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But the rebound is scooped up by the Bulldogs. 10 00:01:02,417 --> 00:01:03,917 [person] I'd rather not see you. 11 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:07,167 [announcer] His jump shot is good. 12 00:01:07,167 --> 00:01:09,000 - Puts the Bulldogs back up... - [distant thud] 13 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,250 ...5-4 14 00:01:10,250 --> 00:01:13,042 Well, Matthews was tightly manned on Johnson. 15 00:01:13,042 --> 00:01:15,375 But Michigan has managed to work through that 16 00:01:15,375 --> 00:01:17,625 in the early stages of this game. 17 00:01:18,417 --> 00:01:21,667 - [person] No! No! No! - [distant thud] 18 00:01:21,667 --> 00:01:23,375 [person sobs] 19 00:01:23,375 --> 00:01:25,125 - [screams] - [home intruder grunts] 20 00:01:25,625 --> 00:01:27,375 - [person whimpers] No! - [clattering] 21 00:01:29,333 --> 00:01:30,333 [distant thud] 22 00:01:30,333 --> 00:01:31,750 Back off! 23 00:01:31,750 --> 00:01:33,667 - [distant thud] - [person screams] 24 00:01:35,042 --> 00:01:36,833 - [person crying] - [home intruder grunting] 25 00:01:36,833 --> 00:01:39,583 - [clattering] - [person grunts, gasps] 26 00:01:39,583 --> 00:01:43,083 - [person choking] - [home intruder grunting] 27 00:01:51,292 --> 00:01:52,292 [thuds] 28 00:01:54,542 --> 00:01:56,000 [footsteps approaching] 29 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,083 [thuds] 30 00:02:01,750 --> 00:02:03,958 [singing on TV] Nowhere to run ♪ 31 00:02:03,958 --> 00:02:05,875 Nowhere to hide ♪ 32 00:02:06,667 --> 00:02:09,292 [knocking] 33 00:02:09,292 --> 00:02:12,625 [person 2] Claire, are you okay? Open up! 34 00:02:12,625 --> 00:02:13,708 [knocking continues] 35 00:02:13,708 --> 00:02:16,333 Claire, if you don't answer the door, I'm calling the cops. 36 00:02:16,333 --> 00:02:17,417 [knocking continues] 37 00:02:18,167 --> 00:02:21,417 [dispatcher on radio] We have a possible intruder at Oak Tower apartments. 38 00:02:21,417 --> 00:02:22,667 Sixty-one, got it. 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,958 [tires squealing] 40 00:02:30,625 --> 00:02:33,125 [keys jingling] 41 00:02:35,167 --> 00:02:36,167 [door opens] 42 00:02:41,167 --> 00:02:42,667 [detective] State police! 43 00:02:42,667 --> 00:02:44,417 [Nowhere to Run (Nowhere to Hide) playing on TV] 44 00:02:44,417 --> 00:02:46,750 State police! Open up! 45 00:02:47,375 --> 00:02:50,375 [singing on TV continues] 46 00:02:50,375 --> 00:02:53,625 - [keys jingling] - [door lock clicks] 47 00:02:53,625 --> 00:02:56,167 [teakettle whistling] 48 00:02:57,500 --> 00:02:59,250 Nowhere to run ♪ 49 00:02:59,250 --> 00:03:02,750 Nowhere to hide from ya ♪ 50 00:03:04,667 --> 00:03:08,917 - Got nowhere to run to, baby ♪ - Nowhere to run, no, baby ♪ 51 00:03:08,917 --> 00:03:11,083 Nowhere to hide ♪ 52 00:03:12,583 --> 00:03:13,958 State police! 53 00:03:13,958 --> 00:03:16,042 [singing on TV continues] 54 00:03:19,542 --> 00:03:20,542 [officer gasps] 55 00:03:24,417 --> 00:03:26,417 [music fades, ends] 56 00:03:38,292 --> 00:03:39,667 [news anchor on radio] ...city increases. 57 00:03:39,667 --> 00:03:42,625 Boston truck driver strike is still in progress. 58 00:03:42,625 --> 00:03:46,083 Our direct reports of the morning take us to Washington, to Paris... 59 00:03:49,917 --> 00:03:52,042 [child 1] I'm trying to eat as fast as I can. 60 00:03:53,917 --> 00:03:55,167 Eat your cereal. Hurry up. 61 00:03:55,958 --> 00:03:56,958 [sighs] Toast? 62 00:03:56,958 --> 00:03:58,542 Yeah. That one. 63 00:04:02,458 --> 00:04:05,208 [footsteps approaching] 64 00:04:07,292 --> 00:04:08,667 - Morning, everybody. - [child 2] Morning. 65 00:04:08,667 --> 00:04:09,958 - Where's Tommy? - [child 1] Morning. 66 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:11,042 Shoot. Tommy! 67 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:13,458 - [Tommy] Right here. - Come on. We gotta leave in two minutes. 68 00:04:14,542 --> 00:04:15,667 [parent] Do you want toast? 69 00:04:15,667 --> 00:04:16,750 [Tommy] Sure. 70 00:04:20,958 --> 00:04:22,958 [church bells tolling] 71 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:30,125 [phone ringing] 72 00:04:30,125 --> 00:04:32,083 - [receptionist] Record American. - [typing] 73 00:04:32,083 --> 00:04:34,458 When I do the follow up, I-I'll give you a call back. 74 00:04:37,042 --> 00:04:38,250 [receptionist] Record American. 75 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:45,542 Can't let one slide, can ya? 76 00:04:45,542 --> 00:04:47,458 Not until they get me off the lifestyle desk. 77 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:52,583 - Jack, you got a second? - Not now. 78 00:04:52,583 --> 00:04:54,542 Chelsea cops got caught running numbers again. 79 00:04:54,542 --> 00:04:56,667 The Globe and the Herald ran it today. We got nothing. 80 00:04:56,667 --> 00:04:58,208 Come on. Don't you have an assignment? 81 00:04:58,208 --> 00:05:00,542 Okay, what about the new suspect in the mail truck robbery? 82 00:05:00,542 --> 00:05:01,917 Every other paper covered it. 83 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:07,042 You see that? That's the crime desk. I got six guys working that beat. 84 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:09,917 Okay, Susan, 85 00:05:09,917 --> 00:05:11,792 - you're on must-have housewares. - [Susan] Thank you. 86 00:05:11,792 --> 00:05:14,792 Mary, you got the fashion and style feature for the Sunday edition. 87 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:16,792 - Twenty-inch feature with photos. - [Mary] Mmm. 88 00:05:16,792 --> 00:05:20,625 Ellie, you're on candidates' wives. Basic life-on-the-trail stuff. 89 00:05:20,625 --> 00:05:22,542 - What they're eating, wearing. - Who's yelling at who. 90 00:05:22,542 --> 00:05:25,458 Loretta, you get this week's product review. 91 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:26,875 Sunbeam has a new toaster. 92 00:05:29,583 --> 00:05:31,500 Okay, and Nancy, you're on diet tips, girl. 93 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:34,833 [broadcaster on radio] Tax reforms, dislodging and equity demand. 94 00:05:35,750 --> 00:05:37,958 And he would made that cut in taxes 95 00:05:37,958 --> 00:05:43,875 to take effect as of the start of next year, January 1963. 96 00:05:44,625 --> 00:05:48,333 The billions of dollars that are still placed in the hands of... 97 00:05:48,333 --> 00:05:50,833 [reporters chattering] 98 00:06:09,292 --> 00:06:10,958 - [reporter] Hi, Phyllis. - [Phyllis] Mornin'. 99 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:14,875 Who's that? 100 00:06:15,583 --> 00:06:18,750 Uh, that is Holland's girl, Jean Cole. 101 00:06:18,750 --> 00:06:20,750 [Loretta] What, is she a reporter or a nurse? 102 00:06:20,750 --> 00:06:24,000 She's working undercover. Got some story on nursing homes. 103 00:06:30,167 --> 00:06:31,167 [Jean sighs] 104 00:06:38,333 --> 00:06:42,208 Here. Use mine. I'll fix this one. 105 00:06:42,208 --> 00:06:43,292 [Jean] Thanks. 106 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:51,000 What are you working on? 107 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,833 Story on patient abuse. 108 00:06:52,833 --> 00:06:55,625 That sounds important. How'd you get it? 109 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:57,333 I asked for it. 110 00:06:57,333 --> 00:06:58,667 And they just gave it to you? 111 00:06:58,667 --> 00:06:59,917 That's usually how it works. 112 00:06:59,917 --> 00:07:01,708 Not around here, it isn't. 113 00:07:04,708 --> 00:07:05,708 Sorry. 114 00:07:05,708 --> 00:07:06,792 [typing] 115 00:07:22,833 --> 00:07:26,042 [presenter on TV] And there is the beautiful Monroe centerpiece... 116 00:07:26,042 --> 00:07:28,292 What the hell is she gonna do with those? 117 00:07:28,292 --> 00:07:31,250 - Ma, what did the doctor say? - I didn't go. 118 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:34,542 - What do you mean you didn't go? - Katie didn't show up. 119 00:07:35,208 --> 00:07:36,917 What happened? You didn't call her? 120 00:07:36,917 --> 00:07:40,125 I'm not gonna go around hounding people. She's not even family. 121 00:07:40,667 --> 00:07:42,417 [sighs] She's married to your son. 122 00:07:42,417 --> 00:07:45,125 If it was so damn important, you should've taken me yourself. 123 00:07:45,125 --> 00:07:46,708 [Loretta] Yeah, yeah, I'm aware. 124 00:07:50,375 --> 00:07:51,792 I'll see you in a couple days. 125 00:07:53,625 --> 00:07:55,750 - Don't get up. I'll let myself out. - [breathing heavily] 126 00:07:55,750 --> 00:07:57,667 - Gotta put the chain on. - Since when? 127 00:07:58,583 --> 00:08:00,083 Since the neighbor got killed. 128 00:08:00,083 --> 00:08:02,167 - You didn't hear? - No. 129 00:08:02,750 --> 00:08:05,417 Mrs. Slesers, right around the corner. 130 00:08:06,792 --> 00:08:08,125 It was in your paper. 131 00:08:25,125 --> 00:08:27,042 [police radio chatter] 132 00:08:27,042 --> 00:08:28,125 [door closes] 133 00:08:40,917 --> 00:08:42,583 [phone ringing] 134 00:08:43,375 --> 00:08:46,250 Jack? I think I found something. 135 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:50,542 Three women were strangled over the last two weeks. 136 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:55,542 I don't see the interest. These are nobodies. 137 00:08:55,542 --> 00:08:57,458 [Loretta] Who do you think our readers are? 138 00:08:57,458 --> 00:09:01,125 And that's just it. Why would anybody go around killing three nobody women? 139 00:09:01,125 --> 00:09:03,125 And how do you plan to find that out? 140 00:09:03,125 --> 00:09:05,542 Well, let me profile the victims. See if there's any connection. 141 00:09:05,542 --> 00:09:07,792 Kid, you're not covering a homicide. 142 00:09:07,792 --> 00:09:08,708 Why not? 143 00:09:08,708 --> 00:09:11,917 Because you don't have the experience covering homicides. 144 00:09:11,917 --> 00:09:14,667 How am I supposed to get any experience if you won't give me a shot? 145 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:16,583 No. 146 00:09:16,583 --> 00:09:19,083 Oh, come on. It's slow. 147 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:23,292 I'll do it on my own time. 148 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:30,333 All right. But you're still on the lifestyle desk. 149 00:09:31,917 --> 00:09:33,917 [church bells tolling] 150 00:09:44,958 --> 00:09:46,208 [doorbell rings] 151 00:09:51,167 --> 00:09:54,417 Uh, Loretta McLaughlin, with the Record American. 152 00:09:55,250 --> 00:09:57,125 You're the super? You found Ida Irga? 153 00:09:57,125 --> 00:09:58,500 Yeah, that's right. 154 00:09:59,125 --> 00:10:00,125 Uh... 155 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:03,125 Did it look like someone broke in? 156 00:10:03,125 --> 00:10:06,208 No. No, the door was locked. I had to use a master key. 157 00:10:06,833 --> 00:10:08,542 Anything else unusual when you went in? 158 00:10:08,542 --> 00:10:10,583 No. Those details don't belong in your paper. 159 00:10:10,583 --> 00:10:13,125 No, no, I-- I'm not gonna print anything disrespectful. 160 00:10:13,125 --> 00:10:15,000 I'm-- I'm just trying to get a sense. 161 00:10:16,083 --> 00:10:17,333 You really wanna know? 162 00:10:18,875 --> 00:10:22,208 I found her on the floor with her legs spread open, 163 00:10:22,208 --> 00:10:23,792 ankles strapped to a chair. 164 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:27,083 There was a broom handle stuck between her legs. 165 00:10:31,083 --> 00:10:32,625 - You mean-- - Yeah. 166 00:10:32,625 --> 00:10:35,542 He tied her stockings in a bow around her neck. 167 00:10:36,750 --> 00:10:38,000 A bow? 168 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,500 Like on a gift. 169 00:10:45,042 --> 00:10:47,042 - [chattering] - [phone ringing] 170 00:10:49,250 --> 00:10:51,542 Uh, you know who's working the Anna Slesers homicide? 171 00:10:51,542 --> 00:10:52,750 I'm with the Record American. 172 00:10:52,750 --> 00:10:55,500 They're out. Why I never seen ya before? 173 00:10:56,083 --> 00:10:58,458 I was working a different desk. You know when they'll be back? 174 00:10:58,458 --> 00:11:00,125 No clue. They're up to their eyeballs. 175 00:11:00,125 --> 00:11:02,292 Yeah, I bet. Any suspects? 176 00:11:02,292 --> 00:11:05,208 Talk to Corsetti. He already covered it. 177 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:08,583 I'm doing a different story about how the murders are connected. 178 00:11:08,583 --> 00:11:09,875 You mean the bows? 179 00:11:11,042 --> 00:11:13,000 All three had bows around their necks? 180 00:11:13,583 --> 00:11:14,625 I didn't say that. 181 00:11:14,625 --> 00:11:17,875 No, I already confirmed Ida Irga. Are you confirming Blake and Slesers? 182 00:11:17,875 --> 00:11:20,958 I'm not confirmin' nothin'. Why don't you take a hike? 183 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:25,458 [Loretta] Only one I can confirm is Ida Irga. 184 00:11:26,042 --> 00:11:28,125 What about the autopsy reports? 185 00:11:28,125 --> 00:11:29,792 DA won't release them. 186 00:11:29,792 --> 00:11:31,250 Wasn't one of them in Lynn? 187 00:11:31,250 --> 00:11:32,417 Helen Blake. 188 00:11:32,417 --> 00:11:35,250 Well, that's Essex County. Different county, different DA. 189 00:11:35,875 --> 00:11:38,875 Corsetti, you know the medical examiner in Lynn? 190 00:11:38,875 --> 00:11:40,333 [Corsetti] Yeah, I play cards with him. 191 00:11:40,333 --> 00:11:42,333 See if you can get the Helen Blake autopsy. 192 00:11:51,667 --> 00:11:52,667 [Loretta] Thanks. 193 00:12:06,792 --> 00:12:08,458 Okay. [sighs] 194 00:12:34,417 --> 00:12:35,417 [sighs] 195 00:12:42,542 --> 00:12:43,542 [sighs] 196 00:12:57,208 --> 00:13:00,042 [phone ringing] 197 00:13:04,792 --> 00:13:07,250 [officer 1] What's the one right next to... [laughs] 198 00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:10,333 Excuse me, I'm looking for Officer Dougan. 199 00:13:10,333 --> 00:13:12,708 [officer 2] Dougan? No, he's not here. 200 00:13:12,708 --> 00:13:13,792 You know where he drinks? 201 00:13:13,792 --> 00:13:15,583 You know where Foley's is? 202 00:13:15,583 --> 00:13:16,667 [door creaks] 203 00:13:22,917 --> 00:13:23,917 Officer Dougan? 204 00:13:25,708 --> 00:13:26,708 Yeah. 205 00:13:26,708 --> 00:13:29,625 Uh, Loretta McLaughlin with the Record American. 206 00:13:30,208 --> 00:13:32,625 Uh, you took the call for Anna Slesers? 207 00:13:33,167 --> 00:13:34,417 [Dougan] That's right. 208 00:13:34,417 --> 00:13:36,375 I need to ask you a detail about the crime scene. 209 00:13:36,375 --> 00:13:38,875 I don't think I'm supposed to be talking to the papers. 210 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:40,375 No, it's nothing like that. 211 00:13:40,375 --> 00:13:44,667 Uh-- Just wanna ask about the stockings around her neck. 212 00:13:44,667 --> 00:13:47,750 Did you see if they were tied in a single or a double-hitched knot? 213 00:13:48,375 --> 00:13:50,542 There's no way I could tell by looking. 214 00:13:50,542 --> 00:13:53,375 I would've had to roll her over, and-- I'm just a patrolman. 215 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:54,750 I don't touch the bodies. 216 00:13:56,958 --> 00:13:58,333 Did it look decorative? 217 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:03,208 In a real sick kind of way, yeah. 218 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:09,500 Thank you. 219 00:14:11,083 --> 00:14:14,042 I just confirmed Slesers. I've got confirmation on all three. 220 00:14:14,042 --> 00:14:16,292 [Jack] All right. Get back here and write it up. 221 00:14:20,333 --> 00:14:22,750 [Loretta] What do these three women have in common? 222 00:14:23,917 --> 00:14:26,125 Three shadowy patterns of attack. 223 00:14:27,042 --> 00:14:29,542 Three knotted loops that bind them together. 224 00:14:30,333 --> 00:14:34,333 Strangers to one another in life, they became sisters in death. 225 00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:39,583 Each coming to the same horror-filled moment of murder by strangulation 226 00:14:40,458 --> 00:14:44,542 by a killer who came quietly, who is careful in his derangement, 227 00:14:44,542 --> 00:14:47,917 and self-possessed enough to lock the door on his way out. 228 00:14:48,583 --> 00:14:50,417 - [knocking] - [neighbor] Hey, you okay in there? 229 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,750 Open up! Hey, if you don't open the door, I'm gonna call the cops! 230 00:15:06,667 --> 00:15:08,750 - Nice work, kid. - [Loretta chuckles] 231 00:15:09,458 --> 00:15:11,958 - [chattering] - [phone ringing] 232 00:15:11,958 --> 00:15:14,917 [announcer on radio] The city is buzzing today after a story in the Record American 233 00:15:14,917 --> 00:15:18,833 claims that three elderly women were killed by one deranged individual. 234 00:15:18,833 --> 00:15:21,750 There's nothing in the Globe or the Herald. 235 00:15:23,875 --> 00:15:24,875 Or any of 'em. 236 00:15:26,667 --> 00:15:28,083 You beat the whole damn city. 237 00:15:30,208 --> 00:15:31,917 I can't believe it. This is incredible! 238 00:15:35,250 --> 00:15:36,917 The story's bullshit. 239 00:15:36,917 --> 00:15:39,833 Been getting calls all morning from my guys in the department. 240 00:15:39,833 --> 00:15:42,125 - [buzzer sounds] - [Phyllis] DA's office for you. 241 00:15:42,125 --> 00:15:43,833 Hold my calls, please. 242 00:15:43,833 --> 00:15:45,417 [Corsetti] She's in way over her head. 243 00:15:45,417 --> 00:15:47,708 - You never should've sent her out on this. - [buzzer sounds] 244 00:15:47,708 --> 00:15:49,833 [Phyllis] I have Commissioner McNamara for you. 245 00:15:49,833 --> 00:15:51,542 I told you to hold my calls. 246 00:15:51,542 --> 00:15:54,125 No, he's here for you. 247 00:15:54,125 --> 00:15:55,250 Jesus Christ. 248 00:15:55,250 --> 00:15:56,833 Fuck 'em. 249 00:15:58,708 --> 00:15:59,875 Send him in. 250 00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:01,208 [drink pours] 251 00:16:04,542 --> 00:16:06,542 Ah, what can I do for you, Commissioner? 252 00:16:09,167 --> 00:16:12,375 Was it your idea to send some skirt down to the station house? 253 00:16:12,375 --> 00:16:14,958 Well, her name's Loretta. She was workin' a story. 254 00:16:14,958 --> 00:16:16,792 Is that what you're callin' it now? 255 00:16:17,917 --> 00:16:20,583 Hanging around the bar, flirtin' with my guys? 256 00:16:20,583 --> 00:16:23,417 Never even identified herself as a reporter. 257 00:16:23,417 --> 00:16:27,708 Now I've got every old lady in the fuckin' city tying up my phone lines! 258 00:16:27,708 --> 00:16:30,458 Just tell me what we got wrong, and I'll print a correction. 259 00:16:30,458 --> 00:16:32,458 It's barstool gossip, for Christ's sake! 260 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:35,333 Half the news in the city's barstool gossip. 261 00:16:35,333 --> 00:16:36,833 What the hell did we get wrong? 262 00:16:36,833 --> 00:16:40,167 Homicide has been workin' around the clock on this, 263 00:16:40,167 --> 00:16:42,167 and we've got nothin' to connect the murders. 264 00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:43,833 What about the stockings? 265 00:16:43,833 --> 00:16:45,625 Only one of the victims in Boston had that. 266 00:16:45,625 --> 00:16:47,125 The other one looks like a suicide. 267 00:16:47,125 --> 00:16:50,125 - We got sources for both women-- - Sources! 268 00:16:50,125 --> 00:16:54,708 It was a couple of dipshit beat cops trying to bed that girl you sent down! 269 00:16:56,208 --> 00:16:58,250 I'm telling you this as a friend. 270 00:16:58,250 --> 00:17:01,833 If you keep running this story, you're gonna end up embarrassing yourself. 271 00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:08,375 - [chattering] - [phone ringing] 272 00:17:09,917 --> 00:17:10,958 [Jack] Loretta! 273 00:17:24,167 --> 00:17:25,250 Shut the door. 274 00:17:29,458 --> 00:17:32,667 I am catching hell over this story. 275 00:17:32,667 --> 00:17:35,125 Now, Commissioner McNamara says the whole thing's gossip. 276 00:17:35,125 --> 00:17:36,458 Same with Corsetti's sources. 277 00:17:36,458 --> 00:17:38,500 I confirmed every word of that story. 278 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:40,375 You identified yourself as a reporter? 279 00:17:40,375 --> 00:17:41,708 Of course I did. 280 00:17:41,708 --> 00:17:44,083 - Even at the bar? - Especially at the bar. 281 00:17:46,333 --> 00:17:47,833 I'm killin' the follow-up. 282 00:17:49,208 --> 00:17:52,458 We beat everyone in the whole damn city, and you're-- you're just gonna drop it? 283 00:17:52,458 --> 00:17:53,583 Yes, I am. 284 00:17:53,583 --> 00:17:55,125 The story is good. 285 00:17:55,125 --> 00:17:57,125 The story is a headache I don't need right now. 286 00:17:58,042 --> 00:18:00,292 And you're back on the lifestyle desk. 287 00:18:24,583 --> 00:18:26,417 [Kelly] She shouldn't be working like this. 288 00:18:26,417 --> 00:18:28,042 [Loretta's husband] Oh, come on, Kelly. 289 00:18:28,042 --> 00:18:30,125 [Kelly] She should be home taking care of her own husband. 290 00:18:30,125 --> 00:18:31,958 [Loretta's husband] You check in a few hours a day. 291 00:18:31,958 --> 00:18:33,583 It's not the worst thing in the world. 292 00:18:33,583 --> 00:18:35,667 [Kelly speaking, indistinct] 293 00:18:37,083 --> 00:18:39,000 [Kelly] You don't see how selfish it is? 294 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,208 [Loretta's husband] What do you want me to say? We make it work. 295 00:18:41,208 --> 00:18:43,042 [Kelly] Yeah, 'cause I watch your kids half the week. 296 00:18:43,042 --> 00:18:44,625 [Loretta's husband] I appreciate your help-- 297 00:18:44,625 --> 00:18:46,542 [Kelly] She's going to ruin your children. 298 00:18:48,708 --> 00:18:49,708 Hi, Kelly. 299 00:18:50,625 --> 00:18:51,917 Hi, Loretta. 300 00:18:51,917 --> 00:18:54,417 He offer you anything? Coffee? Tea? 301 00:18:54,417 --> 00:18:56,167 I was just headin' out. 302 00:18:57,375 --> 00:19:00,333 Tommy had a meltdown in the car. Gave Patrick a fat lip. 303 00:19:00,333 --> 00:19:04,000 Class pictures are tomorrow. Might wanna ice it again. 304 00:19:05,917 --> 00:19:07,208 Thank you. 305 00:19:07,208 --> 00:19:08,417 [door opens] 306 00:19:09,167 --> 00:19:10,583 - [sighs] - [door closes] 307 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:31,542 [melancholic singing on the radio] 308 00:19:35,458 --> 00:19:37,292 So, why haven't you asked me to stay home? 309 00:19:38,792 --> 00:19:39,917 'Cause I know better. 310 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:41,917 No, I'm serious. Why not? 311 00:19:42,833 --> 00:19:44,000 'Cause you'd be miserable. 312 00:19:45,417 --> 00:19:46,500 Well, so what? 313 00:19:47,292 --> 00:19:51,083 Our lives would be easier. Kids would be better off. 314 00:19:51,750 --> 00:19:53,333 - Says who? - Your sister. 315 00:19:55,083 --> 00:19:56,625 My mother. The neighbor. 316 00:19:56,625 --> 00:19:57,958 What the hell do they know? 317 00:19:59,417 --> 00:20:02,083 You'd drive us all mad if you were sittin' around here all day. 318 00:20:02,083 --> 00:20:03,167 [chuckles] 319 00:20:05,667 --> 00:20:06,750 It was a great story. 320 00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:13,458 Jack's probably just afraid to rock the boat. Don't take it personally. 321 00:20:14,583 --> 00:20:15,583 [snickers] 322 00:20:17,708 --> 00:20:20,708 [birds squawking, chirping] 323 00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:36,292 [church bells toll] 324 00:20:56,042 --> 00:20:58,042 [engine revving] 325 00:21:14,583 --> 00:21:15,583 [water running] 326 00:21:15,583 --> 00:21:17,667 [chattering on TV] 327 00:21:27,083 --> 00:21:28,292 [knocking] 328 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:43,708 [door opens] 329 00:21:43,708 --> 00:21:45,167 [resident] Yes? Can I help you? 330 00:21:45,167 --> 00:21:47,250 [home intruder] Yeah, I got a call about a water leak. 331 00:21:47,250 --> 00:21:49,125 [resident] I'm sorry, who are you? 332 00:21:49,125 --> 00:21:50,708 - [home intruder] Super sent me. - [thuds] 333 00:21:50,708 --> 00:21:54,833 - [resident] No! Oh, God. No! - [clattering] 334 00:21:54,833 --> 00:21:57,750 - [resident straining, grunting] - [home intruder grunts] 335 00:21:58,958 --> 00:21:59,958 [resident whimpers] 336 00:21:59,958 --> 00:22:02,292 - [home intruder grunting] - [resident choking] 337 00:22:04,083 --> 00:22:06,208 - [resident whimpers, grunts] - [metal thuds] 338 00:22:06,208 --> 00:22:07,792 [metal rattles on floor] 339 00:22:07,792 --> 00:22:10,625 - [footsteps approaching] - [dragging] 340 00:22:21,333 --> 00:22:24,167 [phone ringing] 341 00:22:24,167 --> 00:22:25,250 Hello? 342 00:22:25,250 --> 00:22:26,708 Loretta, it's Phyllis. 343 00:22:26,708 --> 00:22:28,833 Another woman was strangled. Just came over the wire. 344 00:22:28,833 --> 00:22:31,083 - Thank you. - Who was that? 345 00:22:31,833 --> 00:22:33,667 - They just found a fourth victim. - Go. 346 00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:35,583 - You'll get the kids off to school? - Yeah, yeah. Go. 347 00:22:35,583 --> 00:22:36,875 - Thank you. - Mm-hmm. 348 00:22:36,875 --> 00:22:39,583 - Dad's taking you to school today, okay? - Dad's taking us? 349 00:22:39,583 --> 00:22:41,583 - [phone ringing] - [child] Where are you going? 350 00:22:41,583 --> 00:22:45,083 - [children chattering] - Girls, hurry up! Let's go! 351 00:22:45,083 --> 00:22:46,750 [ringing continues] 352 00:22:49,208 --> 00:22:51,375 - I saw that. - Wasn't hiding it. 353 00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:53,667 Maybe you should. 354 00:22:53,667 --> 00:22:54,750 Hello? 355 00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:57,583 It's Holland. I need you on the Strangler story. 356 00:22:57,583 --> 00:22:59,125 Jack put some amateur on it. 357 00:22:59,125 --> 00:23:00,208 That bad, huh? 358 00:23:00,208 --> 00:23:01,958 Can you wrap up the nursing home story tonight? 359 00:23:01,958 --> 00:23:04,250 - [Jean] Yeah, all right. - [handset settles in cradle] 360 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:05,333 What was that about? 361 00:23:05,333 --> 00:23:08,167 [sighs] Holland wants me on those Strangler murders. 362 00:23:08,167 --> 00:23:09,833 [Jean's husband] The hell's the matter with him? 363 00:23:09,833 --> 00:23:11,000 What's that supposed to mean? 364 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,333 He's using you. Putting a girl on a story like that. It's a stunt. 365 00:23:16,167 --> 00:23:17,667 I need you to get the girls off. 366 00:23:17,667 --> 00:23:19,000 [children chattering] 367 00:23:20,375 --> 00:23:21,625 Here, take a seat. 368 00:23:25,542 --> 00:23:28,708 Jean's gonna be working with you on the Strangler story. 369 00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:32,125 Oh, uh, no offense, but I-I don't need any help with this. 370 00:23:32,125 --> 00:23:33,333 It's not up for debate. 371 00:23:33,333 --> 00:23:35,042 [Loretta] What is she gonna cover that I can't? 372 00:23:35,042 --> 00:23:37,000 The whole story, if you keep it up. 373 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,542 [smacks lips] Where are you at with the fourth victim? 374 00:23:39,542 --> 00:23:41,292 She have a stocking around the neck? 375 00:23:41,958 --> 00:23:43,708 Uh, I haven't got confirmation yet. 376 00:23:43,708 --> 00:23:46,625 Not yet? It's 40 minutes to deadline. 377 00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:48,083 Police won't confirm. 378 00:23:48,083 --> 00:23:50,458 Her cousin Arnold found the body, but there's, uh-- 379 00:23:50,458 --> 00:23:52,333 There's no listings for an Arnold Sullivan, 380 00:23:52,333 --> 00:23:53,958 and no other relatives have come forward. 381 00:23:53,958 --> 00:23:55,917 [editor] Jeanie, call around. See what you come up with. 382 00:23:55,917 --> 00:23:59,250 [Jean] I already did. Police aren't talking. Corsetti tried too. 383 00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:01,125 Never seen 'em this tight-lipped about anything. 384 00:24:01,125 --> 00:24:03,542 [Jack] That's 'cause they're bracing for a shitstorm. 385 00:24:04,708 --> 00:24:07,625 [editor] Find the cousin. Otherwise, pull it from page one. 386 00:24:11,708 --> 00:24:13,792 [footsteps approaching] 387 00:24:16,958 --> 00:24:18,042 [Loretta] What are you doing? 388 00:24:18,042 --> 00:24:20,458 I'm calling everyone in the phone book with the same last name. 389 00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:22,250 You know how many Sullivans there are? 390 00:24:22,250 --> 00:24:23,583 Better get crackin' then. 391 00:24:32,042 --> 00:24:34,583 Hello, I'm looking for a relative of Jane Sullivan. 392 00:24:34,583 --> 00:24:36,208 Hello, is this Mr. Sullivan? 393 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:37,333 You're not? 394 00:24:37,333 --> 00:24:39,750 - Mrs. Sullivan? - [person 1] This is the Howard residence. 395 00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:41,250 - [person 2] Hello. - Hello, Mr. Sullivan? 396 00:24:41,250 --> 00:24:42,167 Wrong number. 397 00:24:42,167 --> 00:24:44,208 I'm looking for a relative of Jane Sullivan. 398 00:24:44,208 --> 00:24:45,917 - [person 3] No relation. - Thank you. 399 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:47,083 [person 4] Who is this? 400 00:24:47,083 --> 00:24:49,750 - I'm looking for a relative of Ja-- Hello? - [line clicks] 401 00:24:49,750 --> 00:24:51,625 - Mr. Sullivan, please? - [person 5] Not interested. 402 00:24:51,625 --> 00:24:53,667 - Jane. - [Loretta] Mrs. Sullivan? 403 00:24:53,667 --> 00:24:54,667 Is this Roberta Sullivan? 404 00:24:54,667 --> 00:24:56,292 - [person 6] She passed away. - Thank you. 405 00:24:56,292 --> 00:24:57,708 - [person 7] Hello? - Hi, is this Walter? 406 00:24:57,708 --> 00:24:58,833 Nobody here by that name. 407 00:24:58,833 --> 00:25:03,208 Hi, I'm looking for a relative of, um, sorry, Jane Sullivan. 408 00:25:03,208 --> 00:25:05,042 - [Loretta] Hello? - [line clicks] 409 00:25:05,042 --> 00:25:09,792 You are? My name is Jean Cole, I'm a reporter with the Record American. 410 00:25:09,792 --> 00:25:11,708 We were just calling to confirm some details. 411 00:25:13,208 --> 00:25:14,833 They just confirmed number four. 412 00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:18,708 All right. Phantom's going on page one. 413 00:25:23,917 --> 00:25:25,958 [reporters clamoring] 414 00:25:25,958 --> 00:25:28,208 [reporter] Are you confirming the story of the Record American? 415 00:25:28,208 --> 00:25:29,500 Commissioner! Is there a story-- 416 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:32,167 [McNamara] We are advising the people of Boston 417 00:25:32,167 --> 00:25:36,375 to make sure they have proper locks on their doors, in good working order. 418 00:25:36,375 --> 00:25:37,958 Is there only one killer? 419 00:25:37,958 --> 00:25:39,833 [McNamara] They're not to allow any person into their home 420 00:25:39,833 --> 00:25:42,500 till they are absolutely sure they are a proper person. 421 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:45,542 - Especially women living alone! - Are you confirming the story-- 422 00:25:45,542 --> 00:25:48,500 Keep your doors locked, and don't let strangers in your home! 423 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,583 Are you confirming the story in the Record American? 424 00:25:50,583 --> 00:25:52,042 Is there only one killer? 425 00:25:52,042 --> 00:25:54,875 I don't care if it's one killer or four. We're gonna catch whoever did this. 426 00:25:55,792 --> 00:25:57,875 - [reporter] Do you have any suspects? - [reporters clamoring] 427 00:25:57,875 --> 00:25:59,917 Commissioner, do you have any suspects? 428 00:25:59,917 --> 00:26:03,042 [broadcaster 1 on radio] Extraordinary methods of investigation are needed 429 00:26:03,042 --> 00:26:07,417 to deal with these highly abnormal and uncommon crimes. 430 00:26:07,417 --> 00:26:09,708 I believe that the people of Massachusetts 431 00:26:09,708 --> 00:26:12,375 have everything to gain and nothing to lose. 432 00:26:12,375 --> 00:26:15,417 [broadcaster 2 on radio] We believe this is a man who's come here to kill people. 433 00:26:15,417 --> 00:26:17,125 He is a terror to this city. 434 00:26:17,125 --> 00:26:18,917 We need to get him into custody. 435 00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:25,208 [knocking] 436 00:26:26,208 --> 00:26:28,708 [footsteps approaching] 437 00:26:28,708 --> 00:26:30,458 [door opens] 438 00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:34,250 We're gonna be painting here next week. I gotta take a look around. 439 00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:35,333 [resident] Who sent you? 440 00:26:35,333 --> 00:26:37,083 Uh, super. It'll only take a minute. 441 00:26:38,625 --> 00:26:40,000 [resident] Well, all right. 442 00:26:44,042 --> 00:26:45,542 - [resident screams] - [home intruder grunts] 443 00:26:45,542 --> 00:26:48,875 [resident straining, choking] 444 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:51,292 - [home intruder grunts] - [resident straining] 445 00:26:51,292 --> 00:26:54,292 [crowd clamoring] 446 00:27:03,292 --> 00:27:04,833 [Loretta] I'm with the Record American. 447 00:27:05,542 --> 00:27:07,417 [officer on radio] Standby one second. 448 00:27:07,417 --> 00:27:08,875 [knocking] 449 00:27:10,250 --> 00:27:11,958 [detective] Hello, ma'am. How are you? 450 00:27:11,958 --> 00:27:15,000 I wanted to ask you a few questions. You mind openin' the door? 451 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,250 [neighbor] You have ID? 452 00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:20,583 How do I know that's real? 453 00:27:20,583 --> 00:27:24,000 Ma'am, I'm a-- I'm a homicide detective for the Boston Police Department. 454 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,042 Yeah, well, I haven't met ya. And I'm not letting strangers in. 455 00:27:27,042 --> 00:27:29,292 All right, let's go. Gotta wait outside. 456 00:27:29,292 --> 00:27:31,583 - No, I'm with the Record American. - Doesn't matter. Let's go. 457 00:27:32,542 --> 00:27:33,875 [crowd clamoring] 458 00:27:33,875 --> 00:27:36,375 - [officer] People, please step back. - [onlooker 1] What's the big deal? 459 00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:39,083 - [onlooker 2] What's going on here? - [officer] Back up. Make some space. 460 00:27:39,083 --> 00:27:41,167 - They're not letting anyone in. - [Jean] Come on. 461 00:27:45,417 --> 00:27:46,458 Hey, Joe. 462 00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:48,042 Hey, Jeanie. How are ya? 463 00:27:48,042 --> 00:27:50,042 - How's the old man doin'? - He's still goin'. 464 00:27:50,583 --> 00:27:52,917 Any word on this? It lookin' like the others? 465 00:27:52,917 --> 00:27:56,500 Yeah. Left her on the bed, stockings tied around her neck. 466 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,125 Did it look like he broke in? 467 00:27:58,125 --> 00:28:02,208 No. No sign of forced entry. Looks like he took his time too. 468 00:28:03,792 --> 00:28:07,208 - [chattering] - [typing] 469 00:28:07,208 --> 00:28:08,708 [Phyllis] Record American. Please hold. 470 00:28:11,042 --> 00:28:13,042 I gotta take pictures for your byline. 471 00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:15,458 Since when do they do that? 472 00:28:15,458 --> 00:28:17,000 [photographer] Since they got you two. 473 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:18,500 What does that mean? 474 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,125 What do you think it means? It's a circulation stunt. 475 00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:23,333 I'm not doing it. 476 00:28:23,333 --> 00:28:26,917 [photographer] Come on. Why else you think they got two girls on such a big story? 477 00:28:26,917 --> 00:28:29,958 I don't do stunt reporting. Tell 'em I'm not doing it. 478 00:28:29,958 --> 00:28:32,542 Tell 'em yourself. I don't make the rules around here. 479 00:28:33,167 --> 00:28:35,708 - [chattering] - [phone rings] 480 00:28:35,708 --> 00:28:36,958 [Phyllis] Record American. 481 00:28:39,167 --> 00:28:40,750 You're gonna let that asshole bother you? 482 00:28:42,833 --> 00:28:46,167 You don't mind being called a fluke? By that jackass? 483 00:28:46,167 --> 00:28:49,667 Let 'em sell their papers. You still got the biggest story in the city. 484 00:28:57,375 --> 00:28:58,625 [sighs] 485 00:28:59,417 --> 00:29:02,792 [Loretta] Five women have been strangled over the past three months. 486 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:06,792 By number and by nature, these stranglings are beyond anything 487 00:29:06,792 --> 00:29:09,542 ever seen before in the criminal history of the city. 488 00:29:11,208 --> 00:29:14,500 The murders are clearly premeditated. All elderly. 489 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,083 All lived alone. It's a pattern. 490 00:29:17,083 --> 00:29:19,750 [Loretta] The crimes themselves are insane. 491 00:29:19,750 --> 00:29:22,167 He ransacks the apartments but doesn't take anything. 492 00:29:22,667 --> 00:29:26,083 He leaves his victims posed with a bizarre air of ceremony, 493 00:29:26,083 --> 00:29:28,833 each left with a decorative garrote around her neck. 494 00:29:29,542 --> 00:29:32,583 In every case, there is no evidence left behind, 495 00:29:32,583 --> 00:29:35,083 no clue as to how he selects his victims. 496 00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:39,625 He seems to come and go as he pleases, committing his crimes in broad daylight. 497 00:29:40,208 --> 00:29:42,750 [professor] It's highly organized behavior. 498 00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:47,042 Probably escalated over time, and now he's lost control. 499 00:29:47,542 --> 00:29:50,542 Barriers are down. He'll almost certainly repeat. 500 00:29:56,250 --> 00:29:58,000 [chattering] 501 00:30:00,167 --> 00:30:01,167 What's this? 502 00:30:01,667 --> 00:30:02,792 This is all for you two. 503 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:16,042 [Jean] "I'm one of the many who can't sleep. 504 00:30:16,042 --> 00:30:19,792 I find myself awake all night and too frightened to leave during the day." 505 00:30:20,667 --> 00:30:23,958 "Every day is an eternity, every night a horror. 506 00:30:24,667 --> 00:30:27,000 Nobody knows what a woman alone feels." 507 00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:30,042 "No one knows fear as we know it." 508 00:30:31,333 --> 00:30:35,083 [Loretta] There is but one answer. The Boston Phantom... 509 00:30:40,125 --> 00:30:43,458 The Boston Strangler must be caught. 510 00:30:45,458 --> 00:30:46,792 Guess he's got a name now. 511 00:30:50,833 --> 00:30:51,917 Shit. 512 00:30:51,917 --> 00:30:53,500 - [chattering] - [chuckles] 513 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,208 - Mmm. - Thanks. 514 00:30:57,667 --> 00:31:02,250 So, uh, how'd you become Holland's girl? He poach you from one of the other papers? 515 00:31:03,083 --> 00:31:05,125 He got me a job when I graduated high school. 516 00:31:06,042 --> 00:31:08,792 I was working at a lunch counter down by the courthouse. 517 00:31:08,792 --> 00:31:11,708 He covered a trial the summer before my senior year. 518 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:16,417 I got to know him pretty well, and so he offered to get me a job when I turned 18. 519 00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:20,458 Back then, just living through the day was an accomplishment. 520 00:31:22,042 --> 00:31:25,125 I wore my school clothes when they first sent me out on assignments. 521 00:31:25,125 --> 00:31:26,917 I didn't have money for anything else. 522 00:31:26,917 --> 00:31:29,458 Holland took pity on me and lent me money for a new suit. 523 00:31:30,083 --> 00:31:32,000 I never wanted to let him down after that. 524 00:31:32,625 --> 00:31:33,792 I learned to hold my own, 525 00:31:33,792 --> 00:31:36,792 and he started sending me out on bigger and bigger stories, 526 00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:38,708 and it just became my life. 527 00:31:39,542 --> 00:31:41,750 I really can't imagine doing anything else. 528 00:31:44,208 --> 00:31:47,208 It's crazy to think your whole life can turn on a chance encounter. 529 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,208 My senior year, I, uh-- I lined up with all the other girls 530 00:31:51,208 --> 00:31:52,708 to register for nursing school. 531 00:31:53,542 --> 00:31:56,458 But my English teacher, Mrs. Welker, she-- she pulled me out of the line 532 00:31:56,458 --> 00:31:59,708 and had me apply for a scholarship to go to college. 533 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000 And that was it. 534 00:32:02,958 --> 00:32:05,042 I'd be changing bedpans if it wasn't for her. 535 00:32:05,042 --> 00:32:06,708 Thank God for Mrs. Welker. 536 00:32:07,583 --> 00:32:08,708 [chuckles] 537 00:32:13,458 --> 00:32:16,458 - [chattering] - [jazz music playing on radio] 538 00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:23,583 [phone ringing] 539 00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:27,500 [sighs] Hello? 540 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,083 - Hey, it's Jean. - Hey. 541 00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:31,958 They found another victim. It was a young girl this time. 542 00:32:31,958 --> 00:32:34,000 [gasps] I'll come in now. 543 00:32:35,750 --> 00:32:36,750 What was that? 544 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,250 Oh. [sighs] Another woman turned up. I've gotta go in. 545 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:44,542 You gotta be kidding me. It's New Year's Eve for Christ's sakes. 546 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,167 Who's gonna take your mother home? 547 00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:50,333 [stammers] I can take her now, I guess. 548 00:32:55,292 --> 00:32:57,542 Go. I'll deal with it. 549 00:33:00,750 --> 00:33:02,750 [footsteps departing] 550 00:33:05,583 --> 00:33:06,875 [sighs] 551 00:33:08,708 --> 00:33:10,000 Mom had to go to work. 552 00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:13,250 [chattering] 553 00:33:17,292 --> 00:33:18,292 There's Joe. 554 00:33:50,375 --> 00:33:51,417 [shutter clicks] 555 00:33:53,542 --> 00:33:57,458 Hey, hey, asshole. Come on. Come on. 556 00:33:58,167 --> 00:33:59,458 That's enough. 557 00:33:59,458 --> 00:34:00,875 [scoffs] 558 00:34:00,875 --> 00:34:03,042 [resident] That guy came to my door earlier today. 559 00:34:03,042 --> 00:34:05,542 He said he was here to paint the apartment, so I let him in. 560 00:34:06,958 --> 00:34:11,542 All of a sudden, he tells me I'm pretty and asks me if I thought about modeling. 561 00:34:13,042 --> 00:34:15,667 I got nervous, told him my husband was home. 562 00:34:15,667 --> 00:34:19,375 I pretended to go back and get him, and when I came back, he was gone. 563 00:34:19,958 --> 00:34:21,042 What time was this? 564 00:34:21,542 --> 00:34:23,958 Uh, this afternoon. Three o'clock. 565 00:34:25,417 --> 00:34:26,667 Could you describe him for me? 566 00:34:27,250 --> 00:34:31,917 Uh, normal. White guy, dark hair. 567 00:34:33,042 --> 00:34:34,458 He had workman's clothes on. 568 00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:37,708 He just looked regular. 569 00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:42,250 [professor on phone] She doesn't fit the pattern. 570 00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:46,000 To switch from all elderly women to a young girl is unheard of. 571 00:34:46,708 --> 00:34:48,167 When these guys establish a type, 572 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:51,667 it usually comes from a trauma that's been years in the making. 573 00:34:51,667 --> 00:34:53,500 It doesn't just change all of a sudden. 574 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:54,667 How sure are you? 575 00:34:55,250 --> 00:34:57,625 That's the going theory with this type of killer. 576 00:34:57,625 --> 00:35:00,042 But no one really knows. 577 00:35:08,333 --> 00:35:10,208 Did you know they were gonna do this? 578 00:35:11,417 --> 00:35:14,750 You really think this is smart? With that lunatic still out there? 579 00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,875 I don't know what to say. All right? 580 00:35:16,875 --> 00:35:18,958 Stanley was supposed to shoot the damn crime scene. 581 00:35:18,958 --> 00:35:21,042 [phone rings] 582 00:35:25,042 --> 00:35:26,167 Hello? 583 00:35:26,167 --> 00:35:29,708 [person breathing heavily on phone] 584 00:35:29,708 --> 00:35:30,792 Hello? 585 00:35:38,208 --> 00:35:39,208 [sighs] 586 00:35:40,583 --> 00:35:41,625 Who was that? 587 00:35:41,625 --> 00:35:43,125 It's just a wrong number. 588 00:35:44,250 --> 00:35:46,375 [phone ringing] 589 00:35:51,875 --> 00:35:52,875 Hello? 590 00:35:54,625 --> 00:35:55,625 Hello? 591 00:35:57,333 --> 00:35:58,417 Who is this? 592 00:36:04,958 --> 00:36:07,208 [phone rings] 593 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:11,875 Who is this? 594 00:36:14,083 --> 00:36:15,500 Stop calling here! 595 00:36:22,375 --> 00:36:25,375 [footsteps departing] 596 00:36:26,750 --> 00:36:30,083 - [organ music playing] - [chattering] 597 00:36:34,125 --> 00:36:36,458 Are you having any problems with people calling your house? 598 00:36:36,458 --> 00:36:38,875 You gettin' hang-ups and the, uh, heavy breathers? 599 00:36:38,875 --> 00:36:40,250 - Yeah. They called you too? - Mmm. 600 00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:44,500 Nope. We unlisted our number years ago after I covered my first mayor's race. 601 00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:47,792 Yeah. Right. 602 00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:50,208 I'm gonna go have a cigarette. 603 00:36:56,833 --> 00:36:58,167 I'll be right back. 604 00:37:03,042 --> 00:37:04,042 Hey. 605 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,125 Got a smoke? 606 00:37:11,292 --> 00:37:14,375 Been reading your stories. They've been pretty good. 607 00:37:14,375 --> 00:37:15,750 Well, have you got any leads? 608 00:37:17,625 --> 00:37:18,667 Off the record. 609 00:37:18,667 --> 00:37:21,750 Off the record? More than we can handle. 610 00:37:21,750 --> 00:37:23,583 Are you close to making an arrest? 611 00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:27,250 These people have no idea what they're up against. 612 00:37:27,250 --> 00:37:28,417 [Loretta] What people? 613 00:37:28,417 --> 00:37:31,125 Uh, the whole department, as far as I'm concerned. 614 00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:32,625 The whole police department? 615 00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:35,208 [detective] The usual rules don't apply. 616 00:37:35,208 --> 00:37:38,708 There's no motive, and then he takes off without leaving a shred of evidence. 617 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,083 Guy's as careful as he is deranged. 618 00:37:44,792 --> 00:37:46,250 Nice talking to you. 619 00:37:49,292 --> 00:37:50,958 I'm Jim, by the way. 620 00:37:51,958 --> 00:37:53,708 You can call me at the paper anytime. 621 00:37:54,583 --> 00:37:55,917 I'll give you whatever I have. 622 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:02,500 [wind howling] 623 00:38:03,250 --> 00:38:04,167 [thunderclap] 624 00:38:04,167 --> 00:38:05,292 [knocking] 625 00:38:07,042 --> 00:38:08,083 - Yes? - [mechanic] Yeah, 626 00:38:08,083 --> 00:38:10,208 the super sent me to check the radiator. 627 00:38:10,208 --> 00:38:11,708 It'll only take a second. 628 00:38:18,417 --> 00:38:20,125 [resident] Do you want some coffee? 629 00:38:20,125 --> 00:38:21,208 [mechanic] Yeah, sure. 630 00:38:22,083 --> 00:38:23,500 [thunderclap] 631 00:38:27,833 --> 00:38:29,375 [thunder rumbling] 632 00:38:40,375 --> 00:38:41,375 [shrieks] 633 00:38:41,375 --> 00:38:42,708 - [mug clatters] - [chokes] 634 00:38:43,583 --> 00:38:45,375 [grunting] 635 00:38:45,375 --> 00:38:47,833 [gasping, grunting] 636 00:38:50,375 --> 00:38:52,417 [whimpering, grunting] 637 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,917 [reporter on TV] The city is, for some, glamorous, stimulating, prosperous. 638 00:39:00,917 --> 00:39:03,333 Only recently has it become dangerous. 639 00:39:04,750 --> 00:39:08,000 Five young girls have been strangled in the Boston area. 640 00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:11,167 A young girl was strangled in her Lawrence apartment. 641 00:39:11,167 --> 00:39:14,583 Stockings and a leotard wrapped tightly about her neck. 642 00:39:14,583 --> 00:39:19,000 A 21-year-old Boston University student was found by her two roommates, 643 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,083 strangled with a silk stocking in her Back Bay apartment. 644 00:39:22,708 --> 00:39:26,583 And most recent, Patricia Bissette, a 24-year-old secretary, 645 00:39:26,583 --> 00:39:30,458 was also found strangled in her Back Bay apartment where she lived alone. 646 00:39:30,458 --> 00:39:33,542 [person on PA, indistinct] 647 00:39:42,333 --> 00:39:44,375 - [nurse] Jeanie. Hi. - [Jean] Yeah, yeah. 648 00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:45,542 You okay? 649 00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:48,667 Yeah. [stammers] Um, tough morning. 650 00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:51,417 [Jean] You guys do the Patricia Bissette autopsy? 651 00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:53,917 It's a bad one. 652 00:39:55,250 --> 00:39:56,542 She was pregnant. 653 00:39:56,542 --> 00:39:59,042 Pregnant? Was she married? 654 00:39:59,042 --> 00:40:00,125 [nurse] Single. 655 00:40:00,917 --> 00:40:02,333 How far along was she? 656 00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:03,583 [nurse] A few months. 657 00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:07,583 [receptionist] Nielson's Electronics. 658 00:40:07,583 --> 00:40:08,750 One moment. 659 00:40:10,458 --> 00:40:11,708 Mr. Nielson, please. 660 00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:14,250 He's not in today. Could I give him a message? 661 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:16,333 Jean Cole with the Record American. 662 00:40:16,333 --> 00:40:18,500 Patricia Bissette was his secretary? 663 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:19,583 That's right. 664 00:40:19,583 --> 00:40:20,792 You know her well? 665 00:40:21,708 --> 00:40:24,458 Pretty well. It's a small office. 666 00:40:25,125 --> 00:40:26,917 Do you know if she was dating anyone? 667 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:29,875 I'm not sure. 668 00:40:33,292 --> 00:40:34,833 Did you know she was pregnant? 669 00:40:48,250 --> 00:40:49,667 I take lunch at noon. 670 00:40:49,667 --> 00:40:51,750 [chattering] 671 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:01,333 What's this? 672 00:41:02,042 --> 00:41:03,708 [receptionist] Pull the string on the back. 673 00:41:04,458 --> 00:41:06,375 [doll] Please take me with you. 674 00:41:08,833 --> 00:41:10,333 That's Patricia's voice. 675 00:41:11,458 --> 00:41:15,167 Mr. Nielson used her to record the prototype for the latest model. 676 00:41:15,167 --> 00:41:16,917 [doll] Please take me with you. 677 00:41:16,917 --> 00:41:18,042 Jesus. 678 00:41:18,875 --> 00:41:21,875 Mr. Nielson and Patricia were having an affair. 679 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,625 Everyone in the office knew. 680 00:41:25,708 --> 00:41:26,958 Did he know she was pregnant? 681 00:41:28,208 --> 00:41:29,792 He was helping her sort it out. 682 00:41:29,792 --> 00:41:31,708 Sort it out? How? 683 00:41:32,375 --> 00:41:34,417 [receptionist] He found a convent in New Hampshire. 684 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,083 They were supposed to arrange for an adoption. 685 00:41:37,917 --> 00:41:39,917 Do you know if Patricia wanted to keep the baby? 686 00:41:41,833 --> 00:41:42,833 Maybe. 687 00:41:44,292 --> 00:41:46,375 But Mr. Nielson has a wife and kids. 688 00:41:48,833 --> 00:41:50,000 So that was that. 689 00:41:53,750 --> 00:41:57,083 [parent] Beverly came over every week no matter what. 690 00:41:58,333 --> 00:42:01,667 She'd bring supper and we'd watch the stories on the TV together. 691 00:42:02,583 --> 00:42:04,917 Do you know if she had a boyfriend? 692 00:42:05,708 --> 00:42:09,375 I don't think so. School took up most of her time. 693 00:42:10,125 --> 00:42:13,542 And the choir. It's where a lot of her friends were from. 694 00:42:14,292 --> 00:42:15,292 At church? 695 00:42:15,292 --> 00:42:18,542 [parent] No. At BU, where she was studying. 696 00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:22,000 Oh. That's where I went. 697 00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:24,375 [scoffs] 698 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:26,750 I always thought she'd end up being someone like you. 699 00:42:27,625 --> 00:42:31,333 You know, with a job she loved, living on her own terms. 700 00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:34,500 I admired that about her. 701 00:42:36,792 --> 00:42:39,875 She was doin' all the things I wish I could've done with my own life. 702 00:42:42,458 --> 00:42:43,875 You have kids? 703 00:42:43,875 --> 00:42:45,542 Yeah. Uh, three. 704 00:42:46,792 --> 00:42:50,458 Maggie's nine. The boys are seven and five. 705 00:42:51,958 --> 00:42:55,417 [parent] Beverly was terrified of the dark when she was that age. 706 00:42:55,417 --> 00:42:58,583 Only way I could get her to calm down was by singing to her. 707 00:42:59,542 --> 00:43:00,542 [sobs] 708 00:43:01,875 --> 00:43:05,625 I'm sorry, I just-- I just can't stop thinking about it. 709 00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:11,208 What he did to her. What that must have been like for her. 710 00:43:12,292 --> 00:43:15,417 [sobbing] 711 00:43:15,417 --> 00:43:18,667 [choir vocalizing] 712 00:43:45,125 --> 00:43:47,500 [friend] Beverly had just broken up with her boyfriend. 713 00:43:49,625 --> 00:43:52,417 She was taking advantage of her freedom. 714 00:43:54,458 --> 00:43:56,125 Did you meet any of the guys she was seeing? 715 00:43:56,125 --> 00:43:58,792 Yeah, but they were all harmless. 716 00:44:01,042 --> 00:44:03,625 It's her ex that she was afraid of. 717 00:44:05,833 --> 00:44:08,667 Uh-- Sorry, who is that? 718 00:44:11,917 --> 00:44:13,125 Daniel Marsh. 719 00:44:14,333 --> 00:44:15,583 Why was she afraid of him? 720 00:44:16,292 --> 00:44:17,958 He was harassing her. 721 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,833 He had just gotten kicked out of Harvard, was acting really erratic. 722 00:44:24,292 --> 00:44:29,292 He'd call in the middle of the night, show up unannounced. Things like that. 723 00:44:31,333 --> 00:44:32,417 And when was this? 724 00:44:33,708 --> 00:44:35,542 Right up until around when it happened. 725 00:45:06,667 --> 00:45:08,667 [doorbell buzzes] 726 00:45:19,875 --> 00:45:20,875 Daniel Marsh? 727 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:22,333 Yes? 728 00:45:22,333 --> 00:45:24,750 Loretta McLaughlin with the Record American. 729 00:45:25,250 --> 00:45:26,542 You knew Beverly Samans? 730 00:45:28,458 --> 00:45:29,458 Come inside. 731 00:45:38,458 --> 00:45:39,458 [door closes] 732 00:45:40,458 --> 00:45:42,208 Come in. Come in. 733 00:45:57,750 --> 00:45:58,750 It's just back here. 734 00:45:58,750 --> 00:46:00,875 [machine rattling] 735 00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:02,375 We can talk just back here. 736 00:46:07,167 --> 00:46:11,583 Uh, I've just remembered that I've got, uh, another appointment. 737 00:46:11,583 --> 00:46:15,042 I'm gonna have to-- I'm gonna have to come back another time. 738 00:46:18,125 --> 00:46:19,292 [door slams] 739 00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:28,583 [Loretta pants] 740 00:46:29,542 --> 00:46:31,583 [doll] Please take me with you. 741 00:46:32,750 --> 00:46:35,000 - [footsteps approaching] - [doll] Please take me with you. 742 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,083 Here's everything on Patricia and Nielson. 743 00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:40,250 [doll] Please take me with you. 744 00:46:40,250 --> 00:46:41,667 You okay? 745 00:46:41,667 --> 00:46:42,750 Yeah. 746 00:46:43,333 --> 00:46:44,417 Don't stay here all night. 747 00:46:45,708 --> 00:46:46,708 I'm serious. 748 00:46:47,667 --> 00:46:48,667 I won't. 749 00:46:50,417 --> 00:46:52,167 [doll] Please take me with you. 750 00:46:58,542 --> 00:47:00,458 Wait, what did you say his name was? 751 00:47:02,958 --> 00:47:04,958 No, you called me. 752 00:47:07,167 --> 00:47:09,875 - Runnin' a hotline for the mentally unfit. - [Loretta chuckles] 753 00:47:09,875 --> 00:47:11,333 That's everything. 754 00:47:11,333 --> 00:47:15,083 All right. Give me some time. I gotta wade through this pile of shit first. 755 00:47:15,833 --> 00:47:17,083 Don't wait on these. 756 00:47:18,292 --> 00:47:19,292 They're good leads. 757 00:47:23,875 --> 00:47:24,875 [door lock clicks] 758 00:47:24,875 --> 00:47:26,958 [chattering on TV] 759 00:47:32,417 --> 00:47:33,417 [door lock clicks] 760 00:47:59,125 --> 00:48:00,958 - [detective] Boston Police Department! - [gasps] 761 00:48:01,458 --> 00:48:02,458 Gordon Nielson? 762 00:48:02,458 --> 00:48:04,208 - [Nielson] Yes. - [detective] Hands on the wall. 763 00:48:06,750 --> 00:48:08,375 [examiner] Your name is Gordon Nielson? 764 00:48:08,375 --> 00:48:09,458 [Nielson] Yes. 765 00:48:11,208 --> 00:48:12,917 [examiner] You've been divorced once? 766 00:48:13,792 --> 00:48:15,125 [Nielson] Yes. 767 00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:17,667 [examiner] Patricia Bissette worked as your secretary? 768 00:48:17,667 --> 00:48:18,750 [Nielson] Yes. 769 00:48:21,208 --> 00:48:23,792 [examiner] Did you have a relationship with her outside of work? 770 00:48:24,333 --> 00:48:25,333 Yes. 771 00:48:26,833 --> 00:48:29,083 [examiner] Did you see Patricia the night she was murdered? 772 00:48:30,042 --> 00:48:31,042 No. 773 00:48:45,042 --> 00:48:46,625 Can I have an update, Detective? 774 00:48:48,333 --> 00:48:51,500 We caught Nielson removing evidence from Patricia's apartment. 775 00:48:52,542 --> 00:48:53,917 He failed two polygraph tests, 776 00:48:53,917 --> 00:48:56,083 but the DA still doesn't think he has a case, 777 00:48:56,083 --> 00:48:57,958 and there's nothing tying him to the other murders. 778 00:48:57,958 --> 00:48:59,417 So, what about Daniel Marsh? 779 00:48:59,417 --> 00:49:00,917 Who? The Harvard psycho? 780 00:49:01,542 --> 00:49:04,292 He's batshit crazy, I'll give you that, but we got nothin' on him. 781 00:49:04,292 --> 00:49:06,542 Well, he was harassing Beverly the week before she was killed. 782 00:49:06,542 --> 00:49:08,625 Uh, you can't charge a guy for getting high 783 00:49:08,625 --> 00:49:10,667 and calling his ex-girlfriend in the middle of the night. 784 00:49:10,667 --> 00:49:11,625 What, so that's it? 785 00:49:11,625 --> 00:49:15,125 I-I don't think you understand what I'm dealin' with here. 786 00:49:16,250 --> 00:49:18,250 I'm gettin' a hundred tips a day, 787 00:49:18,250 --> 00:49:20,458 I got thousands of sex offenders to screen, 788 00:49:20,458 --> 00:49:24,542 and now the commissioner just ordered a raid on every gay bar in the city. 789 00:49:26,333 --> 00:49:29,417 I'm doing all I can, but I'm not playing with a full deck. 790 00:49:30,042 --> 00:49:31,333 I'll see ya later. 791 00:49:31,333 --> 00:49:32,333 [car door opens] 792 00:49:32,333 --> 00:49:34,833 How many gay bars in Boston are there anyway? 793 00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:35,958 There can't be that many. 794 00:49:35,958 --> 00:49:37,125 Way to miss the point, Jack. 795 00:49:37,125 --> 00:49:40,250 The point is Commissioner McNamara's not up to the job. 796 00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:41,792 What does that mean, exactly? 797 00:49:41,792 --> 00:49:43,083 His head's shoved up his ass. 798 00:49:43,083 --> 00:49:45,125 They won't coordinate with other police departments, 799 00:49:45,125 --> 00:49:46,250 connections are being missed, 800 00:49:46,250 --> 00:49:48,125 and good leads are falling through the cracks. 801 00:49:48,125 --> 00:49:49,542 Isn't some of that to be expected? 802 00:49:49,542 --> 00:49:51,125 [Loretta] We are way beyond that. 803 00:49:51,125 --> 00:49:52,917 Oh, I'm sorry, Jack, am I keeping you up? 804 00:49:52,917 --> 00:49:55,000 Will you cut the shit already? What's the story? 805 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,333 - The city can't protect its women. - Come on. 806 00:49:57,333 --> 00:49:59,750 What? You don't think it's true, or you don't think it's a story? 807 00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:00,917 [Jack] What is it with you? 808 00:50:00,917 --> 00:50:04,125 You can't go after someone's livelihood because you're impatient. 809 00:50:04,125 --> 00:50:06,458 Ten women are dead, and these assholes don't have a clue! 810 00:50:06,458 --> 00:50:09,542 You don't have a story. You have a grudge. 811 00:50:09,542 --> 00:50:12,167 How many women have to die before it's a story? 812 00:50:12,167 --> 00:50:13,250 That's enough. 813 00:50:13,833 --> 00:50:15,917 These are good men busting their asses. 814 00:50:15,917 --> 00:50:18,292 I'm not waging a war on the police department. 815 00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:24,500 [footsteps departing] 816 00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:27,583 [chattering on TV] 817 00:50:37,792 --> 00:50:38,875 Where you been? 818 00:50:40,042 --> 00:50:41,292 I had to work late. 819 00:50:43,792 --> 00:50:45,708 Oh, my God. Get a plate. You're gonna make a mess. 820 00:50:45,708 --> 00:50:47,000 I'm not gonna make a mess. 821 00:50:56,792 --> 00:50:59,458 Sit down. I gotta talk to you anyway. 822 00:50:59,458 --> 00:51:01,625 Look, I've had a long day. Can't it wait? 823 00:51:02,208 --> 00:51:04,917 Loretta, sit down. 824 00:51:15,208 --> 00:51:17,042 I took a new position at work. 825 00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:21,875 It's better pay, but I have to be in the Connecticut office part-time. 826 00:51:21,875 --> 00:51:23,042 Part-time? 827 00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:25,750 A few days a week. 828 00:51:27,333 --> 00:51:28,750 How long's this been in the works? 829 00:51:29,375 --> 00:51:30,375 Couple weeks. 830 00:51:30,375 --> 00:51:32,458 And when were you gonna tell me about it? 831 00:51:32,458 --> 00:51:36,708 A lot of long days lately. Hasn't exactly been a good time. 832 00:51:36,708 --> 00:51:39,167 How are we supposed to manage with you gone half the week? 833 00:51:39,833 --> 00:51:41,333 You're gonna have to do your share. 834 00:51:41,333 --> 00:51:44,917 What more could I possibly do short of quit my job? 835 00:51:44,917 --> 00:51:47,250 Is this your way of telling me to stay home? Is that what this is? 836 00:51:47,250 --> 00:51:49,125 Come on. Have I ever asked you to stay home? 837 00:51:49,125 --> 00:51:51,125 No, you just do something like this instead. 838 00:51:51,125 --> 00:51:54,000 What, I'm free to do what I want as long as it's on your terms, isn't that right? 839 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,375 You are unbelievable, you know that? 840 00:51:55,375 --> 00:51:57,708 My-- My sister's right about you. You're just-- 841 00:51:57,708 --> 00:51:58,792 What? 842 00:51:59,875 --> 00:52:02,542 Say it. Say it. 843 00:52:03,667 --> 00:52:06,625 Most people would be happy their husband got a promotion. 844 00:52:07,375 --> 00:52:08,375 [slams table] 845 00:52:18,125 --> 00:52:20,167 [line rings] 846 00:52:20,167 --> 00:52:21,583 [Phyllis on phone] Record American. 847 00:52:21,583 --> 00:52:25,250 [detective] Yeah, I'm looking for Loretta McLaughlin or Jean Cole. 848 00:52:25,250 --> 00:52:26,625 One minute, please. 849 00:52:26,625 --> 00:52:28,708 [phone rings] 850 00:52:29,750 --> 00:52:30,958 Loretta. 851 00:52:30,958 --> 00:52:34,458 My name's Detective Linski, I'm with the New York City Police Department. 852 00:52:34,458 --> 00:52:38,000 I'm calling about a murder we had down here couple of weeks ago. 853 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,333 Looks like it could be linked to the stranglings. 854 00:52:41,625 --> 00:52:42,833 Older lady. 855 00:52:42,833 --> 00:52:45,292 Yeah, she turned up dead in a hotel room, 856 00:52:45,292 --> 00:52:48,042 strangled with stockings tied around her neck. 857 00:52:48,042 --> 00:52:50,458 People from the hotel saw the guy she was with. 858 00:52:50,458 --> 00:52:54,208 Couple of nights later he shows up at the hotel bar, so I pick him up... 859 00:52:54,208 --> 00:52:56,958 [scoffs] ...find her cigarette case still in his pocket. 860 00:52:57,792 --> 00:53:00,208 Only took me 45 minutes to get a confession. 861 00:53:01,583 --> 00:53:03,500 His name is Paul Dempsey. 862 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:06,375 Lives up in Maine, but I can place him in Boston 863 00:53:06,375 --> 00:53:08,458 at the time of the first five murders. 864 00:53:09,292 --> 00:53:11,625 Uh, I'm assuming you went to Boston Homicide with this? 865 00:53:11,625 --> 00:53:15,042 First call I made. Couldn't get anyone to call me back. 866 00:53:15,042 --> 00:53:18,250 Couple of weeks go by, so I make the trip up there myself. 867 00:53:18,250 --> 00:53:20,333 Figure I'll just tell 'em in person. 868 00:53:21,125 --> 00:53:24,208 Couldn't get anyone to meet with me. Can you believe that? 869 00:53:25,833 --> 00:53:28,417 Detective drove four hours for a homicide I'm working, 870 00:53:29,167 --> 00:53:31,167 I'd walk out of my kid's christening for that. 871 00:53:31,917 --> 00:53:33,667 I don't know what the hell they're doin' up there. 872 00:53:33,667 --> 00:53:36,833 Turns out Paul Dempsey was a suspect in a murder in Maine 873 00:53:36,833 --> 00:53:39,083 four years before the first Strangler murder. 874 00:53:39,083 --> 00:53:41,125 The victim was an elderly woman found strangled 875 00:53:41,125 --> 00:53:42,708 with her stockings tied around her neck. 876 00:53:42,708 --> 00:53:44,375 It could be the original Strangler murder, 877 00:53:44,375 --> 00:53:46,708 but no one can get Boston Homicide to look into it. 878 00:53:46,708 --> 00:53:48,500 And this cop in New York will go on the record? 879 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:49,958 Already did. 880 00:53:49,958 --> 00:53:51,833 We're not running a hit job on the police department. 881 00:53:51,833 --> 00:53:54,833 They're blowing the investigation. How long can we keep ignoring it? 882 00:53:54,833 --> 00:53:58,042 I don't know how many times we have to tell you, but we're not doing it. 883 00:53:58,708 --> 00:54:00,125 I don't know, Eddie. 884 00:54:02,292 --> 00:54:04,708 I mean, she's right. We can't keep looking the other way. 885 00:54:05,292 --> 00:54:08,083 You really wanna use this paper to tear down the police department? 886 00:54:08,083 --> 00:54:10,208 If anyone else was blowing it this badly, 887 00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:12,708 we'd have put it on the front page a long time ago. 888 00:54:13,875 --> 00:54:14,875 All right. 889 00:54:15,958 --> 00:54:18,500 You want to run with this? I'm not gonna stand in your way. 890 00:54:19,042 --> 00:54:21,625 But it's your neck on the block. You understand? 891 00:54:22,333 --> 00:54:23,375 All right. 892 00:54:26,167 --> 00:54:28,042 [thunder rumbling] 893 00:54:28,042 --> 00:54:30,875 [Loretta] The Boston Police Department is conducting the largest manhunt 894 00:54:30,875 --> 00:54:32,125 in the city's history, 895 00:54:32,125 --> 00:54:36,000 and yet no trace, no trail, no trip up has been detected. 896 00:54:37,167 --> 00:54:41,542 Without sharing evidence, police may overlook a common denominator, 897 00:54:41,542 --> 00:54:45,125 a missing link, a clue that could identify the killer. 898 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,917 Unless a centralized effort is set up to catch the Strangler, 899 00:54:48,917 --> 00:54:52,375 he will remain today as he did one year ago, 900 00:54:52,375 --> 00:54:56,625 a faceless, formless, flawless executioner. 901 00:54:57,708 --> 00:54:59,208 Holy shit. 902 00:55:00,167 --> 00:55:01,750 Tomorrow's gonna be interesting. 903 00:55:06,875 --> 00:55:09,875 Nice knowin' ya. Fun while it lasted. 904 00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:16,583 [newscaster on TV] The attorney general held a press conference today 905 00:55:16,583 --> 00:55:20,333 to announce that he is assuming command of the Boston Strangler investigation 906 00:55:20,333 --> 00:55:23,000 after a critical story in the Record American . 907 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,958 He has appointed Deputy Attorney General John Bottomly 908 00:55:25,958 --> 00:55:28,000 to oversee the investigation. 909 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,250 [commentator on radio] To suggest the Boston Police Department 910 00:55:30,250 --> 00:55:33,583 is leaving any stone unturned is absurd. 911 00:55:33,583 --> 00:55:35,833 And all this because a couple girl reporters question 912 00:55:35,833 --> 00:55:37,333 the credentials of our police department. 913 00:55:37,333 --> 00:55:39,125 - [scoffs] - I mean, what the hell do they know 914 00:55:39,125 --> 00:55:40,208 about police work? 915 00:55:40,208 --> 00:55:43,750 [crickets chirping] 916 00:55:43,750 --> 00:55:46,833 [wind howling] 917 00:56:16,292 --> 00:56:17,333 [gasps] 918 00:56:30,750 --> 00:56:32,750 [wind whistling] 919 00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:38,667 [sighs] 920 00:57:14,375 --> 00:57:17,375 [breathing shakily] 921 00:57:17,375 --> 00:57:18,583 [screen door bangs] 922 00:57:18,583 --> 00:57:20,667 [dog barking] 923 00:57:30,292 --> 00:57:32,208 [wind whistling] 924 00:57:33,417 --> 00:57:34,750 - [screen door bangs] - [gasps] 925 00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:41,542 [panting] 926 00:57:49,750 --> 00:57:50,750 [sighs] 927 00:57:53,042 --> 00:57:54,167 [Tommy] What is that? 928 00:57:54,167 --> 00:57:55,792 - [Loretta] No, don't touch that! - [gasps] 929 00:57:57,542 --> 00:57:58,542 Go back to bed. 930 00:57:59,875 --> 00:58:01,875 [footsteps running] 931 00:58:09,667 --> 00:58:10,667 Oh. 932 00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:25,125 Someone came to the house? 933 00:58:25,125 --> 00:58:29,042 They put it in the mail slot. It was just me and the kids home. 934 00:58:29,042 --> 00:58:32,042 You think it was a deranged cop or some deranged asshole? 935 00:58:32,042 --> 00:58:34,583 Well, I'm not exactly pleased about it either way. 936 00:58:38,292 --> 00:58:39,292 Where are you going? 937 00:58:45,250 --> 00:58:47,625 Now, I didn't say anything when you put our pictures in the paper, 938 00:58:47,625 --> 00:58:50,167 but you and I both know what that was. That was a stunt. 939 00:58:50,167 --> 00:58:52,000 - And I know you wanna sell your papers... - Calm down. 940 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,125 ...but at what cost? 941 00:58:53,125 --> 00:58:55,833 There's more than one lunatic out there, and you're gonna get us both killed! 942 00:58:55,833 --> 00:58:57,208 - You take it out! - I'll handle it. 943 00:59:03,042 --> 00:59:05,292 They're not puttin' our picture in the paper anymore. 944 00:59:07,792 --> 00:59:08,792 I need a drink. 945 00:59:11,958 --> 00:59:13,833 I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore. 946 00:59:13,833 --> 00:59:15,292 - [Jean] About what? - About everything. 947 00:59:15,875 --> 00:59:18,167 You know, it's like I get to do half of everything I really want 948 00:59:18,167 --> 00:59:20,417 and everyone around me still feels shortchanged. 949 00:59:21,958 --> 00:59:23,292 James has had enough. 950 00:59:23,292 --> 00:59:25,708 And my-- my poor kids are spooked. 951 00:59:27,125 --> 00:59:29,708 You know, most of my paycheck goes to the babysitter now? 952 00:59:30,208 --> 00:59:31,292 Who cares? 953 00:59:31,292 --> 00:59:34,250 You're gonna make yourself crazy worrying about everyone else all the time. 954 00:59:34,250 --> 00:59:35,333 [chuckles] 955 00:59:35,333 --> 00:59:38,500 You can't be apologetic, not about the things that are important to you. 956 00:59:39,458 --> 00:59:41,875 How come you're so calm about everything? 957 00:59:41,875 --> 00:59:44,375 Now, you've got kids. It must be crazy for you too. 958 00:59:45,125 --> 00:59:47,500 How do you keep everything so under control? 959 00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:49,542 My life's a three-ring circus. 960 00:59:49,542 --> 00:59:52,500 The wheels have been about to fall off since our youngest was born. 961 00:59:53,833 --> 00:59:56,250 So, what do you want to do about this story? 962 00:59:56,250 --> 00:59:58,250 You sure you want to keep going with this? 963 01:00:02,250 --> 01:00:03,250 [cash register dings] 964 01:00:03,250 --> 01:00:05,167 [detective] Boston Police are keeping us in the dark. 965 01:00:05,167 --> 01:00:07,250 They won't talk to any of the other departments. 966 01:00:07,250 --> 01:00:09,167 And they sure as hell don't want our help. 967 01:00:09,167 --> 01:00:10,708 Would you go on the record with that? 968 01:00:12,958 --> 01:00:15,625 Yeah. Go ahead, print my name. 969 01:00:16,792 --> 01:00:17,875 Print this too. 970 01:00:19,375 --> 01:00:21,375 Couple weeks ago, we get a call about this guy, 971 01:00:21,375 --> 01:00:23,500 was harassing these girls in their apartment. 972 01:00:24,083 --> 01:00:26,667 Then Boston won't share any information with us. 973 01:00:28,167 --> 01:00:29,500 So we just let him go. 974 01:00:30,583 --> 01:00:33,167 I come to find out he's one of their prime suspects. 975 01:00:34,167 --> 01:00:36,792 We had him, and we just let him walk away. 976 01:00:37,667 --> 01:00:38,667 What was his name? 977 01:00:40,583 --> 01:00:41,750 Off the record... 978 01:00:43,125 --> 01:00:44,417 Albert DeSalvo. 979 01:00:45,833 --> 01:00:47,333 He's famous over in Cambridge. 980 01:00:49,125 --> 01:00:51,542 - Famous for what? - [sighs] 981 01:00:51,542 --> 01:00:54,875 Making himself unwanted. 982 01:01:01,417 --> 01:01:03,417 [chattering] 983 01:01:05,833 --> 01:01:07,833 - Brian, coffee? - Thank you. 984 01:01:08,542 --> 01:01:09,542 Guys, coffee? 985 01:01:09,542 --> 01:01:11,583 [desk officer] All right, whose file you need? 986 01:01:11,583 --> 01:01:13,042 [Loretta] Uh, DeSalvo. 987 01:01:13,042 --> 01:01:14,875 - Which one? - Sorry? 988 01:01:15,375 --> 01:01:17,500 All the DeSalvo brothers graduated from jail. 989 01:01:17,500 --> 01:01:19,750 - Which one ya need? - Albert. 990 01:01:19,750 --> 01:01:21,792 - [desk officer] Figures. - What, you know him? 991 01:01:21,792 --> 01:01:25,458 Every cop in Cambridge knows him. Al's a world-class creep. 992 01:01:26,542 --> 01:01:29,542 Just got nabbed on rape charges over in Malden. 993 01:01:29,542 --> 01:01:31,208 - He's in custody? - Yeah. 994 01:01:31,208 --> 01:01:34,333 They got him up in Bridgewater right now. Have fun. 995 01:01:50,375 --> 01:01:54,250 [sergeant] DeSalvo had two cons, the Green Man and the Measuring Man. 996 01:01:54,917 --> 01:01:57,417 They called him the Green Man 'cause he put on green workman's clothes 997 01:01:57,417 --> 01:01:59,417 and posed as the maintenance guy, 998 01:01:59,417 --> 01:02:02,000 say he needed to check something inside their apartments. 999 01:02:03,292 --> 01:02:05,625 [Loretta] And, uh, what about the Measuring Man? 1000 01:02:05,625 --> 01:02:08,667 [sergeant] I don't know where he came up with this one, 1001 01:02:08,667 --> 01:02:11,000 but he'd pretend to be a modeling scout. 1002 01:02:11,625 --> 01:02:15,083 And he'd convince these girls to let him in so he could take their measurements. 1003 01:02:16,375 --> 01:02:18,500 You wouldn't believe how many people let him do it. 1004 01:02:19,708 --> 01:02:24,250 He told me I had a nice figure. He said his agency would hire me. 1005 01:02:24,250 --> 01:02:27,333 He just needed to take some measurements. 1006 01:02:28,708 --> 01:02:30,375 But he didn't have a measuring tape. 1007 01:02:32,542 --> 01:02:34,000 He just used his hands. 1008 01:02:37,292 --> 01:02:38,875 I got this horrible feeling. 1009 01:02:41,083 --> 01:02:42,333 My whole body just froze. 1010 01:02:45,125 --> 01:02:47,125 [church bells tolling] 1011 01:02:53,083 --> 01:02:54,167 [sighs] 1012 01:02:54,167 --> 01:02:56,250 [chattering] 1013 01:03:11,625 --> 01:03:13,875 - You remember Sophie's neighbor? - [Jean] Mm-hmm. 1014 01:03:13,875 --> 01:03:17,375 Uh, she said a man came to her apartment the day Sophie was killed. 1015 01:03:17,375 --> 01:03:19,708 Now, first he said he was there to paint the apartment, 1016 01:03:19,708 --> 01:03:22,042 and then he asked her if she ever thought about modeling. 1017 01:03:23,083 --> 01:03:26,583 The Green Man slipped into the Measuring Man. It's DeSalvo. 1018 01:03:27,708 --> 01:03:28,958 [chattering] 1019 01:03:28,958 --> 01:03:30,042 [host] Right this way. 1020 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,833 I can't be caught dead talking to you right now. 1021 01:03:35,833 --> 01:03:38,917 - That bad, huh? - No, I'm serious. 1022 01:03:39,750 --> 01:03:43,000 If you gotta call me at the station, you say you're my sister Sally, all right? 1023 01:03:46,208 --> 01:03:47,667 What do you have for me? 1024 01:03:56,333 --> 01:03:59,042 - It's not him. - Well, it has to be him. Look-- 1025 01:03:59,042 --> 01:04:02,000 I mean, Sophie's neighbor said he came to paint the apartment, 1026 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,667 but then he slipped up and started talking to her about modeling. 1027 01:04:04,667 --> 01:04:07,792 I mean, those are the two cons DeSalvo is famous for. 1028 01:04:07,792 --> 01:04:11,875 I worked DeSalvo for weeks. I loved him for it. It's not him. 1029 01:04:12,708 --> 01:04:13,792 What makes you so sure? 1030 01:04:13,792 --> 01:04:16,042 He was in prison for the first six murders, 1031 01:04:16,042 --> 01:04:18,125 didn't get out until after Sophie was killed. 1032 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,500 Whoever was in that lady's apartment wasn't DeSalvo. 1033 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:24,000 [sighs] 1034 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,000 What you're feeling right now, that's every day for me. 1035 01:04:29,875 --> 01:04:32,500 You know how many people I've gone down the rabbit hole with? 1036 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,750 It's a dead-end every time with this case. 1037 01:04:34,750 --> 01:04:36,458 You get your teeth into something 1038 01:04:36,458 --> 01:04:39,833 and then your bottom falls out at three in the morning, and you got nothin'. 1039 01:04:42,083 --> 01:04:43,917 And while I'm making myself crazy... 1040 01:04:47,917 --> 01:04:49,417 he's out there somewhere... 1041 01:04:52,083 --> 01:04:53,250 laughing at us. 1042 01:04:57,667 --> 01:04:59,042 [thunderclap] 1043 01:04:59,042 --> 01:05:01,125 [rain pattering] 1044 01:05:08,458 --> 01:05:09,708 [sighs] 1045 01:05:20,667 --> 01:05:22,667 [rain continues] 1046 01:05:30,125 --> 01:05:32,125 [chattering] 1047 01:05:39,375 --> 01:05:41,042 You still stuck on DeSalvo? 1048 01:05:41,625 --> 01:05:43,292 Everything lines up with him. 1049 01:05:43,292 --> 01:05:45,625 His history, the progression of the crimes, everything. 1050 01:05:45,625 --> 01:05:48,708 [Jean] Except for the part where he was in prison for the first six murders. 1051 01:05:52,708 --> 01:05:54,583 Have you seen the actual release records? 1052 01:06:18,542 --> 01:06:19,708 [sighs] 1053 01:06:26,542 --> 01:06:27,625 [sighs] 1054 01:06:31,250 --> 01:06:32,292 [sighs] 1055 01:06:42,625 --> 01:06:43,625 Look at this. 1056 01:06:49,292 --> 01:06:50,542 Oh, my God. 1057 01:06:50,542 --> 01:06:53,125 DeSalvo petitioned the judge for early release. 1058 01:06:53,125 --> 01:06:55,208 He said he had to get back to his wife and kids. 1059 01:06:55,958 --> 01:06:57,792 The judge let him out for good behavior. 1060 01:06:57,792 --> 01:06:59,667 So, he was out in time? 1061 01:06:59,667 --> 01:07:01,417 Two months before the first murder. 1062 01:07:05,542 --> 01:07:09,542 A 33-year-old father of two is considered a prime suspect 1063 01:07:09,542 --> 01:07:11,625 in the Boston Strangler case. 1064 01:07:11,625 --> 01:07:14,625 The suspect is presently confined in a state mental hospital 1065 01:07:14,625 --> 01:07:17,667 for allegedly assaulting a woman last December. 1066 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:24,000 We got beat. 1067 01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:28,333 [Loretta] Who the hell is F. Lee Bailey? 1068 01:07:28,333 --> 01:07:31,542 A hotshot defense lawyer. One of those press hounds. 1069 01:07:31,542 --> 01:07:34,083 How the hell did DeSalvo get a hotshot lawyer? 1070 01:07:34,083 --> 01:07:37,167 I don't know. You want me to go do your job for ya? 1071 01:07:39,542 --> 01:07:41,542 [chattering] 1072 01:07:44,958 --> 01:07:46,292 What's on the docket tonight? 1073 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,042 [Loretta] I'm writing a story about how Albert DeSalvo 1074 01:07:49,042 --> 01:07:50,792 got a high-priced defense lawyer. 1075 01:07:52,167 --> 01:07:55,083 Would someone familiar with the investigation care to comment? 1076 01:07:56,500 --> 01:07:57,542 No. 1077 01:07:57,542 --> 01:07:59,500 [Loretta] So, what happened when you went to question him? 1078 01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:00,792 [birds squawking] 1079 01:08:00,792 --> 01:08:04,125 [Jim] Bailey got to him first. Wouldn't let us interview him. 1080 01:08:06,042 --> 01:08:09,375 So, I brought Sophie Clark's neighbor in to ID DeSalvo. 1081 01:08:37,458 --> 01:08:38,708 She didn't recognize him? 1082 01:08:38,708 --> 01:08:41,667 Not only did she not recognize him, she ID'd someone else. 1083 01:08:41,667 --> 01:08:42,792 Who? 1084 01:08:42,792 --> 01:08:44,500 George Nassar. 1085 01:08:50,375 --> 01:08:52,750 Murdered a gas station attendant during a robbery. 1086 01:08:53,750 --> 01:08:57,833 [scoffs] Real piece of work. Schizophrenic with a genius IQ. 1087 01:08:57,833 --> 01:08:59,250 And? 1088 01:08:59,875 --> 01:09:03,833 It's not him. Been in custody for over a year. 1089 01:09:07,333 --> 01:09:10,333 [reporters clamoring] 1090 01:09:11,417 --> 01:09:13,500 [Bailey] People can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. 1091 01:09:13,500 --> 01:09:15,292 The career of the Boston Strangler is over. 1092 01:09:15,292 --> 01:09:18,375 - [reporter 1] Is it true Mr. Bailey? - [reporter 2] He's telling the truth? 1093 01:09:18,375 --> 01:09:21,792 [Bailey] I obtained five details only the killer could know. 1094 01:09:21,792 --> 01:09:23,500 When I quizzed DeSalvo, he went five for five. 1095 01:09:23,500 --> 01:09:24,958 [reporter 3] Mr. Bailey! 1096 01:09:24,958 --> 01:09:29,042 When you've done as many interrogations as I have, you develop an ear for bullshit. 1097 01:09:29,042 --> 01:09:30,500 [reporters laughing] 1098 01:09:30,500 --> 01:09:32,792 And was law enforcement a part of this process? 1099 01:09:34,917 --> 01:09:36,625 That's all I'm gonna say right now. 1100 01:09:37,542 --> 01:09:40,750 We're still negotiating his confession. If you'll excuse me. 1101 01:09:40,750 --> 01:09:43,250 - [shutter clicks] - [reporters clamoring] 1102 01:09:43,250 --> 01:09:44,667 [reporter 4] Will he confess? 1103 01:09:52,792 --> 01:09:54,292 [Bottomly] This is John Bottomly. 1104 01:09:55,833 --> 01:09:58,833 The date is February 14th, 1964. 1105 01:10:00,667 --> 01:10:03,667 Albert, please state your full name. 1106 01:10:08,417 --> 01:10:10,083 Albert Henry DeSalvo. 1107 01:10:12,500 --> 01:10:14,958 [Bottomly] Mr. DeSalvo, we are here today 1108 01:10:14,958 --> 01:10:19,458 because you intend to confess to all 13 Boston Strangler murders. 1109 01:10:19,458 --> 01:10:20,542 Is that correct? 1110 01:10:20,542 --> 01:10:21,833 Yes. 1111 01:10:23,917 --> 01:10:25,667 Tell me about your first victim. 1112 01:10:27,500 --> 01:10:29,417 How did you pick Anna Slesers? 1113 01:10:30,500 --> 01:10:32,375 I didn't pick her in advance. 1114 01:10:32,375 --> 01:10:34,833 There was a parking spot in front of the house. 1115 01:10:34,833 --> 01:10:38,333 If there hadn't been a spot, I never would have got her. 1116 01:10:40,167 --> 01:10:42,333 [Bottomly] Albert, what color robe was she wearing? 1117 01:10:43,250 --> 01:10:44,542 [DeSalvo] Yellow. 1118 01:10:46,750 --> 01:10:48,250 Hear about DeSalvo? 1119 01:10:48,250 --> 01:10:49,708 No. What? 1120 01:10:49,708 --> 01:10:52,500 They sent Bottomly to take his confession last night. 1121 01:10:52,500 --> 01:10:55,000 Bottomly interviewed him for five hours. 1122 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:55,958 And? 1123 01:10:55,958 --> 01:10:58,083 No one knows. He hasn't said a word. 1124 01:11:08,917 --> 01:11:10,167 Can I have a word, please? 1125 01:11:12,875 --> 01:11:14,125 I'll catch up. 1126 01:11:16,542 --> 01:11:18,208 What's going on with DeSalvo? 1127 01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:19,792 Nothing. 1128 01:11:19,792 --> 01:11:21,958 If he confessed, why haven't they charged him? 1129 01:11:22,625 --> 01:11:25,417 Bailey used you guys to pressure the attorney general, 1130 01:11:25,417 --> 01:11:28,125 and then he set one condition for DeSalvo's confession. 1131 01:11:28,958 --> 01:11:31,583 - Yeah, and what's that? - They're not allowed to use it in court. 1132 01:11:32,667 --> 01:11:33,833 They didn't agree to that. 1133 01:11:33,833 --> 01:11:37,542 They didn't have a choice after you put DeSalvo on the front page. 1134 01:11:37,542 --> 01:11:40,750 But they think they can get life on the rape charges. 1135 01:11:40,750 --> 01:11:43,750 And they're just gonna ignore the fact that 13 women were killed? 1136 01:11:45,042 --> 01:11:46,125 That's all I got. 1137 01:11:47,500 --> 01:11:51,083 And I haven't even told you the punch line yet. 1138 01:11:51,083 --> 01:11:53,167 You know how Bailey's gettin' paid? 1139 01:11:53,750 --> 01:11:56,333 He got DeSalvo a five-figure book deal. 1140 01:11:57,083 --> 01:11:59,667 A tell-all from the Boston Strangler. 1141 01:12:02,167 --> 01:12:04,083 Everyone just wants it to be over. 1142 01:12:07,542 --> 01:12:10,208 [footsteps departing] 1143 01:12:16,708 --> 01:12:18,333 [Loretta] They're washing their hands of it, 1144 01:12:18,333 --> 01:12:20,667 and that headline you're about to run makes it easy for them. 1145 01:12:20,667 --> 01:12:23,250 Come on. The murders stopped. The guy's in jail. 1146 01:12:23,250 --> 01:12:24,458 What the hell else you want? 1147 01:12:24,458 --> 01:12:27,458 They botched the biggest investigation in the city's history, 1148 01:12:27,458 --> 01:12:29,458 and you're just gonna let them sweep it under the rug. 1149 01:12:29,458 --> 01:12:32,458 Aw, come on, Loretta. How much trouble you gonna cause me today? 1150 01:12:32,458 --> 01:12:34,083 Well, clearly not enough. 1151 01:12:34,083 --> 01:12:37,083 Get outta here. Just take the week off. 1152 01:12:37,083 --> 01:12:39,583 - I'm not taking the week off. - I'm not asking. 1153 01:12:39,583 --> 01:12:42,708 The police are washing their hands of it, and you expect us to move on. 1154 01:12:42,708 --> 01:12:44,917 - Loretta. - We're not doing it. 1155 01:12:45,500 --> 01:12:47,000 I took a new assignment. 1156 01:12:48,625 --> 01:12:49,833 You've gotta be kidding me. 1157 01:12:53,333 --> 01:12:56,208 [scoffs] You never see the knife with you people. 1158 01:12:56,208 --> 01:12:59,375 Don't get it twisted. If there's another murder, I'll drop everything. 1159 01:12:59,375 --> 01:13:01,708 But until then, we cover the news. We don't make it. 1160 01:13:07,125 --> 01:13:09,292 [footsteps departing] 1161 01:13:09,292 --> 01:13:11,375 [footsteps approaching] 1162 01:13:20,833 --> 01:13:21,917 Place looks nice. 1163 01:13:21,917 --> 01:13:24,583 [Beverly's parent] Oh. Sunlight always helps. [chuckles] 1164 01:13:26,042 --> 01:13:29,875 Been reading your stories. You think they're finally gonna charge him? 1165 01:13:32,750 --> 01:13:34,333 [sighing] Uh, yeah. 1166 01:13:37,375 --> 01:13:39,375 That's what I want to talk to you about. 1167 01:13:40,792 --> 01:13:43,292 There's gonna be a story in the papers tomorrow. 1168 01:13:46,167 --> 01:13:49,667 They're not gonna charge Albert with Beverly's murder. 1169 01:13:50,458 --> 01:13:52,000 Or any of the murders for that matter. 1170 01:13:54,250 --> 01:13:56,333 I don't understand. If he confessed... 1171 01:13:58,333 --> 01:14:03,667 They made a deal with his lawyer, and they can't use his confession in court. 1172 01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:06,875 But they have him on other charges. 1173 01:14:06,875 --> 01:14:10,083 And-- And they're gonna make sure that he never gets out of prison. 1174 01:14:10,083 --> 01:14:12,000 [Beverly's parent] But what about my daughter? 1175 01:14:13,458 --> 01:14:16,792 It's not right to just give up on her like this. 1176 01:14:18,042 --> 01:14:19,375 How can they do that? 1177 01:14:23,167 --> 01:14:27,333 [actor 1 on TV] The price is £20,000. English pounds sterling. 1178 01:14:28,167 --> 01:14:31,917 - [actor 2 on TV] £20,000? - [actor 1] Before I state my proposition, 1179 01:14:31,917 --> 01:14:35,250 let me warn you not to breathe a word of it to anyone except your chief. 1180 01:14:36,125 --> 01:14:38,208 My life will depend upon your discretion. 1181 01:14:38,917 --> 01:14:40,417 Hey, the kids asleep? 1182 01:14:41,667 --> 01:14:42,833 [Loretta's husband] Yeah. 1183 01:14:45,250 --> 01:14:46,583 [actor 2] State your proposition. 1184 01:14:47,250 --> 01:14:48,250 [actor 1] Very well. 1185 01:14:49,417 --> 01:14:53,667 Seven British documents classified as most secret have come into my possession. 1186 01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:57,750 Military and political documents of utmost value to your government. 1187 01:14:58,500 --> 01:14:59,500 I'm prepared to sell. 1188 01:16:13,625 --> 01:16:16,292 [dispatcher] We have a possible intruder at Oak Tower apartments. 1189 01:16:19,458 --> 01:16:20,875 Sixty-one, got it. 1190 01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:24,917 [engine starts] 1191 01:16:24,917 --> 01:16:26,375 [tires squealing] 1192 01:16:28,458 --> 01:16:30,500 [keys jingling] 1193 01:16:30,500 --> 01:16:33,042 [Nowhere to Run (Nowhere to Hide) playing on TV] 1194 01:16:33,042 --> 01:16:34,125 [teakettle whistling] 1195 01:16:34,125 --> 01:16:35,958 Nowhere to run ♪ 1196 01:16:35,958 --> 01:16:38,708 Nowhere to hide from ya ♪ 1197 01:16:45,750 --> 01:16:46,917 [detective] State police! 1198 01:16:47,708 --> 01:16:50,042 [singing on TV continues] 1199 01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:56,417 [phone rings] 1200 01:16:56,417 --> 01:16:57,542 Yes? 1201 01:16:57,542 --> 01:16:58,958 [detective] Loretta McLaughlin. 1202 01:16:58,958 --> 01:17:00,042 Speaking. Who's this? 1203 01:17:00,042 --> 01:17:02,625 Detective DeLine, Michigan State Police. 1204 01:17:02,625 --> 01:17:07,542 I don't know if you're aware, but we had six women strangled near Ann Arbor. 1205 01:17:07,542 --> 01:17:08,625 When was this? 1206 01:17:08,625 --> 01:17:10,750 We found the sixth victim last night. 1207 01:17:11,542 --> 01:17:14,083 Uh, you said they were strangled. Anything else in common? 1208 01:17:14,083 --> 01:17:18,542 All the crime scenes were damn near identical to the Boston Strangler. 1209 01:17:18,542 --> 01:17:19,792 I've read your stories. 1210 01:17:19,792 --> 01:17:22,750 I think it's safe to say that you're an expert on the case. 1211 01:17:22,750 --> 01:17:28,333 So, I wanted to ask you, do you still think that Albert DeSalvo is the guy? 1212 01:17:41,500 --> 01:17:42,583 What are you doing? 1213 01:17:45,167 --> 01:17:47,167 What do you think you're gonna find out there? 1214 01:17:53,708 --> 01:17:57,292 When is this gonna stop, Loretta? When are you gonna let this go? 1215 01:18:09,917 --> 01:18:10,917 Be careful, will you? 1216 01:18:15,083 --> 01:18:17,083 [footsteps departing] 1217 01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:54,458 Thanks. So, uh, have you got any suspects? 1218 01:18:55,042 --> 01:18:57,583 If I did, I wouldn't be telling a reporter. 1219 01:18:58,167 --> 01:18:59,167 Off the record. 1220 01:18:59,167 --> 01:19:01,542 Off the record, I wouldn't be telling a reporter. 1221 01:19:01,542 --> 01:19:05,000 You could've saved a lot of trouble if you'd just called first. 1222 01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:09,125 Well, how about the case files? Mind if I take a look? 1223 01:19:10,125 --> 01:19:13,958 How many cops let you look at open case files? 1224 01:19:14,625 --> 01:19:15,625 Not many. 1225 01:19:17,542 --> 01:19:18,750 [DeLine grunts] 1226 01:19:20,875 --> 01:19:22,042 [DeLine sighs] 1227 01:19:37,167 --> 01:19:38,500 [DeLine] You got 20 minutes. 1228 01:19:43,542 --> 01:19:45,792 [sighing] 1229 01:19:58,125 --> 01:19:59,375 [sighs] 1230 01:20:11,125 --> 01:20:12,583 [meteorologist on radio] ...also like snow. 1231 01:20:12,583 --> 01:20:15,292 We're gonna have quite a bit, according to the latest forecast. 1232 01:20:15,292 --> 01:20:17,708 Looks like we'll have snow continuing overnight. 1233 01:20:17,708 --> 01:20:22,042 We can expect at least several more inches ending later in the day tomorrow. 1234 01:20:22,042 --> 01:20:24,625 Then, clearing tomorrow night, becoming mostly... 1235 01:20:24,625 --> 01:20:26,542 [DeLine] Well, I do appreciate that. 1236 01:20:27,958 --> 01:20:28,958 Yeah. 1237 01:20:29,833 --> 01:20:31,250 I'm gonna have to call you back. 1238 01:20:31,917 --> 01:20:34,542 Daniel Marsh's ex-girlfriend was killed by the Boston Strangler. 1239 01:20:34,542 --> 01:20:37,958 He was my favorite suspect for her murder, and he's here in Ann Arbor. 1240 01:20:37,958 --> 01:20:39,083 Won't you have a seat? 1241 01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:45,958 Off the record, he's our prime suspect right now. 1242 01:20:45,958 --> 01:20:48,250 You're the second person from Boston to report him. 1243 01:20:48,250 --> 01:20:49,833 Are you gonna charge him? 1244 01:20:49,833 --> 01:20:51,125 [DeLine] We don't have enough yet. 1245 01:20:51,125 --> 01:20:52,750 Why didn't you say something earlier? 1246 01:20:52,750 --> 01:20:54,875 Because we're not having this conversation. 1247 01:20:54,875 --> 01:20:56,583 Who was the other person who reported him? 1248 01:20:56,583 --> 01:20:59,125 The medical director from Bridgewater. 1249 01:20:59,125 --> 01:21:00,750 Uh, Dr. Robey please. 1250 01:21:00,750 --> 01:21:02,000 [operator] Hold, please. 1251 01:21:03,792 --> 01:21:04,792 [Robey] Hello? 1252 01:21:04,792 --> 01:21:07,292 Uh, Loretta McLaughlin with the Record American. 1253 01:21:08,458 --> 01:21:09,667 What can I do for you? 1254 01:21:11,250 --> 01:21:12,250 Uh... 1255 01:21:12,958 --> 01:21:15,875 Why did you report Daniel Marsh to the Michigan State Police? 1256 01:21:16,500 --> 01:21:19,000 I'm sorry. I can't discuss one of my patients. 1257 01:21:19,542 --> 01:21:20,875 He was a patient of yours? 1258 01:21:20,875 --> 01:21:22,250 Yes. 1259 01:21:22,250 --> 01:21:23,500 At Bridgewater? 1260 01:21:24,083 --> 01:21:26,083 Well, yes. That's where my patients are. 1261 01:21:27,167 --> 01:21:28,958 Is there anything else I can help you with? 1262 01:21:30,250 --> 01:21:31,583 No. Thank you. 1263 01:21:36,042 --> 01:21:37,375 [line rings] 1264 01:21:37,375 --> 01:21:38,458 [Jean] Hello? 1265 01:21:38,458 --> 01:21:39,833 I need you to call in a favor. 1266 01:21:39,833 --> 01:21:41,417 I thought you weren't speaking to me. 1267 01:21:41,417 --> 01:21:42,500 I'm not. 1268 01:21:43,375 --> 01:21:44,375 All right, what? 1269 01:21:50,167 --> 01:21:52,250 I'm Jean Cole, Deb McNulty's expecting me. 1270 01:21:54,625 --> 01:21:57,208 Be quick. I don't wanna get fired tonight. 1271 01:22:01,500 --> 01:22:04,042 [muttering] 1272 01:22:11,458 --> 01:22:14,000 He was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. 1273 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,208 Dr. Robey evaluated him at Bridgewater and had him committed. 1274 01:22:17,208 --> 01:22:18,875 [Loretta] Did he overlap with DeSalvo? 1275 01:22:18,875 --> 01:22:22,125 They were in there together for three months in the same ward. 1276 01:22:23,208 --> 01:22:24,417 [knocking] 1277 01:22:25,917 --> 01:22:28,708 [DeLine] Daniel Marsh, we know you're in there! 1278 01:22:31,250 --> 01:22:33,708 Come out with your hands up! 1279 01:22:33,708 --> 01:22:35,792 [floorboards creaking] 1280 01:23:16,458 --> 01:23:21,125 All right, Daniel. Just write down where you were on each of these days. 1281 01:23:29,292 --> 01:23:31,042 Just answer the question, Daniel. 1282 01:23:33,125 --> 01:23:36,375 Where were you when these women were murdered? 1283 01:23:37,250 --> 01:23:40,500 I was going to school in Boston. You know that. 1284 01:23:42,667 --> 01:23:44,250 What about Bridgewater? 1285 01:23:45,208 --> 01:23:48,792 You ever spend any time with Albert DeSalvo? 1286 01:23:50,875 --> 01:23:52,292 Are you charging me? 1287 01:23:52,292 --> 01:23:54,458 Just answer the fucking question, Daniel. 1288 01:23:54,458 --> 01:23:57,250 If you are not charging me, I want to leave. 1289 01:23:57,250 --> 01:23:58,333 You want to leave? 1290 01:23:59,667 --> 01:24:03,667 There's a dozen reporters out there that just got tipped off. Go ahead. 1291 01:24:05,208 --> 01:24:11,375 If they put my name in the paper, I'll just start over somewhere else. 1292 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,000 [reporters clamoring] 1293 01:24:28,208 --> 01:24:29,292 [car door opens] 1294 01:24:40,833 --> 01:24:42,125 [officer on phone] Homicide. 1295 01:24:42,125 --> 01:24:44,958 Uh, Detective Conley, please. It's his sister Sally. 1296 01:24:45,667 --> 01:24:48,167 Loretta, he quit. Try him at home. 1297 01:24:48,167 --> 01:24:49,250 [line clicks] 1298 01:24:55,083 --> 01:24:57,917 [examiner] You killed all of 'em, all 13. 1299 01:24:59,042 --> 01:25:01,542 Admit it. Admit it! 1300 01:25:02,208 --> 01:25:03,208 I did. 1301 01:25:05,125 --> 01:25:07,125 I did. I did. 1302 01:25:07,958 --> 01:25:08,958 [director] Cut! 1303 01:25:08,958 --> 01:25:10,458 [bell rings] 1304 01:25:10,458 --> 01:25:13,292 [director muttering] 1305 01:25:13,292 --> 01:25:14,500 [crew member] Right behind you. 1306 01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:15,792 [director] So, what do you think? 1307 01:25:17,750 --> 01:25:20,958 Well, he's got-- he's got to lay into him a little more. 1308 01:25:21,667 --> 01:25:23,542 - It was pretty close. - [footsteps approaching] 1309 01:25:23,542 --> 01:25:25,625 Detective Conley, your sister Sally's here. 1310 01:25:31,625 --> 01:25:32,667 Cashing in, huh? 1311 01:25:33,250 --> 01:25:36,208 Oh, why don't you save it? You've been cashing in since the beginning. 1312 01:25:36,208 --> 01:25:38,500 Oh, that's pretty damn cynical, even for you. 1313 01:25:39,500 --> 01:25:40,667 So, what do you want? 1314 01:25:40,667 --> 01:25:42,167 I just got back from Michigan. 1315 01:25:42,167 --> 01:25:43,458 I heard. 1316 01:25:45,958 --> 01:25:46,958 You don't care to know? 1317 01:25:46,958 --> 01:25:48,417 No, I don't. 1318 01:25:51,708 --> 01:25:53,292 I need DeSalvo's confession. 1319 01:25:54,208 --> 01:25:55,750 You gotta go see Bottomly for that. 1320 01:25:55,750 --> 01:25:57,250 I know you made a copy. 1321 01:25:57,250 --> 01:25:59,208 - [Jim] How do you know that? - Oh, come on. 1322 01:26:00,417 --> 01:26:02,917 I bet you stayed up every night listening to those tapes. 1323 01:26:05,125 --> 01:26:07,917 If we were right about DeSalvo, what are you so afraid of? 1324 01:26:07,917 --> 01:26:11,417 Go home. Spend some time with your kids. 1325 01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:14,667 How do you just stop caring after all this? 1326 01:26:15,792 --> 01:26:17,833 When you realize you could give up your whole life for it, 1327 01:26:17,833 --> 01:26:19,083 and no one would give a shit. 1328 01:26:23,250 --> 01:26:24,333 Go home. 1329 01:26:25,125 --> 01:26:27,125 [bell rings] 1330 01:26:36,958 --> 01:26:38,125 [Phyllis] Record American. 1331 01:27:02,583 --> 01:27:04,500 [Bottomly on headphones] This is John Bottomly. 1332 01:27:04,500 --> 01:27:08,083 The date is February 14th, 1964. 1333 01:27:08,083 --> 01:27:10,333 Albert, please state your full name. 1334 01:27:11,167 --> 01:27:13,333 [DeSalvo] Albert Henry DeSalvo. 1335 01:27:13,333 --> 01:27:17,292 [Bottomly] Mr. DeSalvo, tell me about your first victim. 1336 01:27:17,292 --> 01:27:19,542 How did you pick Anna Slesers? 1337 01:27:19,542 --> 01:27:21,083 [DeSalvo] I didn't pick her in advance. 1338 01:27:21,083 --> 01:27:23,458 There was a parking spot in front of the house. 1339 01:27:24,375 --> 01:27:26,667 It makes you think about what goes into this kind of selection. 1340 01:27:26,667 --> 01:27:30,333 Like, why is this girl home and that one's not? 1341 01:27:31,542 --> 01:27:34,208 What is it? Is it fate? 1342 01:27:42,500 --> 01:27:46,000 [Bottomly] Okay, Albert. I'd like to ask you about her clothing. 1343 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,917 Can you tell me what color robe she was wearing? 1344 01:27:57,208 --> 01:27:58,208 Aren't you on a new story? 1345 01:27:59,083 --> 01:28:01,708 Get over yourself. Let me listen. 1346 01:28:08,125 --> 01:28:10,208 [Bottomly] Albert, what color robe was she wearing? 1347 01:28:10,833 --> 01:28:15,417 [DeSalvo] Yellow. Or maybe it was, uh, red. 1348 01:28:15,417 --> 01:28:16,500 [Bottomly] You-- You sure? 1349 01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:19,250 [DeSalvo] No. It was blue. 1350 01:28:19,250 --> 01:28:21,833 [Bottomly] That's right. Let's move on. 1351 01:28:23,208 --> 01:28:27,042 So, when you entered the apartment, can you tell me what you saw? 1352 01:28:27,875 --> 01:28:30,375 [DeSalvo] Well, the kitchen was on the left. 1353 01:28:30,375 --> 01:28:32,625 [Bottomly] Wait-- It was on the left? 1354 01:28:33,708 --> 01:28:34,875 [DeSalvo] Um, maybe... 1355 01:28:35,875 --> 01:28:37,083 [Bottomly] Well, here. Um... 1356 01:28:37,083 --> 01:28:39,333 [paper rustles on recording] 1357 01:28:39,333 --> 01:28:41,292 [DeSalvo] That's right. The kitchen was on the right, 1358 01:28:41,292 --> 01:28:43,625 and the bedroom was down that hall. 1359 01:28:44,333 --> 01:28:45,333 [Bottomly] That hall? 1360 01:28:45,333 --> 01:28:47,083 [DeSalvo] That-- Yeah. Down that hall. 1361 01:28:51,625 --> 01:28:53,625 Bottomly just showed him the crime scene photo. 1362 01:28:57,958 --> 01:28:59,542 [DeSalvo] Um, maybe... 1363 01:28:59,542 --> 01:29:00,708 [Bottomly] Well, here. Um... 1364 01:29:00,708 --> 01:29:02,458 [paper rustles on recording] 1365 01:29:02,458 --> 01:29:04,417 [DeSalvo] That's right. The kitchen was on the right, 1366 01:29:04,417 --> 01:29:06,833 and the bedroom was down that hall. 1367 01:29:07,542 --> 01:29:08,542 [Bottomly] That hall? 1368 01:29:08,542 --> 01:29:10,292 [DeSalvo] That-- Yeah. Down that hall. 1369 01:29:11,792 --> 01:29:13,917 Any lawyer worth a dime would pick this apart. 1370 01:29:25,917 --> 01:29:28,208 [Loretta] Excuse me, I'm-- I'm looking for Richard DeSalvo. 1371 01:29:28,208 --> 01:29:29,500 [foreman] He's back there. 1372 01:29:31,500 --> 01:29:35,167 Look, Al's not talkin' to reporters anymore. 1373 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:38,167 Al's had it tough. 1374 01:29:39,292 --> 01:29:42,958 Whatever my brother did, he never meant to harm nobody. 1375 01:29:44,625 --> 01:29:47,917 He loves his family, always been good to them. 1376 01:29:48,542 --> 01:29:50,375 Look, I know there's more to his story. 1377 01:29:51,917 --> 01:29:54,167 But there's nothing I can do if he won't talk to me. 1378 01:29:57,458 --> 01:30:00,875 I'll float it by him, but I'm not making any promises. 1379 01:30:04,417 --> 01:30:06,542 [phone rings] 1380 01:30:07,208 --> 01:30:08,292 Record American. 1381 01:30:08,833 --> 01:30:10,458 [DeSalvo] Yeah, this is Albert DeSalvo. 1382 01:30:10,458 --> 01:30:11,833 Is, uh, Loretta there? 1383 01:30:13,750 --> 01:30:14,833 One minute, please. 1384 01:30:21,208 --> 01:30:23,458 Albert DeSalvo's on line two. [sighs] 1385 01:30:30,917 --> 01:30:33,000 Uh, this is Loretta. 1386 01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:34,500 Hi, Loretta. It's Albert. 1387 01:30:34,500 --> 01:30:37,000 You know, my brother said you come to see him. 1388 01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,333 I told him that I knew you from the papers. 1389 01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:42,083 [chuckles] It's funny, I always said you girls knew more than the police. 1390 01:30:43,458 --> 01:30:46,792 Uh, why don't I come down there so we can talk in person? 1391 01:30:47,417 --> 01:30:50,292 The thing is, I'm not giving my story away for free anymore. 1392 01:30:51,333 --> 01:30:53,625 I got really screwed over on that book deal. 1393 01:30:53,625 --> 01:30:55,708 [Loretta] I listened to your confession, Albert, 1394 01:30:55,708 --> 01:30:58,625 and, uh, I think there's more to your story. 1395 01:30:58,625 --> 01:31:01,375 Well, like I said, I'm not talking to reporters anymore. 1396 01:31:03,750 --> 01:31:05,250 Don't you want people to know the truth? 1397 01:31:05,250 --> 01:31:06,583 I don't give a damn about that. 1398 01:31:06,583 --> 01:31:07,917 I've got a family to support. 1399 01:31:07,917 --> 01:31:09,917 I don't think you understand how screwed over I got. 1400 01:31:10,583 --> 01:31:12,667 Well, what are you holding out for, Albert? 1401 01:31:12,667 --> 01:31:15,583 If everybody already screwed you over, then what've you got left to lose? 1402 01:31:16,458 --> 01:31:18,208 Why would you let them get away with it? 1403 01:31:28,500 --> 01:31:30,125 Come here tomorrow at visiting hours. 1404 01:31:51,333 --> 01:31:54,417 [grunting] 1405 01:31:55,750 --> 01:31:57,083 [groans] 1406 01:31:57,083 --> 01:31:58,167 [metal clanks] 1407 01:32:05,833 --> 01:32:08,375 [phone ringing] 1408 01:32:08,375 --> 01:32:09,458 [gasps] 1409 01:32:12,542 --> 01:32:13,542 Hello? 1410 01:32:13,542 --> 01:32:17,292 Hey, it's Jack. A report just came over the wire. 1411 01:32:18,958 --> 01:32:21,458 DeSalvo was killed in his cell. [sighs] 1412 01:32:22,625 --> 01:32:23,875 I'm sorry, kid. 1413 01:32:27,292 --> 01:32:29,292 [birds squawking] 1414 01:32:31,458 --> 01:32:33,458 [chattering] 1415 01:32:37,208 --> 01:32:38,208 You get anything? 1416 01:32:38,208 --> 01:32:39,708 [Stanley] No official statement yet. 1417 01:32:39,708 --> 01:32:42,417 My guys at the Herald said he got killed over drugs, but-- 1418 01:32:42,417 --> 01:32:43,792 No, that doesn't make any sense. 1419 01:32:43,792 --> 01:32:46,125 [reporters clamoring] 1420 01:32:51,042 --> 01:32:53,458 He was in there with them. He knew what they were up to. 1421 01:33:02,333 --> 01:33:03,333 [phone rings] 1422 01:33:03,333 --> 01:33:04,417 Hello. 1423 01:33:04,417 --> 01:33:06,333 I need you to take down an address. 1424 01:33:06,958 --> 01:33:08,958 If I don't call back in an hour, give it to the police. 1425 01:33:09,583 --> 01:33:10,667 What the hell are you doing? 1426 01:33:10,667 --> 01:33:14,417 426 Columbia Road. Got it? 1427 01:33:14,417 --> 01:33:15,750 Got it. 1428 01:33:15,750 --> 01:33:16,917 Loretta-- 1429 01:33:19,583 --> 01:33:21,292 Shit. 1430 01:33:21,292 --> 01:33:22,500 [doorbell buzzes] 1431 01:33:22,500 --> 01:33:25,583 [footsteps approaching] 1432 01:33:33,042 --> 01:33:34,542 I'm lookin' for Harrison. 1433 01:33:34,542 --> 01:33:36,000 He's down at the end of the hall. 1434 01:33:40,417 --> 01:33:41,917 [resident 1 coughing] 1435 01:33:47,417 --> 01:33:50,792 - [resident 2 moaning] - [muffled thudding] 1436 01:34:08,417 --> 01:34:09,417 [Loretta] Harrison? 1437 01:34:09,417 --> 01:34:10,500 Yeah. 1438 01:34:11,125 --> 01:34:13,125 I-I'm a reporter with the Record American. 1439 01:34:13,875 --> 01:34:16,125 I want to ask you some questions about Bridgewater. 1440 01:34:22,625 --> 01:34:26,625 Me and DeSalvo were in the same ward. I saw him every day. 1441 01:34:28,792 --> 01:34:32,292 And what about... him? 1442 01:34:36,458 --> 01:34:39,458 Yeah. He was in my ward too. 1443 01:34:41,292 --> 01:34:42,792 They were always together. 1444 01:34:43,375 --> 01:34:44,625 Marsh and DeSalvo? 1445 01:34:45,250 --> 01:34:46,542 And Nassar. 1446 01:34:47,792 --> 01:34:49,292 George Nassar? 1447 01:34:57,042 --> 01:35:00,708 Yeah, the three of them were always working on DeSalvo's confession. 1448 01:35:02,333 --> 01:35:04,542 W-What do you mean working on? 1449 01:35:05,542 --> 01:35:09,208 They coached him. They were at it every day for weeks. 1450 01:35:10,792 --> 01:35:12,708 They had a stack of newspaper clippings, 1451 01:35:12,708 --> 01:35:16,417 and they would quiz DeSalvo about the details. 1452 01:35:18,250 --> 01:35:20,083 I remember Marsh sayin', 1453 01:35:20,083 --> 01:35:23,417 "You gotta get it so deep in your brain that you believe it yourself." 1454 01:35:24,625 --> 01:35:28,125 But what did they care if DeSalvo confessed? 1455 01:35:31,208 --> 01:35:35,042 Reward money. That's why Nassar got his lawyer involved. 1456 01:35:35,625 --> 01:35:36,875 I'm not shittin' you. 1457 01:35:37,708 --> 01:35:39,625 He's willing to confess to the whole thing. 1458 01:35:41,333 --> 01:35:43,417 [Harrison] His lawyer organized the whole thing. 1459 01:35:44,083 --> 01:35:45,750 You mean F. Lee Bailey? 1460 01:35:46,792 --> 01:35:47,792 That's right. 1461 01:35:48,917 --> 01:35:53,417 He told Albert that he could get him a book deal, make him rich and famous. 1462 01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,500 Albert thought he was gonna make a million bucks off it 1463 01:36:00,333 --> 01:36:01,750 and support his family. 1464 01:36:56,083 --> 01:36:57,167 You got a smoke? 1465 01:37:17,542 --> 01:37:19,125 So, you wanna know about Albert. 1466 01:37:20,333 --> 01:37:21,625 How did you know each other? 1467 01:37:22,125 --> 01:37:23,750 We were cellmates. 1468 01:37:23,750 --> 01:37:25,167 [Loretta] Before he confessed? 1469 01:37:26,458 --> 01:37:27,875 Yeah, for a couple months. 1470 01:37:27,875 --> 01:37:30,375 It's an awfully strange coincidence, don't you think? 1471 01:37:31,750 --> 01:37:34,250 You're the one who gets picked out of the lineup, 1472 01:37:34,250 --> 01:37:38,000 and you just happen to be DeSalvo's cellmate? 1473 01:37:39,125 --> 01:37:40,958 Maybe I just got one of those faces. 1474 01:37:44,250 --> 01:37:46,750 Were you in Sophie Clark's building the day she was killed? 1475 01:37:47,875 --> 01:37:48,875 No. 1476 01:37:50,625 --> 01:37:51,792 I don't kill women. 1477 01:37:53,292 --> 01:37:57,792 And I got no reason to lie about that now. I'm doin' a life sentence. 1478 01:38:00,250 --> 01:38:02,000 [Loretta] Then why did you coach DeSalvo? 1479 01:38:02,583 --> 01:38:04,250 I wouldn't exactly call it that. 1480 01:38:06,375 --> 01:38:08,958 I was just helpin' him remember. 1481 01:38:10,750 --> 01:38:12,917 Thirteen murders, that's a lot to keep straight. 1482 01:38:12,917 --> 01:38:14,208 Why were you helping him? 1483 01:38:15,167 --> 01:38:18,833 Reward money. Ten grand a victim. 1484 01:38:20,250 --> 01:38:24,250 So, the more murders he confessed to, the more money you'd make? 1485 01:38:25,750 --> 01:38:27,667 Well, might as well take credit for all of them. 1486 01:38:27,667 --> 01:38:29,042 Make a little extra money. 1487 01:38:29,042 --> 01:38:31,292 It was a lot of extra money. 1488 01:38:33,958 --> 01:38:38,792 And regardless of what you think, Albert convinced me he killed those women. 1489 01:38:41,167 --> 01:38:42,417 Was it all 13? 1490 01:38:44,292 --> 01:38:45,542 What does it really matter? 1491 01:38:47,958 --> 01:38:52,125 See, you all created a myth, and it needed to be stopped. 1492 01:38:54,125 --> 01:38:55,542 People wanted to believe it was Al, 1493 01:38:55,542 --> 01:38:58,292 but they needed to believe that it was Albert. 1494 01:39:00,125 --> 01:39:02,125 The alternative was just too disturbin'. 1495 01:39:04,875 --> 01:39:05,958 What's that? 1496 01:39:08,750 --> 01:39:10,750 There are many Albert DeSalvos out there. 1497 01:39:13,208 --> 01:39:15,292 And your safe little world is just a delusion. 1498 01:39:19,542 --> 01:39:20,708 Men kill women. 1499 01:39:22,458 --> 01:39:23,875 It didn't start with Albert. 1500 01:39:25,625 --> 01:39:27,542 Sure as hell doesn't end with him either. 1501 01:39:45,667 --> 01:39:48,250 [Loretta] If Dr. Grayson was right about these killers having a type-- 1502 01:39:49,208 --> 01:39:51,625 The first five murders were all elderly women. 1503 01:39:52,667 --> 01:39:54,958 - And if Paul Dempsey had a type... - [shutter clicks] 1504 01:39:54,958 --> 01:39:56,708 It was elderly women. 1505 01:39:56,708 --> 01:39:59,625 [Loretta] DeSalvo was a pathological liar. 1506 01:40:00,458 --> 01:40:03,958 Everything he knew about the first five murders had either been in the papers, 1507 01:40:03,958 --> 01:40:06,000 or it was given to him by Bottomly. 1508 01:40:07,708 --> 01:40:10,208 But of the hundreds of women DeSalvo assaulted, 1509 01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:12,833 all his victims were young. 1510 01:40:13,875 --> 01:40:16,042 And then Paul Dempsey moves on to New York, 1511 01:40:16,667 --> 01:40:18,583 and the Strangler starts killing younger women. 1512 01:40:20,750 --> 01:40:23,458 Then other men use the Strangler as cover to get rid of women 1513 01:40:23,458 --> 01:40:25,042 they didn't want around anymore. 1514 01:40:25,667 --> 01:40:27,417 The boss who got his secretary pregnant. 1515 01:40:28,458 --> 01:40:30,042 The psychotic ex-boyfriend. 1516 01:40:33,667 --> 01:40:37,333 Then DeSalvo ends up at Bridgewater with Nassar and Marsh. 1517 01:40:38,667 --> 01:40:40,000 They use DeSalvo. 1518 01:40:40,708 --> 01:40:43,917 Nassar gets F. Lee Bailey involved so he can claim the reward money. 1519 01:40:44,500 --> 01:40:47,167 And they coached DeSalvo before he confessed. 1520 01:40:48,417 --> 01:40:50,875 He just became a convenient way out for everybody else. 1521 01:40:51,542 --> 01:40:53,708 The entire city just wanted to move on. 1522 01:40:59,917 --> 01:41:01,750 Nobody bothered to get to the truth. 1523 01:41:04,583 --> 01:41:06,167 [engine starts] 1524 01:41:08,625 --> 01:41:10,417 And people got away with murder. 1525 01:41:51,333 --> 01:41:52,833 [Jack] It's nice work, kid. 1526 01:42:11,208 --> 01:42:12,500 Commissioner, Commissioner! 1527 01:42:12,500 --> 01:42:15,708 What is your response to the story in the Record American today? 1528 01:42:15,708 --> 01:42:17,625 Commissioner, what is your response? 1529 01:42:19,292 --> 01:42:22,917 All the Strangler murders are still open cases. 1530 01:42:22,917 --> 01:42:24,333 I'll leave it at that. 1531 01:42:25,167 --> 01:42:27,083 [reporters clamoring] 1532 01:42:27,083 --> 01:42:28,292 [reporter] Commissioner! 1533 01:42:29,042 --> 01:42:30,375 How many suspects do you have? 1534 01:42:38,792 --> 01:42:39,792 [sighs] 1535 01:43:11,875 --> 01:43:13,875 [chattering] 114008

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