475 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:53,720 She was the worst possible witness you could have imagined for a prosecutor. 476 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,160 It was an extraordinarily pivotal moment in the case. 477 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,000 She was, at the end of the day, what the defense needed. 478 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,280 And that was walking, talking, reasonable doubt. 479 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,760 [crowd yelling indistinctly] 480 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,600 [Trent] I think it was a really important moment for Michael Jackson. 481 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,040 The case was going very well for him. 482 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,120 [tense, pensive music continues] 483 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,440 [woman] Michael, are you pleased with the way the cross-examination is going? 484 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,080 -[Michael] It's going well. -[crowd yelling] 485 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,680 [Kerry] Michael was real excited and jubilant, as a matter of fact. 486 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,040 -It made it a good day. -[music turns ominous] 487 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,840 I cherish those days, um, the good days, 488 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,440 because most of the times were extremely stressful. 489 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,960 Throughout the trial, he was deteriorating mentally and physically, 490 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,160 you know, because he was just paralyzed with fear and anxiety. 491 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,240 At times, you would see him… 492 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,960 just in thought, 493 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,320 and I'd see tears come down, 494 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,160 you know, because it was destroying him. 495 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,560 [woman 1 on TV] A key prosecution witness is expected to testify, Jackson's ex-wife. 496 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:07,840 [woman 2] The singer's ex-wife, 497 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,080 the mother of two of his children, is set to take the witness stand. 498 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,600 Just knowing that Debbie Rowe is on the prosecution's side, 499 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,880 that was problematic. 500 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,040 [tense music playing] 501 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,920 [Randy] Debbie, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, now she's going to be a witness. 502 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,720 I'm thinking, "Oh man, what's going to happen?" 503 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,200 [Diane] Debbie Rowe gives Michael Jackson what he's always wanted, his own children. 504 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,560 Not one, but two. 505 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,280 And she agrees not to be part of the children's life. 506 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:43,000 She gave up her parental rights so that the children were all his. 507 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,440 But she changed her mind. 508 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,840 [man on TV] Rowe is locked in a custody battle with Jackson 509 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:49,960 over their children 510 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,280 and is reportedly upset because the singer has not paid alimony for more than a year. 511 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:55,920 [Diane] She told the prosecution 512 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,360 she hadn't seen her children in two and a half years 513 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,320 because Jackson wouldn't let her, and she called him a sociopath. 514 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,280 What a coup for the prosecution to get Debbie Rowe. 515 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,800 [ominous music playing] 516 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,600 [Randy] The night before, 517 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,080 I was at a steak joint where we always ate every single night. 518 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,520 And there's Debbie. 519 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,760 She's with the prosecution, and they're huddling, 520 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,360 and they got their heads down, and they're taking notes, 521 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,960 and she's being very animated, and who the heck knew what she was saying? 522 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,320 But I knew it wasn't good. 523 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,480 [ominous music continues] 524 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,200 [woman on TV] Sparks could fly later today 525 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,720 in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial with the singer's ex-wife. 526 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,560 -[crowd screaming] -[Ron] At this point, we had a battle. 527 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,520 We had to pull out all the stops. 528 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,720 Debbie Rowe, she had information that was relevant, you know, 529 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,920 critical of him and what he did with children. 530 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,360 Now, could we get her to deliver that information 531 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,480 in a way that was effective and was received well by a jury? 532 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,760 She didn't demonstrate any hesitancy in doing so. 533 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,600 Could be potentially devastating for this defense. 534 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,880 [man on TV] I think she'll be given instant credibility 535 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,400 because of who she is and what she may know. 536 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,440 [Brian] Debbie Rowe was going to appear as a prosecution witness, 537 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,880 was a heart-stopping event. 538 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,880 Randy, Jermaine, La Toya, Mr. Jackson, everyone in the defense, 539 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,680 talk about people's blood draining from their face and their heart. 540 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,400 People were going to believe she had the inside story. 541 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,480 [ominous music continues] 542 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,400 [Randy] There she is, Debbie Rowe, right? 543 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,360 And she looks at Michael. 544 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,880 He looks at her. 545 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,400 And there was a moment… 546 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,720 when I saw her flip. 547 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,640 Something happens in a courtroom that it overcomes people, 548 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,320 and their emotions come out, and her emotions came out. 549 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,560 "Michael, I think the world of you." 550 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,280 And she said so. 551 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,800 [tense, pensive music playing] 552 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,040 What she testified to and what she told us were two very different things. 553 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:19,440 Yeah, if I was expecting her to say something along the line of, um, 554 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,960 "I was very concerned about his behavior and his association with children," 555 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,400 she certainly didn't say that on the witness stand. 556 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,080 [speaks indistinctly] 557 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,600 There's a limit to what you can do to neutralize something like that. 558 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,600 You just have to live with it. 559 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,200 [Diane] It was pretty devastating. 560 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,320 The prosecution cut her testimony short. 561 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,560 They realized she's flipped. 562 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,760 She's not going to tell us what she told us behind closed doors. 563 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,880 -Michael was numb the whole time. -[ominous music playing] 564 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,880 He kind of just looked at me, "Okay, that's my Debbie." 565 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,120 "I love her too," you know? 566 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,800 [woman on TV] Debbie Rowe was touted as the prosecution's bombshell witness, 567 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,680 but she appears to have exploded in their faces. 568 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,800 As she left the stand, Debbie Rowe took this long, beseeching look, 569 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280 like, "Look at me, would you, please?" 570 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,400 He, as I recall, just kept his head down. 571 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,880 The moment she got in the courtroom, 572 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,600 took the witness stand, took one look at Jackson, 573 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,160 she melted like an ice cube. 574 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,720 [tense, pensive music playing] 575 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,520 [Diane] Did she still love him? Is that why she did it? 576 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,800 One theory, if she would testify favorably for Michael Jackson, 577 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,200 there was this backdoor agreement that he would let her see her children. 578 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,640 I don't think anybody really knows except Debbie Rowe. 579 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,760 [woman] Michael, was it good to see Debbie again? 580 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,280 [man 1] Michael, what was it like to see Debbie Rowe? 581 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,160 -No comment, sir. -[woman] No comment at all? 582 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,280 [man 2 on TV] The one person who has a right to hate Michael Jackson, doesn't. 583 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,240 What does that say about Michael Jackson? 584 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,040 How could they put this witness on the stand? 585 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,080 How could they not know what she was going to testify to? 586 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,120 [man 3] It's bad. It's especially bad because it's so late in the case. 587 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,080 You know, the defense is about to begin. 588 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,080 You want to start strong and end strong. 589 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,760 Well, this is both the end of the prosecution case 590 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,800 and the end of the prosecution case. 591 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,880 [ominous music playing] 592 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,160 [man on TV] Forty-five days and 85 witnesses later, 593 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,040 the prosecution in the Michael Jackson case rested. 594 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,960 [suspenseful music playing] 595 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,200 [Brian] The prosecution made so many mistakes, 596 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,920 Martin Bashir being one of them. 597 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,800 Debbie Rowe, oh my goodness. 598 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,360 But we, we were still in trouble. 599 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,880 Public opinion, very important. 600 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,360 Seventy percent said he was guilty. 601 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,120 Oh man, we were getting killed. 602 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,680 Since when do that number of Americans agree on anything? 603 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760 Could we move that needle 604 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,880 back where it belonged on the defense side? 605 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,440 I can't wait till it's over. If I see him in his pajamas again, 606 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,880 I don't know if I'll get through. 607 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,360 Defense is close to presenting its side. 608 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,560 Let's meet our panel and go to your calls. 609 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,160 -[woman] Hi, Larry. -[Larry] Go ahead. 610 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,360 [woman] Do you think they should let Michael get on the stand? 611 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,000 If I were defending him, absolutely not. 612 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,880 [tense music playing] 613 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,440 [crowd screaming] 614 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,040 [yelling] 615 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,080 [Nancy] After ten weeks of taking pot shots at the state's case, 616 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,440 the defense kicks off. 617 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,000 [Diane] Now it's the defense's turn. 618 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:22,520 The defense had this big master plan to polish up Michael Jackson's reputation. 619 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,640 So who do they call? 620 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,240 Wade Robson. 621 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,120 They call Brett Barnes, 622 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,160 who the prosecution said that Michael Jackson groomed 623 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,720 and sexually molested. 624 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,760 But guess what? 625 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,400 They also called the movie star Macaulay Culkin. 626 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,680 The Home Alone kid always said glowing things about Michael Jackson. 627 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,760 What happened at the house? That's what people are concerned about. 628 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440 That's what's so weird. Nothing happened. 629 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,480 You know, I mean, nothing, really. We played video games, you know? 630 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,040 [Brian] Macaulay Culkin. He's a neat guy. 631 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,600 I called him up, and I said, 632 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,240 "Mac, they're making all these accusations against Michael about you." 633 00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,760 And Macaulay Culkin says, 634 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,320 "From what I'm seeing going on in this courtroom, 635 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,000 Michael is in deep, deep trouble." 636 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,280 "I'll be there for him, Brian. I'll come in. I'll testify." 637 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,960 "I've told them a thousand times. I'll tell them again." 638 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,640 [tense music playing] 639 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,800 [Diane] The jury looked like they were a little starstruck. 640 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,120 There was the Home Alone kid right there, you know, feet away from them, 641 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,600 swearing to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. 642 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,720 He asked this jury to believe him. 643 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,280 "If you trust me, 644 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,360 Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, 645 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,080 you should trust Michael Jackson." 646 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,800 Michael Jackson stared at him, um, for a moment. 647 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,000 He smiled. 648 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:42,040 And it was a moment between two megastars, 649 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,600 um, when the world could have stopped 650 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,680 and the two of them just sort of shared a moment with each other. 651 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,480 He categorically denied that Michael Jackson ever molested 652 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720 or ever inappropriately touched him. 653 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,360 [woman on TV] Culkin called the allegations absolutely ridiculous. 654 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,680 [man] The second defense witness, Brett Barnes, said the same thing. 655 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,880 Choreographer Wade Robson told jurors he first met Jackson at age five 656 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,120 and shared a bed with him more than 20 times until he was 14. 657 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,840 [Brian] Wade says, "No, Michael never touched me." 658 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,960 "He never did anything 659 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,760 that was even remotely associated with these accusations." 660 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,160 [tense music continues] 661 00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:22,640 [Melissa] Wade was very convincing, 662 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:27,240 made me feel like he was telling me the truth. 663 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,920 It's really hard to kind of lie to somebody. 664 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,360 When you look directly at him, you kind of would look away 665 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,520 or look, you know, distracted. 666 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,640 But he didn't do any of that. 667 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:42,200 It was a trio of home runs for Tom Mesereau. 668 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:50,760 All three of those young men said their time at Neverland was magical, safe. 669 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,240 Did you always sleep with Michael Jackson when you were there? 670 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,240 "Yes." "And nothing bad ever happened?" 671 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,800 "No, nothing bad ever happened." 672 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,040 I was hearkened back to 1993 673 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,280 when Wade Robson as a 9-year-old and Brett Barnes as a 9- or 10-year-old 674 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,520 were brought out by Team Jackson. 675 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,960 [man] Have you slept in the same bed with him? 676 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,760 Yeah, but I was on one side, he was on the other. 677 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,640 It's this big bed. 678 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,000 Yeah, there's been different times where it'd just be me and Michael. 679 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,280 Then there'd be other times where he has other friends over too. 680 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,160 It's just a slumber party. We just have a lot of fun. 681 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,320 [Diane] And there they were years later, 682 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160 testifying as grown men to the very same thing. 683 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,480 Yes, they slept in bed with Michael Jackson, 684 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,400 but "nothing ever happened." 685 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,680 It was a mantra. 686 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,000 Nothing happened. 687 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,240 Nothing happened. Absolutely nothing happened. 688 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,480 How much stronger can you get for the defense? 689 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,760 And you have to wonder why the prosecution 690 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,400 brought these three cases up to begin with. 691 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,160 What we had to overcome was something that was almost devastating. 692 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:58,600 We had presented to the jury our belief that Wade Robson was a victim. 693 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,360 We had a witness who saw that he was being abused by Michael Jackson. 694 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,840 He insisted he was not. 695 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,040 That's very difficult evidence to overcome, right? 696 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,160 Now, it's my task to cross-examine him. 697 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:12,760 [Sheree] I was inside the courtroom. 698 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,000 At one point, the prosecution was so frustrated 699 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,120 on how well he was doing for the defense, 700 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,000 he leaned on the podium, like out of frustration, 701 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,800 like, "We can't break you." 702 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,720 And he said, "You know, 703 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,760 maybe he did these things to you and you were asleep." 704 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,520 The audience just gasped because it was like, 705 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,960 you're that desperate? 706 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,200 It was hard to get past that. 707 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:42,400 You know, it's hard to convince a jury when the subject of the act itself 708 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,600 says it didn't happen. 709 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:44,880 [tense music playing] 710 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,400 I had decided that the most effective way to be able to deal with that 711 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,800 was to simply do a presentation of some of the materials, 712 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,880 sexually graphic material that we had seized from Michael Jackson's home. 713 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,000 [Diane] Two books introduced by the prosecution. 714 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,920 One of them is Boys Will Be Boys! 715 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,840 And one, I'm going to cover up the cover photo, 716 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,800 called simply The Boy, a Photographic Essay. 717 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:15,200 In these books, you will see naked boys sprawled on rocks, 718 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,320 naked boys eating bananas, naked boys touching each other. 719 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,240 And suddenly, you saw Wade Robson, 720 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,280 who sat stock-still in the witness chair, 721 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,680 slump down. 722 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,400 His whole demeanor changed. 723 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,560 And you could see these books affected him. 724 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,440 And I had to wonder, 725 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,160 had Michael Jackson shown him these books? 726 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,800 [man on TV] Ron Zonen, the prosecutor, did an absolutely magnificent job 727 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,600 of taking this witness and turning him to his own witness. 728 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:52,800 [Ron] My goal was to make this jury as uneasy as possible. 729 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,880 I want the jury to sit there and think, 730 00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,160 "I sure wouldn't want my child in bed with a man 731 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,920 who found this kind of material to be fascinating or enticing." 732 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 [tense music continues] 733 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,720 [man 1 on TV] I frankly felt like I was hit by a two-by-four in the stomach. 734 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,160 It was only about two hours of testimony, but it was tremendously powerful, Nancy. 735 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:17,120 [Diane] The prosecution did score some points. 736 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,320 Was it enough? Well, that was up to the jury. 737 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,200 [tense music continues] 738 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,640 [Trent] For the next two weeks, 739 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:29,240 Tom Mesereau took the jury through every piece of evidence that was critical, 740 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,840 every witness that was important. 741 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,040 They took 50 witnesses and put them on in over two weeks. 742 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,480 [Thomas] There were so many ridiculous aspects to this trial 743 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,000 that I think our witnesses blew them out even more. 744 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,640 [man 2 on TV] Jackson lead attorney Tom Mesereau, 745 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,080 he simply said, "The defense rests." 746 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,160 [music crescendos, fades] 747 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,840 [man 3] Michael Jackson admits to sleeping with children, 748 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,080 but is the 46-year-old pop star a child molester? 749 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,680 It is now up to a jury in Santa Maria, California, to answer that question. 750 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,080 After more than three months of testimony, 751 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,000 the jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial 752 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,960 began deliberating the case on Friday. 753 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,520 [crowd chanting] Innocent! Michael! Innocent! 754 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,360 -Michael's innocent! -[suspenseful music playing] 755 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,520 [Melissa] I was nervous. 756 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,960 The first thing we did was we took a poll. 757 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,360 It was almost kind of equal 758 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,280 of people thinking he was guilty and people thinking he was innocent. 759 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:29,080 What has to be proven is beyond a reasonable doubt. 760 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,480 Can you doubt that happened? 761 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,800 [suspenseful music continues] 762 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,680 [man 1 on TV] They've been in the deliberation now for three days. 763 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,280 The longer it goes on, it could mean 764 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,640 that they're basically locked on some issues. 765 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,760 [Melissa] Emotions were high. 766 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,840 There was yelling and crying and screaming. 767 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,040 The people outside could hear us. 768 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,480 All over the world, everybody was watching. 769 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,400 The media was all up in it. 770 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,240 That's a lot of pressure. 771 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,760 [man 2 on TV] Something that is resonating through 772 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,040 the African-American community right now, 773 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,840 they do not believe that Michael Jackson is being treated fairly. 774 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,920 Michael Jackson, in front of a jury of mostly white, 775 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,040 conservative Santa Marians, 776 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,960 was probably going to be found guilty. 777 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,560 Go back to the mug shot. 778 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,760 -Go back to dancing on the roof of an SUV. -[crowd screaming] 779 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440 [man 3 on TV] There are ten counts against Michael Jackson. 780 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,480 Go back to all of the charges. 781 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,760 [man 4] I think for the prosecutors, 782 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,080 the key is looking at the big picture, saying, "There's a pattern here." 783 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,200 "This is not just about this boy." 784 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,760 This is the MO. 785 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,800 Facing the kind of charges that he was facing, the odds were against him. 786 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,480 [suspenseful music continues] 787 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,760 [Diane] The jurors, I mean, 788 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360 they're right in that room, right back there. 789 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,560 They have to reach a verdict, 790 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,560 and I don't think it's gonna happen any time soon. 791 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,360 This is a pretty complicated case. 792 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,280 Day after day after day, more and more of the fans would gather. 793 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,160 [man] Diane is on fire! 794 00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:01,360 We don't need the water! Let the bitch, bitch burn! 795 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,040 It got really tense in that parking lot. 796 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,760 [woman 1] Stop child predators! 797 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,920 [woman 2] Her problem is he's Black. 798 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,680 What came out of his mouth about sleeping with boys? 799 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,040 What came out of his mouth? 800 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,200 I don't know what kind of kids you raised. 801 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,800 That does not mean he did it. 802 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,800 You're going to hell, uh, possibly with Michael Jackson. 803 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,280 [crowd chanting] Innocent! Innocent! Innocent! 804 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,480 [Sheree] I won't use the word "anxious." 805 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,200 I will use the word "prayerful." 806 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,280 We have faith in the jury. We're gonna let them handle it. 807 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,280 [crowd chanting] Michael's innocent! 808 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,320 Sooner or later, somebody has to come out of that room 809 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,520 with some kind of an announcement. 810 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,080 We had the bailiff tell the judge, you know, "We're at a standstill." 811 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,800 "What are we supposed to do?" 812 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,760 The judge says, "No, we ain't doing no mistrial." 813 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,600 "You're gonna sit there and work it out." 814 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,920 [man on TV] The heart of this case is, 815 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,280 do you believe the boys making these accusations? 816 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,120 And do you believe this mother that they were all confined at the Neverland home? 817 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,600 [suspenseful music playing] 818 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,160 It's the biggest story of the century, so we've got to cover this. 819 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,800 What we want to know is, where's Gavin? 820 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,760 We are basically on Gavin. He doesn't know we're there. 821 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,000 It's long-lens work. 822 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,240 [camera clicking] 823 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,360 On the face of it, it's a picture of Gavin and his brother, Star, buying some snacks. 824 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,000 It looked like it was movie night. 825 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,880 And as they're leaving the store, 826 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,880 you start seeing them look up at the TV mounted on the ceiling. 827 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,000 [man 1] Breaking news. 828 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,120 The jury in Santa Maria has sent word that it has reached a verdict. 829 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,400 There's a verdict in the Jackson case. This is how he saw it. 830 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,200 We were there at that moment. 831 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,840 It's not a happy picture. He looks scared. 832 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,520 They jump on their bikes, and they pedal home as fast as they can. 833 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,480 [suspenseful music continues] 834 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,840 There is a verdict. I am told there is a verdict. 835 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:55,200 All right, so it is now official that at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, 836 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,640 a verdict will be announced in the Michael Jackson case. 837 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,520 Everybody was like, "Whoa." 838 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,560 My heart is beating real fast. 839 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,680 [man 2] A jury of 12 men and women. 840 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,400 If one of them expresses reasonable doubt 841 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,400 on any one of the charges, he is acquitted. 842 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,840 The sheriff said, "I just want to let you know 843 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,440 that when your friend is found guilty, 844 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,400 we're going to rush his ass out of that courtroom so fast 845 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,440 your head's going to spin." 846 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,880 And I'm like… 847 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,720 "This guy knows something I don't know." 848 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,600 Like, Michael Jackson's going to be found guilty. 849 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:36,080 [man 3] The jury verdict is to be read when he arrives at the courthouse. 850 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:40,360 His motorcade, as you see from this helicopter shot live. 851 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:45,320 [Kerry] Michael's life hinged on what these jurors are going to say. 852 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,960 And he's like just in shock. 853 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,320 I found a scripture in the Bible, Isaiah 41, 854 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,560 and I gave this to his mother, Katherine. 855 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,520 And I told her to read this. 856 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,880 [somber music playing] 857 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,880 "So do not fear, for I am with you." 858 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,800 "Do not be dismayed, for I am your God." 859 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,080 "I will strengthen you and help you." 860 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,000 "I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." 861 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,920 "All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced." 862 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,040 "For I am the Lord, your God, 863 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,880 who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, 864 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,280 'Do not fear, I will help you.'" 865 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,840 Wow. 866 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,600 [sniffles, sobs softly] 867 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,160 One moment. Wow. 868 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,560 This is taking me back. 869 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,040 [inhales, exhales sharply] 870 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,840 This is taking me back to that very moment. 871 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,720 [man 1 on TV] Michael Jackson is a few moments away from hearing his fate. 872 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:53,120 [Nancy] It's been over 60 days of evidence, of testimony, 873 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,400 of late-to-the-court moments. 874 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,480 In the next, uh, 50 minutes or so. 875 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,560 Live outside. 876 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,000 The jury will release its judgment. 877 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,680 [man 2 yells] Michael! 878 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,000 [man 3] You see there Michael Jackson's team arriving here at the courthouse. 879 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:12,360 So many fans, media, all just in a crush. 880 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,680 -[tense music playing] -[crowd yelling] 881 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,400 [man 3] This could be the last time 882 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,840 that Michael Jackson is a free man for a long time. 883 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,520 [Sheree] I just remember seeing his face. 884 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,280 I'm just like, "Wow," you know. 885 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,360 -[crowd yelling] -[cameras clicking] 886 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,840 [Stacy] The slow walk, it was almost like a death march, you know. 887 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,120 Blank look on his face. 888 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,480 No emotion whatsoever. 889 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,800 It's almost like he's a zombie just existing. 890 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,080 [man 4] A live audio feed, which the judge has agreed to. 891 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,920 And we will be hearing it all at the same time. 892 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,720 [Nancy] The jury is making their way into the jury room. 893 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,840 Diane Dimond, row one. 894 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,600 Every muscle in my body was tense 895 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:02,840 because after all these months, finally, it's going to be over? 896 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,720 Whether you supported him or whether you were against him, 897 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,040 you could see everybody nervous. 898 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,800 [Nancy] All lawyers standing up. 899 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,080 Michael Jackson standing up, waiting for the verdict to be read. 900 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,840 [music fades] 901 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,120 [man 5] We're all in listening mode here. 902 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,480 First word, first audio we hear from inside that courthouse. 903 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:34,920 The microphone's on. 904 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,440 [woman over PA] The People of the State of California, plaintiff, 905 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,320 versus Michael Joe Jackson, defendant. 906 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,960 Count one verdict. 907 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,560 We, the jury in the above entitled case 908 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,280 find the defendant not guilty of conspiracy 909 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,840 as charged in count one of the indictment. 910 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,360 Count two verdict. 911 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,920 Not guilty of a lewd act upon a minor child. 912 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,480 Count three verdict. 913 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,280 [man 6] Michael Jackson is now free. 914 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,160 -Yeah! -[woman over PA] Count ten verdict. 915 00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:04,880 Not guilty of providing alcoholic beverages. 916 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:06,760 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 917 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,440 Not guilty on all counts. 918 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,800 Michael's vindicated, acquitted. I told you so. 919 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,920 Michael Jackson was persecuted for crimes he didn't commit. 920 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,720 It was proven in that court of law today. 921 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,680 [cheering] 922 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,520 [laughs] I mean, they're roaring out there. 923 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,240 We could hear it inside the courtroom. 924 00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:22,760 I lost it. 925 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,320 I couldn't stop crying because it was just so emotional. 926 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,760 -[poignant music playing] -[crowd yelling] 927 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,600 [Sheree] I remember tears. 928 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,560 I'm jubilant but can't physically give any more. 929 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,240 I completely pass out. 930 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,840 I end up on the stretcher. 931 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,640 At the end of the day, 932 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:45,320 Michael was always innocent, and he is loved. 933 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,960 -[crowd yelling] -No evidence! Not guilty! No evidence! 934 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,200 [Diane] It was tough. Not guilty. 935 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,040 That doesn't say innocent. 936 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,680 It says not guilty of the charges brought against him. 937 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:05,720 I did come away at the end thinking that the State had kind of blown it. 938 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,160 I think the State made the case so complicated 939 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,560 by adding the conspiracy counts. 940 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,000 [crowd cheering] 941 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,680 The man's innocent. He always was. 942 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,680 [woman on TV] Defense attorney Tom Mesereau said, 943 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,560 "If you have reasonable doubt about this family accusing Jackson, 944 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,480 you must acquit," and they did. 945 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,800 [Ron] If there are ever two words you never want to hear, it's "not guilty." 946 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,040 It's the worst moment you could have as a professional prosecutor 947 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,400 to ever hear "not guilty." 948 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,320 But it is what happened. 949 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,760 And we're professionals. And it's not guilty. 950 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,080 The jury has spoken. That's it. We're done. 951 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,600 I'm looking at Michael Jackson. He didn't look excited or happy. 952 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,800 He turned to Tom Mesereau like, "What happened?" 953 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,800 And Tom Mesereau had to whisper in his ear like, "Hey, you know, we won." 954 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,680 I turned around and looked, and Michael Jackson looked right at me. 955 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,840 And he went, "Thank you," 956 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,160 and bowed his head down to me. 957 00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:06,200 I'm like, "Just doing my job." 958 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,800 -[dramatic music playing] -[crowd screaming] 959 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,240 [Randy] I went over to Michael. 960 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,760 "Congratulations, Mike, you know, you did it." 961 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,560 And he kind of looked right through me. 962 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:17,960 [woman on TV] What a trial this was for him. 963 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,840 Moments of total humiliation, 964 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,960 total anguish, embarrassment, physical pain. 965 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,560 This isn't exactly a day you want to just throw your hat up and have a party. 966 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,240 [dramatic music continues] 967 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,800 [Kerry] We put him in the car. 968 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,720 And it was relatively quiet. 969 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,360 I saw him lean back like this 970 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,160 and exhale. 971 00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:42,440 And I think it kind of set in that, 972 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,520 "Wow, I am done." 973 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,840 You know, "I am going home." 974 00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,440 You know, "I'm a free man." 975 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,320 [crowd yelling] 976 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,520 [Randy] I had this idealized, romanticized notion. 977 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,240 Now he's going to get his life back. 978 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,240 The one person who disabused me of that notion was his manager, Frank DiLeo. 979 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,000 He turned to me and he said, 980 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,160 "You don't get it." 981 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:10,280 I said, "What?" 982 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,560 He said, "This is life-ruining for Michael." 983 00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,920 "He will never recover from this." 984 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,680 That just hit me hard, you know. 985 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,240 I mean, I was like, "Oh my God, he's right." 986 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,160 Michael, he knew that there were a lot of people 987 00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,680 who felt that he was guilty, 988 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,840 no matter what the verdict was. 989 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,000 [unsettling music playing] 990 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,000 [Ron] The key core part of the case is the testimony of the boy, 991 00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,760 his younger brother, and the mother. 992 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,520 And clearly the jurors, all 12 of them, rejected the testimony. 993 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,480 The main thing that Gavin kept repeating is that, "They didn't believe me." 994 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,680 "Why didn't they believe me?" 995 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,200 Um, you know, he just-- That's how he is. 996 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,160 He felt like he had failed. 997 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:56,960 "Why didn't they believe me?" 998 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,320 [woman 1 on TV] Above-entitled case find the defendant not guilty of conspiracy… 999 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,040 [Trent] People continued to question, was he guilty? 1000 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,400 Was he not guilty? 1001 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,440 While this was a trial clearly about Michael Jackson and molestation charges, 1002 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,000 the trial was also a trial about America's, 1003 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,360 and maybe the world's, most fragile obsession. 1004 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,480 Michael Jackson has set the music world on its ear. 1005 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:23,920 [crowd screaming] 1006 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,280 [man on TV] The album is still number one after 57 weeks in the charts. 1007 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:32,200 [Trent] Our obsession with fame, celebrity, and status… 1008 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:33,440 [cameras clicking] 1009 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,360 …balanced against suspicion of our icon. 1010 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,480 [woman 2] He's a little weird. 1011 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,920 And all of those things came colliding together in this trial. 1012 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,600 …most well-known, controversial people in the world is in the fight of his life. 1013 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,640 Rumors fueled by a tabloid frenzy and obsession. 1014 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:54,640 [Trent] Every time we watch a tabloid show or every time we read a tabloid magazine, 1015 00:51:54,720 --> 00:52:00,440 that was the kerosene placed onto the slowly burning embers 1016 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,200 of Michael Jackson. 1017 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,800 -And we had to make a value judgment. -[crowd chanting] Innocent! 1018 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,720 [Trent] What do we believe? 1019 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,480 And what don't we believe? 1020 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,840 And in the end, it left us looking in the mirror. 1021 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,000 [gate creaks, shuts] 1022 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,560 And I'm not sure that we like what we saw. 1023 00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,400 [animal calls] 1024 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,080 [unsettling music playing] 1025 00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,760 [dramatic music playing] 1026 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,800 [music fades]